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Audio: Share one of your favorite songs from 2006.
Consider this one a preview of my (hopefully) forthcoming Best Of 2006 Music write-up. I can't pick a single runaway favorite, so here are three of my very favorite songs from the year:
Nelly Furtado's "Maneater" leaked back in March -- right around my birthday, in fact -- and I've been listening to it continuously, over and over, ever since. It hasn't worn out even the tiniest bit. A spectacular pop song; I'm glad "Promiscuous" (which I also love) was a giant hit, but I can't help feeling that this one was just as deserving and got lost in the shuffle.
I appear to be one of the only people I know who thinks that "Kiss You Off" runs away with the best-track prize on the new Scissor Sisters album, even in strong company. I guess I just love Ana Matronic: I do sometimes wish she had the kind of presence on the records that matched her absolutely integral part in the live shows.
I am also of the firm opinion that the Arctic Monkeys pretty much blow,
and are about the most overrated band on the planet, even after all the
backlash (though despite said backlash, the album managed to retain
vestigial placings on entirely too many best-of-year lists -- shame on
you, lazy critics). The only thing they have going for them as a band
is that "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" is a pretty likeable
song, and while their performance of it is, in my humble opinion, just
serviceable, the Sugababes totally nail it to the wall, combining even
fiercer guitars than the AM original with awesome "robot from 1984"
synths. Suck on that, umpteen-millionth band of British whiteboys!
