http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/series/233/

There's four lists at that link. I'm not sure if they qualify because they're genre specific (best jazz of '06, etc.)

Yay! Camera Obscura #2. I have no Idea who the hell these other bands are but that doesn't matter.

"On Monday, 18 December, we’ll reveal our big official list of the best albums of the year"

That's what will be used at AM.

Oh yeah, Camera Obscura at #2 it's f***in' awesome.
It was still listening to the album today, and I can only say that it's great, I love this !

They were dead on about their other two records especially the era defining Underachievers Please Try Harder. They should have gotten better reception than being called a Belle and Sebastian knockoff. Especially since Stuart Murdoch produced it. That's like saying Phil Spector is a knockoff of himself.

This is a cool list because they have videos of the singles posted beside the albums (usually live broadcasts):
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/list/C231/P50/

1. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
2. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
3. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I am...
4. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
5. The Ark - The State of the Ark
6. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
7. Ali Farka Toure - Savane
8. Joanna Newsom - Ys
9. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
10. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - What's Going On
11. Coldcut - Sound Mirrors
12. Rachid Taha - Diwan 2
13. Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way
14. Tanya Stevens - Rebelution
15. Guillemots - Through the Window Pane
16. J Dilla (Jay Dee) - Donuts
17. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
18. Cat Power - The Greatest
19. The Decemberists - Crane Wife
20. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
21. Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Show Your Bones
22. The Roots - Game Theory
23. Ojos de Brujo - Techari
24. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
25. Casey Driessen - 3-D
26. The Coup - Pick a Bigger Weapon
27. Cibelle - The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves
28. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
29. Kelley Stoltz - Below the Branches
30. Boris - Pink
31. Pearl Jam - S/T
32. Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
33. Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
34. Yo La Tengo - I am not Afraid of you and I will Beat Your Ass
35. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
36. Quantic - An Announcement to Answer
37. Lindsay Buckingham - Under the Skin
38. The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics
39. Love is All - Nine Times that Same Song
40. Radio Citizen - Berlin Seregeti
41. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
42. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
43. Amel Larrieux - Morning
44. Gotan Project - Lunatico
45. John Legend - Once Again
46. Hebden/Reid - The Exchange Sessions
47. Lambchop - Damaged
48. Michelle Malone - Sugarfoot
49. Ramblin' Jack Elliot - I Stand Alone
50. Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor
51. Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers
52. M. Ward - Post-War
53. The Brand New Heavies - Get Used To It
54. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
55. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
56. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
57. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
58. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine
59. Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra - MTO Volume 1
60. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country


Also, Henrik, are all lists considered equal? I'd think that the longer a publication has been around the more valuable their lists would be.

It's quite complicated to get into the weights of each list. The history of a publication (or rather, the number of previous EOY lists) has an impact, although a very small one.