Venerdì 19 Set 2008, 9:32

2006: a bad and very hard year. In music, I just followed the trends started the years before.
Due to the fact almost all the music I listened to that year was scrobbled to last.fm, the top20 is basically my last.fm's top20 for that year.
This top20 is not considered as retrospective, since it was made soon after 2006 was finished.

Here we are with the 20 most important songs for that year.

20 - The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations Very classic song of theirs. Very nice vocals.
19 - Ramones - Take it as it comes It took me a long time to discover that it's actually a The Door's song. But both versions sound really good.
18 - Gene Vincent - It's no lie In this year I made a Gene Vincent's revival. And this song was the most played then.
17 - Erika - Right or wrong Every year features a dance song. That time was that song.
16 - Mafalda Arnauth - Quase imortal It's FADO time. This song had been my #1 in Last.fm for months.
15 - Mondo Marcio - Dentro alla scatola It's Italian rap. This song provided lots of fun, altough not being about happy matters.
14 - The Beatles - You never give me your money I think I had never given this song enough attention until that year
13 - Alessandro Moreschi - Ave Maria If the year before this song took #13 because of curiosity, in 2006 it got into the charts because of its quailty. And again the 13th.
12 - The Moody Blues - The Story in Your Eyes Moody Blues has many good songs. This is one of their best. It has much energy.
11 - Johnny Mathis - Misty Very beautiful ballad. I'm not an enthusiastic of jazz, but this song I recommend.
10 - The Knife - Silent shout This song is very dark. The videoclip, very strange. But both are fantastic
09 - Bryan Ferry - Kiss and Tell This song is hard to explain, just listen and enjoy.
08 - The Beatles - The word Another "re-discovered" Beatles' song.
07 - Muse - Supermassive Black Hole Very catchy rock song. When Muse decides not to sound like Radiohead, we always get good results.
06 - The Moody Blues - I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band) Another Moody Blues' song. This is a very powerful song with funny lyrics, possibly an answer to the social/political-engaged bands.
05 - Gnarls Barkley - Crazy In my opinion, the hit of 2006. I thought this band could do something else, but it was just another one-hit wonder
04 - Bee Gees - Craise Finton Kirk Royal Academy of Arts Very, very nice. Very, very nice.
03 - Irving Kaufman - Moe the Schmo Makes Love A funny and strange old song. It would be funnier if I could understand more than 30% of the lyrics
02 - Walter Franco - Zen I think one of the best Brazilian acts of this decade. I heard it only once in 2000 and loved it. In 2006, I re-discovered it.
01 - Earl Grant - The end It's a love song, but for me it sounds too sad. It's one of my all-time faves and has been #1 in my last.fm charts since the middle of 2006.