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Best Albums of 2006 (hier die Top 20 mit Kommentaren):
1. Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not – Arctic Monkeys
2. Savane – Ali Farka Touré
3. Orphans – Tom Waits
4. Damaged – Lambchop
5. Back To Black – Amy Winehouse
6. Modern Times – Bob Dylan
7. Ys – Joanna Newsom
8. Fishcale – Ghostface Killah
9. Jarvis – Jarvis Cocker
10. Alright Still – Lily Allen
11. Sam’s Town – the Killers
12. The Dusty Foot Philosopher – K’Naan
13. Blood Mountain – Mastodon
14. Burlesque – Bellowhead
15. [EM] II – Michael Wollny
16. The Greatest – Cat Power
17. Twelve Stops and Home – The Feeling
18. Burial – Burial
19. Voices of Animals and Young Men – The Young Knives
20. We Shall Overcome – Bruce Springsteen
21. Ringleader of the Tormentors – Morrissey
22. Skinny Grin – Acoustic Ladyland
23. At War With the Mystics – the Flaming Lips
24. St Elsewhere – Gnarls Barkley
25. Boulevard de ‚independence – Toumani Diabaté’s Symetric Orchestra
26. The Drift – Scott Walker
27. YoYoYoYoYo – Spank Rock
28. The Warning – Hot Chip
29. One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This – The New York Dolls
30. The Eraser – Thom Yorke
31. Broken Boy Soldiers – The Raconteurs
32. The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living – The Streets
33. 12 Songs – Neil Diamond
34. White Bread Black Beer – Scritti Politti
35. B-Day – Beyonce
36. The Gulag Orkestar – Beirut
37. Superfinos Negros – Free Hole Negro
38. Crazy Itch Radio – Basement Jaxx
39. Ta-Dah – Scissor Sisters
40. Standing in the Way of Control – The Gossip
41. Black Holes and Revelations – Muse
42. Fundamental – Pet Shop Boys
43. The Opera Circuit – Micah P Hinson
44. Comment on the Inner Chorus – Tunng
45. Kingdom Come – Jay-Z
46. To Find Me Gone – Vetiver
47. Futuresex/lovesounds – Justin Timberlake
48. This Is My Demo – Sway
49. Riot City Blues – Primal Scream
50. Love – The Beatles
The 10 best compilations:
1. Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-’37 – Various
2. Kitsune Maison Vol 3 – Various
3. African Pearls 1: Congo, Rumba on the River – Various
4. Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys – Various
5. Strange Folk – Various
6. London Is The Place For Me 3 – Various
7. North By North West: Liverpool & Manchester from Punk to Post-Punk & Beyond 1976-1984 – Various
8. Pop! Justice 100% – Various
9. From the Closet to the Charts: Queer Noises 1961-’78 – Various
10. Like A Daydream – Various
Picked by: Luke Bainbridge, Sarah Boden, Peter Culshaw, Paul Flynn, Charlie Gillett, Caspar Llewellyn Smith, Craig McLean, Paul Mardles, Paul Morley, Garry Mulholland, Stuart Nicholson, Sean O’Hagan, Simon Reynolds, Peter Robinson, Neil Spencer, Rosie Swash, Ben Thompson, Graeme Thomson, Emma Warren, Steve Yates
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