Tuesday, December 20, 2005

favorite albums 2005

2005 was a great music year for me. you may notice that no rap albums made the list. it's not that i don't like rap, i just don't like black people (tongue affixed firmly in cheek).



  1. new pornographers - twin cinema
  2. sufjan stevens - illinois
  3. the decemberists - picaresque
  4. ladytron - the witching hour
  5. stars - set yourself on fire
  6. broken social scene - broken social scene
  7. sleater-kinney - the woods
  8. joy zipper - american whip
  9. morning after girls - s/t
  10. bloc party - silent alarm
  11. stephen malkmus - face the truth
  12. the kills - no wow
  13. kaiser chiefs - employment
  14. fiona apple - extraordinary machine
  15. joy zipper - the heartlight set
  16. eisley - room noises
  17. single frame - body end basement
  18. imogen heap - speak for yourself
  19. love is all - nine times that same song
  20. rogue wave - descended like vultures
  21. woody whatever - the great pop
  22. spoon - gimme fiction
  23. m.i.a. - arular
  24. new order - waiting for the siren's call
  25. the fiery furnaces - ep (ep)
  26. maximo park - a certain trigger
  27. magnapop - mouthfeel
  28. the rosebuds - birds make good neighbors
  29. russian futurists - our thickness
  30. the cyanide valentine - let it rot
  31. serena maneesh - serena maneesh
  32. sons and daughters - the repulsion box
  33. clor - clor
  34. beck - guero
  35. the white stripes - get behind me satan
  36. bob mould - body of song
  37. tom vek - we have sound
  38. feist - let it die
  39. dengue fever - escape from dragon house
  40. clap your hands say yeah - clap your hands say yeah
  41. morningwood - morningwood
  42. nine inch nails - with teeth
  43. giant drag - hearts and unicorns
  44. hail social - hail social
  45. juliana hatfield - made in china
  46. oasis - don't believe the truth
  47. the like - are you thinking what i'm thinking
  48. and you will know us by the trail of dead - worlds apart
  49. fischerspooner - odyssey
  50. black rebel motorcycle club - howl
not top-50, but good all the same. not in order:




  • super furry animals - love kraft
  • acid house kings - sing along with the acid house kings
  • greg dulli - amber headlights
  • my morning jacket - z
  • jason forrest - shemelessly exciting
  • kiss me deadly - misty medley
  • goldfrapp - supernature
  • the most serene republic - underwater cinematographer
  • the subways- young for eternity
  • clue to kalo - one way it's every way
  • you say party! we say die! - hit the floor!
  • junior senior - hey hey my my yo yo
  • metric - live it out
  • idlewild - warnings/promises
  • ivy - in the clear
  • brendan benson - alternative to love
  • hoy - forever endeavour
  • nada surf - the weight is a gift
  • 50 foot wave - golden ocean
  • the 101 - green street
  • lce soundsystem - lcd soundsystem
  • gibby haynes and his problem - s/t
  • rockit girl - bright lights
  • dandy warhols - odditorium or warlords of mars
  • weezer - make believe
  • gruff rhys - yr atal genhedlaeth
  • the organ - grab that gun
  • queens of the stone age - lullabies to paralyze
  • garbage - bleed like me
  • ash - meltdown
  • del cielo - us vs. them
  • cloud cult - advice from the happy hippopotamus
  • black lipstick - sincerely, black lipstick
  • cruiserweight - sweet weaponry
  • the sugarplastic - will
  • the peels - the peels
  • sunshine - moonshower and razorblades
  • the duke spirit - cuts across the land
  • teenage fanclub - man-made
  • magneta lane - the constant lover
  • marbles - expo
  • bellafea - familty tree
  • paatos - kallocain
  • shout out louds - howl howl gaff gaff
  • abandoned pools - the reverb (ep)
  • billy corgan - the future embrace
  • the raveonettes - pretty in black
  • astropop 3 - eclipsing binary star
  • the caesars - paper tigers
  • mobius band - the loving sounds of static
  • controller.controller - x-amounts
  • wolf parade - apologies to the queen mary
  • the spinto band - nice and nicely done
  • architecture in helsinki - in case we die
  • the capes - taste ep
  • the dead science - submariner
  • bearsuit - cat spectacular!
  • 4 comments:

    Satisfied '75 said...

    looking good, although sufjan was my fave of 2005

    Phillip said...

    apparently you are not alone

    jenny said...

    i have to tell you. i'm with sarah on this one. go figure.

    :)

    Flamingo Jones said...

    I meant to leave this comment on myspace...but I was being dumb and clicked here instead. I could go back to myspace and put it there...but I'm lazy.

    Anyway. You leave the bestest ever voicemails.

    Can we start an "Illinoise is Highly Over-Rated" club? Pretty please?