Top 31 of 2006: #27

The Mars Volta: "Amputechture"
Released: September 12, 2006

2006 was an amazing year. The Democrats won control of congress, the Nintendo released the Wii, "V for Vendetta" was finally released, and The Mars Volta single-handedly changed the spelling of "disappointment" from D-I-S-A-P-P-O-I-N-T-M-E-N-T to the much more fitting A-M-P-U-T-E-C-H-T-U-R-E. The Mars Volta has always challenged conventional thinking through their music and lyrics, but this year they pulled out all the stops and actually redefined a word in the English language. Golf claps all around for this amazing band! Once I tried to make the word Lennon part of the vernacular to be associated with, well, something, but it didn't work. Why? Because I didn't have the passion, drive, and talent that The Mars Volta has. I mean, who else can say that they rock so hard, so often that it becomes boring. Who else could say that they beat the coolest rock music of the last decade to death by shear lack of evolution? No one! The Mars Volta has that title in the bag!

And for that, The Mars Volta lands at #27 on my Top 31 of 2006.


Top 31 Songs of 2006
The Streets - "War of the Sexes" from the album The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living.