The Year Was...2006

Random Playlist For 2006:
1. Gnarls Barkley-Crazy
It's been 5 years? Could be arguably one of the biggest songs of the decade.
2. Arctic Monkeys-I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
Young, dumb and full of ramshackle tunes.
3. Belle and Sebastian-The Blues Are Still Blue
So sly and kitschy. Makes me want to go to a laundromat and dance.
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers-Snow (Hey Oh)
One of 728 songs from "Stadium Arcadium"
5. Pete Yorn-For Us
The New Jersey crooner/mumbler returned in 2006 with an overlooked, underrated album.
6. TV On The Radio-Wolf Like Me
The ultimate disco tune of the decade, whether it's meant to be or not.
7. Muse-Supermassive Black Hole
Oh that falsetto. Oh that Muse. I can't see Radiohead doing this, thank goodness.
8. Amy Winehouse-Rehab
When you put aside Winehouse's personal struggles and irony of the song, it's a home run.
9. Drive By Truckers-Daylight
Isbell's swan song with the Drive By Truckers.
10. The Raconteurs-Steady As She Goes
Ultimately catchy and five years later ultimately timeless.
11. Peter Bjorn and John-Young Folks
Whoever hates the carefree whistling is just a mean person in spirit.
12. Pearl Jam-World Wide Suicide
Pearl Jam shook cobwebs out to no end on their hardest rocker since "Do The Evolution". Eddie's angry.

7 Albums Worth Revisiting From 2006:

1. TV On The Radio-Return To Cookie Mountain
2. Belle and Sebastian-The Life's Pursuit
3. Bob Dylan-Modern Times
4. Arctic Monkeys-Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
5. The Decemberists-The Crane Wife
6. The Raconteurs-Broken Boy Soldiers
7. The Hold Steady-Boys and Girls In America

Random Quote From A Song From 2006:
"Now, tell me what you saw/Tell me what you saw/There was a crowd of seeds/Inside, outside/I must have done a dozen each"
The song....

Random Thoughts On A Song From 2006:

After The Killers broke big with  "Hot Fuss" in 2004 there was a lot of buzz surrounding 2006's release of "Sam's Town". I remember being in Maui on my fifth wedding anniversary, driving in a rent a jeep and they had a program interview with Brandon Flowers and company about the new album and the inspiration surrounding the songs. I didn't really pay much attention to it but the song "When You Were Young" caught my ear for a moment because it sounded so over the top. It turned out, a lot of critics and fans found "Sam's Town" way over the top as it shed fans of their debut and kind of created this cult following that still sticks with them today. But isn't "over the top" what the Killers do the best? The grandiose of the moment, the audacity to say "Hey, we are the most important band on earth right now and we're going to prove it". No song in their cannon matches that over dramatized sentiment like "When You Were Young" from the over the top lyrics "He doesn't look a thing like Jesus...but he talks like a gentleman" to the production playing to the rafters of a coliseum (more like the actual coliseum in Rome). A couple years later in Vegas on another anniversary trip, this song blasted down an empty Fremont street at 3:30 on Wednesday morning and I couldn't help but think "This has to be one of my biggest guiltiest pleasures ever" because it fit the mood, the moment, and the lights glistening around two thirty somethings stumbling back to their hotel room after a hard fun night in Sam's town. The Killers have fun in what they do, and that's what you have to remember before you stick a finger to them, because that intensity of "Wanting" to be the biggest band in the world, that's what everyone strives for...whether they like to admit it or not. The Killers just do it in a....cornier fashion and they're damn proud of it.
"You sit there in your heartache...."

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