Best album of 2005?
 

What was the best album of 2005, outside of that crap that spills out of speakers like puss called rap.

Looking for some good rock/metal/altern/indie/classical/folk/comedy/techno/ambient...anything but rap

Kanye West - Late Registration nigguh

i guess i was asking for that :pimp

bush doesn't like black people! :error

I really like James Blunt's new album "Back to Bedlam". Every song is just awesome.

hrm... I like the White Stripes "Get Behind Me Satan" It's good shit if you like rock/blues.

already got it, first album i download, erm, bought this year :thumbsup

X and Y by Coldplay

you and I must have the same taste in music ;) good stuff

Be by Common

Agreed, 'out of my mind' just fucking rocks :thumbsup

Regards,

Lee

wow now im def not downloading it

Id Say "the Ministry of Sound" 2005 Cd

Black Eyed Peas.... daylight second...

NOT rap, more R&B styling.

2c

ditto..

System of a Down's Mezmerize and Hypnotize were good also

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Thank you.

Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. :thumbsup :thumbsup

Definitely (imo) the best album to be released in 2005.


Kanye's album was patchy. Roses is a great song though, and a few other songs were decent. Same goes with Lil wayne's Carter II. Common's "BE" was probably best hip-hop album released this year.

Coldplay's was up to par, but nothing compared to prior albums (Rush of blood/Parachutes). I'd say if anybody came close, White Stripes had the best album next to Sir Paul. They released a very very solid album. Jack White is a pimp.

looks deeper for great albums of '05 that will be remembered....

Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary (Perfect Songwriting, Perfect Playing, Perfectly Accesible)

Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene (See Above)

Animal Collective - Feels (For the more objective listener a.k.a. music nerd...these kids can do things you can't imagine with one chord)

interesting voice on this wolf parade guy....it'd be neat music to smoke to :winkwink:

Get Behind Me Satan

already got it & their my hero's for being the only live musical act ever on the daily show :thumbsup

were they?

when did that happen?

I wish daily show and colbert were on demand online, i'd pay for that =/

mattafix - signs of a struggle

www.mattafix.com

The arcade fire - Funeral (not sure if it came out late 2004??) still...its THE shit... if you like indy/rock/weird music

also good albums: The new pornographers - Twin Cinema
and the latest one from Superfury animals...
oh and the new Strokes

(its all indy/pop/rock)

If you are into hardcore...
Comeback kid - wake the dead
Between the buried and me - alaska
Terror - one for the underdogs

this was, shit,...2 months ago?

hopefully someone zips up the season for the year, if so i'll find the ep #

good calls silvertab, funeral came out 09/04 but it's still bigger and better and got more listens (and shows i attended) than anything that came out in 2005, including the records I listed....although Wolf Parade is quite a contender, and several members of the Arcade Fire played and recorded on the Wolf Parade record.

oh shit, do they have that? people actually compile a years worth of shows? i gotta archive all that, the presidential elections ones were dumb funny, I couldn't wait to see that shit every night.

yea they usually do archive almost every show nowadays...i know someone does the mercer report (canadian john stewart), i just need to find the fan site offering the torrents, i'll look around this week

Well thats it, im downloading Wolf Parade! :)

never heard of them before actually! or maybe just the name...

there are a bunch of albums that I liked in 2005 and didnt name though...bloc party and kaiser chiefs being 2 other good ones!

Cool, drop me a line when you come across it, it would be worth figuring out how to torrent for :1orglaugh

But I must say that the 2 albums I listen to the most...(yet again) are:

Interpol - Turn out the bright light...and
Interpol - Antics


yeah...im a huge interpol fan LOL....got to see them finally earlier this year...they are fucking AWESOME live

haha thats cool. Interpol was one of the bands that made me start listening to modern rock again. I've seen them maybe 9 times in the past 3 years. I've got every riff and lyric from those albums burned into my brain :1orglaugh

Definitely download the Wolf Parade, it's like fuckin candy to me.

p.s. i usually notice your music related posts from like the past year and you're headed good ways :thumbsup

have fun :pimp

haha thing is, my music collection is litterally split in two...
modern/indy/rock etc.. on one site
hardcore/metal etc.. on the other

I cant stick to one genre hehe... ;) Its pretty much a matter of occasion..sometime I feel like listening to groovy/more relax music...other times..Im hyped..and need something brutal and fast :pimp

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Animal Collective - Feels
QOTSA - Lullabyes to Paralyze
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment

honorable mentions

The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (liked AC Newman's Slow Wonder'04 better)
Beck - Guero
Iron & Wine - Woman King
Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
My Morning Jacket - Z
Decemberists - Picaresque

BTW, do you like the stills??? Cant wait for the new one..

(they are from here hehe so I watch them closely)

I heard sooo many good things about Sufjan stevens (and all the "states" album he did)...pitchform media seems to swear by him...ill have to check this out

Beck - Guero is dope, beck made a great comeback there

Yeah I liked logic can break your heart record. Very good songs, very memorable melodies, fun shit to listen to, although i havn't given it a play in the longest.

I really can't make sense of the hardcore/metal stuff though. It just seems like forced, melodramatic, and gimmicky, without any emphasis on good melody or meaningful expression....and i also find it rather homoerotic :1orglaugh

I'm tryin to think of some stuff I listen to when I want loud, fast etc.

Deftones
Pixies
Ramones
Stooges?
MC5?

and such...


And Sufjan's Illinois is retardedly good. Seen him perform at lincoln center opera hall in nyc last week backed by shitload of musicians he tours with (horns, strings, organs etc.)... it was awesome.

haha metal and hardcore is a completely different thing, but trust me, the emphasis is pretty much EXCLUSIVELY on melody ...its just..not the kind of melody you will notice at first listen..(or if you are not used to the genre)

bands like Between the buried and me are musical genious...(they go from heavy heavy stuff to smooth balad-like songs, and back to full speed..) they are so good its incredible

If you like those dynamics in music, you might really love a band called Aereogramme.

Try Aereogramme - Sleep & Release ...i think that's what it's called.

Damn I forgot about the lastest one from Coheed and Cambria on my top 2005

Yeah.. I don't want to go on too much.. because i hate getting hyped albums that will never match your expectations... but i found it through Amazon's "if you like" etc coincidentally just after it was released and bought it just off the samples... I was pleasantly surprised.. then i read the reviews on pitchfork and RS etc.. and yeah.. if you like folksy falsetto sweet stuff... you should dig it.

well said and good going controlling yourself on the hype rant, im working on that technique myself :1orglaugh

I listen to a very wide variety, but overall there is a pretty clear winner IMO...


Jacks Mannequin - Everything In Transit


Honorable mentions...


Billy Corgan - The Future Embrace

Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists

Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth

Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor

holy shit billy corgan & oasis are back!?!?

Hahhaha.. tbh.. I think expectations play a bigger role than people think when it comes to liking a movie or album... Sometimes it's really hard to shake the fact you thought something was going to kickass and you spend the whole movie or whatever waiting for the ass to start kicking in... And then sometimes you find a little gem from a band you've never heard before it can change your life.
Thats why I actually like hearing bad reviews sometimes.. makes some stuff seem more kick ass than it is because you're like "huh? wheres the shittyness?" I must say though.. it works better for movies than for albums.
As to whether it's the cure for cancer... well..I did put it at the top of my list :)

i got mad hyped about twin cinema, and i never got past like 4 songs. :(

Lamb of God - Killadelphia. Best fucking metal album you'll ever hear. :2 cents:

oh cancer.. how good is Casimir Pulaski Day? argghh.. my lipbiting is being undermined.... fuck this. Silvertab.. paste "Casimir Pulaski Day" into amazon popular music and download the whole song for free. Listen at least 3 times before you make a judgement.

Yeah.. it's not the best thing ever even though overall it's pretty good.. but.. after Slow Wonder I can put up with a lot of it a lot easier. You've got Slow right?