iPod Top 100: 2006
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.)
- Los Angeles – Sugarcult
- One Thousand Tears of a Tarantula – Dengue Fever
- I Don’t Want to Fall in Love – She Wants Revenge
- Ladylike – Storm Large and the Balls (featuring Dave Navarro)
- Crazy – Gnarls Barkley
- Tell Me Baby – Red Hot Chili Peppers
- What Girls Want – Material Issue
- The Adventure – Angels & Airwaves
- Love Found Me – DecembeRadio
- Shot Shot – Gomez
- In the Morning – Junior Boys
- Here It Goes Again – O.K. Go
- Do Ya – Peaches
- Fidelity – Regina Spektor
- All Good – Zeroleen
- 4 Leaf Clover – Old 97’s
- Master Plan – Signal Hill Transmission
- Original Fire – Audioslave
- Yours to Keep – Teddybears
- Cubicle – Rinôçérôse
- When You Were Young – The Killers
- Finding Out True Love is Blind – Louis XIV
- Would You … ? – Touch and Go
- Suzie – Boy Kill Boy
- Bisexual Chick – John Oszajca
- Love Me Like You Do – The Magic Numbers
- Tahitian Moon – Porno for Pyros
- Dani California – Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Island in the Sun – Weezer
- Bang Bang You’re Dead – Dirty Pretty Things
- Town Called Malice – The Jam
- In the Morning – Razorlight
- True Affection – The Blow
- Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt – We Are Scientists
- Leave Before the Lights Come On – Arctic Monkeys
- Black Horse and the Cherry Tree – KT Tunstall
- Store Bought Bones – The Raconteurs
- Tear You Apart – She Wants Revenge
- Is It Any Wonder? – Keane
- Barely Listening – Pilot Speed
- Against All Odds – The Postal Service
- Steady, As She Goes – The Raconteurs
- Bom Bom Bom – The Living Things
- Plan B – Mute Math
- Girl and the Sea – The Presets
- Smile – Lily Allen
- Takin’ Care of Business – Bachman Turner Overdrive
- My Heart is the Bums on the Street – Marah
- Voodoo Cadillac – Southern Culture on the Skids
- Riot Radio – The Dead 60s
- Strict Machine – Goldfrapp
- Ooh La La – Goldfrapp
- I’m No Angel – Gregg Allman
- Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress) – The Hollies
- Throw it Away – Juke Kartel with Toby Rand
- Walt Whitman Bridge – Marah
- The Ugly Truth – Matthew Sweet
- I Predict a Riot – The Kaiser Chiefs
- L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever) – Kasabian
- New York Girls – Morningwood
- Fille atomique – Nous Non Plus
- Meet Ze Monstra – PJ Harvey
- Medicine – Sons & Daughters
- Mama’s Room – Under the Influence of Giants
- DOA – Foo Fighters
- Koop Island Blues – Koop
- Lonely Train – Black Stone Cherry
- You’re My Kind – Elektrochemie
- Junior Kickstart – The Go! Team
- Sick of Myself – Matthew Sweet
- Living Alone – The Procession
- Mama Told Me (Not to Come) – Three Dog Night
- Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar – Primal Scream
- Dance Me In – Sons & Daughters
- Are You With Me? – Vaux
- My Doorbell – The White Stripes
- 6 A.M. Jullandar Square – Cornershop
- Hold On, Hold On – Neko Case
- Welcome to the Show – Pigeon John
- Monsters – Sons & Daughters
- I Turn My Camera On – Spoon
- Blue Orchid – The White Stripes
- Would You Come With Me – The Elected
- Mother’s Little Helper – Liz Phair
- Youth – Matisyahu
- Black Betty – Spiderbait
- The Fallen – Franz Ferdinand
- Bad Things – Jace Everett
- Black Devil Car – Jamiroquai
- Don’t Have Time – Liz Phair
- Sooner or Later – Marah
- Girlfriend – Matthew Sweet
- Gold Lion – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Year of the Cat – Al Stewart
- Not Ready to Make Nice – The Dixie Chicks
- Munich – The Editors
- Jetsetter – Morningwood
- Beautiful Thing – Patrice Pike
- Sweet Lady – What Made Milwaukee Famous
- 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.
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You save it as a playlist? … say so someone else could relive your year?
Comment by Joel — January 7, 2007 @ 21:08
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