Favourite album of the year?

bugler · 25-09-2005 7:47pm

No one else has mentioned it yet..

The National - Alligator.

Outstanding.

tywy · 25-09-2005 8:08pm

yeah that's a class album!

tywy · 25-09-2005 8:09pm

John2 wrote:

Forgot about this one. Good album but not for the faint of ear.

I've only heard bits of this live. How does the new full band sound on the record?

Devendra is really good on record with the band. Long haired child is defo a stand out track

Ooly · 25-09-2005 9:45pm

Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
John Frusciante/Josh Klinghoffer - A Sphere in the Heart of Silence
Hal - Hal
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor

secret_squirrel · 25-09-2005 9:56pm

Winter Slide wrote:

I thought Warnings/Promises was last year but if its '05 thats also up there

I third this - its their best yet and it was 2005.

Hard-Fi are getting major playing time from me atm - dont know if they will last tho...

radiospan · 25-09-2005 10:00pm

Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
M.I.A. - Arular
The Chalets - Check In
The Futureheads - The Futureheads
Sigur Ros - takk...

LCD and Vitalic too

PiE · 25-09-2005 10:00pm

Pretty sure 'More Adventurous' was released in '04, good album though.

goo wrote:

I hadn't heard about this, thanks a million. I love "The Fall of Math"

Yup should be out October/November last I heard. They're playing Cork and Belfast next month too, no Dublin gig announced as yet so looks like I'll be making a long trip one way or another.

endoftheline · 26-09-2005 1:21am

art brut
the magic numbers
the futureheads
the arcade fire
fred-makin music so you don't have to

honourable mention to the rulers of the planets latest offering too.

treefingers · 26-09-2005 10:01am

i think 65 days of static's irish gigs have been postponed...

and i completely forgot about wolf parades new album. that deserves a mention too....

PiE · 26-09-2005 12:50pm

treefingers wrote:

i think 65 days of static's irish gigs have been postponed...

Aye, read that last night after posting here. They can't afford to come over

Miguel_Sanchez · 26-09-2005 3:07pm

bugler wrote:

No one else has mentioned it yet..

The National - Alligator.

Outstanding.

Just got introduced to The National recently. I've only heard 'Cherry Tree' - must check out Alligator too. They're like some kind of brilliant cross between Tindersticks and American Music Club.

My albums:

Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
Sigur Ros - Takk

Atrocity · 26-09-2005 4:21pm

my two favourite albums of the year:

roots manuva - awfully deep

beck - guero

Fidelista · 26-09-2005 5:13pm

In a below avaerage year for albums I would say EELS- Blinking lights and other revelations. Yes it is a double album, but there are a few artists who can pull it off, and E is one of them( Dave 'Funnyman' Grohl is not ). It is an album that captures the scope of a person's entire life. from birth to death and all the highs and lows in between.
Class.

dalk · 27-09-2005 3:06pm

Nominated by various people:

The Go! Team - Thunder, lightning strike
The Futureheads - The Futureheads
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous

They were all released in '04 (as far as i can remember)...

Jonny Arson · 28-09-2005 11:21am

dalk wrote:

Nominated by various people:

The Go! Team - Thunder, lightning strike
The Futureheads - The Futureheads
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous

They were all released in '04 (as far as i can remember)...

More Adventurous was released in Ireland this year.

Atrocity · 28-09-2005 11:41am

Fidelista wrote:

In a below avaerage year for albums I would say EELS- Blinking lights and other revelations. Yes it is a double album, but there are a few artists who can pull it off, and E is one of them( Dave 'Funnyman' Grohl is not ). It is an album that captures the scope of a person's entire life. from birth to death and all the highs and lows in between.
Class.

that guy is a legend.. the album is brilliant and i salute your good taste

brian crackout · 28-09-2005 5:00pm

the new Weezer Record, 'Make Believe' is actually very good and wel worth a listen.it has some really catchy and well written songs, notably ' The damage in your Heart', 'Hold Me' or 'This is such a pity'.

just dont approach it with the attitude that 'its not the Blue album or Pinkerton so therefore its sh1t', thats the same predictable way that so called 'Real Weezer Fans' always receive a new weezer record.
'Make Believe'- my album of the year.

ghostdancer · 28-09-2005 5:06pm

Ryan Adams - Cold Roses

Royale with Cheese · 29-09-2005 12:12am

I think it might have been released in 2004, but Arcade Fire's funeral wins it by a mile for me. Also the Futureheads album is brilliant but I'm fairly sure that was 2004 as well. Electric Six's new album is actually very good, it's just not getting any airplay.

lordgoat · 29-09-2005 9:25am

years been pretty ****e for albums, got M.I.A yesterday and it's very hit and miss but i do love Bucky!

lordgoat · 29-09-2005 9:50am

forgot to mention:

sufjan stevens: Illinois - deadly

Ooly · 30-09-2005 7:45pm

dalk wrote:

Nominated by various people:

The Go! Team - Thunder, lightning strike
The Futureheads - The Futureheads
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous

They were all released in '04 (as far as i can remember)...

Yup More Adventurous was only released in Ireland this year & Destroy Rock & Roll has been re-released with bonus songs, so it can still be counted!

dalk · 01-10-2005 3:12pm

Hi...

Yep wasnt too sure when 'More Adventurous' was released here (so January as it turns out and last Summer across the pond)... SO obviously that counts as a 2005 release here...

I dont think re-releases count though.

You'd be able to vote for elvis or something and all the other countless re-releases in any given year... Too confusing

Besides shouldn't it be a crime to sample Kim Carnes and Reel Life in the same song? ...Ack i'm too miserable a bastard to enjoy Mylo...

orangerooster · 01-10-2005 4:35pm

Didnt really think much of the music that came out this year unfortunately but the albums I did really like were:

Bright Eyes: I'm wide awake its morning.
Sigur Rós: Takk...
LCD Soundsytem.

elephamt king · 01-10-2005 8:54pm

Sigur Rós- Takk...
and
Wir Sind Helden - Von Hier An Blind

i adore these albums
plus Pixies are supposedly writing/recording a new album which has to get a mention if just for my excitement/anticipation.

Winter Slide · 02-10-2005 5:03pm

I've been listening to Digital Ash in a Digital Urn by Bright Eyes alot this week and I actually think its better than Wide Awake its Morning. Take it Easy(Love Nothing) and I belive in Symmetry are incredible tracks

tedster · 05-10-2005 11:16pm

has to be ben folds - songs for silverman
Dynamite

smackbunnybaby · 06-10-2005 9:18am

sufjan stevens - illinois by a mile.cant get enough of this album.
roll on alaska!!
also have to make my decision on the depeche mode one which os out soon.
it will be good id say but not worthy of being in the albums of the year..but sure time will tell.

last year i think many people over looked a classic in the form of manic street preachers lifeblood.it is a suberb album.i was expecting nothing from this record but it totally surprised me.

Boo-yah · 06-10-2005 10:29am

Fidelista wrote:

In a below avaerage year for albums I would say EELS- Blinking lights and other revelations. Yes it is a double album, but there are a few artists who can pull it off, and E is one of them( Dave 'Funnyman' Grohl is not ). It is an album that captures the scope of a person's entire life. from birth to death and all the highs and lows in between.
Class.

I agree. It's my favourite album of the year too.

Fidelista wrote:

the new Weezer Record, 'Make Believe' is actually very good and wel worth a listen.it has some really catchy and well written songs, notably ' The damage in your Heart', 'Hold Me' or 'This is such a pity'.

just dont approach it with the attitude that 'its not the Blue album or Pinkerton so therefore its sh1t', thats the same predictable way that so called 'Real Weezer Fans' always receive a new weezer record.
'Make Believe'- my album of the year.

My 2nd favourite album of the year. Severely underrated.

Kali · 06-10-2005 11:12am

architecture in helsinki - in case we die

honorable mentions:

we are scientists - with love and squalor
m83 - before the dawn heals us
sleator kinney - the woods

Favourite album of the year?

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