Preludin Canon 2006-2020

[Stacy Heydon]

I'm opening it for 2006.

Unfortunately I don't have a nomination. I did consider something from 'The Trials of Van Occupanther', an album I enjoyed a lot at the time. Listening to it again though, it seemed to lack that stand out song. Given there have been times where i've had to weigh up between 'Complete Control' or 'I Feel Love' or between ' I Heard It Through the Grapevine' or 'All  Along the Watchtower', trawling through a Midlake album felt a bit desperate, but hopefully you can do better... 

[fearlessfreap]

Unfortunately (or fortunately for most folks)I have to bow out. 2005 was the last year I bough albums of new artists with a few exceptions, the majority of them being jazz. 2006 was the year of J Dilla’s Donuts, which was the last new non jazz album I rated up there with earlier music, and it was a collection of very short songs that ran together as a suite, and doesn’t lend itself to individual tracks.
I have no interest in pop divas or mumble/trap rap.

[Reactionary Rage]

Roscoe is a cracker.

[Reactionary Rage]

But, yeah

[Stacy Heydon]

it's a good track, but i didn't get that thrill when i played it again. it might get nominated by someone else though.

[osgood]

Well, I must have been on a different planet, because I see a few albums from 2006 that I could choose from, starting with the rather obvious Back to Black, or Cat Power's The Greatest, or picking again something by The Drive-By Truckers off their excellent A Blessing and a Curse. Also a few releases from the old guard that don't deserve to be dismissed (Costello & Toussaint, Dylan's Modern Times, Paul Simon's Surprise).

But I have to go for a personal fave, maybe my #1 album of the decade

2006

The Derek Trucks Band - All I Need



Their previous albums were great but this was really astonishing. The mix of so many elements, soul, rock, Indian, blues, is done in such a way that everything flows naturally, with every piece perfectly fitting in place. I can't recommend this album strongly enough.

[Reactionary Rage]

2006



Thinking back this was the last time when I actually felt like I still had some connection to pop music and what was going around at the time. A lot of that was funnily down to Myspace - the original and the best social media platform - because it gave you an insight into what indie types your age were listening to and songs could spread through exposure to people's profiles. There was a handful I seem to recall....the Young Folks one with the whistling; the Modest Mouse song was another but Hot Chip's Over and Over was the one I enjoyed the most even if it only reached number 27 in the actual UK charts.  A celebration of the joy of repetition in music I always liked the fact they they really went for it with the repetition and the end result had a pleasing heaviness combined with a nerdy quirkiness that worked.  For a while I thought they were the best thing going in British pop music even if they never quite fully crossed over into mainstream success.  Regardless this is a bit of an "indie disco" stomper and I still listen to it occasionally after a few beers.  I even went to see them in Glasgow a few years back but made the classic mistake of dropping half a pill on the bus (chatty, relaxed, talking to strangers) before dropping another pill on arrival in the weeg and of course I was wankered by the time I made it to the gig venue (you know when you are coming up hard, sweating like fuck and bouncing off strangers?  Yeah that).  I think things had calmed down enough by the time they played Over and Over thankfully lol

[fonz]

'Drown in Ashes'. Celtic Frost

Goth Doom in excelsis

It's grand

[rayge]

2006

I bought a lot of CD singles in the noughties, but just don't have any way of fixing them to a specific year, which rather leaves me choosing from albums. Apart from those already mentioned, I was particularly fond of Sonic Youth's Rather Ripped and YLT's I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass. The former was one of those albums with no throwaways, but also no stand-out greats, while the latter boasted three tracks that really resonated: the ambient instrumental Daphnia, the guitar-heavy Pass Me That Axe, I Feel Like Goodkind, and the wonderful, sprawling, noisy, extended build of my choice for the year:

Yo La Tengo - The Story of Yo La Tango

[toomanyhatz]

The more I think about it, the more I might be coming to the conclusion that Modern Times is at least a contender for Old Bob's best post-70s album.

It was criticized by some, and revered by others, for using so much previous material by others. And my favorite song on it might be the most blatant example of that. And it's not like it's bereft of original ideas. It's not like most accusations of plagiarism are based on references from Merle Haggard, Civil War poets, old blues songs, and Ovid.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - rather than settling on tired tropes, or trainspotting literary references, Dylan's doing something a little deeper here. By calling the album 'Modern Times', it's not just a sly Chaplin reference (something that goes back to the beginning of his career), he's making a statement about what that actually means. Modern Times encompasses the entirety of history. And Dylan of course knows when looking at music history, he's part of it himself. It's no accident that this album came out right around the time he started doing his Theme Time Radio Hour, likewise exposing vast knowledge of all that came before, and during.

I could have picked almost anything from this record, overwhelmingly my favorite album of the year. While others were chasing 'modernity', and being dismissive of the past, it took an old man to recognize that embracing the past was also the best way to embrace the limitless possibilities that modernity brought.

2006:

Workingman's Blues #2 - Bob Dylan

[davey]

2006

Fine…I’ll do it.

[Half Machine Lipschitz]

Oct 9, 2023 18:34:30 GMT toomanyhatz said:

Workingman's Blues #2 - Bob Dylan

This is one of the tunes we sometimes play in the weekly just-for-fun jams I do with a few friends. I love it.

[Reactionary Rage]

It's funny how consensus completely breaks down here. Celtic Frost....Bob Dylan....Hot Chip.

[rayge]

Oct 10, 2023 11:43:51 GMT Reactionary Rage said:

It's funny how consensus completely breaks down here. Celtic Frost....Bob Dylan....Hot Chip.

Even the youngest of us were more or less adults by 2006, I think that's the main driver of this. Oddly enough, the three acts you mention, Gnarls Barkley and of course mine were all ones I was buying - or, more usually, DLing - at the time.

[Reactionary Rage]

I was still young and hip in 2006 and a dandy about town. Hence why I was listening to Hot Chip in indie discos.

It's a number of things but one factor is sadly the quality of the records.

That Gnarls Barkley tune had some consensus because it's a strong record.