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I like how different my list is from everyone else's. :lol:
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nikki4982 wrote:I like how different my list is from everyone else's. :lol:


My list has some similarities to yours :nod:

I really haven't bought a lot of CDs this year... but here's goes:

Our Lady Peace - Healthy In Paranoid Times
Green Day - Bullet In A Bible
Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth
OK Go - Oh No
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Matthew Good - In A Coma

Also, released last year but I purchased this year:
U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

(going to another U2 concert tonight - can't wait!!)

I was planning to list all of the pop crap that I hate instead, but I just couldn't do it in case someone took me seriously!
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bovine wrote:What are your 10 favorite albums of 2005? They could be in order or not. Mine are in order, as best I could...it was tough though!

1. The Bad Plus – Suspicious Activity?
2. Our Lady Peace – Healthy In Paranoid Times
3. Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine
4. The Duhks – The Duhks
5. Laura Veirs – Year Of Meteors
6. Ben Folds – Songs For Silverman
7. Jamie Cullum – Catching Tales
8. Dave Matthews Band – Stand Up
9. Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth
10. Tori Amos – The Beekeeper

I don't think there's any other CDs coming out this year that I'm really waiting for, but I guess this could get updated in the next month...I doubt it though!

:::troy:::


UPDATE!

David Garza's self-titled CD definately makes my top 10 of the year. Let's see...I'll probably put it as...#7 pushing numbers 7 8 and 9 each down one. Poor Tori...I guess she gets bumbed down to "honerable mention"

For those who haven't heard of him, check his website out at http://www.davidgarza.com where you can download a whole EP for free! I didn't even know who he was until I saw him open for Fiona Apple last night. Great show all the way around. David has a really unique sound...check him out!

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10) silver mount zion - horses in the sky
9) smog - a river ain't too much to love
8) bonnie "prince" billy and matt sweeney - superwolf
7) kanye west - late registration
6) stephen malkmus - face the truth
5) six organs of admittance - school of the flower
4) silver jews - tanglewood numbers
3) wolf parade - apologies to the queen mary
2) animal collective - feels
1) sufjan stevens - come on! feel the illinoise!

i need to listen to a few more albums, but for now this'll do.
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I'm not sure if I have bought ten albums this year, so I'll just do my best.

In no particular order, other than the order I think of them

Ben Folds - Songs For Silverman
Our Lady Peace - Healthy In Paranoid Times
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Boa - Get There

and, um...
crap.
I just wanna get out,
Stuck inside of this.
Waiting for something else,
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lora wrote:10) silver mount zion - horses in the sky
9) smog - a river ain't too much to love
8) bonnie "prince" billy and matt sweeney - superwolf
7) kanye west - late registration
6) stephen malkmus - face the truth
5) six organs of admittance - school of the flower
4) silver jews - tanglewood numbers
3) wolf parade - apologies to the queen mary
2) animal collective - feels
1) sufjan stevens - come on! feel the illinoise!

i need to listen to a few more albums, but for now this'll do.


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So...not a lot of great albums came out this year, imho.

My list would include
Motion City Soundtrack - Commit this to Memory
Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
The Academy Is... - Almost Here
Green Day - Bullet in a Bible
Boys Night Out - Train Wreck
Panic! at the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
and the newest Metric album who's title I can't remember.

They arn't really in any order other than when I thought of them. But not a whole lot impressed me this year. And I'm sort of surprised that OLP made it on to so many peoples lists. I enjoyed the album but I don't think I've listened to it in about a month or so. I wouldn't call it one of the best of 05 anyway.
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i agree. i've bough about 15 new ones this year and none of them would make my top ten i don't think.
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I'd like to update my list and add Death Cab's "Plans" to my list. I put off listening to it untill a few days ago because I heard it was rather sub-par in comparision to "Transatlanticism" but now that I've listened to it, I dare say that I like it just as much as "Transatlanticism."
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i thought it was a weak effort from them. still not bad though...
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ah, and Marching Bands and What Sarah Said are incredible
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Arcade Fire - Funeral

(even though it came out in 2004)

I am IN LOVE with this album.
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starseed_10 wrote:i thought it was a weak effort from them. still not bad though...


Really? I think its some of the best music I've heard all year. A nice suprise really.
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Random Name wrote:
and the newest Metric album who's title I can't remember.

They arn't really in any order other than when I thought of them. But not a whole lot impressed me this year. And I'm sort of surprised that OLP made it on to so many peoples lists. I enjoyed the album but I don't think I've listened to it in about a month or so. I wouldn't call it one of the best of 05 anyway.


metric's new album = live it out

um and yah i wouldnt really call olp one of the year's best either, but i couldn't think of enough albums to fill the 10.. :oops:

uhhh and... i thought this year was pretty good. at least better than last year. but i think thats only because of the new broken social scene and various concerts hahaha
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Joe Cooler wrote:
starseed_10 wrote:i thought it was a weak effort from them. still not bad though...


Really? I think its some of the best music I've heard all year. A nice suprise really.


to be fair i was expecting HUGE things. and it's a good album, just not to that extent.

it's like ben got too good at poetic writing and it all sounds so refined and similar.
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i was expecting something huge too haha
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i think i've only bought one album this year that was released this year. being hipt. i'll look later, maybe i did get something else...
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Oh my GOD.

Today I heard Antony & The Johnsons album I Am A Bird Now, and I am completely enthralled by it.

It rivals Illinois for first place in my books. EVERYONE download it, PLEASE.
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antony and the johnsons :drool:
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I think I gave it a shot and didn't like the vocals.
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