Top Releases of 2005 lists

[Tingteng]

Pitchfork releases their top 50.

I won't list them all because I'm lazy but top 5 are:

01: Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
02: Kanye West - Late Registration
03: Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
04: M.I.A. - Arular
05: Antony & the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now




http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/top/2005/

[Ham n Cheese]

here is my top 10

1) My Morning Jacket - Z
2) The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
3) ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart
4) Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
5) Sigur Ros - Takk
6) The Books - Lost and Safe
7) Spoon - Gimme Fiction
8) Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
9) Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
10) Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs

Worth mentioning:
The Decemberists -Picaresque
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
The Hold Steady - Seperation Sunday
The Clientele - Strange Geometry
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Eels - Blinking Lights and other Revelations
Antony & The Johnsons - I am a Bird now
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning/ Digital Ash in the Digital Urn
Beck - Guero
etc etc etc

It was a VERY good year for music imho.

[Ichu]

I've heard of maybe 5 of those. Heard of.

[Frawdo]

Some of my favs this year...

Late Registration - Kanye West
Monkey Business - Black Eyed Peas
Out of Exile - Audioslave
With Teeth - NIN
Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes

Mainstream, yes. I guess there's a reason why they are considering mainstream though.

[Sukushi]

Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil. M.I.A. is one of my all time favorite songs.

[BruuceWarduck]

Modern Life is War - Witness
Blacklisted - The beat goes on
Bane - the Note
Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
Mental - Planet Mental

... what else came out this year?

[Zurren]

need to think on this, but the first two that come to mind

1. Richie Hawtin - DE9: Transitions
2. Audion - Suckerfish

[Crystara]

Opeth - Ghost Reveries for me, gotta think about it to come up with some more.

[Mir]

#1 Eisley - Room Noises
#2 The Decemberists - Picaresque
#3 Coheed & Cambria - Hello Apollo, Concept albums rulez: 17 - Coheed fucks Cincinatti
#4 Iron & Wine w/ Calexico - In the Reins
#5 Death Cab for Cutie - Plans

[eXarc]

Between the Buried and Me's "Alaska" was the best this year, hands down.

TTEOTD's "Bloodlust" is good, too.

[Zinke]

In no particular order, I personally would go with

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Death from above 1979 - You're a woman, I'm a machine
Of Montreal - Sunlandic Twins
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
NIN - With Teeth
Kanye West - Late Registration
M83 - Before the dawn heals us
Decemberists - Picaresque (Dangeresque?!)


Maybe some others I've forgotten. But, I'm definetly gonna use Pitchfork's list as a guide for new stuff to download.

[sl4ck3r]

broken social scene's self titled, by far my favorite release of 2005.

[Spare Oom and War Drobe]

Animal Collective. Feels.
honestly a super talented and creative team of artists

[Astennu]

Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Candlemass - Candlemass
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Cryptopsy - Once Was Not

[Zinke]

Ham, or anyone, what is this Antony & the Johnsons album like? They said the #1 single was off that album and the entire album was #5. Considering the albums that I actually have heard of in the top 50 are all very good albums (damn I forgot just how much I liked Illinoise, been listening to Sufjan again today cause of this), I'm anxious to check out some of the others. Pitchfork does give some wacky shit good reviews, and there summaries are pretty full of themselves, but generally they are a much better indicator of a good album then other similar sites, imo.