U2, Mary J Blige and some candy-based sexual innuendo (9 - 15 April 2006)

This week on our look at the music that came out this week in 2006, we’re going literally from the sublime to ridiculous, in a chart that takes us from one of the most emotional songs ever written in U2’s One’s to one of the stupidest tracks ever, D4L’s Laffy Taffy. In between, we get Franz Ferdinand singing about Jesus, Morrissey discussing losing his virginity, Michael Jackson terrified by the idea of a woman’s sexuality and The Zutons’ ode to keeping women locked in your basement (do not try this at home, kids).In short, another typically weird look into the pop music of the 2000s. This week’s episode features the following tracks:Belle & Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue Beverley Knight - Piece of My Heart The Black Eyed Peas - Pump It The Charlatans - Blackened Blue Eyes Chico - It’s Chico Time Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On Depeche Mode - Suffer Well D4L - Laffy Taffy Editors - All Sparks Embrace - Nature’s Law Fall Out Boy - Sugar We’re Going Down The Feeling - Sewn Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen/L Wells Girls Aloud - Whole Lotta History Gnarls Barkley - Crazy James Blunt - Wisemen Joey Negro - Make a Move on Me Kanye West feat. Lupe Fiasco - Touch the Sky Kelly Clarkson - Walk Away The Kooks - Naive Madonna - Sorry Mary J. Blige and U2 - One Meck feat. Leo Sayer - Thunder in My Heart Again Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana Mish Mash - Speechless Morrissey - You Have Killed Me Nelly feat. Paul Wall, Ali & Gipp - Grillz Ne-Yo - So Sick Notorious B.I.G. feat. Diddy and Nelly - Nasty Girl Orson - No Tomorrow Pink - Stupid Girls The Pussycat Dolls feat. will.i.am - Beep Ray J - One Wish Royal Ballet Sinfonia with Gavin Sutherland - The BBC Radio 4 UK Theme Sean Paul - Temperature The Source feat. Candi Staton - You Got the Love The Streets - When You Wasn’t Famous Sugababes - Red Dress Various Artists - Tribute to Jinky The Zutons - Why Won’t You Give Me Your Love This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit the2000schartshow.substack.com