It's party time at the toaster! As we celebrate Mister Toaster's birthday, there will be no mp3 posts this week. Instead, we proudly present the first-ever edition of the Toaster Odds and Ends Awards (or, what will hereafter be affectionately known as "the Toasties"):
Best Band Name: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Best Album Name: Yo La Tengo, I Am Not Afraid of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Best Song Title: Johnny Boy, "You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve"
Best Comeback From Oblivion: The Lemonheads
Biggest Let-Down: The Killers
Best Follow-Up to Greatness: The Hold Steady
Biggest Surprise Love: The Long Winters
Best Summer Song: Belle and Sebastian, "Another Sunny Day"
Best Winter Song: Matt Costa, "Cold December"
Best Attempt at Bringing Despair Down All Around Us: The Mountain Goats, Get Lonely
Best Album to Get Blotto To: The Hold Steady, Boys and Girls in America
Worst Moment by a Great Band: When the Decemberists momentarily became Yes and Pink Floyd on "The Island"
Best Opening Act: (tie) The New Pornographers (sans Neko Case and Dan Bejar), for Belle and Sebastian / Christine Fellows, for The Mountain Goats
Artist That Yielded the Most Cases of Music Blogs Losing Our Respect: Lavender Diamond, love for
Biggest What-the-Fuck?: Nelly Furtado
Biggest Where-the-Fuck-Have-They-Been?: Sparklehorse
Most Concise Song: Neko Case, "A Widow's Toast"
Most Imitated: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Best Release Date: June 6, 2006 - be your own PET
Worst Release Date: January 1, 2006 - The Strokes
Most Anticipated Albums of 2007: The Shins, The New Pornographers, Voxtrot
Worst Lyrics: The Killers, "When You Were Young"
Best Lyrics We're Not Sure We Understand: The Long Winters, "Teaspoon"
Best Live Show of 2006 (Witnessed by The Toaster Talks): Belle and Sebastian w/ The New Pornographers, March 6, 9:30 Club
See you next week for the Top 100 Songs of 2006.
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