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
    • The Suburbs by Arcade Fire
    • If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle & Sebastian
    • Love and Its Opposite by Tracey Thorn
    • Loveless Unbeliever by The School
    • Realism by The Magnetic Fields
    • Clinging to a Scheme by The Radio Dept.
    • Weathervanes by Freelance Whales
    • Night Falls Over Kortedala by Jens Lekman
    • Crazy For You by Best Coast
    • Whip-Smart by Liz Phair
    • When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog by Jens Lekman
    • Whitechocolatespaceegg by Liz Phair
    • Black Sheep Boy by Okkervil River
    • Champ by Tokyo Police Club
    • His 'N' Hers by Pulp
    • Oh You're So Silent Jens by Jens Lekman
    • It's Blitz! by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
    • A Certain Trigger by Maxïmo Park
    • Wolves and Thieves by Goldheart Assembly
    • Clinging to a Scheme by The Radio Dept.
    • Blue Roses by Blue Roses
    • Lesser Matters by The Radio Dept.
    • Our Earthly Pleasures by Maxïmo Park
    • Yeah So by Slow Club
    • Black Sheep Boy by Okkervil River
    • Showtunes by Stephin Merritt
    • The Stage Names by Okkervil River
    • If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle and Sebastian
    • Little Death by Pete and The Pirates
    • 69 Love Songs (disc 1) by The Magnetic Fields
    • Savage Garden by Savage Garden
    • Bande a Part by Nouvelle Vague
    • Eyes Open by Snow Patrol
    • Voices of Animals and Men by The Young Knives