Well we seem to be half way through the year now so what's your top 10 highlights in R&I music from this year? Mine would probably be:

 

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California

2. Primal Scream - Country Girl

3. Orson - Bright Idea (I know it's VERY popish but meh)

4. Dirty Pretty Things - Bang Bang You're Dead

5. Clor - Good Stuff

6. The Kooks - She Moves In Her Own Way

7. Babyshambles - 32nd Of December

8. U2 - All Because Of You

9. Arctic Monkeys - The View From The Afternoon

10. The Feeling - Fill My Little World

 

01 Primal Scream "Country Girl"

02 Islands "Rough Gem"

03 Belle and Sebastian "Funny Little Frog"

04 Stellastarr* "Sweet Troubled Soul"

05 Fratellis "Henrietta"

06 Jim Noir "My Patch"

07 Franz Ferdinad "The Fallen"

08 Flaming Lips "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song"

09 Graham Coxon "Standing On My Own Again"

10 Futureheads "Skip To The End"

 

Notable mentions to The Shortwave Set, Goldfrapp, Jose Gonzalez, Jenny Lewis, The Pipettes, Kanye West and Gnarls Barkley too. Would all be up there if it was overall, not Rock/Indie..

My Top10 Rock/Indie tracks of 2006 (so far) are:

 

1. The Flaming Lips - The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song

2. Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes

3. Automatic - Monster

4. Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down

5. Dirty Pretty Things - Bang Bang Your Dead

6. Belle & Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue

7. Editors - Munich (2006 reissue)

8. Morrissey - You Have Killed Me

9. Kooks - Naive

10. Fratellis - Henrietta

10. Fratellis - Henrietta

 

decent interview in yesterday's paper

3. Orson - Bright Idea (I know it's VERY popish but meh)

 

 

then again you have selected The Feeling, which is about on the same level.

 

is number 11 Supertramp :lol:

then again you have selected The Feeling, which is about on the same level.

 

is number 11 Supertramp :lol:

 

Britney ACTUALLY.