Thursday, January 05, 2006
Best albums of 2005!
Crap! I almost didn't post a Best of 2005 list! But I will! Here it is!!
10. Three way tie: "Broken Social Scene" by Broken Social Scene, "Twin Cinema" by the New Pornographers, and "Everything Ecstatic" by Four Tet. They was real good, but I liked t'othern more.
9. "In Case We Die" - Architecture In Helsinki. It sounds like somebody throwing a kindergarten class into a room full of Indy Rockers and making them fight it out. Who would say no?
8. "LCD Soundsystem" - LCD Soundsystem. It made me shake my booty. Privately, mind you, in the living room with the shades drawn. But shake my booty nonetheless.
7. "Picaresque" - The Decemberists. I'm not in love with every song. I admit. But the ones I am in love with, I would kill a monkey for.
6. "Z" - My Morning Jacket. More focused than their last, yet stranger. "Into the Woods" is fantastic. I mean, start a song off singing about a burning kitten and a baby in a blender, and I'm yours.
5. "The Runners Four" - Deerhoof. Strange. Noisy. Excellent. Oompah-pah!
4. "Apologies to the Queen Mary" - Wolf Parade. I sure like the synths. And I sure listened to this until Maggie was like, "Argh! Are you still listening to the same CD?"
3. "Gimme Fiction" - Spoon. It's tight. And impossibly cool-sounding. And "I Turn My Camera On" is going to teach yer mamma to dance and yer gramma to suck eggs.
2. "Separation Sunday" - The Hold Steady. This one is a surprise, since I picked it up in the free CD box at work. But I've listened to it a freaking ton, and I like it more every time. It rocks, it tells a story, and the lyrics and delivery rule. Who knew that what the punk rockers should really do was try and play bar-band-style classic rock? You don't even know, yo.
1. "Illinois" - Sufjan Stevens. I almost didn't want this to be number one, just because it's so obviously the best. I thought, "surely there was something else, this album is just too good, too effortless." But no. Nothing is better. It pwns.
10. Three way tie: "Broken Social Scene" by Broken Social Scene, "Twin Cinema" by the New Pornographers, and "Everything Ecstatic" by Four Tet. They was real good, but I liked t'othern more.
9. "In Case We Die" - Architecture In Helsinki. It sounds like somebody throwing a kindergarten class into a room full of Indy Rockers and making them fight it out. Who would say no?
8. "LCD Soundsystem" - LCD Soundsystem. It made me shake my booty. Privately, mind you, in the living room with the shades drawn. But shake my booty nonetheless.
7. "Picaresque" - The Decemberists. I'm not in love with every song. I admit. But the ones I am in love with, I would kill a monkey for.
6. "Z" - My Morning Jacket. More focused than their last, yet stranger. "Into the Woods" is fantastic. I mean, start a song off singing about a burning kitten and a baby in a blender, and I'm yours.
5. "The Runners Four" - Deerhoof. Strange. Noisy. Excellent. Oompah-pah!
4. "Apologies to the Queen Mary" - Wolf Parade. I sure like the synths. And I sure listened to this until Maggie was like, "Argh! Are you still listening to the same CD?"
3. "Gimme Fiction" - Spoon. It's tight. And impossibly cool-sounding. And "I Turn My Camera On" is going to teach yer mamma to dance and yer gramma to suck eggs.
2. "Separation Sunday" - The Hold Steady. This one is a surprise, since I picked it up in the free CD box at work. But I've listened to it a freaking ton, and I like it more every time. It rocks, it tells a story, and the lyrics and delivery rule. Who knew that what the punk rockers should really do was try and play bar-band-style classic rock? You don't even know, yo.
1. "Illinois" - Sufjan Stevens. I almost didn't want this to be number one, just because it's so obviously the best. I thought, "surely there was something else, this album is just too good, too effortless." But no. Nothing is better. It pwns.
# posted by Michael : 7:27 AM
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Nice list! Though, I think that sampled cheerleader/breakbeat group deserves honorable mention. And Andrew Bird is a high-flying class act!
i agree with you on many counts!! my 2006 resolution is to marry sufjan. we'd love for you to sing about vegetables at the wedding.
# posted by 
: 8:28 PM
: 8:28 PM
Well, I thought about The Go! Team pretty hard, but their album was released last year in England. It was released this year in our country, so I wasn't sure what sort of rules should apply. Had I not been confused, it would have been more than honorable mention It would have been a real contender. SO! You can pretend that The Go! Team is in my top five if you want, because it actually is.
And Judah, I wish you luck, Sufjan is a very pretty man.
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And Judah, I wish you luck, Sufjan is a very pretty man.
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