I'm 26 pages too late, but WOLFMOTHER? Why are Wolfmother on your chart? This saddens me.

That's like putting K-Fed in there.

Mmmm not quite.

I voted for this but meant to vote for "Get Up" by Ciara. Oops!

That's a good one too, I forgot to vote for that.

I just spent 2 hours reading this thread in a tiny cottage in the most remote part of the British Isles on a shitty dial up connection......

two words...

DAN

GOD

Nic and Nick = the new Cobe, Cobe's Bro?

I thought lack of support from deej in this poll would hurt it, but even with another #1 vote behind it, it still wouldn't have enough points to rise to #6.



I don't even hate this song, but after half a page of "God, I hope The Killers take this" posts, seeing this was incredibly satisfying. This massive juggernaut only finished 1 point ahead of "Over and Over," too.

I'd put him on my ignore list but I know that people will be quoting him and responding to his posts anyway. Hopefully he's got early holiday plans.


You really should have voted.

K-Fed was #101

haha had i voted, crazy would have been at like 97

As a single "You Only Live Once," didn't do a whole lot. And the responsibility for that lies pretty much in the record company's hands, or in the marketing. To me it's the definition of a perfect single, tight song overall, instantly brilliant chorus, and not too long. If it was the first single off of FIOE, it may have really blown up, or at least it would have gave the album some legs commercially. It really is everything I like about the Strokes in one tight rock song. While it's the only song I really love on FIOE, but when a song is that good, I don't really care about the other tracks that follow.

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that stations like Q101 prefer butt rawk attitude and production to things that don't suck. Hence "Juicebox" being something of a hit. Can't piss off the Papa Roach fans we gained when 94.7 changed formats!

no mags: that "mercy mercy me" cover isn't even that bad!

i seem to remember a thread where it was hammered. i only heard it once and wasn't at all impressed, but it's also one of those songs that, y'know, is kinda difficult to cover well. i still think it should've just been left alone.

edit: found. ok, not as bad as i thought.

lol! breathing bug spray at the end doesn't make you laugh, humorless, snobs, evil doers, artists, pissants,

"A Pillar Of Salt" might be my favorite discovery from this.

Late to the party here. Another stellar job by GDB.

I echo the positive sentiments for Oxford Collapse.

I, too, thought Futureheads were saying "Worry About Atlanta"...thought the Mets could adopt it as their annual theme. A far better song than "Skip to the End".

Scissor Sisters is good fun but way too long and repetitive...it could take a lesson from Hot Chip and cut off the over and over before it becomes nauseating.

That Basement Jaxx song is really weak....maybe riding a bit on their reputation.

All the Sleater-Kinney haters who love "Pull Shapes" need to seriously listen to songs like "Milkshake and Honey" and "Step Aside".

Awesome blurbs from Undo (windchimes/wood block is the new cowbell intro), Slackmo (Your far, far from losing your mind, pal) and Sausage (viking bloodlust...awesome)....though can't say I'm a fan of the Timberlake blurb- lowest common denominator rarely works for me(see early Sandler films and shit like "Waiting").

Once again, the crazy number of Billboard top 40 on our list is reason enough to look ahead to the albums poll....still, we got the #1 right...no mainstream song has deserved #1 more.

that Scissor Sisters record was one of the bigger disappointments of the year.

Agree...one of the few records I bought where I wanted a refund.

this is why i love the SOMB and these countdowns...never heard this until now...and i love it

Q101 numbers have pretty much gone down each book since 94.7 flipped. Plus the 94.7 crowd didn't buy shit, the have no money, their's no market for it in a major city, that's why they flipped.

top 40 is very good-- take out, like, jenny lewis, all-american rejects, raconteurs and it's all good songs-- even that strokes song is good; bottom 20 is made awesome by the presence of these pleasant surprises:

99 Oxford Collapse Please Visit Your National Parks 616 9
97 Killer Mike That's Life 625 9
96 El Perro del Mar God Knows (You Got to Give) 630 9
93 Goldfrapp Ride a White Horse / Serge Santiago Re-Edit 637 9
90 Sally Shapiro I'll Be By Your Side / Club REMIX 658 10
88 CSS Alala 666 10
87 Klaxons Gravity's Rainbow / The Bouncer 671 8
85 Jarvis Cocker Running the World 675 8 1
84 Voxtrot Mothers, Daughters, Sisters & Wives / Rise Up in the Dirt / Four Long Days / Soft & Warm 692 8 1
82 Love is All Busy Doing Nothing 699 9
81 Fiona Apple Not About Love 712 9

80-41 is hit and miss, about a 50% strike ratio, but on the whole this turned pretty well. Considering there are two Flaming Lips singles and an OK Go one, the overall quality is even more remarkable.

I can't believe sask and others avoided camera obscura! (p.s. underachievers... was a good record)

what do you have against "Move Along," Scott?

more underwhelmed than dislike it-- a few of my co-workers love it, so I think I'm mostly sick of it and think it's overrated based on that very small sample size.

jenny lewis is ok, too. just blandsville. raconteurs sound like a miller lite commercial. I hope if jack white is really going to get all his rock crap out via these guys he goes all country or something with the white stripes, although with their minimalism I guess that's not possible. In any event, he should make an old-timey honky-tonk record.

I'd much rather hear a Stripes metal record than a Stripes country record, personally. White's at his most annoying and precious when doing his good ole boy schtick.

that could be good, too

Waaaaaaaay too much Belle & Sebastian love in this list.

3 songs, all outside the top 40 is too much love? If anything they were hurt by having too many good singles this year, as any one of them could have placed much higher.

Sorry so late....so much SOMB, so little time...



I love this cover, I want it for next year's Christmas cards.




Surprisingly, so did WXRT.



This is on my "shoulda/woulda/coulda added to the poll" list.




I only did because other people did.



The only thing that would have been crazier is if this beat out Chamillionaire's "Ridin'". Shittiest blurb ever, BTW.




Hey...did Steve Tyler get around more often than we know?...

Please don't insult Mr. Tyler's genes.

Uh yeah...same here....I don't get the luv for Sexyback.



Thank You Thank You SOMB for not making this #1. Just Thank you.

All right, enough then. Put the Singles Poll to bed. Thanks for everything, everyone!

Have a safe and awesome NYE.

how is it that i call you a friend and you hadn't heard this? I'm a failure.

Finally listening to this, and yeah, once I entered the top 40, it became a very solid listen. Even tracks I didn't care for when I heard them over the course of the year (Lily Allen, Phoenix, etc) fit in beautifully. Fantastic job, SOMB. Extra thanks to GDB for tracking down and posting each of the tracks

sometimes even the obvious ones slip through the cracks...you probably pimped, but i didn't read the threads...

on another 2006 singles note...i'm listening to Scanners - "Lowlife" and can't remember if I mentioned this one on my list...it's mentioned now.

Underachievers is a ridiculously better album than Lloyd.

Yeah this happened.

Youre gonna end having people post 2007 lists here, resurrecting this old thread, Mitch.
Warning...this shit here is 2006

and by the way...what happened to Ben?!

People can read. Fun to look over the thread again, much better than the album list.

most tired phrase on the somb ever

Clichés become clichés because they are true. Last year's top 10 albums was pretty awful.

Agreed, this is pretty much a fact.

Not as I recall...

Would really be surprised to see him post a list this year, at this point.

Same for Bhickman and Some Girl, I felt the same way about raj until a day ago when he appeared in the chatroom saying something about "cramming" music for the end of the year.

Is it too late to vote?