song of the year - runners up
Before unveiling Darling Vicarage's Song of 2006 on this New Year's Eve, please spare a thought for the following runners-up:
Highly Commended: Yes/No – The Futureheads (To fail to include them would be nothing short of treachery)
When You Were Young - The Killers (altho' no song this year thought so highly of itself)
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley (this year's best #1)
Ain’t No Other Man – Christinas Aguilera (see post: 7th August)
Promiscuous - Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland (see post: 12th September)
The Top Ten Countdown
10. Jackie Johnson – Franz Ferdinand
9. Suzie – Boy Kill Boy
8. Yeah Yeah – Bodyrox ft. Luciana
7. Willie – Cat Power (see post: 31st July)
6. Shores of California – The Dresden Dolls
5. Captain – Broke
4. Trains to Brazil – The Guillemots
3. Rehab – Amy Winehouse
2. Oh Well - Fiona Apple (see post: 13th October)
Darling Vicarage's 2006 New Year's Eve Music Awards
Trash Manufactured Pop Award
Something Kinda Ooh - Girls Aloud "something kinda oooh, jumping on my toot-toot" - glorious, ridiculous, camp and sparkley - not as good as 2005's Biology, but then few songs in this world are....
Best Music Video / Services to Music / Best Dance / Best Dressed
OK Go - Here It Goes Again
Take four grown men in bad clothes, four treadmills and a chirpy pop song and what do you get? music history in the making.
Sadly Missed
Simon Amstell & Miquita Oliver - Popworld isn't the same without you
Gig of the Year
Dresden Dolls @ The Roundhouse (could you tell I liked it? - see post for
3rd Nov)
Image of the Year
Director of
Christina Aguilera's 100%-bloody-brilliant-Christina 1 - Britney 0-
Dirty-Video,
David LaChapelle's Heaven to Hell is filled with glorious colour-saturated, glossy pseudo-pornographic, cruelly funny depictions of fame, but this picture of
Angelina Jolie... well, words fail me.
The 'Unforgettable' Awardum...no comment
