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iPod Top 100: 2006

Monday, January 1, 2007, 9:01
Section: Arts & Entertainment

It’s that time of year, where I reset the old iPod’s play count to zero. But before I start tracking what I’m listening to the most in 2007, here’s a look back at what the top 100 songs I listened to in 2006. (Here’s the 2005 list.)

  1. Los Angeles – Sugarcult
  2. One Thousand Tears of a Tarantula – Dengue Fever
  3. I Don’t Want to Fall in Love – She Wants Revenge
  4. Ladylike – Storm Large and the Balls (featuring Dave Navarro)
  5. Crazy – Gnarls Barkley
  6. Tell Me Baby – Red Hot Chili Peppers
  7. What Girls Want – Material Issue
  8. The Adventure – Angels & Airwaves
  9. Love Found Me – DecembeRadio
  10. Shot Shot – Gomez
  11. In the Morning – Junior Boys
  12. Here It Goes Again – O.K. Go
  13. Do Ya – Peaches
  14. Fidelity – Regina Spektor
  15. All Good – Zeroleen
  16. 4 Leaf Clover – Old 97’s
  17. Master Plan – Signal Hill Transmission
  18. Original Fire – Audioslave
  19. Yours to Keep – Teddybears
  20. Cubicle – Rinôçérôse
  21. When You Were Young – The Killers
  22. Finding Out True Love is Blind – Louis XIV
  23. Would You … ? – Touch and Go
  24. Suzie – Boy Kill Boy
  25. Bisexual Chick – John Oszajca
  26. Love Me Like You Do – The Magic Numbers
  27. Tahitian Moon – Porno for Pyros
  28. Dani California – Red Hot Chili Peppers
  29. Island in the Sun – Weezer
  30. Bang Bang You’re Dead – Dirty Pretty Things
  31. Town Called Malice – The Jam
  32. In the Morning – Razorlight
  33. True Affection – The Blow
  34. Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt – We Are Scientists
  35. Leave Before the Lights Come On – Arctic Monkeys
  36. Black Horse and the Cherry Tree – KT Tunstall
  37. Store Bought Bones – The Raconteurs
  38. Tear You Apart – She Wants Revenge
  39. Is It Any Wonder? – Keane
  40. Barely Listening – Pilot Speed
  41. Against All Odds – The Postal Service
  42. Steady, As She Goes – The Raconteurs
  43. Bom Bom Bom – The Living Things
  44. Plan B – Mute Math
  45. Girl and the Sea – The Presets
  46. Smile – Lily Allen
  47. Takin’ Care of Business – Bachman Turner Overdrive
  48. My Heart is the Bums on the Street – Marah
  49. Voodoo Cadillac – Southern Culture on the Skids
  50. Riot Radio – The Dead 60s
  51. Strict Machine – Goldfrapp
  52. Ooh La La – Goldfrapp
  53. I’m No Angel – Gregg Allman
  54. Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress) – The Hollies
  55. Throw it Away – Juke Kartel with Toby Rand
  56. Walt Whitman Bridge – Marah
  57. The Ugly Truth – Matthew Sweet
  58. I Predict a Riot – The Kaiser Chiefs
  59. L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever) – Kasabian
  60. New York Girls – Morningwood
  61. Fille atomique – Nous Non Plus
  62. Meet Ze Monstra – PJ Harvey
  63. Medicine – Sons & Daughters
  64. Mama’s Room – Under the Influence of Giants
  65. DOA – Foo Fighters
  66. Koop Island Blues – Koop
  67. Lonely Train – Black Stone Cherry
  68. You’re My Kind – Elektrochemie
  69. Junior Kickstart – The Go! Team
  70. Sick of Myself – Matthew Sweet
  71. Living Alone – The Procession
  72. Mama Told Me (Not to Come) – Three Dog Night
  73. Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar – Primal Scream
  74. Dance Me In – Sons & Daughters
  75. Are You With Me? – Vaux
  76. My Doorbell – The White Stripes
  77. 6 A.M. Jullandar Square – Cornershop
  78. Hold On, Hold On – Neko Case
  79. Welcome to the Show – Pigeon John
  80. Monsters – Sons & Daughters
  81. I Turn My Camera On – Spoon
  82. Blue Orchid – The White Stripes
  83. Would You Come With Me – The Elected
  84. Mother’s Little Helper – Liz Phair
  85. Youth – Matisyahu
  86. Black Betty – Spiderbait
  87. The Fallen – Franz Ferdinand
  88. Bad Things – Jace Everett
  89. Black Devil Car – Jamiroquai
  90. Don’t Have Time – Liz Phair
  91. Sooner or Later – Marah
  92. Girlfriend – Matthew Sweet
  93. Gold Lion – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  94. Year of the Cat – Al Stewart
  95. Not Ready to Make Nice – The Dixie Chicks
  96. Munich – The Editors
  97. Jetsetter – Morningwood
  98. Beautiful Thing – Patrice Pike
  99. Sweet Lady – What Made Milwaukee Famous
  100. Accidental Death – Rilo Kiley

Several of 2005’s top 100 charted again:

  • “Bom Bom Bom” by The Living Things dropped 11 places, from #34 to #43.
  • “I’m No Angel” by Gregg Allman went up, from #78 to #53.
  • “I Predict a Riot” by The Kaiser Chiefs dropped 10 places, from #48 to #58.
  • “Dance Me In” by the criminally underappreciated Sons & Daughters rose from #97 to #74.
  • “Blue Orchid” by The White Stripes went from #14 all the way down to #82, a plummet only exceeded by …
  • “Black Betty” by Spiderbait dropping from #9 to #86.
  • And perennial favorite “Girlfriend” by Matthew Sweet went from #69 to #92.

For other really great end-of-year lists/shows, check out the Best of 2006 shows at Dave Cusick’s Post Modern Rock Show and the Coverville Countdown shows at Coverville.

The iPod’s play counts have all been reset. I’ll see you back here on January 1, 2008.


2 Comments »

  1. You save it as a playlist? … say so someone else could relive your year?

    Comment by Joel — January 7, 2007 @ 21:08

  2. Yes, if iTunes had all the songs (it’s got about 70 or so) or if I wanted to burn all of them to CD. I’ll see what I can do for you in the MP3 format.

    Comment by Beau — January 8, 2007 @ 0:53

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