Observer's 50 Best Albums of the Year [2007]

Entertainment: Music Observer Music Monthly

## 1 The Good, the Bad & the Queen (The Good, the Bad & the Queen) ## 2 Jamie T (Panic Prevention) ## 3 Kings of Leon (Because of the Times) ## 4 LCD Soundsystem (Sound of Silver) ## 5 Dizzee Rascal (Maths and English) ## 6 Tinariwen (Aman Iman) ## 7 Radiohead (In Rainbows) ## 8 Arctic Monkeys (Favourite Worst Nightmare) ## 9 Burial (Untrue) ## 10 Arcade Fire (Neon Bible) ## 11 Manu Chao (La Radiolina) ## 12 The White Stripes (Icky Thump) ## 13 Klaxons (Myths of the Near Future) ## 14 Justice (*) ## 15 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (Raising Sand) ## 16 Miroslav Vitous (Universal Syncopations II) ## 17 Rachel Unthank and the Winterset (The Bairns) ## 18 Mika (Life in Cartoon Motion) ## 19 Robert Wyatt (Comicopera) ## 20 M.I.A. (Kala) ## 21 Rufus Wainwright (Release the Stars) ## 22 Mayra Andrade (Navega) ## 23 Black Lips (Good Bad Not Evil) ## 24 Girls Aloud (Tangled Up) ## 25 Battles (Mirrored) ## 26 PJ Harvey (White Chalk) ## 27 Ry Cooder (My Name is Buddy) ## 28 Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective (Watina) ## 29 Neil Young (Chrome Dreams II) ## 30 Panda Bear (Person Pitch) ## 31 Bruce Springsteen (Magic) ## 32 Common (Finding Forever) ## 33 Devendra Banhart (Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Mountain) ## 34 Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba (Segu Blue) ## 35 Kanye West (Graduation) ## 36 Bjork (Volta) ## 37 Basquiat Strings (Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford) ## 38 Grinderman (Grinderman) ## 39 Fall Out Boy (Infinity on High) ## 40 Paul McCartney (Memory Almost Full) ## 41 Robin Thicke (The Evolution of Robin Thicke) ## 42 Roisin Murphy (Overpowered) ## 43 Crowded House (Time on Earth) ## 44 Gallows (Orchestra of Wolves) ## 45 Richard Hawley (Lady's Bridge) ## 46 The Hold Steady (Stuck Between Stations) ## 47 Ilmiliekki Quartet (Take It With Me) ## 48 Babyshambles (Shotter's Nation) ## 49 David Jordan (Set the Mood) ## 50 Britney Spears (Blackout) **** Missing: * 1 Good, the Bad & the Queen * 2 Jamie T * 5 Dizzee Rascal * 6 Tinariwen * 9 Burial * 11 Manu Chao * 13 Klaxons * 14 Justice * 16 Miroslav Vitous * 17 Rachel Unthank * 17 Winterset * 19 Robert Wyatt * 22 Mayra Andrade * 23 Black Lips * 25 Battles * 28 Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective * 30 Panda Bear * 33 Devendra Banhart * 34 Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba * 37 Basquiat Strings * 38 Grinderman * 44 Gallows * 45 Richard Hawley * 46 Hold Steady * 47 Ilmiliekki Quartet * 48 Babyshambles * 49 David Jordan

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