The Top 25 Albums of 2005

mookeywrench

1. Black Mountain - s/t
2. My Morning Jacket - z
3. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - howl
4. Steven Malkmus - face the truth
5. Cloud Cult - advice from a happy hippopatamus
6. Eels - blinking lights
7. Sleater Kinney - the woods
8. Sigur Ros - takk
9. Sufjan Stevens - illinoise
10. Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
11. Shugo Tokumaru - L.S.T.
12. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
13. Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
14. Clap Your hands say yeah - s/t
15. The Boy Least Likely to - best party ever
16. Animal Collective - Feels
17. Morning After Girls - Ep's 1&2
18. Devandra banhart - cripple crow
19. Rogue Wave - descended like vultures
20. Broken Social Scene - s/t
21. Tim Seely - funeral music
22. Six Organs of Admittance - school of flower
23. Jason Forrest - shamelessly exciting
24. Jennifer Gentle - Valende
25. Amadou & Mariam

Matt Lukin

1. SOAD - Mezmerize/Hypnotize
2. QOTSA - Lullabies to Paralyze
3. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have it So Much Better
4. The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
5. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth

chipboy

These are the ones that got the most Ipod play for me.

Springsteen - Devils & Dust
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Damian Marley - Welcome to Jamrock
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets are Kept
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Matisyahu - Live at Stubb's

Echoes

Hot Fuss was last year (and awful)

chipboy

Well they were this year for me! I love that cd but I don't think they will be more than a one album wonder.

moloko21

gorillaz - demon days

mookeywrench

chipboy wrote:

Well they were this year for me! I love that cd but I don't think they will be more than a one album wonder.

yeah and they know it too.

http://www.aversion.com/news/news_article.cfm?news_id=5247

moloko21

depeche mode - playing the angel

Omarama

do these albums have to have been released in 2005.if so sunrise over sea is a 2004 album. but good choice,it would be on my list as well!

pearljam_addiction

Omarama wrote:

do these albums have to have been released in 2005.if so sunrise over sea is a 2004 album. but good choice,it would be on my list as well!

that is true , but Sunrise Over Sea wasnt released in the US until 2005!

pearljam_addiction

Echoes wrote:

Well, Sufjan is pretty popular, a bunch of music bloggers recently listed him as the "Most Important American Music Act at the moment," and a lot of other people love him as well. He is, at heart, a folk singer/songwriter. His past albums have been more contemplative and subdued, more acoustic guitar and low-key stuff. On this album, however, he practically flaunts his uncanny knack at writing lush-sounding arrangments for multiple arrangments. Horn flourishes, string accompaniments, and more are your companions as you dicover the state of Illinois and its history with Sufjan. Character sketches and personal meditations are presented, all intertwining with the history of the state. Some of his most achingly gorgeous songs are his simple acoustic arrangements ("John Wanye Gacy Jr.", "Casimir Pulaski Day"), yet he still will pull out the electric guitar and craft a romping good song here and there (See : "The Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts"). A grand album with vast scope, frightening intimacy, and excellent execution.

Sometimes the arrangements can get a little too over the top, which occassionally grates on me, and Sufjan's vocal cadence on "Decatur" really put me off at first.

edit : I probably sounded like a gushing review on the back of a book cover or something, but this album was amazing. Also, it is not a solid number 1 by any shot. The top 5 is very volatile right now

Seven Swans is my favorite from Sufjan Stevens , it is absolutely amazing

Illinoise is really good as well

Omarama

that is true , but Sunrise Over Sea wasnt released in the US until 2005!


didn't know that sorry.you poor deprived people lol

pearljam_addiction

Omarama wrote:

didn't know that sorry.you poor deprived people lol

Yes!! "the Waiting Drove me Mad"

LedZepFan

i dont know if there were 25 albums out this year that i liked...oh well, heres what i got, in no real order

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club-Howl
Rolling Stones-A Bigger Bang
Paul McCartney-Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
Neil Young-Prarie Wind
Eric Clapton-Back Home
Robert Plant-The Mighty Rearranger
Beck-Guero
White Stripes-Get Behind Me Satan
Dave Matthews Band-Stand Up
Audioslave-Out of Exile
Foo Fighters-In Your Honor
Nine Inch Nails-With Teeth
Transplants-Haunted Cities
Oasis-Don't Believe the Truth
B.B. King-80
Alice Cooper-Dirty Diamonds
and sometimes I like Coldplay's X & Y.

Yeah so thats like 17 or 18...and a lot of those are just ok, not great. Good year in music compared to recent years, but I still can't get a top 25 lol.

Echoes

LedZepFan wrote:

i dont know if there were 25 albums out this year that i liked...oh well, heres what i got, in no real order

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club-Howl
Rolling Stones-A Bigger Bang
Paul McCartney-Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
Neil Young-Prarie Wind
Eric Clapton-Back Home
Robert Plant-The Mighty Rearranger
Beck-Guero
White Stripes-Get Behind Me Satan
Dave Matthews Band-Stand Up
Audioslave-Out of Exile
Foo Fighters-In Your Honor
Nine Inch Nails-With Teeth
Transplants-Haunted Cities
Oasis-Don't Believe the Truth
B.B. King-80
Alice Cooper-Dirty Diamonds
and sometimes I like Coldplay's X & Y.

Yeah so thats like 17 or 18...and a lot of those are just ok, not great. Good year in music compared to recent years, but I still can't get a top 25 lol.

Seeing as you listen entireley to radio bands, I can't blame you for finding 25 you liked. Hell, I'm amazed you even found that many.

CM1847

Echoes wrote:

A lot of the more recognizable releases, Spoon, ...Trail Of Dead, System of A Down, Sleater-Kinney, Beck, and Jimmy Chamberlain etc were on the list of albums I considered but didn't make it. It probably sounds pretentious but I wanted to make sure I had the best representation of what was out there from this year.

Why don't you just put the 25 albums you liked the most this year, rather than trying to get "the best representation of what was out there from this year?"

Maybe you did put your 25 favorite, but the way you worded that it sounds like you may have enjoyed TOD, SOAD, ect more, but didn't want to put them on there becase you would rather throw on a lesser known band.

Ottawateeth

not in order

constantines
the national
the acorn
clap your hands say yeah
teenage fanclub
doves
spoon
iron and iron/calexico
stephen malkmus
silver jews
sufjan stevens
brakes
british sea power
beck
wolf parade
joel plaskett
bloc party
sigur ros
super furry animals
okkervil river

childofthe80s

Echoes wrote:

Seeing as you listen entireley to radio bands, I can't blame you for finding 25 you liked. Hell, I'm amazed you even found that many.

be more pretentious

thankyougrandma

i'll give it a try, no order:

Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Low - The Great Destroyer
Sleater Kinney - The Woods
BRMC - Howl
NIN - With Teeth
QOTSA - Lullabies to paralyse
Mars Volta - Frances the mute
White Stripes - Get Behind me Satan
System Of A Down - Mesmerized/Hypnotized (should have been just one album)
High Dials - War of the Wakening Phantoms
Tricky Woo - First Blush
Priestess - Hello Master
My Morning Jacket - Z
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
and you'll know us by the trail of dead - Worlds apart
Black Mountain - Black Mountain
We are Wolves - Non-Stop Je Te Plie en Deux
La descente du Coude - Rince Bush
Dany Placard - Rang de l'église
Yesterday's Ring - El Rancho

not enough yet, i'll be back...

Echoes

CM1847 wrote:

Why don't you just put the 25 albums you liked the most this year, rather than trying to get "the best representation of what was out there from this year?"

Maybe you did put your 25 favorite, but the way you worded that it sounds like you may have enjoyed TOD, SOAD, ect more, but didn't want to put them on there becase you would rather throw on a lesser known band.

Oh no, what I meant could probably be have been conveyed more specifically as :

"In the sprit of getting the best representation of music that came out this year, I listened to SOAD, and TOD, and The Foo Fighters. However, I don't consider them good enough to consider breaching the top 25."

That any better? Trustme, I love tthe albums on my top 25. I don't do the wole "ranking high because they are popular" thing, otherwise you probably would have seen more indiehip bands like Clap Your Hands Say yeah! and Franz Ferdinand (ugh) on that list.

And child of the 80's, I'll try to be more pretentious, if you really want. But I do honestly think that most bands on the radio, in spite of having some songs/albums in the past, are pretty much shit nowadays. New releases by The Foos, Audioslave, Colplay SOAD etc etc all confirmed this (although that SOAD wasn't terrible, the first one, anyways)