Acclaimed Music - The Top 100 Albums from 2006

The Top 100 Albums from 2006

This list was updated more recently than the rest of Acclaimed Music. Hence, the album positions given below do not match the other parts of the site.
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	99	TV on the Radio	Return to Cookie Mountain
2	193	Joanna Newsom	Ys		Listen
3	234	Arctic Monkeys	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
4	283	Bob Dylan	Modern Times		Listen
5	396	Gnarls Barkley	St. Elsewhere		Listen
6	429	Ghostface Killah	Fishscale		Listen
7	560	Cat Power	The Greatest		Listen
8	625	Hot Chip	The Warning		Listen
9	711	Tom Waits	Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards		Listen
10	787	Neko Case	Fox Confessor Brings the Flood		Listen
11	827	Clipse	Hell Hath No Fury
12	841	The Hold Steady	Boys and Girls in America		Listen
13	843	The Knife	Silent Shout		Listen
14	882	Sonic Youth	Rather Ripped		Listen
15	907	Yo La Tengo	I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass		Listen
16	915	Belle and Sebastian	The Life Pursuit		Listen
17	1109	The Decemberists	The Crane Wife		Listen
18	1184	Thom Yorke	The Eraser		Listen
19	1243	Junior Boys	So This Is Goodbye		Listen
20	1248	The Raconteurs	Broken Boy Soldiers		Listen
21	1274	Destroyer	Destroyer's Rubies		Listen
22	1278	Liars	Drum's Not Dead		Listen
23	1307	Mastodon	Blood Mountain		Listen
24	1330	Scott Walker	The Drift
25	1345	Bonnie "Prince" Billy	The Letting Go		Listen
26	1407	Lily Allen	Alright, Still		Listen
27	1418	Midlake	The Trials of Van Occupanther
28	1419	Beirut	Gulag Orkestar		Listen
29	1436	Ali Farka Toure	Savane		Listen
30	1444	Grizzly Bear	Yellow House		Listen
31	1461	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Show Your Bones		Listen
32	1629	Bruce Springsteen	We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions		Listen
33	1666	Band of Horses	Everything All the Time		Listen
34	1841	Wolfmother	Wolfmother		Listen
35	1846	My Chemical Romance	The Black Parade		Listen
36	1878	J Dilla aka Jay Dee	Donuts		Listen
37	1906	Justin Timberlake	FutureSex/LoveSounds		Listen
38	1958	The Flaming Lips	At War with the Mystics		Listen
39	2043	M. Ward	Post-War		Listen
40	2062	Johnny Cash	American V: A Hundred Highways		Listen
41	2164	CSS	Cansei de Ser Sexy		Listen
42	2229	The Roots	Game Theory		Listen
43	2258	Regina Spektor	Begin to Hope		Listen
44	2408	Jarvis Cocker	Jarvis
45	2512	Burial	Burial
46	2612	Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins	Rabbit Fur Coat		Listen
47	2709	Mogwai	Mr. Beast		Listen
48	2752	The Thermals	The Body, The Blood, The Machine		Listen
49	2832	Lupe Fiasco	Food & Liquor		Listen
50	2979	Camera Obscura	Let's Get Out Of This Country
51	2981	Scritti Politti	White Bread Black Beer		Listen
52	2982	Muse	Black Holes & Revelations		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
53		Guillemots	Through the Window Pane
54		Morrissey	Ringleader of the Tormentors		Listen
55		Kante	Die Tiere sind undruhig
56		Red Hot Chili Peppers	Stadium Arcadium		Listen
57		T.I.	King		Listen
58		Built to Spill	You in Reverse		Listen
59		Phoenix	It's Never Been Like That		Listen
60		Herbert	Scale		Listen
61		Spank Rock	YOYOYOYOYO
62		Tool	10,000 Days		Listen
63		Sparklehorse	Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain		Listen
64		Beck	The Information		Listen
65		The Long Blondes	Someone to Drive You Home
66		Peter Bjorn and John	Writer's Block
67		The Kooks	Inside In Inside Out		Listen
68		Subtle	For Hero: For Fool		Listen
69		Girl Talk	Night Ripper		Listen
70		The Rapture	Pieces of the People We Love
71		Amy Winehouse	Back to Black
72		Lindsey Buckingham	Under the Skin		Listen
73		The Killers	Sam's Town		Listen
74		Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan	Ballad of the Broken Seas		Listen
75		Dixie Chicks	Taking the Long Way		Listen
76		Boris	Pink
77		Califone	Roots & Crowns		Listen
78		Slayer	Christ Illusion		Listen
79		The Strokes	First Impressions of Earth		Listen
80		Islands	Return to the Sea
81		Espers	II		Listen
82		Pearl Jam	Pearl Jam		Listen
83		Neil Young	Living with War		Listen
84		The Beatles	Love
85		Howe Gelb	'Sno Angel Like You		Listen
86		Tom Z�	Estudando o pagode		Listen
87		Blumfeld	Verbotene Fruchte
88		Comets on Fire	Avatar		Listen
89		Matmos	The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
90		Standstill	Vivalaguerra
91		The Streets	The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living		Listen
92		Die Goldenen Zitronen	Lenin
93		Peter Licht	Lieder vom Ende des Kapitalismus
94		John Legend	Once Again		Listen
95		The Coup	Pick a Bigger Weapon		Listen
96		Mission of Burma	The Obliterati		Listen
97		DFA	DFA Remixes: Chapter 1		Listen
98		Los Lobos	The Town and the City		Listen
99		Cursive	Happy Hollow		Listen
100		Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint	The River in Reverse		Listen
		The Pipettes	We Are The Pipettes
		Sunset Rubdown	Shut Up I Am Dreaming		Listen
		Lambchop	Damaged		Listen
		Brightblack Morning Light	Brightblack Morning Light		Listen
		The Dears	Gang of Losers
		Love Is All	Nine Times That Same Song
		DJ Drama & Lil Wayne	Dedication 2 (Gangsta Grillz)
		Trentemoller	The Last Resort
		Danielson	Ships		Listen
		The Sleepy Jackson	Personality (One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird)
		Rosanne Cash	Black Cadillac		Listen
		Alejandro Escovedo	The Boxing Mirror		Listen
		Tapes 'n Tapes	The Loon		Listen
		Silversun Pickups	Carnavas		Listen
		Sunn 0))) & Boris	Altar
		Vetiver	To Find Me Gone		Listen
		New York Dolls	One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This		Listen
		Juana Molina	Son		Listen
		Scissor Sisters	Ta-Dah		Listen
		Gossip	Standing in the Way of Control
		The Rifles	No Love Lost
		Current 93	Black Ships Ate the Sky
		Donald Fagen	Morph the Cat		Listen
		Wolf Eyes	Human Animal		Listen
		Archie Bronson Outfit	Derdang Derdang		Listen
		Nellie McKay	Pretty Little Head		Listen
		Isis	In the Absence of Truth		Listen
		Sufjan Stevens	The Avalanche: Outtakes & Extras from the Illinois Album		Listen
		120 Days	120 Days		Listen
		Pet Shop Boys	Fundamental		Listen
		Final Fantasy	He Poos Clouds
		Man Man	Six Demon Bag
		Nathan Fake	Drowning in a Sea of Love
		Plan B	Who Needs Actions When You Got Words
		Converge	No Heroes		Listen
		Drive-By Truckers	A Blessing and a Curse		Listen
		The Young Knives	Voices of Animals & Men
		Damien Rice	9		Listen
		Secret Machines	Ten Silver Drops		Listen
		Nelly Furtado	Loose		Listen
		Corinne Bailey Rae	Corinne Bailey Rae		Listen
		Bunbury & Vegas	El tiempo de las cerezas		Listen
		And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead	So Divided		Listen
		Calexico	Garden Ruin		Listen
		12Twelve	L'univers
		Paul Simon	Surprise		Listen
		Aphex Twin	Chosen Lords
		Beth Orton	Comfort of Strangers		Listen
		Howling Bells	Howling Bells
		Julie Holland	Springtime Can Kill You		Listen
		Fujiya & Miyagi	Transparent Things
		Ellen Allien & Apparat	Orchestra of Bubbles
		Toumani Diabate	Boulevard de L'independence		Listen
		Bert Jansch	Black Swan		Listen
		OOIOO	Taiga
		Cold War Kids	Robbers & Cowards		Listen
		Ornette Coleman	Sound Grammar		Listen
		Basement Jaxx	Crazy Itch Radio		Listen
		Josh Rouse	Subtitulo		Listen
		Tim Hecker	Harmony in Ultraviolet
		Candi Staton	His Hands		Listen
		Razorlight	Razorlight		Listen
		Kasabian	Empire		Listen
		Graham Coxon	Love Travels at Illegal Speeds
		Iron Maiden	A Matter of Life and Death		Listen
		Booka Shade	Movements
		Carla Bozulich	Evangelista
		The Sparks	Hello Young Lovers		Listen
		Kelley Stoltz	Below the Branches		Listen
		OutKast	Idlewild		Listen
		John Mayer	Continuum		Listen
		My Morning Jacket	Okonokos		Listen
		The Blood Brothers	Young Machetes		Listen
		Oneida	Happy New Year		Listen
		J Dilla aka Jay Dee	The Shining		Listen
		Sway	This Is My Demo
		The Handsome Family	Last Days of Wonder
		Grandaddy	Just Like the Fambly Cat		Listen
		The Futureheads	News and Tributes		Listen
		The Mountain Goats	Get Lonely		Listen