Texas Top 10s

Fri., Jan. 6, 2006

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Greg Beets

1) Roky Erickson, I Have Always Been Here Before: The Roky Erickson Anthology (Shout! Factory)

2) Spoon, Gimme Fiction (Merge)

3) The Deathray Davies, The Kick and the Snare (Glurp)

4) The Crack Pipes, Beauty School (Emperor Jones)

5) Kathy McCarty, Another Day in the Sun (Rexy Rex)

6) Pong, Bubble City (Realistic)

7) The Ugly Beats, Bring on the Beats! (Get Hip)

8) Voxtrot, Raised by Wolves EP (Cult Hero)

9) Manikin, Still (Super Secret)

10) Almost There Turn One (Almost There)

Jim Caligiuri

1) Marcia Ball, Live! Down the Road (Alligator)

2) Martí Brom, Heartache Numbers (Goofin')

3) Ana Egge, Out Past the Lights (Grace)

4) Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Come on Back (Rounder)

5) Robert Earl Keen, What I Really Mean (Koch)

6) Kathy McCarty, Another Day in the Sun (Rexy Rex)

7) Elizabeth McQueen & the Firebrands, Happy Doing What We're Doing (Freedom)

8) Jud Newcomb, Byzantine (Freedom)

9) South Austin Jug Band, Dark and Weary World (Blue Corn Music)

10) The Weary Boys, Holy Ghost Power

Robert Gabriel

1) Chamillionaire, The Sound of Revenge (Universal)

2) DJ Rapid Ric, Z-Ro's Greatest Verses (Mixtape Mechanic)

3) Slim Thug, Already Platinum (Geffen)

4) Basswood Lane, The Lane Vol. 1 (Dollaz N' Since)

5) DJ Rapid Ric, King of the Trill: Bun B's Greatest Verses (Mixtape Mechanic)

6) Paul Wall, The People's Champ (Swishahouse/Atlantic)

7) Mike Jones, Who Is Mike Jones? (Asylum)

8) Tee Double, The Growth (Kinetic)

9) K-Rino, Worst Rapper Alive (Black Book)

10) Geto Boys, The Foundation (Rap-A-Lot)

Melanie Haupt

1) Spoon, Gimme Fiction (Merge)

2) Okkervil River, Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar)

3) South San Gabriel, The Carlton Chronicles (Misra)

4) The Deathray Davies, The Kick and the Snare (Glurp)

5) Eliza Gilkyson, Paradise Hotel (Red House)

6) Voxtrot, Raised by Wolves EP (Cult Hero)

7) The Polyphonic Spree, Thumbsucker (Hollywood)

8) Alejandro Escovedo, Room of Songs (More Miles Than Money)

9) Silver Jews, Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)

10) Robert Earl Keen, What I Really Mean (Koch)

Andy Langer

1) Spoon, Gimme Fiction (Merge)

2) James McMurtry, Childish Things (Compadre)

3) Songs for Tsunami Relief – Austin to South Asia (Lost Highway)

4) Big Sweet Life: The Songs of Jon Dee Graham (Freedom)

5) ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Worlds Apart (Interscope)

6) Moonlight Towers, Like You Were Never There

7) Ghostland Observatory, delete.delete.i.eat.meat. (TrashyMoped)

8) Okkervil River, Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar)

9) Davíd Garza (WideOpen)

10) The Black Angels (Light in the Attic)

David Lynch

1) Pong, Bubble City (Realistic)

2) Zein Al-Jundi, Traditional Songs From Syria (ARC)

3) Charlie Sexton, Cruel and Gentle Things (Back Porch/EMI)

4) Billy Joe Shaver, The Real Deal (Compadre)

5) Erik & the She-Wolves, Melodrama Sweetheart

6) Okkervil River, Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar)

7) Guy Forsyth, Love Songs: For & Against (Small and Nimble)

8) Shorty Long, Taters (Grumpledump)

9) Wammo, Lowriders on the Storm (Spanks-a-Lot)

10) Honky, Balls Out Inn (Small Stone)

Margaret Moser

1) Barbara Kooyman, Undercover: Songs of Timbuk3 (Sparrow Wheel)

2) Ray Wylie Hubbard, Delirium Tremolos (Philo/Rounder)

3) Eliza Gilkyson, Paradise Hotel (Red House)

4) Angela Strehli, Blue Highway (M.C.)

5) Robyn Ludwick, For So Long

6) Erik & the She-Wolves, Melodrama Sweetheart

7) David Olney, Migration (Loudhouse)

8) James McMurtry, Childish Things (Compadre)

9) Patricia Vonne, Guitars & Castanets (Bandolera)

10) Todd Potter, The Bell (White Wing)

Audra Schroeder

1) Jana Hunter, Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom (Gnomonsong)

2) Spoon, Gimme Fiction (Merge)

3) My Education, Italian (Thirty Ghosts)

4) Paul Wall, The People's Champ (Swishahouse/Atlantic)

5) Baby Robots, Chartorseau (Ant Lunch Musick)

6) Possessed by Paul James EP

7) Attack Formation, Somebody as Anybody (Australian Cattle God)

8) The Crack Pipes, Beauty School (Emperor Jones)

9) The Weird Weeds, Hold Me (Digitalis)

10) ST 37, Future Memories (Four/Four)

Darcie Stevens

1) The American Analog Set, Set Free (Arts & Crafts)

2) Spoon, Gimme Fiction (Merge)

3) Voxtrot, Raised by Wolves EP (Cult Hero)

4) Okkervil River, Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar)

5) Smog, A River Ain't to Much to Love (Drag City)

6) Octopus Project, One Ten Hundred Thousand Million (Peek-a-Boo)

7) This Microwave World, Red States (Tight Spot)

8) Single Frame, Body/End/Basement (Volcom)

9) Attack Formation, Somebody as Anybody (Australian Cattle God)

10) The Glass Family, Sleep Inside This Wheel (I Eat Records)

Jay Trachtenberg

1) Spoon, Gimme Fiction (Merge)

2) Kathy McCarty, Another Day in the Sun (Rexy Rex)

3) James McMurtry, Childish Things (Compadre)

4) Topaz, The Afro-Dub Sessions (Zapot Music)

5) Ohm, In the End, All Things Begin (Ill Dough)

6) Alex Coke, Iraqnophobia (Voxlox)

7) Craig Ross, The Greater Good (Wild Abandon Ltd.)

8) Eliza Gilkyson, Paradise Hotel (Red House)

9) Friends of Dean Martinez, Lost Horizon (Aero)

10) Austin Jazz Workshop, Big Boss Tenor (AusJazz Music)