The Best Rock Albums of 2006

Today's post in 50 Years of Music, a section of my blog devoted to the best rock albums of the past fifty years, will include the best albums of 2006. I have covered 40 years of music in other posts (1965-2005), which can be found by typing the year into the search bar at the top of my blog. Each post in 50 Years of Music is updated frequently, with new albums recommended by readers added to the posts. What's your favorite?

• Tool- 10,000 Days
• Bob Dylan- Modern Times
• Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
• Mastodon- Blood Mountain
• Muse- Black Holes and Revelations
• Def Leppard- Yeah!
• Sonic Youth- Rather Ripped
• Red Hot Chili Peppers- Stadium Arcadium
• Phoenix- It's Never Been Like That
• Wolfmother- Dimensions
• The Killers- Sam's Town
• John Mayer- Continuum
• Snow Patrol- Eyes Open

The Beatles- Love

Love is a soundtrack remix album of music recorded by The Beatles released on November 20, 2006. The album reached #4 on the U.S. Billboard 200 Chart and #3 on the UK Albums Chart. The album has been certified 2x Platinum in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

Since Love is a remix album, no singles of original content were released from the album. However, the album contains 26 songs of popular Beatles' tunes produced by The Beatles' original producer George Martin and his son, Giles Martin. George Martin assembled over 100 clips to be used for Love, which altogether contains elements from approximately 130 commercially released and demo recordings of The Beatles. Many of the songs on the album are a mashup-- a complex remix and polymix of multiple elements of different songs in one song.

Notable of the album is that the idea for Love being used as a Cirque du Soleil production had originated from Beatles' guitarist George Harrison, who died in 2001, through his friendship with the theater company's founder, Guy Laliberté. George Martin and his son began work on the album after obtaining permission Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, and Olivia Harrison (the latter two being the representatives of John Lennon and George Harrison's estates). 

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the two surviving members of The Beatles, have commented very positively on the album since its release. In previous interviews, McCartney and Starr have made the following statements: "This album puts The Beatles back together again, because there's suddenly John and George with me and Ringo again" (McCartney). "[This album] is really powerful for me and I even heard things I'd forgotten we recorded" (Starr).

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