It's the second moment you've all been waiting for - it's the PlayLouder Readers Top 50 Albums and Singles for the departed year 2006. And once again PlayLouder readers have shown themselves to have the most exquisite taste of any online magazine collective out there, no shit. In fact your poll rivals that of the writers (wot no Jay-Z??? Well done). You search and explore to find the best music and we salute you for your indefatigability. Give yourselves a big fat pat on the friggin' back!
Here they are without further ado...
Albums
1. The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home
2. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
3. Muse - Blackholes and Revelations
4. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
5. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
6. Joanna Newsome - Ys
7. Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet
8. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not
9. Brakes - Beatific Visions
10. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
11. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
12. Lily Allen - Alight, Still
13. Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
14. My Latest Novel - Wolves
15. The Knife - Silent Shout
16. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
17. Liars - Drums Not Dead
18. Archie Bronson Oufit - Derdang Derdang
19. Band of Horses - Everthing All the Time
20. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
21. Mewithoutyou - Brother, Sister
22. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
23. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
24. Hot Chip - The Warning
25. Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Ballads from the Broken Seas
26. Jenny Wilson - Love and Youth
27. Various Production - The World Is Gone
28. The Others - Inward Parts
29. Islands - Return to the Sea
30. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
31. Luke Haines - Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop
32. The Longcut - A Call and Response
33. The Broken Family Band - Balls
34. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
35. The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes
36. Eagles of Death Metal - Death By Sexy
37. The Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done
38. Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
39. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
40. Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
41. Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance
42. Luxembourg - Front
43. Spank Rock - Yoyoyoyoyoyo
44. Xui Xui - The Air Force
45. Dan Spartan - Join Dan Spartan
46. The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out
47. Albert Hammond Jr - Yours To Keep
48. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
49. The Answer - Rise
50. CSS - Cansei De Ser Sexy
Singles
1. Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends
2. Javis - Running The World
3. Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks
4. The Flaming Lips - The W.A.N.D
5. The Strokes - You Only Live Once
6. T.I. - What You Know
7. Art Brut - Nag Nag Nag Nag
8. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken
9. The Pipettes - Pull Shapes
10. Hot Chip - Over and Over
11. Babyshambles - Blinding EP
12. Justin Timberlake featuring T.I. - My Love
13. Islands - Rough Gem
14. Serena Maneesh - Drain Cosmetics
15. The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me
16. 1990's - You Made Me Like It
17. Muse - Knights of Cydonia
18. The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
19. Band of Horses - The Funeral
20. Afterhours - Ballad of the Little Hyenas
21. The Horrors - Count in Fives
22. Kooks - Naive
23. Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill
24. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion
25. New Young Pony Club - Get Lucky
26. Mastodon - Capillarian Crest
27. Les Incompetents - How It All Went Wrong
28. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
29. Pink Squares - I Was a Cub Scout
30. CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
31. My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
32. Jay-Z - Show Me What You Got
33. The Macabees - X-Ray
34. Junior Boys - The Equaliser
35. Nelly Furtado - Maneater
36. Luxembourg - We Only Stayed Together For The Kids
37. Metric - Monster Hospital
38. Klaxons - Atlantis to Interzone
39. Lily Allen - LDN
40. The Young Knives - She's Attracted To
41. Akira the Don - Boom
42. The Rapture - Woo, Alright, Yeah... Uh Huh
43. Hadouken! - That Boy That Girl
44. The Bronx - Shitty Future
45. Lupe Fiasco - Push, Kick
46. The Killers - When We Were Young
47. Gnarls Barkley - Smiley Faces
48. Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow
49. The Long Blondes - Weekend Without Makeup
50. The Rocks - Heartbreak City
