Saturday, April 7, 2007

Is it too late for an end of year list?




Hey everybody,

Here's my much delayed list for the best movies, albums, and songs of 2006. If you disagree... you're wrong.

Top Ten Movies of the Year:

1) Brick

2) Children of Men

3) The Departed

4) The Fountain

5) The Queen

6) Thank You For Smoking

7) Casino Royale

8) Little Miss Sunshine

9) Idiocracy

10) Why We Fight

Guilty Pleasure: Miami Vice
Worst of the Year: The Black Dahlia
Also good: Stranger Than Fiction, Letters from Iwo Jima, Borat, Tristam Shandy
Best Performances: Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat), Leonardo Dicaprio (The Departed), Helen Mirren (The Queen)
Movies I haven’t seen but are probably good: Little Children, United 93, Half Nelson, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Prestige

Top Five Albums of the Year:

1) TV on the Radio: Return to Cookie Mountain

2) Band of Horses: Everything all the Time

3) Belle and Sebastian: The Life Pursuit

4) Cat Power: The Greatest

5) The Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America

Top Ten Songs of the Year:

1) The Funeral: Band of Horses (Probably one of the Best songs ever written)

2) Nature of the Experiment: Tokyo Public Club

3) Felt Tip: Love is All

4) Smile: Lily Allen

5) Promiscuous: Nelly Furtado

6) ABC 123 XYZ: The Pipettes

7) What You Know: T.I.

8) Wolf Like Me: TV on the Radio

9) We’re in this Together: Ben Lee

10) Free Radicals: Flaming Lips

Other Good Songs: Steady as she Goes (Raconteurs), When the Sun Goes Down (Arctic Monkeys), When You Were Young (The Killers), The Greatest (Cat Power),

Songs I really want out of my head: Crazy (Gnarlz Barkley), That Grey’s Anatomy Song by the Fray.

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