Sunday 31 December 2006

Singles and albums of the year – 2006

I originally wrote both singles and albums lists in December 2006.

As we get nearer the current day I’ve got less room for maneouvre regarding changing the order of the songs. I was, however, a bit gutted that Alex James and Betty Boo’s WigWam never really took off. Here’s the video to the song, unsuprisingly produced by Dom Joly:



On the album front it was brilliant to see Dave Couse back with his best work since A House’s 1991 classic “I Am The Greatest”. The new band pretty much sounds like A House too, double bonus mega win!



Singles

1. Art Brut – Nag Nag Nag Nag
2. Metric – Poster Of A Girl
3. Young Knives – Weekends and Bleak Days (Hot Summer)
4. New Young Pony Club – Ice Cream
5. Long Blondes – Weekend Without Makeup
6. Charlatans – Blackened Blue Eyes
7. Blood Arm – Suspicious Character
8. Automatic – Recover
9. Hot Puppies – The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful
10. Rakes – All Too Human
11. White Rose Movement – Girls In The Back
12. CSS – Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
13. Feeling – Fill My Little World
14. Mystery Jets – Diamonds In The Dark
15. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – The Gay Train
16. Mama Shamone – Over
17. Young Knives – Here Comes The Rumour Mill
18. Grates – 19-20-20
19. WigWam – WigWam
20. Modern – Industry
21. Celeste – Nothing In The Sky (With Diamonds)
22. Long Blondes – Once And Never Again
23. Feeling – Sewn
24. Divine Comedy – Diva Lady
25. Mystery Jets – The Boy Who Ran Away
26. Peter, Bjorn and John with Victoria Bergstrom – Young Folks
27. Divine Comedy – Lady Of A Certain Age
28. Lostprophets – A Town Called Hypocrisy
29. Snow Patrol – You’re All I Have
30. Automatic – Monster
31. Divine Comedy – To Die A Virgin
32. Feeling – Never Be Lonely
33. Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control
34. Larrikin Love – Happy As Annie
35. iLiKETRAiNS – Terra Nova
36. Vatican DC – Wow
37. Franz Ferdinand – The Fallen
38. Others – The Truth That Hurts
39. LT United – We Are the Winners
40. Be Your Own Pet – Adventure
41. Fields – Song From The Fields
42. A-Ha – Analogue
43. Pink Grease – Carlights
44. iDou – Perfect Hands For Basketball
45. Ooberman – Crashing Ellipticals
46. Crimea – Lottery Winners On Acid
47. Young Knives – She’s Attracted To
48. Boy Kill Boy – Suzie
49. Cardigans – Don’t Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds)
50. Kasabian – Empire
51. Fratellis – Chelsea Dagger
52. Camera Obscura – Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken
53. Sugababes – Easy
54. Polysics – Electric Surfin Go Go
55. Data Panik – Rulers and the States
56. Subliminal Girls – Burn Koko
57. ¡Forward, Russia! – Twelve
58. Upper Room – All Over This Town
59. Dirty Pretty Things – Wondering
60. Sigur Ros – Hoppipolla
61. CSS – Alala
62. Frank and Walters – Miles and Miles
63. Jim Noir – Key Of C
64. Boy Kill Boy – Civil Sin
65. I’m From Barcelona – We’re From Barcelona
66. Shut Your Eyes And You’ll Burst Into Flames – Signal Noise
67. Keane – Is It Any Wonder?
68. Sparks – Perfume
69. Hard-Fi – Better Do Better
70. Kaiser Chiefs – Modern Way
71. S*M*A*S*H – All By Myself
72. Sean Lennon – Dead Meat
73. Futureheads – Area
74. Rifles – Repeated Offender
75. Flaming Lips – Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
76. Belle and Sebastian – Funny Little Frog
77. Coldplay – Talk
78. Queens Of The Stone Age – Burn The Witch
79. ¡Forward, Russia! – Eighteen
80. Editors – Munich
81. Kooks – Naïve
82. Protocol – Where’s The Pleasure?
83. Automatic – Raoul
84. Juliette and the Licks – Hot Kiss
85. Keane – Crystal Ball
86. Lostprophets – Rooftops (Liberation Broadcast)
87. Muse – Supermassive Black Hole
88. Supergrass – Fin
89. Hope Of The States – Sing It Out
90. Delays – Valentine
91. Editors – Blood
92. Imogen Heap – Headlock
93. Knife – Silent Shout
94. Zutons – Valerie
95. Bluetones – My Neighbour’s House
96. Futureheads – Skip To The End
97. Howling Bells – Setting Sun
98. Hybrasil – When I’m Yawning
99. Sunshine Underground – Commercial Breakdown
100. Sunshine Underground – I Ain’t Losing Any Sleep

Albums

1. Long Blondes – Someone To Drive You Home
2. Young Knives – Voices Of Animals And Men
3. Couse and the Impossible – The World Should Know
4. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – We Validate!
5. Divine Comedy – Victory For The Common Muse
6. Others – Inward Parts
7. Mystery Jets – Making Dens
8. Ooberman – Carried Away
9. Hot Puppies – Under The Crooked Moon
10. ¡Forward, Russia! – Give Me A Wall
11. Grates – Gravity Won’t Get You High
12. Fratellis – Costello Music
13. Simple Kid – SK2
14. Jarvis – Jarvis
15. Easy Star All*Stars – Radiodread
16. Keane – Under The Iron Sea
17. Feeling – Twelve Stops And Home
18. Delays – You See Colours
19. Belle and Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
20. Automatic – Not Accepted Anywhere