Y'all have good taste...

My short list of the 11 best songs of 2006, in the order I thought of them. I'm sure I left some off, but these were the first 11:

1) "Where There's a Will There's a Whalebone" or "Humans" - Islands (Return to the Seais my pick for Best Album of 2006.)
2) "Roscoe" - Midlake
3) "The Zookeeper's Boy" - Mew
4) "Pull Shapes" - the Pipettes
5) "Pillar of Salt" - the Thermals
6) "Another Sunny Day" - Belle and Sebastian
7) "Sons and Daughters" - the Decemberists
8) "We Do Not Fuck Around" - Viva Voce
9) "Rock Bottom Riser" - Smog
10) "Hot Soft Light" - the Hold Steady
11) "For Money or Love" - the Like Young

I've got a new update on page 1. "Wolf Like Me" took the lead. I stopped the list at #24 because that's all the songs that have 3+ votes. #25 - #72 are essentially tied with 2 votes each.

Also, some of you are posting lists and don't meet the 2 month/30 post requirement to have you list counted in the final tally. However, if you get 30 posts before the deadline of Jan 15, I'll go back and add your list, just make sure you remind me. I've listed the names of users whose lists have been tallied on the fist page.

Tv on the Radio gets too much love (even though I like them) on metacritic. I'm rooting for Hot Chip, Midlake, or Gnarls.

I think Song Tag is a pretty weak way to get posts, but that's just me. (Then again, it's not like I did much for this post).

I don't really like the What Are You Listening To and Song Tag threads, because they have an almost complete lack of discussion. That doesn't stop me from posting in them, but other threads are cooler.

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I don't really like the What Are You Listening To and Song Tag threads, because they have an almost complete lack of discussion. That doesn't stop me from posting in them, but other threads are cooler.

Well put. I come on this site to learn about new music that I may not know (not weather I can name a song with arm in it; after someone named a song with legin it). People's albums and song rankings are much more interesting. Another cool thread that is back up is the one where you mention your favorite part in singular songs. Always one of my favorites.

Am I still rambling...

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Originally posted by Besttasteinmusicever:
Tv on the Radio gets too much love (even though I like them) on metacritic. I'm rooting for Hot Chip, Midlake, or Gnarls.

Say what you will about Return to Cookie Mountain as a whole, "Wolf Like Me" is killer track. For an uptempo rock song, I don't think there was anything better in 2006.

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Say what you will about Return to Cookie Mountain as a whole, "Wolf Like Me" is killer track. For an uptempo rock song, I don't think there was anything better in 2006

I like it, in fact had in it my top 20. Just hope it doesn't win song of the year, after they get #1 or #2 album.

Sugartastic: Nice list. Great slow song by Smog.

Hope it doesn't look like I'm hating: I had Return to Cookie Mountain in the top 10, and Wolf Like Me top 20 and I was a lover top 10, so I do enjoy the band.

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Originally posted by ericg75:
Say what you will about Return to Cookie Mountain as a whole, "Wolf Like Me" is killer track. For an uptempo rock song, I don't think there was anything better in 2006.

Fixed!

1-Sam Roberts - Bridge to Nowhere
2-Gnarls barkley - Crazy
3-Midlake - Roscoe
4-Tapes 'n' Tapes - Insistor
5-Arctic Monkeys - I bet You Look Good on the dance Floor
6-Christina Aguilera - Ain't no other man
7-Sarah Harmer - Oleander
8-Pearl Jam - World Wide Suicide
9-Thom Yorke - Atoms for Peace
10-Phoenix - Rally

1. The Pipettes "Pull Shapes"
2. Gnarls Barkley "Crazy"
3. Islands "Humans"
4. Tigarah "Rappongo-Dori"
5. Lily Allen "Friday Night"
6. Isobel Campbel and Mark Lanegan "Deus Ibi Est"
7. Muse "Knights of Cydonia"
8. Tiga "You Gonna Want Me"
9. Gwen Stefani "Wind It Up"
10. Nelly Furtado "Maneater"
11. Islands "Humans"
12. Puffy AmiYumi "Tokyo I'm On My Way"
13. Nelly McKay "Cupcake"
14. OOIOO "UMA"
15. The Fiery Furnaces "The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry"
16. Hot Chip "And I Was A Boy From School"
17. Utada Hikaru "This Is Love"
18. Snoop Dogg "Vato"
20. Joanna Newsom "Emily"
21. My Chemical Romance "Welcome To The Black Parade"
22. Bubba Sparxxx "Miss New Booty"

What I'd really love to see is Pull Shapes pull ahead in the late game. I love that song way too much.

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Say what you will about Return to Cookie Mountain as a whole, "Wolf Like Me" is killer track. For an uptempo rock song, I don't think there was anything better in 2006


I like it, in fact had in it my top 20. Just hope it doesn't win song of the year, after they get #1 or #2 album.

I think "Wolf Like Me" is probably deserving of the #1 track of the year. I think it's the best thing TV on the Radio have done yet, and it has so much enthusiasm. Tunde is at the top of his game lyrically and vocally.

I'll throw together a quick list right quick, numbered just to keep track.

1. "Wolf Like Me" - TV on the Radio
2. "I was a Lover" - TV on the Radio
3. "Let's not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack!" - Liars
4. "To Hold You, Drum" - Liars
5. "Not Just Words" - Black Heart Procession
6. "Shiola" - Murder by Death
7. "Brother" - Murder by Death
8. "Insistor" - Tapes 'n Tapes
9. "Wasted State of Mind" - Trail of Dead
10. "Can't Con an Honest John" - The Streets
11. "St. Rosa and the Swallows" - The Thermals
12. "Stuck Between Stations" - The Hold Steady
13. "Gone" - Built to Spill
14. "Someday Baby" - Bob Dylan
15. "Rats" - Sonic Youth
16. "The Funeral" - Band of Horses
17. "On a Neck, On a Spit" - Grizzly Bear
18. "Black Mission Goggles" - Man Man
19. "You Can Never Hold Back Spring" - Tom Waits
20. "Atoms for Peace" - Thom Yorke

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1-Sam Roberts - Bridge to Nowhere

Great song. Reminds of a song that could have been on the Billy Bragg & Wilco's albums.

From best to worst.
I didn't know Wolf Like Me was such a popular track. Oh well...guess I'd better walk around and drink some more.

1. Fiery Furnaces - Waiting to Know You
2. Hold Steady - Party Pit
3. TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me
4. J Dilla - Time, the donut of the heart
5. Danielson - Kids are pushing kids
6. Liars - Drum and the Uncomfortable Can
7. Scritt Politti - the Boom Boom Bap
8. Poni Hoax - Budapest
9. Grizzly Bear - On a Neck , On a Spit
10. Scott Walker - Jolson and Jones
11. Lil Wayne - Gettin Some Head
12. Tapes 'N Tapes - Insistor
13. The Knife - Like a Pen
14. Justin Timberlake - What goes around
15. Liars - To Hold you, drum
16. Neko Case - Margaret vs. Pauline
17. Junior Boys - in the Morning
18. Danielson - Bloodbook on the half shell
19. J Dilla - Hi
20. Peter Bjorn and John - Amsterdam
21. Sway - Little Derek
22. Neko Case - Needle has landed
23. Peter Bjorn and John - Let's call it off
24. I'm from Barcelona - Collection of Stamps
25. Joanna Newsom - Cosmia
26. The Rapture - Don Gon Do It
27. Spank Rock - Bump
28. Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy
29. The Streets - Never went to church
30. T.I. - What you know about that.

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I probably won't qualify to have my list counted, but I can't resist posting one. I've been working on mine for awhile because I plan to make a mix cd to include with some Christmas gifts

1. Talk On Indolence - The Avett Brothers
2. In the Future When All's Well - Morrissey
3. Let's Get Out of This Country - Camera Obscura
4. You Are What You Love - Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
5. The Needle Has Landed - Neko Case
6. Punchlines - Mates of State
7. Sons & Daughters - The Decemberists
8. The Mistress Witch from McClure - Sufjan Stevens
9. Empty Shell - Cat Power
10. Pearls (Submarine #2) - Starlight Mints
11. Intimate Secretary - Raconteurs
12. Turn Into - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
13. Mardy Bum - Arctic Monkeys

-Angie

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Originally posted by Besttasteinmusicever:

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1-Sam Roberts - Bridge to Nowhere

Great song. Reminds of a song that could have been on the Billy Bragg & Wilco's albums.

the album by Sam Roberts - Chemical City is rarely talked about on metacritic.....It will be #1 or #2 on my list...Cat Power and Sam Roberts Band are battling it out. I hope I can figure out which will be first by end of Dec.

Joanna Newsom - "Only Skin"
Liars - "The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack"
Islands - "Rough Gem"
Joanna Newsom - "Sawdust & Diamonds"
Jenny Lewis - "Rise Up With Fists"
Hot Chip - "Boy from School"
Ghostface - "Shakey Dog"
The Decemberists - "The Crane Wife 3"
Sunset Rubdown - "Stadiums and Shrines II"
Regina Spektor - "Fidelity"
Beirut - "Scenic World"
Band of Horses - "Funeral"
Annuals - "Sway"
Lovely Feathers - "Photocorners"
Man Man - "Engwish Bwudd"
Lily Allen - "Alfie"
M. Ward - "To Go Home"
Figurines - "The Wonder"
Figurines - "I Remember"
Muse - "Knights of Cydonia"
Belle & Sebastion - "Dress Up in You"
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - "Holly Hobby (Version)"
Evangelicals - "Diving"
Peter Bjorn and John - "Young Folks"
Tapes n' Tapes - "Buckle"

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the album by Sam Roberts - Chemical City is rarely talked about on metacritic.....It will be #1 or #2 on my list..

The singles I heard from that album were okay, but they are nothing compared to the ones on "we were born in a flame", his excellent first album.