Domingo 7 Jan 2007, 11h:25
Hello people. It's been a while. Gosh. I just HAD to write a new entry. Thank God that it may actually be useful or interesting :)
Sooooo… I have this habit of making my personal annual music charts (since 2000, I think. It's so damn FUNNY to check out some of them now, e.g. No. 1 in 2000? Take a wild guess. Vanessa Amarossi - Absolutely Everybody. She beat Vengaboys… Thank God for me discovering the Internet in 2001) and last year was no exception. In 2006 I discovered a lot of new music, more than usually I think, and while making the Top 100 it was as hard as ever to choose what is hot and what is not - and to place the songs appropriately.
I have a rule that an artist cannot have more than 5 songs in one annual chart, because otherwise the list would lack variety, so I always choose a couple of favourites from albums to include in the Top 100. This year noone can boast even 5 songs in my chart, though Arctic Monkeys and The Killers were close with Fake Tales of San Francisco and For Reasons Unknown, both of which I've removed later in order to squeeze in some new tracks by other bands. I didn't make the list overnight, I worked on it a lot to make it look the way I want, but of course I'm sure I'll regret some decisions I've made. I'm already thinking that maybe I've robbed Placebo or Kasabian… But I'm quite sure that the tracks I've chosen are certainly my favourites. I'm really quite satisfied with the main Top 10, and it is the most important part :)
I'm sure you'll wonder why there's only one track by Muse! Haha. Yeah, I've listened to the album and it didn't seem bad… I was quite close to including Supermassive Black Hole and Exo Politics, but later changed my mind. The only standout track in their album to me is Starlight (and a goddamn perfect one! :)), while others didn't quite match it… Okay, simply put, I just didn't think others were worthy of including!
Enough rambling, here's the fun part. Cheers!
ScReaMaS' Top 100 of 2006
1. Muse - Starlight
2. Blue October - Hate Me
3. The Killers - Read My Mind
4. Razorlight - In The Morning
5. Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance
6. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby
7. Placebo - Pierrot The Clown
8. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
9. The Kooks - Naive
10. Fort Minor - Where'd You Go (feat. Holly Brook and Jonah Matranga)
11. Lily Allen - Smile
12. Razorlight - Who Needs Love?
13. Arctic Monkeys - Mardy Bum
14. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Hard To Concentrate
15. The Killers - When You Were Young
16. Sportas - Beibi
17. Katie Melua - Spider’s Web
18. Jet - Shiny Magazine
19. Gnarls Barkley - Just a Thought
20. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
21. Nelly Furtado - All Good Things
22. Razorlight - America
23. The Zutons - Valerie
24. SEL - Lauzau Standartus
25. Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down
26. Keane - Is It Any Wonder?
27. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - Glass Houses
28. The Strokes - You Only Live Once
29. Flipsyde - Happy Birthday
30. Weezer - This Is Such A Pity
31. Karmah - Just Be Good To Me
32. Angels & Airwaves - The Adventure
33. Panic! At The Disco - There's A Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey. You Just Haven't Figured It Out Yet
34. Fort Minor - Remember The Name
35. Jet - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
36. Lily Allen - Knock Em Out
37. The Dresden Dolls - Sing
38. Angels & Airwaves - Do It For Me Now
39. SEL - Tik
40. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - I-Spy
41. Brainstorm - Thunder Without Rain
42. Placebo - Post Blue
43. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Especially in Michigan
44. The Dresden Dolls - Dirty Business
45. The Kooks - She Moves In Her Own Way
46. Pink - Who Knew
47. Pearl Jam - World Wide Suicide
48. U2 & Green Day - The Saints Are Coming
49. Gnarls Barkley - Smiley Faces
50. Sandi Thom - I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker
51. The Zutons - How Does It Feel?
52. SEL - Parasyk Man Laiska Is Paryziaus
53. Pink - I Got Money Now
54. Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On
55. Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
56. Keane - A Bad Dream
57. The Ordinary Boys - Boys Will Be Boys
58. Andrius Mamontovas - Viskas Is Naujo
59. Lily Allen - LDN
60. Gorillaz - Dirty Harry
61. Arctic Monkeys - Leave Before The Lights Come On
62. Gnarls Barkley - Who Cares?
63. Kasabian - Empire
64. Goo Goo Dolls - Better Days
65. Roxette - One Wish
66. Snow Patrol - You're All I Have
67. The Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes
68. The Killers - Bones
69. Keane - Nothing In My Way
70. Tiga - Far From Home
71. Jack Johnson - Upside Down
72. Alkaline Trio - Mercy Me
73. Biplan - Golden boj
74. Panic! At The Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies
75. Jet - Eleanor
76. Bites - Yo Ma Sol
77. The Dresden Dolls - Delilah
78. Editors - Fingers in the Factories
79. Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah
80. Foo Fighters - Resolve
81. HIM - Killing Loneliness
82. Nickelback - Far Away
83. Fall Out Boy - A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me"
84. Audioslave - Original Fire
85. Under The Influence Of Giants - Against All Odds
86. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion
87. Mariha - It Hurts
88. Upe - Girtiems
89. Rob Thomas - Ever The Same
90. Morrissey - Life Is A Pigsty
91. The All-American Rejects - Dance Inside
92. Belle and Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue
93. The Vines - Don't Listen To The Radio
94. Shinedown - I Dare You
95. System of a Down - Lonely Day
96. Limp Bizkit - Home Sweet Home/Bittersweet Symphony
97. Gravel - Round And Round
98. A-HA - Analogue
99. Starsailor - This Time
100. Richard Ashcroft - Music Is Power
And let's add some artist connections:
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Gnarls Barkley
Lily Allen
The Kooks
Razorlight
SEL
Jet
Keane
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Fort Minor
The Dresden Dolls
Blue October
Sportas
Katie Melua
Nelly Furtado
The Strokes
Angels & Airwaves
Brainstorm
Pink
Corinne Bailey Rae
The Ordinary Boys
The Raconteurs
Tiga
Biplan
Andrius Mamontovas
Panic! At The Disco
Lordi
Under The Influence of Giants
One last thing - it's just my opinion ;)
Happy New Year, everyone.