My Own Monkey Mix! UPDATED

These are the rules:

Splotchy has given me the grand opportunity to set the rules for the next Green Monkey Mix,
I've been giving it some thought.
Here's the deal.
I love music.
When I was a kid I bought Trouser Press and Cream and Rolling Stone and all sorts of magazines to help me find new music.
I also listened to college radio and local stations and, dammit, if I didn't have my finger on the pulse of the great music. While the radio was pumping the pap into the atmosphere and airwaves we were listening to what would become the new waves of all music.
But, now? It's all so splintered. There are so many blogs. There's so much noise. Who can you trust?
You look at a magazine like Mojo and there is an article extolling the greatness of a new album and you want to trust it and then you look at the back cover and there is a full page ad for that same album. When the artist pays so much for that ad, how can the magazine not be biased?
So, where can we turn?
Where do I turn for new music recommendations?
Obviously, the Green Monkey.
Here's what I want:
6 tracks. 6 songs that represent 6 of the albums you have heard in the recent past (even up to now) that are albums that I SHOULD have.
I want the perfect 36 (or more) song sampler that will show me what I am missing.
I can list a bunch of albums from the last 3 years that I think are frigging great. And I think everyone would love them. Nightmare of You, The Builders and the Butchers, The Mountain Goats, The Hold Steady, The Thermals, Epoxies, Elbow, The Fratellis, Black Mountain, Jukebox the Ghost...there are so many.
But, it's hard to know who or what else. Unless you read every blog, read every magazine or listen to only college radio/sirius all the time, you won't have a clue what's out there besides what the media tells you.
Tell me.
Give me the 6 tracks that represent the 6 albums from the last half decade that you think I NEED to hear.
We will be taking the first 5 people to respond either here or on Splotch's site.
So, think about it and jump in.