Best Albums of 2006

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1.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 

 Arctic Monkeys

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"Definitely in my Top 5 albums of all time. The guitar music is great but the way it is brought across in broad Yorkshire accent and dialect is summet else. The way the stories are told in the lyrics is just how one of your mates would tell a story about one of his nights out."  Reply

- nshaw75 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +9 votes (9 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

1,619 charts

Rank Score:

15,808

Rank in 2006:

1

Rank in 2000s:

7

Overall Rank:

71

Average Rating:

 83 (2,373 votes)

Comments:

200

2.

Ys 

 Joanna Newsom

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"I was living in Reno in November of 2006 when Ys was released, and I immediately recognized, amid the dense allegory and arcane literary references embedded in Joanna Newsom's lyrics, music that is grounded in the Sierra Nevada and Yuba River Valley landscapes in which Newsom was born and raised....""I was living in Reno in November of 2006 when Ys was released, and I immediately recognized, amid the dense allegory and arcane literary references embedded in Joanna Newsom's lyrics, music that is grounded in the Sierra Nevada and Yuba River Valley landscapes in which Newsom was born and raised. Take, for instance, the opening lines to the album's centerpiece, "Emily": "The meadowlark and the chim-choo-ree and the sparrow / Set to the sky in a flying spree, for the sport over the pharaoh / A little while later the Pharisees dragged comb through the meadow / Do you remember what they called up to you and me, in our window?" Somehow, in these lyrics, Newsom manages to weave together personal history, geographical and ecological specificity, and Biblical allusions that give the whole experience an ancient, mythical feel. This is creative, ambitious, brilliant stuff--the threads drawn together by an artist still in the early stages of her career. I cannot wait to see what she does in the years and decades to come."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

782 charts

Rank Score:

8,370

Rank in 2006:

2

Rank in 2000s:

28

Overall Rank:

177

Average Rating:

 81 (864 votes)

Comments:

87

3.

Back To Black 

 Amy Winehouse

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"I'll admit, I never really had an interest in listening to Amy Winehouse for some reason, and then she died, and I wanted to know what she sounded like. So I listened to a song from this album...and then the entire album. What a great, soulful work this is, with powerful vocals and melodies and l...""I'll admit, I never really had an interest in listening to Amy Winehouse for some reason, and then she died, and I wanted to know what she sounded like. So I listened to a song from this album...and then the entire album. What a great, soulful work this is, with powerful vocals and melodies and lyrics. It might suffer slightly from a slight same-y-ness, but it's still a great listen. In my mind, I had her placed with Lady Gaga for some reason, and I now know to listen to these musicians before internally labeling, as Winehouse was an enormous talent. It's nice to have an R & B album that's more throwback 70s style than the hip hop R&B that's so popular today. Good stuff!"  [+]  Reply

- clockworkfiction3 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +9 votes (9 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

907 charts

Rank Score:

7,759

Rank in 2006:

3

Rank in 2000s:

32

Overall Rank:

193

Average Rating:

 80 (1,139 votes)

Comments:

61

4.

Black Holes And Revelations 

 Muse

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"Fantastic album, tied with Absolution behind Origin of Symmetry for Muse's best album. A love the feel to this album and absolutely adore some of the songs like "Knights of Cydonia" and "Map of the Problematique". This album sure deserves a listen from anyone who likes alt rock."  Reply

- TheHolyKiwi | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

790 charts

Rank Score:

6,215

Rank in 2006:

4

Rank in 2000s:

40

Overall Rank:

262

Average Rating:

 78 (1,479 votes)

Comments:

96

5.

The Black Parade 

 My Chemical Romance

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"Yeah this album was inescapable sometime around '06-'07, and it's not hard to see why. In a time when so many bands were taking the previously more direct routes of emotive popish-y-punk songs, this album was so self-consciously grandstanding and BOMBASTIC (do you want me to repeat that last word...""Yeah this album was inescapable sometime around '06-'07, and it's not hard to see why. In a time when so many bands were taking the previously more direct routes of emotive popish-y-punk songs, this album was so self-consciously grandstanding and BOMBASTIC (do you want me to repeat that last word) that it had the air of something new and important. It wasn't at all- it had the substance and danger of a Hot Topic halloween party with dime-store shrooms. So what actually made the shoulda-been-a-trainwreck it worthwhile? Well... it was actually a lot of fun. Reviving the grand 'ol concept album formula, glam-rock poses and arena-metal that probably shoulda died with the early 80s, it apes every Big Fucking Band of the era- Iron Maiden, Supertramp, T. Rex, Danzig/Misfits, and hell there's even the Tom Waits bastard stepson of "Mama" (yes, that's Liza Minelli singing backup) but none so more than the undisputed kings of extravagant excess and Everything's Gotta Be An Anthem skin of Queen. The opener The End basically seems like the begginings of Ziggy Stardust and The Wall ran into each other, become one unholy monster walking away with blurred vision and a bloody nose. There's no way this album should've worked, but miraculously it did. Mainly cause it does mix solid songwriting with a sorta adorable sense of over-the-top surface grandeur that makes it a really entertaining spectacle, if rarely a substantive one. Not as strange or groundbreaking as it wanted to be, it nonetheless came across as a strong new millenium arena-rock album in spite of it's conspicious flaws. I may never enjoy it as much as I did when... I WAS..... A YOUNG BOYYYYYY!!!, but it's still fun to come back to once and again. "  [+]  Reply

- cestuneblague | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +15 votes (15 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

495 charts

Rank Score:

5,117

Rank in 2006:

5

Rank in 2000s:

48

Overall Rank:

328

Average Rating:

 74 (827 votes)

Comments:

85

6.

Donuts 

 J Dilla

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"On the 7th of February 2006, after around 4 months of label disputes J Dilla's 'Donuts' was finally released. 3 days later he was dead. Donuts is so much more than just a beat tape, it's the final swan-song of a dying man who felt that in his final moments he had to push himself into making somet...""On the 7th of February 2006, after around 4 months of label disputes J Dilla's 'Donuts' was finally released. 3 days later he was dead. Donuts is so much more than just a beat tape, it's the final swan-song of a dying man who felt that in his final moments he had to push himself into making something worth being remembered by. 29 out of the 31 tracks were recorded from a hospital bed in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with nothing but an Boss SP-303 small 45 record player his friends had brought him as a gift, Dilla was undergoing treatment for TPP and lupus, records that his mother would bring him were used as the sources of the sampling for the album. It's a common complaint that all of the songs here are too short and fleeting, but to me it's perfect. It's sort of hauntingly symbolic of how life itself is too short and fleeting, but personal meaning aside, every song here is so lush and beautiful, tiny little details are spread across all 31 tracks, it's impossible to listen to them and not hear something new. I wish they could go on forever. I really do. I am not worthy of listening to this. I can't even believe this thing exists. I listen to this and I think about how terrifying death is, how scared Dilla must have been. there are no words to describe how breathtaking this music is. fuck. RIP."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

467 charts

Rank Score:

4,029

Rank in 2006:

6

Rank in 2000s:

67

Overall Rank:

416

Average Rating:

 81 (532 votes)

Comments:

24

7.

The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me 

 Brand New

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"The album made me realize stuff"  Reply

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Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

461 charts

Rank Score:

3,901

Rank in 2006:

7

Rank in 2000s:

70

Overall Rank:

431

Average Rating:

 81 (593 votes)

Comments:

41

8.

10,000 Days 

 Tool

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"The more I listen, the more magnificent it becomes. 75/100 is unbelievably low for this record. The Pot, Vicarious, Right in Two, and Jambi are all instant classic Tool songs. But what makes this album great is the duo of Wings Part 1 and 2. I'm a firm believer that 10,000 Days (Wings Part 2) is ...""The more I listen, the more magnificent it becomes. 75/100 is unbelievably low for this record. The Pot, Vicarious, Right in Two, and Jambi are all instant classic Tool songs. But what makes this album great is the duo of Wings Part 1 and 2. I'm a firm believer that 10,000 Days (Wings Part 2) is one of the greatest songs ever written. The more I learn about it and the lyrical content, the more I listen closely to the ethereal nature, the layering, the harmonies, the more I'm absolutely blown away. It's scary how good that song is, so deep and so beautiful. Overall the 2nd half doesn't hold up to the impeccable 1st half, but as a whole it's great. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

380 charts

Rank Score:

3,041

Rank in 2006:

8

Rank in 2000s:

90

Overall Rank:

562

Average Rating:

 79 (674 votes)

Comments:

36

9.

Stadium Arcadium 

 Red Hot Chili Peppers

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"I'm probably in the minority when I say this, but I think this is their best album. It may not have some of the big and timeless hits as their other albums did and Dani California was played WAY too much on the radio, but I cannot find a bad song on this album. That's amazing for a 28 song album....""I'm probably in the minority when I say this, but I think this is their best album. It may not have some of the big and timeless hits as their other albums did and Dani California was played WAY too much on the radio, but I cannot find a bad song on this album. That's amazing for a 28 song album. There are only a few that I would say are average, but the rest are above average or real good. My favorites are Snow(Hey Oh), Charlie, Desecration Smile, Tell Me Baby, and Readymade."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

478 charts

Rank Score:

2,970

Rank in 2006:

9

Rank in 2000s:

91

Overall Rank:

568

Average Rating:

 73 (952 votes)

Comments:

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10.

Sam's Town 

 The Killers

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"What a disappointment after Hot Fuss, which I found much better. It has two great songs (Read My Mind and When You Were Young), two good songs (Bones and For Reasons Unknwon) and the rest is utterly forgettable."  Reply

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Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

435 charts

Rank Score:

2,609

Rank in 2006:

10

Rank in 2000s:

100

Overall Rank:

655

Average Rating:

 74 (833 votes)

Comments:

43

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Best Albums of 2006 composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Artist	Albums	%
Various Artists	7	1%
Tom Verlaine	2	0%
Mastodon	2	0%
平沢進 [Susumu Hirasawa]	2	0%
Beirut	2	0%
Sufjan Stevens	2	0%
The Twilight Singers	2	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	488	49%
	190	19%
	45	5%
	35	4%
	28	3%
	27	3%
	25	3%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	949	95%
Yes	51	5%

Live?	Albums	%
No	972	97%
Yes	28	3%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	988	99%
Yes	12	1%