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BContrat Guru	Posted Hide Post My list is the best!..Er, most complete.
	Posts: 747 | Location: San Diego ==> Duke U. 2012 :D | Registered: 24 July 2006

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Posted Hide Post My Top 30. Hopefully won't change, but I still am not posting until the last day. It's a Mo'Fu**in' Countdown! 30. Built to Spill: Saturday (This is a slow, brooding love song, and quite a change of pace for Built to Spill. Great Lyrics) 29. The Rapture: Don Gon Do It (This song beings with echoing lyrics until the danciest song off their new album finally begins: the chorus really is rapturous) 28. The Fray: How to Save a Life (A radio hit about seeing a friend slip away due to a drug addiction. The emotion is moving.) 27. The Decemberists: O, Valencia! (The greatest pop single off their new album, and in classic Decemberists form, it tells a Shakespearesque story about star-crossed lovers.) 26. Asobi Seksu: Thursday (This band takes shoe-gazing to a new level, by pairing beautiful noise with the vocals of a beautiful female singer.) 25. Pretty Girls Make Graves: Bullet Charm (The last song off their weary-sounding album. After sounding tired and defeated, the muster the strength for one last first-pumping anthem, with incredible drumming.) 24. Tim McGraw: When Stars Go Blue (Tim McGraw covers Ryan Adams' slow-burning love song and brings it to new levels with this gentlemanly croon. This is a song befitting of Tim's gorgeous wife.) 23. Lupe Fiasco: Kick, Push (Lupe's new kid on-the-block swagger with tight beats make this song about skatin' with the homies the best track off the Kanye protege's album) 22. Peter Bjorn and John: Young Folks (The whistling makes the song) 21. The Hold Steady: Stuck Between Stations (Probably the most Springsteen sounding of their new album, it gets you excited right off the bat with kick-ass guitar and Craig Finn's always excellent poetry.) 20. Midlake: Roscoe (Midlake's album is good, but this track is great. The delivery is excellent, in evoking a sense of nostalgia for simpler times. 19. Sufjan Stevens: The Mistress Witch from McClure (Once again, Sufjan's delivery make this song excellent: it tells a supposedly true story of a father's scandalous affair.) 18. Destroyer: Rubies (Dan Bejar's music can be hard to follow, but one must at least admire his song-writing and compositional skill, in creating this Bowie-esque epic song. 17. TV on the Radio: I Was a Lover (Tunde has the most soulful voice in Indie Rock, but the production makes this song special; it is overflowing with gorgeous noise on top of keyboards on top of electric...) 16. Band of Horses: The Great Salt Lake (Exhibit A: "Why 'Everything All the Time is Better than Z'". OK, blasting this song as I drove past BYU at Provo on the way to the Salt Lake helped make this song memorable too. 15. Junior Boys: In the Morning (Junior Boys' new album is full of these gorgeous songs, full of rhythm and melody if not necessarily energy.) 14. Yo La Tengo: Beanbag Chair (Some jazzy piano and trumpets paired with the light, breezy voices of a male and female could only be another Yo La Tengo classic.) 13. Dixie Chicks: The Long Way Around (Less confrontational than their mega-hit "Not Ready to Make Nice", this song is just as unapologetic, and sounds more real: Dixie Chicks tell us that they are going to reclaim their country thrones honestly, without compromising one bit) 12. Oxford Collapse: Please Visit Your National Parks (This song is nothing but a simple repetitive chorus. REM-like vocals + smokin electric makes this song the anthem of the year. 11. Neko Case: Star Witness (The songwriting is cryptic yet intelligent, the voice immaculate, and this can be said of all the album. The fact that Neko comes unbridled with passion makes it a joy to hear.) 10. Liars: The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack (This song is only perfect in context, a heartwarming counterpoint to the often chilling "Drum's Not Dead") 9. Rascal Flatts: What Hurts the Most (This song is typical fare for country's greatest voice; but it is unusual in it's perception. Instead of wallowing in loneliness, the tragedy of this song is more immediately relatable - it is missed opportunity, wasted time. And have you heard that voice?!) 8. Peter Bjorn and John: Objects of My Affection (Somewhat ignored in favor of the single, this song is the real crown jewel of "Writer's Block", the powerful brit-pop album of the year. 7. Band of Horses: The Funeral (Exhibit B: "Why 'Everything All the Time' is greater than 'Z'". This song is their 'Gideon') 6. The Knife: Silent Shout (How these ghostly male/female lyrics paired with beats that sound like a dancier Kraftwerk make such a perfect club single is beyond me. But it works.) 5. Justin Timberlake, T.I.: My Love (But the lyrics?! JT still retains his boyish persona with childish lyrics, but Timbaland's PHAT beats scream SEX.) 4. TV on the Radio: Wolf Like Me (This song is the centerpiece of the most critically acclaimed album of the year, and will make a believer of anyone. The vocal efforts from Blonde Redhead's singer add a perfect addition.) 3. Beyonce: Irreplaceable (Beyonce is nothing if not today's hottest queen of pop. The "No Thugz" message paired with her smooth-as-cream voice make this song so freakin sexy.) 2. Gnarls Barkley: Crazy (I've heard it described as this year's "Hey Ya". Yes, this is 2006's biggest hit - but instead of the booty shaking creative schizophrenia of 'Hey Ya', Crazy's kicks come from the soulful groove and slightly maniacal delivery.) 1. The Hold Steady: First Night (In 2006, The Hold Steady gave me my song of the year AND my album of the year. After being only mildly interested in "Separation Sunday", I played this album and new that it was certainly a change for the band - by the time "The First Night" came on, with the dramatic new keyboards, eventually bursting into the ecstatic hollering of "Boys and Girls of America!!!" - I knew that this was possibly the best thing I had heard all year. And it was.) I gladly Welcome 2007, and the threat of more amazing albums than I can possibly consume in one year. But if anything, I will remember 2006 most of all for it's songs - some good enough, I'd say - to rival any year. QUICK LIST: 1. The Hold Steady: The First Night 2. Gnarls Barkley: Crazy 3. Beyonce: Irreplaceable 4. TV on the Radio: Wolf Like Me 5. Justin Timberlake, T.I.: My Love 6. The Knife: Silent Shout 7. Band of Horses: The Funeral 8. Peter Bjorn and John: Objects of My Affection 9. Rascal Flatts: What Hurts the Most 10. Liars: The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack 11. Neko Case: Star Witness 12. Oxford Collapse: Please Visit Your National Parks 13. Dixie Chicks: The Long Way Around 14. Yo La Tengo: Beanbag Chair 15. Junior Boys: In the Morning 16. Band of Horses: The Great Salt Lake 17. TV on the Radio: I Was a Lover 18. Destroyer: Rubies 19. Sufjan Stevens: The Mistress Witch from McClure 20. Midlake: Roscoe 21. The Hold Steady: Stuck Between Stations 22. Peter Bjorn and John: Young Folks 23. Lupe Fiasco: Kick, Push 24. Tim McGraw: When Stars Go Blue 25. Pretty Girls Make Graves: Bullet Charm 26. Asobi Seksu: Thursday 27. The Decemberists: O, Valencia! 28. The Fray: How to Save a Life 29. The Rapture: Don Gon Do It 30. Built to Spill: Saturday This message has been edited. Last edited by: BContrat,

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