Top Ten Songs of 2006

Wassup rockers!
So this is the least important of my usual year-end-best-of lists, merely because it's so fluid. Sometimes I don't even do a Best Songs list, but this yr it was absolutely nesc., as there will be no Top Ten Movies of 2006 list. In fact, we may not see one again until, say, Top Ten Movies of 2024. Twin babies, and all that. In fact, here is my Top Movies of 2006 List, for posterity.
1. Borat
2. Little Miss Sunshine
That's all I saw.
SO! Songs! Shall we?
1. "The Crane Wife 1 & 2" - the Decemberists. If you can take an obscure Japanese folk tale, and turn it into an epic eleven minute folk-rock song that actually kind of rawks, well then I am there, my friend. You know me far too well.
2. "Mushaboom" - Feist. This song almost seems to sum up the last two yrs of my life into a catchy little acoustic ditty. Conor Oberst did a fantastic cover of this on the Bright Eyes live album.
3. "Trains to Brazil" - Guillemots. I know nothing about them, other than the fact that I listened to this song 15 times before I decided I liked it, and 15 times more before I realized I loved it. A strong candidate for #1 if I ever re-do this list in 2011 ("Best Songs of 5 Yrs Ago" - see, it's fluid!)
4. "The Greatest" - Cat Power. The countdown has begun to Chan Marshall being a Sarah Maclachlan-type star, beloved by 40 yr old secretaries and sorority chicks alike. As long as she busts out slow jams like this, we're cool.
5. "Steady, As She Goes" - the Raconteurs. My fucking theme song. A simple life in a quiet town.
6. "Stuck Between Stations" - The Hold Steady. Every song on this album is great, I chose this because it has my favorite lyric of the yr : "She was a really cool kisser and she wasn't all that strict of a Christian".
7. "Never Ever" - Shout Out Louds. This song cures hiccups.
8. "Phenomena" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs. First De La, then LL, now Karen O. "Something like a phenomonon" is the lyric that keeps on giving!
9. "Insistor" - Tapes 'n Tapes. This song cures full blown AIDS.
10. "Fake Believe" - They Might Be Giants. This is kind of an achievement award for TMBG, a band I hadn't listened to in probably 10 yrs. Not only did they provide music for some awesome Dunkin' Donuts commercials ("Doing Things Is What I Like To Do" and "Alarm Clock Catastrophe" stand up with anything off of Flood), but they made an ABC's album for kids a few yrs ago that doesn't make me want to blow my head off. "F is for fun, F is for fun, F is for Fake Believe!" is a rallying cry in our household now.
The more important one - Best Albums - is coming soon, as well as the track listing for the 2006 Box Set.
Be bold, rockers!