Les 20 meilleurs albums de 2006 :

1. Scott Walker - The Drift 

2. Tom Waits - Orphans : Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards  
3. Espers - II   
4. Graham Reynolds - A Scanner Darkly

5. Matt Elliott - Failing Songs 
6. Apse - Spirit
7. Venus - The Red Room
8. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
9. Marissa Nadler - The Saga of Mayflower May
10. Nick Cave & W. Ellis - The proposition 
11. Bruce Springsteen - We shall Overcome 
12. Campbell & Lanegan - Ballad of the broken seas
13. Sonic Youth - Rather ripped  
14. Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals  
15. Liars - Drum’s not dead   
16. Legendary Pink Dots - Your Children Placate You...
17. Bob Dylan - Modern times 
18. Johnny Cash -  American V: A Hundred Highways 
19. AFX (Aphex Twin) - Chosen Lords 
20. An Pierlé & White Velvet     

Classement par genres :

Rock, pop

1. Scott Walker - The Drift  (10)
2. Tom Waits - Orphans : Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (9) 
3. Espers - II  (9)  
4. Apse - Spirit  (9)
5. Venus - The Red Room (9)
6. Thom Yorke - The Eraser (8)
7. Bruce Springsteen - We shall Overcome (8)
8. Sonic Youth - Rather ripped   (8)
9. Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals (8) 
10. Liars - Drum’s not dead  (8) 
11. Legendary Pink Dots - Your Children Placate You... (8)
12. An Pierlé & White Velvet  (8)   
13. Divine Comedy - Victory for the Comic Muse  (8)
14. Dominique A – L’Horizon  (7) 
15. The Black Keys - Magic Potion (7) 
16. Decemberists - The Crane Wife (7)
17. Peter, Bjorn and John - Writer's block (7)
18. Calexico - Garden Ruin (7) 
19. Mojave 3 - Puzzles like you (7) 
20. Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire  (7)

(7)
The Arctic Monkeys – Whatever people say I am… 

(6)

Beck - The Information  
Nina Nastasia - On leaving 
Eagles of Death metal - Death by sexy 
Cold War Kids - Robbers & cowards
Camera Obscura - Let's get out of this country
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain  
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier 
I love you but I’ve Chosen darkness – Fear is on our Side  
Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther 
The Black Heart Procession - The Spell 
The Deadly Snakes – Porcella  
Perry Blake – The Crying Room  
Guillemots - Through the windowpane
Jean-Louis Murat - Taormina  
Badly Drawn Boy - Born in the UK

Grizzly Bear -  Yellow House

(5)
Mogwaï – Mr Beast  
Holden – Chevrotine 
Cat Power – the Greatest  
Archive - Lights
Love is All - Nine times that same song
Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years... 

(4)
Placebo – Meds 
Thomas Dybdahl - One day you'll dance for me, New-York City 
The Strokes - First Impressions of earth 
The Vines – Vision Valley 
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
Audioslave - Revelations

(3)
David Gilmour – On an island

Folk-rock, Folk

1. Matt Elliott - Failing Songs (9)
2. Marissa Nadler - The Saga of Mayflower May (9)
3. Campbell & Lanegan - Ballad of the broken seas (8)
4. Bob Dylan - Modern times  (8)
5. Johnny Cash -  American V: A Hundred Highways (8)
6. Isobell Campbell - Milkwhite Sheets (7)
7. Bonnie prince Billy - The Letting Go (7)  
8. Joanna Newsom - Ys  (6)
9. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar (6)
 

Electro, trip-hop

1. AFX (Aphex Twin) - Chosen Lords  (8)
2. Emilie Simon – Végétal (7)
3. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles  (7)
4. Plaid - Greedy baby (6)
5. Squarepusher - Hello Everything (6)
6. Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom  (6)
7. Agoria - The Green Armchair  (5)
8. DJ Shadow - the Outsider  (5)
9. Darkel - Darkel  (5)
10. Nathan Fake - Drowning in a sea of love  (5)
11. Coldcut – Sound Mirrors   (5)
12. Cirkus - Laylow  (5)

Hard, metal

1. TOOL - 10 000 days (7)
2. Slayer - Christ Illusion (6)

Hip-Hop 

1. Jel - Soft Money (8) 
2. Inspectah Deck - The Resident Patient (8)

3. Method Man - The day after (7)
4. The Roots - Game theory (7)
5. 8 Ball & Mjg - Ridin'high (7)
6. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (7)
7. Eminem presents the re-up  (7) 

Soul, funk

1. Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere (6) 
2. Kelis - Kelis was here (5) 

B.O.

1. Graham Reynolds - A Scanner Darkly (9)

2. Nick Cave & W. Ellis - The proposition  (8)

Hors-catégorie :

Rev Tom Frost - South of Hell, France  

Pour plus de détails sur certains des albums mentionnés ci-dessus, voir aussi l'article :

Les albums de 2006 : I Janvier-Février

Le bilan de l'année : 2006, la revanche des vieux