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Tops of 2005: Music

January 18, 2006

Wow, I got a lot of music this year. Nutty. Going through everything, there was no clear number one record. In fact, I spent the last couple days shifting the line-up around and I'm still not happy with it. Instead of fretting forever, I figure I'd just put it up as the albums weren't changing, just the order. Enjoy.

1. Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
2. Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift
3. Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel the Illinoise
4. Archer Prewitt - Wilderness
5. Real Ones - Home With the Girls In the Morning
6. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
7. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
8. Beck - Guero
9. The Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done
10. Portastatic - Bright Ideas
11. Hot Hot Heat - Elevator
12. Low - The Great Destroyer
13. The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
14. Laura Veirs - Year of Meteors
15. Aquabats - Charge!!
16. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
17. Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
18. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
19. Ben Folds - Songs For Silverman
20. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
21. Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
22. The Russian Futurists - Our Thickness
23. Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
24. Damien Jurado - On My Way To Absence
25. My Morning Jacket - Z

Best EP
Iron and Wine - Woman King

Albums Worth Buying
Brendan Benson - Alternative To Love, Black Mountain - Black Mountain, Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene, Clem Snide - End Of Love, Kanye West - Late Registration, LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem, Elbow - Leaders Of The Free World, Metric - Live It Out, Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft, Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze, OK Go - Oh No, Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens, The Decemberists - Picaresque, John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt, Stars - Set Yourself on Fire, Ed Harcourt - Strangers, The Coral - The Invisible Invasion, Sam Prekop - Who's Your New Professor?, We Are Scientists - With Love And Squalor

Every new album I acquired in 2005 (according to iTunes):

13 & God - 13 & God
22-20s - 22-20s
Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Brendan Benson - Alternative To Love
Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
M.I.A. - Arular
Ben Lee - Awake Is The New Sleep
M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us
Black Mountain - Black Mountain
Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
Portastatic - Bright Ideas
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
The Frames - Burn The Maps
Aquabats - Charge!!
Chin Up Chin Up - Chin Up Chin Up
May Or May Not - Colors Only Bees Can See
Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel the Illinoise
Clem Snide - Early Home Recordings: Volume 1
Hot Hot Heat - Elevator
Clem Snide - End Of Love
Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic
Nine Black Alps - Everything Is
Marbles - Expo
Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth
Robbie Fulks - Georgia Hard
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Beck - Guero
Real Ones - Home With the Girls In the Morning
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
Shout Out Louds - Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
Iron & Wine, Calexico - In The Reins
Kanye West - Late Registration
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Elbow - Leaders Of The Free World
Harvey Danger - Little by Little
Metric - Live It Out
Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
Teenage Fanclub - Man-Made
The Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done
The Dandy Warhols - Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars
OK Go - Oh No
Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
Damien Jurado - On My Way To Absence
The Darkness - One Way Ticket To Hell...And Back
British Sea Power - Open Season
The Russian Futurists - Our Thickness
Fountains Of Wayne - Out-Of-State Plates
The Decemberists - Picaresque
John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt
Dosh - Powder Horn
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Ben Folds - Songs For Silverman
Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful
Ed Harcourt - Strangers
Prefuse 73 - Surrounded By Silence
Cursive - The Difference Between Houses And Homes
Low - The Great Destroyer
The Coral - The Invisible Invasion
Death Cab For Cutie - The John Byrd EP
The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
Caribou - The Milk Of Human Kindness
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Guster - The Pasty Tapes Vol. 3
The Secret Machines - The Road Leads Where It's Led [EP]
Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Tralala - Tralala
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Sam Prekop - Who's Your New Professor?
Archer Prewitt - Wilderness
We Are Scientists - With Love And Squalor
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Iron and Wine - Woman King
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart
Coldplay - X&Y
Laura Veirs - Year of Meteors
My Morning Jacket - Z

Comments (3 comments so far)

Comment #1:

I'm personally offended by your failure to include Final Fantasy on your list, though this may just be because you forgot you bought the album in 2005.

Posted by Robbie C. on January 18, 2006 at 1:16PM

Comment #2:

Dear Robert, you have obviously forgotten that Has a Good Home was released in 2004. In addition, I included it in my Best Albums of 2004 Discovered in 2005 list. But yes, I did buy it with you while in Toronto last February.

Posted by capn on January 18, 2006 at 1:23PM

Comment #3:

Damn.
RC

Posted by Robbie C. on January 18, 2006 at 5:02PM

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