Here's just from the top of my head:

Band of Horses - Our Swords
Boards of Canada - Left Side Drive
M Ward - Poison Cup
Tortoise - Gamera
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (from Love)
The Shins - Phantom Limb (is this considered 2007?)

Mogwai-Black Spider
Mogwai-Friend of the Night
Destroyer-Rubies
TV on the Radio-Dirtywhirl
Sonic Youth-Incinerate
T.I.-What U Know
Gnarls Barkley-Crazy
Cat Power-The Greatest

more to come!

Joanna Newsom - anything off of Ys
Neko Case - anything off of Fox Confessor

Kaki King - "You Don't Have to be Afraid"
Nellie McKay - "Columbia Is Bleeding"
Regina Spektor - "On the Radio" / "Fidelity"
Giant Drag - "This Isn't It" / "Kevin Is Gay"
Lisa Germano - "Red Thread"
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - "Nothing but the Water"
Pipettes - "Pull Shapes"
Aphex Twin - "Reunion 2"
White Whale - "O' William, O' Sarah"
Cat Power - "The Greatest"

The Raconteurs - "LEVEL"
The Mosquitos - " Ele", "Um Homam Precira De Uma Empregada (A Man Needs A Maid"
Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins - Anything off of "Rabbit Fur Coat"
The Black Keys - "Just A Little Heat"
Built To Spill - "Conventional Wisdom"
Yo La Tengo - "Mr. Tough"
Audioslave - "Original Fire"
Lacuna Coil - "You Create"
Neko Case - "Hold On, Hold On"
"The Hold Steady" - "Hot Soft Light"
"Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs" - "Run To Me (The Bee Gees)"


I'm probably forgetting a ton, but off the top of my head.

Gnarls - Crazy
Panic at the Disco - Build God, Then We'll Talk
Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push

Great idea for a thread! I've got some new tunes to listen to because of this. Thanks!

Belle and Sebastian - Funny Little Frog
Camera Obscura - Hey Lloyd Cole I'm Read To Be Heartbroken
Deacon Blue - Bigger Than Dynamite
Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3
Goldfrapp - Satin Chic
Paris Hilton - Stars are Blind
Phoenix - Long Distance Call
Sparklehorse - Don't Take My Sunshine Away/Dear Prudence
Sparklehorse - Shade and Honey
TV on the Radio - Playhouses

Hands down, my fave song this year.

The Grates - 19-20-20
Justin Timberlake - Sexyback
The Killers - Sam's Town
The Killers - When You Were Young
The Killers - Bones
The Killers - Why Do I Keep Counting
Lady Sovereign - Love Or Hate Me
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
Ladytron - CMYK
Mates of State - Think Long
Mates of State - Fraud In The 80's
Mates of State - Beautiful Dreamer
Mates of State - For The Actor
Mates of State - Running Out
Muse - Starlight
Muse - Assasain
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
Persephone's Bees - Muzika Dlya Fil'ma
Persephone's Bees - Even Though I'm Fooling Around
Persephone's Bees - Walk to the Moon
Prototypes - Gentleman
Sparklehorse - Don't Take My Sunshine Away

Neko Case - "Hold On, Hold On"
Guillemots - "We're Here"
Beirut - "Postcards from Italy"
The Magic Numbers - "Take a Chance"
Dixie Chicks - "The Long Way Round"
The Decemberists - "The Crane Wife 3"
Basement Jaxx - "Take Me Back To Your House"
The Thermals - "A Pillar of Salt"
Sufjan Stevens - "Borderline"
My Chemical Romance - "Welcome to the Black Parade"

just one:

red hot chili peppers - snow (hey oh)

Two Gallants - Las Cruces Jail
Ghostface Killah - Be Easy
Josh Ritter - Girl in the War
The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations
The Slip - Airplane/Primitive
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3
Belle & Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue
Built to Spill - Conventional Wisdom
The Raconteurs - Level
Fatlip - Cook
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - I Am Warm & Powerful
Cold War Kids - Hospital Beds
Lucero - Sing Me No Hymns
The Format - Dog Problems

off the top of my head...

The Automatic: 'Monster'

"what's that coming over the hill? Is it a Monster? Is it a Monster' (cue insane jumping up and down!! song of the year if you ask me )

The first one worth mentioning that came to my mind is:

"We Are The Living" from Sananda Maitreya's Angels and Vampires album. (He used to be known as Terence Trent D'Arby years ago.)

"The Word" on Prince's 3121 is also very nice.

Funnily, I can't think of anything else from 2006 that I have really loved. But then again, a year is usually too little time for me to get to know my new albums...

Jarvis Cocker - Big Julie.
Robbie Williams - The 80's

Basement Jaxx - Take Me Back to Your House
The Bluetones - Head On A Spike
Boy Kill Boy - Suzie
Cat Power -The Greatest
The Delays - Valentine
Embrace - Target
Gnarls Barkley-Crazy
Hot Chip - Over and Over
Infadels - Jagger '67
Keane - Let It Slide (non-album track)
Muse - Starlight
Ooberman - Carried Away
Pet Shop Boys - (tie) 'Integral' and 'Minimal'
Plaid & Bob Jaroc - Return of Super Barrio
Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
The Upper Room - Black and White



Honourable mention (since it's not new and is a cover version)

The Delgados - Matthew and Son (BBC session)

Three More Days- Ray LaMontagne
Dear Valentine- Guster
Once Upon a Time there was an Ocean- Paul Simon

Can I cheat and say every single song off The Hold Steady's Boys and Girls in America

Best thing released in the past 10 years

Forgot:

Liars - Let's Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack

I'm more of an album listener instead of singles, but one single hooked me this year:

Disturbed - Land of Confusion

Excellent cover song.

Rob Zombie - American Witch
Lacuna Coil - Enjoy The Silence
Bullets And Octain - Save Me Sorrow
Buckcherry - Crazy Bitch
Lamb Of God - Redneck
Strapping Young Lad - You Suck

Jerry Lee Lewis' cover of Zeppelin's "Rock And Roll"

Together We Will Live Forever by Clint Mansell. It's what play over The Fountain's end credits. It's love.

Christina Aguilera: Back In The Day
The Charlatans: Blackened Blue Eyes
Muse: Take A Bow
Pet Shop Boys: Twentieth Century
She Wants Revenge: Sister
Snow Patrol: Set The Fire To The Third Bar

I love the song off the new Luke Haines album:

"Here's To Old England" - (major thumbs up)