ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2006
compiled from the critics' choices in the following publications: Uncut, Q, Mojo, NME, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times and Observer.
1
Whatever People Say I Am, I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys
2
Modern Times
Bob Dylan
3
Broken Boy Soldiers
The Racounteurs
4
Alright, Still...
Lily Allen
5
The Warning
Hot Chip
6
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Bruce Springsteen
7
The Greatest
Cat Power
8
Sam's Town
The Killers
9
The Eraser
Thom Yorke
10
Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
11
Ys
Joanna Newsome
12
Black Holes & Revelations
Muse
13
At War With The Mystics
The Flaming Lips
14
The Trials Of Van Occupanther
Midlake
15
Ringleader Of The Tormentors
Morrisey
16
St Elsewhere
Gnarls Barkley
17
Empire
Kasabian
18
White Bread Black Beer
Scritti Politti
19
Savanne
Ali Farka Toure
20
To Find Me Gone
Vetiver
21
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Tom Waits
22
Damaged
Lambchop
23=
Through The Windowpane
Guillemots
23=
Return To Cookie Mountain
TV On The Radio
25
Voices Of Animals And Men
The Young Knives
26
American V: A Hundred Highways
Johnny Cash
27
Jarvis
Jarvis Cocker
28
Twelve Stops And Home
The Feeling
29
CSS
Cansei De Ser Sexy
30
Under The Skin
Lindsey Buckingham
NOTES:
No great suprise as the album of the year: Arctic Monkeys ran away with it by a huge margin. The main feature is the appearance of the veterans - Dylan, Springsteen, Waits, Cash, Morrisey, Buckingham - and the debuts of a couple of solo singers from established bands: Jarvis Cocker and Thom Yorke.
Just outside the top 30 were The Kooks, OutKast, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ghostface Killah. And, at #37, the first new release from Scott Walker, an even more extraordinary record than Tilt:
