Best Albums of 2005

i'm sure i forgot something, and my opinion will probably change a little bit, but here it is:

and why the hell do i not own the shout out louds album??

1) The New Pornographers: "Twin Cinema"
2) My Morning Jacket: "Z"
3) Brendan Benson: "The Alternative to Love"
4) Bloc Party: "Silent Alarm"
5) Danger Doom: "The Mouse and the Mask"
6) M83: "Before the Dawn Heals Us"
7) Spoon: "Gimme Fiction"
8) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah" (bring it on!!)
9) The Mountain Goats: "The Sunset Tree"
10) Sufjan Stevens: "Illinois"
11) The National: "Alligator"
12) The Decemberists: "Picaresque"
13) Sage Francis: "A Healthy Distrust"
14) Stephen Malkmus: "Face the Truth"
15) The White Stripes: "Get Behind Me Satan"
16) Andrew Bird: "The Mysterious Production of Eggs"
17) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: "Howl"
18) Dr. Dog: "Easy Beat"
19) Architecture in Helsinki: "In Case We Die"
20) Kanye West: "Late Registration"
21) Against Me!: "Searching for a Former Clarity"
22) Okkervil River: "Black Sheep Boy"
23) Sleater-Kinney: "The Woods"
24) Lou Barlow: "Emoh"
25) The Game: "The Documentary"
26) Dead Meadow: "Feathers"
27) Black Mountain: "Black Mountain"
28) The Ponys: "Celebration Castle"
29) Josh Rouse: "Nashville"
30) Gorillaz: "Demon Days"

Honorable Mentions:

Annie Hayden The Enemy of Love
Archer Prewitt Wilderness
Ben Lee Awake Is the New Sleep
Bettie Serveert Attagirl
Big Star In Space
Black Mountain Druganaut [EP]
Blackalicious The Craft
Bob Mould Body of Song
Bonnie "Prince" Billy / Matt Sweeney Superwolf
The Clientele Strange Geometry
CocoRosie Noah's Ark
Colin Meloy Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey
Common Be
The Cribs The Cribs
Damien Jurado On My Way to Absence
Death Cab for Cutie Plans
Devendra Banhart Cripple Crow
Doves Some Cities
The Evens The Evens
Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better With …
The Go Betweens Oceans Apart
Hockey Night Keep Guessin
The Hold Steady Separation Sunday
Hot Hot Heat Elevator
Iron & Wine Woman King [EP]
Kathleen Edwards Back To Me
LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem
Low The Great Destroyer
M.I.A. Arular
Mercury Rev The Secret Migration
Neil Young Prarie Wind
New Order Waiting for the Sirens' Call
Of Montreal The Sunlandic Twins
The Orange Peels Circling The Sun
Oranger New Comes And Goes
The Oranges Band The World And Everything In It
Outrageous Cherry Our Love Will Change The World
Paul McCartney Chaos And Creation In The Backyard
Pernice Brothers Discover A Lovelier You
Portastatic Bright Ideas
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze
Sam Prekop Who's Your New Professor
Son Volt Okemah and the Melody of Riot
The Spinto Band Nice And Nicely Done
Teenage Fanclub Man-Made
Thievery Corporation The Cosmic Game
Weezer Make Believe
Yo La Tengo A Smattering Of Outtakes And Rarities

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
1) The New Pornographers: "Twin Cinema"

I don't need to read the rest to see your opinion obviously sucks.

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
1) The New Pornographers: "Twin Cinema"

I don't need to read the rest to see your opinion obviously sucks.

you suck!

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
you suck!

Your mother sucks!

[/qb]you suck! [/QB]

always the best comeback in the book. I actually liked your list. might have put a few higher and other lower on the list.

Bummer about the Bucs, Hoya. I was at the game. There are many reasons why we should have won that game. Most of all that damn missed field goal.

Broken Social Scene - "Broken Social Scene" should be on there

Should be on where?

Originally posted by kcjones119:
Broken Social Scene - "Broken Social Scene" should be on there

The OC

Originally posted by Etan de Balzac, Footie Ball Player:
Should be on where?

Originally posted by kcjones119:
Broken Social Scene - "Broken Social Scene" should be on there

Originally posted by brennser:
The OC

Originally posted by Etan de Balzac, Footie Ball Player:
Should be on where?

Originally posted by kcjones119:
Broken Social Scene - "Broken Social Scene" should be on there

ouch

Looks to me like there were a lot of semi-OK and full-on crappy records released this year. Looking back to years like 1984 or even 2000 I've got to say that it was a disappointing year.

I'll bet you were listening to Madonna in 1984. Weren't you like 9 or something?

Originally posted by bearman:
Looks to me like there were a lot of semi-OK and full-on crappy records released this year. Looking back to years like 1984 or even 2000 I've got to say that it was a disappointing year.

In 1984 I was 9 indeed…pretty scary that you know that. At age 9 I was listening to what I call mainstream new wave. The Police, The Cars, and popular Clash stuff (think Combat Rock). At age 10 I made the switch over to the British stuff like New Order, Depeche Mode, the Smiths, the Ramones, etc. Pretty much everything that was on Sire Records. But in the later 80's and early 90's, I discovered all the great records released at that time…Husker Du, the Replacements, the Minutemen, etc.

Originally posted by bearman:
Looks to me like there were a lot of semi-OK and full-on crappy records released this year. Looking back to years like 1984 or even 2000 I've got to say that it was a disappointing year.

I agree. There were a lot of 7.8 Z's released this year and not many 9.0+

My favorites, in relatively random order:

Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
The Decemberists – Picaresque
Dead Meadow – Feathers
Mountain Goats – Sunset Tree
Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
Dungen – Ta Det Lungt
Shout Out Louds – Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
Constantines – Tournament of Hearts
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – S/T
BRMC – Howl
Caesars – Paper Tigers
The National – Alligator

Just a lucky guess. Maybe you had referenced your age at one time and it was in the back of my head. Don't worry, I'm not keeping a stalker file on you. Or anybody else.

Born in the USA was my favorite album of 1984, at least at that time. I didn't pay much attention to music when I was in high school.

Originally posted by bearman:
In 1984 I was 9 indeed…pretty scary that you know that.

Originally posted by P.J.:
Bummer about the Bucs, Hoya. I was at the game. There are many reasons why we should have won that game. Most of all that damn missed field goal.

i let out a guttural yelp when that FG faded right, it brought back some really really bad memories of "automatica" … we needed that game and should have won it, luckily a lot of other NFC wild-card contenders lost this week

Originally posted by kcjones119:
Broken Social Scene - "Broken Social Scene" should be on there

haven't bought it yet, for some reason, but i'm guessing it would be on my list, from what i've read about it

Putting an album on your list that you haven't even bought yet? Sounds pretty damn sketchy to me.

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:

Originally posted by kcjones119:
Broken Social Scene - "Broken Social Scene" should be on there

haven't bought it yet, for some reason, but i'm guessing it would be on my list, from what i've read about it

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
3) Brendan Benson: "The Alternative to Love"

this is a really fantastic record, all the way through, and it's one of the rare ones (that i can remember off the top of my head, at least) where the second half is stronger and catchier than the first … on a lot of records you kind of just get used to the sound and the hooks and by the second half you get a little bored … in this one, the whole thing just grows on you

Originally posted by Etan de Balzac, Footie Ball Player:
Putting an album on your list that you haven't even bought yet? Sounds pretty damn sketchy to me.

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:

Originally posted by kcjones119:
Broken Social Scene - "Broken Social Scene" should be on there

haven't bought it yet, for some reason, but i'm guessing it would be on my list, from what i've read about it

let me rephrase:

i am guessing that (once i buy it and digest it) i will like it and it will probably be on my "best of the year" list … i'm basing that on their previous albums and what i've read about this one … but maybe i'll hate it or not get into it, i dunno

but i do know that everyone here agrees that they're fantastic live, right rhett?

Not to be contrary, but I though the first half was great and the second have went downhill. I think Bags agreed with me.

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
3) Brendan Benson: "The Alternative to Love"

this is a really fantastic record, all the way through, and it's one of the rare ones (that i can remember off the top of my head, at least) where the second half is stronger and catchier than the first … on a lot of records you kind of just get used to the sound and the hooks and by the second half you get a little bored … in this one, the whole thing just grows on you