Top 30 Alternative Rock Bands of 2006 Numbers 10 to 1

Any alternative rock band with a great song released in 2006 could have made the list of top alternative rock bands of 2006. Most of the top bands on this top list made our ears happy with two, three or even more alternative hits.

These songs by alternative rock bands are worth a listen, especially if you missed them in 2006.

#10 Alternative Rock Band of 2006: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Web site: www.redhotchilipeppers.com
The Red Hot Chili Peppers went all out this year and gave us some amazing songs.
Quote from their Bio: "The Red Hot Chili Peppers have twisted up nature into a decidedly psychedelic form."
Singles:
Dani California
Tell Me Baby
Snow (Hey Oh)

#9 Alternative Rock Band of 2006: Arctic Monkeys
Web site: www.arcticmonkeys.com
Lyrics: " I wish you'd stop ignoring me, because you're sending me to despair
Without a sound you're calling me, and I don't think it's very fair"
Singles:
Fake Tales of San Francisco
I Be You Look Good On the Dancefloor

#8 Alternative Rock Band of 2006: Three Days Grace
Web site: www.threedaysgrace.com
Quote: ""Animal I Have Become," the first single off One-X, is Adam's "realization that a change has to happen and you have to ask for help."
Singles:
Animal I Have Become
Pain

#7 Alternative Rock Band of 2006: The Killers
Web site: www.thekillersmusic.com
Lyrics: "I always hear them in the dead of night
Ghosts calling, save me from this life
But they can never wrong this right"
Singles:
Bones
When You Were Young

#6 Alternative Rock Band of 2006: The Raconteurs
Web site:
Singles:
Level
Steady As She Goes

#5 Alternative Rock Band of 2006: Tool
Web site: www.theraconteurs.com
Visit their web site for a cool visual joke.
Singles:
Jambi
The Pot
Vicarious

#4 Alternative Rock Band of 2006: AFI
Web site: http://www.afireinside.net
Quote: "Whenever we start covering territory we've covered before," Adam adds, "We just get bored."
Singles:
Love Like Winter
Miss Murder

#3 Alternative Rock Band of 2006: My Chemical Romance
Web site: www.mychemicalromance.com
Singles:
Dead!
Teenagers
Welcome to the Black Parade

#2 Alternative Rock Band of 2006: Muse
Web site: www.muse.mu
Singles:
Knights of Cydonia
Supermassive Black Hole

#1 Alternative Rock Band of 2006: Beck
Web site: www.beck.com
Singles:

With five rockin' songs this year? including Cell Phone's Dead, Heaven Hammer (Missing), Nausea, Soul Suckin Jerk, and Think I'm In Love, how could Beck not take the top spot?

Be sure to check out Top 30 Alternative Rock Bands of 2006 Numbers 21 to 30 and Top 30 Alternative Rock Bands of 2006 Numbers 11 to 20.

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