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Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Merge) 38%  38%  [ 20 ]
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (Matador) 4%  4%  [ 2 ]
Massive Attack - Mezzanine (Virgin) 8%  8%  [ 4 ]
Belle and Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap (Matador) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs (V2) 8%  8%  [ 4 ]
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Air - Moon Safari (Source/Caroline) 4%  4%  [ 2 ]
Spoon - A Series of Sneaks (Elektra) 6%  6%  [ 3 ]
Outkast - Aquemini (La Face) 9%  9%  [ 5 ]
Other - Please Specify 25%  25%  [ 13 ]
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damn, i originally picked moon safari, but i overlooked mezzanine. mezzanine is THE massive attack imho.

also moon safari & aquemini are good.

these are also great:

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# Elliott Smith - XO
# Beck * Mutations (Geffen)
# Sunny Day Real Estate * How It Feels To Be Something On (Sub Pop)
# Death Cab For Cutie * Something About Airplanes (Barsuk)
# Belle & Sebastion * The Boy With the Arab Strap (Matador)
# moodyMANN * silentintroduction (planet e)
# Fatboy Slim * You've Come A Long Way, Baby (Astralw%rks)
# Propellerheads * Decksanddrumsandrockandroll (Wall)
# U.N.K.L.E. * Psyence Fiction (PGD)
# Black Eyed Peas * Behind The Front (Interscope) [the only good bep album]
# Morcheeba * Big Calm (Sony)

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this thread reminds me i need to acquire "deserter's songs"

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1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

2. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
3. Cat Power - Moon Pix
4. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
5. Boredoms - Super Ae
6. Mouse on Mars - Glam
7. Amon Tobin - Permutation
8. Air - Moon Safari
9. Dirty Three - Ocean Songs
10. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs


Incredible year for music. And the best album ever that I only bought because I liked the cover art.


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Ani DiFranco - Little Plastic Castle
One of her best. Although the album cover is atrocious.

Beck - Mutations
Great hangover album. This album (along with a couple Croissanwiches) nursed me back to health following a Tequila bender that year.

Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
I brought this one out a month or two ago and it still holds up well.

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I do love a lot of those albums, NMH and Mercury Rev and all the rest, but gotta go with Cat Power and Moon Pix. Always been a big favorite and just seems so perfect. And has such a story to tell behind it, with being shipped off to Aussieland to record with the Dirty Three, and the dreams invading her sanity, and the uncertainty, and her Smog guy. Almost therapeutic. "Colors and the Kids" really should be considered a classic, if it isn't. And "Metal Heart", where she weaves in those lines from "Amazing Grace", is just so perfect, like it was written all along just for it. Beautiful album.

But lately, like for the last year, I've really been feeling it for that Richard Davies Telegraph album. Severely underappreciated. And I do love the Silver Jews, and I do love American Water. And the brilliant and timeless acoustic collaboration between Sengalese star Baaba Maal and blind singer/guitarist Mansour Seck was reissued in 1998 too, and almost instantly became one of my alltime favorites. But I guess that's not a fair pick since it did see an initial release on cassette or something in the 80s. Great stuff though.


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Some of my favourites from what looks like a very strong year (Tori Amos is in there 2ce for some reason):
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# The Black Heart Procession * 1 (Cargo)
# Tortoise * TNT (Thrill Jockey)
# The Notwist * Shrink (Zero Hour)
# Lhasa * La Llorona (Atlantic)
# Godspeed You Black Emperor! * f#a# (infinity) (Kranky)
# The Eels * Electro-Shock Blues (Dreamworks)
# Opeth * My Arms, Your Hearse (Century Media)
# Calexico * The Black Light (Quarterstick)
# Firewater * The Ponzi Scheme (Jetset)
# Monster Magnet * Powertrip (A&M)
# Trans Am * The Surveillance (Thrill Jockey)
# Dirty Three * Ocean Songs (Touch & Go)
# Snowpony * The Slow-Motion World (Radioactive)
# Girls Against Boys * Freak*On*Ica (Geffen)
# Garbage * Version 2.0 (Almo Sounds)
# Tori Amos * From The Choirgirl Hotel (Atlantic)
# Tori Amos * From The Choirgirl Hotel (Atlantic)
# God Lives Underwater * Life in teh So-Called Space Age (1500)
# Mark Hollis (Polydor)
# Hooverphonic * Blue Wonder Power Milk (Epic)
# Legendary Pink Dots * Nemesis On-Line (Soleilmoon)
# Love And Rockets * Lift (Red Ant)
# Pan-American (Kranky)
# Third Eye Foundation * You Guys Kill Me (Merge/Touch & Go)

Pressed, I'd probably pick Garbage, but I only recently discovered Lhasa's first album, and I like it as much as her second (The Living Road), and Notwist's album from that year is killer (it's more of the hybrid guitar rock that they perform live than just the glitchy electronica stuff on Neon Golden plus some very Van Morrison-y jazz break stuff).

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I didn't even notice Version 2.0. There must be 20 albums from 1998 which I would rank number 1 in 2005.


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Dusty Chalk Wrote:
I only recently discovered Lhasa's first album, and I like it as much as her second (The Living Road)


Interesting. The Living Road was my favorite album of last year but I never did buy her first album. I was going to pick it up, but when I saw her live I didn't like the songs off it as much. You think it's just as good though?

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I only recently discovered Lhasa's first album, and I like it as much as her second (The Living Road)


Interesting. The Living Road was my favorite album of last year but I never did buy her first album. I was going to pick it up, but when I saw her live I didn't like the songs off it as much. You think it's just as good though?
Really? That's why I bought it. I thought that live version of one of the songs was my favourite of the night. I do think it's as good -- they're almost interchangeable. It doesn't have any English-language songs, and it doesn't have anything like "Anywhere On This Road" or "Soon This Space Will Be Too Small", but if you like the rest of the songs on the album, you should like this one, too.

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Dusty Chalk Wrote:
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I only recently discovered Lhasa's first album, and I like it as much as her second (The Living Road)


Interesting. The Living Road was my favorite album of last year but I never did buy her first album. I was going to pick it up, but when I saw her live I didn't like the songs off it as much. You think it's just as good though?
Really? That's why I bought it. I thought that live version of one of the songs was my favourite of the night. I do think it's as good -- they're almost interchangeable. It doesn't have any English-language songs, and it doesn't have anything like "Anywhere On This Road" or "Soon This Space Will Be Too Small", but if you like the rest of the songs on the album, you should like this one, too.


I think what happened was I read a mediocre review of the first album which caused me to listen to some clips rather than just automatically buying it. Listening to clips online is always dangerous because: a) they're short clips; and b) you're listening through mediocre speakers at low volume, but I wasn't that impressed with the songs. Then I saw her live at an instore and it was just a short set with maybe one or two songs only off the first album but they didn't overcome my negative impression. I'll probably look to pick it up now based on your recommendation. I think her songs are growers anyway.

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I'm just glad to see no one voted for Laurgyn Hill


word. an album that caused me to break ties with people that I had once considered friends.

Utter. Fucking. Garbage.


Boy, then i bet you would just LOVE her unplugged fiasco. :)
Seriously, I'm not sure Miseducation's rep is holding up to its Acclaimed #1 and most Pazz & Jop 1st place votes pedigree. In a reassessment I wonder where it would end up now? You flame out like she has and you're going to get labeled flash in the pan and even your 'classic' isn't going to go unscathed.


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