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Post by kds on Nov 3, 2021 12:25:54 GMT
The soundtrack for Last Action Hero, which has probably endured better than the movie itself (even though I think it's underrated), included big songs for AC/DC (Big Gun) and Megadeth (Angry Again). Also, it was already mentioned, but Queensryche released one of their last really good songs on that soundtrack in Real world. That soundtrack was actually really good, and for a short time the only place to hear some of the songs. Alice in Chains' "What the Hell Have I" is a pretty good song, but the mix and mastering sucked badly. Nails on chalkboard! Fortunately the song was later remixed on one of AiG's best-ofs and it sounds much better. Def Leppard's semi-acoustic "Two Steps Behind" is a decent enough tune, showing yet another side of them, although around here it was radio-played to death. There was also a live version of Aerosmith's Dream On where the band is backed by a Michael Kamen (who also scored the movie) lead orchestra. Speaking of rock soundtracks, Wayne's World 2 was released in late 1993. While the movie does give a passing reference to Pearl Jam, the music of the movie is still very rooted in classic hard rock and metal, much like the previous movie. I think it's fortunate the movie wasn't released a year or two later, or it might've been accused of being "dated."
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 8, 2021 16:45:23 GMT
2006
Here are the Billboard #1s from 2006. By my quick count, 19 different songs topped the charts. (I recognize five of them.)
No. Title Artist(s) 1 "Bad Day" Daniel Powter 2 "Temperature" Sean Paul 3 "Promiscuous" Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland 4 "You're Beautiful" James Blunt 5 "Hips Don't Lie" Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean 6 "Unwritten" Natasha Bedingfield 7 "Crazy" Gnarls Barkley 8 "Ridin'" Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone 9 "SexyBack" Justin Timberlake featuring Timbaland 10 "Check on It" Beyoncé featuring Slim Thug 11 "Be Without You" Mary J. Blige 12 "Grillz" Nelly, Paul Wall and Ali & Gipp 13 "Over My Head (Cable Car)" The Fray 14 "Me & U" Cassie 15 "Buttons" Pussycat Dolls featuring Snoop Dogg 16 "Run It!" Chris Brown featuring Juelz Santana 17 "So Sick" Ne-Yo 18 "It's Goin' Down" Yung Joc featuring Nitti 19 "SOS" Rihanna 20 "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" Panic! at the Disco 21 "Move Along" The All-American Rejects 22 "London Bridge" Fergie 23 "Dani California" Red Hot Chili Peppers 24 "Snap Yo Fingers" Lil Jon featuring E-40 and Sean Paul 25 "Lean wit It, Rock wit It" Dem Franchize Boyz 26 "What Hurts the Most" Rascal Flatts 27 "How to Save a Life" The Fray 28 "Unfaithful" Rihanna 29 "Chasing Cars" Snow Patrol 30 "Lips of an Angel" Hinder 31 "Everytime We Touch" Cascada 32 "Ain't No Other Man" Christina Aguilera 33 "Dance, Dance" Fall Out Boy 34 "Gold Digger" Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx 35 "Money Maker" Ludacris featuring Pharrell 36 "Ms. New Booty" Bubba Sparxxx featuring Ying Yang Twins 37 "(When You Gonna) Give It Up to Me" Sean Paul featuring Keyshia Cole 38 "Photograph" Nickelback 39 "Because of You" Kelly Clarkson 40 "Stickwitu" Pussycat Dolls
Issue Date Album Artist(s) Reference(s) January 7 The Breakthrough Mary J. Blige [13][14] January 14 Unpredictable Jamie Foxx [15][16] January 21 [17][18] January 28 The Breakthrough Mary J. Blige [19][20] February 4 Unpredictable Jamie Foxx [21][22] February 11 Ancora Il Divo [23][24] February 18 The Greatest Songs of the Fifties Barry Manilow [25][4] February 25 Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George Jack Johnson & Friends [26][27] March 4 Ghetto Classics Jaheim [28][29] March 11 High School Musical Soundtrack [30][31] March 18 In My Own Words Ne-Yo [32][33] March 25 Reality Check Juvenile [34][35] April 1 High School Musical Soundtrack [36][37] April 8 3121 Prince [38][6] April 15 King T.I. [39][40] April 22 Me and My Gang Rascal Flatts [41][3] April 29 [42][43] May 6 [44][45] May 13 IV Godsmack [46][47] May 20 10,000 Days Tool [48][49] May 27 Stadium Arcadium Red Hot Chili Peppers [50][5] June 3 [51][52] June 10 Taking the Long Way Dixie Chicks [53][54] June 17 [55][56] June 24 Decemberunderground AFI [57][58] July 1 The Big Bang Busta Rhymes [59][60] July 8 Loose Nelly Furtado [61][62] July 15 Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship India.Arie [63][64] July 22 American V: A Hundred Highways Johnny Cash [65][7] July 29 Now 22 Various Artists [66][67] August 5 [68][69] August 12 LeToya LeToya [70][71] August 19 Now 22 Various Artists [72][73] August 26 Port of Miami Rick Ross [74][75] September 2 Back to Basics Christina Aguilera [76][77] September 9 Danity Kane Danity Kane [78][79] September 16 Modern Times Bob Dylan [80][81] September 23 B'Day Beyoncé [82][83] September 30 FutureSex/LoveSounds Justin Timberlake [84][11] October 7 [85][86] October 14 Release Therapy Ludacris [87][88] October 21 The Open Door Evanescence [89][8] October 28 Still the Same… Great Rock Classics of Our Time Rod Stewart [90][91] November 4 Press Play Diddy [92][9] November 11 Hannah Montana Soundtrack [93][94] November 18 [95][96] November 25 Now 23 Various Artists [97][12] December 2 Doctor's Advocate The Game [98][99] December 9 Kingdom Come Jay-Z [100][10] December 16 Light Grenades Incubus [101][102] December 23 Ciara: The Evolution Ciara [103][104] December 30 The Inspiration Young Jeezy [105][106]
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 8, 2021 16:49:24 GMT
My first thought scanning these songs and albums is, while I was very heavily into music at the time, I was not yet even pretending to pay attention to the mainstream charts. I barely know any of the #1 singles, I don't know most of the year-end top singles, and I own two of the albums that topped the charts that year (and have never heard any of the others in their entirety).
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Post by kds on Nov 8, 2021 16:59:45 GMT
While I wouldn't consider myself a huge fan, Red Hot Chili Peppers does have a handful of songs that I enjoy. Dani California is one of them. And, I thought the music video was pretty cool, showing the guys dressed for different eras of rock music from the late 50s to 2006.
While I'm going to keep things positive during this 2006 thread, I have to share something amusing. When Fergie released her solo album that year, I remember hearing London Bridge and thinking "I can't imagine a more annoying pop song." I guess the 2010s / early 2020s heard me and said "Hold me White Claw."
But, for me, 2006 was basically about two albums.
The first, Iron Maiden's A Matter of Life and Death. Their 14th studio album was released in early September, and I played the hell out of that album for all of September and October. I saw them on tour in October, and I think I was the only one in the audience excited that they decided to play the whole album front to back. While I've enjoyed their next three released, I think AMOLAD is their last truly great album to date.
The other was the long awaited 11th studio album from The Who - Endless Wire. Their first album since 2006, it was a surprisingly strong collection of songs. The only real disappointment for me is that touring drummer Zak Starkey only appears on one song, due to scheduling conflicts.
I remember really liking the debut album from Evanescence in 2003, but I wasn't overly impressed with their second effort - The Open Door. I really haven't followed them since.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 8, 2021 18:17:22 GMT
While I'm going to keep things positive during this 2006 thread, I have to share something amusing. When Fergie released her solo album that year, I remember hearing London Bridge and thinking "I can't imagine a more annoying pop song." Fergie's solo career (and some of the Black-Eyed Peas stuff) honestly struck me as a joke. "London Bridge?" "My Humps?" I wish I could have had the mindset of "it's just fun, let it be." But instead I just could not get over the fact that professionals released this on purpose, and my thoughts are inappropriate to put on a public message board.
I've just now found out Fergie was originally a child actor (Kids Incorporated) and part of a manufactured girl group (Wild Orchid). Which makes a lot of sense. I would like to see a breakdown of pop stars in the past 20 years who were reality show participants, child actors, child musicians, whether famous as such or part of families that pushed them, as opposed to people who learned to play or write music first.
Anyway, here's that genius-level piece of art.
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Post by kds on Nov 8, 2021 18:59:03 GMT
While I'm going to keep things positive during this 2006 thread, I have to share something amusing. When Fergie released her solo album that year, I remember hearing London Bridge and thinking "I can't imagine a more annoying pop song." Fergie's solo career (and some of the Black-Eyed Peas stuff) honestly struck me as a joke. "London Bridge?" "My Humps?" I wish I could have had the mindset of "it's just fun, let it be." But instead I just could not get over the fact that professionals released this on purpose, and my thoughts are inappropriate to put on a public message board.
I've just now found out Fergie was originally a child actor (Kids Incorporated) and part of a manufactured girl group (Wild Orchid). Which makes a lot of sense. I would like to see a breakdown of pop stars in the past 20 years who were reality show participants, child actors, child musicians, whether famous as such or part of families that pushed them, as opposed to people who learned to play or write music first.
Anyway, here's that genius-level piece of art.
She also did some voice work as a child, voicing Sally on some 1990s Peanuts cartoons. What really gets me about Fergie is that she's actually a pretty good singer. But, with her pop leanings, she really doesn't utilize much of her vocal talent.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 8, 2021 19:54:08 GMT
One album I really liked in 2006--and thereafter, but especially over that first year or so--is Joanna Newsom's Ys.
I was still a little high on the reality of Brian Wilson Presents Smile, and while this doesn't resemble that the slightest bit musically, it is similarly a Disneyfied cartoon of sorts. (Van Dyke Parks, of course, was involved in both and could be the missing link.) This album comprises five long songs and features mostly Newsom's squeak of a voice singing her own, wonderful if very VDPish, lyrics accompanied by her harp. Parks supplements this with arrangements using orchestral and other instruments. Studio aces and longtime Parks musicians Lee Sklar and Grant Geissman provided bass and guitar, respectively, and Parks himself played accordion. Legendary engineer Steve Albini recorded the album, with Jim O'Rourke mixing.
Critics loved the album, and it landed on everyone's year-end and best-of-decade lists. Sales weren't so impressive: it peaked at #134.
My memories of it are largely of the spare apartment I had at the time, hardwood floors and mostly bare walls, and how I'd listen to this with red wine that fall and winter. (It was a November '06 release.)
It also has what might be the worst cover of any album I like, ever.
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Post by jk on Nov 8, 2021 20:17:00 GMT
Not that I know much about her music, but I have a soft spot for Fergie thanks to the song she recorded for The Great Gatsby OST, "A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)", the video for which is a guilty pleasure of mine. As for 2006... My own contribution is brief. I own two albums from that year, Gary Numan's Jagged and Amy Winehouse's Back to Black. And I like one single, Mary J. Blige's take on "One", featuring U2: For the rest, I recognize some names of people in the "Music of 2006" lists and that's it.
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Post by kds on Nov 8, 2021 20:33:41 GMT
Queensryche got raked over the coals for daring to do a sequel to their 1988 masterpiece Operation: Mindcrime, but in 2006, they released Operation: Mindcrime II.
The sequel does suffer from the lack of Chris DeGarmo's songwriting, and of course, the lack of great songs or a really compelling follow up story. But, despite its flaws, it's IMO Queensryche's best efforts since 1994's Promised Land, and last good album they did before Geoff Tate was kicked out.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 8, 2021 21:12:12 GMT
I'll have to beg everyone's forgiveness and patience while discussing 2006, because as much as I am ignorant of or negative toward a lot of what was topping the charts, there are a lot of the bands I've gone on and on about over the years (that nobody else here especially likes) that did some good stuff that year. So what the hell, I'll be bringing them up. Bear with me. Maybe try the linked tunes and be converted! Or just skip my posts.
Another album I associate very much with that apartment I moved into back then is the Mountain Goats's Get Lonely. Right as I was moving, I also was breaking up with someone. I already knew this album from earlier in the year, but it had a particular resonance as I moved into an empty place in the autumn.
John Darnielle, who has since taken another career as an award-winning novelist, writes wonderfully throughout.
From the aching "Wild Sage":
"...and along the highway, where unlucky stray dogs bleed / wild sage growing in the weeds." "Some days I think I'd feel better if I tried harder / most days I know it's not true."
"...and when somebody asks if I'm okay / and I don't know what to say."
From the persistently uptempo "Half Dead":
It was raining outside so I cleaned house today Spent half of the morning throwing old things away. Try not to get caught up, try to think like a machine Focus in on the task, try not to think about what it means. Can't get you out of my head
Lost without you. Half dead.
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Post by sockit on Nov 9, 2021 0:11:23 GMT
Well, I'll probably be useless regarding any conversation on albums from any of the 2000's. I had a few favorite songs up until around 2008, but I don't believe I have any rock cds from that decade.
I borrowed the Chilli Peppers' Stadium Arcadium from a friend and only found one song I liked. No, it wasn't the hit "Dani California". That one's a pretty rockin' tune, but it loses points for me by sounding too much like Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance" (namely, the intro and verses). The particular track I liked was the song "Stadium Arcadium". That is a great sounding tune with some excellent guitar work, nice vocals...what more could you want?
'06 was my introduction to Jack White (who's hit or miss with me) with "Steady as She Goes" by the Raconteurs. Very catchy tune.
One more song from that year, that I was introduced to by my daughter is this one:
I guess I like this one because it has sort of a 1980s sound.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 9, 2021 0:24:15 GMT
I don't know that I have ever heard the Chili Peppers' music from that album on purpose, in that I never was a real fan at all and less as the years went on. I just gave the one kds linked a listen, and wow, the verse is "Last Dance With Mary Jane," indeed. sockit is right on that one.
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Post by sockit on Nov 9, 2021 0:29:11 GMT
Here's the song "Stadium Arcadium":
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Post by jk on Nov 9, 2021 22:54:51 GMT
One more song from that year, that I was introduced to by my daughter is this one: I guess I like this one because it has sort of a 1980s sound. What song is this, sockit ? It's not available in my country...
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Post by sockit on Nov 9, 2021 23:04:46 GMT
One more song from that year, that I was introduced to by my daughter is this one: I guess I like this one because it has sort of a 1980s sound. What song is this, sockit ? It's not available in my country... Sorry jk , I didn't think about that. The song is "You Are the One" by Shiny Toy Guns. It's a high-energy synth-heavy tune that's very catchy. Maybe it's just me, but they sound very British-styled for an American L.A. band. At least on this song.
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