Dalliance Track of 2006 – If I didn’t know this I’d lose it

While you are waiting - seriously - don't wait - for album of the year 2006 this is top fifteen of my track of the year (assuming that nice girl from X Factor does not reinvent music in the next two weeks) and for the record the top three will be written on a post card and sent off to the BBC for old time's sake...

  1. The Worst Taste in Music - The Radio Dept.
  2. Intimate Secretary - The Raconteurs
  3. Boys Don't Cry [The Cure Cover] - Grant Lee Phillips
  4. Bang Bang - The Teasers
  5. Once and Never Again - The Long Blondes
  6. New England - Tanya Donelly
  7. Bang Bang [Nancy Sinatra Cover - Live] - The Raconteurs
  8. Leave Before the Lights Come On - Arctic Monkeys
  9. I Will Kill Again - Jarvis Cocker
  10. Long Long Long [The Beatles Cover] - Tanya Donelly
    • Realism by The Magnetic Fields
    • If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle & Sebastian
    • Dear Catastrophe Waitress by Belle & Sebastian
    • Contra by Vampire Weekend
    • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles
    • Codeine Velvet Club by Codeine Velvet Club
    • The Boy With the Arab Strap by Belle & Sebastian
    • Black Sheep Boy by Okkervil River
    • Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant by Belle & Sebastian
    • My Maudlin Career by Camera Obscura
    • Neon Bible by Arcade Fire
    • Night Falls Over Kortedala by Jens Lekman
    • Funeral by Arcade Fire
    • Live in Leeds by The Wedding Present
    • White Blood Cells by The White Stripes
    • This Hungry Life by Tanya Donelly
    • Seamonsters by The Wedding Present
    • Divided by Theoretical Girl
    • Torino by Cinerama
    • Eternal Youth by Future Bible Heroes
    • Little Death by Pete and The Pirates
    • Lesser Matters by The Radio Dept.
    • It's Blitz! by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
    • Blue Roses by Blue Roses
    • Pet Grief by The Radio Dept.
    • Nests by She Keeps Bees
    • Field Music by Field Music
    • Discography: The Complete Singles Collection by Pet Shop Boys
    • Drastic Fantastic by KT Tunstall
    • Show Your Bones by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
    • Our Earthly Pleasures by Maxïmo Park
    • Scissor Sisters by Scissor Sisters
    • Superabundance by The Young Knives
    • Tones Of Town by Field Music
    • A Certain Trigger by Maxïmo Park
    • Another City, Another Sorry by The Answering Machine
    • Confessions on a Dance Floor by Madonna
    • Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion by Fight Like Apes
    • Forty Licks Disc 1 by The Rolling Stones
    • This Is Not the World by The Futureheads