I am forever grateful that I wasn't born in the 70's... what a horrible time for music. If you were born in 1975, I'm so sorry, not only did you go to high school during the 90's...but college too. Gross, I can't even imagine. It must have been rough jamming out to Tori Amos and Pearl Jam in your dorm room, thinking that was hip. When I think about the 90's I think about grundge and R&B, and it makes me a little bit sick to my stomach.
Thank heavens us kids who were born in the 80's were blessed with some style..... with the invention of the Internet and our love for pop punk and emo, we started to fight back against Whitney Houston & Miriah Carey. It wasn't much of a fight, technology was on our side. By the turn of the century, we were all over our Back Street Boy/Nysnc crushes, and R&B was headed for a steep decline.... it was a good time to be young and alive. We looked toward the music horizon, and felt in our bones that we were on the cusp of a music explosion. Something good was coming, based on the past years of horrible music, it had to be...
It started off slow... 2002 and 2003 were pretty good years, but in 2004... man, 2004 things started moving and grooving. From 2004 to 2008, music was fantastic.... if we narrow it down a little 2005 to 2007 was completely epic... but my theory is 2006 was the ultimate best year for music for our generation (see the graphic I made above). I would ask any of my fellow millennials to argue differently.
2006, for those of us that were aware of what was going on around us during that time... damn, what a golden era. That was the year Gold Digger ft. Jamie Foxx by Kanye West and SexyBack by Justin Timberlake were on the radio. We had Shakira's Hips Don't Lie, Nelly Furtado's Promiscuous, and The Black Eyed Peas had Pump It. Amy Winehouse had Rehab, Gwen Stefani had Wind It Up, Hellogoodbye had Here (In Your Arms), and Unk had Walk It Out..... but these songs aren't even close to scratching the surface of what 2006 gave us.
Compiled below is a list of the best albums that were dropped in 2006. If you take the time to look over the list you will start to giggle at how amazing it is. What's even more amazing is that some of your favorite bands came out with albums this same year, and I don't even have them listed here.... that's how intense this year was. I look through this list below, and wonder how our brains didn't melt?
Many of these albums have songs on them that are now considered timeless... and because Girls Pearls & Powder cares about your music education, we have put all these timeless songs together for THE MOST TIMELESS SONGS OF 2006, THE GREATEST YEAR OF MUSIC IN OUR GENERATION (follow that link to Spotify to listen and be amazed).
This music will change your life:
Verses of Comfort, Assurance & Salvation - Au Revoir Simone
December Underground - AFI
Everything All the Time - Band of Horses
Beach House - Beach House
The Information - Beck
The Life Pursuit - Belle & Sebastian
Ben Kweller - Ben Kweller
Magic Potion - Black Keys
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me - Brand New
You in Reverse - Built to Spill
Let's Get Out of This Country - Camera Obscura
The Greatest - Cat Power
Robbers and Cowards - Cold War Kids
Colour Revolt - Colour Revolt
Colourmusic EP - Colourmusic (Fall Song)
Cansei de Ser Sexy - CSS
Dorothy At Forty EP - Cursive
Human After All: Remixes - Daft Punk
9 - Damien Rice
Ships - Danielson
The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
Hallelujah Sirens - Dirty On Purpose
Yes, Virginia - The Dresden Dolls
Knives Don't Have Your Back - Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
Dog Problems - The Format
St. Elsewhere - Gnarls Barkley
Kill Them With Kindness - Headlights
The Warning - Hot Chip
Return To Sea - Islands
Ys - Joanna Newsom
Rabbit Fur Coat- Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
Sam's Town - The Killers
45:33 - LCD Soundsystem
Silent Shout- The Knife
Food & Liquor - Lupe Fiasco
I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child - Manchester Orchestra
Bring It Back - Mates of State
Post-War - M. Ward
Socialize - Metal Hearts
Phages - The Most Serene Republic
Black Holes and Revelations - Muse
The Drop to the Top - Only Son
Let's Build A Fire - +/- (PLUS/MINUS)
Writer's Block - Peter Bjorn and John
It's Never Been Like That - Phoenix
Make Love to the Judges With Your Eyes - Pony Up!
Waiter: You Vultures! - Portugal, The Man
Elan Vital - Pretty Girls Make Graves
Classics - Ratatat
Stadium Arcadium Vol. 1 - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Impeccable Blahs - Say Hi To Your Mom
We Are Pilots - Shiny Toy Guns
Dying to Say This to You - the Sounds
Broom - Someone Still Loves You
The Avalanche & Songs For Christmas - Sufjan Stevens
Sunset Rubdown - Sunset Rubdown & Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade
This Providence - This Providence
Analyze EP & The Eraser - Thom Yorke
A Lesson In Crime - Tokyo Police Club
Return To Cookie Mountain - TV On the Radio
C*m Laude - The Velvet Teen
Dreams - The Whitest Boy Alive
Show Off Your Bones - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Peace and pine trees,
Whitney
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Past Mountain Woman Music Lists:
January 2014
February 2014
March 2014
April 2014
End of Summer 2014
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