Observer's 50 Best Albums of the Year [2006]
## 1. Arctic Monkeys (Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not)
## 2. Ali Farka Toure (Savane)
## 3. Tom Waits (Orphans)
## 4. Lambchop (Damaged)
## 5. Amy Winehouse (Back To Black)
## 6. Bob Dylan (Modern Times)
## 7. Joanna Newsom (Ys)
## 8. Ghostface Killah (Fishcale)
## 9. Jarvis Cocker (Jarvis)
## 10. Lily Allen (Alright Still)
## 11. the Killers (Sam's Town)
## 12. K'Naan (The Dusty Foot Philosopher)
## 13. Mastodon (Blood Mountain)
## 14. Bellowhead (Burlesque)
## 15. Michael Wollny ([EM] II)
## 16. Cat Power (The Greatest)
## 17. The Feeling (Twelve Stops and Home)
## 18. Burial (Burial)
## 19. The Young Knives (Voices of Animals and Young Men)
## 20. Bruce Springsteen (We Shall Overcome)
## 21. Morrissey (Ringleader of the Tormentors)
## 22. Acoustic Ladyland (Skinny Grin)
## 23. the Flaming Lips (At War With the Mystics)
## 24. Gnarls Barkley (St Elsewhere)
## 25. Toumani Diabate's Symettric Orchestra (Boulevard de 'independence)
## 26. Scott Walker (The Drift)
## 27. Spank Rock (Yo-Yo-Yo-Yo-Yo)
## 28. Hot Chip (The Warning)
## 29. The New York Dolls (One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This)
## 30. Thom Yorke (The Eraser)
## 31. The Raconteurs (Broken Boy Soldiers)
## 32. The Streets (The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living)
## 33. Neil Diamond (12 Songs)
## 34. Scritti Politti (White Bread Black Beer)
## 35. Beyonce (B-Day)
## 36. Beirut (The Gulag Orkestar)
## 37. Free Hole Negro (Superfinos Negros)
## 38. Basement Jaxx (Crazy Itch Radio)
## 39. Scissor Sisters (T-Dah)
## 40. The Gossip (Standing in the Way of Control)
## 41. Muse (Black Holes and Revelations)
## 42. Pet Shop Boys (Fundamental)
## 43. Micah P Hinson (The Opera Circuit)
## 44. Tunng (Comment on the Inner Chorus)
## 45. Jay-Z (Kingdom Come)
## 46. Vetiver (To Find Me Gone)
## 47. Justin Timberlake (Futuresex/lovesounds)
## 48. Sway (This Is My Demo)
## 49. Primal Scream (Riot City Blues)
## 50. The Beatles (Love)
**** Missing:
* 2 Ali Farka Toure
* 4 Lambchop
* 7 Joanna Newsom
* 12 K'Naan
* 14 Bellowhead
* 15 Michael Wollny
* 16 Cat Power
* 17 Feeling
* 18 Burial
* 19 Young Knives
* 22 Acoustic Ladyland
* 25 Toumani Diabate's Symettric Orchestra
* 26 Scott Walker
* 27 Spank Rock
* 28 Hot Chip
* 36 Beirut
* 37 Free Hole Negro
* 40 Gossip
* 43 Micah P Hinson
* 44 Tunng
* 46 Vetiver
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