Eine weitere Liste aus den USA: The 40 Best Albums of 2006 der Zeitschrift SPIN, mit Kommentaren.
Zur Übersicht:
40. COLD WAR KIDS – Robbers & Cowards
39. THE THERMALS – The Body, the Blood, the Machine
38. M. WARD – Post-War
37. WOLFMOTHER – s/t
36. THE BRONX – s/t
35. J DILLA – The Shining
34. SPARKLEHORSE – Dreamt for Lightyears in the Belly of a Mountain
33. THE RAPTURE – Pieces of the People we love
32. THE FAGS – Light ‚em up
31. YEAH YEAH YEAHS – Show your Bones
30. THE DEARS – Gang of Losers
29. TAPES ‚N TAPES – The Loon
28. THOM YORKE – The Eraser
27. GIRL TALK – Night Ripper
26. BORIS – Pink
25. OUTKAST – Idlewild
24. PERNICE BROTHERS – Live a little
23. THE ROOTS – Game Theory
22. SONIC YOUTH – Rather Ripped
21. THE HOLD STEADY – Boys and Girls in America
20. LUPE FIASCO – Food & Liquor
19. THE RACONTEURS – Broken Boy Soldiers
18. THE STREETS – The hardest Way to make an easy Living
17. NEKO CASE – Fox Confessor brings the Flood
16. EDITORS – The Back Room (US-Release war 2006)
15. LADY SOVEREIGN – Public Warning
14. T.I. – King
13. JENNY LEWIS WITH THE WATSON TWINS – Rabbit Fur Coat
12. HOT CHIP – The Warning
11. THE DECEMBERISTS – The Crane Wife
10. BECK – The Information
9. CLIPSE – Hell hath no Fury
8. MY MORNING JACKET – Okonokos
7. CAT POWER – The Greatest
6. JOANNA NEWSOM – Ys
5. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE – The Black Parade
4. GHOSTFACE KILLAH – Fishscale
3. ARCTIC MONKEYS – Whatever People say I am, That’s what I’m not
2. GNARLS BARKLEY – St. Elsewhere
1. TV ON THE RADIO – Return to Cookie Mountain
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