New Musical Express (UK) - Albums of the Year
50 The Kooks - Inside In / Inside Out
49 Absentee - Schmotime
48 Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – The Chronicles of A Bohemian Teenager
47 Wolfmother – s/t
46 Semifinalists – s/t
45 Bob Dylan – Modern Times
44 Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Ballard of The Broken Seas
43 Beck – The Infromation
42 The Automatic – Not Accepted Anywhere
41 The Gossip – Standing In The Way of Control
40 Midlake – The Trials Of Van Occupanther
39 The Young Knives – Voices Of Animals and Men
38 Metric – Live It Out
37 Be Your Own Pet – s/t
36 Datarock – Datarock Datarock
35 Forward Russia – Give Me A Wall
34 Albert Hammond Jr. – Yours To Keep
33 The Bronx – s/t
32 Lily Allen – Alright, Still
31 The Sunshine Underground – Raise The Alarm
30 Cat Power – The Greatest
29 The Spinto Band – Nice and Nicely Done
28 Morrissey – Ringleader of The Tormentors
27 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! – s/t
26 Jarvis – That Jarvis Cocker Record
25 Mogwai – Mr Beast
24 Secret Machines – Ten Silver Drops
23 The Knife – Silent Shout
22 The Flaming Lips – At War With The Mystics
21 The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
20 The Streets – The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
19 The Longcut – A Call And Response
18 The Rapture – Pieces of The People We Love
17 The Futureheads – News and Tributes
16 Amy Whinehouse – Back To Black
15 Thom Yorke – The Eraser
14 TV On The Radio – Return To Cookie Mountain
13 Panic! At The Disco – A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
12 The Killers – Sam's Town
11 Howling Bells – s/t
10 My Chemical Romance – Welcome To The Black Parade
09 Kasabian – Empire
08 The Strokes – First Impressions of Earth
07 The Long Blondes – Someone To Drive You Home
06 Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
05 CSS – Cansei De Ser Sexy
04 Hot Chip – The Warning
03 Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
02 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
01 Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Singles
50 Larrikin Love – "Happy As Annie"
49 Pull Tiger Tail – "Animator"
48 The Young Knives – "She's Attracted To"
47 Howling Bells – "Setting Sun"
46 TV On The Radio – "Wolf Like Me"
45 Secret Machines – "Alone, Jealous and Stoned"
44 Regina Spektor – "Fidelity
43 The Rumple Strips – "Motorcycle"
42 Kelis – "Bossy"
41 The Sunshine Underground – "Put You In Your Place"
40 The Rapture – "Get Myself Into It"
39 The Strokes – "You Only Live Once"
38 Muse – "Knights Of Cydonia"
37 Panic! At The Disco – "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
36 Kasabian – "Empire"
35 Dan Sartain – "Replacement Man"
34 To My Boy – "I Am X-Ray"
33 Nelly Furtado – "Promiscuous"
32 Mates of State – "Fraud in the 80's"
31 Be Your Own Pet – "Adventure"
30 Ali Love – "K Hole"
29 The Dresden Dolls – "Back Stabber"
28 Hot Chip – "Boy From School"
27 Primal Scream – "Country Girl"
26 Maps – "Lost My Soul"
25 The Flaming Lips – "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song"
24 Lupe Fiasco – "Kick, Push"
23 Midlake – "Roscoe"
22 Muse – "Starlight"
21 Gnarls Barkley – "Smiley Faces"
20 Jarvis – "Running The World"
19 The Streets Ft, P . Doherty – "Prangin' Out"
18 Justice Vs Simian – "We Are Your Friends"
17 Klaxons – "Atlantis To Interzone"
16 The Holloways – "Generator"
15 The Long Blondes – "Once and Never Again"
14 The Raconteurs - "Steady, As She Goes"
13 Arctic Monkeys – "When The Sun Goes Down"
12 Metric – "Monster Hospital"
11 Klaxons - "Gravity's Rainbow"
10 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – "Cheated Hearts"
09 The View – "Wasted Little DJ's"
08 The Horrors – "Sheena Is A Parasite"
07 Amy Whinehouse – "Rehab"
06 CSS – "Let's Make Love and Listen To Death From Above"
05 Gnarls Barkley – "Crazy"
04 Muse – "Supermassive Black Hole"
03 The Gossip – "Standing In The Way Of Control"
02 Peter Bjorn and John ft. Victoria Bergsmen – "Young Folks"
01 Hot Chip – "Over and Over"
Les Inrockuptibles (France) - Albums of the Year
Top 50 Albums:
1-ARCTIC MONKEYS: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2-TV ON THE RADIO: Return To Cookie Mountain
3-BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY: The Letting Go
4-CSS: Cansei De Ser Sexy
5-KENY ARKANA: Entre Ciment Et Belle Etoile
6-MIDLAKE: The Trials Of Van Occupanther
7-GRIZZLY BEAR: Yellow House
8-SIBYLLE BAIER: Colour Green
9-NATHAN FAKE: Drowning In A Sea Of Love
10-MIOSSEC: L'etreinte
11-SPANK ROCK: Yoyoyoyoyo
12-PETER VON POEHL: Going To Where The Tea Trees Are
13-JOEYSTARR: Gare Au Jaguarr
14-THE LONG BLONDES: Someone To Drive You Home
15-LILY ALLEN: Alright, Still
16-PHARRELL WILLIAMS: In My Mind
17-CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
18-BEIRUT: Gulag Orkestar
19-THE STREETS: The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
20-THE STROKES: First Impressions On Earth
21-THE SPINTO BAND: Nice And Nicely Done
22-YO LA TENGO: I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
23-M. WARD: Post-War
24-PAJO: 1968
25-JOANNA NEWSOM: Ys
26-RAMONA CORDOVA: The Boy Who Floated Freely
27-PIERRE LAPOINTE: La Foret Des Mal-Aimés
28-JIM NOIR: Tower Of Love
29-CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG: 5:55
30-THE KOOKS: Inside In/Inside Out
31-HERMAN DUNE: Giant
32-LOVE IS ALL: Nine Times That Same Song
33-RAY LAMONTAGNE: Till The Sun Turns Black
34-SCOTT WALKER: The Drift
35-CAT POWER: The Greatest
36-LUKE TEMPLE: Hold A Match For A Gasoline World
37-ESG: Keep On Moving
38-DOMINIQUE A: L'Horizon
39-SONIC YOUTH: Rather Ripped
40-ESPERS: Espers II
41-MOGWAI: Mr. Beast
42-I LOVE YOU BUT I'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS: Fear Is On Our Side
43-JARVIS COCKER: Jarvis
44-HOT CHIP: The Warning
45-PIERS FACCINI: Tearing Sky
46-THOM YORKE: The Eraser
47-GNARLS BARKLEY: St. Elsewhere
48-ABD AL MALIK: Gibraltar
49-BECK: The Information
50-AGORIA: The Green Armchair
Top 50 Singles:
1-GNARLS BARKLEY: Crazy
2-KLAXONS: Atlantis To Interzone
3-D4L: Laffy Taffy
4-SNOOP DOGG: Vato
5-COLD WAR KIDS: We Used To Vacation
6-JUSTICE: Waters Of Nazareth
7-PETER BJORN AND JOHN: Young Folks
8-CHAMILLIONAIRE: Ridin'
9-CSS: Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
10-THE RACONTEURS: Steady, As She Goes
11-AGORIA: Code 1026
12-JOAKIM: I Wish You Were Gone
13-LUPE FIASCO: Kick Push
14-METRONOMY: Trick Or Treatz
15-THE GOSSIP: Listen Up!
16-JUSTICE VS. SIMIAN: We Are Your Friends
17-ARCTIC MONKEES: When The Sun Goes Down
18-LILY ALLEN: Smile
19-UFFIE: Pop The Clock
20-NELLY FURTADO: Maneater
21-MSTRKRFT: Work On You
22-PONI HOAX: She's On The Radio
23-TIGA: You Gonna Want Me
24-KAVINSKY: Testarossa Autodrive
25-DATAROCK: Fa-Fa-Fa
26-GUILLEMOTS: We're Here
27-AUDION/ELLEN ALLIEN: Just A Man/Just a Woman
28-JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE: SexyBack
29-NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB: Ice Cream
30-JUNIOR BOYS: In The Morning
31-KELIS: Bossy
32-I'M FROM BARCELONA: We're From Barcelona
33-CASSIUS: Toop Toop
34-HOT CHIP: The Warning
35-THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS: Move Along
36-THE RAPTURE: Get Myself Into It
37-DATA: J'aime pas L'Art
38-THE AUTOMATIC: Raoul
39-SURKIN: Ghetto Obsession 2006
40-THE FRATELLIS: Chelsea Dagger
41-FIELDS: Song For The Fields
42-FRANZ FERDINAND: The Fallen/L.Wells
43-THE STROKES: Juicebox
44-THE FEELING: Sewn
45-RAZORLIGHT: In The Morning
46-THE LONG BLONDES: Once And Never Again
47-SCISSOR SISTERS: I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
48-LO-FI-FNK: Wake Up
49-THE PIPETTES: Pull Shapes
50-HOT CLUB DE PARIS: Shipwreck
Rumore (Italy) - Albums of the Year
1) TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
2) Converge - No Heroes
3) Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
4) Mastodon - Blood Mountain
5) Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
6) Ali Farka Toure - Savane
7) Isis - In Absence Of Truth
8) The Knife - Silent Shout
9) Wolfmother - Om.
10) Radio Birdman - Zeno Beach
11) Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
12) Josh Rouse - Subtitulo
13) Hot Chip - The Warning
14) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
15) Cat Power - The Greatest
16) Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky
17) Thom Yorke - The Eraser
18) Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupather
19) The Racounteurs - Broken Boy Soldier
20) Tool - 10.000 Days
Dagbladet (Norway) - Albums of the Year
1. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
2. Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head
3. Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Session
4. Joanna Newsom - YS
5. The Klezmatics - Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie
6. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
7. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
8. Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way
9. The Knife - Silent Shout
10. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
11. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
12. Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
13. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
14. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
15. Neil Young - Living With War
16. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
17. Snoop Dogg - The Blue Carpet Treatment
18. Candi Staton - His Hands
19. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
20. TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
21. Infadels - We Are Not The Infadels
22. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
23. Spank Rock - YOYOYOYOYO
24. The Blow - Paper Television
25. PJ Harvey - The Peel Sessions - 1991 - 2004
26. Built to Spill - You In Reverse
27. Sufjan Stevens - Presents: Songs For Christmas
28. Willie Nelson - You Don't Know Me: The Songs Of Cindy Walker
29. Lindsay Buckingham - Under the Skin
30. Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Blender (USA) - Albums of the Year
1. My Chemical Romance, THE BLACK PARADE
2. Arctic Monkeys, WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM...
3. Bob Dylan, MODERN TIMES
4. Justin Timberlake, FUTURESEX/LOVESOUNDS
5. Ghostface Killah, FISHSCALE
6. The Beatles, LOVE
7. The Hold Steady, BOYS AND GIRLS IN AMERICA
8. Mary J. Blige, THE BREAKTHROUGH
9. Clipse, HELL HATH NO FURY
10. Art Brut, BANG BANG ROCK & ROLL
11. Regina Spektor, BEGIN TO HOPE
12. DJ Drama & Lil Wayne, DEDICATION 2
13. Girl Talk, NIGHT RIPPER
14. Todd Snider, THE DEVIL YOU KNOW
15. Lily Allen, ALRIGHT, STILL
16. John Legend, ONCE AGAIN
17. New York Dolls, ONE DAY IT WILL PLEASE US TO REMEMBER EVEN THIS
18. Sonic Youth, RATHER RIPPED
19. Red Hot Chili Peppers, STADIUM ARCADIUM
20. Lamb of God, SACRAMENT
21. T.I., KING
22. Beyonce, B'DAY
23. Dixie Chicks, TAKING THE LONG WAY
24. Beck, THE INFORMATION
25. The Killers, SAM'S TOWN
26. The Game, DOCTOR'S ADVOCATE
27. Cat Power, THE GREATEST
28. Evanescence, THE OPEN DOOR
29. Nelly Furtado, LOOSE
30. The Strokes, FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF EARTH
31. The Decemberists, THE CRANE WIFE
32. Brand New, THE DEVIL AND GOD ARE RAGING INSIDE ME
33. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, SHOW YOUR BONES
34. Scritti Politti, WHITE BREAD BLACK BEER
35. Yo La Tengo, I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU AND I WILL BEAT YOUR ASS
36. Nellie McKay, PRETTY LITTLE HEAD
37. Gnarls Barkley, ST. ELSEWHERE
38. Neil Young, LIVING WITH WAR
39. CSS, CANSEI DE SER SEXY
40. TV on the Radio, RETURN TO COOKIE MOUNTAIN
41. Mastodon, BLOOD MOUNTAIN
42. Ray LaMontagne, TILL THE SUN TURNS BLACK
43. Bruce Springsteen, WE SHALL OVERCOME
44. Jenny Lewis, RABBIT FUR COAT
45. Young Jeezy, THE INSPIRATION
46. The Oohlas, BEST STOP POP
47. Lupe Fiasco, FOOD & LIQUOR
48. The Rakes, CAPTURE/RELEASE
49. Boris, PINK
50. Be Your Own Pet, BE YOUR OWN PET
Billboard (USA) - Albums of the Year
1. Bob Dylan, "Modern Times" (Columbia)
2. Bruce Springsteen, "We Shall Overcome -- The Seeger Sessions" (Columbia)
3. Gnarls Barkley, "St. Elsewhere" (Downtown/Atlantic)
4. Arctic Monkeys, "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" (Domino)
5. TV On The Radio, "Return to Cookie Mountain" (Interscope)
6. Tom Waits, "Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards" (Anti-)
7. The Hold Steady, "Boys and Girls in America" (Vagrant)
8. Tie: Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Stadium Arcadium" (Warner Bros.) and Dixie Chicks, "Taking the Long Way" (Open Wide/Columbia)
9. Tie: Tool, "10,000 Days" (Tool Dissectional/Volcano) and The Beatles, "Love" (Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol)
10. Corinne Bailey Rae, "Corinne Bailey Rae" (Capitol)
Rolling Stone (Spain) - Albums of the Year
Best albums:
1. ARCTIC MONKEYS “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”
2. THE FLAMING LIPS “At War With the Mystics”
3. GNARL BARKLEY “St. Elsewhere”
4. RACONTEURS “Broken Boy Soldiers”
5. BOB DYLAN “Modern Times”
6. JOHN LEGEND “Once Again”
7. MUSE “Black Holes and Revelations”
8. NEIL YOUNG “Living With War”
9. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE “The Black Parade”
10. THE DIVINE COMEDY “Victory for the Comic Muse”
And the best Spanish albums:
1. GRUPO DE EXPERTOS SOLYNIEVE “Alegato meridional”
2. TOTE KING “Un tipo cualquiera”
3. JORGE DREXLER “12 segundos de oscuridad”
4. G5 “Tucaratupapi”
5. FITO & FITIPALDIS “Por la boca vive el pez”
6. QUIQUE GONZÁLEZ “Ajuste de cuentas”
7. FON ROMÁN “Silencio cómodo en un jardín descuidado”
8. VIOLADORES DEL VERSO “Vivir para contarlo”
9. JOSELE SANTIAGO “Garabatos”
10. BUNBURY & VEGAS “El tiempo de las cerezas”
Mondo Sonoro (Spain) - Albums of the Year
The international albums:
1. TV ON THE RADIO “Return to Cookie Mountain”
2. M. WARD “Post-War”
3. ARCTIC MONKEYS “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”
4. PHOENIX “It’s Never Been Like That”
5. GNARLS BARKLEY “St. Elsewhere”
6. BOB DYLAN “Modern Times”
7. THE RAPTURE “Pieces of the People We Love”
8. HERMAN DÜNE “Giant”
9. SCOTT WALKER “The Drift”
10. MASTODON “Blood Mountain”
11. WOLFMOTHER “Wolfmother”
12. THE SLEEPY JACKSON “Personality (One Was a Spider One Was a Bird)”
13. BELLE AND SEBASTIAN “The Life Pursuit”
14. THE FLAMING LIPS “At War with the Mystics”
15. CSS “Cansei de ser sexy”
16. THE MARS VOLTA “Amputechture”
17. JARVIS COCKER “Jarvis”
18. ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI “In Case We Die”
19. DAMIEN RICE “9”
20. THE SPINTO BAND “Nice and Nicely Done”
21. AKRON/FAMILY “Meek Warrior”
22. SUBTLE “For Hero: For Fool”
23. JOANNA NEWSON “Ys”
24. J DILLA “The Shining”
25. CAT POWER “The Greatest”
26. LIARS “Drum’s Not Dead”
27. LILY ALLEN “Alright, Still”
28. GOSSIP “Standing on the Side of Control”
29. MOGWAI “Mr. Beast”
30. JULIETA VENEGAS “Limón y sal”
31. CENTRO-MATIC “Fort Recovery”
32. FUJIYA & MIYAGI “Transparent Things”
33. MICAH P. HINSON “Micah P. Hinson and the Opera Circuit”
34. BEIRUT “The Gulag Orkestar”
35. LO-FI-FNK “Boylife”
36. CURRENT 93 “Black Ships Ate the Sky”
37. SCISSOR SISTERS “Ta-Dah”
38. WOVEN HAND “Mosaic”
39. CLARK “Body Riddle”
40. I’M FROM BARCELONA “Let Me Introduce You to My Friends”
And the Spanish albums:
1. STANDSTILL “Vivalaguerra”
2. DELOREAN “Into the Plateau”
3. EL COLUMPIO ASESINO “De mi sangre a tus cuchillas”
4. VIOLADORES DEL VERSO “Vivir para contarlo”
5. ANTÒNIA FONT “Batiscafo Katiuscas”
6. 12TWELVE “L’univers”
7. BUNBURY & VEGAS “El tiempo de las cerezas”
8. CAT PEOPLE “Reel#1”
9. THE UNFINISHED SYMPATHY “We Push You Pull”
10. HALF FOOT OUTSIDE “Perfect From the Distance”
11. ATOM RHUMBA “Amateur Universes”
12. MENDETZ “Mendetz”
13. G5 “Tucaratupapi”
14. TOTE KING “Un tipo cualquiera”
15. TARÁNTULA “Esperando a Ramón”
16. SR. CHINARRO “El mundo según”
17. SINGLE “Pío pío”
18. TACHENKO “Las jugadas imposibles”
19. SIBYL VANE “Turismo de interior”
20. OJOS DE BRUJO “Techarí”
21. GRUPO DE EXPERTOS SOLYNIEVE “Alegato meridional”
22. FRANCISCO NIXON “Es perfecta”
23. MULETRAIN “The Worst Is Yet to Come”
24. LES AUS “Haranna Hanne”
25. BIGOTT “That Sentimental Sandwich”
26. LA TROBA KUNG-FÚ “Clavell morenet”
27. BIG CITY “Call an Ambulance”
28. MACACO “Ingravitto”
29. FANTASMA #3 “Los amores ridículos”
30. STRAND “Al-Djaber”
31. UZZHUAÏA “Uzzhuaïa”
32. DORIAN “El futuro no es de nadie”
33. CAMPAMENTO ÑEC ÑEC “Presenta Alimaña”
34. STANDARD “3.000v-40.000w”
35. SKIMO “Un año de libros”
36. LA EXCEPCIÓN “Aguantando el tirón”
37. MAGA “Maga”
38. GECKO TURNER “Chandalismo ilustrado”
39. COCONOT “Novo Tropicalismo Errado”
40. LA BUENA VIDA “Vidania”
Uncut (UK) - Albums of the Year
50) Drive By Truckers – "A Blessing And A Curse"
49) Belle & Sebastian – "The Life Pursuit"
48) Muse – "Black Holes and Revelations"
47) Gnarls Barkley – "St. Elsewhere"
46) Band of Horses – "Everything All Of The Time"
45) The Walkmen – A Hundred Miles Off
44) Kasabian – "Empire"
43) Bruce Springsteen – "We Shall Overcome"
42) Donald Fagan – "Morph The Cat"
41) Jenny Lewis – "Rabbit Fur Coat"
40) Joan As Policewomen – "Real Life"
39) Lambchop – "Damaged"
38) Lily Allen – "Alright, Still"
37) OutKast – "Idlewild"
36) Scissor Sisters – "Ta-Dah"
35) Sonic Youth – "Rather Ripped"
34) Grandaddy – "Just Like The Fambly Cat"
33) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – s/t
32) Johnny Cash – "American V"
31) Mastodon – "Blood Mountain"
30) Neko Case - "Fox Confessor Brings The Flood"
29) Oakley Hall – "Second Guessing"
28) Tom Waits – "Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards"
27) Yo La Tengo – "I am Not Afraid Of You and I Will Beat Your Ass"
26) TV On The Radio – "Return To Cookie Mountain"
25) Scott Walker – "The Drift"
24) Howlin' Rain – s/t
23) Ghostface Killah – "Fishscale"
22) Espers – "Espers II"
21) Vetiver – "To Find Me Gone"
20) Burial – s/t
19) Beck – "The Information"
18) CSS – "Cansei Der Ser Sexy"
17) Ali Fakra Tourne – "Savane"
16) The Raconteurs – "Broken Boy Soldiers"
15) Brightblack Morning Light – s/t
14) Cat Power – "The Greatest"
13) Lindsey Buckingham – "Under The Skin"
12) Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – "The Letting Go"
11) The Flaming Lips – "At War With The Mystics"
10) Thom Yorke – "The Eraser"
09) Sufjan Stevens – "The Avalanche"
08) Hot Chip – "The Warning"
07) Midlake - "The Trials of Van Occupanther"
06) Arctic Monkeys – "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"
05) Neil Young – "Living With War"
04) Joanna Newsom - "Ys"
03) Avatar – "Comets On Fire"
02) Scritti Polliti – "White Bread, Black Beer"
01) Bob Dylan – "Modern Times"
Q (UK) - Albums of the Year
100) Matisayahu – Youth
99) The Concretes – In Colour
98) The Like – Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?
97) Boy Kill Boy – Civilian
96) Broken Social Scene – s/t
95) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! – s/t
94) Duke Special – Songs From The Deep Forrest
93) Iron Maiden – A Matter Of Life Death
92) Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint - The River Release
91) David Kitt – Not Fade Away
90) Adrian Sherwood – Becoming A Cliché
89) CCS – Cansei De Ser Sexy
88) The Young Knives – Voice of Animals And Men
87) The Magic Numbers – Those The Brokes
86) Mogwai – Mr. Beast
85) Antony Hamilton – Ain't Nobdy Worryin'
84) Meatloaf – Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
83) Wolfmother – s/t
82) Regina Specktor – Begin To Hope
81) Tom Petty – Higway Companion
80) Vetiver – To Find More
79) Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – Chronicles of A Bohemian Teenager
78) Espers – Espers II
77) Burial – s/t
76) Ghostface Killah – Fishscale
75) Junior Boys – So This Is Goodbye
74) Belle and Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
73) Willie Nelson - Songbird
72) Beyonce – B'Day
71) Secret Machines – Ten Silver Drops
70) Primal Scream – Riot City Blues
69) The Sleepy Jackson – Personality (One Was A Spider, One Was A Bird)
68) The Vines – Vision Valley
67) Shakira – Oral Fixation Vol.2
66) Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine
65) Solomon Burke – Nashville
64) Plan B – Who Needs Actions When You've Got Words
63) Lostprophets – Liberation Transmission
62) Jamelia – Walk With Me
61) Sway – This Is My Demo
60) Joan As Police Woman – s/t
59) Sparklehorse – Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly of A Mountain
58) Badly Drawn Boy – Born In The Uk
57) Lily Allen – Alright, Still
56) Jack Johnson and Friends – Sing-A-Long and Lullabies
55) Nelly Furtatdo – Loose
54) Tom Waits – Orphans…
53) The Beatles – Love
52) Scritti Pollitti – White Bread Black Beer
51) Graham Coxon – Love Travels At illegal Speeds
50) The Twilight Singers – Powder Burns
49) John Legend – Once Again
48) Christiana Aguilera – Back To Basics
47) Morrissey – Ringleaders of TheTormentors
46) AFX – Chosen Lords
45) David Gilmour – On A Island
44) Hot Chip – The Warning
43) Lampchop –Damaged
42) The Zutons – Tired Of Hangin' Around
41) The Automatic – Not Accepted Anywhere
40) The Strokes – First Impressions Of Earth
39) TV On The Radio – Return To Cookie Mountain
38) Neil Young – Living With War
37) Cat Power – The Greatest
36) Justin Timberlake – Futuresex/L:ovesounds
35) Orson – Bright Idea
34) The Flaming Lips – At War With The Mystics
33) Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
32) My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade
31) Paul Simon – Surprise
30) OutKast – Idlewild
29) Jet – Shine On
28) Elton John – The Captain and The Kid
27) Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat
26) James Morrison – Undiscovered
25) Damien Rice – 9
24) Jarvis – That Jarvis Cocker Record
23) Pet Shop Boys – Fundamental
22) Johnny Cash – American V: A Hundred Highways
21) Midlake – The Trials of Van Occupanther
20) Guillemots – Through The Window Pane
19) Neil Diamond – 12 Songs
18) Snow Patrol – Eyes Open
17) Thom Yorke – The Eraser
16) Bruce Springsteen – We Shall Overcome: The Seger Sessions
15) Shack - … The Corner of Miles and Gil
14) The Feeling – Twelve Stops And Then Home
13) The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
12) Corrine Bailey Rae – s/t
11) The Kooks – Inside In/Inside Out
10) Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
09) Scissor Sisters – Ta-Dah
08) Kasabian – Empire
07) Bob Dylan – Modern Times
06) Keane – Under The Iron Sea
05) The Killers – Sam's Town
04) Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Stadium Arcadium
03) Razorlight – s/t
02) Muse Black Holes and Revelations
01) Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Dagsavisen (Norway) - Albums of the Year
1. 120 Days - 120 Days
2. Tom Waits - Orphans
3. Joanna Newsom - YS
4. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
5. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
6. The Knife - Silent Shout
7. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
8. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever You Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
9. Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo
10. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
11. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
12. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
13. Bruce Springsteen: «We Shall Overcome – The Seeger Sessions»
14. Marit Larsen: «Under The Surface»
15. Wolfmother: «Wolfmother»
16. Kristin Asbjørnsen: «Wayfaring Stranger – A Spiritual Songbook»
17. Lily Allen: «Alright, Still»
18. The Raconteurs: «Broken Boy Soldier»
19. TV On The Radio: «Return To Cookie Mountain»
20. Rockettothesky: «To Sing You Apple Trees»
21. Johnny Cash: «American Recordings V: A Hundred Highways»
22. Band Of Horses: «Everything All The Time»
23. Lindsay Buckingham: «Under The Skin»
24. Jenny Lewis: «Rabbit Fur Coat»
25. Minor Majority: «Reasons To Hang Around»
26. Iron Maiden: «A Matter Of Life And Death»
27. The Decemberists: «The Crane Wife»
28. Drive-By Truckers: «A Blessing And A Curse»
29. J Dilla: «Donuts»
30. Motorpsycho: «Black Hole/Blank Canvas»
31. Bonnie «Prince» Billy: «The Letting Go»
32. Cat Power: «The Greatest»
33. Jay-Z: «Kingdom Come»
34. Elvira Nikolaisen: «Quiet Exit»
35. Beyonce: «B'Day»
36. The Feeling: «Twelve Stops And You're Home»
37. Nellie McKay: «Pretty Little Head»
38. My Chemical Romance: «The Black Parade»
39. Yo La Tengo: «I'm Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass»
40. Jarvis Cocker: «Jarvis»
Aftenposten (Norway) - Albums of the Year
1. Wolfmother - Wolfmother
2. 120 Days - 120 Days
3. Johnny Cash - American V
4. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am..
5. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
6. Minor Majority - Reasons to Hang Around
7. Tom Waits - Orphans
8. Bert Jansch - The Black Swan
9. Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics
10. Ron Sexsmith - Time Being
11. Marit Larsen - Under the Surface
12. The Knife - Silent shout
13. Morrissey - Ringleaders of the Tormentors
14. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
15. Amy Winehouse - Back to back
16. James Yorkston - The year of the Leopard
17. Circulus - Clocks are like people
18. Lindsey Buckingham - Under the Skin
19. Strountes - Strountes
20. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier
21. Rick Ross - Port of Miami
22. Vetiver - To find me Gone
23. Lily Allen - Alright, Still
24. Motörhead - Kiss of Death
25. Tom Verlaine - Songs and Other Things
Grammy Awards (USA) - Album of the Year
RECORD OF THE YEAR
* "Be Without You" (Mary J. Blige)
* "You're Beautiful" (James Blunt)
* "Not Ready to Make Nice" (Dixie Chicks)
* "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley)
* "Put Your Records On" (Corinne Bailey Rae)
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
* Taking the Long Way (Dixie Chicks)
* St. Elsewhere (Gnarls Barkley)
* Continuum (John Mayer)
* Stadium Arcadium (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
* FutureSex/LoveSounds (Justin Timberlake)
Tiny Mix Tapes (USA) - Albums of the Year
25. Beirut, GULAG ORKESTAR
24. Spank Rock, YOYOYOYOYO
23. Comets on Fire, AVATAR
22. Boris, PINK
21. Cat Power, THE GREATEST
20. Junior Boys, SO THIS IS GOODBYE
19. OOIOO, TAIGA
18. Neko Case, FOX CONFESSOR BRINGS THE FLOOD
17. J Dilla aka Jay Dee, DONUTS
16. Tim Hecker, HARMONY IN ULTRAVIOLET
15. Herbert, SCALE
14. Wolf Eyes, HUMAN ANIMAL
13. Keith Fullerton Whitman, LISBON
12. Carla Bozulich, EVANGELISTA
11. Magik Markers, A PANEGYRIC TO THE THINGS I DO NOT UNDERSTAND
10. Josephine Foster, A WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING
9. Califone, ROOTS AND CROWNS
8. Scott Walker, THE DRIFT
7. Grizzly Bear, YELLOW HOUSE
6. Yo La Tengo, I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU AND I WILL BEAT YOUR ASS
5. Juana Molina, SON
4. Ghostface Killah, FISHSCALE
3. TV on the Radio, RETURN TO COOKIE MOUNTAIN
2. Liars, DRUM’S NOT DEAD
1. Joanna Newsom, YS
Chartattack (Canada) - Albums of the Year
1. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
2. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
4. The Dears - Gang of Losers
5. The Golden Dogs - Big Eye Little Eye
6. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
7. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
8. Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
9. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
10. Pearl Jam - S/T
11. Lily Allen - Alright, Still
12. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
13. Islands - Return to the Sea
14. Sam Roberts - Chemical City
15. K-OS - Atlantis: Hymns For Disco
Wire (UK) - Albums of the Year
01. Burial - Burial [Hyperdub]
02. Scott Walker - The Drift [4AD]
03. Joanna Newsom - Ys [Drag City]
04. Carla Bozulich - Evangelista [Constellation]
05. Wolf Eyes - Human Animal [Sub Pop]
06. Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar [Sound Grammar]
07. Ekkehard Ehlers - A Life Without Fear [Staubgold]
08. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go
09. Om - Conference Of The Birds [Holy Mountain]
10. Phill Niblock - Touch Three [Touch]
11. Scritti Politti - White Bread Black Beer [Rough Trade]
12. Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast [Matador]
13. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped [Geffen]
14. Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton - Black Vomit [Victo]
15. The Knife - Silent Shout [Mute/Brille]
16. Christian Wolff - 10 Exercises [New World]
17. Keiji Haino & Sitaar Tah! - Animamima [Archive/Important]
18. Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light [Matador]
19. Arthur Russell - First Thought Best Thought [Audika/Rough Trade]
20. Broadcast - Future Crayon [Warp]
21. Niobe - White Hats [Tomlab]
22. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House [Warp]
23. Reanimator - Special Powers [Community Library]
24. Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky [Durtro Jnana]
25. Excepter - Alternation [5RC]
26. Alexander Tucker - Furrowed Brow [ATP]
27. Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza - Azioni [Die Schachtel]
28. Rafael Toral - Space [Staubgold]
29. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale [Def Jam]
30. MV/EE & The Bummer Road - Mother Of Thousands [Time-Lag]
31. Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice - Gipsy Freedom [5RC]
32. Celtic Frost - Monotheist [Century Media]
33. Kieran Hebden & Steven Reid - The Exchange Sessions Vols 1 & 2
34. Ran Blake - All That Is Tied [Tompkins Square]
35. Mordant Music - Dead Air [Mordant Music]
36. Julius Eastman - Unjust Malaise [New World]
37. Little Annie - Songs From The Coalmine Canary [Durtro Jnana]
38. Ruff Sqwad - Guns And Roses Volume 2 [Ruff Sqwad Recordings]
39. Volcano The Bear - Classic Erasmus Fusion [Beta-Lactam Ring]
40. Leopard Leg - The Seven Sistered Sea-Secret Of Shh Shh Shh [Upset The Rhythm]
41. Harlassen - A Way Now [Sustain-Release]
42. Text Of Light - Metal Box [Dirter Promotions]
43. Peaches - Impeach My Bush [XL]
44. Robert Ashley - Foreign Experiences [Lovely Music]
45. Charalambides - A Vintage Burden [Kranky]
46. Peter Evans - More Is More [PSI]
47. Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar [Southern Lord]
48. Dabrye - Two/Three [Ghostly International]
49. Chris Corsano - The Young Cricketer [Hot Cars Warp]
50. Josephine Foster - A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing [Locust]
Blow Up (Italy) - Albums of the Year
1. Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
3. Scott Walker - The Drift
4. Pere Ubu - Why I Hate Women
5. Burial - Burial
6. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
7. Carla Bozulich - Evangelista
8. Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
9. Ross Bolleter - Secret Sandhills & Satellites
10. Vert - Some Beans & An Octopus
11. Sao Paulo Underground - Sauna: Um, Dois, Treis
12. Erase Errata - Night Life
13. Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky
14. Josephine Foster - A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
15. Volcano The Bear - Classic Erasmus Fusion
16. KTL - KTL
17. Birchville Cat Motel - Our Love Will Destroy The World
18. Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
19. The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
20. Wolf Eyes - Human Animal
21. The Nova Dream Sequence - Interpretations
22. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
23. Ali Farka Toure - Savane
24. Mike Cooper - Borders
25. Six Organs Of Admittance - The Sun Awakens
26. Glenn Kotche - Mobile
27. Andrea Belfi - Between Neck And Stomach
28. Cat Power - The Greatest
29. Coil - The Ape Of Naples
30. Les Georges Leningrad - Sangue Puro
31. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
32. Pharrell - In My Mind
33. OOIOO - Taiga
34. Plastic Crimewave Sound - No Wonderland
35. Scritti Politti - White Bread Black Beer
36. Stefano Pilia - The Suncrows Fall and Tree
37. Vinicio Capossela - Ovunque Proteggi
38. Alexander Tucker - Furrowed Brow
39. Young People - Turned Loose
40. Riccardo Sinigallia - Incontri a metà strada
41. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
42. Bird Show - Lightning Ghost
43. Kill The Vultures - The Careless Flame
44. Parenthetical Girls - Safe As Houses
45. Coughs - secret passage
46. Flim - Ohne Titel 1916
47. Leafcutter John - The Forest and the Sea
48. The Drones - Gala Mill
49. Silicone Soul - Save Our Souls
50. Todd - Comes To Your House
Rock de Lux (Spain) - Albums of the Year
1. JOANNA NEWSOM “Ys”
2. BOB DYLAN “Modern Times”
3. CAT POWER “The Greatest”
4. SCOTT WALKER “The Drift”
5. BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY “The Letting Go”
6. GNARLS BARKLEY “St. Elsewhere”
7. TV ON THE RADIO “Return to Cookie Mountain”
8. SUBTLE “For Hero: For Fool”
9. MICAH P. HINSON “Micah P. Hinson and the Opera Circuit”
10. DOMINIQUE A “L’horizon”
11. ALI FARKA TOURÉ “Savane”
12. M. WARD “Post-War”
13. TOM WAITS “Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards”
14. BURIAL “Burial”
15. T-BONE BURNETT “The True False Identity”
16. ARCTIC MONKEYS “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”
17. LIARS “Drum’s Not Dead”
18. HOT CHIP “The Warning”
19. JUNIOR BOYS “So This Is Goodbye”
20. THE TELEVISION PERSONALITIES “My Dark Places”
21. TEGO CALDERÓN “The Underdog/El subestimado”
22. VARIOUS “The World Is Gone”
23. THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION “The Spell”
24. CAMERA OBSCURA “Let’s Get Out of This Country”
25. KRIS KRISTOFFERSON “This Old Road”
26. NEKO CASE “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood”
27. HOLDEN “The Idiots Are Winning”
28. HERMAN DÜNE “Giant”
29. MATT ELLIOTT “Falling Songs”
30. CSS “Cansei de ser sexy”
31. ESPERS “Espers II”
32. LUOMO “Paper Tigers”
33. BEIRUT “The Gulag Orkestar”
34. SONIC YOUTH “Rather Ripped”
35. LUPE FIASCO “Food & Liquor”
36. SPARKLEHORSE “Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain”
37. AKRON/FAMILY “Meek Warrior”
38. YO LA TENGO “I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass”
39. SCRITTI POLITTI “White Bread, Black Beer”
40. ABSENTEE “Schmotime”
41. SKREAM “Skream!”
42. CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE “Etiquette”
43. CURRENT 93 “Black Ships Ate the Sky”
44. TWO GALLANTS “What the Toll Tells”
45. BETH ORTON “Comfort of Strangers”
46. CENTRO-MATIC “Fort Recovery”
47. BAND OF HORSES “Everything All the Time”
48. GHOSTFACE KILLAH “Fishscale”
49. CARLA BOZULICH “Evangelista”
50. HOWE GELB “Sno Angel Like You”
Best Spanish albums:
1. SR. CHINARRO “El mundo según”
2. 12TWELVE “L’univers”
3. VIOLADORES DEL VERSO “Vivir para contarlo”
4. GRUPO DE EXPERTOS SOLYNIEVE “Alegato meridional”
5. ANTÒNIA FONT “Batiscafo Katiuscas”
6. JOSELE SANTIAGO “Garabatos”
7. CHRISTINA ROSENVINGE “Continental 62”
8. TOTE KING “Un tipo cualquiera”
9. BUNBURY & VEGAS “El tiempo de las cerezas”
10. GRUPO SALVAJE “Aquí hay dragones”
11. ESTRELLA MORENTE “Mujeres”
12. TACHENKO “Las jugadas imposibles”
13. XAVIER BARÓ “Flors de joglaria”
14. TARÁNTULA “Esperando a Ramón”
15. NIÑO JOSELE “Paz”
16. SINGLE “Pío pío”
17. PAULINE EN LA PLAYA “Silabario”
18. MANTA RAY “Torres de electricidad”
19. PARADE “Todas las estrellas”
20. SIBYL VANE “Turismo de interior”
21. INCRUCIFICABLES / HELLO CUCA “Incrucificables / Hello Cuca”
22. POLAR “Surrounded By Happiness”
23. ÁLEX TORÍO “The Lame Fiancée”
24. COCONOT “Novo Tropicalismo Errado”
25. LA BUENA VIDA “Vidania”
26. FANTASMA #3 “Los amores ridículos”
27. EVOL “Punani Quatre”
28. THE UNFINISHED SYMPATHY “We Push You Pull”
29. BIGOTT “That Sentimental Sandwich”
30. STANDSTILL “Vivalaguerra”
The songs list goes like that:
1. GNARLS BARKLEY “Crazy”
2. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE “SexyBack”
3. CAT POWER “The Greatest”
4. BELLE AND SEBASTIAN “Another Sunny Day”
5. CSS “Music Is My Hot Sex”
6. TV ON THE RADIO “Wolf Like Me”
7. PETER BJORN AND JOHN “Young Folks”
8. ARCTIC MONKEYS “When the Sun Goes Down”
9. HOT CHIP “And I Was a Boy From School”
10. MICAH P.HINSON “You’re Only Lonely”
11. LILY ALLEN “Smile”
12. BUILT TO SPILL “Liar”
13. CAMERA OBSCURA “Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken”
14. JUNIOR BOYS “Double Shadow”
15. LUPE FIASCO “Kick, Push”
16. NELLY FURTADO “Maneater”
17. BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY “Love Comes to Me”
18. THE DIVINE COMEDY “A Lady of a Certain Age”
19. YO LA TENGO “Mr. Tough”
20. SONIC YOUTH “Incinerate”
21. DOMINIQUE A “Dans un camion”
22. ESG “Everything Goes”
23. BOB DYLAN “Workingman Blues #2”
24. BAND OF HORSES “Wicked Girl”
25. MIDLAKE “Young Bride”
26. REGINA SPEKTOR “Fidelity”
27. JARVIS COCKER “Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time”
28. FUJIYA-MIYAGI “Ankle Injuries”
29. DJ SHADOW “This Time (I’m Gonna Try It My Way)”
30. BEIRUT “Mount Wroclai (Idle Days)”
31. LLOYD COLE “Woman in a Bar”
32. EL PERRO DEL MAR “I Can’t Talk About It”
33. WOVEN HAND “Whistling Girl”
34. SPARKLEHORSE “Shade and Honey”
35. PET SHOP BOYS “I’m With Stupid”
36. KELIS “Bossy”
37. THE RACONTEURS “Steady as She Goes”
38. MORRISSEY “You Have Killed Me”
39. MS. JOHN SODA “No. One”
40. MASSIVE ATTACK “Live With Me”
41. NEIL YOUNG “The Restless Consumer”
42. PEARL JAM “Parachutes”
43. THE PIPETTES “Pull Shapes”
44. VARIOUS “Don’t Ask”
45. HERMAN DÜNE “Bristol”
46. TWO GALLANTS “Las Cruces Jail”
47. RADIO 4 “Too Much to Ask For”
48. ABSENTEE “Weasel”
49. JODY WILDGOOSE “New Orleans”
50. RONNIE SPECTOR “All I Want”
51. STUART A. STAPLES “That Leaving Feeling”
52. TEGO CALDERÓN “Los maté”
53. SUPERSYSTEM “The Pinnacle of Experience”
54. KODE9 + THE SPACEAPE “Nine Samurai”
55. GOSSIP “Standing in the Way of Control”
56. PRIMAL SCREAM “Country Girl”
57. JULIETA VENEGAS “Me voy”
58. NEKO CASE “Hold On, Hold On”
59. LISA GERMANO “Into Oblivion”
60. KIMYA DAWSON “My Mom”
61. TOM VERLAINE “The Earth Is in the Sky”
62. JOLIE HOLLAND “Crush in the Ghetto”
63. JENNY LEWIS WITH THE WATSON TWINS “Rise Up with Fists”
64. EUROS CHILD “Costa Rita”
65. TILLY AND THE WALL “Bad Education”
66. DARKEL “And the End of the Sky”
67. THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION “Not Just Words”
68. SCISSOR SISTERS “I Don’t Feel Like Dancing”
69. EEF BAZERLAY “Ballad of Bitter Honey”
70. CLEARLAKE “It’s Getting Light Outside”
71. OUTKAST “Mighty ‘O”
72. PHOENIX “Consolation Prizes”
74. VETIVER “Been So Long”
75. ALBERT HAMMOND JR. “Back to the 101”
Yes, they forget the #73...
Eye Weekly Canadian Critics Poll - Albums of the Year
http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_01.1 ... lead_2.php
01: NEKO CASE Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Mint/Outside) 1190 (18)
02: GHOSTFACE KILLAH Fishscale (DefJam/Universal) 700 (11)
03: TV ON THE RADIO Return to Cookie Mountain (InterscopeUniversal) 680 (14)
04: HOT CHIP The Warning (DFA/EMI) 660 (11)
04: JUNIOR BOYS So This is Goodbye (Domino/Outside) 660 (10)
06: CAT POWER The Greatest (Matador/Beggars Group) 630 (10)
06: THE HOLD STEADY Boys and Girls in America (Vagrant/Universal) 630 (8)
08: CLIPSE Hell Hath No Fury (Re-up/Jive/SonyBMG) 590 (9)
09: FINAL FANTASY He Poos Clouds (Blocks/Sonic Unyon) 550 (8)
10: THE DECEMBERISTS The Crane Wife (Capitol/EMI) 500 (8)
11: LILY ALLEN Alright, Still (Parlophone/EMI) 450 (9)
12: THE DEARS Gang of Losers (MapleMusic) 440 (6)
12: AMY WINEHOUSE Back to Black (IslandUniversal) 440 (6)
14: JOANNA NEWSOM Ys (Drag City/FAB) 430 (5)
15: SCOTT WALKER The Drift (4AD/Beggars Group) 420 (7)
16: MALAJUBE Trompe L'oeil (Bonsound/Outside) 410 (8)
16: TOKYO POLICE CLUB A Lesson in Crime (Paper Bag/Universal) 410 (8)
18: DESTROYER Destroyer's Rubies (Mint/FAB) 380 (5)
19: MASTODON Blood Mountain (Warner) 350 (4)
20: HERBERT Scale (!K7/Outside) 340 (7)
21: JOHNNY CASH American V: A Hundred Highways (American/Universal) 330 (5)
21: K-OS Atlantis: Hymns for Disco (EMI) 330 (8)
23: ORNETTE COLEMAN Sound Grammar (Sound Grammar) 320 (5)
24: GNARLS BARKLEY St. Elsewhere (Atlantic/Warner) 310 (7)
25: THE RACONTEURS Broken Boy Soldiers (V2) 300 (7)
26: THE HIDDEN CAMERAS Awoo (Evil Evil/Outside) 290 (4)
27: BOB DYLAN Modern Times (Columbia/SonyBMG) 280 (3)
27:THE KNIFE Silent Shout (Mute) 280 (5)
27: LOVE IS ALL Nine Times the Same Song (What's Your Rupture?) 280 (4)
30: BELLE AND SEBASTIAN The Life Pursuit (Matador/Beggars Group) 270 (5)
30: CSS Cansei de Ser Sexy (Sub Pop/Outside) 270 (5)
30: J DILLA Donuts (Stones Throw/Koch) 260 (5)
30: SONIC YOUTH Rather Ripped (Geffen/Universal) 260 (4)
30: T.I. King (Grand Hustle/Atlantic/Warner) 260 / 4
35: THE ROOTS Game Theory (Def Jam/Universal) 240 (3)
35: SLOAN Never Hear the End of It (Murder/SonyBMG) 240 (3)