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 week 20 years ago on the pop music charts...the British record buying public goes Craaaaaaaayyyyyyyzzzaaaaaaayyyyyyyy for Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo’s Gnarls Barkley project while gossip-lovers everywhere wonder about what Mike Skinner and Cheryl Cole might have got involved in.

Elsewhere, more nails are put in the landfill indie coffin as The Automatic and Milburn debut and we get two of the strangest novelty records we’ve heard so far in our journey through the UK top 40s of the 2000s.All this and more on the pop music history/nostalgia podcast where every week we’re reliving the 40 biggest selling songs from this week 20 years ago and telling the story of all the new releases.

This week in 2006...Pink tries feminism and fails miserably. Michael Jackson jumps the shark. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs don’t release a concept album about a cat. The Kooks don’t annuciate properly. Nelly tells us all about his jewel-encrusted teeth, and we get 2000s nostalgic pop music bangers from Embrace, Sean Paul, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and MVP.

Featuring the following tracks:

Beverley Knight - Piece of My Heart

The Black Eyed Peas - Pump It

Bow Wow feat. Ciara - Like You

Chico - It’s Chico Time

Chris Brown feat. Juelz Santana - Run It

Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On

Craig David - Unbelievable

Embrace - Nature’s Law

Fall Out Boy - Sugar We’re Going Down

The Feeling - Sewn

Girls Aloud - Whole Lotta History

Hilary Duff - Fly

Jack Johnson - Better Together

James Blunt - Wisemen

Joey Negro - Make a Move on Me

José Gonzalez - Heartbeats

Kanye West feat. Lupe Fiasco - Touch the Sky

Keisha White - The Weakness in Me

Kelly Clarkson - Walk Away

The Kooks - Naive

Lacuna Coil - Our Truth

Madonna - Sorry

Massive Attack - Live With Me

Meck feat. Leo Sayer - Thunder in My Heart Again

Michael Jackson - Bad

MVP - Bounce Shake Move Stop

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

Sean Paul - Temperature

The Shapeshifters - Incredible

The Source feat. Candi Staton - You Got the Love

The Strokes - Heart in a Cage

Sugababes - Red Dress

Will Young - All Time Love

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion

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