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Top 89 albums of 2006

January 07, 2013

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Here are the results of the Top 89 albums of 2006, as picked by our listeners.

1. The Crane Wife – The Decemberists
2. At War With the Mystics - The Flaming Lips
3. St. Elsewhere – Gnarls Barkley
4. Boys And Girls In America – The Hold Steady
5. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood – Neko Case
6. The Information – Beck
7. The Life Pursuit – Belle & Sebastian
8. Modern Times – Bob Dylan
9. Return To Cookie Mountain – TV On The Radio
10. Broken Boy Soldiers – The Raconteurs
11. The Greatest – Cat Power
12. Show Your Bones – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
13. American V: A Hundred Highways – Johnny Cash
14. The Eraser – Thom Yorke
15. Whatever People Say I Am... – Arctic Monkeys
16. Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards – Tom Waits
17. Begin to Hope – Regina Spektor
18. Everything All the Time – Band of Horses
19. Audition – P.O.S.
20. The Avalanche – Outtakes & Extras from Illinois – Sufjan Stevens
21. Post-War – M. Ward
22. Eyes Open – Snow Patrol
23. Boneclouds – Mason Jennings
24. You in Reverse – Built to Spill
25. I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass – Yo La Tengo
26. Rabbit Fur Coat – Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins
27. Stadium Arcadium – Red Hot Chili Peppers
28. Bring It Back – Mates Of State
29. 3121 – Prince
30. Wolfmother – Wolfmother
31. How We Operate – Gomez
32. Let's Get Out Of This Country – Camera Obscura
33. Till The Sun Turns Black – Ray LaMontagne
34. Rather Ripped – Sonic Youth
35. Curse Your Little Heart – DeVotchka
36. We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions – Bruce Springsteen
37. Magic Potion – The Black Keys
38. Living With War – Neil Young
39. Noise Floor – Bright Eyes
40. Both Sides of the Gun – Ben Harper
41. Another Fine Day – Golden Smog
42. Reprieve – Ani DiFranco
43. Taking the Long Way – The Dixie Chicks
44. Don't You Know Who I Think I Was?: The Best of the Replacements – The Replacements
45. Public Warning – Lady Sovereign
46. Black Holes And Revelations – Muse
47. Oh No – Ok Go
48. First Impressions of Earth – The Strokes
49. Garden Ruin – Calexico
50. Death By Sexy – Eagles of Death Metal
51. Pearl Jam – Pearl Jam
52. Feedback – Jurassic 5
53. Little Miss Sunshine Soundtrack – Devotchka
54. Alright, Still – Lily Allen
55. Firecracker – The Wailin' Jennys
56. Veneer – Jose Gonzalez
57. Gulag Orkestar – Beirut
58. A Blessing and a Curse – Drive-By Truckers
59. Talk To La Bomb – Brazilian Girls
60. Ys – Joanna Newsom
61. Supernature – Goldfrapp
62. Eye to the Telescope – KT Tunstall
63. Soft Machine – Teddy Bears
64. The Letting Go – Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
65. Yes, Virginia... – The Dresden Dolls
66. The Warning – Hot Chip
67. Supersunnyspeedgrafic – Ben Folds
68. Lure the Fox – Haley Bonar
69. The Garden – Zero 7
70. The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living – The Streets
71. Every Waking Moment – Citizen Cope
72. Colour the Small One – Sia
73. All This Time – Heartless Bastards
74. Half the Perfect World – Madeleine Peyroux
75. Game Theory – The Roots
76. Comfort of Strangers – Beth Orton
77. A Detail of Soldiers – The Alarmists
78. Whiskey on a Sunday – Flogging Molly
79. Ganging Up On The Sun – Guster
80. The River in Reverse – Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint
81. Get Lonely – The Mountain Goats
82. Personal File – Johnny Cash
83. Nuclear Daydream – Joseph Arthur
84. Born In The U.K. – Badly Drawn Boy
85. Yell Fire! – Michael Franti & Spearhead
86. Open Season: Remixes and Collabs – Feist
87. The Evening Call – Greg Brown
88. The Back Room Editors
89. All The Roadrunning Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris