Busta Rhymes, “Touch It (remix)”
Futureheads, “Skip To The End”
Peter Bjorn & John, “Young Folks”
The Streets, “When You Wasn’t Famous”
The Blood Arm, “Suspicious Character”
1990s, “You Made Me Like It”
Amy Winehouse, “Rehab”
Jeremy Warmsley, “Dirty Blue Jeans”
Jamie-T, “Sheila”
The Rapture, “Whoo! Alright - Yeah … Uh-huh”
Justin Timberlake, “SexyBack”
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, “Mean Son Of A Gun”
The Infadels, “Toyboy”
Pearl Jam, “World Wide Suicide”
Good Shoes, “Never Meant To Hurt You”
Primal Scream, “Country Girl”
Eagles Of Death Metal, “Don’t Speak, I Came To Make A Bang”
Love Is All, “Make Out, Fall Out, Make Up”
Arctic Monkeys, “Mardy Bum”
Nelly Furtado, “Maneater”
Larrikin Love, “Cucumber”
The Coup, “My Favorite Mutiny”

2006 is a tiny speck on the horizon now, but the award season celebrating the best of last year has just started, so as far as I’m concerned this list is right on time and not two months late. Here are the songs that shaped the year by bands that aren’t in our Favorite Albums List. It’s a mouthful, but otherwise this already long list would be even longer. They’re in random order and every song on it is an essential part of 100b’s 2006 experience, but we think that The Futureheads’ “Skip To The End” was the single of the year for sure. We first heard them play it live in April last year and we loved it straight away. You know a song is good when you remember it after only hearing it once.