Wow, I got a lot of music this year. Nutty. Going through everything, there was no clear number one record. In fact, I spent the last couple days shifting the line-up around and I'm still not happy with it. Instead of fretting forever, I figure I'd just put it up as the albums weren't changing, just the order. Enjoy.
1. Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
2. Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift
3. Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel the Illinoise
4. Archer Prewitt - Wilderness
5. Real Ones - Home With the Girls In the Morning
6. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
7. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
8. Beck - Guero
9. The Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done
10. Portastatic - Bright Ideas
11. Hot Hot Heat - Elevator
12. Low - The Great Destroyer
13. The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
14. Laura Veirs - Year of Meteors
15. Aquabats - Charge!!
16. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
17. Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
18. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
19. Ben Folds - Songs For Silverman
20. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
21. Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
22. The Russian Futurists - Our Thickness
23. Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
24. Damien Jurado - On My Way To Absence
25. My Morning Jacket - Z
Best EP
Iron and Wine - Woman King
Albums Worth Buying
Brendan Benson - Alternative To Love, Black Mountain - Black Mountain, Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene, Clem Snide - End Of Love, Kanye West - Late Registration, LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem, Elbow - Leaders Of The Free World, Metric - Live It Out, Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft, Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze, OK Go - Oh No, Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens, The Decemberists - Picaresque, John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt, Stars - Set Yourself on Fire, Ed Harcourt - Strangers, The Coral - The Invisible Invasion, Sam Prekop - Who's Your New Professor?, We Are Scientists - With Love And Squalor
Every new album I acquired in 2005 (according to iTunes):
13 & God - 13 & God
22-20s - 22-20s
Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Brendan Benson - Alternative To Love
Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
M.I.A. - Arular
Ben Lee - Awake Is The New Sleep
M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us
Black Mountain - Black Mountain
Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
Portastatic - Bright Ideas
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
The Frames - Burn The Maps
Aquabats - Charge!!
Chin Up Chin Up - Chin Up Chin Up
May Or May Not - Colors Only Bees Can See
Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel the Illinoise
Clem Snide - Early Home Recordings: Volume 1
Hot Hot Heat - Elevator
Clem Snide - End Of Love
Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic
Nine Black Alps - Everything Is
Marbles - Expo
Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth
Robbie Fulks - Georgia Hard
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Beck - Guero
Real Ones - Home With the Girls In the Morning
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
Shout Out Louds - Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
Iron & Wine, Calexico - In The Reins
Kanye West - Late Registration
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Elbow - Leaders Of The Free World
Harvey Danger - Little by Little
Metric - Live It Out
Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
Teenage Fanclub - Man-Made
The Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done
The Dandy Warhols - Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars
OK Go - Oh No
Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
Damien Jurado - On My Way To Absence
The Darkness - One Way Ticket To Hell...And Back
British Sea Power - Open Season
The Russian Futurists - Our Thickness
Fountains Of Wayne - Out-Of-State Plates
The Decemberists - Picaresque
John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt
Dosh - Powder Horn
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Ben Folds - Songs For Silverman
Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful
Ed Harcourt - Strangers
Prefuse 73 - Surrounded By Silence
Cursive - The Difference Between Houses And Homes
Low - The Great Destroyer
The Coral - The Invisible Invasion
Death Cab For Cutie - The John Byrd EP
The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
Caribou - The Milk Of Human Kindness
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Guster - The Pasty Tapes Vol. 3
The Secret Machines - The Road Leads Where It's Led [EP]
Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Tralala - Tralala
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Sam Prekop - Who's Your New Professor?
Archer Prewitt - Wilderness
We Are Scientists - With Love And Squalor
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Iron and Wine - Woman King
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart
Coldplay - X&Y
Laura Veirs - Year of Meteors
My Morning Jacket - Z
01/18/06 1:16 PM
I'm personally offended by your failure to include Final Fantasy on your list, though this may just be because you forgot you bought the album in 2005.
01/18/06 1:23 PM
Dear Robert, you have obviously forgotten that Has a Good Home was released in 2004. In addition, I included it in my Best Albums of 2004 Discovered in 2005 list. But yes, I did buy it with you while in Toronto last February.
01/18/06 5:02 PM
Damn.
RC