2006 in music. • Page 6

this might be our biggest blowout yet

congrats to hell hath no fury

 

Womp womp

 

1. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
2. Cursive - Happy Hollow
3. Thursday - A City by the Light Divided

4. Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
5. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
6. Nas - Hip Hop is Dead
7. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
8. The Roots - Game Theory
9. Appleseed Cast - Peregrine
10. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time

 

1. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
2. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
3. Incubus - Light Grenades

Pearl Jam brought the band to Europe after 6 years, and I went to see them a couple of times. Even to this day, those two shows stand as the best shows I've ever been to. Just incredible. The album itself... I don't go back to it a whole lot, but it means the world to me.

Blood Mountain is the shit. Sleeping Giant and This Mortal Soil are otherworldly.

Light Grenades is underrated as hell.

Excruciating cuts:

My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Audioslave - Revelations

Really liked:

Head Automatica - Popaganda
John Mayer - Continuum

 

I forgot to put this one on my list, because I hadn't seen it pop up anywhere while researching what came out in 06. Great R&B album. I listened to it A LOT back then. His first one from 03 is great too.

 

Cheers - great list. What were the two shows in Europe you went to? Curious to look at the setlists ... '06 had some absolutely epic ones.

 

Grand Unification by Fightstar isn't on Spotify, at least not in my region. Odd. The rest is all there.

 

Wanted to give a shotout to Papa Roach's "The Paramous Sessions" which has a ton of slutty bangers on it. They were supposed to do a tour with H.I.M and Lostprophets in 2006 which got cancelled due to poor ticket sales. The LP record is also pretty great for a big glossy hooky rock record standpoint but we all know what happened with that band.

 

One of my favorite Papa Roach albums!!!!

 

I wasn't a Papa Roach listener before ("Scars" being the exception, it was unavoidable and a good song) or after that album, but that album somehow came on my radar back then and I listened to it a lot. Haven't really liked anything I have heard from them since however. Some of it I actively hated.

 

1. The Killers - Sam’s Town
2. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
3. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am…

I am bored by my own picks, but I like what I like! First two are interchangeable, really. Both in my top ten.

 

I think it's the most representative of their sound as a band. From the 80s-style power ballad of "What Do You Do" to the punk-infused fury of "Devise My Own Device".

 

I loved the first two Papa Roach albums and dug the two after, never dug further

 

The scene in The One where Blood Brothers plays is dope.

 

1. +44-When Your Heart Stops Beating

In 2007 I went through a horrible break up, needed some music. I knew I liked Blink's self titled, and I wanted more like that, and I heard Mark had started his own band and put out an album. Man the mood on this one was pretty perfect. There's like 4-5 albums I spun a lot while going through my months of post break up depression and binge drinking and this was one of them. Some perfect lyrics for my situation and the feelings I was having and etc. I really wish new Blink had more of this album's mood TBH haha. Nine comes a little close I suppose. Favorite tracks include Baby, Come On, 155, title track, Weatherman, No It Isn't...but really I like pretty much every song on here.

2. Taking Back Sunday-Louder Now

There's no denying, at least for me, that this is a step down from WYWTB. I definitely just liked the style of TAYF and WYWTB more. BUT this is still a really well written rock album. MakeDamnSure was everywhere. The only two songs I can't really get into at are Up Against, which always kind of sounded like a generic attempt at writing a TBS song lol, and I'll Let You Live, which...idk...just never really got into it. The first three tracks is a killer way to start the album. My Blue Heaven is REALLY good, even if Fred's parts are mostly just repeating adam's, I still love the way they use it there. I didn't realize Miami was so divisive among the fanbase, but that guitar solo and bridge/outro is fun as hell. The harmonizing on the Error: Operator chorus is an ear treat IMO, despite the repetitiveness of the chorus itself.

3. Dashboard Confessional-Dusk And Summer

I also did not realize until this website/AP and reading the dashboard thread that this was a divisive album in the fanbase. I think it's a pretty damn great album, probably because I was only loosely listening to dashboard at the time and thus wasn't super invested in the OG acoustic sound. Part of what got me into this is that same g/f that was making mixes, I had seen the lyrics to the title track in her AIM profiles lovejournals and such. Such a beautiful song with beautiful lyrics. When I went through the break up, some of the tracks on here really got play for me, including the title track and so long, so long. Don't Wait is a great way to start the album. Stolen almost got played at my wedding but we ended up playing Hands Down instead (and Heart Beat Here was our first dance haha).

I have to get to a doctors appoint so might keep this shorter than usual, but others....
-Much like +44, one of the other albums that was HEAVY in my depressed/drunk state was Devil and God. I didn't put it in my top 3 because I didn't want to take away points from other bands/nor give this band points. But if JL wasn't such a huge fucking scumbag of a person, this would have been my true #1. The quick story is my friend knew I was depressed, volunteered me to drive two girls from his dorm floor to attend a BN concert in Philly in spring 2007, and that's where I heard some of the lyrics to this album for the first time. Naturally, it fit my depressed AF mood. BOught it that week and literally spent so much time driviing around screaming the lyrics and falling asleep with my headphones on listening to it. It was my comfort food, if comfort food is "Hey you're depressed as hell and clearly so are these songs". Can't tell you how many times I got startled out of sleep by the "Where you've been" part in those like 6-8 months after my break up. It has a special place for me because of that, it was the only album whose songs I wasn't immediately skipping when all the news came out. Or, at least it was the songs I started listening to again after kind of dropping them off my shuffle for a few months. I just don't' recommend them to people I know need that type of music anymore for obvious reasons.

-Black Parade was the singles that finalyl really made me like MCR more than just a casual listen when I caught them on the radio. The singles from Black Parade were huge and I loved them. Gave me a newfound love for Helena and Ghost of You as well.

-Okay I really gotta go to my doctors appointment but there's so many other songs and artists I want to talk about so maybe later. But 2006 was my graduation from HS so, lots of memories attached to lots of songs from this era.

 

1. As Tall As Lions - As Tall As Lions
2. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
3. The Format - Dog Problems

Excruciating cuts:
Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside of Me
Thursday - A City by the Light Divided
John Mayer - Continuum
Damien Rice - 9
Chad Perrone - Used to Dream
Jonah Matranga - There's a Lot in Here

Others I love:
Evaline - Postpartum Modesty. A Portrait of Skin EP
Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now
Prince - 3121
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
The Roots - Game Theory
The Wreckers - Stand Still, Look Pretty
Men, Women, and Children - Men, Women, and Children
Edison Glass - A Burn or a Shiver
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Trevor Hall - The Rascals Have Returned EP
Manchester Orchestra - I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child
Dashboard Confessional - Dusk and Summer
This Day and Age - The Bell and the Hammer
Meg and Dia - Something Real
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
P.O.S. - Audition
Copeland - Eat, Sleep, Repeat
36 Crazyfists - Rest Inside the Flames
Underoath - Define the Great Line
Head Automatica - Popaganda

Good ones:
The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out
Ben Harper - Both Sides of the Gun
Mayday Parade - Tales Told by Dead Friends EP
Lindsey Buckingham - Under the Skin
Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
Goo Goo Dolls - Let Love In
Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
A.F.I. - Decemberunderground
All Time Low - Put Up or Shut Up EP
Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift
Misery Signals - Mirrors
Kevin Devine - Put Your Ghost to Rest
Emancipator - Soon It Will Be Cold Enough
The Early November - The Mother, The Mechanic, and The Path
Keane - Under the Iron Sea
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
This Providence - This Providence
The Who - Endless Wire
The Killers - Sam's Town
The Working Title - About Face
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Owen - At Home with Owen
Inkwell - These Stars Are Monsters
Butch Walker - The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and The Let's-Go-Out-Tonites
Nas - Hip-Hop Is Dead
Saosin - Saosin
Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos - Dust of Retreat
mewithoutyou - Brother, Sister
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint - The River in Reverse
J. Dilla - Donuts
Rocky Votolato - Makers
The Damnwells - Air Stereo
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Crime in Stereo - The Troubled Stateside
Brandtson - Hello Control
Alexi Murdoch - Time Without Consequence
Lucero - Rebels, Rogues, and Sworn Enemies
Everclear - Welcome to the Drama Club
Alexisonfire - Crisis
Ray Lamontagne - Till the Sun Turns Black
Matisyahu - Youth
Cat Power - The Greatest
Monty Are I - Wall of People
Caroline - Murmurs
The Forecast - In the Shadow of Two Gunmen
The Hush Sound - Like Vines
Mates of State - Bring It Back
M. Ward - Post-War
Gatsby's American Dream - Gatsby's American Dream
Faulter - Darling Buds of May
Solomon Burke - Nashville
Between the Trees - The Story and the Song
Hellogoodbye - Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!
Fly Upright Kite - Every Breathing Moment EP
The Lawrence Arms - Oh! Calcutta!
The Draft - In a Million Pieces
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
Elton John - The Captain and the Kid
Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
Waking Ashland - Telescopes
John Legend - Once Again
Envy on the Coast - Envy on the Coast EP
The Bouncing Souls - The Gold Record
The Prize Fighter Inferno - My Brother's Blood Machine
Umbrellas - Illuminaire
Over It - Step Outside Yourself
Paolo Nutini - These Streets
The Killing Moon - A Message Through Your Teeth EP
Lionel Richie - Coming Home
Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape
Tristan Prettyman - Love EP
The Mars Volta - Amputechture
Citizen Cope - Every Waking Moment
Sparta - Threes
Snowden - Anti-Anti
The Academy Is... - From the Carpet EP
Brightwood - The Love Antidote EP
You, Me and Everyone We Know - Party for the Grown and Sexy EP
Push to Talk - Push to Talk
ActionReaction - 3 Is the Magic Number
The Elms - Chess Hotel
Kina Grannis - One More from the Attic
Dropping Daylight - Brace Yourself
Brandi Carlile - Brandi Carlile EP
Kina Grannis - In Memory of Singing Bridge
The Be Good Tanyas - Hello Love

Not a fan:
The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
Evanescence - The Open Door
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Ciara - The Evolution
Hoobastank - Every Man for Himself
Westlife - The Love Album

Targets for listening:
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Tool - 10,000 Days
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Beyonce - B’Day
The Black Keys - Magic Potion
Built to Spill - You In Reverse
Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards
The Dear Hunter - Act I
Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
Frightened Rabbit - Sing the Greys
Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Norma Jean - Redeemer
Pete Yorn - Nightcrawler
The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Mutemath - Mutemath
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
The Matches - Decomposer
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae
Lil Wayne - The Dedication 2
New Found Glory - Coming Home
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
Incubus – Light Grenades
Portugal. The Man – Waiter: “You Vultures!”
Audioslave – Revelations
Jet – Shine On
Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor
Matchbook Romance – Voices
Tom Petty – Highway Companion
Yellowcard – Lights And Sounds
Mat Kearney – Nothing Left to Lose
Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope
Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way
Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
Vince Gill – These Days
Angels & Airwaves - We Don't Need to Whisper
Glen Hansard - The Swell Season
Pharoahe Monch - Desire

 

Feel like Dog Problems is an album I would have expected to win this easily at one point in the last 16 years (or come in second to a not yet tainted TDAG). Now that we’re into the ap.net as a thriving online community (lol) years it’s funny to see what opinions/bands have most survived the rest of time.

 

i mean that manchester orchestra album was huge too

 

Manchester could get it in 09

 

Definitely, though an opinion that I feel was/is popular here (that I do not share!) is that they peaked later whereas Dog Probs is the consensus Nate Reuss opus

 

Totally missed the Neko Case and Rocky Votolato albums. They would have def been on my list somewhere.

 

I didn't think I'd see another list with The Elms on it!

Also been listening to that As Tall As Lions album lately, so underrated

 

black parade has more than double the next closest album.

 

Honestly a bit surprised that Dog Problems didn't run away with it, but The Black Parade isn't a surprise overall so here we are