Tuesday, January 09, 2007

The 111 Best Albums of 2006 (as voted on by you):


So after weeks of collecting votes from friends, enemies and you, my faithful readers...I have tallied the 111 top vote getters for albums released in 2006. A very surprising list: Thom Yorke proves he doesn't need a band. TV on the Radio, Decembrists, and Hold Steady prove that they are the real deal. Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth, and Tool show that age means nothing. Arctic Monkeys and Band Horses are the best of the freshman. And, Bob Dylan confirms that he still one of the greatest of all time.


Here are the 111 Best albums of 2006 (as voted on by you):

  1. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
  2. TV on The Radio – Return To Cookie Mountain
  3. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am
  4. Bob Dylan – Modern Times
  5. The Decembrists – The Crane Wife
  6. Band Of Horses - Everything All the Time
  7. Tool – 10,000 Days
  8. Joanna Newsom – Ys
  9. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
  10. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Dreaming
  11. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You
  12. The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls
  13. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
  14. Built To Spill - You In Reverse
  15. Dixie Chicks – Taking The Long Road
  16. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
  17. M. Ward – Post War
  18. Be Good Tanyas – Hello Love
  19. Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
  20. The Strokes – First Impressions of Earth
  21. The Knife - Silent Shout
  22. Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope
  23. The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
  24. Josh Ritter – The Animal Years
  25. Cat Power – The Greatest
  26. Girl Talk – Night Ripper
  27. Cursive – Happy Hollow
  28. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
  29. Beck – The Information
  30. My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade
  31. She Wants Revenge – She Wants Revenge
  32. Johnny Cash – American V
  33. Tom Waits – Orphans
  34. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
  35. Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
  36. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
  37. The Liars – Drum’s Not Dead
  38. The Beatles – Love
  39. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
  40. The Killers – Sam’s Town
  41. Asobi Seksu – Citrus
  42. Swan Lake - Beast Moans
  43. Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
  44. Jenny Lewis & Watson – Rabbit Fur Coat
  45. Bonnie Prince Billy – The Letting Go
  46. Cold War Kids - Robbers And Cowards
  47. Twilight Singers - Powder Burns
  48. Lucero – Rebels, Rogues, and Sworn Brothers
  49. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
  50. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
  51. Ghostface Killah – Fishscale
  52. Final Fantasy – He Poos Clouds
  53. Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor
  54. Wolfmother – Wolfmother
  55. Islands - Return To The Sea
  56. Drive By Truckers – A Blessing and A Curse
  57. Keane – Under The Iron Sea
  58. The Mars Volta – Amputechture
  59. Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire
  60. Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
  61. Tapes n Tapes - The Loon
  62. Camera Obscura – Let’s Get Out of This Country
  63. The Format – Dog Problems
  64. Hot Chip – The Missing
  65. Peter Bjorn And John - Writer's Block
  66. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine
  67. Josh Rouse – Subtitulo
  68. The Futureheads - News and Tributes
  69. Cracker - Greenland
  70. Danielson – Ships
  71. Scott Walker – The Drift
  72. RX Bandits - And the Battle Begun
  73. The Bottle Rockets – Zoysia
  74. Ben Kweller – Ben Kweller
  75. Sparta – Threes
  76. Tokyo Police Club - A Lesson In Crime EP
  77. Lindsey Buckingham – Under The Skin
  78. Starlight Mints – Drownaton
  79. Belle & Sebastian – Life Pursuit
  80. Ben Harper – Both Sides of the Gun
  81. Morrissey – Ringleader of the Torrmentors
  82. Eels – With Strings
  83. Priestess - Priestess
  84. Punchline – 37 Everywhere
  85. Jurassic 5 – Feedback
  86. Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
  87. Rosewood Thieves - From The Decker House
  88. Damien Rice – 9
  89. The Dears – Gang of Losers
  90. Ray LaMontage – Until The Sun Turns Black
  91. Calexico - Garden Ruin
  92. Califone – Roots and Crowns
  93. Film SchoolFilm School
  94. Snoop Dogg – The Blue Carpet Treatment
  95. Yusuf Islam – An Other Cup
  96. People Under The Stairs – Stepfather
  97. Maritime - We, the Vehicles
  98. Appleseed Cast – Peregrine
  99. The Rapture – Pieces of the People We Love
  100. Mastodon – Blood Mountain
  101. Badly Drawn Boy – Born in the UK
  102. The Black Angels - Passover
  103. Citizen Cope – Every Waking Moment
  104. Maxeen - Hello Echo
  105. Shawn Colvin – These Four Walls
  106. The Zutons – Tired of Hanging Around
  107. Annuals – Be He Me
  108. Peeping Tom – Peeping Tom
  109. We Are Scientists - With Love And Squalor
  110. The Roots – Game Theory
  111. Audioslave – Revelations

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