What could be more ridiculous than trying to rank the thousands of singles and albums you’ve bought and heard over a lifetime? Here we go …
I ranked my singles of the year at the end of 2006, but I didn’t rank my albums. So the first albums and singles lists are a December 2024 re-ranking of both of these lists, but I’ve also included the original 2006 singles list too.
| | Top albums of 2006 |
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| 1 | Young Knives | Voices of Animals And Men |
| 2 | Hot Puppies | Under The Crooked Moon |
| 3 | Divine Comedy | Victory For The Comic Muse |
| 4 | Others | Inward Parts |
| 5 | Jarvis | Jarvis |
| 6 | Long Blondes | Someone To Drive You Home |
| 7 | Gestir | Burtur Frá Toftunum |
| 8 | Grates | Gravity Won't Get You High |
| 9 | Stereolab | Fab Four Suture |
| 10 | Isa And The Filthy Tongues | Addiction |
| 11 | MJ Hibbett And The Validators | We Validate! |
| 12 | Hafdis Huld | Dirty Paper Cup |
| 13 | Maccabees | The Maccabees |
| 14 | ¡Forward, Russia! | Give Me A Wall |
| 15 | White Rose Movement | Kick |
| 16 | Larrikin Love | The Freedom Spark |
| 17 | Ghostigital | In Cod We Trust |
| 18 | Hellogoodbye | Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! |
| 19 | Automatic | Not Accepted Anywhere |
| 20 | Simple Kid | SK2 |
| 21 | Fratellis | Costello Music |
| 22 | Ooberman | Carried Away |
| 23 | Asobi Seksu | Citrus |
| 24 | We Are Scientists | With Love And Squalor |
| 25 | Delays | You See Colours |
| 26 | Pale | The Contents Of A Shipwreck |
| 27 | We Are Scientists | Crap Attack |
| 28 | Arctic Monkeys | Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| 29 | Nurse Who Loved Me | The Nurse Who Loved Me |
| 30 | Belle and Sebastian | The Life Pursuit |
| 31 | Muse | Black Holes and Revelations |
| 32 | Keane | Under The Iron Sea |
| 33 | Whirlwind Heat | Types Of Wood |
| 34 | Mystery Jets | Making Dens |
| 35 | Scroobius Pip | No Commercial Breaks |
| 36 | Easy Star All*Stars | Radiodread |
| 37 | Richard Cheese | The Sunny Side Of The Moon |
| 38 | Feeling | Twelve Stops And Home |
| 39 | Scritti Politti | White Bread Black Beer |
| | Top tracks of 2006 |
| |
| 1 | Art Brut | Nag Nag Nag Nag |
| 2 | Hot Puppies | The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful |
| 3 | New Young Pony Club | Ice Cream |
| 4 | Metric | Poster Of A Girl |
| 5 | Long Blondes | Giddy Stratospheres |
| 6 | Be Your Own Pet | Adventure |
| 7 | Young Knives | Weekends and Bleak Days |
| 8 | White Rose Movement | Girls In The Back |
| 9 | Boy Kill Boy | Suzie |
| 10 | Magoo | Expansion Ride |
| 11 | Celeste | Nothing In The Sky (With Diamonds) |
| 12 | Young Knives | Loughborough Suicide |
| 13 | Grates | 19-20-20 |
| 14 | Charlatans | Blackened Blue Eyes |
| 15 | Blood Arm | Suspicious Character |
| 16 | Long Blondes | Weekend Without Make Up |
| 17 | Jarvis | Don't Let Him Waste Your Time |
| 18 | Camera Obscura | Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken |
| 19 | Hot Puppies | Green Eyeliner |
| 20 | Gestir | Sum Urt |
| 21 | Others | The Truth That Hurts |
| 22 | Fields | If You Fail We All Fail |
| 23 | Young Knives | She's Attracted To |
| 24 | Howling Bells | Low Happening |
| 25 | Republic Of Heaven | West Country Witch |
| 26 | Hafdis Huld | Diamonds On My Belly |
| 27 | Mama Shamone | Feel |
| 28 | LT United | We Are The Winners |
| 29 | Rakes | All Too Human |
| 30 | Jarvis | Running The World |
| 31 | Frank and Walters | Miles and Miles |
| 32 | Hot Puppies | Terry |
| 33 | Hot Chip | Over And Over |
| 34 | Howling Bells | Setting Sun |
| 35 | Wigwam | Wigwam |
| 36 | Automatic | Monster |
| 37 | Fighting Cocks | Don't Care |
| 38 | Others | Thick As Thieves |
| 39 | Kooks | Naive |
| 40 | Fratellis | Chelsea Dagger |
| 41 | Gossip | Standing In The Way Of Control |
| 42 | Divine Comedy | A Lady Of A Certain Age |
| 43 | Trudy | Oh! |
| 44 | MJ Hibbett and the Validators | The Lesson Of The Smiths |
| 45 | Divine Comedy | To Die A Virgin |
| 46 | Peter, Bjorn and John | Young Folks |
| 47 | Sam I Am | Count To Ten |
| 48 | Futureheads | Skip to The End |
| 49 | Editors | French Disko |
| 50 | Fighting Cocks | (There's Nothing Going on Between) Marvin and Tamara |
| 51 | Art Brut | The Great Escape |
| 52 | Mike Flowers Pops | Talk |
| 53 | S*M*A*S*H | All By Myself |
| 54 | Reid Morrison | Busker's Day Out |
| 55 | Futureheads | Worry About It Later |
| 56 | Automatic | Recover |
| 57 | Jim Noir | Key of C |
| 58 | Ned's Atomic Dustbin | Hibernation |
| 59 | Divine Comedy | Party Fears Two |
| 60 | Be Your Own Pet | Bicycle Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle |
| 61 | Humanzi | Long Time Coming |
| 62 | CSS | Alala |
| 63 | Pipettes | Pull Shapes |
| 64 | Rakes | All Too Human |
| 65 | Silversun Pickups | Lazy Eye |
| 66 | ¡Forward, Russia! | Nine |
| 67 | Sunshine Underground | Commercial Breakdown |
| 68 | We Are Scientists | Bang Bang Rock And Roll |
| 69 | Data Panik | Rulers And The States |
| 70 | MJ Hibbett and the Validators | My Boss Was In An Indie Band Once |
| 71 | Mystery Jets | The Boy Who Ran Away |
| 72 | Polysics | Electric Surfin Go Go |
| 73 | Feeling | Fill My Little World |
| 74 | Graham Coxon | Standing on My Own Again |
| 75 | I'm from Barcelona | We're From Barcelona |
| 76 | Long Blondes | Fulwood Babylon |
| 77 | Aberfeldy | Hypnotised |
| 78 | Axton Kincaid | I Wanna Be Adored |
| 79 | Echobelly | To The End |
| 80 | Ooberman | Crashing Ellipticals |
| 81 | Nurse Who Loved Me | I'll Pretend I'll Pretend |
| 82 | Justice vs Simian | We Are Your Friends |
| 83 | Vatican DC | Wow |
| 84 | Belarus | Standing In The Right Place |
| 85 | Belle and Sebastian | Funny Little Frog |
| 86 | Mystery Jets | Diamond In The Dark |
| 87 | Infadels | Can't Get Enough |
| 88 | Modern | Industry |
| 89 | Kasabian | Empire |
| 90 | Horrors | Count In Fives |
| 91 | Feeling | Sewn |
| 92 | Dýrðin | Hvert I Hoppandi |
| 93 | Kasabian | Shoot The Runner |
| 94 | Raconteurs | Steady As She Goes |
| 95 | ¡Forward, Russia! | Seventeen |
| 96 | Puppini Sisters | Wuthering Heights |
| 97 | Arctic Monkeys | Fake Tales Of San Francisco |
| 98 | Delays | Valentine |
| 99 | Keane | Is it Any Wonder |
| 100 | Benny Benassi | Satisfaction |
| | Original chart - top tracks of 2006 |
| |
| 1 | Art Brut | Nag Nag Nag Nag |
| 2 | Metric | Poster Of A Girl |
| 3 | Young Knives | Weekends and Bleak Days (Hot Summer) |
| 4 | New Young Pony Club | Ice Cream |
| 5 | Long Blondes | Weekend Without Makeup |
| 6 | Charlatans | Blackened Blue Eyes |
| 7 | Blood Arm | Suspicious Character |
| 8 | Automatic | Recover |
| 9 | Hot Puppies | The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful |
| 10 | Rakes | All Too Human |
| 11 | White Rose Movement | Girls In The Back |
| 12 | CSS | Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above |
| 13 | Feeling | Fill My Little World |
| 14 | Mystery Jets | Diamonds In The Dark |
| 15 | MJ Hibbett and the Validators | The Gay Train |
| 16 | Mama Shamone | Over |
| 17 | Young Knives | Here Comes The Rumour Mill |
| 18 | Grates | 19-20-20 |
| 19 | WigWam | WigWam |
| 20 | Modern | Industry |
| 21 | Celeste | Nothing In The Sky (With Diamonds) |
| 22 | Long Blondes | Once And Never Again |
| 23 | Feeling | Sewn |
| 24 | Divine Comedy | Diva Lady |
| 25 | Mystery Jets | The Boy Who Ran Away |
| 26 | Peter, Bjorn and John with Victoria Bergstrom | Young Folks |
| 27 | Divine Comedy | Lady Of A Certain Age |
| 28 | Lostprophets | A Town Called Hypocrisy |
| 29 | Snow Patrol | You're All I Have |
| 30 | Automatic | Monster |
| 31 | Divine Comedy | To Die A Virgin |
| 32 | Feeling | Never Be Lonely |
| 33 | Gossip | Standing In The Way Of Control |
| 34 | Larrikin Love | Happy As Annie |
| 35 | iLiKETRAiNS | Terra Nova |
| 36 | Vatican DC | Wow |
| 37 | Franz Ferdinand | The Fallen |
| 38 | Others | The Truth That Hurts |
| 39 | LT United | We Are the Winners |
| 40 | Be Your Own Pet | Adventure |
| 41 | Fields | Song From The Fields |
| 42 | A-Ha | Analogue |
| 43 | Pink Grease | Carlights |
| 44 | iDou | Perfect Hands For Basketball |
| 45 | Ooberman | Crashing Ellipticals |
| 46 | Crimea | Lottery Winners On Acid |
| 47 | Young Knives | She's Attracted To |
| 48 | Boy Kill Boy | Suzie |
| 49 | Cardigans | Don't Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds) |
| 50 | Kasabian | Empire |
| 51 | Fratellis | Chelsea Dagger |
| 52 | Camera Obscura | Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken |
| 53 | Sugababes | Easy |
| 54 | Polysics | Electric Surfin Go Go |
| 55 | Data Panik | Rulers and the States |
| 56 | Subliminal Girls | Burn Koko |
| 57 | ¡Forward, Russia! | Twelve |
| 58 | Upper Room | All Over This Town |
| 59 | Dirty Pretty Things | Wondering |
| 60 | Sigur Ros | Hoppipolla |
| 61 | CSS | Alala |
| 62 | Frank and Walters | Miles and Miles |
| 63 | Jim Noir | Key Of C |
| 64 | Boy Kill Boy | Civil Sin |
| 65 | I'm From Barcelona | We're From Barcelona |
| 66 | Shut Your Eyes And You'll Burst Into Flames | Signal Noise |
| 67 | Keane | Is It Any Wonder? |
| 68 | Sparks | Perfume |
| 69 | Hard-Fi | Better Do Better |
| 70 | Kaiser Chiefs | Modern Way |
| 71 | S*M*A*S*H | All By Myself |
| 72 | Sean Lennon | Dead Meat |
| 73 | Futureheads | Area |
| 74 | Rifles | Repeated Offender |
| 75 | Flaming Lips | Yeah Yeah Yeah Song |
| 76 | Belle and Sebastian | Funny Little Frog |
| 77 | Coldplay | Talk |
| 78 | Queens Of The Stone Age | Burn The Witch |
| 79 | ¡Forward, Russia! | Eighteen |
| 80 | Editors | Munich |
| 81 | Kooks | Naïve |
| 82 | Protocol | Where's The Pleasure? |
| 83 | Automatic | Raoul |
| 84 | Juliette and the Licks | Hot Kiss |
| 85 | Keane | Crystal Ball |
| 86 | Lostprophets | Rooftops (Liberation Broadcast) |
| 87 | Muse | Supermassive Black Hole |
| 88 | Supergrass | Fin |
| 89 | Hope Of The States | Sing It Out |
| 90 | Delays | Valentine |
| 91 | Editors | Blood |
| 92 | Imogen Heap | Headlock |
| 93 | Knife | Silent Shout |
| 94 | Zutons | Valerie |
| 95 | Bluetones | My Neighbour's House |
| 96 | Futureheads | Skip To The End |
| 97 | Howling Bells | Setting Sun |
| 98 | Hybrasil | When I'm Yawning |
| 99 | Sunshine Underground | Commercial Breakdown |
| 100 | Sunshine Underground | I Ain't Losing Any Sleep |
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