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Here’s another ‘Fiver’ list for you. This time it’s five tracks that have that inexplicable ability, through their wonderful beauty and sadness, to plunge a hot poker into my [normally stone] heart and make it feel broken all over again

1. ‘Shadow’ – Beady Belle
2. ‘Fast Car’ – Tracy Chapman
3. ‘A Dream for Us’ – The Appleseed Cast
4. ‘To Build a Home’ – The Cinematic Orchestra
5. ‘Together We Will Live Forever’ – Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet, & Mogwai

Extra Special Sixth Bonus Track: Overplaying has desensitized me to it, but ‘Freshman’ by The Verve Pipe deserves to be on this list too.

I’m going to try to make more top five lists because every knows lists are awesome. Here’s the songs that must be played at my funeral (assuming that there was no new music between now and then).

1. Ambulance LTD – Yoga Means Union
2. Spoon – The Beast & Dragon, Adored
3. Creper Lagoon – So Little to Give
4. The Decemberists – Sons & Daughters
5. Philip Glass – Metamorphosis 1

The top 5 things I’m looking forward to enjoying after finally graduating, in acceding order:

• Sleeping on a regular schedule.
• Reading books for fun.
• Motoring.
• Having a personal (shared with friends) apartment with a real kitchen & bathroom but without skitzo heaters, poor lighting, cramped spaces, fire alarm evacuations, and douches yelling in the halls & leaving messes all over.
• Not ever worrying about homework.

My five favorite albums of 2006, in order:

1. The Crane Wife by The Decemberists (?iTunes)
2. Broken Boy Soldiers by The Raconteurs (?iTunes)
3. The Fountain Soundtrack composed by Clint Mansell and performed by Kronos Quartet & Mogwai (?iTunes)
4. The Eraser by Thom Yorke (?iTunes)
5. Without Feathers by The Stills (?iTunes)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order by artist):

• This Binary Universe by BT (?iTunes)
• Supernature by Goldfrapp (?iTunes) [Kept out of the top 5 only because of label BS since the UK version was released in 2005.]
• Mind How You Go by Skye (?iTunes)
• The Last Resort by Trentemøller (?iTunes)
• The Garden by Zero 7 (?iTunes)