Top Songs: 2006
- "Crazy", Gnarls Barkley [0]
- "Perfect Hair II", Danger Doom ["I was... too drunk! I woke up, drunk! Weren't you?"] [0]
- "Punchlines", Mates of State [0]
- "European Oils", Destroyer [0]
- "So Many Ways", Mates of State [0]
- "The First Vietnamese War", The Black Angels [0]
- "How We Operate", Gomez [+8]
- "The Great Salt Lake", Band of Horses [+5]
- "Woman", Wolfmother [-2]
- "Goin' Against Your Mind", Built to Spill [-2]
- "Hamoa Beach", Gomez [+8]
- "Korn Dogz", Danger Doom [-3]
- "Rivalry", Figurines [-3]
- "Watercolours into the Ocean", Destroyer [-3]
- "Wicked Gil", Band of Horses [+9]
- "Sad Sad City", Ghostland Observatory [-2]
- "Lovers Who Uncover", The Little Ones
- "Munich", Editors [-6]
- "Standing in the Way of Control", The Gossip [+3]
- "Ambush", Figurines [-2]
- "Rise Up In The Dirt", Voxtrot
- "I Gotta Feeling (Just Nineteen)", Eagles of Death Metal
- "Tales", Wolfmother [-6]
- "All Sparks", Editors [-8]
- "In Houston", Tapes 'n Tapes [0]
Rules:
1. Because I don't really listen to the radio or watch MTV (do the kids still watch the MTV?), all songs have to come from a 2006 album I have, or be a 2006 song from the KEXP Song of the Day podcast. In other words, it has to be on my computer.
2. No more than 2 songs per album. Sorry, Mates and Figurines.
3. Right now, the list cuts off at 25.
4. Yellow Highlight: Debut since last update
5. [position change]
6/22/06: "I Gotta Feeling (Just Nineteen)" by Eagles of Death Metal and "Free Radicals" by The Flaming Lips fell off the chart. "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley debuted at #1, and "How We Operate" by Gomez debuted at #15.
7/17/06: "I Wanna Call It Love" by Sondre Lerche & the Faces Down Quartet, "Empathy on a Stick" by The Ladies, and "Out Here All Night" by Damone fell off the chart. "Lovers Who Uncover" by the Little Ones debuted at #17, "Rise Up In The Dirt" by Voxtrot debuted at #21, and "Gotta Feeling (Just Nineteen)" by Eagles of Death Metal re-entered at #22.
do the kids still watch the MTV?
From what I've seen while flipping channels, MTV now caters solely to 12-15 year-old girls. Strange to think that I was actually watching the channel on a somewhat regular basis a dozen years ago.
So where do the kids watch the videos nowadays? I'd guess YouTube, but what about before then? Just finding them wherever on the net? In some ways, we had it pretty good then.
With each passing year, it gets harder to believe that Nirvana's "Nevermind" was the most popular album of the early nineties. Can you imagine music like that charting or getting MTV airplay today?
Considering that Panic! at the Disco and Fall Out Boy are what passes for rock these days, the answer is a resounding "no". If they came out today, Nirvana would be lucky to get a one paragraph write-up in Spin, at the bottom of the page next to two other bands.
I know that a lot of people don't think much of the so-called "alternative rock" revolution that Nirvana spawned, but them were some good times as far as I'm concerned.
You know, back in the early 90s, I hated Bush, the band. Could not stand them. To use Matt's phrase, tears of rage. The fact that they were popular was like a personal affront.
Then a few years ago, our local rock station, 107.7, changed formats from frat-rap-rock to local stuff and 90s alternative. And I realized something, something that should've been obvious, but wasn't until years later: the very very very best Limp Bizkit song is still worse than the very very very worst Bush song (i.e., "Machinehead").
I still don't like Bush much, but I now appreciate them in a way I never did before.
I finally heard "Crazy" the other day. Yeah, that's a catchy-ass song.
You hadn't heard it before? Seriously? And I thought I lived in a bunker ;-)
You think you don't listen to the radio... :-)
Prince's Satisfied is bliss, sexiest song since Let's get it on.