Requisite End of the Year Lists!!!

[Frank Stallone]

Come on, people! Who doesn't love some good old fashioned subjective quantification?

Top 5, 10, New Artists, Breakthroughs, Disappointments, Comebacks, Soundtracks, whatever.

Top 10+1 CD's of 2005 (aka Get At Me Dawg)

11. The Starting Line - I Am a Yankee (aka Based on a True Story)
10. DangerDoom - The Mouse and the Mask
9. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
8. Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
7. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
6. Lydia - This December, It's One More and I'm Free
5. Troubled Hubble - Making Beds in a Burning House
4. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
3. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
2. The Boy Least Likely To - The Best Party Ever
1. Nightmare of You - Nightmare of You

Top 5 Disappointments (aka Drop It Like It's Hot)

5. System of a Down - Whichever
4. System of a Down - The other one
3. Weezer - Make Believe (aka The Only Way This CD is Enjoyable)
2. Against Me! - Searching for a (Rumored) Former Clarity
1. The Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing My Choir

Top 5 CD's I Heard For the First Time This Year That Were (or will be) released Another Year

5. Gatsby's American Dream - Volcano
4. Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
3. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
2. Cat Power - The Greatest
1. The Elected - Sun, Sun, Sun
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I GOT IRATE AND FETCHED MY MAGIC MARKER AND WROTE "WORLDS INCORRECT GRANDMOM" ON ALL HER SUNDAY DRESSES

GATHER ROUND THE GOOD STUFF INDEED

[SundownMotel]

Okay, first of all, I can't believe you just heard Excitable Boy. So classic, so amazing.

Note: Incredibly lean year for good albums, as I put a ton on here and then found out they came out last year. Lame.

ON TO THE LISTS!

Albums of the year:

10. Propagandhi - Potemkin City Limits
9. Kanye West - Late Registration/Danger Doom (tie)
8. The Darkness - One Way Ticket To Hell...And Back
7. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
6. Against Me! - Searching For A Former Clarity
5. Chixdiggit! - Pink Razors
4. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
3. Coheed & Cambria: Needlessly Long Title IV
2. The Decemberists - Picaresque
1. Alkaline Trio - Crimson

Biggest Disappointments:

5. Weezer - Make Believe
4. Limbeck - Let Me Come Home
3. Lagwagon - Resolve (Not a bad album, but following Blaze it is crap.)
2. Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil
1. Goldfinger - Disconnection Notice

Albums I wanted to put in my top ten but they came out last year:

Hanalei - We Are All Natural Disasters
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
Green Day - American Idiot
Killers - Hot Fuss
Tiger Army - III: Ghost Tigers Rise
Keane - Hopes and Fears
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And this is a promise, because this is true. This is real. This is Straight Edge.

[Jon]

Albums of the Year:

10. Iron & Wine/Calexico - In the Reins
9. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
8. Coldplay - X&Y
7. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
6. Beck - Guero
5. The Decemberists - Picaresque
4. Doves - Some Cities
3. Jaga Jazzist - What We Must
2. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
1. Sigur Ros - Takk...

Top 10 CDs I Heard For the First Time This Year That Were Released Before This Year:

10. Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
9. Warren Zevon - The Wind
8. Digable Planets - Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
7. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
6. Pinback - Summer in Abaddon
5. Nick Drake - Way to Blue
4. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
3. Sigur Ros - ?g?tis Byrjun
2. Jeff Buckley - Grace
1. Ugly Casanova - Sharpen Your Teeth

Most disappointing album of the year:
The Foo Fighters - In Your Honor

Worst album of the year:
Dave Matthews Band - Stand Up

[webber]

Here are some good albums:
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
The Decemberists - Picturesque
The Lucksmiths - Warmer Corners
The Clientele - I can't remember what this is called but it's a good one
The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike

Probably some other ones but I can't remember too well. Was Jen's Lekman's album released this year? If so that.

edit: Crap forgot Sufjan Stevens.

[Daniel]

It appears as though I only listen to one type of music,

Top Fifteen Albums

1. Akron/Family - Akron/Family
2. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
3. Ryan Adams - Jacksonville City Nights
4. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
5. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
6. Angels of Light & Akron/Family - Akron/Family & Angels of Light (based almost solely on the song "Raising the Sparks")
7. Iron & Wine - the Woman King and In the Reins EPs
8. The Decemberists - Picaresque
9. Black Rebel Motorcyle Club - Howl
10. M. Ward - Transistor Radio
11. The Fiery Furnaces - EP
12. Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
13. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
14. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
15. Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine

Top Ten Disappointments

1. My Morning Jacket - Z
2. Spoon - Gimmie Fiction (I actually like the album though)
3. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (I like this one too)
4. New Pornographers- Twin Cinema
5. Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing My Choir
6. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
7. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
8. Beck - Guero
9. The Evens - The Evens
10. Xiu Xiu - La Foret

[Mugsy]

[Arcade Fire]

Top ten albums:

1. Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
2. Wolf Parade - Queen Mary
3. BRMC - Howl
4. Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
5. Mars Volta - Scab Dates
6. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
7. Dredg - Catch Without Arms
8. Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
9. Echo & the Bunnymen - Siberia
10. Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs


Disappointments:

Weezer - Make Believe
Death Cab - Plans
Our Lady Peace - Staying Healthy in Paranoid Times


Top 10 albums I just heard this year:

1. Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
2. Songs Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.
3. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
4. The Black Crowes - Shake Your Monkeymaker
5. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live at Winterland
6. Franz Ferdinand - self-titled
7. Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds
8. I can't think of any more right now.
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She once fell through the street.

[B]

[Rogue]

Top albums:

Opeth: Ghost Reveries
BRMC: Howl
SevenDust: Next
Disturbed: 10,000 Fists
Natalie Imbruglia: Counting Down the Days
Nick Cave: B-sides and Rarities
Scissor Sisters

Those are actually the only albums from 05 that I have. I suck.

Older albums I have discovered:

16 Horsepower: Folklore
Drain STH: Horror Wrestling/Freaks of Nature
U2: The Unforgettable Fire

Worst song of the year: Weezer: Beverly Hills. What an absolute pile of tuneless shit.

Most overplayed: BYOB. I actually really like SOAD, but goddamn if that song didn't piss me off after they played it for the 13427th time that week.

[Jim]

Fuck y'all.

Top 5 favorite albums of the year:

5. The Darkness - One Way Ticket To Hell... And Back
4. Beck - Guero
3. Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask
2. System of a Down - Hypnotize
1. System of a Down - Mesmerize

One of my absolute favorite albums ever after having finally heard the whole thing for the first time in '05:

Queen - A Night at the Opera

Mild disappointments:

2. Bon Jovi - Have a Nice Day
1. Weezer - Make Believe (Take away Beverly Hills and We Are All On Drugs, and I'm fine with it)
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[Frank Stallone]

[Jim]

That's fine. That's not going to stop me from liking what I like. Also, I don't actively seek new music, and therefore, I lack "indie-cred."
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[Jordo]

I'm not one to purchase entire albums, so my list will be relatively short.

Top 2 CDs of 2005:

1. Coldplay - X&Y
2. Our Lady Peace - Healthy in Paranoid Times

Best CD released before 2005: Keane - Hopes & Fears

As you can see, I don't go to Best Buy for the music.

[erica]

[SundownMotel]

I have mad respect for Jim's list. The new The Darkness album is BOSS.
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And this is a promise, because this is true. This is real. This is Straight Edge.

[Frank Stallone]

I'm not coming down on it for a lack of indie cred, or the fact that none of the bands are new. Hell, my list has The Starting Line. And it's on there for a good reason. My ex-girlfriend got so pissed at me, because I had that CD in my player for about 2 consecutive weeks.

I guess my list is kind of Indie, but what I'm saying is that I don't hate your bands for asthetic reasons, or whatever. In fact, Toxicity was one of my favorite albums of 2001 (2001? 2002?) I was never a fan of The Darkness, due mostly to an overzealous ex-roommate. As for Guero, after track 2, the CD devolved into latino hip hop. I thought I accidentally got a Daddy Yankee CD. I never liked much Beck.

I really tried to come off as un-scene in my criticism
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I GOT IRATE AND FETCHED MY MAGIC MARKER AND WROTE "WORLDS INCORRECT GRANDMOM" ON ALL HER SUNDAY DRESSES

GATHER ROUND THE GOOD STUFF INDEED

[Randy]

I don't suppose I'm really one for buying records in a timely fashion, so, of the 2005 albums I bought, top to bottom they go as such:

1. My Morning Jacket - Z
2. Bob Dylan - No Direction Home, The Soundtrack (Bootleg Series, Volume 7)
3. Wilco - Kicking Television, Live in Chicago
4. The Arcade Fire - Funeral

And well I can't really think of any others that I bought what was released this year. As far as just whatever I've picked up in 2005, chronicling what is essentially my reintroduction to pop music as a whole, the list goes as such:

1. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
2. Joni Mitchell - Blue
3. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4. Beck - Sea Change
5. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
6. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
7. My Morning Jacket - Z
8. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
9. Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
10. Wilco - Being There

And yeah, my absolute lack of street cred is what keeps me up at nights.
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[Kyle]

[B]

[wee bull]

Albums I liked this year:

Team Sleep - Team Sleep -- It's weird and very un-Deftones, but it really grew on me, and now I love bits of it.
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep
Goldie Lookin' Chain - Safe as Fuck -- Teeheeeee.
Bloc Party - Silent alarm
System of a Down - Both of em -- Yes, I get it, Toxicity was a super-awesome album, and the two new albums aren't a patch on it, alright already. But guess what, I like it, sorry. Oh, and for the record, Toxicity was their weakest album of the lot.

Albums I've been mildly disappointed by this year:

Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies -- Bit too patchy to be as good as I hoped, but it's still got its good points. Better than Rated R. That said, I've still yet to give it the proper listen it deserves.
The lack of a new Deftones album -- Want it now!

I'm also just starting to get into Mars Volta, but I haven't listened to the album as a complete entity enough to rate it really.