well shit i didn't realize this black angels ep was released this year

1. black angels. sniper at the gates of dawn

Wow, I really like most of those you listed as being "Not Even Close". Perhaps you should list more albums that you think suck for my benefit.

Here's an update on mine:

01. Smog - A River Ain't Too Much to Love
02. Orthrelm - OV
03. Iron & Wine/Calexico - In the Reins
04. Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
05. Antony and The Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
06. Wilderness - s/t
07. Serena Maneesh - s/t
08. Low - The Great Destroyer
09. Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
10. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
11. High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
12. Jamie Lidell - Multiply
13. Black Dice - Broken Ear Record
14. The Double - Loose in the Air
15. P:ano - Brigadoon
16. M.I.A. - Arular
17. Need New Body - Where's Black Ben?
18. Animal Collective - Prospect Hummer
19. Angels of Light - The Angels of Light Sing "Other People"
20. OOIOO - Gold and Green


Rough ranking of the other stuff I've bought or just listened to a lot:

Iron & Wine - Woman King
Fântomas - Suspended Animation
Magnolia Electric Co. - Hard to Love a Man
Six Organs of Admittance - School of Flower
Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World
M. Ward - Transistor Radio
Gang Gang Dance - God's Money
Magnolia Electric Co. - What Comes After the Blues
Mike Ladd - Negrophilia
Autechre - Untilted
Populous - Queue for Love
Mouthus - Slow Globes
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Magnolia Electric Co. - Trials and Errors
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
13 & God - s/t
Pajo - s/t
Jackie-O Motherfucker/My Cat Is an Alien - From the Earth to the Spheres Vol. 3


Stuff I like, but haven't listened enough:

Franz Ferdinand
Devendra Banhart
Wolf Parade
Odd Nosdam
My Morning Jacket
Venetian Snares
Jesu
Andrew Bird
Prefuse 73 - Reads the Books
Dirty Three
The Mountain Goats

Good boy...





This isn't grabbing me. eBay, here we come.





It's quite shocking to me that people aren't loving this album.



Oh, and RolledMeat, I take that as a compliment.

Yeah, I'm kinda disappointed. I was hoping their last album was a sign of greater things to come, but that's not the case. Still, I like this more than a lot of other stuff right now.




I dunno. There's nothing that even comes close to "Sad, Sad Song", "Helicopter", "Undertaker", or his cover of "Let's Dance". I also don't like the production or arrangements as much.

The Following CD's are up for consideration for my End of Year - Best of List...

These are nt in order. All are 2005 releases. I have left out album titles, cause im lazy.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The Godz
Vendetta Red
Antimatter
Blindside
Warlocks
Deadman
30 Seconds to Mars
Our Lady Peace
Bruce Dickinson
Gospel
Torche
Louis XIV
Nine INch Nails
Finch
Raveonettes
13 + God
Beautiful Creatures
Bear vs Shark
Blanche
From Autumn to Ashes
Forecast
Boys NIght Out
Hopewell
Goathorn
Soilwork
Reggie + Full Effect
Open Hand
Extol
Dead Meadow
No Warning
Hot Hot Heat
Black Mountain (likely #1)
Wedsnday 13

Sorry Dov, but that Raveonettes album has got to be a candidate for Worst Album of the Year. And I loved their debut album.

it prob wont make top 20 after all the other stuff that came out, but i dug it regardless!

I dig it too. There's nothing on it as insanely catchy at "Heartbreak Stroll" but I think it's a more cohesive, solid album from start to end. I love "Here Comes Mary".


I also just picked up BRMC's "Howl" and on first listen I think it's damn good. More bastardized delta blues direction and less JAMC rip off. "Ain't No Easy Way" is a boot stomping jam.

I don't get some of the reviews that are bashing for not being what they wanted it to be. I think it's the perfect record for them to make right now.

Derris, I'm with you. Howl is very good, and I thought they needed to make a direction change.

I just got this yesterday from Loogs. I think it sounds pretty cool as well. Can't wait to give it some more time.

And I still don't have any sort of list. Sorry, Chris.

It's OK if you don't have a prepared list but can you post some of your favorite albums so far? I just like to see what everyone is listening to.


As for the new BRMC, I'm quite intrigued by the new sound but I'm also being cautious. I keep seeing it at the record store but never seem eager to pick it up.

2005 list update:

01) "picaresque" the decemberists
02) "cold roses" ryan adams & the cardinals
03) "illinois" sufjan stevens
04) "i'm wide awake, it's morning" bright eyes
05) "nashville" josh rouse
06) "twin cinema" the new pornographers
07) "digital ash in a digital urn" bright eyes
08) "silent alarm" bloc party
09) "a certain trigger" maximo park
10) "gimme fiction" spoon

just outside:
11) "frances the mute" the mars volta
12) "the mysterious production of eggs" andrew bird
13) "the sunset tree" the mountain goats
14) "black sheep boy" okkervil river
15) "i am a bird now" antony & the johnsons
16) "begonias" caitlin cary & thad cockrell
17) the magic numbers
18) "late registration" kanye west
19) "the documentary" the game
20) "plans" death cab for cutie

august entries that still have a good chance of cracking the top 20:

"pixel revolt" john vanderslice
"z" my morning jacket

upcoming releases with a good chance:

"september" ryan adams & the cardinals
"10 the hard way" outkast
"29" ryan adams

(still not much love for the chicks, but i think i'll try out that new rachel stevens. any suggestions?)

ok, I'll play:

Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Andrew Bird - Mysterious Production.....
Black Mountain - s/t
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake
Bruce Springsteen - Devils and Dust
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Magnolia Electric Co. - What Comes After....
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Ryan Adams - Cold Roses (mainly disc 2)
Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth

still spending time with:
Rolling Stones
Lucero
My Morning Jacket
The Oranges Band
Oasis
Josh Rouse
the new Ryan Adams
Ike Reilly
plus a bunch more

Thanks Christos...

These are all albums I've bought this year (not all the albums I've bought, though).

Favorites so far:

Okkerville River - Black Sheep Boy
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - S/T
Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
Deceberists - Picaresque
The National - Alligator
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Sleater Kinney - The Woods
Eels - Blinking Lights
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Deathray Davies - The Kick and the Snare

Most disappointing:
Foo Fighters -In Your Honor (what did I expect?)
Teenage Fanclub - Man-Made
Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman
Stellastarr* - Harmonies for the Haunted
Doves - Some Cities

Most overrated:
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Low - The Great Destroyer

Low - The Great Destroyer
Josh Rouse - Nasheville
Shou Out Louds - Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Coralie Clement - Bye Bye Beaute
Spoon - Gimme Fiction*
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t*
Lucksmiths - warmer corners *
Eluvium - Talk amongst the trees*
Sigur ros - Takk*

*Possible top 3

still have a few more releases and spins to consider so a bump could happen anytime, any spot

need more spins on:

Ryan Adams
Raveonettes (despite the jeering)
AmAnSet
Broken Social Scene
Goldfrapp
Echo & the Bunnymen
Lowlights

Up-to-date (My Top 20)....

01. ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS - I Am A Bird Now
02. ANDREW BIRD - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
03. M. WARD - Transistor Radio
04. LANGHORNE SLIM - When The Sun's Gone Down
05. CARIBOU - The Milk of Human Kindness
06. IRON & WINE / CALEXICO - In The Reins EP
07. HOLOPAW - Quit +/or Fight
08. THE RUSSIAN FUTURISTS - Our Thickness
09. SPOON - Gimme Fiction
10. THE MOUNTAIN GOATS - The Sunset Tree
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11. LOW - The Great Destroyer
12. OOIOO - Gold And Green
13. THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - Twin Cinema
14. P:ANO - Brigadoon
15. OF MONTREAL - The Sunlandic Twins
16. EELS - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
17. ELECTRELANE - Axes
18. ENON - Lost Marbles and Exploded Evidence
19. XIU XIU - La Foret
20. MICE PARADE - Bem-Vinda Vontade

Still need more listens or on-order...
DEVENDRA BANHART, BELLE & SEBASTIAN, VETIVER, IRON & WINE

Not even close...
OKKERVIL RIVER, BRITISH SEA POWER, SLEATER-KINNEY, ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET, STEREO TOTAL, KINGS OF LEON, SOULWAX, OASIS, THE RAVEONETTES, MERCURY REV, BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY & MATT SWEENEY, THE FRAMES,
CORALIE CLEMENT, MARBLES, CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH, THE MOST SERENE REPUBLIC, FOG, THIEVERY CORPORATION, SOUTH SAN GABRIEL,
THE DOUBLE

interesting couplets -- bird eggs, milk & wine, twin cinema of oo.oo ...

Oops, totally forgot about that Antimatter album, that was good...going to have to go back and revisit...

Lots of overlap here. I get a lot of my ideas from yous guys. Here are my faves, in no particular order:

Editors
13 & God
Spoon
British Sea Power
Kings of Leon
Decemberists
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Matisyahu
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Mars Volta
John Butler Trio
Wolf Parade
Calla

Bump...

1. Sunburned Hand of the Man-Complexion
2. D. Yellow Swans-Demonic Yellow Swans
3. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti- Worn Copy
4. OCS-3&4
5. Animal Collective-Prospect Hummer
6. Six Organs of Admittance-School of the Flower
7. Fursaxa-Lepidoptera
8. MV and EE Medicine Show-Moon Jook
9. M. Ward-Transistor Radio
10. Comets On Fire/Burning Star Core-(no title to the best of my knowledge)
11. Xiu Xiu-La Foret
12. Eluvium-Talk Amongst the Trees
13. Akron Family-s/t
14. Jaga Jazzist- What We Must
15. Devendra Banhart-Cripple Crow
16. Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney-Superwolf
17. Islaja- Palaa Aurinkoon
18. Angels of Light-Sing Other People
19. Iron and Wine-Woman King EP
20. Black Dice-Broken Ear Record

What's this like? I really liked the White Rock record they did with Double Leopards but haven't checked this out yet.

Nice list you got there, kochalka.