Top 74 Music Albums of 2006
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Produced by Band Of Horses and Phil Ek. One of my favorite bands, this group can pretty much do no wrong in my eyes. Between Everything All The Time and Cease To Begin, I'm in musical heaven. This one has "The Funeral", "The Great Salt Lake", "St. Augustine"...how can you possibly go wrong? Haunting vocals, fine guitar work, great songwriting...all the things I look for in a great rock album. But Band Of Horses is more than just a rock band, and albums like Everything All The Time are more than just great. Timeless.
[First added to this chart: 10/25/2012]
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2006
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[First added to this chart: 02/14/2017]
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2006-NEW WEST
Produced By DAVID BARBE
1. Feb 14
2. Gravity's Gone
3. Easy On Yourself
4. Aftermath USA
5. Goodbye
6. Daylight
7. Wednesday
8. Little Bonnie
9. Space City
10. A Blessing And A Curse
11. A World Of Hurt
A Blessing And A Curse is the 6th studio album by the carriers of the Southern rock torch Drive By Truckers. Unlike their previous albums which were more like drunken Skynyrd parties (in the best possible way), this album shows the band moving in different directions and showing that there is a lot more to them than just Southern boogie. The Truckers have a great lineup here. Mainstay guitarists Patterson Hood (son of horn player David Hood) and Mike Cooley write and sing their own material, which results in brutally honest pictures of Southern life (Hood) and backroads Charlie Daniels like craziness (Cooley). The great weapon from this period was Jason Isbell. A great player, singer and writer himself, this was his last album with DBT...maybe because he got only 2 songs on the album. Not enough for a songwriter as prolific and rising as Isbell.
The highlights of this album are everywhere as the band continues to grow and evolve. This is a great listen all the way through, and if you're not familiar with DBT, then you're in for a treat. This is a band, by the way, that has thrived on personnel changes: this and it's predecessor The Dirty South are the only two DBT albums to this point with the same lineup. Buy this album. You'll be happy you did. By the end of "A World Of Hurt", you'll be a fan. [First added to this chart: 04/11/2012]
Produced By DAVID BARBE
1. Feb 14
2. Gravity's Gone
3. Easy On Yourself
4. Aftermath USA
5. Goodbye
6. Daylight
7. Wednesday
8. Little Bonnie
9. Space City
10. A Blessing And A Curse
11. A World Of Hurt
A Blessing And A Curse is the 6th studio album by the carriers of the Southern rock torch Drive By Truckers. Unlike their previous albums which were more like drunken Skynyrd parties (in the best possible way), this album shows the band moving in different directions and showing that there is a lot more to them than just Southern boogie. The Truckers have a great lineup here. Mainstay guitarists Patterson Hood (son of horn player David Hood) and Mike Cooley write and sing their own material, which results in brutally honest pictures of Southern life (Hood) and backroads Charlie Daniels like craziness (Cooley). The great weapon from this period was Jason Isbell. A great player, singer and writer himself, this was his last album with DBT...maybe because he got only 2 songs on the album. Not enough for a songwriter as prolific and rising as Isbell.
The highlights of this album are everywhere as the band continues to grow and evolve. This is a great listen all the way through, and if you're not familiar with DBT, then you're in for a treat. This is a band, by the way, that has thrived on personnel changes: this and it's predecessor The Dirty South are the only two DBT albums to this point with the same lineup. Buy this album. You'll be happy you did. By the end of "A World Of Hurt", you'll be a fan. [First added to this chart: 04/11/2012]
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Produced by Jack White III & Brendan Benson. Anyone who thought that Jack White would flounder outside of The White Stripes were proven wrong with this album. "Steady As She Goes" was an immediate hit, and the rest is more than solid. The Raconteurs are sometimes referred to as a supergroup, but only White was a widely known entity beforehand. They made another, just as good album, but this is the one that really has the punch. Powerful and solid from start to finish, this shows that White just may be the great rock hope.
[First added to this chart: 04/13/2012]
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[First added to this chart: 01/29/2013]
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Produced by Bruce Springsteen and Jon Landau. The only Springsteen album to not feature any original material: these are all songs made popular by Pete Seeger. Some of them are a century old, but Springsteen handles them like they are his own songs. The results are fantastic, and the end result is yet another great Springsteen record. He sounds like he could have written songs like "Old Dan Tucker" and "Erie Canal" himself, without losing the feel of the original...the mark of a truly great artist.
[First added to this chart: 04/12/2012]
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[First added to this chart: 07/10/2016]
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2006 – SUBURBAN HOME
Produced By MATT VANLEUVEN & GHOST BUFFALO
1. Crawl
2. Your World
3. Stay
4. Ruin Everything
5. Pick me Up
6. Crows Feet
7. Hell Here
8. Ice Queen
9. Blinding Sky
10. Hollow
11. Under Suspicion
12. Bones
Ghost Buffalo is an alt-country band from my hometown of Denver, Colorado…whom I had never heard of. Because their debut album from 2006 landed in my collection, here’s what I have been able to find out. Ghost Buffalo formed around 2004, built around singer Marie Litton. Litton had moved to Denver from Pueblo in 2000, and played in a handful of bands before and after Ghost Buffalo. The band was signed to local label Suburban Home Records, for whom they released a pair of albums: this self titled debut from 2006, and The Magician in 2008. They broke up in 2009, and that’s about all there is. Other members have moved on to play in various bands, and Litton is now with the southern California band Spyderland.
Ghost Buffalo wasn’t successful. And they had a lot of member turnover. They call themselves alt-country, but there’s almost no hint of twang here. The music is heavy, and Litton has a sweet voice that spends most of this album on the verge of not quite fitting the sound of the band. This band could play…what they seemed to be in need of were songs. There’s really nothing on this debut album that jumps out and grabs you. The best track is “Hell Here”, which sports a fancy guitar hook, but the rest falls in line with the rest of the album…it’s almost heavy, but not quite. The contrast between the vocal and instrumental tracks falls short. And the songwriting just fails to save the day. Ghost Buffalo was a good idea that unfortunately just didn’t have what it took to take off. [First added to this chart: 05/28/2023]
Produced By MATT VANLEUVEN & GHOST BUFFALO
1. Crawl
2. Your World
3. Stay
4. Ruin Everything
5. Pick me Up
6. Crows Feet
7. Hell Here
8. Ice Queen
9. Blinding Sky
10. Hollow
11. Under Suspicion
12. Bones
Ghost Buffalo is an alt-country band from my hometown of Denver, Colorado…whom I had never heard of. Because their debut album from 2006 landed in my collection, here’s what I have been able to find out. Ghost Buffalo formed around 2004, built around singer Marie Litton. Litton had moved to Denver from Pueblo in 2000, and played in a handful of bands before and after Ghost Buffalo. The band was signed to local label Suburban Home Records, for whom they released a pair of albums: this self titled debut from 2006, and The Magician in 2008. They broke up in 2009, and that’s about all there is. Other members have moved on to play in various bands, and Litton is now with the southern California band Spyderland.
Ghost Buffalo wasn’t successful. And they had a lot of member turnover. They call themselves alt-country, but there’s almost no hint of twang here. The music is heavy, and Litton has a sweet voice that spends most of this album on the verge of not quite fitting the sound of the band. This band could play…what they seemed to be in need of were songs. There’s really nothing on this debut album that jumps out and grabs you. The best track is “Hell Here”, which sports a fancy guitar hook, but the rest falls in line with the rest of the album…it’s almost heavy, but not quite. The contrast between the vocal and instrumental tracks falls short. And the songwriting just fails to save the day. Ghost Buffalo was a good idea that unfortunately just didn’t have what it took to take off. [First added to this chart: 05/28/2023]
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2006 – LOST HIGHWAY
Produced By PACO LOCO
1. You Make It Easy
2. Another Fine Day
3. 5-22-02
4. Long Time Ago
5. Corvette
6. Beautiful Mind
7. Listen Joe
8. Cure For This
9. Hurricane
10. Strangers
11. Frying Pan Eyes
12. Gone
13. Never Felt Before
14. I Can
15. Think About Yourself
Maybe the most interesting supergroup ever assembled, Golden Smog has also had maybe the most disappointing discography of any of them not named after a large continent. On their first two albums (Down By The Old Mainstream and Weird Tales), the band’s sound was hampered by a lack of production and the members not really taking things seriously. After an eight year hiatus, Another Fine Day suffers from just the opposite. Gone is the sense of fun that used to go with the group, and in its place is a strong sense that they really wanted to get it right this time. In many ways, this release wins over the earlier two…better production, better vocals, more cohesive instrumental tracks. But, the lack of fun and the limited involvement of Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy keep this from rising far above the aforementioned albums. Still, this band is always worth a good listen or three.
While the sound is vastly improved, there’s unfortunately nothing as catchy as “Pecan Pie” or “Radio King” or “Ill Fated”. But what is here is satisfying. The instrumental closing of “Listen Joe” is magnificent, Muni Camon’s guest vocal on “Cure For This” is dead on, and a Kinks cover (“Strangers”) makes things even better. This album is, in spots, heavier, and the harmonies are worth hearing over and over. Ultimately, these guys from Soul Asylum, Wilco, Big Star, The Jayhawks made a great sounding album, actually a step above the stuff that made them a legend of a thrown together band for fun. The Smog made another album (Blood On The Slacks) in 2007, but haven’t resurfaced since then. Maybe, if we’re lucky, we’ll get yet another incarnation of this collection of great musicians. Until then sample their four albums, and enjoy friends putting aside fame to make music because it so moves them to do so. [First added to this chart: 10/10/2012]
Produced By PACO LOCO
1. You Make It Easy
2. Another Fine Day
3. 5-22-02
4. Long Time Ago
5. Corvette
6. Beautiful Mind
7. Listen Joe
8. Cure For This
9. Hurricane
10. Strangers
11. Frying Pan Eyes
12. Gone
13. Never Felt Before
14. I Can
15. Think About Yourself
Maybe the most interesting supergroup ever assembled, Golden Smog has also had maybe the most disappointing discography of any of them not named after a large continent. On their first two albums (Down By The Old Mainstream and Weird Tales), the band’s sound was hampered by a lack of production and the members not really taking things seriously. After an eight year hiatus, Another Fine Day suffers from just the opposite. Gone is the sense of fun that used to go with the group, and in its place is a strong sense that they really wanted to get it right this time. In many ways, this release wins over the earlier two…better production, better vocals, more cohesive instrumental tracks. But, the lack of fun and the limited involvement of Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy keep this from rising far above the aforementioned albums. Still, this band is always worth a good listen or three.
While the sound is vastly improved, there’s unfortunately nothing as catchy as “Pecan Pie” or “Radio King” or “Ill Fated”. But what is here is satisfying. The instrumental closing of “Listen Joe” is magnificent, Muni Camon’s guest vocal on “Cure For This” is dead on, and a Kinks cover (“Strangers”) makes things even better. This album is, in spots, heavier, and the harmonies are worth hearing over and over. Ultimately, these guys from Soul Asylum, Wilco, Big Star, The Jayhawks made a great sounding album, actually a step above the stuff that made them a legend of a thrown together band for fun. The Smog made another album (Blood On The Slacks) in 2007, but haven’t resurfaced since then. Maybe, if we’re lucky, we’ll get yet another incarnation of this collection of great musicians. Until then sample their four albums, and enjoy friends putting aside fame to make music because it so moves them to do so. [First added to this chart: 10/10/2012]
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Top 74 Music Albums of 2006 composition
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| Gomez | 2 | 3% | |
| The Black Crowes | 2 | 3% | |
| Robert Earl Keen | 2 | 3% | |
| The Raconteurs | 1 | 1% | |
| Cat Power | 1 | 1% | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | 1 | 1% | |
| Tom Petty | 1 | 1% | |
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52 | 70% | |
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12 | 16% | |
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3 | 4% | |
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2 | 3% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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Top 74 Music Albums of 2006 chart changes
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| Up 26 from 64th to 38th At War With The Mystics by The Flaming Lips |
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| Down 1 from 38th to 39th Modern Times by Bob Dylan |
| Down 1 from 39th to 40th Five Men In A Hut (A's, B's, & Rarities: 1998-2004) by Gomez |
| Down 1 from 40th to 41st Ain't Rocket Science 202 by Various Artists |
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