Best CD of 2005? [what do you think it is?]

[javeryh]

Winner:
"Blinking Lights and Other Revelations" - Eels

Honorable mention:
"Apologies To The Queen Mary" - Wolf Parade
"Twin Cinema" - The New Pornographers
"Late Registration" - Kanye West
"Silent Alarm" - Bloc Party

[sblymnlcrymnl]

Off the top of my head ...

Win:
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

HM:
Beck - Guero
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Common - Be
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Shakira - Fijación Oral, Vol. 1

[mcgavin27]

"Charge!!" by The Aquabats

2nd: "Twin Cinema" by the new pornographers
3rd: "Commit this to memory" by Motion City Soundtrack

[javeryh]

Off the top of my head ...

Win:
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

HM:
Beck - Guero
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Common - Be
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Shakira - Fijación Oral, Vol. 1

ooohh - good call on "Guero" I forgot about that one but I love it. I need to check out "Guerolito" soon... I also have the other Bright Eyes release from this year (Digital Ash?) but I didn't like it that much - it was OK though. Maybe I should check out I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning...

[daschrier]

System of a Down - Hypnotize and Mezmerize

[I AM WILLIAM H. MACY]

Top 5 best, in no order:

The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
My Morning Jacket - Z
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Dane Cook - Retaliation

[orphicblue]

VNV Nation - Matter + Form if ya like that kind of thing.

Mainstream, I'd probably say Shakira oddly enough. Not much out anymore that I care for.

[senorwoohoo]

Common - BE
Kanye West - Late Registration


Sleeper Hit: Danger Doom - Mouse and the Mask

[Rocko]

Mouse and the Mask was a sleeper hit?

[senorwoohoo]

I don't think many people knew about it...I could be wrong.

[Rocko]

I don't think many people knew about it...I could be wrong.

I'm not critisizing, I'm just asking. I knew about it for a while, but maybe that's because I watch AS a lot and heard about it quite a bit here.

[senorwoohoo]

Oh, well, then I guess because it was a sleeper for me since I hadn't heard about it anywhere. I watch AS only once in a while and must not have posted much here when people talked about it. I will say one thing, I am happy I listened to it, especially since it got me into MF Doom.

[sblymnlcrymnl]

ooohh - good call on "Guero" I forgot about that one but I love it. I need to check out "Guerolito" soon... I also have the other Bright Eyes release from this year (Digital Ash?) but I didn't like it that much - it was OK though. Maybe I should check out I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning...Yeah, Digital Ash was a bit more hit & miss. I mean, who told Conor it was a good idea to put in the crying baby sounds? :shame: :lol:

They also released a live album, "Motion Sickness" not long ago. It's pretty good if you ask me, but I may be a bit biased. :lol:

[Graystone]

BB king 80

[evilmregg]

I have to go with The Decemberists' Picaresque. It's not only my favorite album of the year, but one of my favorites of all time.

[browneyedgal68]

Ok, I have small children, and I'm totally out of the music loop. Last grown up cd I bought was Stephen Kellogg, nice buy, I might add.

But Kanye West's music, is it really THAT great? I'm not really into the whole hip hop/rap, I'm cool because I'm a thug junk. But I worked with the guy's mom for almost ten years until she decided to become his manager (poor guy, her organizational skill bite and she can't use a computer, hope he's getting second opinions) so I'd actually like to listen to some of his stuff, considering I remember him best as a 14 year old.

If I don't really like hip hop, will I want to throw it out the window of a moving vehicle? Will it make me long for the Wiggles? God, no.

[AlbinoNinja]

Im gonna have to say:

1. Beck- Guero/Guerolito combo (i heard some Guerolito at a friend's house. Out of the 5 songs i heard (which were my 5 favorite from Guero) 4 were good, Ghost Range (E-Pro), meh)

2. Ok Go- Oh No (I bought OKGO's original CD back in 7th grade after hearing Get over It on Madden. It was not my usual thing, but it grew on me; now 3 years later im listening to thier new cd nonstop)

3. Franz Ferdinand- You Could Have It So Much Better (Somehow, i feel like I'm going to get flamed for this; I like Franz, and the new CD is great, but hopefully they will try something new with their next album)

4. Dane Cook- Retaliation (Wow, some of the funniest stuff of the year. Even though you can't really listen to the same comedy cd a lot (jokes get old), this still deserves to be on the list simply because it could get many more mainstream people buying comedy cds. Hopefully, by this time next year some company will wise up, find some good talent, and we can see a few comedians on the top selling lists)

5. Reel Big Fish- We're Not Happy Until You're Not Happy (Not a lot to say... It's Reel Big Fish!)

[LaseK]

Pfft, I already had a thread like this xD. Oh well.

Charge!! - Aquabats

Runner up:
demo - hellogoodbye
A fever you can't sweat out - Panic at the Disco
Silent Alarm - Bloc Party

[pimpinc333]

Hawthorne Heights - The Silence of Black and White

[PenguinoMF]

Hawthorne Heights - The Silence of Black and White

That CD came out in the middle of 2004, unless you count the rerelease.

[WeaponX2099]

Common- Be
Honorable Mention:
Kanye West- Late Registation
DangerDoom- The Mouse and the Mask
Beck- Guero
Daft Punk- Human After All

[willardhaven]

Between The Buried And Me - Alaska

Hawthorne Heights should not even be mentioned in this thread.

[Brak]

Queens of the Stone Age's "Lullabies to Paralyze".

[javeryh]

But Kanye West's music, is it really THAT great? I'm not really into the whole hip hop/rap, I'm cool because I'm a thug junk. But I worked with the guy's mom for almost ten years until she decided to become his manager (poor guy, her organizational skill bite and she can't use a computer, hope he's getting second opinions) so I'd actually like to listen to some of his stuff, considering I remember him best as a 14 year old.

If I don't really like hip hop, will I want to throw it out the window of a moving vehicle? Will it make me long for the Wiggles? God, no.

If you don't like any hip-hop/rap then it's a reasonable assumption you won't like Kanye West.

[thatstoobad]

i don't have a #1 favorite, but here are my ten favorite records of the year, in alphabetical order:

ryan adams - "jacksonville city nights" (though i also enjoyed "cold roses" and "29")
architecture in helsinki - "in case we die"
boris - "akuma no uta"
giant drag - "hearts and unicorns"
iron and wine - "woman king"
metric - "live it out"
pelican - "the fire in our throats will beckon the thaw"
queens of the stone age - "lullabies to paralyze"
maria taylor - "11:11"
torche - "torche"

that's just off the top of my head, so i'm sure i'm forgetting something that i really liked, and i also didn't get the chance to hear everything i wanted to yet from this year.

surprisingly, i could probably come up with another ten records that i thought were pretty darn good this year.

[Pancake Rabbit]

But Kanye West's music, is it really THAT great? I'm not really into the whole hip hop/rap, I'm cool because I'm a thug junk.



First, his music isn't that great. It is good but a lot of people treat him like the second coming of Jesus, which he is not. The worst part is that Kanye actually believes he's that good and acts like he's the king of the world. Kanye can do some good beats, but if you take something he does the beat for and someone else (like Jay-Z) does the vocals and compare that song to something Kanye does the vocals on there is no comparison. Kanye should have just stayed a producer. You might actually like some of his stuff though, he is in no way shape or form a thug nor does he try to be one (just look at how he dresses, he puts even the whitest white guy to shame). He only had one song that was about "money rims and hoes" and that was mostly just poking fun at materialistic rap.

[thetoxicone]

Here's my fav's that are out from this year:

Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel to Anything/only disappointing thing was how short this thing is.

Rev Run - Distortion/Another short but sweet cd

Dream Theater - Octavarium

Reggie and The Full Effect - Songs not to get Married to

Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine/you can't go wrong with a woman fronted metal band

Gym Class Heroes - the papercut chronicles

I made a quick check of amazon and all check out for 2005 release dates

[sblymnlcrymnl]

Queens of the Stone Age's "Lullabies to Paralyze".That probably should have been on my list, though I didn't listen to it as much as the others. Actually, 90% of my listening was dedicated to The White Stripes, Shakira, and Bright Eyes. :lol:

[Scahom1]

First, his music isn't that great. It is good but a lot of people treat him like the second coming of Jesus, which he is not. The worst part is that Kanye actually believes he's that good and acts like he's the king of the world. Kanye can do some good beats, but if you take something he does the beat for and someone else (like Jay-Z) does the vocals and compare that song to something Kanye does the vocals on there is no comparison. Kanye should have just stayed a producer. You might actually like some of his stuff though, he is in no way shape or form a thug nor does he try to be one (just look at how he dresses, he puts even the whitest white guy to shame). He only had one song that was about "money rims and hoes" and that was mostly just poking fun at materialistic rap.

Kanye needs a good kick in the ass. Perhaps another year without a Grammy will be a big enough hint that he really isn't the best thing since sliced bread.

[SpeedyG]

Life In slow Motion- David Grey

[headpiece747]

Top Six of 2005
Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture
Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quas
Sean Price - Monkey Barz
9th Wonder & Buckshot - Chemistry
Tek 'n' Steele - Smif 'n' Wessun Reloaded
Danger Doom - The Mouse and The Mask

Surprise Hits of 2005
Matisyahu - Live at Stubbs
M.I.A. - Arular

[csantos]

Lagwagon - Resolve

[Fire]

The Decemberists - Picaresque

HM

The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Beck - Guero/Geurolito

Will have to think of more though

[hiccupleftovers]

When I saw this thread, I instantly thought of my winner.

Winner:

The Decemberists - Picaresque *my absolute favorite album in year. I can't tell you the number of times I have listened to it in my car, at home, etc.*

Honorable Mentions

The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Beck - Guero/Guerolito
Matisyahu - Live at Stubbs
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Kanye West - Late Registration
Danger Doom - The Mouse & The Mask
Common - Be
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
M.I.A. - Arular
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
VHS or Beta - Night On Fire

Queens of the Stone Age's "Lullabies to Paralyze".

Ooh...very good one. I didn't like the previous album too much, but this one reminded me a lot of their earlier stuff and was just great.

And I think that cuts it for me. Might have a couple others,b ut that's really it.

[JEKKI]

Little Brother - Minstrel Show
Opio - Triangulation Station
Sean Price - Monkey Barz

top 3 easily.

[browneyedgal68]

You might actually like some of his stuff though, he is in no way shape or form a thug nor does he try to be one (just look at how he dresses, he puts even the whitest white guy to shame). He only had one song that was about "money rims and hoes" and that was mostly just poking fun at materialistic rap.

See, now that's what makes me crack up at him being a 'rap' star. Guy's the most white bred kid I knew of my coworkers. I remember when his mom gave him a year for this 'music thing' because he wasn't doing that great in school.

For the record, I do like some hip hop, but not the gangsta stuff. Although Jay-Z I do like because he actually goes with the melodies, not against them, which most rappers do. Totally gone off topic. Maybe I'll just download some and see.

[MrBadExample]

I'd like to add:

The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Electric Six - Senor Smoke

[Strell]

In no order:

Alanis Morrissette - Jagged Little Pill Unplugged
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Beck - Guero CE
Green Day - Bullet in a Bible

Pretty lackluster year overall, really.

[Mike23]

Arcade Fire - Funeral

M.I.A is also a good call.

[Xevious]

Exodus- Shovel Head Kill Machine
High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
The new Rolling Stones is pretty good too.

[Fire]

Arcade Fire - Funeral

M.I.A is also a good call.

Arcade Fire is last year.

[Mike23]

Arcade Fire is last year.

Well, my apologies then.

[Pootie Thang]

Fort Minor - The Rising Tied
Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Talib Kweli - Right About Now

[megashock5]

My favorite of 2005:

New Order - Waiting For The Sirens' Call


others I liked pretty well this year:
Coldplay - X&Y
Fisherspooner - Odyssey
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth

[onetrackmind]

Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

[Rocko]

Mindless Self Indulgence- You'll Rebel To Anything

I really like this album.

I've heard a lot about The White Stripes, Beck's new album, and Panic! At The Disco, I'll have to check them out.

[itspaidgasterblaster]

System of a Down - Hypnotize and Mezmerize

That album sucked, i wonder what happened to them i mean their first one was a classic but then they come out with this garbage.


1st. As I Lay Dying " Shadows are security"

2 nd Symphony in Peril " The Whores Trophy"

3 rd Between the Buried and me "Alaska"

4 th Darkest hour " undoing ruin"

[ph33r m3]

I'm suprised nobody has mentioned

Anthony Hamilton - Ain't Nobody Worryin

Great soulful sound. From what i've heard Jamie Foxx's sounds like a contender, but the top so far is:

Anthony Hamilton - Ain't Nobody Worryin
Kanye West - Late Registration
Gorillaz - Demon Days

[strayfoxx]

#1-The Mars Volta-Frances the Mute
#2-Andrew Bird-The Mysterious Production of Eggs
#3-Sufjan Stevens-Illinoise
#4-Dream Theater-Octavarium
#5-My Morning Jacket-Z

This year in music was garbage. I hope next year is better.

[Rozz]

If you don't like any hip-hop/rap then it's a reasonable assumption you won't like Kanye West.

I like a decent amount of rap/hip-hop and I can't stand what I've heard from Kanye West. He's just another rapper that the media brought too much attention to and that too many people are thinking that he is so great when he really isn't.

As for the best album of 2005, that is going to none other than... An Answer Can Be Found by CKY. I've been listening to that album every single day for a few months now. Great cd, even if it isn't their best work... Actually, I think 'Infiltrate-Destroy-Rebuild-' and 'Volume 1' are better, but when you're comparing it to flawless classics, thats not a really bad thing to be a little worse than them. HM goes to 'Power to the People and the Beats' by Public Enemy. Yes, I'm aware that its a Greatest Hits cd, but its still a great album with many excellent songs.

[projecteightysix]

System of a downs mesmerize/hypnotize
project 86 ...and the rest will follow

[Monsta Mack]

Hootie's new cd Looking for Lucky was pretty awesome ;)

Well nothing huge this year, that's for sure. I enjoyed Coldplay's new CD and Kanye's wasn't bad but his first was alot better with the exception of a few songs: We Major (love it) and Gold Digger (even my friends enjoy it).

[DigitalSpace]

System Of A Down - Mezmerize

and for the top three:

Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
System Of A Down - Hypnotize

[RiCeBo1]

The Game - The Documentary
Kanye West - Late Registration

They both were hot!

:EDIT: I forgot to mention Black Wall Street's Mixtape Ghost Unit, even for a mixtape it's a pretty good CD, blows all those G-Unit shit away.

[senorwoohoo]

The Documentary came out this year, shit, I thought it was late 2004...well, add that to my list.

[crazytalkx]

The Mars Volta-Frances the Mute
and Gorillaz-Demon Days

[Oops! I did it again.]

1) Backstreet Boys - Never Gone
2) Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
3) Amy Jo Johnson - Imperfect
4) Three 6 Mafia - Most Known Unknown
5) Erasure - Nightbird
6) Rammstein - Rosenrot
7) Britney Spears - B In The Mix: The Remixes

Those are the primary full length releases worthy of mentioning, off the top of my head.

[RiCeBo1]

The Documentary came out this year, shit, I thought it was late 2004...well, add that to my list.
Yeah, that's what I thought until I double checked. Very, very good CD. Kind of surprised it made my Best CD of 2005 list especially when it came out early in the year (like January).

[javeryh]

I've got to add Clap Your Hands Say Yeah to my list

[SpeedyG]

Amos Lee- Amos Lee

[Rich]

I can't believe people listen to 50 cent.

Anyway:

Common - Be
and
Gorillaz - Demon Days

but the number 1 album of 2005:

Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask

And a pick which I'm sure I'll be alone on:

HIM - Dark Light

[zewone]

Kanye West - Late Registration
Common - Be
Gorillaz - Demon Dayz
DangerDoom - The Mouse and the Mask
Little Brother - Minstral Show
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Talib Kweli - Right About Now


It's hard to choose just one...

[GuilewasNK]

Sabrina Malheiros - "Equilibria"

[Reality's Fringe]

The residents Third Reich N' Roll re-release. Fantastic.

[MadChedar0]

Talib Kweli- Right About Now
Common Sense- Be

Biggest personal letdown: Kanye West- Late Registration & Audioslave- Out of Exile.

Kanye's forgetting what made his first album alright, while Audioslave was sounding U2-ish on a couple of their tracks. Scary things indeed.

[Rich]

You really can't consider Right About Now. Alot of the stuff was just recycled tracks.

[Saucy Jack]

And a pick which I'm sure I'll be alone on:

HIM - Dark Light

I thought that was an awesome album.

I'm finally getting to listen to Foo Fighters - In Your Honor. Great so far. Also, The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan was good, too.

[hopesfall]

So many people are quite fond of Kanye's CD this year, and yet I thought it was mostly garbage. Seriously, what happened to all the goodness from College Dropout? Anyway, I'd have to say these were my favorites:

And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
DangerDoom - The Mouse and the Mask
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Blue Scholars - The Long March (Its an EP, but damn is this good)

There are others that I'm sure would be up there if I had spent more time listening to them, but these are the ones I enjoyed more than any others in 2005.

[Rich]

So many people are quite fond of Kanye's CD this year, and yet I thought it was mostly garbage. Seriously, what happened to all the goodness from College Dropout? Anyway, I'd have to say these were my favorites:

Agreed, I think College Dropout is much better than Late Registration.

[gamefan1686]

Jackson Brown-Solo Acoustic Vol. 1
Foo Fighters-In Your Honor
John Mayer Trio-Try
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane-At Carnegia Hall

[senorwoohoo]

College Dropout was definitely better, but it was also very different. I still enjoy Late Registration though, just because it's so varied.

[mcgavin27]

Best "Best of Album" of 05- A user's guide to "They might be giants"

[WebScud]

Gorillaz - Demon Days

That and the Firefly Soundtrack were the only two albums that were released in 2005 that I bought. I think.

[2poor]

wu tang- wu tang meets the indie culture
dangerdoom- the mouse and the mask
gorillaz- demon days

[whiteboy]

Dane Cook: Retaliation

Bad year for music, IMO. Not that the last decade has had all that many gems but this year was particularly bad.

[javeryh]

Bad year for music, IMO. Not that the last decade has had all that many gems but this year was particularly bad.

If you can't find at least 50 great CDs from the last decade you just don't like music.

[The Successful Dropout]

wake up mr. west

[Gothic Walrus]

I'm guessing no one here has heard it, but there's a local band here called Tally Hall. They released their first CD (Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum) in November, and it seemed like half of the people at one of their shows two months later knew all of the words to every song.

In any case, it's just darn good music, and everyone that I've talked into listening to the group has loved them.

It doesn't really match their overall style, but a Google search for one of their songs, "Banana Man," turned up this music video (http://www.tallyhall.com/bman_high.htm) for the song. I know that there are MP3s of this and a few other songs drifting around (the band released demo versions to help with promotion), but I don't have the links at the moment.

[Pookymeister]

Best albums of 2005 i can think of off top of my head

Receiving End of Sirens - Between the Heart and the Synapse
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness

[miniarnold]

I'm having a hard time remembering which cds I bought were new this year. Of what I can remember, my favorite is Nirvana's "Silver: Best of the box." (It convinced me that the real box set was worth getting.)

I also really liked the latest Warped Tour and Punk-o-Rama releases (talk about cheap-ass music), and there were a couple of Greatest Hits albums I picked up (Alanis, The Beastie Boys). And of course, the White Stripes album was great also.

My biggest disappointments were the new Staind and Cold cds.

[Rich]

Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness

Ah, forgot about this one. I liked this album much more than their previous few.

[Rihan]

The Decemberists - Picaresque

Saw them live in October.....made it even better :D

[javeryh]

I'm going to add Audioslave's "Out of Exile" to my list. This is a bit of a shock for me because I had really high hopes for their first CD and I didn't really like it at all. I wasn't expecting much from the second CD and kind of listened to it once and dismissed it but for some reason I decided to give it a second chance. I find myself listening to it a lot more than I listen to other CDs that I initially liked better. So yeah, "Out of Exile" is on my Top 10 of 2005 list...

[sblymnlcrymnl]

That one would make my "Most disappointing CDs of 2005" list, and it would take the top 10 spots. :lol:

[Scobie]

Most of the stuff I listened to in '05 was pretty old (the Stooges re-issues in '05 were awesome)... but off the top of my head, two albums from last year that I really did enjoy were:

"Separation Sunday" by the Hold Steady (phenomenal band)

and

"A Healthy Distrust" by Sage Francis