Top 20: #20 to #16

And counting! That’s right everyone, it is that time of year. Approaching our first year in office, Whiteboydancefloor could not think of a Christmas present for you all than to serve you all a generous helping of “Best of” lists to lead you up to Christmas.

Rather than provide individual lists, Chris & myself have decided that our ego’s could be sidelined for brief moments to nut out a collective top 20 list and we agree the result is something with more integrity than Whiteboydancefloor divided by two.

The result is the list we give to you now. Starting from #20 and working our way down in a completely non-pathetic Channel 9 fashion.

We hope.

#20 Tigercity – “Are you sensation” (Mp3)

If anyone thought all the good disco hooks had been harvested, exploited and turned into green house gas emissions, think again. Brooklyn boys, Tigercity were my non-blog chance find of 2006 and I still cannot believe my ears. Not only posing one of the most intriguing rhetorical questions of 2006, “Are you sensation” has such an amazing instancy to it. This track pays homage to its influences (including Talking Heads, Daft Punk, Roxie Music, David Bowie and more...) without trying to be a circus mime. “Are you sensation” doesn’t try to do too much while still doing more than enough. It’s difficult to dislike an unassumingly infectious groove like this. - Pix

Chris said: “Sophisticated and addictive...”

Read Post: Tigercity, Gang Awry-ing & Robokopping

[Buy] Tigercity - Self Titled Ep through Tigercity's Official Website.

#19 Be Your Own Pet – “Bicycle, Bicycle, You are my bicycle”

Be Your Own Pet are my drug of choice yet I love that I would never want to let them stay at my place for fear they’d ruin the joint. One cannot stress just how rousing this track is until you hear it for yourself. Punk rock never sounded so fresh. Jaded severely by witnessing car crashes like Magic Dirt, women trying to rock was lost on me before 2006 when bands like Be Your Own Pet shot to my ears like a shot of Rare breed or Chivas Regal. “Bicycle, Bicycle, You are my bicycle” is frenetic and unchained yet put together in such a fine package, its quality cannot be denied. The shouty bridge in this track rivals that of Monkey Wrench, and that’s no lie! - Pix

Chris said: “Bulls in a china shop , yet what a good looking and fresh sounding bunch of bulls. Punk is not dead”.

Read Post: Be Your Own Pet on Conan, Linus Loves Someone who isnt Lucy

[Buy] Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet at Amazon.

# 18 Dappled Cities Fly – “Holy Chord”

Dappled Cities Fly was like an aquaintence I knew from school, but never really had anything in common with. Awkward compliments and conversations were as far as it went. And obviously the analogy goes, I saw the light and feelings of excitement ensued. “Holy Chord” is the prime example of the warm pleasure this band can offer. Best likened to the experience of waking up in the morning, “Holy Chord” eases you nicely into a wonderland of splendourous sounds and feelings. This song belongs on the Alice in Wonderland soundtrack; The Rabbit wouldn’t be so late if he had this track waking him up. My bullshit aside, Dappled Cities Fly embodies a sense of patriotism present in every Indie-Australian. – Pix

Chris said: “If justice was served, overseas lips would be muttering ‘Dappled Cities Fly’ and not ‘Wolfmother”

[Buy] Dappled Cities Fly - Granddance from Amazon.

#17 Edu K – “Sex o matic” (Mp3)

2006 was certainly year of the native Brazilian style of Baile Funk, with artists like Tigarah and Bonde Do Rolle emerging on the scene with influential producers such as Diplo jumping on the funk carioca bandwagon together took the genre to the world. ‘Sex-o-matic’ for me was the best of the Baile funk explosion, with its grimy, glitchy beats and Portuguese raps delivered in an acidic and sexually charged fashion it created a dancefloor stomper and in the process turned the music worlds attention to this hidden gem of a music scene. – Chris

Pix said: “Baile Funk has allowed Brazil to forget the World cup.”

[Buy] Edu K - Frenétiko from Amazon.

#16 The Rapture – “Get myself into it”

Slowly but surely, The Rapture are making us all move our feet and with hot shots like Simian Mobile Disco and Sebastian remixing your songs, it’s harder to fight the feeling than to give into it. The allure of the saxophone, the whale of the vocals and the seduction of the bass versus the epileptic jerk of the guitar leaves quite an impression. While The Rapture run the risk of becoming another sound exploited and ruined by the commercial powers that be, for now, bloggers can still take a majority stake hold in this franchise. “Get myself into it” is undoubtedly the best use of the saxophone in 06 and certainly a fine example of a sound that is truly worthy of being the soundtrack to summertime shenanigans.

Chris Said: “Dancing to guitar music was made cool again… remain stationary at
your peril”

[Buy] The Rapture - Pieces of the people we love at Amazon.

We welcome all your thoughts on our list so far as we uncover more tracks day by day. Criticism is as encouraged as are compliments.

Poorly Worded Disclaimer: These lists have been done with the purpose of promoting music which Whiteboydancefloor feels improved the year that has been and the year that still is. All Mp3's have been posted with the hope that it will encourage others to spread the word about the music they hear and as we have, buy the music which tickles their fancy. At the request of the copyright holders, mp3 links will be taken down. We are not here to make a $ from anyone or at anyone's expense. Thankyou.