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[distantmantra]

Set Yourself on Fire is amazing. Someday I'll see Stars. Someday.

If I have my way, Stars will be playing my wedding in Omaha next summer. We're sending them a wedding invite seeing how they're "our band." I took my fiance to a BSS/Stars show on our first date, and we've seen them three times since. Not like they'd actually come to some weird 20-something couple's wedding, but one can always dream.

 

[Timo]

oo shit, m83. oh goodness.

 

[Diablos]

If I have my way, Stars will be playing my wedding in Omaha next summer. We're sending them a wedding invite seeing how they're "our band." I took my fiance to a BSS/Stars show on our first date, and we've seen them three times since. Not like they'd actually come to some weird 20-something couple's wedding, but one can always dream.

That would be so awesome if they played.

 

[hXc_thugg]

If I have my way, Stars will be playing my wedding in Omaha next summer. We're sending them a wedding invite seeing how they're "our band." I took my fiance to a BSS/Stars show on our first date, and we've seen them three times since. Not like they'd actually come to some weird 20-something couple's wedding, but one can always dream.

I'll be at that wedding.

 

[Diablos]

I'll be at that wedding.

lolz.

We'll redefine the meaning of being a wedding crasher, mwahahaha

 

[LordMaji]

Bell woods, I still stand by the fact that, despite your seemingly impeccable knowledge on the subject, you have the WORST (not to mention most pretentious) taste in music of anyone. ever. well, except Lord Maji, but he is a joke character.

And I'll do my top 10 list tonight.

:lol
your right!

I'm Stampy Mouse The Crazy Cat!

hrmm, that makes no sense... oh well I suck!

 

[enjoy bell woods]

:lol
your right!

I'm Stampy Mouse The Crazy Cat!

hrmm, that makes no sense... oh well I suck!

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

 

[swoon]

Sunlandic Twins was all right. I guess it'd make some kind of list, but I don't honestly plan on making a comprehensive one or giving it serious effort.

do it.

plus it will help make the thread somewhat readable.

 

[distantmantra]

lolz.

We'll redefine the meaning of being a wedding crasher, mwahahaha

One problem with that plan. None of our friends are single, so your chances of getting lucky in a broom closet are slim to none.

 

[Diablos]

ha

 

[TheMissingLink]

I missed Stars because their show in Portland sold out before I realized they were gonna be here, but I hear they're absolutely amazing live.

Good luck, distantmantra! That would be so damn cool.

 

[Andy787]

AotY: The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan.

 

[7Th]

My favorites:

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Sunn O))) - Black One
Red Sparrowes - At the Soundless Dawn
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us

Runner Ups:

Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
Iron & Wine along with Calexico - In the Reigns
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Sigur Rós - Takk

 

[Chairman85]

A Wilhelm Scream - Ruiner

 

[Liu Kang Baking A Pie]

What a stupid album cover.

 

[Outdoor Miner]

Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw

 

[enjoy bell woods]

What a stupid album cover.

What an awful poster.

 

[Grimmy]

My Favourites this year:

1. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
2. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
3. Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
4. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
5. Sigur Ros - Takk
6. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
7. System of a Down - Hypnotize/Mesmerize
8. Gorillaz - Demon Days
9. Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
10. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
11. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
12. 8-Bit Weapon - Vaporware Soundtrack
13. Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
14. The Cardigans - Super Extra Gravity
15. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
16. Billy Corgan - TheFutureEmbrace
17. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
18. Beck - Guero (limited edition)
19. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
20. The Chemical Brothers - Push the Button

 

[Lambtron]

I don't have time to get my whole thing ready, so I'm going to post some of my top albums, and uh, maybe other things I'm thinking about adding.

The top albums is gonna look something like this:

Dälek - Absense
Okkervil River - Black-Sheep Boy
Deerhoof - The Runners Four
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
Angels of Light - Sing "Other People"
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

I'll add a couple more to make it 10 and add some runner-ups I suppose. I'm an obsessive list maker. I need to let the new Jackie-O Motherfucker stew a bit, though, because I really really liked it my first couple of listens, so that my shake things up...

I think I'm also going to do lists of my top 5 songs for the year, and my top 5 album art/packaging things.

Also, look for a special ode to Shinola, Vol. 1 by Ween as I can't fairly count it as an "album" per se. It rules, though.

 

[MrAngryFace]

Listening to some tracks from the Jenny Lewis album, rox.

 

[Jewbacca]

John Mayer Trio- Try! is my album of the year.

 

[BobbyRobby]

The only new albums I listened to this year are Make Believe, Get Behind me Satan, and Chaos & Creation in the Backyard. If I had to rate them, I'd say:

White Stripes- Get Behind Me Satan
Paul McCartney- Chaos and Creation.....
Weezer- Make Believe

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

Sunn O))) - Black One

Awesome. Good to see somebody else here rocking the drone metal.

 

[kablooey]

I think it's still too early to be doing these lists. That said, I'll try to have one ready soon. Don't really know what it'll look like...this year's been pretty chaotic musically, and nothing really stuck out all that much for me. And there're still some albums I need to hear.

 

[vatstep]

8) Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Look... I've never heard music like this before. It's loud, raunchy, and most of all... it's rockin'. I wish I was as cool as Lightning Bolt, because this album just does it for me. Hypermagic Mountain... not so much.

Hypermagic Mountain is worth it for "Megaghost" alone. That song destroys.

 

[fart]

PLACEHOLDER

ps, i hate lightning bolt

 

[Son of Godzilla]

Heh, I was gonna start bitching about how 2005 kinda blew, but then I start glancing over these lists and I'm seeing a bunch of great stuff that for some reason I thought came out years ago.

 

[kablooey]

My personal ten... well... I have a confession: I just got into music a littler over two years ago, so this year (in particular) I really caught up with the music I missed out on in the eighteen years of my life. So my top albums of this year are... (next year will be 2006 releases exclusively).

3) Radiohead - Kid A
I admit... I had no idea who Radiohead was before 2005. Up until late 2003, I was a total and utter japan-o-fag, and I listen to nothing but L'Arc~en~Ciel, so hearing that these guys made two AMAZING albums that are loved by all around the world... I was a little intimdated. It turns out Kid A sucked me in and never let me out. One of my true favorites.

4) Radiohead - OK Computer
Same story as above.

Y'know, I was just listening to OK Computer again for the first time in a long while, and realized how much the music 'scene' has dropped off since then. There's nothing out right now from this year that even comes close to matching OK Computer or Kid A. Things were going reasonably well in the first couple years of this decade, but since then, it's been all down hill. It's kind of depressing to think about. (Or maybe I'm just full of shit...)

 

[Juice]

AOTY:

The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree: The third all studio tMG album, and they sound more comfortable here than the previous two. John's lyrics are as awesome as they have always been (standouts include "Pale Green Things", "This Year"). The addition of Erik Friedlander and his string quartet in a couple songs ("Dilaudid" in particular) was great. While the Sunset Tree may not be my favorite tMG album, it is still my favorite of the year...unless by some miracle I actually get a hold of Come, Come to the Sunset Tree (vinyl-only release by tMG recorded in John's home with just him and his guitar. Not sure if its done on a tape cassette deck like his old albums. I am pretty sure his old tape wheel grinding deck was put to rest on the shelf after All Hail West Texas), and if C,CttST is as good as I have heard it to be.

Other favorites:

I am not in front of my music stuff, so I'll probably forget a couple albums that came out this year that I enjoyed...

Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The Decemberists - Picaresque
British Sea Power - Open Range
Jandek - Glasgow Sunday
M Ward - Transistor Radio
Deerhoof - Runners Four

My favorite albums this year are, in no particular order...

The Decemberists - Picaresque
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better

Honorable mentions to Beck and The Go! Team.

I LIKE YOU GUYS.

 

[shantyman]

I'm hopelessly out of touch with popular music. Here is what I listened/am listening to:

It's grown on me quite a bit.

Greg Dulli is my favorite artist, ever.

Everything else was not released this year.

EDIT: Don't know how I for got this one:

 

[Justin85]

Semi-relatedly, does anyone know where I can download the leaked Brion-produced version of FA's new album? I've checked the usual torrent sites, but I can't find it. Thanks.

 

[Diablos]

Semi-relatedly, does anyone know where I can download the leaked Brion-produced version of FA's new album? I've checked the usual torrent sites, but I can't find it. Thanks.

Hmm, you reminded me that I need to add something to my original post.
DO NOT ask for torrents, YSI links, etc. and don't ask for PM's.

If you don't know where to go to download stuff by now, that's your problem.

 

[Idioteque]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

 

[Star Power]

Well, looking back, 2005 wasn't nearly as great as I had thought/hoped, but it was good nonetheless. There defintely weren't that many really strong albums (or at last not as many as I'd anticipated.. there were so many disappointments), but in terms of singles it DESTROYED. Anyway, here are some albums I think deserve mention:

Broadcast - tender buttons. This is easily my #1 album of the year, I think it's pretty much perfect!
Fave songs: "Corporeal," "Black Cat"

Ellen Allien - thrills.
Fave songs: "Magma," "Washing Machine Is Speaking"

Nine Horses - snow borne sorrow.
Fave songs: "wonderful world," "darkest bird"

Richard Hawley - cole's corner.
fave songs: "The Ocean," "I Sleep Alone"

Ladytron - the witching hour.
Fave songs: "Destroy Everything You Touch," "AMTV"

Engineers - engineers.
Fave songs: "How Do You Say Goodbye?"

The Orb - okie dokie.
Fave Songs: "Captain Korma," "Kan Kan"

Herbert - plat du jour.
Fave songs: "White Bread, Brown Bread," "Fatter Slimmer Faster Slower"

Boris - pink.
Fave songs: "electric," "Pink"

Sleeping People - sleeping people.
Fave songs: "Nasty Portion"


And of course Deerhoof, Antony, Fiona, Mr. Wolf, etc. Not a bad year

 

[Guzim]

In no particular order:

1. Gorillaz - Demon Days
Favorite songs: Feel Good Inc. and Demon Days

2. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Favorite songs: Use It and The Bleeding Heart Show

3. Broken Social Scene - self/titled
Favorite songs: 7/4 (Shoreline) and Windsurfing Nation

4. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Favorite songs: Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus and Cassandra Geminni

5. Weezer - Make Believe
Favorite songs: Perfect Situation and Pardon Me

6. Metric - Live It Out
Favorite songs: Empty and Patriach on a Vespa

7. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Favorite songs: Come on! Feel the Illinoise! Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream and Chicago

8. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Favorite songs: Walk Away and You Could Have It So Much Better

9. Beck - Guero
Favorite songs: Girl and Black Tambourine

10. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Favorite songs: Entertain and Let's Call It Love

 

[Star Power]

That "favorite songs" thing is a good idea.. I'll edit that in later.

 

[Meier]

1. oasis - Don't Believe the Truth
2. Stereophonics - Language. Sex. Violence. Other?
3. Coldplay - X&Y
4. Embrace - Out of Nothing (2005 US release)
5. Doves - Some Cities
6. Kasabian - Kasabian
7. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
8. Editors - The Back Room
9. The Boxer Rebellion - Exits
10. Maximo Park - Maximo Park

Runner's Up in no particular order:
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
The Redwalls - De Nova
Nine Black Alps - Everything Is
Beck - Guero
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV
British Sea Power - Open Season
We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor
Supergrass - Road to Rouen
Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft

Most disappointing: The Futureheads and Babyshambles.

Certainly among the top albums of 2006: Arctic Monkeys' release.

 

[sefskillz]

Listen to this album. You are missing out, big time. Incredible album that has been out since January and received no love from gaffers.

Other albums:

Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Decemberists - Picaresque
My Morning Jacket - Z

 

[distantmantra]

Listen to this album. You are missing out, big time. Incredible album that has been out since January and received no love from gaffers.

I saw Black Mountain at an in-store here in Seattle early in 2005, got their album signed, good stuff.... but not good enough in my mind to make my top ten.

 

[Eric Hall]

Mine:

1. Coheed & Cambria: Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: From Fear through the Eyes of Madness
Favorite Song---The Willing Well III: Apollo I: The Telling Truth
2. The Gorillaz: Demon Days
Fav Song----Dare
3. Death Cab for Cutie: Plans
Fav Song-----I Will Follow you into the Dark
4. System of a Down: Hypnotize
Fav Song-----Stealing Society
5. System of a Down: Mezmerize
Fav Song----Sad Statue
6. Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
Fav Song-----Helicopter
7. Danger Doom: The Mouse and the Mask
Fav Song----No Names (Black Debbie)
8. Nine Inch Nails: With Teeth
Fav Song-----The Line Begins to Blur
9. Thrice: Vheissu
Fav Song----Image of the Invisible
10. James Blunt: Back to Bedlam
Fav Song----You're Beautiful
11. Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have Had it so Much Better
Fav Song-----You Could Have Had it so Much Better
12. Coldplay: X&Y
Fav Song----Fix You
13. Team Sleep: s/t
Fav Song-----Blvd Nights
14. The White Stripes: Get Behind me Satan
Fav Song----My Doorbell
15. Audioslave: Out of Exile
Fav Song-----Out of Exile

 

[GG-Duo]

What kind of music does Black Mountain play? I saw a photograph of them in a magazine and they look like bikers... but one of their mp3s sounded eclectic.

btw, separate Singles thread?

 

[sefskillz]

What kind of music does Black Mountain play? I saw a photograph of them in a magazine and they look like bikers... but one of their mp3s sounded eclectic.

eclectic sums it up, i'd say. channeling 70s blues riffs ala sabbath or zeppelin and sometimes feeling like sonic youth and pavement.

http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/druganaut.mp3
http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/heartofsnow.mp3

 

[Suerte]

In no particular order...

Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die
Clor - Clor
Controller.Controller - X-Amounts
Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love
Do Me Bad Things - Yes!
Editors - The Back Room
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better...
Giant Drag - Hearts and Unicorns
Goldfrapp - Supernature
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Juliette & The Licks - Like a Bolt of Lightning..
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Ladytron - Witching Hour
Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
Metric - Live It Out
Nightmare Of You - Nightmare Of You
Numbers - We're Animals
Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
Sons And Daughters - The Repulsion Box
Test Icicles - For Screening Purposes Only
The Chalets - Check In
The Departure - Dirty Words
The Duke Spirit - Cuts Across The Land
The Like - Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking
The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
The Raveonettes - Pretty In Black
We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

Albums to look out for in 2006:
The Long Blondes
Be Your Own Pet
Every Move A Picture
Lots more that I can't remember right now

 

[Outdoor Miner]

Ladytron - the witching hour.
Fave songs: "Destroy Everything You Touch," "AMTV"

Talk about this has been non-existant, and I don't know why. It is IMO, their best work. I neglected to put them in my "list", but they should definitely be there.

Test Icicles - For Screening Purposes Only

Heard these guys on the radio today, and it was a fun song. Thought about the Faint while hearing it. I bet that's what they (Faint) wanted their last record to sound like.

Most disappointing: The Futureheads and Babyshambles.

What did The Futureheads release this year aside from an EP (i LOVE the new song btw)? Are we talking leaks?

 

[Leatherface]

i don't care if it didn't come out this year

it's the best album i found all year.

This album does indeed kick all sorts of ass. :rock:

 

[Timo]

damn right it does.

 

[Meier]

What did The Futureheads release this year aside from an EP?

Oops, I was thinking their record came out in early 05 but I guess it was late 04. I dunno, I just had heard a lot about these guys and got the record and thought it was pretty bad compared to all the other bands theyre compared to (and that I've enjoyed).

 

[Suerte]

The Futureheads took a few months to grow on me, I'd say that you probably have to see them live to fully appreciate how unique they are.

 

[Star Power]

Suerte, add me back to your LJ Friends list!

 

[Suerte]

Suerte, add me back to your LJ Friends list!

I didn't take you off it! Did you change your username?