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Favourite album of the year?

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    #62
    missingtime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,942 ✭✭✭missingtime


    Willy mason - Where the humans eat
    Goldfrapp - Supernature
    Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze

    By the way I bought "Louis XIV-The little best secrets are kept" the last day some good stuff not fully sure what to make of it though. Has anyone heard it


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    #63
    grumpytrousers
    Registered Users Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭grumpytrousers


    For me, has to be The Go Team - Thunder, lightning strike.

    I see a few of you have nominated the Ben Folds album....not bought any of his solo stuff but have all the BFF stuff. Is it similar, or is it all wonky-eyed 'aren't I k-err-azzy' buffoonery all the way? Not saying there's 'owt wrong with the latter, but I'm just hoping for a sequel to Whatever and Ever Amen at the moment...


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    #64
    PiE
    Registered Users Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭PiE


    Kali wrote:
    m83 - before the dawn heals us
    Forgot that came out this year, add that to mine too.

    Wasn't too impressed with Architechture in Helsinki; was fun for a while but that wore off fairly quick.


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    #65
    Altheus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭Altheus


    The Milk-Eyed mender is 2004 btw....

    M83 would be up there certainly, along with Takk, although it's been a weak year. I'm still digging The Decemberists, the reissue of the Futureheads was lovely.

    Although the only record that has yet fallen out of my rotation... Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolf


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    #66
    mentalimplosion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭mentalimplosion


    arcade fire
    MIA
    the rakes
    art brut
    the chalets
    bright eyes (i'm wide awake it's morning)
    sleater-kinney
    bloc party
    LCD soundsystem

    still waiting on the new broken social scene album but the tracks i've heard imply that it'll be by far the bestest of 2005.


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    #67
    goo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭goo


    New BSS is crazy. The drumming's brill.


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    #68
    curtains
    Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭curtains


    The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
    John Frusciante - Curtains (his best cd by a mile, hell, that album would still make it in here if Leap Your Bar was the only song on it)

    I suppose Funeral by the The Arcade Fire was good too (I'm basing that on a live performance though), In Your Honour was okay, but not as good as I had hoped it would be.


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    #69
    Sammy Jennings
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭Sammy Jennings


    This year I have been mostly listening to . . . the Underworld compilation and the Luke Haines retrospective. Both are great, albeit in very different ways.


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    #70
    nlgbbbblth
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    The Fall - Fall Heads Roll


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    #71
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 242 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Bedrock - Layered Sounds 2
    Super Furry Animals - LoveKraft
    Boards of Canada - Campfire Headphase
    dEUS - pocket revolution
    :)


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    #72
    Jimi-Spandex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭Jimi-Spandex


    Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
    Arcade Fire - Funeral (granted this was released in 04 in canada/us)
    Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
    Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
    Franz Ferdinand - You could have it so much better
    Goldfrapp - Supernature
    Editors - The Back Room

    Wouldn't really like to decide an aboslute fave, these are my favourite this year though


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    #73
    Jimi-Spandex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭Jimi-Spandex


    missingtime wrote:
    Willy mason - Where the humans eat
    Goldfrapp - Supernature
    Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze

    By the way I bought "Louis XIV-The little best secrets are kept" the last day some good stuff not fully sure what to make of it though. Has anyone heard it


    Thought it was okay, bit samey though. Worth the listen all the same.


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    #74
    Pitseleh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 156 ✭✭Pitseleh


    Andrew Bird And The Mysterious Production Of Eggs

    Runners Up:
    Sufjan Stevens' 'Come On, Feel The Illinoise!' and Arcade Fire's 'Funeral'


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    #75
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,294 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    missingtime wrote:
    By the way I bought "Louis XIV-The little best secrets are kept" the last day some good stuff not fully sure what to make of it though. Has anyone heard it

    I downloaded it a couple of months ago and have been driving everyone mad about it ever since. It and "Funeral" by Arcade Fire are my two albums of the year.


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    #76
    pvc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭pvc


    Arcade Fire-Funeral or LCD Sound Sytem!!!


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    #77
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Clap your hands say yeah- Clap your hands say yeah - is the beset album i've heard in a very long time.

    other notables - MIA (bucky done gun - track of the year), LCD, Arcade fire, ummm Wilco's live one


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    #78
    Bridan
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭Bridan


    There's been alot of good good albums this year, but if I was to be drawn it would be:
    'Bright Eyes - I'm wide awake it's morning', followed closely by 'the arcade fire - Funeral'


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    #79
    magicspatula
    Registered Users Posts: 81 ✭✭magicspatula


    arcade fire - funeral
    system of a down - mezmerize
    rufus wainwright - want two


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    #80
    radiospan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,329 ✭✭✭radiospan


    plazzTT wrote:
    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

    Two more to add:
    Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary
    Autolux - Future Perfect (2004, but I only discovered it this year)


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    #81
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,852 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    My personal three favourite albums of the last year (in alphabetical order):

    Arcade Fire - Funeral
    Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
    Death Cab For Cutie - Plans


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    #82
    Punchbowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 299 ✭✭Punchbowl


    Love the Bloc Party remix album.

    Plans from Death Cab is very very good

    'The world should know' from Dave Couse and the Impossible sounds fanatastic aswell .

    Cut Copy's 'Bright Like Neon love ' is great too

    The Doves, The Editors, Go-Betweens.. List goes on and on


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    #83
    Brittany
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭Brittany


    I have alot of favourites!
    Coldplay- x+y
    James Blunt- Back to Bedlam
    Green Day-American Idiot(still the best ever!)
    The Killers-Hot Fuss
    The Bravery- The Bravery

    I could go on and on!I love muuusaq!


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    #84
    PiE
    Registered Users Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭PiE


    Brittany wrote:
    I could go on and on!I love muuusaq!
    Clearly you don't.


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    #85
    Do'sMcTootan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Do'sMcTootan


    lol pie, stick some Pink Floyd, Thin Lizzy in there, what wud ya say to that?


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    #86
    RE*AC*TOR
    Registered Users Posts: 7,482 ✭✭✭RE*AC*TOR


    PiE wrote:
    Clearly you don't.
    While i completely agree with you - there's no need to be so condescending.

    Anyway - very little of any worth this year. Arcade Fire - Funeral was about the best of it - yet I hardly ever listen to that even. The efforts from Ben Folds and Mars Volta were well below par. Neil Young's new album is decent - if a little unexciting, beautiful nonetheless. The Decemberists album wasn't bad either.

    I hope I'm forgetting loads - otherwise this would seem to be a fairly poor year.

    *edit* actually KT Tunstall's album was quite good.


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    #87
    secret_squirrel
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    Brittany wrote:
    I could go on and on!I love muuusaq!

    Think you mean Muzak.

    (to be fair though Green Day and killer were both fantastic albums. Green Day easily on my best albums ever list.) Shame it was 2004.


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    #88
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,294 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    RE*AC*TOR wrote:
    *edit* actually KT Tunstall's album was quite good.

    I knew I left one off my list. Very good album and excellent live too I hear.


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    #89
    COCK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭COCK


    i agree with reactor, this year was rather disappointing, apart from sufjan stevens, illinoise, nothing else was really quite outstanding

    Thew New Kraftwerk is good enough too, sos the new animal collective and antony and the johnsons is good enough as well


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    #90
    John
    Registered Users Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    I thought this year was pretty good but then again I've yet to come across a bad year. Once you're willing to put the legwork in you'll find absolute treasures


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    #91
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    others

    Low - The Great Destroyer
    Half Man Half Biscuit - Achtung Bono
    Autechre - Untilted


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