Top 50 from 2005 (depeche mode, alternative, punk, rock, albums)

IndiElectronica · 01-05-2006, 10:48 AM

Just finished my top 50 from 2005... thought you all would like to see/mock it

1 - Hood - Outside Closer
2 - LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
3 - Low - Great Destroyers
4 - Spoon - Gimme Fiction
5 - Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
6 - Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
7 - Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
8 - sigur ros - takk
9 - Ladytron - Witching Hour
10 - Autolux - Future Perfect
11 - Joy Zipper - The Heartlight Set
12 - Broken Social Scene: - Broken Social Scene:
13 - Wolf Parade: Apologies to the Queen Mary
14 - Editors - The Back Room
15 - 13 & God - 13 & God
16 - Fischerspooner - Odyssey
17 - Architecture In Helsinki: - In Case We Die
18 - Boards of Canada: - The Campfire Headphase
19 - Vitalic - OK Cowboy
20 - M83:Before the Dawn Heals Us
21 - Of Montreal: - The Sunlandic Twins
22 - Bright Eyes - Digital Ash InA Digital Urn
23 - Wilco - Kicking Television (Live in Chicago)
24 - Brendan Benson - The Alternative to Love
25 - 2 Many DJ's - 50,000,000 Soulwax Fans Can't Be Wrong
26 - The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightening, Strike
27 - Kraftwerk: Minimum - Maximum
28 - The Duke Spirit - Cut Across The Land
29 - Engineers - Engineers
30 - Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic
31 - Brakes - Give Blood
32 - We Are Scientists - With Love And Squalor
33 - The Fall - Fall Heads Roll
34 - The Books: - Lost and Safe
35 - The Chemical Brothers - Push the Button
36 - British Sea Power - Open Season
37 - Animal Collective: Feels
38 - Soulwax - Nite Versions
39 - Sufjan Stevens: - Illinoise
40 - Daft Punk - Human After All
41 - The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
42 - Colder - Heat
43 - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah:
44 - Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower
45 - Magnet - The Tourniquet
46 - Hot Hot Heat - Elevator
47 - The Decemberists - Picaresqe
48 - The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
49 - Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
50 - The Raveonettes - Pretty In Black

*Arcade Fire - Funeral and Ambulance Ltd. - S/T I consder 2004 as that's when I got them...

Urban Hat€monger ? · 01-05-2006, 11:06 AM

Why everybody putting Bloc Party so high.

It`s averageness from start to finish , good list otherwise though

sklian · 01-06-2006, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

Why everybody putting Bloc Party so high.

It`s averageness from start to finish , good list otherwise though

couldn't agree more

IndiElectronica · 01-06-2006, 10:59 AM

hmm... i don't listen to the album anymore so kinda know what you are saying... however, I still enjoy the live and remixed stuff of theirs I have. It's a good album, but not great. The reason I rated it so high is the truly inspired drumming.

...surely there's more to say about this list than critisizing 1 of my choices? what's your top albums?

hookers with machineguns · 01-06-2006, 01:04 PM

It's not bad. Some albums (like Illinoise, Picaresque, CYHSY s/t, Everything Ecstatic) I would have rated a littler higher. I would have added a couple in there as well

Antony and the Johnsons- I Am A Bird Now
The Evens- s/t
New Pornographers- Twin Cinema
Deerhoof- The Runners Four
Erin Mckeown- We Will Become Like Birds
The Boy Least Likely To- The Best Party Ever
Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney- Superwolf

Expletive Deleted · 01-06-2006, 06:27 PM

I've been trying to rank my top 50 for the longest time now, but eventually I just gave up. I decided to make a much more managable top 25 instead. Hopefully this will be my definitive list and I won't feel the need to make any others...

25. The Light Footwork - One State Two State
24. Xiu Xiu - La Foret
23. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
22. The American Analog Set - Set Free
21. The Juan Maclean - Less Than Human
20. The Most Serene Republic - Underwater Cinematographer
19. Nedelle - From the Lion's Mouth
18. Edan - Beauty and the Beat
17. Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth
16. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Broom
15. Various Artists - DFA Holiday Mix 2005
14. The Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done
13. Red Sparowes - At the Soundless Dawn
12. Thunderbirds Are Now! - Justamustache
11. Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
10. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
9. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
8. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
7. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
6. The Decemberists - Picaresque
5. The National - Alligator
4. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
3. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
2. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois: Sufjan Stevens Invites You To Come One Feel the Illinois!

sklian · 01-06-2006, 06:50 PM

Your list is very good (forgot to mention that), except for the low rank of mars volta

Here are some of my favourites

The Mars Volta - Frances the mute
Mew - and the glass handed kites
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Arcade Fire - Funeral (listened to it in 2005)
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Madrugada - The deep end
Turbonegro - Party Animals (Oh yeah!)

IndiElectronica · 01-07-2006, 07:28 AM

Illinoise - I admit I'm in the minority here... I think i 'missed the point' of this somewhat as only really liked 2 songs from the album... fair play to making it, as it's certainly not BAD - I just don't think it's as great as most everyone else does...

Everything Ecstatic - Pause and Rounds are both top 5 of their respective years for me.... Everything Ecstatic I simply didn't like that much... Seen him more than any other band in the last 3 years too (about 7 times I think). Sadly, his live performances have slowly gotten worse and I doubt i'll bother again... last time I saw him 2/3 of the audience had left before he was done (he headlined locally with Explosioins in the Sky)

Various Artists - DFA Holiday Mix 2005 - I thought this was quite boring... big disapointment for me... DFA mix 2 is great of course.

The Juan Maclean - Less Than Human - Another album I expected a lot more from. I'll put on LCD Soundsystem 99% instead of this album.

The American Analog Set - Set Free - DAMN YOU! I forgot to put this on my list!! doh!

Expletive Deleted · 01-08-2006, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by IndiElectronica

Various Artists - DFA Holiday Mix 2005 - I thought this was quite boring... big disapointment for me... DFA mix 2 is great of course.

The DFA comp was 04, I thought the Holiday Mix was great. Didn't think it was boring at all.

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The Juan Maclean - Less Than Human - Another album I expected a lot more from. I'll put on LCD Soundsystem 99% instead of this album.

I listen to them both equally. I love this album, but then again I'm a huge Six Finger Satellite fan. Besides, I thought the two albums were different enough taht it wasn't really necessary to compare the two.

hookers with machineguns · 01-08-2006, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Expletive Deleted

23. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
3. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs

Good call.

No one mentioned the Headphones s/t album.

It's a gloomy electro side project of David Bazan from Pedro the Lion. Good stuff.

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Originally Posted by Music Director

Matt Pond PA - Several Arrows Later

Wasn't that great of an album, but I'm glad to see it mentioned.

01-05-2006, 10:48 AM	#1 (permalink)
IndiElectronica Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: UK Posts: 658	Top 50 from 2005 Just finished my top 50 from 2005... thought you all would like to see/mock it 1 - Hood - Outside Closer 2 - LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem 3 - Low - Great Destroyers 4 - Spoon - Gimme Fiction 5 - Bloc Party - Silent Alarm 6 - Death Cab For Cutie - Plans 7 - Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness 8 - sigur ros - takk 9 - Ladytron - Witching Hour 10 - Autolux - Future Perfect 11 - Joy Zipper - The Heartlight Set 12 - Broken Social Scene: - Broken Social Scene: 13 - Wolf Parade: Apologies to the Queen Mary 14 - Editors - The Back Room 15 - 13 & God - 13 & God 16 - Fischerspooner - Odyssey 17 - Architecture In Helsinki: - In Case We Die 18 - Boards of Canada: - The Campfire Headphase 19 - Vitalic - OK Cowboy 20 - M83:Before the Dawn Heals Us 21 - Of Montreal: - The Sunlandic Twins 22 - Bright Eyes - Digital Ash InA Digital Urn 23 - Wilco - Kicking Television (Live in Chicago) 24 - Brendan Benson - The Alternative to Love 25 - 2 Many DJ's - 50,000,000 Soulwax Fans Can't Be Wrong 26 - The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightening, Strike 27 - Kraftwerk: Minimum - Maximum 28 - The Duke Spirit - Cut Across The Land 29 - Engineers - Engineers 30 - Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic 31 - Brakes - Give Blood 32 - We Are Scientists - With Love And Squalor 33 - The Fall - Fall Heads Roll 34 - The Books: - Lost and Safe 35 - The Chemical Brothers - Push the Button 36 - British Sea Power - Open Season 37 - Animal Collective: Feels 38 - Soulwax - Nite Versions 39 - Sufjan Stevens: - Illinoise 40 - Daft Punk - Human After All 41 - The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute 42 - Colder - Heat 43 - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: 44 - Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower 45 - Magnet - The Tourniquet 46 - Hot Hot Heat - Elevator 47 - The Decemberists - Picaresqe 48 - The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree 49 - Sleater-Kinney - The Woods 50 - The Raveonettes - Pretty In Black *Arcade Fire - Funeral and Ambulance Ltd. - S/T I consder 2004 as that's when I got them... __________________ Check out my Radio Station at: http://www.indielectronicaonline.com

01-05-2006, 11:06 AM	#2 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,626	Why everybody putting Bloc Party so high. It`s averageness from start to finish , good list otherwise though __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

01-06-2006, 10:59 AM	#4 (permalink)
IndiElectronica Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: UK Posts: 658	hmm... i don't listen to the album anymore so kinda know what you are saying... however, I still enjoy the live and remixed stuff of theirs I have. It's a good album, but not great. The reason I rated it so high is the truly inspired drumming. ...surely there's more to say about this list than critisizing 1 of my choices? what's your top albums? __________________ Check out my Radio Station at: http://www.indielectronicaonline.com

01-07-2006, 07:28 AM	#8 (permalink)
IndiElectronica Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: UK Posts: 658	Illinoise - I admit I'm in the minority here... I think i 'missed the point' of this somewhat as only really liked 2 songs from the album... fair play to making it, as it's certainly not BAD - I just don't think it's as great as most everyone else does... Everything Ecstatic - Pause and Rounds are both top 5 of their respective years for me.... Everything Ecstatic I simply didn't like that much... Seen him more than any other band in the last 3 years too (about 7 times I think). Sadly, his live performances have slowly gotten worse and I doubt i'll bother again... last time I saw him 2/3 of the audience had left before he was done (he headlined locally with Explosioins in the Sky) Various Artists - DFA Holiday Mix 2005 - I thought this was quite boring... big disapointment for me... DFA mix 2 is great of course. The Juan Maclean - Less Than Human - Another album I expected a lot more from. I'll put on LCD Soundsystem 99% instead of this album. The American Analog Set - Set Free - DAMN YOU! I forgot to put this on my list!! doh! __________________ Check out my Radio Station at: http://www.indielectronicaonline.com

01-06-2006, 01:04 PM	#5 (permalink)
hookers with machineguns Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,738	It's not bad. Some albums (like Illinoise, Picaresque, CYHSY s/t, Everything Ecstatic) I would have rated a littler higher. I would have added a couple in there as well Antony and the Johnsons- I Am A Bird Now The Evens- s/t New Pornographers- Twin Cinema Deerhoof- The Runners Four Erin Mckeown- We Will Become Like Birds The Boy Least Likely To- The Best Party Ever Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney- Superwolf

01-06-2006, 06:27 PM	#6 (permalink)
Expletive Deleted Dancing Machine Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: New York, NY Posts: 1,100	I've been trying to rank my top 50 for the longest time now, but eventually I just gave up. I decided to make a much more managable top 25 instead. Hopefully this will be my definitive list and I won't feel the need to make any others... 25. The Light Footwork - One State Two State 24. Xiu Xiu - La Foret 23. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw 22. The American Analog Set - Set Free 21. The Juan Maclean - Less Than Human 20. The Most Serene Republic - Underwater Cinematographer 19. Nedelle - From the Lion's Mouth 18. Edan - Beauty and the Beat 17. Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth 16. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Broom 15. Various Artists - DFA Holiday Mix 2005 14. The Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done 13. Red Sparowes - At the Soundless Dawn 12. Thunderbirds Are Now! - Justamustache 11. Stars - Set Yourself On Fire 10. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll 9. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem 8. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 7. Spoon - Gimme Fiction 6. The Decemberists - Picaresque 5. The National - Alligator 4. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene 3. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs 2. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary 1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois: Sufjan Stevens Invites You To Come One Feel the Illinois!

01-06-2006, 06:50 PM	#7 (permalink)
sklian Groupie Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 20	Your list is very good (forgot to mention that), except for the low rank of mars volta Here are some of my favourites The Mars Volta - Frances the mute Mew - and the glass handed kites Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene Dream Theater - Octavarium Arcade Fire - Funeral (listened to it in 2005) Sigur Rós - Takk... Madrugada - The deep end Turbonegro - Party Animals (Oh yeah!)