Here are the rules: Complile your list of top 10 albums and then give each one a score of no less than five, no more than 30. And the scores of all 10 albums can not add up to more than 100 total. Here's an example ballot.

1. "Playing With Fire" - Kevin Federline (30)
2. "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland" - Jewel (25)
3. "The Eraser" - Thom Yorke (10)
4. "Straight Outta Lynwood" - Weird Al Yankovic (5)
5. "The Sweet Escape" - Gwen Stafani (5)
6. "We Don't Need to Whisper" - Angels and Airwaves (5)
7. "Wolfmother" - Wolfmother (5)
8. "Ys" - Joanna Newsom (5)
9. "The Greatest" - Cat Power (5)
10. "Fishscale" - Ghostface Killah (5)

Also, pick one album as most overated of the year and one as worst (may or may not be the same album). To keep an element of surprise this year, e-mail me your poll to AckattackX@hotmail.com. In the subject line put AM Pazz & Jop, and above your list put what handle you use on the blog here. The deadline is New Year's eve, and I'll post the results during the first week of 2007. Any questions you can post here. Finally, I'll list last year's top 10 below. Good luck to all your favorite albums.

1. Sufjan Stevens - "Illinois" 170 (11)
2. Antony and the Johnsons - "I’m a Bird Now" 78 (8)
3. Sleater-Kinney - "The Woods" 70 (6)
4. Gorillaz - "Demon Days" 61 (5)
5. The Go! Team - "Thunder, Lightning, Strike" 56 (5)
6. The White Stripes - "Get Behind Me Satan" 55 (5)
7. M.I.A. - Arular 54 (6)
8. The Decemberists - "Picaresque" 51 (5)
9. Kanye West - Late Registration 49 (5)
10. LCD Soundsystem - s/t 48 (6)

Cool! Thanks, Rocky for doing this!

Finally Kevin gets some credits for his musical talent!

Every once in awhile I'll update with the names of whose e-mails I have received. That way you'll know if I got yours or not.

Fun idea, RR!

Reissues don't count, I assume? (They finally put out the Triffids' "Born Sandy Devotional" on CD, and that has been one very fine thing about this year - although it took away one of my tape recorder's main reasons for staying alive).

This poll may make December a lot more fun :-)

Yeah, no reissues. But if anyone wants to nominate best reissues of the year, I'll list them also.

Here's mine! I'll just put the bands, not the albums

1. Camera Obscura (18)
2. Belle and Sebastian (17)
3. Lily Allen (12)
4. the Guillemots (12)
5. the Gossip (8)
6. Artic Monkeys (7)
7. Muse (7)
8. Izzy Campbell and Mark Lanegan (7)
9. the Pipettes (6)
10.the Lilys (5)

1. Gomez - How We Operate (22)
2. Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (16)
3. Alejandro Escavado - The Boxing Mirror (11)
4. Frances McKee - Sunny Moon (11)
5. PJ Harvey - Peel Sessions (11)
6. Pearl Jam - s/t (9)

There ya go, should add up to 80, so that's 20 points left that I'm not using because I cant think of another 4 that deserve em.

Still plenty of time, but so far HowlinAndrew, tim and bullfinch are the only ones with ballots in. It's fine to post your choices here, but you can also to e-mail them to me at the address above. That way the results will be a surprise.

I have a lot of albums to check out before I send you my ballot. Expect a late ballot from me.

Late ballot here too.

My first post on these forums, but considering how much the British critic lists are shafting the Hold Steady, they need some love somewhere. I consider the top five the only ones I know for sure I'll be playing in five years, I could be wrong though:

1. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America (21)
2. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (17)
3. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies (17)
4. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (12)
5. The Roots - Game Theory (8)
6-T. Ali Farka Toure - Savane (5)
6-T. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (5)
6-T. Bob Dylan - Modern Times (5)
6-T. Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor (5)
6-T. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (5)

And songs, well these are just my most played according to iTunes:

1. Gnarls Barkley - "Crazy" (20)
2. Destroyer - "European Oils" (15)
T-2. Ghostface Killah - "Back Like That" (15)
T-2. I'm From Barcelona - "We're From Barcelona" (15)
5. The Hold Steady - "You Can Make Him Like You" (10)
6. TV on the Radio - "Wolf Like Me" (5)
7. The Strokes - "Razorblade" (5)
8. Ghostface Killah - "9 Milli Bros." (5)
9. Belle and Sebastian - "Funny Little Frog" (5)
10. The Roots - "Here I Come" (5)

I agree with the Hold Steady comment. It's a great album.

1. Nomo - New Tones (23 pts)
2. Scott Walker - The Drift (15 pts)
3. The Roots - Game Theory (14 pts)
4. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (8 pts)
5. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (8 pts)
6. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (8 pts)
7. Bob Dylan - Modern Times (7 pts)
8. Joanna Newsom - Ys (7 pts)
9. The Divine Comedy - Victory for the Comic Muse (5 pts)
10. Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55 (5 pts)

1. Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song (25)
1. The Pipettes - s/t (25)
3. Peter Björn and John - Writer's Block (9)
4. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (8)
5. Joanna Newsom - Ys (7)
6. The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea (6)
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones (5)
7. Johnny Cash - A Hundred Highways (5)
7. Islands - Return to the Sea (5)
7. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon (5)

To be honest, I'm only really happy with the top 2-3. All in all, it has been a rather weak year. (I must say that I expect a lot from the Decemberists album I have not yet listened to).

Ballots have now come from Howlin' Andrew, tim, bullfinch, Slush, Rocky Raccoon, Mark P, sonofsamiam and Bob. Please e-mail future ballots to AckattackX@hotmail.com, thanks.

Top 10 sent,

11 Shut Up I Am Dreaming Sunset Rubdown
12 Orchestra Of Bubbles Ellen Allien and Apparat
13 The Eraser Thom Yorke
14 The Howling Bells The Howling Bells
15 The Warning Hot Chip
16 Broken Boy Soldier The Raconteurs
17 Making Dens Mystery Jets
18 Somone To Drive Me Home The Long Blondes
19 Ys Joanna Newsom
20 Love Travels At Illegal Speeds Graham Coxon
21 The Beatific Visions Brakes
22 45:33 LCD Soundsystem
23 Return To Cookie Mountain TV On The Radio
24 The Bright Lights And What I Should Have Learned Duels
25 Ten Silver Drops The Secret Machines
26 Nine Times That Same Song Love Is All
27 The Trials of Van Occuppanther Midlake
28 We Are The Pipettes The Pipettes
29 Pet Grief The Radio Dept.
30 Jarvis Jarvis
31 Waiting for the Time to be Right The Brother Kite
32 Destroyer's Rubies Destroyer
33 Cansei de Ser Sexy CSS
34 Silent Shout The Knife
35 The Drift Scott Walker
36 Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain Sparklehorse
37 Let's Get Out Of The Country Camera Obscura
38 Post War M. Ward
39 The Life Pursuit Belle and Sebastian
40 This Is My Demo Sway

Here's my final list for 2006 :

1. The Pipettes - "We are the Pipettes" (18)
2. Midlake - "The trials of Van Occupanther" (16)
3. Camera Obscura - "Let's get out of this country" (15)
4. Belle and Sebastian - "The life pursuit" (10)
5. Ed Harcourt - "The beautiful lie" (9)
6. The Sleepy Jackson - "Personality - One was a spider, one was a bird" (8)
7. Jim Noir - "Tower of love" (7)
8. El Perro Del Mar - "El Perro Del Mar" (7)
9. Scissor Sisters - "Tah-da" (5)
10.Hot Chip - "The warning" (5)

11.Joseph Arthur - "Nuclear daydream"
12.Guillemots - "Through the windowpane"
13.David Mead - "Tangerine"
14.Barth - "Under the trampoline"
15.Mojave 3 - "Puzzles like you"
16.Phoenix - "It's never been like that"
17.Peter Von Poehl - "Going where the tea trees are"
18.Spearmint - "Paris in a bottle"
19.Peter Bjorn & John - "Writer's block"
20.Nigel Clark - "21th century man"

New polls have come in from Mitchell Stirling, Dumbangel, Jason and AJackson. That makes 12 ballots so far with 10 days left to vote.

Only new list is from Michel. Only three days left to vote.

OK, here's my list. Comments in a separate thread.

1. Anouar Brahem - Le Voyage de Sahar (30)
2. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar (13)
3. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies (10)
4. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (10)
5. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye (8)
6. Thom Yorke - The Eraser (8)
7. The Knife - Silent Shout (6)
8. Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope (5)
9. Ebba Forsberg - Ebba Forsberg (5)
10. Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche: Outtakes & Extras from the Illinois Album (5)

SONIC YOUTH - RATHER RIPPED (20)
MIDLAKE - THE TRIALS OF VAN OCCUPANTHER (15)
YO LA TENGO - I'M NOT AFRAID OF YOU... (15)
THE SPINTO BAND - NICE AND NICELY DONE (10)
HERMAN DUNE - GIANT (10)
PETER VAN POEHL - GOING TO WHERE THE TEA-TREES ARE (10)
SPARKLEHORSE - DREAMT FOR LAST YEARS... (5)
PHOENIX - IT'S NEVER BEEN LIKE THAT (5)
CSS - CANSEI DE SER SEXY (5)
THE FLAMING LIPS - AT WAR WITH THE MYSTICS (5)

fabien

1 CAT POWER ´THE GREATEST´ (20)
2 NEKO CASE ´FOX CONFESSOR BRINGS THE FLOOD´ (16)
3 BONNIE ´PRINCE´BILLY ´THEW LETTING GO´ (14)
4 THE DECEMBERISTS ´THE CRANE WIFE´ (10)
5 MORRISSEY ´RINGLEADER OF THE TORMENTORS´ (9)

6 BELLE & SEBASTIAN ´THE LIFE PURSUIT´ (8)
7 PETER BJORN & JOHN ´WRITER´S BLOCK´ (7)
8 A HAWK AND A HACKSAW ´THE WAY THE WIND BLOWS´ (6)
9 BEIRUT ´GULAG ORKESTAR´ (5)
9 BLISS ´THEY MADE HISTORY´ (5)

List sent!

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones (21)
2. Muse - Black Holes & Revelations (18)
3. The Sleepy Jackson - Personality (12)
4. Comets On Fire - Avatar (10)
5. Howling Bells - Howling Bells (9)
6. Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther (8)
7. Lily Allen - Alright, Still (6)
8. Beck - The Information (6)
9. The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home (5)
10. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics (5)

All the votes are in now and I'll post the results in a seperate thread later.