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.

The survey mixes for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010 and 2011 are still up. Check in on July 2nd for a look back on 2007. I’m pretty sure that one is going to rival 2003 in terms of “wow, seriously, that all came out in 12 months?”

DOWNLOAD DISC 1

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”

DOWNLOAD DISC 2

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”

DOWNLOAD DISC 3

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”

DOWNLOAD DISC 4

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”

DOWNLOAD DISC 5

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”

DOWNLOAD DISC 6

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”

DOWNLOAD DISC 7

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”