Everyone else and their dog has made their Best Of 2005 lists already so I figured I do mine. Music being the main focus of this blog, well, that's what these lists are all about.
Top 10 albums of 05 (in no particular order)
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
My Morning Jacket - Z
Decemberists - Picaresque
Metric - Live it Out
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
The Magic Numbers - s/t
Sigur Ros - Takk
Runner ups:
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t
The reason this isn't on the list is b/c I've heard most of it, but don't own a copy yet. I'm sure it would have made the list, maybe knocking out Bright Eyes DAIADU.
Tracy Grammer - Flower of Avalon
Definitely the best folk album of the year.
Invisible - s/t
Best album of 04 that I didn't get into until 05:
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Great, amazing album! I shunned them in 04 for being the next big thing, but am really quite in awe of how good they are.
Best albums of 06 that I've already heard in 05:
The Elected - Sun, Sun, Sun
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
These will make the 06 list for sure. I can't wait to get the liner notes!
Best shows in 05:
Rilo Kiley - Roseland Theater
Arcade Fire - Crystal Ballroom
Bright Eyes/The Faint - Crystal Ballroom
Metric - The Doug Fir
Okkervil River - Dante's
The Snuggle Ups - Holocene
The Magic Numbers - The Doug Fir
Built to Spill - Crystal Ballroom
The Shins - Crystal Ballroom
Tegan & Sara - Crystal Ballroom
Decemberists - Crystal Ballroom
Death Cab for Cutie - Crystal Ballroom
Worst shows in 05:
Son Volt - Crystal Ballroom
Spoon - Crystal Ballroom
Best song lyrics with "God" in them in 05:
"God doesn't always have the best goddamn plans, does he?" - Wolf Parade
"I fought the war, but the war won/I fought the war, but the war won't stop for the love of God." - Metric
"Does he ever smell his own bullshit?/When the President talks to God?/I doubt it! - Bright Eyes
Songs that will remind me most of 05:
At the Bottom of Everything - Bright Eyes
Big Boat - M. Ward
Rebellion (Lies) - Arcade Fire
I Love LA - Rilo Kiley
Okkervil River Song/Westfall - Okkervil River
I Believe in a Thing Called Love - The Darkness
Brighter Energy (Goddamn Your Energy) - Invisible
A Distorted Reality is Now a Necessity to Be Free/King's Crossing - Elliott Smith
1 comment:
almost every song you listed under "songs that will remind me of 05" will remind me of 2005! Ah, the sweet nostalgia. It's kind of sad too.
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