Like I said at this point last year - everything seems wide open and fresh. The diversity of musical styles is still there. That was my main reason for making a composite list of the favourite albums of the people who use this site last year- and one year on it still strikes me as the best way. I haven't heard all of these albums, in fact I had never even heard of the Books and Pretty Girls Make Graves before you started to vote. I have my own list of faves to add, with a review of each, and it will be up before the 12th of January if it kills me! Like this list, it has some obvious choices and some that no-one else even mentioned.
Anyway, that's enough rambling for now - here's to you and your highly diverse top 40....

1= Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
1= The Streets Original Pirate Material
3. The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
4. EL-P Fantastic Damage
5. Boards Of Canada Geogaddi
6. Sonic Youth Murray Street
7. Lambchop Is A Woman
8. Liars They Threw Us All In A Trench...
9. Sleater-Kinney One Beat
10. Tom Waits Alice
11. Beck Sea Change
12=. Spoon Kill The Moonlight
12=. And you will know us by the Trail of Dead Source Codes and Tags
14. Tom Waits Blood Money
15. DJ/Rupture Minesweeper Suite
16. Interpol Turn On The Bright Lights
17. Akufen My Way
18. Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man Out Of Season
19. Queens Of The Stone Age Songs For The Deaf
20. Godspeed You! Black Emperor yanqui uxo
21. Low Trust
22. Suicide American Supreme
23= The Notwist Neon Golden
23= Sigur Ros ()
25. Badly Drawn Boy Have You Fed The Fish?
26. Doves The Last Broadcast
27. The Delgados Hate
28. Johnny Cash American IV - the Man Comes Around
29. Jim O'Rourke Insignificance
30. DJ Shadow The Private Press
31. Antipop Consortium Arrhythmia
32. rjd2 - Dead Ringer
33. Missy Elliott Under Construction
34. Pretty girls make graves - Good Health
35. Songs: Ohia Didn’t it Rain
36. The Books Thought for Food
37. Breeders Title TK
38. Desert Hearts Let’s get Worse
39. Ben Kweller Sha sha
40. Asa-chang & Junray Jun Ray Song Chang