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