NME: 50 лучших альбомов + 50 лучших песен 2006 года

У британских журналистов не возникает сомнений по поводу лучшего альбома года. Вслед за журналом Q еженедельник New Musical Express также отдает 1-ое место альбому Arctic Monkeys.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not заставил вздрогнуть жителей Англии, которые внезапно обнаружили в шеффилдских провинциалах своих собственных героев рок'н'ролла, сумевших переосмыслить американский взгляд на нью-рок-революшн. Благодаря им местная йоркширская сцена стремительно развивается, и как результат в список лучших уже попали альбомы The Long Blondes, The Sunshine Underground и ¡FФЯWДЯD, RUSSIД!.

Особенный упор NME сделал на "новый взгляд", не выделив никакой отдельный стиль. Вместе с шокирующей бескомпромистностью Arctic Monkeys было отмечено превращение Карен O из гадкого утенка в благородного льва на Show Your Bones, танцевальное скрещивание c роком группы Muse, бразильский арт-карнавал Cansei de Ser Sexy, американская двухголовая гидра DJ+rapper Gnarls Barkley и отрекающееся от самого себя эмо My Chemical Romance.


50 лучших альбомов 2006 года

01 Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
02 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
03 Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
04 Hot Chip – The Warning
05 CSS – Cansei De Ser Sexy
06 Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
07 The Long Blondes – Someone To Drive You Home
08 The Strokes – First Impressions of Earth
09 Kasabian – Empire
10 My Chemical Romance – Welcome To The Black Parade
11 Howling Bells – Howling Bells
12 The Killers – Sam's Town
13 Panic! At The Disco – A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
14 TV On The Radio – Return To Cookie Mountain
15 Thom Yorke – The Eraser
16 Amy Whinehouse – Back To Black
17 The Futureheads – News and Tributes
18 The Rapture – Pieces of The People We Love
19 The Longcut – A Call And Response
20 The Streets – The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
21 The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
22 The Flaming Lips – At War With The Mystics
23 The Knife – Silent Shout
24 Secret Machines – Ten Silver Drops
25 Mogwai – Mr Beast
26 Jarvis – Jarvis
27 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
28 Morrissey – Ringleader of The Tormentors
29 The Spinto Band – Nice and Nicely Done
30 Cat Power – The Greatest
31 The Sunshine Underground – Raise The Alarm
32 Lily Allen – Alright, Still
33 The Bronx – The Bronx
34 Albert Hammond Jr. – Yours To Keep
35 ¡Forward, Russia! – Give Me A Wall
36 Datarock – Datarock Datarock
37 Be Your Own Pet – Be Your Own Pet
38 Metric – Live It Out
39 The Young Knives – Voices Of Animals and Men
40 Midlake – The Trials Of Van Occupanther
41 The Gossip – Standing In The Way of Control
42 The Automatic – Not Accepted Anywhere
43 Beck – The Infromation
44 Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Ballard of The Broken Seas
45 Bob Dylan – Modern Times
46 Semifinalists – Semifinalists
47 Wolfmother – Wolfmother
48 Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – The Chronicles of A Bohemian Teenager
49 Absentee - Schmotime
50 The Kooks - Inside In / Inside Out



50 лучших синглов 2006 года

01 Hot Chip – "Over and Over"
02 Peter Bjorn and John ft. Victoria Bergsmen – "Young Folks"
03 The Gossip – "Standing In The Way Of Control"
04 Muse – "Supermassive Black Hole"
05 Gnarls Barkley – "Crazy"
06 CSS – "Let's Make Love and Listen To Death From Above"
07 Amy Whinehouse – "Rehab"
08 The Horrors – "Sheena Is A Parasite"
09 The View – "Wasted Little DJ's"
10 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – "Cheated Hearts"
11 Klaxons - "Gravity's Rainbow"
12 Metric – "Monster Hospital"
13 Arctic Monkeys – "When The Sun Goes Down"
14 The Raconteurs - "Steady, As She Goes"
15 The Long Blondes – "Once and Never Again"
16 The Holloways – "Generator"
17 Klaxons – "Atlantis To Interzone"
18 Justice Vs Simian – "We Are Your Friends"
19 The Streets Ft, P . Doherty – "Prangin' Out"
20 Jarvis – "Running The World"
21 Gnarls Barkley – "Smiley Faces"
22 Muse – "Starlight"
23 Midlake – "Roscoe"
24 Lupe Fiasco – "Kick, Push"
25 The Flaming Lips – "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song"
26 Maps – "Lost My Soul"
27 Primal Scream – "Country Girl"
28 Hot Chip – "Boy From School"
29 The Dresden Dolls – "Back Stabber"
30 Ali Love – "K Hole"
31 Be Your Own Pet – "Adventure"
32 Mates of State – "Fraud in the 80's"
33 Nelly Furtado – "Promiscuous"
34 To My Boy – "I Am X-Ray"
35 Dan Sartain – "Replacement Man"
36 Kasabian – "Empire"
37 Panic! At The Disco – "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
38 Muse – "Knights Of Cydonia"
39 The Strokes – "You Only Live Once"
40 The Rapture – "Get Myself Into It"
41 The Sunshine Underground – "Put You In Your Place"
42 Kelis – "Bossy"
43 The Rumple Strips – "Motorcycle"
44 Regina Spektor – "Fidelity
45 Secret Machines – "Alone, Jealous and Stoned"
46 TV On The Radio – "Wolf Like Me"
47 Howling Bells – "Setting Sun"
48 The Young Knives – "She's Attracted To"
49 Pull Tiger Tail – "Animator"
50 Larrikin Love – "Happy As Annie"