This is the thread where we salvage great tracks from otherwise average 2005 albums

Engineers - 'Lets Just See'
Wilderness - 'End of Freedom'
Brazilian Girls - 'Don't Stop'
Broadcast - 'America's Boy'
New Order - 'Krafty', 'Guilt is a Useless Emotion'
Jamie Lidell - 'Multiply'

Spoon - 'The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine'

Lou Barlow - 'Mary'

awesome song....

Ben Folds - Bastard

this is my favorite topic right here. allow me to add:

laura cantrell - 14th street
eels- trouble with dreams

oh, it's just 2005.

sorry, i'm going to ad my favorite ever song from a bonring album.

Spent - Excuse me while i drink myself to death

Great song from a great album.

let's be reasonable here. great album? je ne sais pas about that, but i do know that i can't listen to the whole thing.

I love it. Definitely Top 20 for me, maybe Top 10. Some people think there's a lot of filler material on it but I think it works very well.

yeah, i'm happy for you if you enjoy the whole thing, but for me it has been a downhill journey since electro-shock

secret for a song.mercury rev

Sam Prekop - Something from his 2005 release, Who's Your Professor?

middling gimme fiction is not.

DIA Billy Corgan
Summer of 91 ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead

I really like 4 or 5 songs from this one.

The Push Stars "Drunk Is Better Than Dead" - although the album isn't so much "middling" as "sucking at the sphincter of goat".

Edit: feck. Didn't see you wanted '05 albums. Ignore as usual.

Lyla - Oasis

Bohemian Like You - The Dandy Warhols
The Cedar Room - Doves
Still In Love Song - The Stills
Nowhere Again - Secret Machines
The Rat - The Walkmen
This Is England - The Clash
All Her Favorite Fruit - Camper Van Beethoven

I was with Ex-Lion Tamer through the first four (though there's other strong songs on those, too), but last two I don't find middling at all. Unless "favorites" is the same as middling.

I'm going to get beat up by Haq and mfudge, respectively, for considering the first two albums "middling," but I simply mean the albums are so-so -- not bad:

"Mr. November" - The National
"Black" - Okkervil River
"Sixteen Miliary Wives" - The Decemberists
"The Night Shift Lullaby" - Magnolia Electric Co.
"Kiss You" - Alaska! (possibly my biggest album disappointment of 2005 so far)
"Go It Alone" - Beck

I almost listed "Broadway (So Many People)" by Low, but that album is definitely sub-middling.

The only one I think I'd reconsider it the Camper song, as Key Lime Pie is really a fine album, but IMO "All Her Favorite Fruit" is head and shoulders above the other songs. I certainly stand by The Walkmen album, which I really don't like much.

And do you really think Cut The Crap is more than middling?

"End of Freedom" is probably my least favorite track on the Wilderness album. I think it's a little better than "middling", but the track I would pick from it would easily be "Marginal Over".

I also don't think Multiply is middling at all, just very uneven. I would probably pick the title track as the best song, too.




Now these, with the exception of Low ("sub-middling?", why you--) are what I'd call middling. My pick for Okkervil River would be "For Real", and the best song from the Magnolia Electric Co. album is "Hammer Down", without question. I couldn't give a shit about The Decemberists or Beck.

Its all good, Bobbo. I'm actually surprised it wasn't mentioned earlier in this thread.