THE TOP 100 SONGS OF 2006 ------------------------- 1. Crazy - GNARLS BARKLEY St. Elsewhere (Downtown/Atlantic) 2. I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor - ARCTIC MONKEYS Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (Domino UK '05) 3. Dance Like A Monkey - NEW YORK DOLLS One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This (Roadrunner) 4. Late Nite - SLUMBER PARTY Musik (Kill Rock Stars) 5. Hold On, Hold On - NEKO CASE Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (Anti-) 6. Meds - PLACEBO Meds (Elevator Music UK/Astralwerks) 7. Chinese Translation - M. WARD Post-War (Merge) 8. Running The World - JARVIS COCKER Children Of Men: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Hip-O) 9. When The War Came - THE DECEMBERISTS The Crane Wife (Capitol) 10. Back Like That - GHOSTFACE KILLAH FEATURING NE-YO Fishscale (Def Jam) 11. The Greatest - CAT POWER The Greatest (Matador) 12. Strasbourg - THE RAKES Capture/Release (V2 UK '05) 13. Lowlands Low - BRYAN FERRY WITH ANTONY Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & Chanteys (Anti-) 14. Inquiring Minds - HAMELL ON TRIAL Songs For Parents Who Enjoy Drugs (Righteous Babe) 15. Cursed Sleep - BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY The Letting Go (Drag City) 16. Requiem - M. WARD Post-War (Merge) 17. Nature Of The Experiment - TOKYO POLICE CLUB A Lesson In Crime (Paper Bag) 18. All Sparks - EDITORS The Back Room (Kitchenware UK '05/Fader) 19. Rise Up With Fists!! - JENNY LEWIS WITH THE WATSON TWINS Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love) 20. You Know I'm No Good - AMY WINEHOUSE Back To Black (Universal-Island UK) 21. Prayer Of The Refugee - RISE AGAINST The Sufferer & The Witness (Geffen) 22. On The Evening Train - JOHNNY CASH American V: A Hundred Highways (American) 23. Please Visit Your National Parks - OXFORD COLLAPSE Remember The Night Parties (Sub Pop) 24. The Boom Boom Bap - SCRITTI POLITTI White Bread Black Beer (Nonesuch/Rough Trade) 25. Benton Harbor Blues - THE FIERY FURNACES Bitter Tea (Fat Possum) 26. Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken - CAMERA OBSCURA Let's Get Out Of This Country (Merge) 27. Penny On The Train Track - BEN KWELLER Ben Kweller (ATO) 28. You Got Away With It (A Tale Of Two Fraternity Brothers) - TODD SNIDER The Devil You Know (New Door) 29. That Leaving Feeling - STUART A. STAPLES Leaving Songs (Beggars Banquet) 30. Dear Head On The Wall - ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO The Boxing Mirror (Back Porch) 31. Friend Of Time - BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT Brightblack Morning Light (Matador) 32. His Hands - CANDI STATON His Hands (Honest Jons UK/Astralwerks) 33. We Are The Sleepyheads - BELLE AND SEBASTIAN The Life Pursuit (Matador) 34. I'm In Love With A German Film Star - CHRIS WHITLEY & THE BASTARD CLUB Reiter In (Red Parlor) 35. Irreplaceable - BEYONCE B'Day (Sony Urban Music/Columbia) 36. Fidelity - REGINA SPEKTOR Begin To Hope (Sire) 37. Mighty 'O' - OUTKAST Idlewild (LaFace) 38. I Was A Lover - TV ON THE RADIO Return To Cookie Mountain (4AD/Interscope) 39. Time To Die - JOHN MAUS Songs (Upset The Rhythm UK) 40. Alone, Jealous And Stoned - SECRET MACHINES Ten Silver Drops (Reprise) 41. Who's That Knocking - PAJO 1968 (Drag City) 42. Smile - LILY ALLEN Alright, Still (Regal/Parlophone UK) 43. The Perfect Crime #2 - THE DECEMBERISTS The Crane Wife (Capitol) 44. Postcards From Italy - BEIRUT Gulag Orkestar (Ba Da Bing!) 45. Road To Peace - TOM WAITS Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Anti-) 46. 2wice - MISSION OF BURMA The Obliterati (Matador) 47. Black Sweat - PRINCE 3121 (Universal) 48. Reena - SONIC YOUTH Rather Ripped (Geffen) 49. Hands Open - SNOW PATROL Eyes Open (Polydor/Fiction UK/A&M) 50. Get That Monkey Off Your Back - THE COUP Pick A Bigger Weapon (Epitaph) 51. Don't Fade On Me - MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO. Fading Trails (Secretly Canadian) 52. You Have Killed Me - MORRISSEY Ringleader Of The Tormentors (Attack/Sanctuary) 53. Middle Man - THE BOTTLE ROCKETS Zoysia (Bloodshot) 54. God's Gonna Cut You Down - JOHNNY CASH American V: A Hundred Highways (American) 55. S.O.S. - RIHANNA A Girl Like Me (Def Jam) 56. Somerville - PERNICE BROTHERS Live A Little (Ashmont) 57. Chillout Tent - THE HOLD STEADY Boys And Girls In America (Vagrant) 58. Summer... It's Gone - GRANDADDY Just Like The Fambly Cat (V2) 59. The Champ - GHOSTFACE KILLAH Fishscale (Def Jam) 60. On The Ledge - DAN MELCHIOR Fire Breathing Clones On Cellular Phones (Plastic) 61. From Her Fingers - TOM VERLAINE Songs And Other Things (Thrill Jockey) 62. Talk Talk Talk Talk - LOVE IS ALL Nine Times That Same Song (What's Your Rupture?) 63. Steady, As She Goes - THE RACONTEURS Broken Boy Soldiers (Third Man/V2) 64. Sawdust & Diamonds - JOANNA NEWSOM Ys (Drag City) 65. Side Streets - SAINT ETIENNE Tales From Turnpike House (Savoy Jazz) 66. You Don't Know Me - SIMON JOYNER & THE FALLEN MEN Skeleton Blues (Jagjaguwar) 67. Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me - THE PIPETTES We Are The Pipettes (Memphis Industries) 68. That Teenage Feeling - NEKO CASE Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (Anti-) 69. 3000 Flowers - DESTROYER Destroyer's Rubies (Merge) 70. Prangin Out - THE STREETS The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living (Locked On/679 UK/Vice/Atlantic) 71. The Blinding - BABYSHAMBLES The Blinding E.P. (Capitol) 72. Love Knows (No Borders) - HOWE GELB 'Sno Angel Like You (Thrill Jockey) 73. Thunder On The Mountain - BOB DYLAN Modern Times (Columbia) 74. When The Sun Goes Down - ARCTIC MONKEYS Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (Domino) 75. Alarm Clock Music - DILATED PEOPLES 20/20 (Capitol) 76. Gold Lion - YEAH YEAH YEAHS Show Your Bones (Dress Up/Interscope) 77. Baby - J DILLA FEATURING MADLIB & GUILTY SIMPSON The Shining (BBE) 78. We're Just Temporary Ma'am - WHITE WHALE WWI (Merge) 79. I'm Not Your Typical Boy - THE TELEVISION PERSONALITIES My Dark Places (Domino) 80. The W.A.N.D. - THE FLAMING LIPS At War With The Mystics (Warner) 81. Neverland - THE KNIFE Silent Shout (Rabid Records Sweden/Brille/Mute) 82. Lost In America - JON LANGFORD Gold Brick (ROIR) 83. Workinonit - J DILLA Donuts (Stones Throw) 84. In The Time Of My Ruin - FRANK BLACK Fast Man Raider Man (Back Porch) 85. The Black Swan - BERT JANSCH The Black Swan (Drag City) 86. Bicycle Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle - BE YOUR OWN PET Be Your Own Pet (Ecstatic Peace!) 87. Hate Then Love - THE DEARS Gang Of Losers (Arts & Crafts) 88. Ballad Of Bitter Honey - EEF BARZELAY Bitter Honey (spinART) 89. The Heritage Rock Revolution - LUKE HAINES Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop (Degenerate UK) 90. Starlight - MUSE Black Holes And Revelations (Helium 3 UK/Warner) 91. Mermaid's Avenue - THE KLEZMATICS Wonder Wheel (JMG) 92. Shock And Awe - NEIL YOUNG Living With War (Reprise) 93. Mr. Tough - YO LA TENGO I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador) 94. Speed-Date - ARAB STRAP The Last Romance (Chemikal Underground UK/Transdreamer) 95. Razorblade - THE STROKES First Impressions Of Earth (RCA) 96. Nausea - BECK The Information (Interscope) 97. Oh My God - JAY-Z Kingdom Come (Roc-A-Fella) 98. Worms - BETH ORTON Comfort Of Strangers (Astralwerks) 99. Empire - KASABIAN Empire (RCA) 100. Black Swan - THOM YORKE The Eraser (XL) The Top 10 EPs Of 2006 ---------------------- 1. TOKYO POLICE CLUB - A Lesson In Crime (Paper Bag) 2. BABYSHAMBLES - The Blinding E.P. (Capitol) 3. ARCTIC MONKEYS - Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? (Domino UK) 4. AMBULANCE LTD - New English EP (TVT) 5. BE YOUR OWN PET - Summer Sensation (Ecstatic Peace!) 6. 50 FOOT WAVE - Free Music (Reincarnate) 7. ERIC MATTHEWS - Limited Edition EP (Empyrean) 8. A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW - The Sunniest Day Ever EP (Self-Released) 9. POP LEVI - Blue Honey (Counter) 10. DR. DOG - Takers And Leavers (Park The Van) David Rawson