2006 (album)

Infobox Album
Name = 2006
Type = Studio album
Artist = Manfred Mann's Earth Band


Released = October 2004
Recorded = 2004
Genre = Rock Hard rock Progressive rock
Length = 48:17
Label = Cohesion
Producer = Manfred Mann Dean Hart
Reviews =
*Allmusic rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ju8gtq6zxu42 link]
Last album = "The Best Of Manfred Mann's Earth Band Re-Mastered Volume II" (2001)
This album = "2006" (2004)
Next album = "Odds & Sods - Mis-takes & Out-takes" (2005)

"2006" is an album released in 2004 (see 2004 in music) by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, although the album is credited as "Manfred Mann '06 with Manfred Mann's Earth Band". Mann's explanation for this is given in the sleeve notes:

"Some of the Earth Band backing tracks were recorded in a different and experimental manner. There were no rehearsals beforehand. As a result almost everything you will hear was never played before or rehearsed, so what you hear are the first takes of their kind. These tracks are 'Mars', 'Two Friends', 'Two Brides', ' Slave', 'Frog' and 'Get Me Out Of This'.

"Musically this method worked pretty well, but was also time consuming as we had to connect different sections together afterwards. This is because verses and choruses were played separately.

"A number of other tracks were put together in a more organised fashion. Some of these are in a style which is different to what fans of Earth Band might expect. Therefore I have entitled these Manfred Mann '06. Although in most cases I have used the musicians from Earth Band. Equally I have called the album Manfred Mann '06, because some of the music represents my personal taste, not necessarily the taste of my colleagues, and does not necessarily sit comfortably within an Earth Band context.

"The album is called 2006 although it will be released in 2004, (and in some places 2005). It is simply that being the wrong date and being out of time might look interesting - at least until 2006." - "Manfred Mann 2004" [Manfred Mann, "2006" album, Sleeve notes, 2004]

Track listing

#"Demons and Dragons [With Thomas D] " (Mann, McAloon, Super Furry Animals) – 3:29
#"Two Brides [Interlude] " (Mann, Guy) – 1.22
#"Down in Mexico" (Lieber, Stoller) – 3:31
#"Happenstance [Instrumental] " (Mann) – 3:02
#"The History of Sexual Jealousy Parts 17 to 24" (Nick Currie) – (4:46)
#"Black Eyes" (Mann, Pook) – 2:10
#"Mars" (Mann, Guy, Holst) – 3:56
#"Get Me Out of This" (Mann, Guy, Massenet) – 5:35
#"Frog" (Mann) – 4:29
#"Two Friends" (Mann, Guy) – 5:24
#"Monkmann" (Trad arr Hart, Mann) – 3:10
#"Marche Slave [Instrumental Interlude] " (Mann, Tchaikovsky) – 1:42
#"Independent Woman [With Thomas D] " (Tchaikovsky, Hart, Shante, Guy, Mann, Thomas D, Clear, Williams) – 3:30
#"Dragons [reprise] " (Mann, McAloon, Super Furry Animals) – 2:01

Personnel

*Manfred Mann – keyboards, vocals
*Mick Rogers – guitars
*Geoff Dunn – drums
*Steve Kinch – bass
*Noel McCalla – vocalswith
*Chris Thompson – vocals
*Thomas D – vocals
*Matt Loffstadt – guitars
*Don Freeman – poem and talking
*Barbara Thompson – saxophone
*Dean Hart – bass, guitars, vocals
*Hazel Hernandez – vocals
*Melanie Pappenheim – vocals
*Arte Chorale – vocals
*Henry's Eight – vocals

Notes