The Top 100 Albums from 2006

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	106	TV on the Radio	Return to Cookie Mountain
2	190	Joanna Newsom	Ys		Listen
3	245	Arctic Monkeys	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
4	276	Bob Dylan	Modern Times		Listen
5	401	Gnarls Barkley	St. Elsewhere		Listen
6	441	Ghostface Killah	Fishscale		Listen
7	574	Cat Power	The Greatest		Listen
8	631	Hot Chip	The Warning		Listen
9	722	Tom Waits	Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards		Listen
10	790	Neko Case	Fox Confessor Brings the Flood		Listen
11	817	The Knife	Silent Shout		Listen
12	819	Sonic Youth	Rather Ripped		Listen
13	830	The Hold Steady	Boys and Girls in America		Listen
14	881	Clipse	Hell Hath No Fury
15	895	Yo La Tengo	I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass		Listen
16	924	Belle and Sebastian	The Life Pursuit		Listen
17	1081	The Decemberists	The Crane Wife		Listen
18	1157	Destroyer	Destroyer's Rubies		Listen
19	1240	Lily Allen	Alright, Still		Listen
20	1262	Junior Boys	So This Is Goodbye		Listen
21	1278	Thom Yorke	The Eraser		Listen
22	1287	Liars	Drum's Not Dead		Listen
23	1297	Mastodon	Blood Mountain		Listen
24	1313	The Raconteurs	Broken Boy Soldiers		Listen
25	1342	Scott Walker	The Drift
26	1367	Bonnie "Prince" Billy	The Letting Go		Listen
27	1429	Ali Farka Toure	Savane		Listen
28	1469	Beirut	Gulag Orkestar		Listen
29	1487	Midlake	The Trials of Van Occupanther
30	1493	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Show Your Bones		Listen
31	1515	Grizzly Bear	Yellow House		Listen
32	1615	Bruce Springsteen	We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions		Listen
33	1645	Band of Horses	Everything All the Time		Listen
34	1810	Wolfmother	Wolfmother		Listen
35	1880	J Dilla aka Jay Dee	Donuts		Listen
36	1916	My Chemical Romance	The Black Parade		Listen
37	1933	Justin Timberlake	FutureSex/LoveSounds		Listen
38	1986	The Flaming Lips	At War with the Mystics		Listen
39	2073	Johnny Cash	American V: A Hundred Highways		Listen
40	2108	M. Ward	Post-War		Listen
41	2196	The Roots	Game Theory		Listen
42	2205	CSS	Cansei de Ser Sexy		Listen
43	2274	Regina Spektor	Begin to Hope		Listen
44	2319	Jarvis Cocker	Jarvis
45	2651	Lupe Fiasco	Food & Liquor		Listen
46	2660	Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins	Rabbit Fur Coat		Listen
47	2724	Mogwai	Mr. Beast		Listen
48	2726	The Thermals	The Body, The Blood, The Machine		Listen
49	2785	Burial	Burial
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Muse	Black Holes & Revelations		Listen
		Camera Obscura	Let's Get Out Of This Country
		Scritti Politti	White Bread Black Beer		Listen
		Guillemots	Through the Window Pane
		Morrissey	Ringleader of the Tormentors		Listen
		Kante	Die Tiere sind undruhig
		T.I.	King		Listen
		Red Hot Chili Peppers	Stadium Arcadium		Listen
		Phoenix	It's Never Been Like That		Listen
		Built to Spill	You in Reverse		Listen
		Peter Bjorn and John	Writer's Block
		Herbert	Scale		Listen
		Amy Winehouse	Back to Black
		Lindsey Buckingham	Under the Skin		Listen
		Spank Rock	YOYOYOYOYO
		Tool	10,000 Days		Listen
		Subtle	For Hero: For Fool		Listen
		The Long Blondes	Someone to Drive You Home
		Sparklehorse	Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain		Listen
		Beck	The Information		Listen
		The Kooks	Inside In Inside Out		Listen