The Irrefutable List of Things That I Liked in 2006:

Albums:

Herbert - Scale
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Francois K - Frequencies
Josh Wink - Profound Sounds 3
John Digweed - Transitions
Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor
Mylo - Destroy Rock and Roll
Beck - The Information

Singles (Pop):

Timbaland featuring Justin Timberlake - Sexy Back/My Love
Timbaland featuring Nelly Furtado - Maneater/Say it Right/Promiscuous
Lupe Fiasco - Kick Push
The Rapture - Get Myself Into It
The Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control
TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me
Hot Chip - Over and Over
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Fergie - Fergalicious
Jay Z - Lost One
Beyonce - Check On It
Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill

Singles (House and Techno):

Paul Woolford - Erotic Discourse
Mr. G - ECG'Ed (Rekid Remix)
Ame - Engoli
Rocco - Roots 4 Acid
Every - Feelin'
Hardfloor - T2DAC (Claro Intelcto remix)
Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (Holden remix)

Trends That Need To Frackin' Stop in 2007:
-The popularity of boring, growly post-grunge junk (Nickelback, Hinder, that guy that didn't win American Idol)
-Southern hip-hop (with very, very few exceptions)
-The comeback of Weird Al Yankovich (he not teh funny)
-The continued shutting down of New York's nightclubs