The Best Albums Of 2006

Top 50

1. Return to cookie mountain - TV ON THE RADIO
2. Whatever people say I am, that's what I am not - ARCTIC MONKEYS
3. Cansei De Ser Sexy - CSS
4. Show your bones - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
5. Be Your Own Pet - BE YOUR OWN PET
6. Derdang derdang - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT
7. The crane wife - THE DECEMBERISTS
8. First impressions of earth - THE STROKES
9. You in reverse - BUILT TO SPILL
10. Rather ripped - SONIC YOUTH
11. Boys and girls in America - THE HOLD STEADY
12. Pieces of the people we love - THE RAPTURE
13. Fishscale - GHOSTFACE KILLAH
14. Yoyoyoyoyo - SPANK ROCK
15. Standing in the way of control - GOSSIP
16. Ringleader of the tormentors - MORRISSEY
17. I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass - YO LA TENGO
18. Rabbit fur coat - JENNY LEWIS WITH THE WATSON TWINS
19. Robbers & cowards - COLD WAR KIDS
20. Hit the floor! - YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE!
21. Sam’s town - THE KILLERS
22. The Lemonheads - THE LEMONHEADS
23. The Bronx - THE BRONX
24. The invisible deck - THE ROGERS SISTERS
25. The body the blood the machine - THE THERMALS
26. Drum's not dead - LIARS
27. Impeach my bush - PEACHES
28. The greatest - CAT POWER
29. Broken boy soldiers - THE RACONTEURS
30. Avatar - COMETS ON FIRE
31. Powder burns - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS
32. In colour - THE CONCRETES
33. Someone to drive you home - THE LONG BLONDES
34. Bottoms of barrels - TILLY AND THE WALL
35. Gulag Orkestar - BEIRUT
36. Putting the days to bed - THE LONG WINTERS
37. The loon - TAPES 'N TAPES
38. A hundred miles off - THE WALKMEN
39. Zeroes and ones - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY
40. Everything all the time - BAND OF HORSES
41. Howling Bells - HOWLING BELLS
42. Make love to the judges with your eyes - PONY UP!
43. We are The Pipettes - THE PIPETTES
44. Bring it back - MATES OF STATE
45. Gang of losers - THE DEARS
46. Let’s get out of this country - CAMERA OBSCURA
47. Fox confessor brings the flood - NEKO CASE
48. Pearl Jam - PEARL JAM
49. Under a billion suns - MUDHONEY
50. Hell hath no fury - CLIPSE

Also recommended:

Transparent things - FUJIYA AND MIYAGI, The warning - HOT CHIP, Yes, Virginia… - THE DRESDEN DOLLS, Knives don't have your back - EMILY HAINES & THE SOFT SKELETON, The life pursuit - BELLE & SEBASTIAN, Balled of broken seas - ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN, The trials of Van Occupanther - MIDLAKE, Happy new year - ONEIDA, At war with the mystics - THE FLAMING LIPS, The information - BECK, Food & liquor - LUPE FIASCO, Silent shout - THE KNIFE, Fab four suture - STEREOLAB, Carnavas - SILVERSUN PICKUPS, News and tributes - THE FUTUREHEADS, Remember the night parties - OXFORD COLLAPSE, Nightlife - ERASE ERRATA, Nine times that same song - LOVE IS ALL, Dancing with daggers - MAGNETA LANE, Elan Vital - PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES, Just like the fambly cat - GRANDADDY, 'Sno angel like you - HOWE GELB, Brightblack Morning Light - BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT, Dreamt for light years in the belly of a mountain - SPARKLEHORSE, The spell - THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION, The letting go - BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY, Damaged - LAMBCHOP, The avalanche - SUFJAN STEVENS, Serena-Maneesh - SERENA-MANEESH, So this is goodbye - JUNIOR BOYS, A lesson in crime - TOKYO POLICE CLUB, The Obliterati - MISSION OF BURMA, Zodiac zoo - MADE IN MEXICO, Happy Hollow - CURSIVE, Enemies like this - RADIO 4, Ten silver drops - SECRET MACHINES, Fear is on our side - I LOVE YOU BUT I'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS, Passover - THE BLACK ANGELS, Visitations - CLINIC, Born in the UK - BADLY DRAWN BOY, Personality (one was a spider, one was a bird) - THE SLEEPY JACKSON, Idlewild - OUTKAST, Game theory - THE ROOTS, Doctor’s advocate - THE GAME, Meds - PLACEBO, So divided - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, Without feathers - THE STILLS, Over the mountain, across the valley, and back to the stars - JENNIFER O’CONNOR, Garden ruin - CALEXICO, From a compound eye - ROBERT POLLARD, Greg Dulli's Amber headlights - GREG DULLI, Film school - FILM SCHOOL, Cannibal sea - THE ESSEX GREEN, This hungry life - TANYA DONELLY, Fading trails - MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO., Types of wood - WHIRLWIND HEAT, Bitter tea - THE FIERY FURNACES, Coal - DEVASTATIONS, Silver - JESU, Vessel states - WILDERNESS, Stadium Arcadium - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, Vision valley - THE VINES, Inside in / Inside out - THE KOOKS, Look at who you’re talking to - HUMAN TELEVISION, Fantastic success - MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA, Yellow house - GRIZZLY BEAR, Live a little - PERNICE BROTHERS, The eraser - THOM YORKE, St. Elsewhere - GNARLS BARKLEY, Varcharz - MOUSE ON MARS, Writer's block - PETER BJORN AND JOHN, Skelliconnection - CHAD VANGAALEN, Let's build a fire - +/-, Post-war - M. WARD, Begin to hope - REGINA SPEKTOR, Real life - JOAN AS POLICEWOMAN, Drowaton - STARLIGHT MINTS, Catastrophe keeps us together - RAINER MARIA, Give me a wall- !FORWARD RUSSIA!, Voices of animals and men - THE YOUNG KNIVES, Those the brokes - THE MAGIC NUMBERS, White bread, black beer - SCRITTI POLITTI, Orphans: Brawlers, bawlers and bastards - TOM WAITS, Living with war - NEIL YOUNG, Modern times - BOB DYLAN, Espers II - ESPERS, To find me gone - VETIVER, Ys - JOANNA NEWSOM, Micah P Hinson and the Opera Circuit - MICAH P HINSON, A blessing and a curse - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, Human animal - WOLF EYES, Easter - THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES, The hardest walk - SOLEDAD BROTHERS, Magic potion - THE BLACK KEYS, In the city of sleep - THE FEVER, Yours to keep - ALBERT HAMMOND JR., Into the blue again - THE ALBUM LEAF, Tell me - CATFISH HAVEN, Black holes & revelations - MUSE, Empire - KASABIAN, Riot city blues - PRIMAL SCREAM, Waterloo to anywhere - DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, Razorlight - RAZORLIGHT, A call and response - THE LONGCUT, Not accepted anywhere - THE AUTOMATIC, Raise the alarm - THE SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND, Making dens - MYSTERY JETS, Through the window pain - GUILLEMOTS, Jarvis - JARVIS COCKER, Chronicles of a bohemian teenager - GET CAPE. WEAR CAPE. FLY, Civilian - BOY KILL BOY, The only thing I ever wanted - PSAPP, The beatific visions - BRAKES, Mr Beast - MOGWAI, 10,000 Days - TOOL, Blood mountain - MASTODON, Wolfmother - WOLFMOTHER, Six demon bag - MAN MAN, What the toll tells - TWO GALLANTS, Zeno beach - RADIO BIRDMAN, My dark places - TELEVISION PERSONALITIES, Olé! Tarantula - ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE VENUS 3, When the going gets dark - QUASI, Shut up I am dreaming - SUNSET RUBDOWN, The rose has teeth in the mouth of a beast - MATMOS, Night ripper - GIRL TALK, The audience's listening - CUT CHEMIST, Live and learn - MEKALEK, King - T.I., Public warning - LADY SOVEREIGN, Pick a bigger weapon - THE COUP, Murray's revenge - MURS, Burial - BURIAL, The outsider - DJ SHADOW, Sound mirrors - COLDCUT, The hardest way to make an easy living - THE STREETS, Back to black - AMY WINEHOUSE, It’s never been like that - PHOENIX, Collisions - CALLA, Ships - DANIELSON, Roots & crowns - CALIFONE, Tragic treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events - GOTHIC ARCHES, Destroyer's rubies - DESTROYER, Dits from the commuter belt - BROMHEADS JACKET, The last temptation of... the Low Frequency in Stereo - THE LOW FREQUENCY IN STEREO, Threes - SPARTA, Seven from the village - FIELDS, Singles & sessions 1979 - 81 - DELTA 5, McLuskyism - McLUSKY, Echoes of the past - DEAD MOON, And I feel fine…The best of the IRS years 1982-1987 - R.E.M., The Peel Sessions 1991 - 2004 - PJ HARVEY, The destroyed room B-sides and rarities - SONIC YOUTH