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Metacritic's Best of 2006 is in! review

The results of various kinds have been posted, but I'm only going to mention user's top 40 here. You can view all information by clicking the link at the end of this article.

Note, that the album names aren't listed, only the artists. However, if you look those names up you will easily find the albums nominated as all of those came out in 2006.

Final Results

1. TV On the Radio (8) - 1016
2. Joanna Newsom - 870
3. The Hold Steady - 806
4. The Decemberists - 600
5. Destroyer (3) - 584
6. The Knife (2) - 532
7. Liars (10) - 489
8. Neko Case (4) - 445
9. Beirut (9) - 434
10. Band of Horses - 395
11. Grizzly Bear - 337
12. Thermals - 331
13. Yo La Tengo - 318
14. Tom Waits - 296
15. Bob Dylan - 293
16. Thom Yorke (1) - 291
17. Islands - 281
18. Califone - 268
19. Belle and Sebastian (6) - 354
20. M Ward - 243
21. Subtle - 239
22. Ghostface Killah - 234
23. Cat Power (5) - 219
24. Sunset Rubdown - 217
25. Arctic Monkeys - 204
26. Built To Spill - 203
27. Regina Spektor - 194
28. Gnarls Barkley - 185
29. Danielson - 184
30. Muse - 181
31. Tapes and Tapes - 181
32. Clipse - 177
33. Beck - 163
34. The Roots - 162
35. Howe Gelb - 155
36. Tim Hecker - 147
36. Junior Boys - 147
38. Hot CHip - 134
39. Girl Talk - 133
40. The Raconteurs - 132

Items in bold are my submissions to it. Numbers in brackets next to them are their respective rankings in my personal top ten of 2006 list.

Things Too Low(imho): Thom Yorke, Beck, Junior Boys, Danielson.

Things Too High(imho): Joanna Newsom, The Hold Steady, The Decemberists, Tom Waits.

So, now that the most complete and refined list of best alternative music for the past year is finalized, do you agree with it? Anything you feel is missing? Overrated? What would you like to see different in it?

View more results here.

               Posted By Posted by P1x44r on 23/01/2007 15:13               View Comments Comments (1)

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Tom Waits rocks, Joanna Newsom is a harp playing hippy from CA and is far from normal.

Havn't heard half of these. I have a lot ow downloading to do.

Posted by: schmeetz on 29/01/2007 11:20

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