Best music of 2006
See “Best of 2008” for a general introduction, but otherwise…what a year 2006 was! And 2005 before it! I can’t remember without looking, which I haven’t done yet, whether 2004 and earlier can be added to make a several-year block, but I’ll find out soon enough. Some of my favourite albums ever were released in these years. I would have been in my second and third years of university so perhaps these were formative years – while I was 20/21 and this may seem a tad late I think perhaps my formative years were a bit later than a lot of people’s. But anyway, get a load of these gems. Converge – No Heroes One of my favourite records ever, and in my opinion the Salem, Massachusetts hardcore kings’ second greatest, after Jane Doe. I gather many would pick You Fail Me for this accolade but for me No Heroes has more to offer. I recall Jeremy Bolm from Touche Amore picking this record as one of his favourites, and saying the first five tracks were all classics. Agreed, certainly, but ...