100 Best Songs of 2006 (Rolling Stone)

Timis · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:42 pm

Best Songs of 2006

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1. "Crazy" - Gnarls Barkley
2. "Steady As She Goes" - The Raconteurs
3. "Ridin'" - Chamillionaire
4. "What You Know" - T.I.
5. "Vans" - The Pack
6. "Thunder on the Mountain" - Bob Dylan
7. "Smile" - Lily Allen
8. "Wamp Wamp (What It Do)" - Clipse with Slim Thug
9. "Dimension" - Wolfmother
10. "Ooh La La" - Goldfrapp
11. "World Wide Suicide" - Pearl Jam
12. "Read My Mind" - The Killers
13. "Free Radicals" - The Flaming Lips
14. "Ghetto Story" - Cham
15. "Miss Murder" - AFI
16. "You Only Live Once" - The Strokes
17. "Welcome to the Black Parade" - My Chemical Romance
18. "Ain't No Other Man" - Christina Aguilera
19. "Get Myself Into It" - The Rapture
20. "The Long Way Around" - The Dixie Chicks
21. "SexyBack" - Justin Timberlake
22. "Tell Me Baby" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
23. "Fidelity" - Regina Spektor
24. "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live" - Bruce Springsteen
25. "When the Sun Goes Down" - Arctic Monkeys
26. "Province" - TV on the Radio
27. "Capillarian Crest" - Mastodon
28. "Level" - The Raconteurs
29. "Smiley Faces" - Gnarls Barkley
30. "Over & Over" - Hot Chip
31. "The Clock" - Thom Yorke
32. "Do It To It" - Cherish
33. "Chill Out Tent" - The Hold Steady
34. "When You Were Young" - The Killers
35. "Summersong" - The Decemberists
36. "SOS" - Rihanna
37. "Strange Apparition" - Beck
38. "Gin & Milk" - Dirty Pretty Things
39. "Dance, Dance" - Fall Out Boy
40. "Incinerate" - Sonic Youth
41. "Me & U" - Cassie
42. "Origin of Species" - Chris Smither
43. "Tony the Beat" - The Sounds
44. "Hustlin'" - Rick Ross
45. "Yo (Excuse Me Miss)" - Chris Brown
46. "Hang Me Up to Dry" - Cold War Kids
47. "Cheer It On" - Tokyo Police Club
48. "He Said, She Said" - Shawnna with Ludacris
49. "Chasing Cars" - Snow Patrol
50. "My Love" - Justin Timberlake
51. "Black Sweat" - Prince
52. "Makedamnsure" - Taking Back Sunday
53. "O Valencia!" - The Decemberists
54. "Kilo" - Ghostface Killah
55. "Nausea" - Beck
56. "Promiscuous" - Nelly Furtado with Timbaland
57. "Love Me or Hate Me" - Lady Sovereign
58. "Idlewild Blues" - Outkast
59. "Bossy" - Kelis with Too $hort
60. "Phenomena" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
61. "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above" - CSS
62. "Work, Work, Work (Pub, Club, Sleep)" - The Rakes
63. "The Funeral" - Band of Horses
64. "Put Your Records On" - Corinne Bailey Rae
65. "Penny on the Train Track" - Ben Kweller
66. "Ballad of Bitter Honey" - Eef Barzelay
67. "Deja Vu" - Beyonce with Jay-Z
68. "Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts" - Arctic Monkeys
69. "Trouble" - Jay-Z
70. "I Gotcha" - Lupe Fiasco
71. "Let Me Know" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
72. "Louisiana " - The Walkmen
73. "Pushover" - The Long Winters
74. "Just Drums" - Tapes 'N Tapes
75. "Before He Cheats" - Carrie Underwood
76. "Fire Department" - Be Your Own Pet
77. "Trapped in the Drive-Thru" - "Weird Al" Yankovic
78. "That's How I Got To Memphis" - Solomon Burke
79. "It's Going Down" - Yung Joc with Nitti
80. "I'm Free" - Pimp C
81. "Temperature" - Sean Paul
82. "London Bridge" - Fergie
83. "Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further" - Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint
84. "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage" - Panic! At the Disco
85. "Well Thought Out Twinkles" - Silversun Pickups
86. "The Saints are Coming" - Green Day and U2
87. "U +UR Hand" - Pink
88. "The Greatest" - Cat Power
89. "Show Me" - John Legend
90. "Britney's Silver Can" - James Kochalka Superstar
91. "Buttons" - The Pussycat Dolls
92. "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" - Dropkick Murphys
93. "Saving Grace" - Tom Petty
94. "Stuntin' Like My Daddy" - Lil' Wayne and Birdman
95. "Don't Feel Right" - The Roots
96. "If I Was in El Dorado" - Oakley Hall
97. "Automatic Lover" - Teddybears
98. "Take Control" - Amerie
99. "Baby Let's Have a Baby Before Bush Do Somethin' Crazy" - The Coup with Silk E
100. "Skinny Boy" - Amy Millan

Grape Ripple · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:47 pm

I tend to agree with their belief in the brilliance of "Crazy". Anyone who doesn't have it in their top songs of the year is being a bit unrealistic.

Spade Kitty · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:49 am **Posts:** 4401

wait, what's the tune with bowie on it? Province? Yeah, that's gotta be the best one, then

hey look · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:17 pm

#5. awesome.

paladisiac · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:21 pm

Ripple Red Wrote:

I tend to agree with their belief in the brilliance of "Crazy". Anyone who doesn't have it in their top songs of the year is being a bit unrealistic.

<= unrealistic

i somehow came upon this song late in the game and became more caught up with the entire album than this one track in particular.

Rick Derris · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:28 pm

paladisiac Wrote:

Ripple Red Wrote:

I tend to agree with their belief in the brilliance of "Crazy". Anyone who doesn't have it in their top songs of the year is being a bit unrealistic.

<= unrealistic

Yeah, I haven't heard anything except that song. I heard about them for 3-4 months before I even heard "Crazy" and was disappointed. Don't get me wrong, it's a great party song but as far as songs of the year go I think it falls woefully short.

I remember the year "Hey Ya" came out and it was the song of the year, it felt like a phenomenon. "Crazy" doesn't have that for me.

fancypants · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:10 pm

There's a lot that I don't like about this list...one thing is their choice of song from certain artists. For Lily Allen, I would have picked "LDN" years before "Smile", ditto TV on the Radio and "Wolf Like Me", ditto YYY's, ditto Be Your Own Pet...

tentoze · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:12 pm

Well, thanks to the Springsteen song, I'm batting 1 for 100 on that list.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Ripple Red Wrote:

I tend to agree with their belief in the brilliance of "Crazy". Anyone who doesn't have it in their top songs of the year is being a bit unrealistic.

I really hate that song

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:31 pm

i didn't like 'Crazy' the first 100x I heard it either, but then something clicked.....not my faveorite of the year by far, but ain't the most horrible choice...morel ike the most obvious one.

fancypants · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:38 pm

You know, I've never actually sat down and listened to that song from start to finish. I have only heard it out and about, at clubs, etc. Because it has been so ubiquitous I have not had the desire to get the song and listen to it, but maybe I should.

Kit · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:47 pm **Posts:** 3052

I don't think I have even heard the Gnarls song yet.

Timis · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:17 pm

Kit Wrote:

I don't think I have even heard the Gnarls song yet.

wow...thats a pretty impressive feat

cybin · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:26 pm

I stll think "Smiley Faces" is better.
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Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:25 pm

If #4 was #1, this list would rule.

"Steady as She Goes" is a fucking AWESOME rock single, right up there with "Seven Nation Army"

splates · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:27 pm

surprisingly tolerable

DHRjericho · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:40 pm

No Camera Obscura, Peter Bjorn & John

Mick · **Posted:** Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:13 am

Timixmas Wrote:

Best Songs of 2006

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87. "U +UR Hand" - Pink

I heard this song today. Is it intentionally the Veronicas song with different vocals or not, because someone told me it was...

ptrck · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:55 pm **Posts:** 5568

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35. "Summersong" - The Decemberists

Truth

Sketch · **Posted:** Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:52 am

cybin Wrote:

I still think "Smiley Faces" is better.
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Me too.

Aimarr · **Posted:** Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:24 am

'trouble' at #69. not bad for those crackers at rollingthestones.

Aimarr · **Posted:** Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:25 am

obv 'me & u' is #1

bort · **Posted:** Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:30 am

i didn't click the link, this is the critics/writers list, not a reader's poll?

anyway, i too find it surprisingly tolerable, though i wonder if that's because RS finally took their heads out of their asses or because 2006 was a great year for singles...

posthumus · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:17 am **Posts:** 589

And Rolling Stone continues to ride out Fall Out Boy and Panic! as though they were Nirvana.

Can we keep it to music from this year guys?

BTW seeing Silversun Pickups getting lumped in with TI, The Roots and Chris Brown = awesome!

I want to see them at the Billboard Music Awards next year, I really do.

puma · **Posted:** Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:09 pm

DHRjericho Wrote:

No Camera Obscura, Peter Bjorn & John

we're talking about rolling stone here.

not too shabby of a list for rolling stone, although over and over at #30? jerks.

and for as much as i loved "crazy" when i first heard it, never have i gotten so sick of a song as i did with that one.

100 Best Songs of 2006 (Rolling Stone)

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