The first two mixtapes in our year-end series count down from song 104 to song 53. This is where you find the most interesting assortment of tracks, so don't skip it!

2006 was nineteen years ago. Even the younger people feel old now.

We have been taking care of business, but we haven't been working overtime. Still, we found a full mixtape of great songs. All for you.

OK, now we're just showing off. If time wasting was an art, we'd be Pickled Picasso.

The next installment in our best songs of the year series stops in 2000. Pre-9/11, pre-pandemic, pre-Drake. Times were better then, indeed.