Has this thread been started yet? I know it's a bit early, but I always get excited to see what you guys have pegged as your favorites of the year...

Here are mine, in no particular order:

10 Death Cab - Plans
09 Iron and Wine + Calexico - In The Reins
08 Eisley - Room Noises
07 De Novo Dahl - Cats & Kittens
06 Kanye West - Late Registration
05 Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
04 Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
03 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - S/T
02 Kate Bush - Aerial
01 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

I was pretty excited about the Le Tigre remixes, Live Wilco, Nina Simone, and both Tragically Hip albums too. This was a fairly decent year for new releases, imo. (I'm looking forward to the Long Winters '06 full-length too...)

Your turn.

(Edited by serah at 10:49 pm on Dec. 9, 2005)

10. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
9. De Novo Dahl - Cats & Kittens
8. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
7. Coldplay - X&Y
6. Abandoned Pools - Armed To The Teeth
5. Nickel Creek - Why Should The Fire Die?
4. Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
3. Andrew Bird - ...Mysterious Production of Eggs
2. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
1. Kayne West - Late Registration

I would put Porno, Mint and Grime by Self somewhere up there though i dont really know what to consider the official release date.

Also great was Phoneix-United, Brazillian Girls, The Ponys, The Redwalls-De Nova, Robbie Fulks-Georgia Hard, Sigur Ros-Takk

Anyone have any choices by the biggest musical dissapointment of the year?
1). Still havent heard Orniment and Crime yet.
2). Weezer's Make Believe sucking (sorta to be expected)
3). No new releases from Kings Of Leon or the Features...teehee

(Edited by SuperElk at 2:52 pm on Dec. 9, 2005)

1. Oasis "Don't Believe The Truth"
2. The New Pornographers "Twin Cinema"
3. Franz Ferdinand "You Could Have It So Much Better"
4. The White Stripes "Get Behind Me Satan"
5. Of Montreal "The Sunlandic Twins"
6. Beck "Guero"
7. Coldplay "X & Y"
8. Marbles "Expo"

1). Songs for Baby - Various Composers
2). Drake's Bedtime Mix including Ben Fold's Version of Golden Slumbers... puts him to sleep everytime. Next time I see Mr. Folds I'm buying his mocha latte...
3). Beck - Guero

That about sums up 2005 here at the Lilly Pad

I was actually kind of disappointed with the new Of Montreal album, myself. It had some okay songs on it, but I had to work way too hard to get into it.

(Good call on the Coldplay X&Y, how did I forget that when it's practically all I listened to for like 3 months?)

i look forward to this every year. kind of an off year for new music, imo. alot of good bands are locked into the same schedule...2006 is looking pretty good.


10 - the clientele - strange geometry
9 - bloc party - silent alarm
8 - the boy least likely to - the best party ever
7 - animal collective - feels
6 - mia - arular
5 - broadcast - tender buttons
4 - kings of leon - aha shake heartbreak
3 - wolf parade - apologies to the queen mary
2 - kanye west - late registration
1 - deerhoof - the runners four

guero was my biggest disappointment.

(Edited by garygarygary at 3:53 pm on Dec. 9, 2005)

oh hell yes

mike jones - who is mike jones?
three six mafia - the most known unknown
mia - arular
trina -glamorest life
the duke spirit - cuts across the land
50 cent - massacre
weird war - illuminated by the light
kayne west - late registration

i almost completely gave up on rock this year.

didn't really buy too much new stuff this year. wasn't really interested in too much. no order.

fiona apple-extraordinary machine
gravy train!!!-are you wigglin?
animal collective-feels
of montreal-sunlandic twins
the white stripes-get behind me satan
de novo dahl-cats & kittens
the fiery furnaces-rehearsing my choir
ghostfinger-these colors run
the privates-louder than lightening ep

i like the new deerhoof material. it was good live. don't have the cd yet.

(Edited by HaveSomeSoma at 1:25 am on Dec. 10, 2005)

Sufjan Stevens? That's a joke, right?

why in the world would it be? illinois is a beautiful album.

Nah, I just can't get into him.

dude, you knew that wasn't a joke. stop being a dick.

"Sunlandic Twins" was pretty uneven. It would have been better if it had been an 8 song EP....thing...but those 8 are really, really good. "The Party's Crashing Us"? "Requiem for OMM2"? Genius.

I'd say my biggest dissapointment was the Coldplay album. "Talk" is, definitely, the best Coldplay song ever, but the rest was average or just above average. I was satisfied with the slight progression between "Parachutes" and "Rush of Blood," but "X & Y" just seems like a complete retread, safe. Good, but safe.

Of course, I knew. That was obvious. What's not so obvious is why you felt the need to state it. Did you think that if you said that everyone would suddenly notice? "Oh my god! He didn't really think it was a joke after all. That bastard!" I'm struggling here to see what point your underdeveloped mind could possibly have been attempting to make with that post.

Oh. Sorry. Please ignore the stuff I said above.

For quite a few years now, I haven't even bought 10 albums that were released in that year (there's over a hundred years worth of recorded music to choose from, you know!). Some good things from this year have been the Coldplay album and the Beck album. The Gorillaz album was really good, but not as good as the first one. I may have bought one or two other things that I can't think of right now. Probably the best one I heard this year was the De Novo Dahl album, but did it come out this year? It seems like so long ago. Really, the Cats part of that album is in my top 20 of all time. Yep. Rest in peace, DND. No offense to present company, but it will never be the same. They had something really special.

no one cares.

go away again. kthanx

Oh, I just love it when people are rude on the internet. I feel I have something in common with them.

How is it that no one has mentioned the Kaiser Chiefs "Employment"? Great Album.

Also at the top of my list would have to be The Real Heroes "Greetings From Russia", as well as others already mentioned such as Guero & Get Behind Me Satan.

(Edited by MoreLikeVernie at 4:14 pm on Dec. 10, 2005)

afraid of ridicule / i havent posted a top ten yet

we already had something in common

we both like doin it with guys.

Hahaha. That's pretty funny.

(Sorry to steer this back to the subject, but here's my lists)

Top 5 Local Albums
1) De Novo Dahl - Cats and Kittens
2) The Privates - Louder Than Lightning EP
3) The Foxymorons - Hesitation Eyes
4) Sam Ashworth - Gonna Get it Wrong...
5) The Mattoid - Eternifinity EP

Top 10 Non-Local Albums
1) Beck - Guero
2) Coldplay - X&Y
3) Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman
4) Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
5) Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have it...
6) Eels - Blinking Lights...
7) Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth
8) Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
9) Hot Hot Heat - Elevator
10) Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams

Biggest Disappointments (a few great tracks on overall poor albums)
1) The White Stripes - Get Behind Me, Satan
2) Death Cab for Cutie - Plans

ehh- my rough top ten (no order)

1) the cribs- the new fellas
2) bloc party- silent alarm
3) nine black alps- everything is
4) arcade fire- funeral
5) kaiser chiefs- employment
6) mando diao- hurricane bar
7) sigur rós- takk
8) maximo park- a certain trigger
9) franz ferdinand- you can have it so much better
10) babyshambles- down in albion

I don't know if all these are technically 2005 but here it is, in no particular order:

-The High Strung's Moxie Bravo
-Scott Carney's Black and Endless Night
-The Arcade Fire's Funeral
-My Morning Jacket's Z
-Dizee Rascal's Boy in da corner ( I definintely know this is older, but just found it this year)
-Andrew Bird's Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs
-Brian Wilson's Smile

(September 28, 2004)

so that was a "yeah, you're right."

i didn't even listen to ten albums this year.

(Edited by deathscythe257 at 7:52 pm on Dec. 19, 2005)

Well, this thread should come in handy, then. You should start with my list first.

(Edited by carligula at 9:09 pm on Dec. 19, 2005)

ray davies top 10 of 2005:

1. fiery furnaces- ep
2. fiona apple- extraordinary machine (the orginal jon brion mp3 versions, not any of this bippityboppityshammalamboomchickitydook on the "official" version)
3. deerhoof- the runners four
4. ariel pink's haunted graffiti- worn copy (reissue)
5. various artists- tropicalia: a brazilian revolution in sound
6. broadcast- tender buttons
7. the privates- louder than lightning ep
8. akron/family: akron/family
9. various artists- world psychedelic classics vol. 3: love's a real thing- the funky fuzzy sounds of west africa
10. fiery furnaces- rehearsing my choir

runners up: of montreal- sunlandic twins (disappointing when compared to "satanic panic", but there are 5 or so songs on it that make it wonderful); franz ferdinand- you could have it so much better (needed to be trimmed by about 3 or 4 songs, otherwise it is brilliant); the fall- fall heads roll (i fucking love the fall)

ray davies top 8 singles for 2005:

1. madonna- "hung up"
2. lcd soundsystem- "daft punk is playing at my house"
3. r. kelly- "trapped in the closet"
4. franz ferdinand- "do you want to"
5. kelly clarkson- "since u been gone"
6. fiery furnaces- "tropical icee-land"
7. r. kelly- "in the kitchen"
8. spoon- "i turn my camera on"

(Edited by ray davies at 9:08 am on Dec. 23, 2005)

i really thought that came out last winter. i gues not. anyway, i forgot a couple and this is REALLY important. so new list:

fiona apple-extraordinary machine
gravy train!!!-are you wigglin?
animal collective-feels
of montreal-sunlandic twins
the white stripes-get behind me satan
de novo dahl-cats & kittens
the fiery furnaces-rehearsing my choir
ghostfinger-these colors run
the privates-louder than lightening ep
*the fiery furnaces-ep
*the clutters-t&c

last winter, but this year.

it came out in january of 2005.

I may have made my list too hastily. I've been listening to Ryan Adams and the Cardinals' Jacksonville City Nights a lot lately and I like it a lot more than I expected to like it.

I should have also included The Clutters-- T&C and Jetpack-- The Art of Building a Moat on the Local list as well as Foo Fighters-- In Your Honour on the Biggest Dissappointments list.

Good call, I forgot it too. Amazing album.

well even though make believe was going to suck anyway, i think the levels of sucking were so suckable that it still came as a shock to me.
the only enjoyable part of that record is in "we are all on drugs" when rivers goes, "give it to me"

and, hello. biggest dissappointment - white stripes, get behind me satan.

what the fuck, jack. it was painful to listen to. just fucking brutal.

i liked it. there's about 2 tracks on there that i skip everytime, but other than that i think it's an enjoyable listen. i love what the white stripes do, but i was kind of ready for a change in pace. mixing things up, adding other instruments. denial twist, forever for her (is over for me). all fine by me. i don't like it as much as the other albums, but i still listen to it quite a bit.

in other news, the more i hear of aerial pink's haunted grafitti, the more likely it is that it, too, will be included in my "best of '05" list when i finally get a copy.

(Edited by HaveSomeSoma at 4:40 pm on Dec. 22, 2005)

ditto. rolling stone liked it too. not that that like, means anything.

shit. i knew i would forget somebody this year. thanks, miss soma.

i would get "the doldrums" (from 2004) or the reissue of "worn copy" that came out this year. that ariel pink is such a hoot. i adore him.


i have changed my list due to this reminder....

Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
Fiery Furnaces - EP

I only have four, and I contemplated whether or not to put the fourth on here. I never buy new records, but when I do, they're monumental.

(Edited by Sexy Sadie at 10:34 am on Dec. 30, 2005)

No need to cover me, 'cause I will cover you...

Fuck yes.