Back to 2006 (Re-Ranking the Best of Lists) • Page 2

When I went back and ranked my top 100 2000s records a few years back, I forgot about it. Wasn't doing that again!

I don't think you're alone on either of those. That's definitely the Butch album I hear discussed least, and a lot of people felt like Dashboard sold out with Dusk. But man, I love those albums so much. I played them both exhaustively that summer, and they're still two of the records that just evoke idyllic summer for me. I've got super personal connections to both of them, too; Butch that summer was my first concert and he played most of that record, and Dusk and Summer..well, I've written that whole story in a retrospective, I think!

Over the years, I've come to find that I just prefer Love Drunk. That album is just so stacked with ridiculous hooks. But self-titled (mostly) holds up.

 

not into Lights and Sounds I guess?

Loving these retrospective articles.

 

I think @irthesteve can help you

 

My 2006 list, haven't done a re-ranking so this was from the end of that year.

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. Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now
10. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
11. The Hush Sound - Like Vines
12. Gym Class Heroes - As Cruel As School Children
13. Sugarcult - Lights Out
14. Copeland - Eat, Sleep, Repeat
15. Saves The Day - Sound The Alarm
16. Incubus - Light Grenades
17. Cobra Starship - While The City Sleeps, We Rule The Streets
18. The Mars Volta - Amputechture
19. Rise Against - The Sufferer & The Witness
20. Tool - 10,000 Days

 

lol, funny that I just posted my list with that on it. Yes I can help anyone who wants some Anathallo, DM me

 

I mean I have the album; I meant for the playlist!

 

Gym Class Heroes! I loved half of that album haha

 

1. The Hold Steady- Boys and Girls in America

The first album I ever heard by my favorite band. If there is a Heaven, when I die, the 15 second mark of the Stuck Between Stations will be the first thing I hear when I get there.

2. The Forecast- In the Shadow of Two Gunmen

This band was one of the only cool parts about growing up in Central Illinois. I remember this album's release show at the East Peoria Legion Hall really well. Fuck I miss that place.

3. Moneen- The Red Tree

I was lucky enough to live across the street from a record store in college, and I had the guy call me as soon as this and the Saves record came in. I liked both but this is the one I still listen to regularly.

4. The Format- Dog Problems

I don't remember if it was a leak or what caused it, but I remember the band surprise dropping this album one night in the Summer with a long statement from Nate about the making of it. My enormous expectations for it were surpassed.

5. Manchester Orchestra- Like A Virgin Losing a Child

I didn't listen to this record for weeks because I thought the band name was dumb. I was dumb. "Colly Strings" alone puts this one in the top 5.

6. The Bronx- Bronx II

I'm a pretty mellow guy, but "History's Stranglers" still makes me want to run through a fucking wall and then watch Bloodsport.

7. The Killers- Sam's Town

I liked the first Killers record a lot, but wasn't completely sold on the band until they went full Springsteen.

8. New Found Glory- Coming Home

Ben Sherman NFG > Dickies NFG > basketball outfit NFG.

9. The Matches- Decomposer

I checked this record out just because I liked the album cover. Glad I did.

10. My Chemical Romance- The Black Parade

It was rad seeing a band from this scene put out a massively successful swing for the fences arena rock record.

11. Saves The Day- Sound The Alarm
12. The Loves Ones- Keep Your Heart
13. Angels and Airwaves- We Don't Need To Whisper
14. The Thermals- The Body, The Blood, The Machine
15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Show Your Bones
16. Lily Allen- Alright, Still
17. The Decemberists- The Crane Wife
18. Band of Horses- Everything All The Time
19. TV On The Radio- Return To Cookie Mountain
20. The Early November- The Mother, The Mechanic, and The Path

 

honorable mentions: jay z - kingdom come, tv on the radio - return to cookie mountain, the strokes - first impressions of earth



25. pete yorn - nightcrawler

24. converge - no heroes

23. muse - black holes & revelations

22. beirut - gulag orkestar

21. drive-by truckers - a blessing and a curse

20. kevin devine - put yer ghost to rest

19. deftones - saturday night wrist

18. the walkmen - a hundred miles off

17. the swell season - the swell season

16. pearl jam - pearl jam

15. silversun pickups - carnavas

14. the raconteurs - broken boy soldiers

13. thursday - a city by the light divided

12. the killers - sam’s town

11. margot & the nuclear so and so’s - the dust of retreat

10. band of horses - everything all the time

9. the mars volta - amputechture

8. mogwai - mr. beast

7. my chemical romance - welcome to the black parade

6. j dilla - donuts

5. thom yorke - the eraser

4. manchester orchestra - im like a virgin losing a child

3. clipse - hell hath no fury

2. mastodon - blood mountain

1. arctic monkeys - whatever people say i am, that’s what i’m not

 

I remember writing like a 2000 word review for it on AP.net when it released - I remember the first and second disc having a lot of good material but also a good amount just kind of existing - probably could have been an all timer with some editing

 

Still Searching got a glowing review on AP.net :-D

 

damn my list is perfect wow

 

Forgot about this one. Haven't listened to it in ages.

 

I associate that more with 2005 cause I had it/it leaked in 2005, and a super early 2006 release, but yeah, it's easily my least favorite Yellowcard album and I didn't like it at the time either. It does fit in with the darker theme a bunch of these albums were having though. Paper Walls has had great legs however, and that'll feature nicely in 2007.

Wikipedia tells me this came out in January of 2006 and I coulda sworn it was 2007. I remember listening to it much more in 2007, but I don't think I would have bumped anything for it.

Heh, I remember this album and about two years ago went back to see if it holds up at all. It does not.

This would probably make the list if I gave more credit to stuff I discovered way later in life.

Yeah, that was a huge swing. It's interesting how many bands went for that concept record thing right around here and really tried to go BIG ... and ... some of it was way too big and aggressive and didn't really work. Next week has one of those in spades.

 

Is that the one with Heath Saraceno on guitar?

I miss Midtown.

 

I forgot about this album. Seeing them perform most of it live was a treat.

 

wow i remember how divisive cove saosin was. this is about the time i started following the site in my high school computer lab.

 

Was always glad Andrew (and everyone else) found the success they did in Fun.

 

The review that I think Steve Henderson wrote for that album was a master of online arguments and fights.

 

I remember coming on AbsolutePunk around 06/07 and feeling totally gutted seeing people rip on The Black Parade in the forums. A lot of the old "oh they sold out" stuff, saying they were no different than a major label boy band, and most memorably for me (at the time not even a preteen girl) that their music was for "13 year old girls." I'm totally stoked to have been proven right by time, but man, people were not kind to MCR back in the day. This scene was so deeply homophobic and sexist that bands were catching flack for wearing as much makeup and kissing as many boys as MCR did, and in spite of that, they doubled down on all of it during the Black Parade era. That meant so much to me growing up, and I truly feel that the same people heaping praise on them nowadays forget exactly what they went through to make them so influential and so resonant with young folks ten years ago and to this day.

 

1. Underoath - Define The Great Line
2. Copeland - Eat, Sleep, Repeat
3. mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
4. Norma Jean - Redeemer
5. Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness
6. Mute Math - Mute Math
7. Machester Orchestra - I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child
8. Thursday - A City By The Light Divided
9. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
10. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
11. Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now
12. Senses Fail - Still Searching
13. Saosin - Saosin
14. John Mayer - Continuum
15. He Is Legend - Suck Out The Poison
16. AFI - decemberunderground
17. Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
18. Hellogoodbye - Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!
19. Anathallo - Floating World
20. Set Your Goals - Mutiny!

THAT album by THAT band would've been #2 at the time.

 

it is

 

anyways my newsletter on 2005 allowed me to do a nice retrospective on commit this to memory

 

those first three records are so, so good. though nightcrawler is probably my least of the three

 

Musicforthemorningafter is a legit classic that I feel like no one ever talks about.