NME's Albums And Singles Of '06
'Tis the season for music journos and bloggers to rank and rate their favorite musical discoveries of the year. And thanks to a fine transcribing soul at ILM, we have NME's rankings right here. By their lists, this was the year of Hot Chip:
50 The Kooks - Inside In / Inside OutRead on for the rest of the album list and their singles selections.
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 Information
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 BeastLooks like Gnarls and CSS were bathed in NME affection as well. The main way this list differs from an American mag's? It's not hung-up on "cool." And since you guys have so much better taste than England, cast your vote in the Gummys!
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 Winehouse – 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
Top 50 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"
Posted at 10:22 AM in Shit List
Tags: CSS | Gnarls Barkley | Hot Chip
fucking hell. Am i the only one that Thinks Tv on the radio had the album of the year.
anyways its a decent list..not good..but who expects good things from NME anyways.
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vintage nme strokes love at #8.
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Tv on the Radio is at the top of my list as well. I'm not so sure about Kasabian being on this list.
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That's probably the only year-end list you'll see without The Hold Steady on it.
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I dunno if I'd put The Strokes that high. I mean, if we're basing this on commercial success, the record hasn't really sold that well at all. I haven't really heard anybody lose their minds over it either.
Good lists though. I think they pretty much nailed it.
(I will be SO glad when the year is over and we can stop with all the friggin lists)
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Since almost every choice on this list is completely predictable, we can now safely say, yes, the Brits have no obsessions with being cool.
About the only left turn in the whole lot was the Kelis track...
DwD
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TV On The Radio is so overblown (although I do like "The Method"). Best song of the year is Keane's "Is It Any Wonder?". Not a cool song to like, but if you don't give a shit about that kind of thing it's hard to deny.
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Arctic Monkeys as number one? you've got to be fucking kidding me.
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The Jarvis Cocker record is the sleeper of the year on our side of the pond.
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Glad to see Howling Bells get some recognition!!
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"Wolf Like Me" is easily one of the top 10 singles of the year. Such a hot jam.
Cool that they included "Fraud in the '80s" though.
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That Flaming Lips album suuuuuuuuuuucks. That's a total legacy pick. Where's the M. Ward album, or The Long Winters? And, this will make me terribly unpopular in this thread, I'm sure, but TVOTR is just... just terrible.
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TOKYO POLICE CLUB are the best band right now, they should have cracked the list, Nature is a killer song
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Artic Monkeys? Christ, let's just put The DaVinci Code as number one...
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fuck NME. Panic at the goddamned Disco over TV on the Radio. you have got to be kidding me...
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Tis the season for mo lists.
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yeah chuck, tv on the radio sure does pump out those hot club jams...
for the arty albums, i'd say that drum's not dead was more cohesive and listenable than cookie mountain.
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islands' return to the sea ftw!
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Do they not have The Decemberists in England?
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Yes Marsh Islands should definately be in top 10...who the hell are these people?
The only one I sort of agree with is Yeah Yeah Yeahs but they shouldn't be #2. Also where is Regina Spektor (who btw had the best album of the year)? TV on the Radio also should be a lot higher on the list.
Overall though I'm pretty depressed with music released this year and this list just confirms it (Artic Monkeys!?!?)...
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Liars - Drum's Not Dead? Why Not!
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come on people it's NME notoriously the shittiest magazine known to man.
you can't expect ANYTHING from them
amazed midlake made it on there. They seem to do much better over in the UK than stateside
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>> Do they not have The Decemberists in England?
They're totally, criminally, under the radar, although I have tickets for their Glasgow gig, yay!
And yeah, Regina Spektor's album is my favourite this year. But anyway, this is the NME, so why are people even pretending to be surprised?
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I think that list is amazingly good, considering. Could you imagine Rolling Stone putting out a year-end list nearly that progressive or representative? I mean, it's still stupid, but not as stupid as I would have expected.
FYI, I find both The Hold Steady and TV on the Radio to be unlistenable.
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decemberists anyone? the hold steady? the long winters? mates of state? m. ward? liars definitely tops TVOTR in my book. and where the f is joanna newsom?
oh well, it IS nme after all...
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I agree with TVOTR for best of the year. The only one I agree with on the NME list is Hot CHip at #4.
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Sorry, but BLENDER is actually the shittiest (music) magazine known to man. Speaking of lists....
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CSS? Give me a fucking break!
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That list is marginally better than last year's, but this all goes to show just how conservative UK music critics are. Not that Rolling Stone or Spin are off the hook, or anything.
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Glad to see Mogwai on the albums list. Good job for once, NME! "Fraud in the '80s" is probably my favorite song on that Mates of State record too. I have my objections, as we all do but overall this is a decent list.
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TVOTR and Thom Yorke definitely had the best ablums of the year, but people are too hard on Arctic Monkeys. They're not the groundbreaking band NME seems to think they are, but some of the songs are pretty fun. But they're definitely not top 10 material, though.
And Sam's Town only belongs on the worst of the year list. That album was shit.
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Oh, and for the algebraics out there:
Hot Chip 2006 = The Buggles 1980
Word to your mother.
DwD
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Anyone who has a problem with this list should remember that the nme is written by 19yr olds for 16yr olds to read.
And with that in mind, it is a pretty good list.
Apart from missing off "Passover" by The Black Angels, which is my best album of the year, with Amy Winehouse second. TVOTR 3rd.
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Any Year End List where half of it doesn't make you vomit in your mouth is an acceptable list.
And it surely WAS the year of Hot Chip. I'd have had The Warning at #1 as well as "Over and Over."
Long Winters, Band of Horses, Film School and about 6 Swedish bands (like Love is All & I'm From Barcelona) should be on the list though. And I'm shocked Belle & Sabastian aren't on it!
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Geez.
Arguing over end-of-year lists is pointless... and yet, and yet...
You people make me laugh with your "this list is so conservative... why no Decemberists/TVTOR/Joanna Newsom?"
Pretentious is not the opposite of conservative.
Arctic Monkeys became incredibly successful playing stripped down, raw pop music with lyrics about working class concerns sung in a thick regional accent. How is that more conservative, less subversive that the above trio who released over-produced, overly intellectualized prog-rock/folk designed to appeal to earnest thirty-something musos?
And as for the Hold Steady? Ha! Greatest trick that Pitchfork ever played, convincing the world (sorry, blogosphere) that a meat-and-potatoes middle-aged bar band were, you know, cool and innovative.
That's all.
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It is not that bad, although I' am missing Belle & Sebastian, Camera Obscura, M. Ward, Yo La Tengo and Herbert... and I totally agree... Hot Chip is definitely one of the bands 2006.
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NME is pretty much commercial indie. Im predicting indie wil become 'old' cos of them. Its more of a 'cool' scene to be in than it is music.
to the guy who says TV on the radio are overblown and goes on to say Keane had the best single of the year.......
I dont quite like the hold steady that much..Tokyo police clubs EP was brilliant and i quite liked but not loved the strokes( and im a very big fan of theirs) and the decemberists should have been mentioned atleast.
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That's one of the worst top 6's possible, surely. I say 6 because I thought those were all pretty inconsistent where The Long Blondes one was surprisingly good. I wouldn't put that in the top 10 though.
Didn't bother looking at the singles, only two that really mattered this year were the debut from I Was a Cub Scout and 'Science' by Monkey Swallows the Universe, and I doubt they'd have put those in there. *checks* Nope, didn't see it, idiots.
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the decemberists new album hasn't been released in the UK, which is why it's not on the list. Actually, there's no guarantee it would be on the list given this is NME, but that's a reason anyway.
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Pretty good list, but the magic numbers should be there instead of panic!, and they should have chosen maneater instead of promiscuous. Glad to see the isobel campbell mark lanegan cd there too.
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Arctic Monkeys:The Jam::No Doubt:Madness
TVOTR was the best.
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I was glad to see Muse on there. I felt like that record didn't get enough credit in the U.S. But it's odd that Destroyer and Joanna Newsom didn't make it on there.
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NME is shit.
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clapo your hands say yeah came out in 2005...
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nme is poo. that list isn't too good.
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"Wolf Like Me" was the best damn song this year, but the album didn't measure up. Gotta say I'm loving the Yeah Yeah Yeahs love though.
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God bless them for putting Howling Bells, Larrikin Love & Sunshine Underground
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God bless them for putting Howling Bells, Larrikin Love & Sunshine Underground
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Obviously the NME is going to have a list geared more toward their target market, that's how you sell magazines. Taking that into consideration, the list is pretty much exactly what you would expect.
One thing people need to remember is that North American release dates are different from UK release dates. CYHSY [i]was[/i] released in 2006 there and I don't think Tokyo Police Club has come out there yet (although they seem like a band that the NME would be fans of).
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Um, Panic! at the Disco's album was released in 2005. That kinda disqualifies it.
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Wtf, there isnt even ONE Timbaland produced track in the top 50 singles. Blasphemy!
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Using my psychic powers I can already tell you that the Klaxons record will be the NME album of the year in 2007.
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"Destroyer's Rubies" is not only the album of the year, but of the last couple years. That list was obviously dumb, but at least they didn't have The Hold Steady on there.
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Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous" was produced by Timbaland.
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Um, the Decemberists album has been released in Britain, and I know because I bought it in a shop. Anyway, yes, the NME is rubbish, it's been established, let's move on. Plan B is where it's at, anyway.
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Oh my bad Seinfeld! I didnt see "Promiscuous" in there.
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why on earth would you let P!ATD and The Killers in the top 50? terrible albums....
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Extremely giddy at the embracing of Hot Chip.
I will have to agree with Eduardo: Where the hell is Herbert??
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standing in the way of control and let's make love and listen to death from above have been playing in my head on a loop since they dropped. great to see them on the list.
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Beck #43?!?! oh HAILLL nawwwww! What did he blow you guys off for an interview or something? This is his pay-back? Idiots, that albums fucking sweet, n his smooth-ass rhymes make marsha mathers sound like a fucking clown...BOYYYYY:D I think this must be a classic case of the bar being raised too high, sorta like 'it JUST doesnt sound EXACTLY like OK COMPUTER enough' radiohead whiners...
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These Brits are retards.
Muse in the top 10 negates the whole goddamn list.
moving on....
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Where's Scritti Politti? ;-p
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seriously what the hell... has everyone forgotten LIARS already? that was an amazing album!!
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Ya know, I could sit here and bash the bands chosen for this list or add a bunch that I think deserved to be on there. I could argue over whether the new Hold Steady album is good, as half the people seem to think, or unlistenable, the other half. But to be honest, I think if you people really loved music, you'd spend less time arguing about how good or bad it is and more time actually listening to it. People have different tastes, it should come as no surprise, and music is one of those things thats all about taste. There's no way to really say whats talented music and what isn't anymore, its to diversified and quite frankly, I like it that way.
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Where?! Are?! The?! Liars?! Their absence negates the value of the whole list.
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only NME would put the arctic monkey's as their number one bahaha
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sure, the nme is trash, and maybe arctic monkeys don't deserve best album of 2006, however you all would be eating them up if they were some unheard band from sheffield that noone knew about. i guess its too bad that some people recognized their talent and started posting their demos on the internet, then maybe you snobs might actually appreciate what they do.
p.s. a certain romance is one of the best songs of 2006 if not the past ten years...
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Regina Spektor seriously deserved a top 10 place. I strongly believe The Strokes did as well, it's a great album even though it's fairly different to their past albums. Panic! being on there is fucking ridiculous.
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Dear US
The Hold Steady and Decemberists albums aren't out here yet. The albums on the list you think are 2005 are 2006 in the UK.
That is all.
Love,
Britain
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Too British
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Why does anyone read British music rags? Even the UK hates their own journos. I don't really need to know who "Artist/Band of the Century #324" but thanks anyways.
The British fight legitimate journalism the the US does war on Iraq.
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Why does anyone read British music rags? Even the UK hates their own journos. I don't really need to know who "Artist/Band of the Century #324" but thanks anyways.
The British fight legitimate journalism the the US does war on Iraq.
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I love the strokes and am proud of them. concerning the artic monkeys: i only liked the dancefloor song on the monkeys album. everything else kinda sounded the same.
i love muse to death... they are my fav group but i dont think the singles on black holes were as great as say... absolution or showbiz.
MCR's album at 10. that's funny.
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Pretty good list really for NME. Obviously, loads of good albums have been missed, but there's only room for 50, and NME has to pander to a lot of different tastes. For me, album of the year was by Larrikin Love, but that's just me.
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I agree with most of this list to be fair, apart from Hot Chip and Muse, both of whom I find pretty tedious, Sleepy Jackson or Hope of the States to come of the subs bench as replacements in my top 10.
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erin wrote: "only NME would put the arctic monkey's as their number one bahaha"
Hey Erin,
Apologies for quoting a press release but...
"Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not has swept the board at major rock magazines in Denmark (#1 in Gaffa), France (#1 in Les Inrockuptibles and Rock&Folk), Germany (#1 in Visions), Holland (#1 in Oor and #1 in Pot), Spain (#1 in Rolling Stone) and their native Britain (#1 in the NME and #1 in Q Magazine)."
So, pretty much only NME, huh Erin?
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NME names Arctic Monkeys' album #1 album of the year?!Go figure!No Lily Allen?!For fucks sake,"Smile" was one the best songs this year.Well,atleast they had The Long Blondes.
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Yet another NME cop out- that's why no one reads it over here.
Re: Decemberists/The Hold Steady:
Both very un-NME bands- one of the major problems of the magazine! I'm willing to place a bet that they (unless there are some truly terrible albums out next year) won't be in the top 50 albums anyway- I mean you'll see that the NME in its infinate wisdom chose to omit Beirut, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Joanne Newsome from its final listings?!
Remember the "readers" of the NME voted the last 'Harry Potter' film as their film of the year!!!!!!
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I Was A Cubscout's "Pink Squares" should be in the top 50 singles most definately!
It's pumping electro indie at it's best! and to say they only formed a few months back and have been signed with XL (label of white stripes/prodidgy/basement jaxx)ALREADY! i would say they are pretty damn good! search for them on myspace or something or just switch mtv2 on for a while give them the success they deserve you lovebuckets!!!!
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ilike men so it is easy for me to like boy bands and also i find the lead singer of the kooks very eat able if you know what i mean :P and i am male :D
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Three phrases should be among the most common in our daily usage. They are: Thank you, I am grateful and I appreciate.
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Three phrases should be among the most common in our daily usage. They are: Thank you, I am grateful and I appreciate.
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I agree with most of this list to be fair, apart from Hot Chip and Muse, both of whom I find pretty tedious.
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