Year in Rock 2006: The Videos

(Note: in its original form, this was a ten-part blog post with embedded YouTube videos, most of which are dead links now. So, instead of trying to preserve a hot mess like that, instead I created a YouTube playlist with all of the videos I could find in it. Plus, I've added a helpful list of the tunes just below this paragraph. It also just so happens to be a video recreation of the CD version of Year in Rock 2006, which was a thing I used to make every year. Enjoy!)

TRACKLIST:
Sam Roberts - The Gate
The Tragically Hip - In View
Drive-By Truckers - Easy On Yourself
Bob Schneider - Flowerparts
The Killers - When You Were Young
Pearl Jam - Life Wasted
Incubus - Anna Molly
Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor
The Dears - Ticket to Immortality
Gomez - How We Operate
Thom Yorke - Black Swan
Kasabian - Shoot the Runner
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes
The Black Keys - Your Touch
Jet - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Buckcherry - Crazy Bitch
Danko Jones - First Date
Stone Sour - Through Glass
Rise Against - Ready to Fall
Band of Horses - The Funeral
The Avett Brothers - Talk on Indolence
Two Gallants - Steady Rollin'
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Wasted State of Mind
Tool - Vicarious
The Mars Volta - Viscera Eyes
Mastodon - Colony of Birchmen
Lamb of God - Redneck
The Bronx - History's Stranglers
The Sword - Freya
Wolfmother - Woman
Black Label Society - Concrete Jungle
Eagles of Death Metal - I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)
Chad VanGaalen - Flower Gardens
The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy!
Built to Spill - Conventional Wisdom
TV On the Radio - Wolf Like Me
The Flaming Lips - The W.A.N.D.
Peeping Tom - Mojo

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