Is it nearly February already? Good Lord. And here's me without my Singles of the Year list, span style="font-style: italic;" still.
/span What an embarrassment. I'm sure you've all had sleepless nights. Well, rest easy, my good friends, for I present to you.
.. br / br / span style="font-weight: bold;" The Delrico Bandito Singles of 2006.
br / br / /span But...
BUT! I couldn't face ordering them into a Top 50 or whatever, (there's TV to be watched) so here's something a little bit different. Lists are great, but then so are sublists and categories, and oh the joy!
So here we go, let's make up some categories and go apeshit! Woo! br / br / br / span style="font-weight: bold;" The Britpop Solo Hangover Award: br / br / /span span style="font-style: italic;" Winner: /span br / img src="http://ec1.
images-amazon.com/images/P/B000JMKCU2.01.
_AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V36690601_.jpg" alt="Simply put in the fewest of words..
." / br / Jarvis Cocker - 'Cunts Are Still Running The World' br / br / span style="font-style: italic;" Honourable mentions: /span br / The Good, The Bad and The Queen - 'Herculean' br / Graham Coxon - 'Bloody Annoying' br / James Dean Bradfield - 'That's No Way To Tell A Lie' br / Nicky Wire - 'I Killed The Zeitgeist' br / Richard Hawley - 'Last Orders' br / Thom Yorke - 'Black Swan' br / br / Oh yes, here's where the egos ran riot and the talented ones kicked the chaff to the curb and unleashed their opuses on the world! The quality cuts from Blur, The Manics, The Longpigs and Radiohead did their best, but because Jarvis used a really rude word, he gets the gong.
br / br / br / span style="font-weight: bold;" The Kooky Solo Girls I Quite Fancy Award: br / br / /span span style="font-style: italic;" Winner: /span br / img src="http://www.charlottehatherley.com/modules/xmldata/content/thumb-behave.
jpg" alt="I'll be willing, I'll be a fool...
" / br / Charlotte Hatherley - 'Behave' br / br / span style="font-style: italic;" Honourable Mentions: /span br / Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins - 'Rise Up With Fists' br / Regina Spektor - 'Fidelity' br / br / Charlotte escapes the solo britpop slur to triumph in surely the most important category. Plus she released it just in time for Christmas! Phew.
Jen did without Rilo Kiley, who were another one of my fave bands of the year, but they didn't release anything this time out. The fools! Regina went all MOR on our asses, but it's a great tune so we all still love her, don't we?
br / br / Yes. br / br / But Charlotte still won cos the single is incredible. br / br / br / span style="font-weight: bold;" The New Indie Darlings Award: br / br / /span span style="font-style: italic;" Winner: /span span style="font-weight: bold;" br / img src="http://ec2.
images-amazon.com/images/P/B000IOLYZS.01.
_AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V38715139_.jpg" alt="You're only 19 for God's sake..
." / /span br / The Long Blondes - 'Once And Never Again' br / br / span style="font-style: italic;" Honourable Mentions: /span br / Be Your Own Pet - 'Adventure' br / Broken Social Scene - 'Fire Eye'd Boy' br / The Raconteurs – 'Steady As She Goes' br / br / Yay! They're here to save the world!
All brand spanking new (well, The Raconteurs are, sort of) and already setting the world alight. Worthy winners from the Long Blondes there. Jarvis would be proud.
br / br / br / span style="font-weight: bold;" The Bedroom DIYers Award: br / br / /span span style="font-style: italic;" Winner: /span br / img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000G6H47K.
01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V60797342_.jpg" alt="Cold blooded murder of the English tongue.
.." / br / Jamie T - 'Sheila' br / br / span style="font-style: italic;" Honourable Mentions: /span br / Get Cape Wear Cape Fly - 'Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager (Part Two)' br / Helen Love - 'Junkshop Discotesque' br / Hot Chip - 'And I Was A Boy From School' br / br / Emerging pale and blinking from behind the curtains into the sunlight, these guys could still rock with the big boys.
They don't need no complex producers or studios or any of that rubbish. Just an 8 track, an acoustic guitar and a battered drum machine and they're away! And Jamie T was king of them all.
br / br / br / span style="font-weight: bold;" The Are They Still Going Award: br / br / /span span style="font-style: italic;" Winner: /span br / img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000GEIMI2.
01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V62198594_.jpg" alt="The void is clean.
.." / br / Pet Shop boys - Minimal br / br / span style="font-style: italic;" Honourable Mentions: /span br / The Beatles - 'Drive My Car / The Word / What You're Doing ( span style="font-style: italic;" Love /span Medley)' br / Coldcut - 'True Skool' br / Madonna - 'Get Together' br / br / Ah, yet another reinvention for everyone's favourite golden oldies.
Even though Madge's was really Les Rhythmes Digitales. And The Beatles were glued together by George Martin's son. But the Shoppies did it all on their own, so they win, woo!
Plus, it was an amazing record. br / br / br / span style="font-weight: bold;" The Guilty Pleasures Award: br / br / /span span style="font-style: italic;" Winner: /span br / img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.
com/images/P/B000K2V6NS.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V34063850_.
jpg" alt="So what's the complication it's only conversation" / br / The Feeling - 'Love It When You Call' br / br / span style="font-style: italic;" Honourable Mentions: /span br / Jamelia - 'Something About You' br / Michael Gray Feat. I won't tell anyone if you don't. you haven't really got anything to feel guilty about.
The Feeling had it wrapped up this year. The others were just making up the numbers. br / br / br / span style="font-weight: bold;" The I'm Getting Too Old For This Shit Award: br / br / /span span style="font-style: italic;" Winner: /span br / img src="http://ec2.
images-amazon.com/images/P/B000I5Y8ZU.01.
_AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V38618760_.jpg" alt="Teenagers scare the living shit out of me..
." / br / My Chemical Romance - 'Teenagers' br / br / span style="font-style: italic;" Honourable Mentions: /span br / Billy Talent – ‘Devil In A Midnight Mass’ br / Fall Out Boy - 'Sugar We're Going Down' br / Panic! At The Disco - 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies' br / Paramore - 'Emergency' br / br / Yay!
Who cares what it's called (although everyone's calling it emo now, aren't they?) And screw the purists who get snobby about it. This is cracking, exciting, smart, funny, ambitious, theatrical and just darn right fantastic music that totally rocks!
(And, it has to be said, all a million times more interesting than the jangling retro dullness of much of the UK's rock scene. For shame!) MCR's span style="font-style: italic;" Black Parade /span LP was the pinnacle of the wondrous absurdity, and 'Teenagers' was the darkest, funniest thing I heard all year.
Excelsior! br / br / br / span style="font-weight: bold;" The Safe Hands Award: br / br / /span span style="font-style: italic;" Winner: /span br / img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.
com/images/P/B000FIH550.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V40872619_.
jpg" alt="Others they seem so very nice nice nice nice nice oh oh...
" / br / The Strokes - 'You Only Live Once' br / br / span style="font-style: italic;" Honourable Mentions: /span br / The Flaming Lips - 'It Overtakes Me' br / The Futureheads - 'Worry About It Later' br / The Rapture - 'Get Myself Into It' br / The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 'Gold Lion' br / br / Some old friends, and yet some just on their second album, but we already trust these guys to come up with the goods. And come up they did. The Strokes get my vote for surprising me with a song that just wouldn't get out of my head.
They can still pen a great pop song. Here's to the next one, guys. Don't get complacent, y'hear?
br / br / br / span style="font-weight: bold;" The One Off Award: /span br / span style="font-style: italic;" br / Winner: /span br / img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000GPI2YU.
01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V60592411_.jpg" alt="Astedway ittlelay eejaysday.
.." / br / The View - 'Wasted Little DJs' br / br / span style="font-style: italic;" Honourable Mentions: /span br / Gnarls Barkley - 'Crazy' br / Nelly Furtado - 'Maneater' br / br / Well.
.. Gnarls never need to do anything ever again, and Nelly only just got away with vamping it up the once.
Face it guys. Let it go. Is it nearly February already?
Good Lord.
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