Best Albums of 2005

yeah nobody will like the Stew records, guess those windbags over at alllmusic don't know anything about music… two four star reviews and one four and half star review. don't bother with the Anthony and the Johnsons CDs either…

The allmusic reviews were what inspired me to blindly take a chance on him and part with $1.00. I guess my taste isn't always in line with the critics.

I've heard enough A+Johnsons to know that I wouldn't like that either.

But I suppose music is like ice cream, everyone has different tastes.

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
yeah nobody will like the Stew records, guess those windbags over at alllmusic don't know anything about music… two four star reviews and one four and half star review. don't bother with the Anthony and the Johnsons CDs either…

12) Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
11) Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
10) Beck - Guero
09) Of Montreal - Sunlandic Twins
08) White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
07) The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
06) New Pornos - Twin Cinema
05) Decemberists - Picaresque
04) Spoon - Gimme Fiction
03) Steve Malkmus/Jicks - Face the Truth
02) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t
01) Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

HM/Reissue) Belle & Sebastian - Push Barman to Open Old Wounds

Isn't it funny that we haven't seen lists from the two posters who are so vocal in their contempt of other's opinions?

Would one of them be me? I never make up my "Best of year xxxx" until January 1 or later of year xxxx+1.

There are still a handful of albums I'd like to pick up before finalizing a list, but don't know how soon I'll get to them.

And inevitably, I often don't pick up on an album until the next year. Case in point, the last Devotchka record. Without a doubt my favorite 2004 release, but I only bought in in October 2005.

Who would the other complainer be, Guiny?

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Isn't it funny that we haven't seen lists from the two posters who are so vocal in their contempt of other's opinions?

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Isn't it funny that we haven't seen lists from the two posters who are so vocal in their contempt of other's opinions?

Do you mean me? I haven't put alot of thought into my list of yet. I can tell you what won't be on there: Sufjan, Kanye, New Pornographers, MIA. Give me a while.

And I can say that my tentative top 10 list has:

3 of the top 100 Amazon picks
0 of the top 50 popmatters picks
0 of the top 50 pitchfork picks

Here's 25 of the top of my head. I don't have my list of everything I bought, so it might change.

1. Bloc Party
2. Alog
3. Architecture in Helsinki
4. Vitalic
5. Animal Collective
6. Low
7. Wolf Parade
8. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
9. Broken Social Scene
10. LCD Soundsystem
11. Deerhoof
12. Oasis
13. Franz Ferdinand
14. Queens of The Stone Age
15. Bright Eyes (Wide Awake)
16. Kasabian
17. Boy Least Likely To
18. Okkervil River
19. Danger Doom
20. Pajo
21. The Magic Numbers
22. Maximo Park
23. Art Brut
24. Billy Corgan
25. Beck

ok, i think i'm ready to play. these are my 10 favorite albums; i feel weird calling them the 10 best albums.

1. silver jews – tanglewood numbers
2. the oranges band – the world and everything in it
3. the ponys – celebration castle
4. skygreen leopards – life and love in sparrows meadow/jehovah surrender EP
5. broadcast – tender buttons
6. love as laughter – laughter's fifth
7. electrelane – axes
8. art brut – bang bang rock and roll
9. comet gain – city fallen leaves
10. (the sounds of) kaleidoscope – from where you were to how you got there

the fall peel sessions box and dylan's bootleg series volume 7 were better than all of the above. the dirtbombs comp "if you don't already have a look" is crazy good as well. the children of nuggets box and the girl group box (both on rhino) are pretty excellent listens, as well.

Actually forget mine, I left off Kid606, Alex Smoke, and a few others that should be on there. And the bottom half needs rejuggled. Wolf Parade needs to slide down a few when I really think about it.

And to think that I had already committed them to memory for tomorrow's "Wednedsday fun" thread.

Originally posted by Julian, Red Wing AFICIONADO:
Actually forget mine, I left off Kid606, Alex Smoke, and a few others that should be on there. And the bottom half needs rejuggled. Wolf Parade needs to slide down a few when I really think about it.

1. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
2. Engineers- Self Titled
3. Kasabian - Self Titled
4. Gomco - Earthmovers
5. The Panics - A House on the street in a town I'm from
6. Elbow - Leaders of the Free World
7. Daniel Lanois - Belladonna
8. Jesu - Self Titled
9. Sigur Ros - Takk..
10. The Darkness - One Way Ticket to Hell and Back

I usually hate "best" lists, but I'll play and like someone said, call it my "favorites" list.

Originally posted by Glass Arm Shattering:

2. Engineers- Self Titled
3. Kasabian - Self Titled
7. Daniel Lanois - Belladonna

You've got 3 of mine on your list.

1. Magic Numbers - Self Titled
2. Engineers - Self Titled
3. Lake Trout - Not Them, You
4. My Morning Jacket - Z
5. Kasabian - Self Titled
6. Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic
7. Secret Machines - The Road Leads Where It's Led
8. Gomez - Out West (Live)
9. Daniel Lanois - Belladonna
10. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run (Reissue)

The inclusion of #10 is a bit suspect but it is a new release this year and it's one of my favorites. So there. :p

My top 10:
10-New Idea Society
9- Pelican
8- Sleater Kinney
7- A Northern Chorus
6- Stars
5- Aluminum Babe
4- …Trail of Dead
3- Acid House Kings
2- New Pornographers
1- Decemberists

FYI, our(BigYawn's) top 50 comes out next wednesday. Feel free to mock. A pretty diverse list I felt, for us anyway.

Originally posted by redsock:


6- Stars

Wasn't this a 2004 release? It's top 10 on mine if it's 2005.

some good stuff this year. not much. didn't buy much new stuff.

1. Antony & the Johnsons- I am a Bird Now
2. Blood on the Wall- S/T
3. Paul McCartney- Chaos & Creation in the Backyard
4. DangerDoom- The Mouse & the Mask
5. Kate Bush- Aerials
6. The Magic Numbers- S/T
7. Animal Collective- Feels
8. Petra Hayden- PH Sings the Who Sells Out
9. Neil Young- Prairie Wind
10. Death From Above 1979- You're a Woman I'm a Machine

U.S. release date=March 8 2005.

Originally posted by Julian, Red Wing AFICIONADO:

Originally posted by redsock:


6- Stars

Wasn't this a 2004 release? It's top 10 on mine if it's 2005.

1. Wolf Parade
2. Wolf Parade
3. Wolf Parade
4. Wolf Parade
5. Wolf Parade
6. Wolf Parade
7. Wolf Parade
8. Wolf Parade
9. Wolf Parade
10. Wolf Parade

The Real Rhett Miller's Top Ten Albums of the Year:

Pernice Brothers - Discover A Lovelier You
Salim Nourallah - Beautiful Noise
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Belle & Sebastian - Push Barman to Open Old Wounds
The Deathray Davies - The Kick and the Snare
John Dufilho - I remain, as always, a rabble rouser from the mountains
Feist - Let It Die
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Brendan Benson - The Alternative To Love
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema

http://www.glidemagazine.com/bo2005/rhett_miller.php

A slew of lists from other artists' (Beck, Bob Mould, Bob Pollard, James Murphy, The National, Carrie Brownstein, Nate Mendel, Shout Out Louds, YLT, yadda, yadda, yadda…) can be found here.