We all know they're crap/rigged so let's have our very own poll. Here's what I suggest:
List your top 5 albums of the year. It'll be great if you can put them in order so that #1 scores 5 points, #2 scores 4, #3 scores 3 etc. If you cant's/won't put them in order don't worry, they'll all be given three points. Then at the end of the year I'll total up all the points to give us the DiS Forummers Albums of the Year! Feel free to list more than five albums but I'm going to be a facist about this and only the first five will score points. OK, get compiling. For the record my five are:
1. New General Catalogue - Redjetson
2. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
3. Z - My Morning Jacket
4. All Harm Ends Here - Early Day Miners
5. Wind In the Wires - Patrick Wolf
I'm going to count Funeral...
So:
1 Funeral - Arcade Fire
2 Mew and the Glass-Handed Kites
3 Picaresque - The Decemberists
4 Wind in the Wires - Patrick Wolf
5 Leaders of the Free World - Elbow
Its tough but...
1. Feels - Animal Collective
2. Funeral - Arcade Fire
3. Illinoise - Sufjan Stevens
4. The Milk Of Human Kindness - Caribou
5. Beauty and The Beat - Edan
here ye go
Deerhoof - The Runner's Four
Scout Niblett - Kidnapped by Neptune
The Books - Lost and Safe
The Evens - The Evens
Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
honorable mentions to Municipal Waste, Smog, ooioo, Sufjan. Only disappointment = Steve Malkmus.
I'm better than you
1. Funeral - Arcade Fire
2. The Meadowlands - The Wrens
3. Leaders of the Free World - Elbow
4. Everything Ecstatic - Four Tet
5. Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
I would include Franz Ferdinand, but that would require a level of defiance that I am just not capable of.
Yeesh
1. Picaresque - The Decemberists
2. Black Sheep Boy - Okkervil River
3. Solea - Solea
4. Bang Bang Rock & Roll - Art Brut
5. 9 Red Songs - Chris TT
I think anyways.
Hmmm
1. Saul Williasm s/t
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. The Go Team - thunder lighning strike
4. Bearsuit - Team Ping Pong
5. Elbow - Leaders of the Free World
I mainly buy old music...
...
1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Decemberists - Picaresque
3. Art Brut - Bang, Bang, Rock & Roll
4. Saul Williams - Saul Williams
5. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Possibly...
The Meadowlands is 2003...
Thats defintely out!
Oooh, really?
A couple of people have voted for it, so should I 'strike' it from the 'record'?
I say yes...
it's understandable for records like Funeral released in lateish 2004 and released here in 2005...
2003 is too remote says I.
bastard.
Fine, for Meadowlands read Open Season.
Here goes then
I'm not much of a music buyer compared to a lot of you folks but here's my top 5:
1 - Patrick Wolf - Wind In The Wires
2 - Laura Veirs - Year Of Meteors
3 - Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
4 - KT Tunstall: Eye To The Telescope
5 - Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It...
Poverty and the fact that I don't do file-sharing means that I'm picking a top 4 from a pretty small selection of albums from 2005 that I've actually heard in full. Anyway. there's my top 5.
nice idea
1* The National - Alligator
2* Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
3* Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
4* Brakes - Give Blood
5* Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
honourable mentions go to the go! team and arcade fire. adam gnade will probably be in that top 5 soon but i've only just got the album today.
Argh
Even choosing five good albums from this year is hard.
Here goes anyway:
1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2. Jamie Lidell - Multiply
3. Cloud Cult - Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus
Euggh. I would include the Fiery Furnaces EP but it probablt doesn't count, so...
Ok...
1. Sigur Ros - Takk
2. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
3. Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
4. Two Gallants - The Throes (came out last year in the US but think it was this year over here)
5. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
meep.
1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires
3. Animal Collective - Feels
4. Sigur Ros - Takk
5. Final Fantasy - Has a Good Home
Not a great year looking back...
I also tend to buy music when it gets a bit cheaper, Anyhoo:
1) Erol Alkan - Bugged Out Mix
2) Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
3) MIA - Arular
4) Arcade Fire - Funeral
5) Vitalic - OK Cowboy
Shout outs should go to Annie, LCD Soundsystem, David Wrench and Patrick Wolf though.
you what?
there were no good russian choral romantic albums out this year?! shocking
1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral.
3. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
4. BRMC - Howl
5. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
so:
1. Arcade fire | Funeral
2. Andrew Bird | Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production
3. M. Ward | Transistor Radio
4. Sufjan Stevens | Illinois
5. The New Pornographers | Twin Cinema
honourable mentions to: Spoon (Gimme Fiction), The Decemberists (Picaresque), Deerhoof (The Runners Four), Devin Davis (Lonely People Of The World, Unite!), Final Fantasy (Has A Good Home), Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (Broom), Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (Face The Truth)
it's been a great year :D
...
1.65daysofstatic - One Time For All Time
2.Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
3.Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman...
4.The Go! Team - Thnder Lightning Strike
5.Oceansize - Everyone Into Position
if the go team doesnt count:
Million Dead - Harmony No Harmony
...
This is my honest and thought through top 5...
1.Beck- Guero
2.Bearsuit- Team Ping Pong
3.Hot Hot Heat- Elevator
4.Rufus Wainwright- Want Two
5.Petra Haden- Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out
I think it was a good year. I enjoyed a lot of stuff like the above The Fall, Fiona Apple, Sufjan, Stephen Malkmus, MIA and a lot more.
If you don't agree, you're wrong...
1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
3. MIA - Arular
4. Brakes - Give Blood
5. Kanye West - Late Registration
Here's mine:
1. Animal Collective - Feels
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. My Morning Jacket - Z
4. Wrens - The Meadowlands
5. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Hmm
1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic
3. 65daysofstatic - One Time For All Time
4. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
5. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
But then I'd also like to put Takk... in there somewhere, along with both Bright Eyes albums, Sufjan Stevens, Worlds Apart by ...Trail of Dead and British Sea Power's Open Season. I guess they're all honourable mentions.
good year
1 Miss Black America- Terminal
2 TBA-Annule
3 Stereo Total- Do the Bambi
4 Songdog- Time of the Summer Lightning
5 Caribou- The Milk of Human Kindness
I'd go for...
1. With Love And Squalour-We Are Scientists
2. Funeral-Arcade Fire
3. A Certain Trigger-Maximo Park
4. The New Fellas-The Cribs
5. I'm Wide Awake...-Bright Eyes
I'd have liked to have put more, such as The White Stripes latest showing, DFA 1979's and Jose Gonzalez's sublime Veneer.
Ooooo
1=Funeral-Arcade Fire
2=In Case We Die-Architecture In Helsinki
3=Apologies To Queen Mary-Wolf Parade
4=Thunder,Lightning,Strike-The Go! Team
5=Clor-Clor
Would have had CYHSY and Broken Social Scene In there but since they haven't been released here....
heres mine
Ive got a top 10 list but youd probably get pissed off with me for putting the extened bit..unless you want me to
1. Tom Vek - We have sound
2. The Go! Team - Thunder Lighting Strike
3. Kinesis - You are being lied to
4. MIA - Arular
5. Kid Carpet - Ideas and oh dears
More than 5? Oh, go on then!
No problem with listing more than five, it's just the 'extra' albums won't score any points.
Early indications are that Arcade Fire are going to win this so easily it's not funny which I'm sure everybody knew anyway. So we are as predictable as Q. Well you lot are, I still think Funeral is hideously ordinary. Bah. And in case anybody is worried, I do know how to spell fascist correctly.
29!!!
excepting 29 which could be album of the year yet
The Sunset Tree: The Mountain Goats
Jacksonville City Nights: Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
Devils and Dust: Bruce Springsteen
Good Apollo IV...: Coheed and Cambria
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn: Bright Eyes
ok then
6. WARD - It might be useful for us to know
7. Dalek - Absence
8. Daft Punk - Human after all
9. Idlewild - Warnings/Promises
10. Polar Bear - Held on the tips of fingers
Alrite then
1.The Arcade Fire-Funeral
2.Sufjan Stevens-Illinoise
3.Sigur Ros-Tak
4.Bloc Party-Silent Alarm
5.LCD SOundsystem-LCD Soundsystem
Cant go wrong withg that bunch all ace.
Am I
the only one to be consisently irked by people calling Illinois, Illinoise?
Me too! Me too!
I will accept Come on, feel the Illinoise! (even though it's WRONG!) or Illinois.
Arcade Fire
suck eggs. HIghly uninteresting.
Actually Mine is
1.Aracde Fire-Funeral
2.Sufjan Stevens-Illinoise
3.Hot Hot Heat-Elevator
4.Clap Your Hands Say Yeah-Clap Your Hands Say Yeah(Wasnt it released in america this year)
5.The Rakes-Capture/Release
Then sigur ros and lcd are both really good. this list lark is far too difficult
...
I wholeheartedly agree. Very very very dull.
Sorry, that was meant
to be about Arcade Fire, referring to the comment above. I suck at message boards.
This is hard, but here goes
1. Ladytron - Witching Hour
2. Absent Kid - I burned down the family business
3. The chalets - Check in
4. Vitalic - OK Cowboy
5. Whitey - The light at the end of the tunnel is a train
Kid Carpet, Clor, Bloc Party, DFA1979 also get brownie points.
Fiona says:
1. Patrick Wolf - WITW
2. Broken Social Scene - s/t
3. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
4. Ninja High School - Young Adults Against Suicide
5. Final Fantasy - Has a Good Home
I like my Canadians.
I says
1. Saul Williams - self titled
2. Malcolm Middleton - Into the woods
3. Architecture in Helsinki - In case we die
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. Caribou - the milk of human kindness
I need to change mine!!!
Should be:
1. Saul Williams
2. Funeral
3. Thunder Lightning Strike
4. In Case We Die
5. Team Ping Pong
Sorry, I forgot AiH...
What are Ninja High School like?
Eh?
NHS are like
A REALLY REALLY amazing cake, or sandwich or something, that makes your jaw drop because of it's yumminess.
Alternatively they are a "positive hardcore dance-rap" band from Toronto.
Even self-confessed hip hop haters (mad men, I know!) have been known to like NHS.
Thunder Lightning Strike
Came out in the UK in 2004.
it was
rereleased this year though
for me :
1. Mahogany - memory column
2. Marissa Nadler - the balad of Mayflower may
3. 50 foot wave - golden ocean
4. Mi and L'au - s/t
5. last harbour - hold fast pioneer
Honorable mentions to : FF, Hot Hot Heat, Akron/family, Josephine Forster, Laura Veirs, Eastern Lane,Deerhoof, Savoy Grand, magnolia Elecric Co, Songdog, Black Nielson, the Silent Type, Autolux, Stars, Art of fighting, the Ponys, An Emergency...( what a great year ! )
I think
1 Broken Family Band - Welcome Home Loser
2. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
3. Akron/Family - st
4. Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs
5. Envelopes - Demon
Just realised that leaves out the decemberists, the fall, Patrick Wolf and the brakes, its been a good year
ooof.
i canny believe only you and i pulled up andrew bird's album as one of the best. it's criminal he doesn't have the recognition he deserves.
/
1. Worlds Apart - Trail of Dead
2. Plans - Death Cab
3. You Could Have ... - Franz
4. Funeral - Arcade Fire
5. Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
Just
behind that is:
With Love and Squalor - W.A.S
Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
New Fellas - Cribs
X & Y - Coldplay
etc. etc.
mine are
1: Infinity Land (Biffy Clyro)
2: Everyone Into Position (Oceansize)
3: Ignoto (yourcodenameis:milo)
4: Say Hello To Sunshine (Finch)
5: Dirty Words (The Departure)
other competitors that I think are excellent but with serious flaws include Silent Alarm, Harmony No Harmony, Tilting At Windmills.
and
I would that we were allowed EPs.
Infinity Land
was released October 2004, sorry.
OK forget infinity land
thanks Hpipe. I blame whoever put in the CDDB info for it on iTunes.
Move everything one place up I guess... and add Harmony No Harmony at the end...
Shite...
...how did I forget the We Are Scientists album? Yep, it's genius. Love 'em.
.
At the moment:
1 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2 Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
3 The National - Alligator
4 The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
5 British Sea Power - Open Season
that's
not counting Funeral (2004) and Meadowlands (2003!!)
Fucking Hell
I Totally forgot BSP released an album this year, it's a good un too. Same goes for Mars Volta.
It's been a spiffing year for music ant it?
Lots of good albums, none really great
The Ponys - Celebration Castle
The National - Alligator
BRMC - Howl
Broken Social Scene - s/t
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
mine
1) Malcolm Middleton - Into The Woods
2) Low - The Great Destroyer
3) Arab Strap - The Last Romance
4) Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires
5) Envelopes - Demon
Good year for Arab Strap!
OK then...
1) Arcade Fire - Funeral
2) Silver Sun - Disappear Here
3) Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
4) Ben Folds - Songs For Silverman
5) Hot Hot Heat - Elevator
mine
1.Reuben - Very Fast, Very Dangerous
2.65DOS - One Time For All Time
3.Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
4.Oceansize - Everyone Into Position
5.QOTSA - Lullabies To Paralyze
God, there's so much on this thread I've never even heard of. Its been a bad year for this kid.
!
1. Animal Collective - Feels
2. Isolée - We Are Monster
3. Gang Gang Dance - God's Money
4. Caribou - Milk of Human Kindness
5. Vitalic - Ok Cowboy
---the rest---
6. Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
7. Why? - Elephant Eyelash
8. LCD Soundsystem - S/T (only if you include the bonus disc)
9. CocoRosie - Noah's Ark
10. Jackson & His Computer Band - Smash
Go! Team
I would have put them in but that was last year wasn't it?
Yeah it was
I don't think you can really count the re-release.
You can. It's on my list.
So there...
:P
it is ace
so I'll let you off :D
See my other comment ^^
You can count "Funeral" because it was first released in the UK in 2005.
You can't count "Thunder Lightning Strike" because its first UK release was last year.
If you can count american releases early
then i can count them late
....
1.400 Blows - Angels Trumpets and Devils Trombones
2. Part Chimp - I AM Come
3. Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower
4.Quasimoto - Further adventures of lord quas
5. Dead Meadow - Feather
this is slightly different to my list on the dis myspace page, seeing DM last week made me listen to Feathers and its amazing. A lot better than Hypermagic Mountain.
Top 7
1. Antony & The Johnsons - I am a bird now
2. Low - The Great Destroyer
3. Electrelane - Axes
4. Part Chimp - I am come
5. Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers
6. Sunn o))) - black 1
7. LCD Soundsysterm - s/t
Erm, why oh why oh why is Antony not running away with this?
And I've not really got to the new Lightning Bolt - loved the others - but this one got thrown off the stereo after 10 minutes - must give it another go.....
Damn
I forgot the Sunn album. That is pretty good. Hmmmm.
..
Are Dead Meadow like Lightning Bolt then?
No
they are stoner metal shoe-gazing type thing. Its just I made a list for the DIS myspace page and instead of Dead Meadow I had Lightning Bolt at number 5.
"why oh why is Antony not running away with this"
I bought the album on the basis of Hope There's Someone (which I still think is amazing) and was quite disappointed. Whereas that song is chilling and soaring, too much of the album is surprisingly AOR and lounge-ish. His voice doesn't often reach the same levels of drama and beauty that the first track acheives, and the lyrics are often too simplistic (the sentiments are lovely but by the time he tells us for the 20th time that he wishes he was a woman, it starts to get a little tiresome). There are a couple of other high points (Fistful Of Love is very good) but generally I was expecting better.
hmm..
1. Funeral- Arcade Fire
2. Be- Common
3. Thunder, Lightning, Strike- Go! Team
4. Veneer- Jose Gonzalez
5. Strasbourg + - The Rakes
the rakes
album was called Capture/Release : )
oops
oh yes of course