Susan Look! It’s the best LP’s of 2006!

And do you know what?  Just like everyone else, I have THE best taste in music so if I say an LP is great, it IS freeeaking amazing.

Last year my favourite LP was the Arctic Monkey’s “Whatever people say I am, is what i’m not”, which was a bit predictable, what with me harking from sheffield and all that.  This year’s best is more obscure, hurrah!  Heck no, i haven’t chosen it because of it being obscure, i’ve chosen it because it totally blows my mind, it’s kind of glam rock meets prog rock meets euro-rock and a whole lost of magic spun to bind it all together.  If you don’t go now and download it, then… I hate you!  OK?

The rest of this lot is pretty good too, well, I’d say, my favourite 25 are great, the rest are OK.  This time, there isn’t anything totally crap.

For the top 10 I’ve included a link to UK and USA iTunes where applicable so you can quickly go there and preview a song, and i’ve mentioned my favourite song so you can go straight to the good stuff.

1. Mew – And the Glass Handed Kites
   iTunes UK | iTunes USA | Favourite track: Special
2. Guillemots – Through The Window Pane
   iTunes UK | Favourite track: Through the Window Pane
3. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
   iTunes UK | iTunes USA | Favourite Track: Cymbol Rush
4. Joanna Newsom – Ys
   iTunes UK | iTunes USA | Favourite track: Emily
5. The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
   iTunes USA | Favourite track: O Valencia!
6. Bonobo – Days to Come
   iTunes UK | iTunes USA | Ketto
7. Squarepusher – Hello Everything
   iTunes UK | iTunes USA | Favourite track: Hello Meow
8. Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
   iTunes UK | iTunes USA | Favourite track: Invincible
9. Junior Boys – So This Is Goodbye
   iTunes UK | iTunes USA | Favourite track: Double Shadow
10. Max Richter – Songs From Before
    iTunes UK | Favourite track: Autumn Music 1
11. Julian Fane – Our New Quarters
12. Peter Bjorn & John – Writer’s Block
13. The Automatic – Not Accepted Anywhere
14. The Walkmen – A Hundred Miles Off
15. Morrissey – Ringleader Of The Torment
16. Charlotte Gainsbourg – 5:55
17. Danielson – Ships
18. The Dresden Dolls – Yes, Virginia…
19. Dirty Pretty Things – Waterloo to Anywhere
20. Lindstrøm – It’s a Feedelity Affair
21. Beirut – The Gulag Orkestar
22. Clark – Body Riddle
23. CSS – Cansei de Ser Sexy
24. Graham Coxon – Love Travels at Illegal Speeds
25. Placebo – Meds
26. Hot Chip – The Warning
27. Mogwai – Mr. Beast
28. Benoit Pioulard – Precis
29. The Divine Comedy – Victory for the Comic Muse
30. Long Blondes – Someone to Drive You Home
31. Phoenix – It’s Never Been Like That
32. The Strokes – First Impressions of Earth
33. Plaid – Greedy Baby
34. Fujiya & Miyagi – Transparent Things
35. Adem – Love & Other Planets
36. Lee Van Dowski – As Told on the Eve of
37. Califone – Roots & Crowns
38. Pet Shop Boys – Fundamental
39. Lostprophets – Liberation Transmission
40. Scissor Sisters – Ta-Dah
41. Yo La Tengo – I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will…
42. Sufjan Stevens – The Avalanche
43. The Killers – Sam’s Town
44. Scott Walker – The Drift
45. Tortoise – A Lazarus Taxon
46. Zero 7 – The Garden
47. Tim Hecker – Harmony in Ultraviolet