Rod's Favorites 2006
Albums
Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah
Sarah McLachlan - Wintersong
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Keane - Under the Iron Sea
Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental

Manhattan Transfer - the Symphony Sessions
Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse
Nelly Furtado - Loose
Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor
Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac
Captain & Tennille - The Secret of Christmas
Pussycat Dolls - Pussycat Dolls
Vince Gill - These Days (box set)
Beck - the Information
Lindsey Buckingham - Under the Skin
Scritti Politti - White Bread Black Beer



Singles
I Don't Feel Like Dancing - Scissor Sisters
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
River - Sarah McLachlan
Numb - Pet Shop Boys
Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
Nothing in My Way - Keane
Beautiful Awkward Pictures - Toni Collette
The Way That I Want to Touch You - Matt Catingub Orchestra with Toni Tennille
Analogue (All I Want) - A-Ha
Don’t Cha - Pussycat Dolls
Steady as She Goes - the Raconteurs
Drinking Me Lonely - Chris Young
I Can't Get Over You - Linda Ronstadt and Anne Savoy
Red Flags and Lonely Nights - She Wants Revenge
Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John
Before She Does - Eric Church
Ain't No Other Man - Christina Aguilera

Special Mentions:
Best faux U2 song: Keane - Is It Any Wonder?
Best faux Keane song: Muse - Starlight


Covers
Sarah McLachlan - River (Joni Mitchell)
Katrina Leskanich - They Don't Know (Tracey Ullman) (2005)

Jody Watley - Borderline (Madonna)
Jurassic 5 - Brown Girl in the Ring (Boney M)
Gunther with Samantha Fox - Touch Me (Samantha Fox)
Chad Michael Morrisette - Vogue (Madonna)
Pet Shop Boys with Elton John - In Private (Dusty Springfield)

Save it for Later - Pete Townshend (General Public)
The Boy Least Likely To - Faith (George Michael)
The Heart of the Matter - India.Arie (Don Henley)
Natalie Cole - The Man With the Child in His Eyes (Kate Bush)
Between the Buried and Me - Little 15 (Depeche Mode)

Shawn Colvin - Words (Bee Gees)
Raul Malo - You're Only Lonely (Roy Orbison)
Fall Out Boy - What's This (Danny Elfman)

Right Said Fred - Knowing Me, Knowing You (ABBA)
Janis Siegel - A Thousand Beautiful Things (Annie Lennox)
Def Leppard - Hanging on the Telephone (Blondie)



Re-issues and Compilations
Depeche Mode 5.1 catalog remasters
George Michael - Twenty Five (3CDs + 2 DVDs)
Split Enz catalog remasters
Pretenders I and II remasters
Tori Amos - A Piano (box set)
Pretenders - Pirate Radio (box set)
Def Leppard - Hysteria (deluxe edition)
Roxette - The RoxBox (box set)
KD Lang - Reintarnation
ABBA - Arrival (deluxe edition)
Pete Townshend catalog remasters
Carpenters Japanese
Singles Box
Nightmare Before Christmas (15th Anniversary edition)


Concerts
Pet Shop Boys - Wiltern
Scritti Politti - Roxy
Beautiful South - House of Blues
Lindsey Buckingham, Wiltern
Rick Springfield, Wiltern
Erasure, John Anson Ford Theatre



Autographs
Scritti Politti
Gnarls Barkley
Bananarama
Yvonne Elliman
Pet Shop Boys
Beautiful South
Lindsey Buckingham
Patricia Arquette (Medium)
Kristin Davis (Sex and the City)
Carrie Fisher (Star Wars)
Rick Springfield
Bow Wow Wow
Thomas Dolby
KT Tunstall
Erasure
Edie Brickell

John Goodman (Rosanne)
Army of Anyone



Movies
Little Miss Sunshine (brilliant all around)
Casino Royale (for Daniel Craig)
Inside Man (very very clever)
The Prestige (Hugh Jackman + Christian Bale)
The Devil Wears Prada (for Meryl Streep)
The Illusionist (for cinematography)

The Omen (for cinematography)
Miami Vice (guilty pleasure)
Lady in the Water (purely out of loyalty)


TV
Heroes
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
My Name is Earl

CSI
CSI:NY
Prison Break
Brothers and Sisters
Veronica Mars


Books
the complete works of Augusten Burroughs

Pet Shop Boys - Catalogue
Adam Ant - Stand and Deliver
Pete Burns - Freak Unique
Terri Hatcher - Burnt Toast

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