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"Long Summer Day" by Two Gallants

Best song of this year by so far. Amazing.

yes!

yay! I'm still peeved by how Under The Radar took two paragraphs to complain about the use of the "N Word" in that song, but I think it emphasizes the vibe it's meant to give - the lyrics are pretty harsh either way.

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yay! I'm still peeved by how Under The Radar took two paragraphs to complain about the use of the "N Word" in that song, but I think it emphasizes the vibe it's meant to give - the lyrics are pretty harsh either way.

yeah, they just don't get it. have you heard the original song? It's called Long Summer Day too and sung by Moses "Clear Rock" Platt. You can buy it on itunes. And actually, the liner notes to the cd it comes in talk about how it was probably being sung ironically becuase it was a song slaves would sing while working as a joke for the white armed guards who supervised them. And nigger is in the original song too.

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yay! I'm still peeved by how Under The Radar took two paragraphs to complain about the use of the "N Word" in that song, but I think it emphasizes the vibe it's meant to give - the lyrics are pretty harsh either way.

yeah, they just don't get it. have you heard the original song? It's called Long Summer Day too and sung by Moses "Clear Rock" Platt. You can buy it on itunes. And actually, the liner notes to the cd it comes in talk about how it was probably being sung ironically becuase it was a song slaves would sing while working as a joke for the white armed guards who supervised them. And nigger is in the original song too.

Cool. I didn't even know it was a cover . So THAT's what the singing at the end of the Two Gallants version is. I heard the original - the lyrics are different. I wanted to use it for a school project, but I can't because of the naughty word. I also have the acoustic Two Gallants version, really good too, though slightly less angry.

Call it derivative, but "Munich" by Editors has one of the first undeniable hooks of 2006. I can't stop listening to this song.

"People are fragile things/You should know by now/Careful what you put them through..."

It seems like there's been a lot of backlash on this album (I still think it's pretty great), but one of my favorite new songs is Mark Lanegan's "The Circus is Leaving Town". It sounds like a long lost mid-70s Tom Waits track. Lanegan manages to impress me with just about everything new he puts out. He's quickly becoming one of this generation's musical MVPs.

My top favorite songs of the year, so far. I'm pretty behind on listening to new albums (translation: I'm lazy and re-listening too slowly to new albums). In no order:

Cat Power Could We
Catfish Haven You Can Have Me
BR549 Cajun Persuasion
Gossip Keeping You Alive
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's On a Freezing Chicago Street
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's Jen Is Bringin' the Drugs
Bevis Frond Someone Always Talks
Isobel Campbell The Beat Goes On
Amy Curl The Robin's Tiny Throat
Donald Fagan Security Joan
Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan Come Walk with Me
Belle & Sebastian Another Sunny Day
Belle & Sebastian Suki in the Graveyard
Gil Mantera's Party Dream Buffalo Tears
Amy Lavere This World is Not My Home
Jenny Lewis Rise Up with Fists
Le Volume Courbe Ain't Got No- I Got Life
Destroyer Priest's Knees
Neko Case The Needle has Landed
Neko Case That Teenage Feeling
Two Gallants Steady Rollin'

Two songs in heavy rotation right now are "The Death of Us" by The New Amsterdams and "Hand On Your Heart" by Jose Gonzalez. Both are quiet and I think that may be why I like them right now. "Hand On Your Heart" was originally done by Kylie Minogue.

My favorites of 2006

Classic Rock: Ray Davies -The Tourist
Brit Pop: Elbow - Station Approach
Alternative Country: The Little Willies - Tennessee Stud
Hip Hop: J Dilla - AntiAmerican Graffiti
NeoPsychedelic: Kelley Stoltz - Words
Alternative: Arctic Monkeys - Mardy Bum
Indie Rock: Destroyer - European Oils
Baroque Pop: Belle & Sebastian -Song for Sunshine
Singer/Songwriter: Be Here Now

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Singer/Songwriter: Be Here Now

I agree totally with this. I'd not heard Mason Jennings before this first single from his upcoming album. It is one of the few songs not on a Neko Case album that I've enjoyed this year. Really good beatlesish tune.

Jersey Clowns - Josh Rouse

The standout track on his new album just may be a contender for the most affecting song of the year.

The Strokes: You Only Live Once
The Strokes: Heart Cage
The Flaming Lips: New Radicals
Morrissey: Life is a Pigsty
The Gathering: Shortest Day
Amorphis: Born From Fire
Destroyer: 3000 Flowers
Placebo: Meds
Queensryche: The Chase

Hey, crabsody, you've heard a song off of the new Queensryche album? I just picked up the original Operation: Mindcrime from '88, and I'm really looking forward to their release in April of Operation: Mindcrime pt. 2. Where did you find that leak of their new song "The Chase"?

As for my favourite songs of '06, I'd go with
Cat Power - The Greatest, Lived in Bars
Dilated Peoples - Rapid Transit, The Eyes Have It, Olde English

Favorites So Far

Station Approach, The Everthere, Mexican Standoff - Elbow
Living Proof - Cat Power
The Price of a Cup of Tea - Belle and Sebastian
Honey Child What Can I Do - Lanegan/Campbell
and Favorite so far this year

Rubies - Destroyer.

Please too_blue don't expect a great album as the original. The original is one of my favorite albums of all time. Operation Mindcrime II is simply good. I downloaded from emule but it is being released in 2 of April. The song "The Chase" is a duet of Queensryche's singer Geoff Tate with Ronnie James DIO of Rainbow and Black Sabbath and it's very good

another great song

SEPULTURA: Ostia

Dio and Geoff Tate are awesome singers; I can't imagine what it sounds like. probably wicked. In any case, April 4 is tomorrow, and while I may be inclined to get J Dilla or some old ODB instead of Queensryche, if it's on sale, I'll get it.

Dirty Pretty things- Gin and milk

no one cares about the values I die for, no give s afuck about teh values I would kill for, give me somethign to die for..

Beautiful..

i'm gonna go a bit out of the ordinary for me and simply say my favorite song released in 2006 has been "poppin my collar" by three 6 mafia. now mf doom, madlib, j dilla, etc are my favorite producers and everything, but the beat is completely infectious on this song with quirky and innovative lyrical structures.

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i'm gonna go a bit out of the ordinary for me and simply say my favorite song released in 2006 has been "poppin my collar" by three 6 mafia. now mf doom, madlib, j dilla, etc are my favorite producers and everything, but the beat is completely infectious on this song with quirky and innovative lyrical structures.

AHHH!!! I love that you mentioned this song!! I think it's awesome, but I'm not sure I can say it's my favorite song of the year so far. I'll keep listening though...

I know I don't like it as much as last year's "Stay High" (impossible to top perhaps), but it's a great track nonetheless and yes, the beat is completely infectious and the lyrical structures are very unusual and innovative.

Oh -- but I guess my favorite songs of the year would be:

"Benton Harbor Blues" ~ The Fiery Furnaces
"Pompeii AM Gotterdammerung" ~ The Flaming Lips
"R.A.G.U." ~ Ghostface
"Silent Shout" ~ The Knife
"Kyberneticka Babicka" ~ Stereolab