The Hip Young Gunslinger Albums Of The Year 2006

While you carry on recovering from the all-round amazingness of our singles of the year list, chew on this: our only-slightly-late-but-definitive-apart-from-the-one-obvious-omission, Hip Young Gunslinger Albums Of The Year 2006!

The Hip Young Gunslinger Albums Of The Year 2006

10. Nicky Wire - I Killed The Zeitgeist
9. The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
8. Nelly Furtado - Loose
7. Girls Aloud - The Sound Of Girls Aloud
6. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
5. Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out
4. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
3. Lily Allen - Alright, Still
2. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
1. V/A - Digital Penetration

Wow! Look at that, ten fantastically sparkly records that all got heavy rotation on hyg’s walkman phone this year (we swing it round by the handsfree when a good song comes on).

Some pointers about the list:

• Unusual for us to endorse something like Nicky Wire, but he’s in there just because anyone who hasn’t heard his album really needs to. It’s, er, it’s… yeah.

• Nelly Furtado is too low down and P!ATD too high, maybe you should swap them, but they both more than deserve their places, especially Panic!, who royally exposed Fall Out Boy for the godawful mess they truly are.

• Re: Girls Aloud: Sound Of The Underground, No Good Advice, The Show, Love Machine, Something Kinda Ooh, Biology. Proving once and for all that Girls Aloud have released far more good singles than Razorlight have.

• The Flaming Lips album is not their best but it is still bloody good.

• In a year (well, the first three months of it) so dominated by their arrival - “Fastest selling debut ever!!!!”, “Victory for real music!!!!” Etc. - only churlishness would prevent us from handing Arctic Monkeys the award for album of the year for Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.

• That, and the fact that Digital Penetration shits on it.
  
  

PS. The Robbie Williams album has been left off this list as a statement about people not buying it, and not - NOT - because we forgot all about it. Just call it number zero. Yay! x