"Neverland" and "Forest Families" by The Knife.

I haven't LOVED a single album this year yet like I did Okkervil River and others last year, but there are a whole bunch of songs on albums that have been slightly disappointing that are amazing.
Silent Shout is not a disappointment, though, but some tracks are much better than others.

"Ageing Had Never Been His Friend" by Love Is All makes me happy to be alive.

Favourite song of the year so far by a long way:-

Thee More Shallows - I Can't Get Next To You

stunning.

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Favourite song of the year so far by a long way:-

Thee More Shallows - I Can't Get Next To You

stunning.

Where'd you hear it?

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Originally posted by gomad361:
Favourite song of the year so far by a long way:-

Thee More Shallows - I Can't Get Next To You

stunning.

Where'd you hear it?

It was available for download on the Turn Records website. It's still there. Here's the link for the mp3: http://www.turnrecords.com/audio/TMS_Next_To_You.mp3

Updated list:
The Raconteurs - Steady as She Goes
The Lashes - Please, Please, Please
The Sounds - Queen of Apology
Matt Costa - Cold December
Josh Rouse - Givin' It Up
Nine Black Alps - Shot Down
The Like - What I Say and What I Mean
The Subways - Holiday
This Great October - Twilight Assembly

"Rough Gem" by Islands is awesome.

favourite songs so far - ordered by current use:

Thee More Shallows - I Can't Get Next To You
Midlake - Roscoe
Islands - Swans (Life After Death)
Whitey - Wrap it Up
Augie March - One Crowded Hour
The Knife - Silent Shout
Destroyer - Painter In Your Pocket
Liars - The Other Side Of Mt. Heart Attack

"Free Radicals" off the new Flaming Lips album is truly stunning, and the only way I can describe it is an acid-fueled jam session between Prince, Led Zeppelin (that riff!), and Midnite Vultures-era Beck with Queen providing operatic backing vocals. Throw it all around a perfectly syncopated and unimaginably funky bassline, and you have my current musical addiction. Genius.

Top 10 tracks from 2006, First Quarter:

1. The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack - Liars
2. Lived in Bars - Cat Power
3. Think Long - Mates of State
4. Rise Up With Fists! - Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
5. I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
6. Cemetary Row - The Minus 5
7. Number 1 - Goldfrapp
8. Insistor - Tapes N' Tapes
9. Gold Lion - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
10. Skeleton Key - Margot & The Nuclear So-and-sos.

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Anybody hear the new Regina Spektor song, "Summer in the City"? In case you're wondering, no, she's not covering the Lovin' Spoonful song. It does, however, sound like she stole some tape out of a Cat Power recording session. Great song.

I haven't heard that song I'm afraid, but I agree with you that Rise Up With Fists by Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins is a fantastic song.

Rise Up With Fists is terrific. My favorite part of the song is when the Watson Twins sing, "And she will wake up with baaaabiiiieeees." That makes it for me. The video is very cute, too.

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The video is very cute, too.

...As are the Watson Twins.

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Originally posted by Lennox723:
The video is very cute, too.

...As are the Watson Twins.

They are creepy in a cute way. Why do they have their eyes closed the whole time?

In no particular order:

The Sounds - Queen of Apology
Willie Nile - Back Home
Destroyer - Rubies
The Cottars - Hold On
Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac
Joel Plaskett Emergency - A Million Dollars
Jenny Lewis - Rise Up with Fists!!
Howe Gelb - Nail in the Sky
Little Willies - Tennessee Stud
Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On

One of my major songs this year is:
funeral:::by a band of horses

Recorded in Lisbon - Keith Fullerton Whitman

"Deep Down" - Calexico

I don't usually like protest songs, but this song is so damn catchy!

Did somebody heard the AFI's first single "miss murder"? This song is as great as the ones on their last album "sing the sorrow". Probably one of my favorite songs of 2006.