Best Album of 2005?

[Illur]

Best albums this year

"Playing the Angel" - Depeche Mode

[Saras]

Opeth - Ghost Reveries

[Al'Kimiya]

hypnotoad declares the following albums to be of your liking for the year 2005 C.E.:

* XIII. Stoletà - Vampire Songs
* Deine Lakaien - April Skies
* Fields of the Nephilim - Mourning Sun
* Sabaton - Primo Victoria
* Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio / Spiritual Front - Satyriasis

[Sikander]

Oerdin, why argue music with someone who likes Matchbox 20?

[asleepathewheel]

My top five, rough:

Kanye West: Late Registration
New Pornographers: Twin Cinema
Decemberists: Picaresque
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Eels: Blinking Lights and Other Revelations




Albums on the to purchase list: Deerhoof, Sufjan, Hold Steady, Spoon, bloc party

[Nostromo]

A lot of the stuff mentioned I never heard before. That's probably because I don't listen to the radio. I agree with some of these suggestions, however.

- Ok cowboy by Vitalic is a great techno album, but there are only 3 or 4 great songs on it

- I just bought Witching hour by Ladytron and its very good.

- Destroy Rock and Roll by Mylo probably deserves a mention

- M.I.A is overrated, IMO. I like her song Hombre, though.

[Stefu]

My top five, of the albums I've bought yet:

The New Pornographers: Twin Cinema
The Decemberists: Picaresque
Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
Spoon: Gimme Fiction

[Stefu]

Originally posted by nostromo
Surprised nobody mentionned Green Day's American Idiot. Everybody was raving about it all year long and now nobody mentions it. Probably because everyone who has it listened it to death and can't stand it anymore AND IT'S A 2004 ALBUM

Fix'd

[Nostromo]

I just checked and you're right, but its a late 2004 album. AFAIK, it was all over the place in 2005.

[Dinner]

Yeah, Modest Mouse's album was late 2004 as well though most people didn't get into it until 2005. Still Green Day's American Idiot was their best album in a long time.

[Sava]

Asher is right about these lists...

on the Pitchfork list, the only artists I have heard of are Fiona Apple, Franz Ferdinand, Cam'ron, and Kanye West...

and they all suck

NPR was more of the same

and the TinyMix was awful... I haven't heard of any of that ****...

it's probably a good thing I haven't heard of any of those albums... I bet all that music sucks

[Dinner]

Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.

[Sava]

well, the albums that I have liked this year are:

System of a Down - Hypnotize (probably the top album of 2005 for me)
System of a Down - Mezmerize
Audioslave - Out of Exile
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
Seether - Karma and Effect

that's fine if people don't like the same kind of music as I do... this is all subjective... it's all opinion...

if making some stupid list makes people feel better about themselves and the music they listen to, then fine, let the babies have their bottles...

I think all the music that was in those lists SUCKS... it's sh1t... all of it.

[mrmitchell]

The thing about these lists is that everyone has different tastes. It just depends on what hack is writing up the list. You could toss about 50 names in a hat, draw any ten out, and come up with a list of the same integrity.

If the lists are for one year or one genre or narrowed down in that kind of fashion, the writers feel compelled to write up on some bands no one has ever heard of because either
A) they want to look like they're ahead of the loop or
B) there's this one (or twenty) underground groups noones ever heard of but theyre so good!!!1
The NPR list was the best list. I've actually heard of all them, and one or two of the picks was good.

If the list is too wide (like Rolling Stone's best albums ever list), then everyone will hate it because they'll bring up old garbage everyone's forgotten, old "underground" (read: everyone hated it) garbage, too much new garbage (where are the classics!??), and no one will have all their favorites make the list.

Just ignore the lists and listen to what you would anyway.

[Ecthy]

Bloc Party