Observer's 50 Best Albums of the Year [2007]
## 1 The Good, the Bad & the Queen (The Good, the Bad & the Queen)
## 2 Jamie T (Panic Prevention)
## 3 Kings of Leon (Because of the Times)
## 4 LCD Soundsystem (Sound of Silver)
## 5 Dizzee Rascal (Maths and English)
## 6 Tinariwen (Aman Iman)
## 7 Radiohead (In Rainbows)
## 8 Arctic Monkeys (Favourite Worst Nightmare)
## 9 Burial (Untrue)
## 10 Arcade Fire (Neon Bible)
## 11 Manu Chao (La Radiolina)
## 12 The White Stripes (Icky Thump)
## 13 Klaxons (Myths of the Near Future)
## 14 Justice (*)
## 15 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (Raising Sand)
## 16 Miroslav Vitous (Universal Syncopations II)
## 17 Rachel Unthank and the Winterset (The Bairns)
## 18 Mika (Life in Cartoon Motion)
## 19 Robert Wyatt (Comicopera)
## 20 M.I.A. (Kala)
## 21 Rufus Wainwright (Release the Stars)
## 22 Mayra Andrade (Navega)
## 23 Black Lips (Good Bad Not Evil)
## 24 Girls Aloud (Tangled Up)
## 25 Battles (Mirrored)
## 26 PJ Harvey (White Chalk)
## 27 Ry Cooder (My Name is Buddy)
## 28 Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective (Watina)
## 29 Neil Young (Chrome Dreams II)
## 30 Panda Bear (Person Pitch)
## 31 Bruce Springsteen (Magic)
## 32 Common (Finding Forever)
## 33 Devendra Banhart (Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Mountain)
## 34 Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba (Segu Blue)
## 35 Kanye West (Graduation)
## 36 Bjork (Volta)
## 37 Basquiat Strings (Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford)
## 38 Grinderman (Grinderman)
## 39 Fall Out Boy (Infinity on High)
## 40 Paul McCartney (Memory Almost Full)
## 41 Robin Thicke (The Evolution of Robin Thicke)
## 42 Roisin Murphy (Overpowered)
## 43 Crowded House (Time on Earth)
## 44 Gallows (Orchestra of Wolves)
## 45 Richard Hawley (Lady's Bridge)
## 46 The Hold Steady (Stuck Between Stations)
## 47 Ilmiliekki Quartet (Take It With Me)
## 48 Babyshambles (Shotter's Nation)
## 49 David Jordan (Set the Mood)
## 50 Britney Spears (Blackout)
**** Missing:
* 1 Good, the Bad & the Queen
* 2 Jamie T
* 5 Dizzee Rascal
* 6 Tinariwen
* 9 Burial
* 11 Manu Chao
* 13 Klaxons
* 14 Justice
* 16 Miroslav Vitous
* 17 Rachel Unthank
* 17 Winterset
* 19 Robert Wyatt
* 22 Mayra Andrade
* 23 Black Lips
* 25 Battles
* 28 Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective
* 30 Panda Bear
* 33 Devendra Banhart
* 34 Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba
* 37 Basquiat Strings
* 38 Grinderman
* 44 Gallows
* 45 Richard Hawley
* 46 Hold Steady
* 47 Ilmiliekki Quartet
* 48 Babyshambles
* 49 David Jordan
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