Best Albums of 2006
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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
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"I've tried it, listened to it over and over again, but I guess i don't have the brains to grasp this." Reply
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"So nice to hear someone else love motown like music. She did a fantastic job with the sound, but of course a bit more modern. Most themes are of infidelity and from a woman's perspective, which was interesting. But not just a sexy tease, rather something much more real. Aretha Franklin of the 200..." Reply
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RoundTheBend | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 4
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"Utterly gargantuan. There are certainly flaws here, but they don't affect it too much as they seem to be buried under the sheer size of the thing" Reply
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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..." Reply
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cestuneblague | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 15
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"Reading up on the making of this album made it so much more personal and hardhitting." Reply
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Sometype | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 5
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"This album is my personal favorite album of all time, the whole album isnt boring for one second, it is packed with emotional highs and lows and it is an album that has truly changed my life, both of how I listen to music but also how I view life itself. This is a true masterpiece that I think ev..." Reply
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"It could be said that there is a "sequencing flaw" with this album, and it could also be said that there is a fair share of filler (which pretty much any double-album will have) but the majority of this album is pure ear-candy, with excellent musicians to back it up. Fruciante puts on a..." Reply
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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 ..." Reply
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AAL2014 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 10
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"I'd put this higher than the Hot Fuss. There's a better distribution of quality on the album and, though I think the overall concept is okay, the quality of the songs is pretty high. They tap more into a Heartland Rock vibe and capture vistas somewhat well. I don't know if they come close to thos..." Reply
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 1 of 100
Best Albums of 2006 composition
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| Various Artists | 7 | 1% | |
| Beirut | 2 | 0% | |
| Mastodon | 2 | 0% | |
| The Beatles | 2 | 0% | |
| Jason Molina | 2 | 0% | |
| ムック [Mucc] | 2 | 0% | |
| Marisa Monte | 2 | 0% | |
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486 | 49% | |
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189 | 19% | |
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44 | 4% | |
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36 | 4% | |
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34 | 3% | |
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27 | 3% | |
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Best Albums of 2006 chart changes
| Biggest climbers Biggest climbers in top 100 since last month |
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Up 11 from 80th to 69th |
Up 8 from 59th to 51st |
Up 7 from 103rd to 96th |
| Biggest fallers Biggest fallers in top 100 since last month |
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Down 3 from 69th to 72nd |
Down 3 from 78th to 81st |
Down 2 from 47th to 49th |
| New entries New entries in top 100 since last month |
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Up 7 from 103rd to 96th |
| Leavers Leavers from top 100 since last month |
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Down 1 from 100th to 101st |
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