My Favorite Earworms Of 2006

1. Keane - "Is It Any Wonder?"

2. Placebo - "Drag"

3. Infadels - "Love Like Semtex"

4. Depeche Mode - "Martyr"

5. Peter, Bjorn And John (feat. Victoria Bergsman) - "Young Folks"

6. Hot Chip - "Over and Over"

7. Junkie XL (with vocals by Nathan Mader) - "Today"

8. The Pipettes - "Pull Shapes"

9. Teddybears (feat. Neneh Cherry) - "Yours to Keep"

10. Mogwai - "Friend of the Night"

11. Solo - "Come Back To Me" (available on Solopeople)

12. Belle And Sebastian - "Sukie in the Graveyard"

13. Beck - "Think I'm In Love"

14. Morrissey - "To Me You Are a Work of Art"

15. The Feeling - "Anyone"

16. The Upper Room - "Black and White"

17. The Kooks - "She Moves In Her Own Way"

18. Albert Hammond Jr. - "Scared"

19. Sloan - "Can't You Figure It Out?"

20. Sean Lennon - "Parachute"

21. Bitter:Sweet - "Dirty Laundry"

22. The Raconteurs - "Steady, As She Goes"

23. Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - "Skeleton Key"

24. Camera Obscura - "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken"

25. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Cheated Hearts"

26. Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs - "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere"

27. The Young Knives - "Loughborough Suicide" (available on Voices of Animals and Men)

28. The Tragically Hip - "In View"

29. Gnarls Barkley - "Crazy" (but of course)

30.

Yes, you. If Time can name everyone as person of the year, well then... we... should all... mock them*. Scratch the "you" entry for #30; it goes to a song.

30. Cat Power - "Lived in Bars"

*As Jon Stewart did:



A couple notes about the list:

- It was made with a bias against the artists on my list of favorite albums of the year, but a couple sneaked on anyway.

- The Wikipedia definition of earworm is "a song stuck in one's head, particularly an annoying one", but I use the word in a purely positive, affectionate way.