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Roger's Jack Bauer Power Year-End 2006 (Recap + Films Now Posted)
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Really good countdown so far...pretty much all your close calls are my countdown haha
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Thank you kind sir's.
The Top 100 Tunes of 2006
100. Stone Sour - Through Glass
| Come What May |
.. Don't know how much time has passed, all I know is that it feels like forever
99. Straylight Run - Hands In The Sky (Big Shot)
| Prepare To Be Wrong |
.. Big shot screaming put your hands in the sky, you say give it up boy
98. Wolfmother - Woman
| Wolfmother |
.. You've come looking for me, like I've got to set you free
97. The Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes
| Broken Boy Soldiers |
.. Find yourself a girl and settle down
96. Lostprophets - Rooftops
| Liberation Transmission |
.. Standing on the rooftops everybody scream your heart out
95. Joaquim Phoenix & Reese Witherspoon - Jackson
| Walk The Line O.S.T. |
.. Jackson, you big talking man
94. The Kooks - She Moves In Her Own Way
| Inside In / Inside Out |
The Kooks place their first out of three charting singles on the year-end at #94 with their slow to become infectious "She Moves In Her Own Way". This is one of the more toned down offerings off the lads bashful debut album, and it provides a stark and fair contrast to their otherwise melodic tunes. It was a great change of pace to hear this, and it deserves to be on this list.
93. Audioslave - Original Fire
| Revelations |
.. The original fire has died and gone, but the riot inside moves on
92. Jet - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
| Shine On |
.. Now I'm gonna echo but never again, not for anyone, anyone
91. City & Color - Comin' Home
| Someday |
.. I've been to Lincoln, Nebraska, and hell you know it aint worth ****
#90-81 tomorrow
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Here's #30-26 in the albums (great set), and the actual top 25 will begin within the week.
Enjoy!
Albums Worth a Thorough Listen, Just not Top 25 Worthy (pt 2)
30. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
| Key Tunes: Gold Lion, Cheated Hearts, Honeybear |
The YYYs thrill precisely because of their keen mix, Karen O spiking the upper ranges with a sharply cut vocal line or a simple, full-bodied singsong delivery while the guitars spin thick storms of sound before retreating to atmospherics
29. Sarah Harmer - I'm A Mountain
| Key Tunes: Oleander, Salamandre, How Deep In The Valley |
With the kind of rootsy charm normally reserved for summer campfires and folk festivals, Sarah Harmer has managed to capture a wonderfully organic feeling in the grooves of I’m a Mountain
28. Jet - Shine On
| Key Tunes: Come On Come On, Shiny Magazines |
Shine On displays swaggering but intelligent boogie rock à la Humble Pie, an ability to tear the roof off like their countrymen AC/DC, and Americana-thieving swagger rock that brings to mind the Rolling Stones
27. Audioslave - Revelations
| Key Tunes: Revelations, Broken City, Someday |
The band channels and updates the unapologetic boogie of Ian Gillan-era Deep Purple with ease, inspiring awe and genuine surprise
26. kOs - Atlantis: Hymns For Disco
| Key Tunes: Sunday Morning, The Rain, Mirror In The Sky |
The combination of strong melodies and K-Os's verbal dexterity means that Atlantis is filled with a brilliance that rarely lets up
So sad those albums that didn't make the top 25.
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Stone Sour
Straylight Run
Wolfmother
Raconteurs
Lostprophets
THE KOOKS!!!!!!
Audioslave
Amazing set
*takes off his shirt and shows nipples* lol, j/k
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100-96, 93 ^___^
Revelations ^__^
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Another set chalk full of goodies.
Top 100 Tunes of 2006
90. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
| St. Elsewhere |
.. I remember when, I remember I remember when I lost my mind
89. Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
| Black Holes & Revelations |
.. Oh baby don't you know I suffer. Oh baby can't you hear me moan
This is the first of two chart appearances on the year-end for the British rockers, who have just secured two sold out shows at the mammoth Wembley Stadium in the UK which houses over 70,000 people. Why on Earth isn't this band THAT big in North America? Well, we North Americans are often very ignorant in that we don't appreciate brilliantly infused neo-classical hyper rock with loads of precocious vocals, but rather - we put Akon at #1 with 'I Wanna F--- You'. Bravo, truly.
88. AFI - Love Like Winter
| Decemberunderground |
.. Warn your warmth to turn away, here it's December everyday
87. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh)
| Stadium Arcadium |
.. Hey oh, listen what I say oh
86. Thrice - Red Sky
| Vheissu |
.. Can you see the sky turn red, as morning's light breaks over me
85. Death Cab For Cutie - Crooked Teeth
| Plans |
.. No you can't find nothing at all, when there was nothing there all along
84. Placebo - Because I Want You
| Meds |
.. Fall into you, is all I seem to do, when I hit the bottle
83. The Subways - Oh Yeah
| Young For Eternity |
.. It's your eyes that make me smile, oh yeah, oh yeah
82. Britney Spears - And Then We Kiss
| B In The Mix Remixes |
Random? I know. But I actually thought this was one of the better songs shes "released" in the last few years.
81. Rise Against - Ready To Fall
| Sufferer & The Witness |
.. I'm standing on the rooftop ready to fall, I think I'm at the edge now but I could be wrong
Enjoy. #80-71 coming tmrw and maybe albums #25-21 as well.
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Are you trying to copy my countdown!! I might as well not even post mine it's so similar....
...but I guess we have great taste in music!
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oh man this is not as bad as I thought!
Rooftops, Hands in The Sky, Crazy and 88-84 are all great
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= more fantasticness
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This list is awesome. Snow (Hey Oh), Crazy, Ready To Fall, Shine On ^_^
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90-81, minus Britney is YUMMY!
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good stuff so far, roger. I love the majority of the songs listed.
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8/10 Gnarls, Muse, AFI, RHCP ^_^
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Thanks fellas. WOOT for #80-71 and top 5 worst songs of 2006.
Top 100 Tunes of 2006
80. Sam Roberts - Bridge To Nowhere
| Chemical City |
.. If this is a race then I hope you come last. You're on a bridge to nowhere and you're getting there fast
79. The New ****ographers - Use It
| Twin Cinema |
.. Use it tonight
78. kOs - Sunday Morning
| Atlantis: Hymns for Disco |
.. All I know is music, all, all I've ever know
77. Kenny Chesney - Summertime
| The Road & The Radio |
.. The more things change, the more they stay the same
76. Bob Sinclair - World Hold On (Children Of The Sky)
| Western Dream |
.. World hold on, instead of messing with my future
75. Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - Our Hell
| Knives Don't Have Your Back |
.. Our hell is a good life
This is the first of three charting appearances for Ms. Metric herself, who took a sudden turn towards the somber with her debut solo disc "Knives Dont Have Your Back". Proving she is as meticulously talented as she is gorgeous, Emily Haines nailed the complete Metric-retrograde sound without a sense of dissatisfaction or self doubt. Truly, one of Canadian's finest gems.
74. The Editors - Blood
| The Back Room |
.. Blood runs through our veins, thats where our similarity ends
73. Pussycat Dolls f/ Snoop Dogg - Buttons
| PCD |
One of summer's best club bangers - these girls (well mainly the lead) are hot.
72. Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark
| Plans |
.. If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied, illuminate the nodes on their vacancy signs
71. Carrie Underwood - Don't Forget To Remember Me
| Some Hearts |
I rather like the singles Carrie has released thus far off her album. They're pretty panzy, but she's hot, pleasant, and tells a good story. Thumbs upski and probably some of the better material that's come out of American Idol.
WORST SONGS OF '06 COMING UP... #70-61 on Saturday. And CD's #25-21.
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woo for DCFC, Editors, New ****os, and some others
can't wait for the worst songs of '06
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Don't Forget to Remember Me is the song of the year. It will be on my list!
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Death Cab For Cutie
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