Friday, December 29, 2006

Memories of 2006............Musical Memories

2006 may well have been the Chinese year of the dog but for four musicians from Sheffield it was definitely the year of the (Arctic) Monkeys. Their debut album Whatever People Say I am That's What I'm Not showed singer-writer Alex Turner to be an angry talent to follow in the steps of Weller, Costello and back to Ray Davies. It also got a lot of people over 40 excited as they became aware of MySpace and how the internet could be mobilised by a group or artists fanbase.

Away from the Monkeys it was a good, if not vintage, year on the album front with Razorlight, Snow Patrol, The Killers and Keane all surpassing previous efforts whilst all making a bid for stadium residency at the same time. Bob Dylan surprised nobody by making an album that sound similar to the previous five hundred he has recorded whilst the Chili's showed that too much is never enough. It was the year Bruce Springsteen recorded a folk album and everybody loved it, Neil Diamond toured and released an album that won critical acclaim and Kasabian turned their amps up past eleven. Other notable releases during the year were from Guillemots, The Kooks and the finest thing to come out of Leeds since the A1 - Corinne Bailey Rae.

On the singles front, well singles don't exist anymore do they, it was full on for downloads, mp3's, youtube and MySpace. The face of MySpace was the annoying Lily Allen whose 'Smile' was heard everywhere during the summer and beyond. Gnarls Barkley became the first artist to top the charts with a download, which they subsequently deleted after nine weeks at Number 1.

It was the year we said goodbye to the Godfather of Funk/Soul and to one of reggaes original innovators Desmond Dekker.

My personal favourite album of the year was Muse's fourth studio album - Black Holes & Revelations. Matt Bellamy showed that you can combine classical music, classic prog rock riffs and pop music sensibilities to create an album that at times seemed to be flying off into its own orbit - it also featured one of the best attacks on the Blair regime of the year - although as nobody in the music press seems to have mentioned this I could be completely wrong.

2007 sees the release of the Kaiser Chiefs long awaited second album which the band have promised will see them in a new light, let's just hope they don't suffer the dreaded second album curse.

Anyway, here's the best single of the year from the best live band of the moment (I sound like a Radio One DJ) - Muse and Starlight:

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