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2006: The Year In Song

posted by: Noel Murray
December 31, 2006 - 11:33pm

As I do every year, I kept an active playlist on my iTunes with my favorite songs of 2006, and as the year wore on, I organized it into two shorter playlists, each about the length of a CD, and peppered with whimsical audio interludes. (This year it was superhero theme songs: Marvel heroes on the first disc, and D.C. heroes on the second, with a couple extra cartoon heroes tagged on to the end of the first disc.) As a lazy way out of fussing over the tracklist, I organized the songs chronologically, by U.S. release date.

As I did last year, I put up an iMix for both discs, minus the whimsical snippets (and minus the Loose Fur song on Disc One, which isn’t available on iTunes). I don’t expect anyone to buy these mixes, but at least you can go here and here and listen to short excerpts from the songs.

I’ve also linked to my reviews of the artists in question, if I wrote one. Click on the song name to get there. For those friends of mine who get copies of this year-end comp from me, consider this your virtual liner notes.

For everyone else, consider this a list of some of the songs that made 2006 such a pleasure for me, musically. Not all these songs came from great albums; but they’re all great songs.

2006: January To June (Marvel, Etc.)

1. captain america

2. “The Big Guns,” Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins

3. “I'm A Strong Lion,” Robert Pollard

4. “From The Ritz To The Rubble,” Arctic Monkeys

5. the hulk

6. “Priest's Knees,” Destroyer

7. “With Candy,” Lilys

8. sub-mariner

9. “Ballad Of Bitter Honey,” Eef Barzelay

10. “Star Witness,” Neko Case

11. “Silver Ponds,” Figurines

12. thor

13. “Wanted,” Loose Fur

14. “Black Biscuit,” Seth Kaufman

15. “All Sparks,” Editors

16. spider-man

17. “Stolen Blues,” American Princes

18. “Conventional Wisdom,” Built To Spill

19. spider-woman

20. “Wolves,” Josh Ritter

21. “Pieces,” Field Music

22. “Parade,” Pretty Girls Make Graves

23. “Old Dan Tucker,” Bruce Springsteen

24. “Lost & Found,” Phoenix

25. x-men

26. “Brandy Alexander,” The Walkmen

27. “Didn't You See Her,” Nino Moschella

28. atom ant

29. “Adventure,” Be Your Own Pet

30. “Futures,” Zero 7 w/Jose Gonzalez

31. underdog

32. “Fallout,” The Futureheads


2006: July To December (D.C.)

1. superman 1942

2. “Days Go By,” Glossary

3. “Hindsight,” The Long Winters

4. superman 1951

5. “Head Home,” Midlake

6. superman 1968

7. “Hold On, Hold On,” The Sadies w/Neko Case

8. “Jessica,” Kaki King

9. superrrrrr man

10. “Poison Cup,”

M. Ward

11. “Hours,” TV On The Radio

12. superboy

13. “Our House,” Eric Matthews

14. aquaman

15. “Strange Form Of Life,” Bonnie "Prince" Billy

16. “This Time (I'm gonna try it my way),” DJ Shadow

17. batman 1968

18. “Borrow Your Cape,” Bobby Bare Jr.

19. green lantern

20. “You Can Make Him Like You,”

The Hold Steady

21. teen titans

22. “Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then),” The Decemberists

23. “Major Arcana,” The Isles

24. “Zero Refills,” The Pernice Brothers

25. the atom

26. “You Can't Judge A Book,” Spanky Wilson & Quantic

27. “Party's Over,” The End Of The World

28. the flash

29. “The Book I Write,” Spoon

30. “God Knows (You Gotta Give To Get),” El Perro Del Mar

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