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Fuck you, 2006

Fuck you, 2006
Created by:	RyanTheTruck
Tracks:	19
Length:	01:19:14
Keywords	1. Music I discovered in 2006 2. Not necessarily 2006 releases 3. If I haven't heard it, it's new to me
Created on	1/02/07 02:02pm
Level	5
Points	2340
Total visitors	75
Unique visitors	43

description:

Tacky as it is, I get all retrospective and shit all the time around the new year, so this is one of the first chances I've had to make some sort of chronology of the music I listened to in 2006.

Again, not all 2006 releases. I'm not about to pretend like I heard all this new music and I'm on the cutting edge or whatever. And sometimes rediscovering music you used to be into is better than actually discovering new music. This mix is pretty much all stuff I discovered in '06 though.

Anyways, this is the music that mattered to me in '06.

tracklist

1	The Kinks : Big Sky
	I got into the Kinks in November of '05, and they were easily the most significant band in the early months of [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 6 from The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society Length: 00:02:49 Year: 1968
	Track Description: I got into the Kinks in November of '05, and they were easily the most significant band in the early months of 2006. My girlfriend was really into them, and, in the words of Iggy Pop, they just kinda seemed liek pussies to me. But when I actually sat down and listened to "the Village Green Preservation Society," I quickly took it all back. Well, actually, they are kinda pussies, but damn good songwriting and arrangements. I chose "Big Sky" because it's probably them at their most psychedelic. SHOW LESS
2	flipper : Sex Bomb
	Another Late '05-er that took us into '06. Where had Flipper been all my life? One of my bands covered this on [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 9 from generic Length: 00:07:48 Year: 1982
	Track Description: Another Late '05-er that took us into '06. Where had Flipper been all my life? One of my bands covered this on New Years' Eve '05-06, with full horns and everything. By the end of it I was on the ground screaming, someone had stuck their beer down the back of my pants, and I had "I am Loveable and Capable" scrawled on my chest. SEX BOMB BABY YEAH! SHOW LESS
3	The Rolling Stones : Jumpin' Jack Flash
	I never liked the Stones until '06, which saw me getting into a lot of soul and R&B, so once I listened to the [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 1 from Get Your Ya Ya's Out Length: 00:04:02 Year: 1970
	Track Description: I never liked the Stones until '06, which saw me getting into a lot of soul and R&B, so once I listened to them that way (and saw "Gimme Shelter"-- whoa), I realized there's a reason they're like the best band in the world or something. They were fucking incredible live in their day. This version of JJF is pretty close to the version they play in "Gimme Shelter," complete with "I think I busted a button on me trousers and they might fall down...You wouldn't want my trousers to fall down, now would you." And my band covered this song extensively throughout the year. Look for videos of people covering this on YouTube, there's one of these kids who can't be more than 13, and they're amazing. They're going to be in such great bands someday. SHOW LESS
4	Harry Nilsson : Driving Along
	2006 was easily the year of Nilsson for me, and "Nilsson Schmilsson" was probably the best album I heard all c [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 2 from Nilsson Schmilsson Length: 00:02:05 Year: 1973
	Track Description: 2006 was easily the year of Nilsson for me, and "Nilsson Schmilsson" was probably the best album I heard all crappy year. He looks like me, he's a total schlub, and he's just this good-natured stoner who writes the absolute best fucking songs. I like this album cover, I like every song on it, and he opened the doors to appreciating singer/songwriters for me, and I think 2007 will be the year of Randy Newman. I also like artists who are amused by the fact that they have silly names. "Nilsson Schmilsson" is such a good title, and I just picked up "KNNILLSSONN," which is shaping up pretty damn well also. SHOW LESS
5	Talking Heads : The Great Curve
	I've always liked the Talking Heads, but I got on a big kick of them around February. I listened to them all t [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 3 from Remain in Light Length: 00:06:26 Year: 0000
	Track Description: I've always liked the Talking Heads, but I got on a big kick of them around February. I listened to them all the time until this one manager at the Borders where I worked (let's not speak of that again) put a shit-ton of them on the playlist and I started associating them with the misery of working there, and they're still hard for me to listen to now. Very sad. SHOW LESS
6	Dr. Octagon : Earth People
	I got into Kool Keith randomly though a one-off project of his called the Cenobites, and their song "Kick a Do [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 4 from Dr. Octagonecologyst Length: 00:04:46 Year: 1997
	Track Description: I got into Kool Keith randomly though a one-off project of his called the Cenobites, and their song "Kick a Dope Verse" is probably my favorite song ever. I guess it's pretty whitey-white-white-white of me (especially following the Talkings Heads, i.e. SUPER WHITE), but "Dr. Octagonecolygist" is pretty up my alley. I like how he straight up doesn't finish some lines, and his lazy, surreal lyrics. He gets a bit misogynistic for my tastes though, and I guess when some interviewer went to his house, it was just wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling porn, so someone who needs his masculinity that reinforced can't be that cool, but this album is fer sher. Best line: "I'm psychedelic, next time comin' rainbow, look at the green light and ya'll see my brain glow." SHOW LESS
7	Betty Davis : Shoo-B-Doop And Cop Him
	Let's see...Betty Davis fucking rules. Where do you start with her? HEr surname was acquired through her marri [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 1 from They Say I'm Different Length: 00:03:57 Year: 1974
	Track Description: Let's see...Betty Davis fucking rules. Where do you start with her? HEr surname was acquired through her marriage to one Miles Davis, to whom she introduced funk and psychedelic music. HE divorced her because she was just "too wild" for him, and she was boning Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone (at the same time? We can only dream). So she made an album with the best session musicians she could get and slapped a fantasic cover on it of her in some sc--fi/blaxploitation depicion of her with a gi-normous afro wearing some Egyption shit and holding three huge clear...uh...chopsticks?I have no clue WTF is going on. But yeah, her whole career is some hard funk with a "fuck you, Miles Davis, I introduce you to some of the best music there is and you go and make stupidass 'Bitches' Brew'" message written all over it. Whew! SHOW LESS
8	Erma Franklin : Can't See My Way
	Erma would be the sister of Aretha, if there was any question (hence, "Soul Sister"). This is a pretty obscure [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 6 from Soul Sister Length: 00:00:00 Year: 1969
	Track Description: Erma would be the sister of Aretha, if there was any question (hence, "Soul Sister"). This is a pretty obscure album, but it's really great. She was obviously attempting to capitalize on the success her sister and Otis Redding and Tina Turner had in covering rock & roll hits of the day and taking them to their most rhythmic roots on tracks like "Light My Fire," as well as newfound soul classics "Son of a Preacher Man" and "Hold On, I'm Comin'." Her originals on this are the best part of it though, and this track is dark and bass-y and just f'n fuckin' groovy. SHOW LESS
9	Sam & Dave : Wrap It Up
	When listening to a best of Sam and Dave, it's all too apparent that every song after the success of "Hold On, [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 15 from The Best Of Sam &Dave Length: 00:02:30 Year: 1969
	Track Description: When listening to a best of Sam and Dave, it's all too apparent that every song after the success of "Hold On, I'm Comin'" was an attempt to re-make it, because almost every other song has similar-sounding punchy horn hooks. This is clearly due to Stax's house band, Booker T. and the MG's, who aren't exactly the poster children for originality. All of their songs are basically "Green Onions" as played backwards, sideways, and upside-down. Also, this song tends to commodify women, but I guess that's why feminism happened in the late '60s. At any rate, what really makes this song for me, and the whole reason I love it is Steve Cropper, Steve Cropper, Steve Cropper. His guitar playing is so funky, and his tone on this track is -- i'm going to go ahead and say it -- the best guitar tone I've ever heard, and the one I strive for. Ripping! SHOW LESS
10	Ike and Tina Turner : Such a Fool for You
	Something I realized this year: prepackaged oldies stations ruin music. Don't ask me exactly how, but the way [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 11 from River Deep, Mountain High Length: 00:02:48 Year: 1966
	Track Description: Something I realized this year: prepackaged oldies stations ruin music. Don't ask me exactly how, but the way they neuter great songs is abysmal. I think they just take out the bass entirely and make them trebly pieces of crap that are meant to be listened to though minivan speakers while waiting in the McDonald's drive thru. It's probably why I never liked the Stones, or why CCR was a totally different animal to me on the stereo at home. Anyways, one big thing you miss on "Super OLLLL-DEEEEZZZZ, K-BEST, blah blah blah" stations is what they mean by Phil Spector's wall of sound. By that, I mean that it is a wall. Of sound. A fucking wall. Tracks and tracks and tracks layered one on top of the other. It rules. I mean, Spector's a sack of shit who writes god-awful lyrics and deserves any misfortune that may befall him, but he produced a whopper of an album here. "Such a Fool for You," I believe, is one of the key points where soul and psychedelic music converge, which is something I'm fascinated by; how complementary the two generes are to one another. I'm certain this is the first appearance of krautrock bass playing. Note: I would have chosen "It's Gonna Work Out Fine," because this version is better than the single version and the band grooves WAY harder, but Ike's vocals on this one creep me out. They sound like Zappa, but since it's Ike Turner, I know it's not harmless and I'm afraid he's going to come molest me late at night. SHOW LESS
11	Clarence Carter : Strokin'
	I heard this song at a dive bar in the Tenderloin where there's a woman who looks like a washed-up Diana Ross [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 1 from The Dr.'s Greatest Prescriptions: The Best of Clarence Carter Length: 00:04:35 Year: 1992
	Track Description: I heard this song at a dive bar in the Tenderloin where there's a woman who looks like a washed-up Diana Ross who will flip you off if you try to talk to her and this little old lady of unspecified nationality who eats a dinner of two Twinkies, a Long Island iced tea, and black cofee who only spoke when some person tried to enter said bar and she came screaming and flapping out at her from behind the counter. I guess everyone in the world already knew this song, but I can't think of a better environment to have heard it in for the first time. My mind was BLOWN. (summary from a previous mix): This is the most sex-positive song ever written. He's basically saying it doesn't matter how you do it -- long, hard, soft, short, to the east, to the west -- all that matters is if you're strokin'. And I think he's implying that strokin' doesn't belong solely to the realm of sex, but rather that when you're strokin', you're at one with the universe and filled with positive energy you want to send out and have returned to you; like a sigil. I think they should sing this song at war protests instead of "Blowin' in the Wind" or whatever. SHOW LESS
12	Stevie Wonder : You Are the Sunshine of My Life
	I'm convinced that "Songs in the Key of Life" is a track-for-track Motown response to "The Velvet Underground [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 8 from The Definitive Collection Length: 00:02:52 Year: 2002
	Track Description: I'm convinced that "Songs in the Key of Life" is a track-for-track Motown response to "The Velvet Underground and Nico." Go ahead. Try it out. SHOW LESS
13	The Slits : I Heard it Through the Grapevine
	All you need to know is in their version of it, the Slits say "I Heard It Through the Bassline." Let's just sa [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 11 from Cut Length: 00:03:59 Year: 1979
	Track Description: All you need to know is in their version of it, the Slits say "I Heard It Through the Bassline." Let's just say I listened to various renditions of this song extensively last year. SHOW LESS
14	The Who : A Quick One While He's Away
	Another song I always thought was a good 'un, but didn't catch the essence of until I saw live footage of it, [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 11 from The Kids Are Alright Length: 00:07:23 Year: 1979
	Track Description: Another song I always thought was a good 'un, but didn't catch the essence of until I saw live footage of it, in this case, on "The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus." I heard somewhere that because the Stones' performance was so-so and the Who ruled that they toyed with calling it "The Who's Rock and Roll Circus," although I haven't seen this confirmed anywhere. At any rate, this is hands-down the best version of this song. IT'S SO GODDAMN LOUD. And guess who else really dug Steve Cropper's tone. Holler. SHOW LESS
15	Gnarls Barkley : Smiley Faces
	When this album came out, I was convinced it was going to kick off the next Cultural Revolution. It's worn off [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 5 from St. Elsewhere Length: 00:03:05 Year: 2006
	Track Description: When this album came out, I was convinced it was going to kick off the next Cultural Revolution. It's worn off a little since, and the costume this is getting old (the Star Wars schtick on MTV still rules though -- again, live), but I think this track is phenomenal. It sounds like the Brian Jonestown Massacre but listenable. SHOW LESS
16	Smokey Robinson & The Miracles : I Second That Emotion
	If all I got out of working at Borders was a love of Happy Donuts and "I Second That Emotion," then I guess I' [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 2 from The Ultimate Collection Length: 00:02:40 Year: 1998
	Track Description: If all I got out of working at Borders was a love of Happy Donuts and "I Second That Emotion," then I guess I'm satisfied. This song reminds me of pulling myself up by my bootstraps and un-crushing my soul. SHOW LESS
17	The Flaming Lips : Gingerale Afternoon (the Astrology of a Saturday)
	I love the Flaming Lips in every incarnation and for a million reasons. I got really into their early '90s era [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 5 from Hit to Death in the Future Head Length: 00:03:44 Year: 1992
	Track Description: I love the Flaming Lips in every incarnation and for a million reasons. I got really into their early '90s era over the summer. For the first time probably since the mid-90's, I realized it was okay to like '90s music again. SHOW LESS
18	Residual Echoes : The Continuing Saga of Julie Patchouli
	(Description from a previous mix): The Residual Echoes formed in Santa Cruz in 2003 and were a house-show circ [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 2 from California Length: 00:11:30 Year: 2006
	Track Description: (Description from a previous mix): The Residual Echoes formed in Santa Cruz in 2003 and were a house-show circuit band same as we were. They were just folks we were friends with who played Comets On Fire-inspired psychedelic freakouts. Over the years, Adam Payne's vision changed (the band is more or less his high school acid use-recovering brainchild), and somewhere along the line, they became the best band in the world. Seeing them is less going to a show as it is having some sort of religious experience. They're just different then every other wah-wah heavy psych thing going on these days. Maybe it's their being equal parts CCR and Dinosaur Jr. or their constantly revolving lineup, but man, you gotta see these guys. "California" is their third album, and they've evolved into a total early '90s band, sounding not unlike the Flaming Lips, Ween, Wipers, or Dinosaur Jr., but with SST sensibilites. At any rate, I'm really proud of them. This song is probably the poppiest one on their new record, and has some great Syd Barrett-y lines. SHOW LESS
19	Bob Dylan & The Band : Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
	And then there was "The Basement Tapes." In the last couple of months, my housemates and girlfriend, God bless [...] SHOW MORE
	Track 14 from The Basement Tapes Length: 00:02:15 Year: 1975
	Track Description: And then there was "The Basement Tapes." In the last couple of months, my housemates and girlfriend, God bless 'em, have been suffering me listening to this album over and over again in every possible order. This was the record I'd been waiting for. It currently blew my mind in a way an album hadn't blown my iTunes shuffle-corrupted mind in quite a while. I got the record when I was maybe 18 or so and still doing the Bob Dylan thing and listened to it once or twice and hated it. Somehow, the record survived several moves and several trips to the record store when I've been forced to make cuts in my collection. Over the years Dylan kinda wore off, but in the last couple of months I got really into the Band, so I threw it on, and to my amazement, it's exactly the kind of music I want to listen to these days. It's also kinda rad that it coinceded with my realization that I fucking hate my digital 8-track and want to switch back to analog, considering this album's a home recording job on a standard-issue reel-to-reel with between one and three mics. Ironically, I totally prefer Dylan's stuff on here to the Band's. Their songs all take themselves pretty seriously, but Dylan's just fucking around, so it's a pretty tight testament to his skills as a songwriter. He's got no pressure, no audience, all the time in the world, and an awesome backing band. It shows how humor and timing and shit can be manipulated by (over)production, stony non-sequiters, wankery (all the songs on here clock in at around two or three minutes), and 40 plus years of ass-kissing douchebags, idolaters, and morons with acoustic guitars singing "The Times They are A-Changin'." SHOW LESS

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claireillinoise

Mixtape Contest X: First Place

In the future, Biff Tannen will almost assuredly own all of our asses. So, here's a preemptive honoring of his eventual kingship.

Congrats on first -- the future thanks you. Now, make like a tree and get the hell out.

awarded on 2007-03-30

Level 17

i really like this one.

2/07/07 04:24pm

JShay

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This astonishing badge is bestowed to the MTC brethren who can truly conceptualize the wondrous spectacle and mind-altering ramifications of the of the elusive 'YAY!'.

awarded on 2008-08-17

Level 14

This mix is movin' me to dance. +3

1/02/07 10:31pm

johnny_luddite

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Despite the fact that TEAM ROBOT was crushed like a Pabst can at a frat party by the might claws of TEAM MONSTER, you are still deserving of a badge... Loser.

awarded on 2006-10-18

Level 40

Love the old soul, Kinks, almost all of what is here. Another great mix!

1/02/07 05:34pm

Eraserhead