which is stupid but oh well. maybe it's smart.

i've been compiling and thinking about it all year, and i just don't enjoy things anymore. i have it narrowed down to 100, and was just going to do a top 100 website thing. but it's just ridiculous and i don't want to put time into tinkering with my list and crap when no one really cares, and those who do...it's just like "cool" (which isn't me saying I DESERVE RESPECT, because i don't.) it was just foolish for me to start in the first place.

i've put way too much time into this, and i'm tired of 2005.

voice your opinion either way. friends are about 50/50 on the issue.

top 100 alphabetically

Akron-Family - Self-Titled
Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche A Bamako
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
Animal Collective - Feels
Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
August Born - Self-Titled
Balkan Beat Box - Balkan Beat Box
Beanie Sigel - The B. Coming
Bell Orchestre - Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light
Birchville Cat Motel - Chi Vampires
Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Brazilian Girls - Brazilian Girls
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
Broken Social Scene - Self-Titled
Bun-B - Trill
Cage - Hell's Winter
Cold Bleak Heat
Colleen - The Golden Morning Breaks
Common - Be
CYNE - Evolution Fight
Dalek - Absence
Dangerdoom - The Mouse And The Mask
Deaf Center - Pale Ravine
Deerhoof - The Runners Four
Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
Dirty Three - Cinder
Dreadful Yawns - Dreadful Yawns
Edan - Beauty & The Beat
Eluvium - Talk Amongst The Trees
Fantomas - Suspended Animation
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine (Retail)
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better With Franz Ferdinand
Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
Harris Newman - Accidents With Nature And Each Other
Heavy Trash - Self-Titled
High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings
Hood - Outside Closer
In The Country - This Was The Pace Of My Heartbeat
Jack Rose - Kensington Blues
Jamie Lidell - Multiply
Jesu - Jesu
Johann Johannson - Dis
Josh Rouse - Nashville
Juelz Santana - What The Game's Been Missing
Julien Neto - Le Femeur De Ciel
Kano - Home Sweet Home
Kanye West - Late Registration
Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Konono No. 1 - Congotronics
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
Little Brother - The Minstrel Show
Louis Attaque - A Plus Tard Crocodile
M. Ward - Transister Radio
Marissa Nadler - The Saga Of Mayflower May
Mariza - Transparente
Mountains - Self-Titled
My Morning Jacket - Z
Neil Diamond - 12 Songs
Nora Keyes - Songs To Cry By For The Golden Age Of No
Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
Ohmega Watts - The Find
OOIOO - Gold & Green
Otomo
Paavoharju - Yha Hamaraa
Part Chimp - I Am Come
Porn Sword Tobacco - Explains Freedom
Quasimoto - Further Adventures Of Lord Quas
Richard Hawley - Cole's Corner
Robbie Fulks - Georgia Hard
Robyn - Self-Titled
Roll Deep - In At The Deep End
Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine
Ryan Adams - Cold Roses/Jacksonville
Sam Prekop - Who's Your New Professor
Shining
Shugo Tokumaru - LST
Sigur Ros - Takk
Six Organs Of Admittance - School Of The Flower
Slim Thug - Already Platinum
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Sunn O))) - Black 1
Susumu Yokota - Symbol
The Decemberists - Picaresque
The Kills - No Wow
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
The Perceptionists - Black Dialogue
The Rocket Summer - Hello Good Friend
The USA Is A Monster - Wohaw
Tonedeff - Archetype
Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering
We Are Wolves - Non-Stop Je Te Plie En Deux
Why? - Elephant Eyelash
Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
XXL - Ciautistico
Yann Tiersen - Les Retrouvailles
Yesterday's New Quintet - Sound Directions
Young Jeezy - Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101

i guess you're talking about ranking them 1-100? yeah i wouldn't want to do that either.

i've pretty much already ranked them.

i'm talking about that little site i put together last year and the year before, like music websites have, with reviews and all that.

im done with this.

first submitted shmoo list:

here's my top 20:
1. why? - elephant eyelash
2. jesu - jesu
3. jack rose - kensington blues
4. broken social scene - s/t
5. sunn 0))) - black one
6. ryan adams - jacksonville city nights
7. animal collective - feels
8. slim thug - already platinum
9. devendra banhart - cripple crow
10. xxl - ciautistico
11. lightning bolt - hypermagic mountain
12. common - be
13. mountain goats - sunset tree
14. sigur ros - takk
15. dalek - absence
16. birchville cat motel - chi vampires
17. m. ward - transistor radio
18. konono no. 1 - congotronics
19. brazilian girls - s/t
20. sam prekop - who's your new professor?

2005 doesn't deserve a top 50 list.

it deserves a Top 100.

Yeah contra, your list last year was impressive in scope, and it looked like it took a LOT of work. I just do my shmoo poll, enter my top 25 on amazon with one line for each, and leave it at that.

i keep going back and forth. I think alot of good music came out this year. I've started my list (started with about 100) started parring them down to 25 and realized that compared to music in the past, this years output in the context of history is pretty weak.

Here's my Top 40 as of Nevember 15

1) dalek – absence
2) jesu – jesu
3) farm fresh – time is running out
4) orthrelm – ov
5) m.i.a. – arular
6) clipse – we got it 4 cheap, pt. 2
7) odd nosdam – burner
8) mouthus - slow globes
9) deerhoof - the runner's four
10) father’s day – spank the world
11) growing – his return
12) animal collective - feels
13) quasimoto – the further adventures of lord quas
14) alvo noto + ryuichi sakamoto – insen
15) mannie fresh – the mind of mannie fresh
16) blueprint – 1988
17) mike jones - who is mike jones?
18) lichens – the psychic nature of being
19) lcd soundsystem – lcd soundsystem
20) gate to gate – i turn black keys
21) paul wall - the people's champ
22) konono no. 1 - congotronics
23) oren ambarchi - triste
24) why? – sanddollars, the ep
25) excepter – throne
26) sage francis – a healthy distrust
27) mary gauthier – mercy now
28) antony and the johnsons – i am a bird now
29) subtitle – young dangerous heart
30) black dahlia murder - miasma
31) lightning bolt – hypermagic mountain
32) princess superstar – my machine
33) the perceptionists – the perceptionists
34) felipe and forte - shaggy black
35) supersystem – always never again
36) eluvium – talk amongst the trees
37) big bear – big bear
38) opeth – ghost reveries
39) wolf parade – apologies to the queen mary
40) slim thug – already platinum

Konono No. 1 needs more time with me.

edit: nm

Once I FIND a copy of the XXL album, I will be done with 2005. I NEED to find a copy of that album.

Whatever, dude, I'd read your site. I like your taste, and might discover something new by it, whereas by simply looking at your list I might not.

A lot of other good stuff on your list, too, but I'm particularly glad to see more support for these two.

I never heard of 90% of Whiney's list.

Do the website Contradiction. Although doing the list, would be a contradiction of what you said you aren't going to do, so maybe it is a good idea to live up to your screen name and contradict yourself.

oh i hate this username, too.

This and his girlfriend's project Esmerine will make my top 10 likely.

There's a bunch on yours and Whiney's list that I'd like to hear. Can I make YSI/AIM requests/trade propositions?

y eah im always down to aim you something, im just going to work now. so you'd have to wait.

Wonderful. AIM: jayellesque

Is there a proper release for this...all I've got is a somewhat crappy webrip.

I was really impressed with the website last year and it did help me reevaluate some of my takes on certain things.

Alas, it'll be hard for me to come up with a Top 10 for '05, let alone a Top 50. I understand that there's an art and desire to the ranking/eval thing (even if you don't necessarily really like the records), but that's just not something I feel compelled to do anymore.

The man has a nice website. Aw c'mon... what better you gotta do over Thanksgiving?

Yay! Finally, someone other than me actually heard this album and liked it, at least somewhat...

I don't think I can be bothered to rank more than 20.... Though Deerhoof and the Sunn0))) will probably be on mine...

I'll be done with '05 if they finally release A Son Unique... I mean, what's the holdup with that think, anyways?

Top 4 (probably): Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree, Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers, Ryan Adams - Cold Roses, Circle - Tuliktoria...

any farther than that pre-Turkey day'd just be guessing...

Stalk Bort. Why do you ask?