favorite albums of 2005.

[(.)Ions]

i'm too lazy to check to see if this has been done already. here we go:

01. and you will know us by the trail of dead - worlds apart
02. doves - some cities
03. metric - live it out
04. broken social scene - self titled
05. wilco - kicking televistion
06. sufjan stevens - illinois
07. wolf parade - apologies to the queen mary
08. foo fighters - in your honor
09. oasis - don't believe the truth
10. the decemberists - picaresque
11. sigur ros - takk
12. jimmy chamberlin complex - life begins again
13. billy corgan - the future embrace
14. beck - guero
15. wintersleep - self titled

[Peter]

1. Gatsbys American Dream - Volcano
2. Billy Corgan - The Future Embrace
3. Sigur Ross - Takk...
4. My Morning Jacket - Z
5. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
6. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
7. Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
8. Jimmy Chamberlin Complex - Life Begins Again
9. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
10. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
11. Minus The Bear - Menos El Oso
12. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
13. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

[Atomsk Iscariot]

It's been done, but the original thread's gone, and things should've changed a bit by now anyhow, just like with my list.

1. Kate Bush - Aerial
2. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
3. Thrice - Vheissu
4. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
5. Strapping Young Lad - Alien
6. My Morning Jacket - Z
7. Animal Collective - Feels
8. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
9. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
10. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
11. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
12. Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
13. Deerhoof - The Runners Four
14. Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
15. Cocorosie - Noah's Ark
16. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
17. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
18. ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
19. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - s/t
20. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
21. Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
22. The Decemberists - Picaresque
23. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
24. Architecture in Helnsinki - In Case We Die
25. Kanye West - Late Registration
26. Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
27. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
28. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
29. Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV - Volume 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
30. Common - Be
31. Billy Corgan - TheFutureEmbrace
32. Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust

So I listened to a lot of records this year. Not as much as last year, where I managed to put together a list of 50, but a lot regardless. I still have to listen to the Edan album, which, from what I've heard about it, may end up becoming my favorite hip hop album of last year. And the M.I.A. album too. And a few thousand metal albums. P.S. Low, Hold Steady, The Books, etc.

[Dressed for the H-Bomb]

I had to make a list for my radio station and it went a lil' something like this
1. Clap your hands say yeah
2. Architecture in Helsinki
3. Wolf Parade
4. Sufjan Stevens
5. Broken Social Scene
6. Of Montreal
7. Animal Collective
6. Decemberists
9. LCD Soundsystem
10. Xiu Xiu

[Tago Mago]

1. Animal Collective - Feels
2. Kate Bush - Aerial
3. Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
4. Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees
5. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
6. Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
7. World's End Girlfriend - The Lie Lay Land
8. Jesu - s/t
9. Black Dice - Broken Ear Record
10. Deadbeat - New World Observer
11. Goldmund - Corduroy Road
12. Felix Laband - Dark Days Exit
13. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
14. Blackalicious - The Craft
15. John Frusciante - Curtains
16. Sigur Rós - Takk...
17. Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insen
18. Joshua Redman - Momentum
19. Red Sparowes - At the Soundless Dawn
20. A Silver Mt. Zion - Horses in the Sky
21. Autechre - Untilted
22. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
23. Kinski - Alpine Static
24. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
25. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

[Kris K]

1) Ryan Adams + The Cardinals- Cold Roses
2) The Game- The Documentary
3) Bright Eyes- I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
4) Martha Wainright- s/t
5) Wilco- Kicking Television
6) Bright Eyes- Digital Ash In A Digital Urn
7) Eels- Blinking Lights and other Reveleations
8) Okkervil River- Black Sheep Boy
9) Coheed & Cambria
10) The Decemberists- Picaresque

[TheImplodingVoice]

Marianne Faithfull- Before the Poison
Kate Bush - Aerial
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett
John Frusciante - Curtains
Deerhoof-The Runners Four
Black Dice - Broken Ear Record

[Static Split Screen]

I never really pay attention to albums, so just Metric, that's the only one I remember getting when it leaked. And the Jenny Lewis one, but that's not a favorite.

[stu]

Brant Bjork & the Brothers - Saved By Magic
Supersuckers - Devil's Food
Boris - Pink
QOTSA - Over the Years and Through the Woods
QOTSA - Lullabies to Paralyze
The Atomic Bitchwax - 3
Nashville Pussy - Get Some!
Eddie Spaghetti - Old No.2
Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
Yawning Man - Rock Formations
Hermano - Dare I Say...

[(.)Ions]

oops, forgot bloc party and sleater-kinney

[Kelly Kapowski]

Originally posted by Tago Mago
1. Animal Collective - Feels
2. Kate Bush - Aerial
3. Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
4. Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees
5. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
6. Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
7. World's End Girlfriend - The Lie Lay Land
8. Jesu - s/t
9. Black Dice - Broken Ear Record
10. Deadbeat - New World Observer
11. Goldmund - Corduroy Road
12. Felix Laband - Dark Days Exit
13. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
14. Blackalicious - The Craft
15. John Frusciante - Curtains
16. Sigur Rós - Takk...
17. Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insen
18. Joshua Redman - Momentum
19. Red Sparowes - At the Soundless Dawn
20. A Silver Mt. Zion - Horses in the Sky
21. Autechre - Untilted
22. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
23. Kinski - Alpine Static
24. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
25. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
yer list is so fucking hot.

[Tago Mago]

Why thank ya!

[vaya con dios]

Animal Collective's FEELS is my top for '05. It's so god damned great.
Jesu's initial EP is almost as good as the s/t, but the s/t wins it for me.

I really like the 2-disc M83 record, too, but anything else doesn't really come to mind this year. Probably Devandra Bernherdt.

[Atomsk Iscariot]

Originally posted by ..i..
8) Okkervil River- Black Sheep Boy You're totally not allowed to make fun of Hyden no more.

[Kris K]

Originally posted by Atomsk Iscariot
You're totally not allowed to make fun of Hyden no more.

No....no...they can...never...take..that..away..from me....

[Nak Nak]

I'd answer this, but I'm not entirely sure which albums came out in 2005!

[Celluloid Love]

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
2. The Light Footwork - One State Two State
3. Steven Malkmus - Face The Truth
4. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
5. The Boy Least Likely To - The Best Party Ever
6. The Decemberists - Picaresque
7. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - S/T
8. Sam Prekop - Who's Your New Professor?
9. Tapes 'N Tapes - The Loon
10. Spoon - Gimme Fiction

[Joliet's Green Onions]

Beck: Guero
Gorillaz: Demon Days
Jimmy Chamberlin Complex: Life Begins Again
Billy Corgan: TheFutureEmbrace
DangerDoom: the Mouse and the Mask
Flight of the Concords: [i forgot what it was called]

[Celluloid Love]

Originally posted by ..i..
No....no...they can...never...take..that..away..from me....
I wonder if he talks like that, too.

[Dressed for the H-Bomb]

Originally posted by Serial Thriller
1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
2. The Light Footwork - One State Two State
3. Steven Malkmus - Face The Truth
4. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
5. The Boy Least Likely To - The Best Party Ever
6. The Decemberists - Picaresque
7. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - S/T
8. Sam Prekop - Who's Your New Professor?
9. Tapes 'N Tapes - The Loon
10. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
EMOOOOO

[Dressed for the H-Bomb]

Originally posted by vaya con dios
Animal Collective's FEELS is my top for '05. It's so god damned great.

Sung tongs still kicks its ass, why arent people fauning over that?

[Atomsk Iscariot]

Originally posted by The Lazy Architect
Sung tongs still kicks its ass, why arent people fauning over that? And this is why it's not that high on my list. Sung Tongs was my mindblower. Feels was my "THEY'RE STILL TOTALLY AWESOME" album.

[Kelly Kapowski]

Originally posted by Serial Thriller

8. Sam Prekop - Who's Your New Professor?

ugh i want to hear this real bad.

[Kris K]

Originally posted by Nak Nak
I'd answer this, but I'm not entirely sure which albums came out in 2005!

And you're in a thread where there are various lists of albums that came out in 2005! My oh my, what will you do?

[Nak Nak]

Originally posted by ..i..
And you're in a thread where there are various lists of albums that came out in 2005! My oh my, what will you do?

yes but they are mostly albums that suck.

[Celluloid Love]

Originally posted by Nak Nak
yes but they are mostly albums that suck.
Unlike the brilliant pop stylings of Rilo Kiley.

C'mon guy.

[Nak Nak]

Originally posted by Serial Thriller
Unlike the brilliant pop stylings of Rilo Kiley.

C'mon guy.

what

[Imploding Ed]

Arcade Fire - Funeral - I just bought this album a few days ago, so I didn't know about it during 2005, but I am completely overwhelmed by it. I love it to death, it makes me feel like a terrible songwriter in comparisson! Everyone should own it.


the Duke Spirit - Cut Across The Land
Qotsa - Lullabyes to Paralyze
Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
NIN- With Teeth
JC Complex - Life Begins Again

[The Tourist]

Originally posted by Imploding Ed


the Duke Spirit - Cut Across The Land


Biased you are!

[vaya con dios]

Originally posted by The Lazy Architect
Sung tongs still kicks its ass, why arent people fauning over that?

SUNG TONGS is great. But that's not what we were talking about, were we? FEELS was one of the best of last year. That's what it's all about.

[Reginald I. Perrin]

Kate, Van Der Graaf and Girls Aloud. I'm not sure if I could really care about much else that came out this year, as i'm new musically retarded.

[Kelly Kapowski]

Originally posted by Serial Thriller
Unlike the brilliant pop stylings of Rilo Kiley.

C'mon guy.
i snorted

[Kinbote]

I don't think I bought an album released in 2005.

[Imploding Ed]

Originally posted by Eliot EndsinT
Biased you are!

Well, while I may be a bit predisposed to pump up the spirit wherever I go, I say that in honest critique, as it is really really good. And after finally seeing them live, that album doesn't even do them justice. Plus they dedicated their news songs to me, and I got to pick the encore. Of course, I had to go with my fav "Fades The Sun"...which as it turns out is also Olly/The Kid's favourite!

[Drunkenmaster]

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2. Wilco - Kicking Television
3. Lucero - Nobody's Darlings
4. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
5. The Decembrists - Picaresque
6. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
7. Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
8. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
9. Broken Social Scene - S/T
10. My Morning Jacket - Z
11. Frank Black - Honeycomb
12. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine