2006 in music. • Page 4

1. Talkdemonic - Beat Romantic
2. Mono - You Are There
3. TRS-80 - Mystery Crash

Going by the same simple tack as I have the rest - which three albums am I most likely to listen to. The subjectiveness of this is in the last few years I'm on a big instrumental kick and listen to less music with vocals than without. As such, some of the records that might have been bigger for me around the time either end up in honourable mentions, or if I don't really listen to them now, nowhere. Still, I can't think of a better way to do it.

Beat Romantic is a folktronica record that seems to fit so many moods, and I can play it pretty much any time of the day. The songs are short (the album's 38 minutes long, 17 tracks) and as such never outstay their welcome - indeed, they barely get past the welcome. Each track feels like a short scene in a film, partially coloured in, creating the space for the listener themselves to fill in the rest, and in a way there lies the beauty of the record.

I listened to this Mono album probably thirteen or fourteen years ago and was pretty blown away by it at a time that I hadn't really heard much post rock. Now I've heard plenty, I'm still a big fan of it. Some early embrace of orchestral elements before they went all in on it in the following years. The first few minutes of The Flames Beyond The Cold Mountain get me every time, and Yearning is the quiet-loud dynamic done perfectly.

The TRS-80 album; it's probably a cliche to say this style of synth layering and reverb sounds futuristic but there is something 'other' about this record. The Lights Are On would be the background song to travelling through space and time, and the more ambient tracks are pretty escapist but still kind of reflective. I love the beats on this thing too.

Honourable Mentions:

• TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
  
• Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
  
• Dale Cooper Quartet - Parole De Navarre
• Fightstar - Grand Unification
• Thom Yorke - The Eraser
  
• Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist

 

1. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
2. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
3. The Killers - Sam’s Town
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4. The Format - Dog Problems
5. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
6. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
7. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
8. Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
9. Portugal. The Man - Waiter: You Vultures
10. +44 - When Your Heart Stops Beating

 

My Top 3

1. +44 – When Your Heart Stops Beating
2. John Mayer – Continuum
3. Cobra Starship – While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets
4. The Damnwells - Air Stereo - Can't believe I forgot about this one!

And the rest....in no particular order:

Artic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I am, That’s what I’m not
MCR – The Black Parade
Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
Taylor Swift – S/T
Justin Timberlake – FutureSex/LoveSounds
The Killers – Sam’s Town
Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium
Lily Allen – Alright, Still
Nelly Furtado – Loose
The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
Band of Horses – Everything All the time
The Kooks – Inside In/Inside Out
Gwen Stefani – The Sweet Escape
Jack Johnson and Friends - Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George
Matisyahu – Youth
Teddy Geiger – Underage Thinking
Hit The Lights – This is a Stick up… Don’t make it a murder
Mat Kearney – Nothing left to lose
Goo Goo Dolls – Let Love in
Snow Patrol – Eyes Open
Angels & Airwaves - We Don't Need to Whisper
Damone – Out here all night
AFI – Decemberunderground
Keane – Under the Iron City
Gym Class Heroes – As Cruel as School Children
Hellogoodbye - Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!
Boys Like Girls – S/T
Danity Kane – S/T
Papa Roach - The Paramour Sessions
JoJo – The High Road

 

The fact my top 3 aren't even near your top 5 makes me sad. I think we are in a fight now, lol.

 

Bahahaha I have Continuum at #8! Depending on my mood I'd choose to listen to that over many others. Definitely aged much better than the Chili Peps album too, but that one was my #1 IN '06 when I made my list, so ya know.

I actually just added Cobra Starship to my playlist, I remember knowing a song or two from it, but can't say I have ever heard the whole thing.

Also need to revisit +44 for sure - I was distinctly let down by both that AND Angels and Airwaves in 2006 - and thinking .... what the fuck why couldn't they just stay together as Blink and make another GOOD album? lol.

 

For me, they don't really lose it until Boxes. They're definitely on the slide toward increasingly generic territory in 2006, but I still that's a really well-crafted pop album with some great singles.

 

We still in a fight tho

 

This was the year contemporary R&B died and it hasn’t fully recovered. The Ne-Yo album was a last hurrah.

 

Lol since we fighting - the single from that Men, Women, and Children album that I referenced a few posts back still slaps way harder than anything on this Cobra Starship record.

 

I don't listen to a ton of pop radio anymore but yeah it does seem like I don't remember hearing much of that R&B that used to be all over the radio in the 90s and early 2000s in recent years

 

Remember when Hawthorne Height's team sent an email out for their fans to storm stores to buy their sophomore album in order to not have Ne-Yo have a #1 "in the name of ROCK"?

 

hey guys don't worry, my list is finally here

1. The Format - Dog Problems
2. The Early November - The Mother, The Mechanic and The Path
3. Brand New - The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me
4. Set Your Goals - Mutiny!
5. Gatsby's American Dream - Gatsby's American Dream
6. Portugal. The Man - Waiter: "You Vultures!"
7. Anathallo - Floating World
8. Mute Math - Mute Math
9. The Mars Volta - Amputechture
10. Copeland - Eat, Sleep, Repeat
11. Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now
12. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
13. The Hush Sound - Like Vines
14. Gym Class Heroes - As Cruel As School Children
15. Sugarcult - Lights Out
16. Saves The Day - Sound The Alarm
17. Incubus - Light Grenades
18. Cobra Starship - While The City Sleeps, We Rule The Streets
19. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
20. Rise Against - The Sufferer & The Witness

 

ah shit, Rx Bandits totally should be on my list, somewhere around 13-15 zone there

 

There’s really not a song I skip from start to finish. I can see some people not liking I’ll Let You Live, but I think it’s pretty good. I like the simple loud guitar sound going to the slow rhythm. My favorite song has to be My Blue Heaven though. Definitely my favorite TBS song.

 

2006 mix

 

Half of Louder Now is really fun, and half of it I’m always skipping, but there’s an absolutely relentlessly great EP there.

 

The snob in me looks at this year as the year that the classic early 2000 pop punk/emo bands all started their declines. The Format's Dog Problems is really the only release this year that feels like one of those bands (ie: popular when ap.net first went beyond blink) still ascending. I don't intend or want this to start a BN discussion but I do include them in that even if I'm thinking more about the TBSs of the world.

 

No lol that’s fucked up

 

Band of Horses just makes me wanna watch season 2-4 of one tree hill reallllll bad!

 

Give me the first six songs plus Miami and i'm good.

 

Other stuff on my list worth shouting out.

Rainer Maria- Catastrophe Keeps Us Together
I Would Set Myself on Fire for You- Believes in Patterns
Girl Talk- Night Ripper
Malajube- Trompe-l'œil
Lupe Fiasco- Food & Liquor
Tilly and the Wall- Bottoms of Barrels
Subtle- For Hero: For Fool
Boris- Pink
Trophy Scars- Alphabet. Alphabets.
Mutemath- s/t

 

Has no one mentioned Moneen's The Red Tree? That would have 100% won this in 2006. It was insane how much love that album got on AP.

 

Never heard of it.

 

it good