Best Albums of 2005

[HoyaSaxa03]

i'm sure i forgot something, and my opinion will probably change a little bit, but here it is:
 
 and why the hell do i not own the shout out louds album??
 
 1) The New Pornographers: "Twin Cinema"
 2) My Morning Jacket: "Z"
 3) Brendan Benson: "The Alternative to Love"
 4) Bloc Party: "Silent Alarm"
 5) Danger Doom: "The Mouse and the Mask"
 6) M83: "Before the Dawn Heals Us"
 7) Spoon: "Gimme Fiction"
  Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah" (bring it on!!)
 9) The Mountain Goats: "The Sunset Tree"
 10) Sufjan Stevens: "Illinois"
 11) The National: "Alligator"
 12) The Decemberists: "Picaresque"
 13) Sage Francis: "A Healthy Distrust"
 14) Stephen Malkmus: "Face the Truth"
 15) The White Stripes: "Get Behind Me Satan"
 16) Andrew Bird: "The Mysterious Production of Eggs"
 17) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: "Howl"
 18) Dr. Dog: "Easy Beat"
 19) Architecture in Helsinki: "In Case We Die"
 20) Kanye West: "Late Registration"
 21) Against Me!: "Searching for a Former Clarity"
 22) Okkervil River: "Black Sheep Boy"
 23) Sleater-Kinney: "The Woods"
 24) Lou Barlow: "Emoh"
 25) The Game: "The Documentary"
 26) Dead Meadow: "Feathers"
 27) Black Mountain: "Black Mountain"
 28) The Ponys: "Celebration Castle"
 29) Josh Rouse: "Nashville"
 30) Gorillaz: "Demon Days"
 
 Honorable Mentions:
 
 Annie Hayden   The Enemy of Love
 Archer Prewitt   Wilderness
 Ben Lee   Awake Is the New Sleep
 Bettie Serveert   Attagirl
 Big Star   In Space
 Black Mountain   Druganaut [EP]
 Blackalicious   The Craft
 Bob Mould   Body of Song
 Bonnie "Prince" Billy / Matt Sweeney   Superwolf
 The Clientele   Strange Geometry
 CocoRosie   Noah's Ark
 Colin Meloy   Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey
 Common   Be
 The Cribs   The Cribs
 Damien Jurado   On My Way to Absence
 Death Cab for Cutie   Plans
 Devendra Banhart   Cripple Crow
 Doves   Some Cities
 The Evens   The Evens
 Franz Ferdinand   You Could Have It So Much Better With ...
 The Go Betweens   Oceans Apart
 Hockey Night   Keep Guessin
 The Hold Steady   Separation Sunday
 Hot Hot Heat   Elevator
 Iron & Wine   Woman King [EP]
 Kathleen Edwards   Back To Me
 LCD Soundsystem   LCD Soundsystem
 Low   The Great Destroyer
 M.I.A.   Arular
 Mercury Rev   The Secret Migration
 Neil Young   Prarie Wind
 New Order   Waiting for the Sirens' Call
 Of Montreal   The Sunlandic Twins
 The Orange Peels   Circling The Sun
 Oranger   New Comes And Goes
 The Oranges Band   The World And Everything In It
 Outrageous Cherry   Our Love Will Change The World
 Paul McCartney   Chaos And Creation In The Backyard
 Pernice Brothers   Discover A Lovelier You
 Portastatic   Bright Ideas
 Queens of the Stone Age   Lullabies to Paralyze
 Sam Prekop   Who's Your New Professor
 Son Volt   Okemah and the Melody of Riot
 The Spinto Band   Nice And Nicely Done
 Teenage Fanclub   Man-Made
 Thievery Corporation   The Cosmic Game
 Weezer   Make Believe
 Yo La Tengo   A Smattering Of Outtakes And Rarities

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
  1) The New Pornographers: "Twin Cinema"
 

I don't need to read the rest to see your opinion obviously sucks.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:
   

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
  1) The New Pornographers: "Twin Cinema"
 

I don't need to read the rest to see your opinion obviously sucks. [/b]

you suck!

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
  you suck!

Your mother sucks!

[pj]

[/qb][/QUOTE]you suck! [/QB][/QUOTE]
 
 always the best comeback in the book. I actually liked your list. might have put a few higher and other lower on the list.
 
 Bummer about the Bucs, Hoya. I was at the game. There are many reasons why we should have won that game. Most of all that damn missed field goal.

[kcjones119]

Broken Social Scene - "Broken Social Scene" should be on there

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Should be on where?
 
 

Originally posted by kcjones119:
  Broken Social Scene - "Broken Social Scene" should be on there

[brennser]

The OC
 
 

Originally posted by Etan de Balzac, Footie Ball Player:
  Should be on where?
 
   

Originally posted by kcjones119:
  Broken Social Scene - "Broken Social Scene" should be on there

[/b]

[SalParadise]

Originally posted by brennser:
  The OC
 
   

Originally posted by Etan de Balzac, Footie Ball Player:
  Should be on where?
 
   

Originally posted by kcjones119:
  Broken Social Scene - "Broken Social Scene" should be on there

[/b]

[/b]

ouch

[bearman🐻]

Looks to me like there were a lot of semi-OK and full-on crappy records released this year. Looking back to years like 1984 or even 2000 I've got to say that it was a disappointing year.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I'll bet you were listening to Madonna in 1984. Weren't you like 9 or something?
 
 

Originally posted by bearman:
  Looks to me like there were a lot of semi-OK and full-on crappy records released this year. Looking back to years like 1984 or even 2000 I've got to say that it was a disappointing year.

[bearman🐻]

In 1984 I was 9 indeed...pretty scary that you know that. At age 9 I was listening to what I call mainstream new wave. The Police, The Cars, and popular Clash stuff (think Combat Rock). At age 10 I made the switch over to the British stuff like New Order, Depeche Mode, the Smiths, the Ramones, etc. Pretty much everything that was on Sire Records. But in the later 80's and early 90's, I discovered all the great records released at that time...Husker Du, the Replacements, the Minutemen, etc.

[ggw]

Originally posted by bearman:
  Looks to me like there were a lot of semi-OK and full-on crappy records released this year. Looking back to years like 1984 or even 2000 I've got to say that it was a disappointing year.

I agree.  There were a lot of 7.8 Z's released this year and not many 9.0+
 
 My favorites, in relatively random order:
 
 Sleater-Kinney -- The Woods
 The Decemberists -- Picaresque
 Dead Meadow -- Feathers
 Mountain Goats -- Sunset Tree
 Bloc Party -- Silent Alarm
 Dungen -- Ta Det Lungt
 Shout Out Louds -- Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
 Constantines -- Tournament of Hearts
 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah -- S/T
 BRMC -- Howl
 Caesars -- Paper Tigers
 The National -- Alligator

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Just a lucky guess. Maybe you had referenced your age at one time and it was in the back of my head. Don't worry, I'm not keeping a stalker file on you. Or anybody else.
 
 Born in the USA was my favorite album of 1984, at least at that time. I didn't pay much attention to music when I was in high school.
 
   

Originally posted by bearman:
  In 1984 I was 9 indeed...pretty scary that you know that.  

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by P.J.:
 Bummer about the Bucs, Hoya. I was at the game. There are many reasons why we should have won that game. Most of all that damn missed field goal.

i let out a guttural yelp when that FG faded right, it brought back some really really bad memories of "automatica" ... we needed that game and should have won it, luckily a lot of other NFC wild-card contenders lost this week