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

Re-issues

10) Oasis – Stop The Clocks
09) The La's – BBC In Session
08) The Jam – All Mod Cons
07) George Michael – Twentyfive
06) Depeche Mode - Violator
05) Talking Heads – Remain In Light
04) Pulp – Different Class
03) Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run
02) Queen - A Night At The Opera
01) The Clash - Singles

Tracks/Singles – to come

Uggghh. Q does it again. Razorlight was by far the worst album of the year.

At least they had Espers II in there... i guess. no joanna Newsom though.

I don't think YS has been released in the U.K. yet, so it's logical that it wouldn't be on any British EOY lists. It'll probably be exactly the same situation as with FUNERAL, which topped a lot of U.K. lists in 2005.

No I think the brits actually have a good enough taste to leave crap out of their list. Although they are missing Camera Obscura and the Pipettes. Not to mention Artrocker's Album of the Year - the Long Blondes

'Ys' made Uncut's list (No. 3). Uncut is a British mag if I'm not mistaken.

I've got Ys, it certinatly has been released in the UK

I stand corrected. Sorry about that.

Maybe YS is released in UK, maybe not.
But nobody seems to think that it's possible that some people may not like YS.
Q has the right not to like YS and if it's true then I agree with Q.

Ys is shit in a lot of people's opinions, you cant just expect to see it in every list just because you like it.

i never would expect it to be in Q's or NME's lists anyway. far too obscure for them

Ys was actually released in the UK a week before it was in the USA. NME gave it 8/10 so I'd imagine it would feature in their EOY. Q also called it "Utterly entrancing" in a 4* review. It also charted at #41.

Well it failed to entrance me. "Utterly annoying" is more accurate.

If you think YS is annoying (I don't but nor do I consider it a 21st century Pet Sounds or whatever) you really shouldn't hear her debut. That was annoying.

I second (slightly) MitchellStirling's comments. The first time you listen to THE MILK-EYED MENDER, it takes a good while to become acclimated to her hiccupy, faux-waif (if it's indeed faux) delivery - and I can easily understand that many will _never_ become acclimated to it. One of the pleasures of YS - for those who do derive pleasure from it, like me - is that her vocals are far less mannered and more controlled than on the debut; one might guess that Albini had something to do with this, but that's probably not giving enough credit to Newsom herself learning to modulate her voice better in the interval between albums.

In any case, I'm not going to get bogged down in an argument over the merits or lack thereof of YS. Newsom's a deeply divisive artist, and this is a deeply divisive album, no question. I would never say that someone is "wrong" for not liking any artist or album (although I still don't get Moonbeam's aversion to the Beatles!), and I sure as heck wouldn't say so in this case because I can completely understand why YS is a turn-off for so many. It'll be interesting to see how it fares in large polls like the one IDOLATOR is doing at the end of the year.

How the hell did the Howling Bells not make the top 100? Album of the year!