60-’06: Overlooked
In anticipation of the annual year-end list (coming the final two weeks of this month), here is a collection of ten overlooked songs not included in last year's list. These are tracks that either got a raw deal...
Top 60 of ’06: 10-1
MP3 - (18 MB)
1. "The Funeral" - Band of Horses
Two Seattle boys with a strong tune sense and lips that need kissing something fierce make a gloomy downer that sulks like Tonight's the Night-era Neil Y...
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-cho...
Top 60 of ’06: 30-21
MP3 - (16.5 MB)
21. "Well Thought Out Twinkles" - Silversun Pickups
If loving Smashing Pumpkins is wrong, then Silversun Pickups don't wanna be right: bombastically dreamy alt-rock that surges from a w...
Top 60 of ’06: 40-31
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31. "Free Stress Test" - Professor Murder
32. "When You Were Young" - the Killers
This hard-rocking hit showed the Killers could make it without glitz and eyeliner. It also proved you co...
Top 60 of ’06: 50-41
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41. "Chaos" - Mute Math
42. "Parachute" - Sean Lennon
43. "Quiet as a Mouse" - Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
44. "Naive" - the Kooks
45. "Adventure" - Be Your Own Pet
46. "Pain...
Top 60 of ’06: 60-51
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51. "Wrong Choice" - the Lovely Feathers
52. "Long Distance Call" - Phoenix
53. "Bonnie Brae" - the Twilight Singers
Reportedly written in New Orleans immediately following Hurricane Ka...