FLUXBLOG 2006 SURVEY MIX

The celebration of the 10th anniversary of this site continues on with this collection of the best and most notable music of 2006. It’s a strange year. I’m inclined to say it’s the weakest of the decade, but given how much amazing material is collected here, I wonder if I feel that way because I remember it being a sort of dark and confusing time in general. I’m curious about your impressions of the middle chunk of the decade – please do speak up in the comments thread if you have thoughts on this.

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Beyoncé “Get Me Bodied” / Ghostface Killah “The Champ” / Clipse “Ride Around Shining” / Amy Winehouse “Rehab” / Peter Bjorn and John “Young Folks” / Marit Larsen “Don’t Save Me” / The Long Blondes “You Could Have Both” / Basement Jaxx “Take Me Back to Your House” / Destroyer “Painter In Your Pocket” / Jarvis Cocker “Black Magic” / A Sunny Day In Glasgow “C’mon” / Scout Niblett “Lullaby for Scout in Ten Years” / Jeffrey Lewis “Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror” / TV on the Radio “Wolf Like Me” / Britta Persson “You Are Not My Boyfriend” / Neko Case “Star Witness” / Thom Yorke “The Eraser” / Joanna Newsom “Cosmia”

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Scissor Sisters “Paul McCartney” / In Flagranti “Genital Blue Room” / Spektrum “Don’t Be Shy” / Christina Aguilera “Ain’t No Other Man” / Bossanova “Rare Brazil” / Yo La Tengo “The Room Got Heavy” / Hot Chip “Over and Over” / Beck “Think I’m In Love” / Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” / Regina Spektor “Fidelity” / Evanescence “Call Me When You’re Sober” / Birdman and Lil Wayne “You Ain’t Know” / Rick Ross “Hustlin'” / Bonde Do Role “Ma Quina De Ricota” / DAT Politics “Turn My Brain Off” / Cam’ron “I.B.S.” / LCD Soundsystem “45:33 III (Someone Great)” / Excepter “Op Pop”

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The Knife “We Share Our Mothers’ Health” / Electric Six “Mr. Woman” / Girl Talk “Smash Your Head” / CSS “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above” / JoJo “The Way You Do Me” / Outkast “PJ and Rooster” / The Fiery Furnaces “Police Sweater Blood Vow” / Mark Ronson “Just” / Camera Obscura “Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken” / Irving “Jen, Nothing Matters to Me” / Nelly Furtado “Maneater” / T.I. “What You Know” / Justice “Let There Be Light” / Lady Sovereign “Love Me or Hate Me” / Christina Milian “So Amazing” / Christopher and Raphael Just featuring Fox N Wolf “Popper” / My Robot Friend featuring Antony “One More Try” / The Peachwaves “Too Much Shit” / The Blood Brothers “Spit Shine Your Black Clouds” / Liars “The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack”

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Sloan “Flying High Again/Who Taught You to Live Like That?” / Phoenix “Long Distance Call” / Buffalo Daughter “Elephante Marinos” / Shapes and Sizes “Weekends At A Time” / Sonic Youth “Jams Run Free” / Jagged Edge “Stunnas” / Shawnna featuring Ludacris, Lil Wayne, Too Short and Pharrell “Gettin’ Some (Remix)” / Velella Velella “Brass Ass” / Nouveau Riche “Take Me Home” / Robyn “With Every Heartbeat” / Grizzly Bear “Knife” / Panda Bear “Carrots” / Field Music “You’re Not Supposed To” / Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Gold Lion” / Wild Beasts “Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants” / Noonday Underground “You Keep Me Holding On” / Lily Allen “LDN” / Chicks On Speed “MySpace”

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Spank Rock “Sweet Talk” / Pipettes “Pull Shapes” / Belle & Sebastian “The Blues Are Still Blue” / Alphabeat “Fascination” / Marykate O’Neil “Things Are Too Good (They’re Bound to Go Bad” / White Magic “Childhood Song” / The Walkmen “Don’t Forget Me” / Treva Jackson “Drive” / Dirty Projectors “Fucked For Life” / Clinic “Harvest” / The Blow “Parentheses” / El-P “Smithereens (Stop Cryin’)” / Papoose “Alphabetical Slaughter” / Lonely Island “Lazy Sunday” / J Dilla “Workinonit” / Killer Mike “That’s Life” / Junior Boys “In the Morning” / Beach House “Apple Orchard” / Gustav “We Shall Overcome” / Mountain Goats “Woke Up New” / Cat Power “Lived In Bars”

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The Flaming Lips “The W.A.N.D.” / Gwen Stefani “Now That You Got It” / Rihanna “SOS” / Johnny Boy “Fifteen Minutes” / Andrew W.K. “One Brother” / Arctic Monkeys “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor” / The Divine Comedy “To Die A Virgin” / Stereolab “I Was A Sunny Rainphase” / Erase Errata “Another Genius Idea From Our Government” / Ellen Allien & Apparat “Way Out” / Midlake “Roscoe” / Page France “Chariot” / Cadence Weapon “Black Hand” / Lo-Fi-Fnk “What’s On Your Mind?” / Justus Köhncke “Advance” / Justin Timberlake “My Love” / Booka Shade “In White Rooms” / The Evening Episode “Backstroke” / Charlotte Gainsbourg “Operation” / Pet Shop Boys “Integral”

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The Rapture “Whoo! Alright – Yeah…Uh Huh” / Klanguage “Never Over” / Lindsay Lohan “If You Were Me” / Zeigeist “Tar Heart” / New Young Pony Club “Ice Cream” / Clark “Vengeance Drools” / The Coup “We Are the Ones” / The Roots “Don’t Feel Right” / MSTRKRFT “She’s Good For Business” / Marit Bergman “Rentcode” / Scritti Politti “The Boom Boom Bap” / Shrag “Hopelessly Wasted” / Jan Jelinek “Up to My Same Old Trick Again” / Kelly Slusher “Be There” / Pony Up “Only Feelgood” / The Starlight Mints “Seventeen Devils” / The Victorian English Gentlemens Club “Dead Anyway” / K-the-I??? “Go-Go Girls” / Lil Wayne “Georgia…Bush”

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The Raconteurs “Steady, As She Goes” / Pearl Jam “World Wide Suicide” / The Gossip “Standing in the Way of Control” / Love Is All “Busy Doing Nothing” / Puffy AmiYumi “Radio Tokyo” / The Rogers Sisters “Money Matters” / Be Your Own Pet “October, First Account” / The Futureheads “Skip to the End” / Planningtorock “I Wanna Bite Ya” / Lupe Fiasco “Kick, Push” / Beirut “Postcards from Italy” / Casey Dienel “Everything” / The Decemberists “O Valencia” / Taylor Swift “Picture to Burn” / Loose Fur “Thou Shalt Wilt” / Dixie Chicks “Not Ready to Make Nice” / Bob Dylan “Rollin’ and Tumblin'” / Mr. Lif “Collapse” / Jim Jones “Bright Lights, Big City” / James Kochalka Superstar “Britney’s Silver Can”