3.1.07

2006 - The Young Mod Year in Music

It was another great year for songs and another terrible year for albums, and, as usual, the indie intelligentsia (NME, Pitchfork, Drowned By Sound, etc.) got it (almost) all wrong. Here's how we see it..

The 50 Best Songs of 2006

1. The View - Wasted Little DJ's
2. Arctic Monkeys - Leave Before the Lights Come On
3. Divine Comedy - A Lady of a Certain Age
4. Dirty Pretty Things - Bang Bang You're Dead
5. Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen (acoustic)
6. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken
7. Peter Bjorn & John feat. Victoria Bergsman - Young Folks
8. Chris Thile - Heart in a Cage
9. Mojave 3 - Breaking the Ice
10. The View - Superstar Tradesman
11. Arctic Monkeys - When the Sun Goes Down
12. Ben Kweller - Sundress
13. Arthur Baker feat. Tim Wheeler - Glow
14. Duels - The Slow Build
15. Magic Numbers - Take a Chance
16. Midlake - Roscoe
17. Les Incompetents - How It All Went Wrong
18. Joan as Police Woman - Christobel
19. Charlotte Gainsbourg - The Songs That We Sing
20. Lily Allen - Littlest Things
21. The Decemberists - Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
22. The View - The Don
23. Tapes 'n Tapes - Insistor
24. The Spinto Band - Oh Mandy
25. The Little Ones - Cha Cha Cha
26. Arctic Monkeys - Mardy Bum
27. Razorlight - In the Morning
28. The Kooks - Ooh La
29. The Indelicates - New Art for the People
30. Nouvelle Vague - Killing Moon
31. Beirut - Postcards from Italy
32. Fiery Furnaces - Benton Harbor Blues
33. Larrikin Love - Edwould
34. The Automatic - Raoul
35. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cheated Hearts
36. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
37. The Concretes - Song for the Songs
38. The Little Ones - Lovers Who Uncover
39. Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs - Alone Again Or
40. Mates of State - Like U Crazy
41. The Strokes - Razorblade
42. The Kooks - Sofa Song
43. Sleepy Jackson - I Understand What You Want but I Just Don't Agree
44. Lady & Bird - Suicide Is Painless
45. Oh No! Oh My! - Walk in the Park
46. Grant Lee Phillips - Boys Don't Cry
47. Fiery Furnaces - Waiting to Know You
48. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 1 and 2
49. The Concretes - On the Radio
50. Mareva Galanter - Pourquoi Pas Moi

Artist of the Year

Arctic Monkeys

New Artist of the Year

The View

Artist to Watch in 2007

Emmy the Great