Favorite Songs of 2006

…due to this thread I headed out to Tower at lunch.

Essex Green-Cannibal Sea: $9.59
Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos: Dust of Retreat $5.99.
Good choices.

For The Essex Green, I prefer "Rabbit" and "Sin City" personally, but really every song on Cannibal Sea is wonderful.

My List:
The Essex Green: "Rabbit", "Sin City"
The Dears: "There Goes My Outfit" (acoustic version, not the album version!)
The Raconteurs: "Steady As She Goes", "Blue Veins"
TV on the Radio: "Wolf Like Me", "Province"
Tapes 'n Tapes: "Just Drums"
Band of Horses: "The Funeral"
The Decemberists: "The Crane Wife 3/1 & 2"
The Editors: "Munich"
The Gossip: "Your Mangled Heart"
The Handcuffs: "Car Crash"
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins: "Run Devil Run"->"The Big Guns", "Rabbit Fur Coat", "Born Secular" (sorry, I just can't pick one!)
KT Tunstall: "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree"
Middle Distance Runner: "Out of Here"
Muse: "Supermassive Black Hole"
Neko Case: "A Widow's Toast"
Peter Bjorn and John: "Young Folks" (featuring Victoria Bergsman)
Voxtrot: "Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives"
We Are Scientists: "Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt"
Zero 7: "The Pageant of the Bizarre"

and last but certainly not least:

Grinderman: "No Pussy Blues"
Do You Belive In Rapture? - Sonic Youth
Sundress, This Is War, I Gotta Move, Run, Thirteen, Never Let You Fall… - Ben Kweller
Honey In Your Ears - Blackblack
everything on The Oohlas' album
Rise - Army of Me
everything on the new Phoenix
everything on Rabbit Fur Coat
Goodbye Baby, Restless, Through A Hole - Whispertown2000
Would You Come With Me - The Elected
Summer In The City - Regina Spektor
Tricycle - Psapp
Cheated Hearts - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Well Thought Out Twinkles - Silversun Pickups
Wait For Me - Sean Lennon
Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, & Wives - Voxtrot


etc etc
jim noir - "eanie meany"
hot chip - "the warning"
ladytron - "sugar" (jagz kooner remix)
tvotr - "wolf like me"
lupe fiasco - "kick push"
evangelicals - "the water is warm"
I agree with most of the stuff already listed, but here are some songs I didn't see listed that I've enjoyed:

Grizzly Bear - "On a Neck, On a Spit"
Howe Gelb - "Howlin' A Gale"
Man Man - "Black Mission Googles"
El Perro Del Mar - "Party" and "Shake It Off"
The God Damn Doo Wop Band - "Talk too Much"
Fiery Furnaces - "Waiting to Know You"
Michael Yonkers with the Blind Shake - "What's a Comin'"
Maps of Norway - "Sister Stations"
Sunset Rubdown - "Stadium and Shrines II"
Neko Case - "Teenage Feeling"
Benoit Pioulard - "Ash Into the Sky" and "Palimend"
Hold Steady - "Stuck Between Stations"
Baby Gramps - "Cape Cod Girls"
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:
"I Gotta Move" Ben Kweller
this song is just so addictive
are we talking about favorite or worst song of 2006?
MMMBop 2006 Remix- Hanson/DJ Jazzy Jeff
Any song by Rockstar Supernova
Theme song to Dancing With the Stars
Band of Horses: Wicked Gil
Band of Horses: Our Swords
The Guillemots: Trains to Brazil
The Format: Oceans
Margot & The Nuclear…: Skeleton Key
The Secret Machines: All At Once (It's Not Important)
TVOTR: I Was a Lover
Jenny Lewis: Rise Up With Fists!!!
The Raconteurs - Intimate Secretary
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fancy
Tool - The Pot
The Roots - Long Time (featuring Peedi Peedi)
Chili Peppers - "Desecreation Smile", "We Believe", "Readymade", "Hey", "Especially In Michigan"
Ghostface - "Jellyfish"
Papoose - "Robbery Song"
P. Diddy - "P. Diddy Rock" (Timbaland SLAYS this beat)
Lupe Fiasco - "Kick Push"
Jay-Z - "The Prelude"
Audioslave - "Revelations"
Saigon - "Shot In The Booty" (Funny lil' anti-STD song; Download this)
Busta Rhymes & T.I. - "Cannon"
Dixie Chicks - "Lubbock Or Leave It" (This lil' chick I used to "cavort" with turned me to it. I'm a lil' ashamed to admit I fuck with it. Dare I say it almost halfway rocks.)
Rick Ross - "Hustlin'" (Dude can't spit to save his life, but right song, right beat, right time - you know how that goes. Doesn't take a great artist to make a great song.)

That's all I can think of. And I had to look through my iPod to do it. Music sucks lately . . . *sigh*
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:
"I Gotta Move" Ben Kweller
this song is just so addictive
i have been listening to it non-stop since the album came out, so i was pretty disappointed when he didn't play it live
So I'm guessing everyone is just sick of Gnarls Barkley…
Originally posted by amnesiac:
So I'm guessing everyone is just sick of Gnarls Barkley…
It's on my list, I just don't release my best of 2006 until the Friday after thanksgiving. Tradition, you know?

Ah, screw it.

Here's my 120 Minutes of the Best of 2006 (in order of Playlist flow, not preference):

1. Lloyd I'm Ready to be Heartbroken - Camera Obscura
2. Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt - We Are Scientists
3. Playhouses - TV on the Radio
4. Emily Kane - Art Brut
5. Penny and Jack - Essex Green
6. SexyBack - Justin Timberlake
7. The Funeral - Band of Horses
8. Think I'm in Love - Beck
9. Tear You Apart - She Wants Revenge
10. Rough Gem - Islands
11. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
12. The Crane Wife 3 - The Decemberists
13. Crazy - Gnarles Barkley
14. I bet you Look Good on the Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
15. You Are What You Love - Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins
16. All of the Above - Big City Rock
17. Holiday for the City - Cedars
18. Oh Yeah - The Subways
19. Woke up New - Mountain Goats
20. Tiny Little Frog - Belle and Sebastian
21. Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
22. 9 Crimes - Damien Rice
It sounds as if he totally swiped it out of the Steve Miller Band songbook, but nothing wrong with that.

Originally posted by eilo97:
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:
"I Gotta Move" Ben Kweller
this song is just so addictive
i have been listening to it non-stop since the album came out, so i was pretty disappointed when he didn't play it live
Madonna–Hung Up

End of discussion.
Little Man Tate - "Man I Hate Your Band" Art Brut's little brother has gone and formed his own band. p.s. it's on emusic :)
although me and my friends put on a good countdown at the end of the year, i'll do my preliminary top 10 (in no order yet)

Wolfmother - Joker and the Thief
Lady Sovereign - Love Me or Hate Me
Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
Midlake - Roscoe
Silversun Pickups - Kissing Families
Flaming Lips - Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
Starsailor - In The Crossfire
Dresden Dolls - Backstabber
Secret Machines - Lightning Blue Eyes
I'm an idiot for not listing this song earlier, plus I haven't seen anyone else list it either:

Wolfmother - "White Unicorn"

That's a nice lil' rocker right there . . .
1) Belle and Sebastian – Sukie in the Graveyard
2) Yo La Tengo – Black Flowers
3) Ned's Atomic Dustbin – Hibernation
4) Primal Scream – Suicide Sally and Johnny Guitar (XFM Live version)
5) AFX – Pitcard (technically a reissue, but came out on "Chosen Lords")
6) The Shins – Phantom Limb
7) Elliott Smith – Let's Turn the Record Over
8) Sonic Youth – Incinerate
9) Phoenix – Long Distance Call
10) Built to Spill – Traces
11) Charlatans UK – Muddy Ground
12) Drive-By Truckers – A Blessing and A Curse
13) Pet Shop Boys – Minimal
14) Eagles of Death Metal – I Gotta Feeling (Just Nineteen)
15) Quintron and Miss Pussycat – Dream Captains
16) Morrissey – You Have Killed Me
17) Peaches – Two Guys
18) +44 – When Your Heart Stops Beating (guilty pleasure, about as infectious as VD)
19) Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Gold Lion
20) Probably something from the Arab Strap record (that was this year too, right?)
Mary J.Bilge