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Top 25 Singles of 2006

I tried my best to get up to 25, but I'll admit, having avoided the radio for almost the entire year it was hard to scrape up 25 good singles. These are the best we gots:

The TOP 25 SINGLES OF 2006.


(25)Blood Brothers - Set Fire To The Face On Fire: This should be number one, but I figured nobody else reading this would ever have heard of these guys, other than from me singing their praises. If you don't listen to any other band I list, download this one track. You'll instantly know whether you'll dig the band or not. FIRE FIRE FIRE!!

(24)Deftones - Hole In the Earth: I'll always have a special place in my heart for the Deftones.

(23)Beck - Nausea: Not Beck's best single, but these days, you takes what you can gets from Beck.

(22)Strapping Young Lad - You Suck:

(21)Thursday - Counting 5-4-3-2-1: Just a cool goddamn song; not enough people listen to Thursday, I highly recommend them.

(20)Ok Go - Here It Goes Again: Suck it, bitches; I was listening to this album when it came out last year. That makes me SO much cooler than you. Seriously.

(19)The Streets - When You Wasn't Famous: A British white dude raps about how hard it is to pick up famous chicks when you are also famous. Not that he's at all famous in America, but in England, The Streets is the shit.

(18)Bleeding Through - Love In Slow Motion: Metalcore with keyboards makes me happy. That is all.

(17)Taking Back Sunday - MakeDamnSure: Another guilty pleasure. This band is the pinnacle of lameness, as is true of almost all emocore bands. However, I just really really dug this song this year. Doesn't stop the band from sucking donkey dong, though.

(16)Gnarls Barkley - Gone Daddy Gone: a crazed funk/soul version of a great Violent Femmes song. Gnarls Barkley is goddamn awesome.

(15)Matisyahu - Youth: Fuck everyone, I really dig this dude, and I like the song.

(14)Fear Before The March Of Flames - Taking Cassandra To The End Of The World Party: The strangest post-hardcore act getting even moderate airplay, this takes the guitar fuzz of Hum and mixes it up with a track off of Eighteen Visions' "Vanity" record for 2 and a half minutes of weirdness about the mythological story of Cassandra the prophet.

(13)Pearl Jam - World Wide Suicide: Who knew Pearl Jam had one more awesome single in them, let alone their best album since No Code (sue me, I love that record). Second biggest comeback all year (only because every Weird Al album is a comeback album).

(12)Lady Sovereign - Love Me or Hate Me: A fantastic beat, off-the-wall lyrics about being less-than-attractive (but still being the shit) and a relatively cute British chick rapping. She's the biggest midget in the game, after all. Make way for the S.O.V.

(11)Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push: The best rapper to debut this year, the best rap single to hit mainstream radio this year, and just flat-out the coolest song about skateboarding ever made. Like Kanye West without the arrogant assholeishness.

(10)Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California: Say what you will about Stadium Arcadium (and there is quite a bit to say, not the least of which would be "Why 2 discs?"), but let's be honest, you heard the first single and thought it was pretty kickass too.

(9)People In Planes - If You Talk Too Much My Head Will Explode: These guys sound an awful lot like Pablo Honey-era Radiohead, not that there's anything wrong with that. Expect to hear more from these guys, and soon.

(8)Wolfmother - Dimension; FUCKIN' RAAAWWWWWKKK!

(7)Dragonforce - Through The Fire And Flame: Literally the fastest goddamn metal band I've ever heard, ever (taking the title previously held by Children Of Bodom). Power metal bombast vocals about...well...fire and flame with speed metal riffing and crazy fucking solos.

(6)The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes: The first couple times I listened to this song, it just didn't click. At all. To the point of me deleting it off my computer. Then, after awhile, I caught the bassline, and that's what hooked me. Besides the fact that Jack White can make almost any song rock the proverbial casbah, it's just a really good song in every respect.

(5)Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor: A rock song that you can dance to? Right the fuck on!

(4)She Wants Revenge - Tear You Apart: Let's get this out of the way; She Wants Revenge is horrible. They copy their inspirations exactly (New Order and...uhhh...New Order), without adding anything of their own, and the lyrics are absolutely TERRIBLE, usually devolving into some ham-handed correlation to fucking (or masturbating). There is absolutely no reason why the band should exist, at all. That being said, this song is the balls, in a nasty, dirty, sweaty way. A guilty pleasure, maybe, but it's one catchy-as-fuck guilty pleasure.

(3)Tool - Vicarious: You can always count on Tool to release a fucking awesome first single whenever they release a new album. No exceptions here; Tool preaches about being disproportionately detached from real-life violence by the media that spotlights violence for ratings, and how we all follow in line and devour all the violence they show us because it's on TV. Violence. Sorry, just trying to meet my violence quota.

(2)Weird Al Yankovic - White & Nerdy: Received more mainstream radio airplay than anything he's released since the early 90's. That says a lot about an accordion-playing comedian/parodist pushing 50. Still relevant, still hilarious, still a genius.

(1)Gnarls Barkley - Crazy: Like there was any other choice. Glorious perfection. Mashes about 5 different genres of music into 2:58 of audio cool. Overplayed and run into the ground, but it actually DESERVES to be overplayed.