I'm going with Al. "Yell Fire" is the album of the year.

Hard to ignore reality as it circled in for the kill this year. Franti's album summed up the Iraq war and so many other global issues of war, peace, hope, loss, and faith, and did it in such a danceable way that I have to consider it the "best".

There are many other "bests" though.

Neil Young "Living With War"

Ray Davies "Other People's Lives"

Arctic Monkeys "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"

T Bone Burnett "The True False Identity"

Thom Yorke "The Eraser"

There are more. This is only a rough cut.