It's still early, but this one needed to be started. This is the place for your favorite songs of 2006, not necessarily singles, but just ace tracks.

I've got one currently lodged in the frontal lobe:

"Raise Up With Fists": Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins.

Cat Power - "Lived in Bars", "The Moon"

Tortoise & Bonnie Prince Billy - "Daniel"

Cat Power - "Could We," "The Greatest"
Cam'Ron - "Gotta Love It" (Jay-Z diss)
E-40 - "Tell Me When to Go"
Kanye West - "Touch the Sky" (officially being released as a single very soon)

Cat Power - The Greatest, Willie
Thee More Shallows - Pre-Present (just bought but 2005)
Electric President - Insomnia

"Where Is My Love" - Cat Power

Absolutely beautiful.

"A Certain Romance" - The Arctic Monkeys

The greatest libertine song they never wrote...

"Razorblade" and "You Only Live Once" - The Strokes
"Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt" - We Are Scientists
"Pitfalls" - Film School
"Circle, Square, Triangle" - Test Icicles

And I'll second "Rise Up With Fists!!!" by Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins. Those Cat Power tracks are good too.

"Fake Tales of San Francisco" is my favorite Arctic Monkeys song so far.

Cat Power: "The Greatest," "Hate," "The Moon"

That Jenny Lewis song is good, though I didn't love the album.

There's a few I like on the new B&S, I just have to figure out which ones are which.

Liars - "It Fit When I Was a Kid"
Islands - "Rough Gem"

Cat Power: "The Greatest"

Richard Ashcroft: "Music Is Power"

It's very -- very -- early, but so far my favorites of 2006 are the two leaked songs from The Raconteurs (Jack White + Brendan Benson), "Steady, As She Goes," and "Store Bought Bones," Cat Power's "The Greatest," and the handful of leaked songs from Gnarles Barkley (DangerMouse + Cee-Lo).

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Originally posted by Daniel, Esq.:
It's very -- very -- early, but so far my favorites of 2006 are the two leaked songs from The Raconteurs (Jack White + Brendan Benson), "Steady, As She Goes," and "Store Bought Bones," Cat Power's "The Greatest," and the handful of leaked songs from Gnarles Barkley (DangerMouse + Cee-Lo).

I like The Raconteurs' "Steady, As She Goes". At first I wasn't sure how a White/Benson collaboration would work, considering their styles are so different, but it's a really cool track that takes the best elements of each.

Both of their tracks are availible on their website, theraconteurs.com, which incidentally is the funniest website I've seen in a long time.

A few songs I'm liking the most so far this year:

"Rise Up with Fists" Jenny Lewis
"You Can Have Me" Catfish Haven
"Could We" Cat Power
"Calvary Cross" Tortoise/Bonnie "Prince" Bonnie

The new Gossip album is great. It's hard to pick a best song off of it, so I'll list a few:
"Fire With Fire"
"Standing In The Way Of Control"
"Yr Mangled Heart"
"Listen Up"
"Keeping You Alive"

Off to check out those Racontuers tracks...

Eric:

I think the Raconteurs collaboration works precisely because White and Benson's styles are different, but (oddly) complimentary. Benson gives White's music a much-needed infusion of pop melody; White gives Benson's music a much-needed jolt of rock energy.

-- Daniel

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Originally posted by Daniel, Esq.:
Eric:

I think the Raconteurs collaboration works precisely because White and Benson's styles are different, but (oddly) complimentary. Benson gives White's music a much-needed infusion of pop melody; White gives Benson's music a much-needed jolt of rock energy.

-- Daniel

I agree. I can't wait to hear the whole album.

"The Greatest," "The Moon," "Could We" - Cat Power
"Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt," "Can't Lose" - We Are Scientists

I haven't heard much new stuff that isn't on the CD's I've bought this year, but hopefully that will change.

i'm into some domestic (italy) stuff now...you wouldn't understand..
i'm ready to say that "ovunque proteggi" by vinicio capossela is already the best italian album of the year!

ok mod, move it to world music if you want...
sorry