thats a good one! theres another recent compilation that you should check out if you havent already - ghana soundz: afro beat, funk and fusion in 70's ghana. more on the fela tip than the psychedelic one, but some really amazing stuff on there.
My Best of 2005 list 1. Kanye West - Late Registration 2. Coldplay - X&Y 3. Chamillionaire - Sound of Revenge 4. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better 5. Sarah McLachlan - Bloom Remix Album 6. Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel 7. The Decemberists - Picaresque 8. Madonna - Confessions on the Dance Floor 9. Shakira - Oral Fixation Vol 2 10. Gorillaz - Demon Days One album from 2004 that has quickly become an all-time favorite of mine is The Killers' Hot Fuss. GREAT stuff.
My Favorites from this year: 1. Lyfe Jennings - Lyfe 268-192 2. Stereophonics - Language.Sex.Violence.Other? 3. The Decemberists - Picaresque 4. DMB - Stand Up 5. Kanye West - Late Registration 6. John Butler Trio - Sunrise Over Sea 7. Common - Be 8. David Gray - Life in Slow Motion 9. Nickel Creek - Why Should the Fire Die? 10. Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams I have a feeling I'm missing quite a few. BY FAR, my favorite was Lyfe's album, and I only recently started listening to the Decemberists, but they totally rock.
Dream Theater - Octavarium Green Day - American Idiot System of a Down - Mesmerize/Hypnotize It's a shame that two of them, Green Day and SOAD, have political views that I disagree with, for the most part. But both bands are ridiculously talented. Pretty good year for music, for the most part.
Number 1 by a mile Mountain Goats - Sunset Tree rest in no particular order Decemberists - Picareques Okervil River - Black Sheep Boy Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Razorlight - up all night Clap your hands say yeah - self titled Broken Social Scene - self titled FutureHeads - self titled The Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart Gorillaz - Demon Days Garden State Soundtrack Kanye West - Late Registration Andrew Bird - Mysterious Production of Eggs Kate Bush - Aerial: A Sea of Honey Neil Young - Prairie Wind Spoon - Gimme Fiction Willy Mason - Where Human Eat
Are you guys listing your "favorites" or ALL of the CD's you bought/MP3's you downloaded in 2005? I can't see how you can spend this much on music... time to listen, or money. I listed my favorite... okay, well maybe my kids' (when I'm in the car with them) favorite. But I can't name more than 6 CD's bought all year... Now movies on the other hand... I do the new on Tuesday thing almost every week... just picked up SW:Clone Wars Vol 2, and Fantastic 4... last week a couple, week before a couple... and so on. I guess I'm a sports radio guy.
1. Danger Doom-The Mouse and the Mask 2. Beck-Guero 3. Dave Matthews Band-Stand Up 4. In Between Dreams-Jack Johnson 5. Common-Be 6. Coldplay-X&Y 7. John Butler Trio-Sunrise Over Sea 8. O.A.R.-Stories of a Stranger 9. Blackalicious-The Craft
the rhythm section of that band are friends of mine! i think they just toured australia too - did you see them? if you like them you should check out shearwater. the singer of okkervil is in this band too (but in a sideman role). one of my favorite bands in austin. plus, their drummers name is THOR!!! he used to play in the swans. http://www.myspace.com/shearwater
Most of the ones I would pick are already on here. Franz Ferdinand, Death Cab for Cutie, Spoon. I guess the only one I didn't see on here that I think it is one of the best is the Aqueduct - I Sold Gold.
i can't stop listening to the arctic monkeys. they haven't released an album yet, but there's plenty of downloads out there.
Too early. There's still 5 or so I want that I don't even have yet. We still have another month to go.
"You know how I know your gay...you listen to Coldplay" I didn't buy many albums this year, so I have to agree this wasn't the best year in music...
OMG, there is another Willy Mason fan here! The only reason I didn't list this album is because it came out last year. But damn is he awesome. I saw him open for Guster a few years ago, and he was really good. My favorites are "Sold My Soul", "Hard Hand to Hold", and "Oxygen", but the entire album is great. It used to be freely downloadable, at http://team-love.com/new/bands/willy/releases.php , but it doesn't look like it any more.
