2006 music -- favorite singles

People can add to this list as they may, or perhaps you can belittle me for my musical tastes. Such is life. In no particular order, here's what stood out to me this year:

Arctic Monkeys - Leave Before the Lights Come On
Cat Power - The Greatest
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cheated Hearts
Built To Spill - Liar
Charlatans UK - Blackened Blue Eyes
Snow Patrol - Hands Open
Snow Patrol - Set The Fire to the Third Bar
Tool - The Pot
Wolfmother - Woman
Wolfmother - Love Train
Gomez - Girlshapedlovedrug
The Raconteurs - Level
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California (though I really got sick of this one after a while ...)
Angels & Airwaves - The Adventure
AFI - Miss Murder
Keane - Nothing In My Way
Busta Rhymes - Touch It
Guster - Satellite
Lostprophets - Rooftops
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
Muse - Starlight
Rick Ross - Push It
Rick Ross - Hustlin'
Outkast - Hollywood Divorce
The Roots - Can't Stop This
The Mars Volta - Viscera Eyes
Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
Lupe Fiasco - I Gotcha
Lady Sovereign - Love Me or Hate Me
The Killers - When You Were Young
The Killers - Bones
The Decemberists - O Valencia!
Cobra Starship - Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)
My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
The Game - It's Okay (One Blood)
Jay-Z - Kingdom Come
Clipse - Wamp Wamp
Nas - Hip Hop is Dead

 

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California (liked it better when it was 'Mary Jane's Last Dance')

 

You know, I had to listen to it a couple of times to really get that rhythm out of it, but yeah, you're right.

 

That's high on my list, but my favorite song of this year is Army Reserve by Pearl Jam.

If you count the video, Shakira's Hips Don't Lie has to be among my favorites.

 

Yeah, I'd take just about anything off PJ's disc over almost anything on that list (I liked the Peppers album and the Killers stuff).

Put me down for Worldwide Suicide. About time PJ released another rocker.

 

Ditto on the Killers, and Nelly Furtado also had some good singles.

 

Catchiest single: "Ain't No Other Man," by Christina Aguilera. Notice I didn't say "BEST." I have a fear that the music snobs would release the hounds if I said BEST.
That being said, it kinda sounds like a James Brown song, and that's never a bad thing.
That Keane song, I'm not sure the name, with the video where they're like running through the stage set, is pretty good too.
Now, will someone go kill James Blunt and Daniel Powter? It's time for him to have a Bad Day.

 

Albums that stood out

"Stadium Arcadium" Red Hot Chili Peppers
"St. Elsewhere" Gnarls Barkley
"Broken Boy Soldiers" The Raconteurs
"Death by Sexy" Eagles of Death Metal
"Pearl Jam" Pearl Jam
"Amputechture" Mars Volta
The single "Wolf Like Me" by TV on the Radio

Big disappointments
"First Impressions of Earth" The Strokes
"At War With the Mystics" The Flaming Lips -- two of my favorite bands drop shitty, shitty albums
"Modern Times" Bob Dylan -- except for the first track, it's just kind of blah. All the songs seem a minute or two too long.

What I'm looking forward to in 2007
new albums from Radiohead, Wilco, Spoon, Interpol, Bloc Party and the Shins. And (hopefully) new records by Queens of the Stone Age and some more archived shit from Neil Young.

 

I'll add Jay-Z's Kingdom Come to that list.

 

I'll second that. That, and Stadium Arcadium were by far my two favorites of the year.

 

The fact I despise "Hey Ya" with every fiber of my being and some I don't even have has led me to be shunned at parties and family gatherings.

I don't care. I stand strong.

 

Give me some sugar. I am your neighbor. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right.