Favorite Songs of 2006

[HoyaSaxa03]

these are mostly album cuts, i'm sure there are a lot of great singles that i'm missing
 
 Artic Monkeys - "I Bet That You Look Good on the Dancefloor"
 Belle & Sebastian - "For the Price of a Cup of Tea"
 Ben Kweller - "I Gotta Move"
 Camera Obscura - "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken"
 Camera Obscura - "Let's Get Out of This Country"
 Drive-By Truckers - "Easy on Yourself"
 The Essex Green - "Don't Know Why (You Stay)"
 Islands - "Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby"
 Morrissey - "You Have Killed Me"
 Neko Case - "The Needle Has Landed"
 Phoenix - "Rally"
 The Raconteurs - "Steady As She Goes"
 TV on the Radio - "Wolf Like Me"
 Voxtrot - "Soft & Warm"

[kookiemnstr8]

Voxtrot- Trouble
 Essex Green - Penny and Jack
 Islands - Rough Gem
 Neko Case - Star Witness
 Belle and Sebastian - Dress Up in You
 Sonic Youth - Do you believe in Rapture?
 Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Born Secular
 Joanna Newsom - Monkey and Bear
 Mountain Goats - Woke Up New
 Oxford Collapse - Please Visit Your National Parks

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by Graace:
 Essex Green - Penny and Jack
 Islands - Rough Gem

upon further reflection, i'd probably go with these two instead of the ones i listed ... "rough gem" is awesome ...

[ratioci nation]

Heartless Bastards - Searching for the Ghost
 Heartless Bastards - Finding Solutions
 Essex Green - Rue De Lis
 The Thermals - Test Pattern
 +/- - Steal the Blueprints
 The Takeovers - Be It Not for the Serpentine Rain Dodger
 Pernice Brothers - Automation
 Shearwater - White Waves

[ggw]

Off the top of my head....
 
 Human Television - Tonight's the Night
 The Elected - The Bank and Trust
 Beirut - Postcard from Italy
 TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
 The Black Keys - Have Mercy on Me
 Voxtrot - Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives
 Silversun Pickups - Well Thought Out Twinkles

[brennser]

absolute favorite, must have listened to hundreds of times
 
 Margot and the Nuclear So and So's 'Quiet as a Mouse'
 
 second favorite
 
 Islands 'Where Theres A Will Theres a Whalebone'....genius of a song
 
 others
 
 Belle and Sebastian 'Funny Little Frog'
 Destroyer 'Painter in Your Pocket'
 The Burning Leaves 'Murder List'
 deadboy and the Elephantmen 'Stop, I'm already Dead'
 +/- 'Steal the Blueprints' with 'Summer dress' a close second
 Cathal Coughlan and the Grand Necropolitan Quartet 'Rat Poison Rendevous'
 The Automatic 'Raoul'
 The Howling Bells 'Setting Sun'
 Jarvis Cocker 'Cunts are still running the world'
 Blow Up Hollywood 'WMD'
 The Secret Machines 'I Hate Pretending'
 The Blue Aeroplanes 'Love Come Round' (Swagger got the deluxe reissue treatment in 2006)
 Alejandro Escovedo 'Sacramento and Polk' (Old song  that was on his 2006 CD)
 Gomez 'How We Operate'...probably a minute too long but still a great song and great inro/build-up
 Camera Obscura 'Lloyd I'm ready to be heartbroken'
 Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs 'Alone Again Or'.....yes Vulnerable Bede I know its an old song....
 The Dears 'Death or life we want you'
 The Essex Green 'Uniform' and 'Rabbit' are this weeks favorites, I think its interesting we all have a different favorite for these guys - shows how strong the album is
 Paul Kelly and the Stormwater Boys 'Little Boy Don't Lose Your Balls'
 Chris Whitley and Bastard Club 'Are Friends Electric?'

[kookiemnstr8]

Originally posted by brennser:
  The Essex Green 'Uniform' and 'Rabbit' are this weeks favorites, I think its interesting we all have a different favorite for these guys - shows how strong the album is
 

Honestly, I think that is the strongest album put out this year.  For awhile I thought it was going to be TVOTR. but this is the one I keep coming back to time and time again.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

"Gravity's Gone" DBT.
 "Uh Wuh Oh" Bobby Bare Jr.
 "Enough to Get Away" Joseph Arthur
 "Lloyd I'm Ready to be Heartbroken" Camera Obscura
 "Hold On, Hold On" Neko Case
 "London, London" Cibelle
 "Amor Porteno" Gotan Project
 "I Gotta Move" Ben Kweller

[brennser]

Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:
 
 "Hold On, Hold On" Neko Case
 "I Gotta Move" Ben Kweller

what steny said...

[kosmo vinyl]

Some great choices already listed here. more to come from me but for now
 
 The Loud Family  - "Pop Song 99" This comeback maybe a contender for my top five this year.
 Middle Distance Runner - "That's A Lie"
 The Hard Tomorrows - "Patterns"
 Alice Smith - "Fake Is The New Real"

[bigyellow100]

though i agree with many of the songs so far, i actually prefer:
 
 camera obscura: if true looks could kill
 secret machines: alone, jealous, and stoned (one of the best opening songs ive ever seen)
 neko case: maybe sparrow
 
 there are others i like but i cant think of them right now.  a lot of poppier songs like the cardigans: i need some fine wine and you you need to be nicer.

[Vas Deferens]

I prefer "Come Back Margaret" (Camera Obscura)

[amnesiac]

Islands - "Rough Gem"
 Band of Horses - "The Funeral"
 Okkervil River - "President's Dead"
 Cursive - "Big Bang"
 TV on the Radio - "Wolf Like Me"
 Destroyer - "European Oils"
 Jenny Lewis - "The Big Guns"
 Beirut - "Postcards From Italy"
 Thom Yorke - "Harrowdown Hill"
 Shearwater - "Red Sea, Black Sea"
 Tilly & The Wall - "Bad Education"
 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Way Out"
 The Strokes - "Electricityscape"
 Arctic Monkeys - "The View From The Afternoon"
 The Hold Steady - "Party Pit"
 Decemberists - "The Crane Wife 3"
 Eric Bachmann - "Man O' War"
 Cat Power - "The Greatest"
 Danielson - "Did I Step On Your Trumpet?"
 Annuals - "Brother"

[throatneedle]

thom yorke - analyze
 band of horses - wicked gil
 clearlake - no kind of life
 tv on the radio - i was a lover
 the walkmen - emma get me a lemon
 ghostface - 9 mili bros
 belle & sebatian - another sunny day
 sonic youth - incinerate

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:
 "I Gotta Move" Ben Kweller

this song is just so addictive