Best Release of 2005

[eliot]

spoon - gimme fiction
sufjan stevens - illinoise

 

[PoppyAzura]

MIA- Arular
Madonna- Confessions on a Dance Floor
Annie- Anniemal
Common- Be

also agree Takk is great!

 

[iperlchen]

Caribou: The Milk of Human Kindness
CocoRosie: Noah's Ark
Diane Cluck: Oh Vanille/Ova Nil
Electrelane: Axes
Gang Gang Dance: God's Money
Hans Appelqvist: Tonefilm
Isolée: Wearemonster
Josephine Foster: Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You
Matthew Herbert: Plat du Jour
Mono: One More Step and You Die
Mugison: Mugimama, Is This Monkey Music?
Patrick Wolf: Wind in the Wires
Scout Niblett: Kidnapped by Neptune
Six Organs of Admittance: School of the Flower
Sons & Daughters: The Repulsion Box
Tujiko Noriko: Blurred in My Mirror

That's my list.

 

[Fade to Black]

I was kind of out of touch with music this year...I guess my favorite album released is Kanye West's Late Registration out of all the ones I've heard.

 

[Schneller]

Caribou: The Milk of Human Kindness
CocoRosie: Noah's Ark
Diane Cluck: Oh Vanille/Ova Nil
Electrelane: Axes
Gang Gang Dance: God's Money
Hans Appelqvist: Tonefilm
Isolée: Wearemonster
Josephine Foster: Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You
Matthew Herbert: Plat du Jour
Mono: One More Step and You Die
Mugison: Mugimama, Is This Monkey Music?
Patrick Wolf: Wind in the Wires
Scout Niblett: Kidnapped by Neptune
Six Organs of Admittance: School of the Flower
Sons & Daughters: The Repulsion Box
Tujiko Noriko: Blurred in My Mirror

That's my list.

nice list... we have pretty much the same taste in music

 

[J'aime_la_mode]

Im going to go with Spoon, Ladytron and Beck....but its hard because its been a great year....

 

[bleuFunk]

M Ward - Transistor Radio! I can't believe i didn't think of that one before!

 

[Von]

First and foremost...
Sigur Ros - Takk

Then...
M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us
Coldplay X&Y (I don't care how mainstream this band is, some of the songs are simply gorgeous)
Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
Ehhh, many more I'm sure.
Personally, I think 2004 held alot more great releases the this year...

 

[bleuFunk]

Here are NPR listeners' top 10 picks. Thought it was interesting (as were some of their critics' picks.)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5054194http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5054194

 

[scblonndie]

Aww, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! seems like such an underdog. I'm glad they made the list.

 

[pointup]

agree a lot with the NPR list. one lucky thing about living in minneapolis is the current!

I can't believe nobody mentioned Picaresque! I too love Sufjan, and I just got Antony and the Johnsons

 

[susie_bubble]

The usual suspects I'm afraid....
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Jose Gonzalez - Veneer
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Selftitled
The National - Alligator
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

 

[Multitudes]

For me...
Four Tet... Everything Ecstatic
Sigur Ros... Takk
Nine Black Alps... Every Thing Is
Razorlight... Up All Night
The Kills... No Wow

 

[Taper-Jean Girl]

What the crap is wrong with me? I didn't put Kanye West's Late Registration to my list. Definately my 2nd favorite (behind Kings of Leon, of course!) I can't stop listening to Celebration and Heard 'Em Say!

 

[bleuFunk]

Did anyone see Rolling Stones Top 50 albums of 2005?

 

[green.tea]

American Analog Set, the Most Serene Republic, Broken Social Scene, MIA, Deerhoof, Kanye West and the National

 

[iBella]

Late Registration - Kanye West
Be - Common
The Emancipation of Mimi - Mariah Carey
Catching Tales - Jamie Cullum

 

[Gunpowder]

Arcade Fire - Funeral
James Blunt - Back To Bedlam

 

[lola belle]

'My Humps' by the Black Eyed Peas.

Just kidding!