Top 50

Inspired by the great James Best Poet Extroidnaire (a name renowned for its informative nature as well as its length) I too read with disdain the top 100 songs of 2006 served up with hot supposed definitiveness by The Rolling Stone and consequently (mostly...no no entirely from reading James' blog) decided to make my own list of top 50 songs from 2006. Now, like James, i admit that many of these songs were not necessarily recorded in 2006, but are merely, and this distinction is important, my top 50 songs i enjoyed this year. i will try my darndest to keep the majority of the list comprised of songs from this year, but i will not try even a shade of darndest to put them in any particular order.

• 10 Dollar Ascots--Tapes 'N Tapes
  
• Hope There's Someone--Antony and the Johnsons
  
• Song Song Song--Final Fantasy
  
• 10:1--Rogue Wave
  
• All Hands the Cook--The Walkmen
  
• Gideon--My Morning Jacket
  
• Curtains--Smoke
  
• Old College Try--The Mountain Goats
  
• King of Carrot Flowers Part 1--Neutral Milk Hotel
  
• Me and Mia--Ted Leo/Pharmacists
  
• The World Spins Madly On--The Weepies
  
• Heartbeats--Jose Gonzales
  
• Maybe Not--Cat Power
  
• Prayer for the Paranoid--Mojave 3
  
• The Artic Circle--Final Fantasy
  
• Killing Armies--Wolf Parade
  
• We're No Here--Mogwai
  
• Insistor--Tapes 'N Tapes
  
• La Da Da--Low Flying Owls
  
• He Lays in Reins--Iron and Wind and Calexico
  
• You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son--Wolf Parade
  
• Wordless Chorus--My Morning Jacket
  
• Your Hand in Mine--Explosions in the Sky
  
• A Comet Appears--The Shins
  
• Wake Up--The Arcade Fire
  
• Dirty Girl--Eels
  
• Dying of the Pines--The Gourds
  
• Bad Education--Tilly and the Wall
  
• Story Board--The Album Leaf
  
• Club Foot--Kasabian
  
• Restless Sinner--Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  
• Home By Saturday--Hayden
  
• I Summon You--Spoon
  
• Right Where It Belongs--Nine Inch Nails
  
• Mercy--Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  
• Moving Pictures Silent Films--Great Lake Swimmers
  
• This Year--The Mountain Goats
  
• Crosses--Jose Gonzales
  
• Death of a Salesman--Low
  
• Girl in the War--Josh Ritter
  
• The Moon--Cat Power
  
• The Trapese Swinger--Iron and Wine
  
• Chinaberry Tree--Mew
  
• Young Folks--Peter, Bjorn, and John
  
• Mushaboom--Feist
  
• Glossoli--Sigur Ros
  
• Modern World (Origional Recording)--Wolf Parade
  
• Danny Says--Tom Waits
  
• My Only Friend--Deadsy
  
• When I Go Deaf--Low

I know i promised to try and keep most songs from 2006, but i don't think it ended up that way as there are many from '05, '04, and even one not yet released in '07...oh well...try is so very relative.

You may be happy, or feel i am insane, to see that i have omitted Sufjan Stevens from my list. I have grown tired of him and ache in my joints like an old man sitting in a creaking rocker on the porch predicting bad weather when I think we still have 48 more state albums with accompanying 20 song EP's to look forward to (as said previously in a comment on James' blog, but i felt needed repeating).

If you are upset by my anti-Sufjan sentements let me attempt to cheer you up...focus on the elegance, grace, and magic of this beauty and you'll be feeling fine in no time: