Top 60 of '06: 20-11

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11. "Steady, As She Goes" - the Raconteurs
The first single from Brendan Benson and Jack White's garage-glam band was a perfect dirty sundae of fuzz-box stutter, metallic zoom and pop-chorale candy. It is also a good reason to hope the Raconteurs are no one-album project.
12. "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above" - CSS
Five Brazilian girls (plus one dude with an excellent handlebar 'stache) rock their spaz-disco hit describing the perfect date.
13. "Wolf Like Me" - TV on the Radio
14. "Put Us Back Together Right" - Headlights
15. "And I Was a Boy From School" - Hot Chip
16. "Fake Tales of San Francisco" - Arctic Monkeys
17. "Knife" - Grizzly Bear
18. "Sundress" - Ben Kweller
19. "Rise Up With Fists!!" - Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins
20. "Black Swan" - Thom Yorke