HOBBY BOX'S TOP SINGLES OF 2006 For the first time since I started making year-end music list, I was compelled this year to rank my favorite songs of the last 12 months all the way to 50. I think it's because 2006 was my first full year of mp3 hunting and video clip scrounging for this blog. It's not only made me more fully appreciate the beauty of a great single, but it's also just made it easier to figure which tracks are the actual singles. Heck, three or four years ago, who had any clue which songs off all the best indie albums were official singles? 1. "Special" / Mew [youtube] 2. "Roscoe" / Midlake [mp3][youtube] 3. "Young Folks" Peter Bjorn & John featuring Victoria Bergsman [youtube] 4. "Crazy" / Gnarls Barkley [youtube] 5. "The Funeral" / Band of Horses [mp3] [youtube] 6. "Sexyback" / Justin Timberlake [youtube] 7. "Fake Tales of San Francisco" / Arctic Monkeys [youtube] 8. "Painted by Numbers" / The Sounds [mp3] [youtube] 9. "Hold On, Hold On" / Neko Case [mp3] 10. "Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt" / We Are Scientists [youtube] 11. "Love Me or Hate Me" / Lady Sovereign [youtube] 12. "The Zookeeper's Boy" / Mew [youtube] 13. "Promiscuous" / Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland [youtube] 14. "Rise Up With Fists!" / Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins [mp3][youtube] 15. "Shooter" / Lil Wayne featuring Robin Thicke [youtube] 16. "Mothers, Sisters, Daughters and Wives" / Voxtrot [mp3] 17. "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" / Scissor Sisters [youtube] 18. "Doctor Blind" / Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton [mp3][youtube] 19. "Wildcat" / Ratatat [mp3] 20. "White Light, White Light" / Supersystem [mp3][youtube] 21. "The Blues are Still Blue" / Belle and Sebastian [youtube] 22. "Launch Yourself" / Adem [mp3] 23. "We're From Barcelona" / I'm From Barcelona [youtube] 24. "Temperature" / Sean Paul [youtube] 25. "Fidelity" / Regina Spektor [youtube] 26. "Goodbye" / The Postmarks 27. "Over and Over" / Hot Chip 28. "Did I Step on Your Trumpet" / Danielson 29. "LDN" / Lily Allen 30. "Supermassive Black Hole" / Muse 31. "Buttons" / Pussycat Dolls 32. "Rally" / Phoenix 33. "In the Morning" / Razorlight 34. "The Greatest" / Cat Power 35. "Check on It" / Beyonce featuring Slim Thug 36. "Get Myself Into It" / The Rapture 37. "God Knows" / El Perro Del Mar 38. "Skip to the End" / The Futureheads 39. "Don't Feel Right" / The Roots 40. "Put You In Your Place" / The Sunshine Underground 41. "Ooh La La" / Goldfrapp 42. "When We Were Young" / The Killers 43. "Boy Soprano" / Xiu Xiu 44. "Jique" / Brazilian Girls 45. "Inside of Me" / Starlight Mints 46. "We Are The Ones" / The Coup 47. "Sing" / Dresden Dolls 48. "Cobrastyle" / Teddybears 49. "Love" / J Dilla featuring Pharoahe Monch 50. "Lolita" / Elefant tags: music | singles | best of 2006 posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 | [permalink]