I've started compiling mine and so far it's very poppy. I'll be lucky if I get everything I want on one disc, though.

mine'll be the poppiest sounding of all lists although i'll probably have almost no conventional pop music on it.

Is that a riddle?

wrapped in an enigma

Here is my attempt at a "Best of 2006" mix up to a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.box.net/public/rqq6zzn267

Here's the tracklisting:

* "Remember when we used to make out to this hymn?"
* "Kick Me And Cancel" - Robert Pollard
* "Thou Shalt Wilt" - Loose Fur
* "Knee High" - French Kicks
* "Elijah" - Frank Black
* "Magic" - Ben Kweller
* "Never Do This Again" - The M's
* "Plow You Under" - Scott H. Biram
* "Monument Sails" - Centro-Matic
* "The Bee" - Starlight Mints
* "The Education Song" - The Gourds
* "Weed Party" - Band of Horses
* "Hummalong" - The Drams
* "Fire Island, AK" - The Long Winters
* "White Collar Boy" - Belle and Sebastian
* "Cope" - The Futureheads
* "Summersong" - The Decemberists
* "European Oils" - Destroyer
* "Night Driver" - Tom Petty
* "Maybe Sparrow" - Neko Case
* "VERA said that?!?"

The mix opens and closes with cribbed Simpsons audio, which was obviously taken from pre-2006 episodes. But all the songs between are 2006.

I'll put together a super-duper year-end extravaganza sometime in December.