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Great year for music Am I tripping or has this been an excellent year for music? My list so far
Hold Steady Go Betweens Pernice Brothers Kanye West Chemical Brothers Missy Elliott The Ponys Sufjan Stevens Gorillaz Maximo Park Kaiser Chefs MIA Martha Wainwright Sleather Kinney Common Mariah Carey (a first ever for me) All good-to-great albums! | |
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Yeah! Great list! I've been keeping my wallet empty this year for sure! | |
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Pawer to the people! | |
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haha, you wrote Kaiser Chefs.. Official member of the Paw Power Posse
Pawer to the people! | |
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smellmyfunk said: where'd superman go?  | |
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smellmyfunk said: haha, you wrote Kaiser Chefs..
and "Sleather" too! Too much red wine (on a Wednesday night, no less) | |
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Best albums came from:
Beck Ben Folds Paul McCartney Leaves Coldplay Dissociatives Sigur Ros Josh Rouse Death Cab For Cutie Spoon | |
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Biggest disappointments:
New Order (a few great tracks and a whole lot of filler) British Sea Power (all hype, terrible band) New Pornographers The Roots (was that this year?) Most hip-hop this year. Honorable disappointments: Beck and Coldplay. | |
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biggest disappointments for me this year have been
nine inch nails eels - neither of which were necessarily BAD, but i just can't get into them at all. maybe i've lost interest in both bands, or maybe there was just nothing new or fresh on either of these albums. i dunno. it's a bummer, because at one time, these were two of my fave acts. | |
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Anxiety said: biggest disappointments for me this year have been
nine inch nails eels - neither of which were necessarily BAD, but i just can't get into them at all. maybe i've lost interest in both bands, or maybe there was just nothing new or fresh on either of these albums. i dunno. it's a bummer, because at one time, these were two of my fave acts. I never even heard NIN. 
but this is really the first year in a long time when I've been able to even name 10 albums I liked! And I have bittorrent to thank for most of it (listen up, RIAA!) | |
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Here are my faves:
Chemical Brothers Norma Jean A Band of Bees Mike Doughty (finally!) Beck Stina Nordenstam Jimmy Chamberlin (of the Smashing Pumpkins) actually put out a good MMW-style jazz-rock album Masada's "Sanhedrin" comp bex set is EXCELLENT the Cure re-releases RULE psuedo-goths also-rans: New Order (the middle part of the album is good) NIN didn't do it for me The Evens - can't get into it, but still love all past Ian MacKaye records (big ups to Minor Threat, Embrace, Egg Hunt, Skewbald, Fugazi, half the bands on Dischord with an Ian MacKaye guest appearance) Oasis was all right, I suppose, but Noel, shut up! Billy Corgan - Zzzzzz... Audioslave: a corporate disappointment At-The Drive In: post-mortem comp proves all the band was was potential, and even... The Mars Volta was 50% genius, 50% pure crap. Like many Prince records. When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. Regardless of the day, I'm glad you were born. | |
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Anxiety said: biggest disappointments for me this year have been
nine inch nails eels - neither of which were necessarily BAD, but i just can't get into them at all. maybe i've lost interest in both bands, or maybe there was just nothing new or fresh on either of these albums. i dunno. it's a bummer, because at one time, these were two of my fave acts. I didnt really get into those either man.. i just think the material isnt as good as some of their earlier work | |
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Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Jamiroquai - Dynamite The Hottest chip of them all - www.hotchip.co.uk - Get down with Prince
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I don't know if I can say that it's been a "great" year for music. Music hasn't been great since the early 90's, if you ask me. But there is a hell of a lot of good stuff out there though. And you won't even find much of it on MTV or VH1.
Plus, many of my favorite artists from the past have reunited and are showing the new kids how it's done.  NEW WAVE FOREVER: SLAVE TO THE WAVE FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE. | |
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Hot Chip have a new album out in October. That WILL be the record of the year The Hottest chip of them all - www.hotchip.co.uk - Get down with Prince
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MendesCity said: Biggest disappointments:
New Pornographers I've read more than one review that agrees with you, unfortunately. I may have to sample the entire album before deciding to buy it.  | |
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sextonseven said: MendesCity said: Biggest disappointments:
New Pornographers I've read more than one review that agrees with you, unfortunately. I may have to sample the entire album before deciding to buy it. I know a bunch of people who think it's their best (I love Mass Romantic), and while I don't think it's bad or anything, it just seems all over the place and none of the songs are really sticking for me so far. | |
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i can't believe so many people are down on the new order album...it took me a while to get into, but now i'm really liking it. | |
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ladymisskat said: Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Jamiroquai - Dynamite  The Chemical Brothers track with the dude from Bloc Party is second only to "Galvanize" with Q-Tip.When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. Regardless of the day, I'm glad you were born. | |
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The new IRM rocks ass. | |
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- Nikka Costa can'tneverdidnothin' Not only aren't there many artists making this music, there is no outlet on radio or TV for this kind of sharp, professional, carefully constructed, and passionately performed genre-hopping pop (the best you get in 2005 is Joss Stone playing against her strengths in Gap commercials). - allmusic.com | |
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Anxiety said: biggest disappointments for me this year have been
nine inch nails eels - neither of which were necessarily BAD, but i just can't get into them at all. maybe i've lost interest in both bands, or maybe there was just nothing new or fresh on either of these albums. i dunno. it's a bummer, because at one time, these were two of my fave acts. I didn't even know eels had something out this year. Just picked up their first disc a few weeks ago. | |
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Meloh9 said:
- Nikka Costa can'tneverdidnothin' Not only aren't there many artists making this music, there is no outlet on radio or TV for this kind of sharp, professional, carefully constructed, and passionately performed genre-hopping pop (the best you get in 2005 is Joss Stone playing against her strengths in Gap commercials). - allmusic.com I personally think Joss Stone is shit. Amazing voice and all, but the music is SOOOO boring. Nikka on the other hand is becoming my favorite person in the world, her music really makes me happy, she is unpretentious and honest. Gotta Know has been on repeat on my ipod for the past 2 days! The Hottest chip of them all - www.hotchip.co.uk - Get down with Prince
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I think we need to add Bobby Valentino to this list. | |
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Really liked this year:
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan David Bowie - Stage (if this counts) Thought were half decent (or mediocre) New Order - Waiting for the Siren's Call Foo Fighters - In Your Honor Ryan Adams - Cold Roses Coldplay - X&Y Beck - Guero Terrible, complete let-downs Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth Albums I'm anticipating in the last quarter of 2005 How's this for an 80's list? Rolling Stones (buying it today) Echo and the Bunnymen Depeche Mode Madonna The year 2005 has been spent either still spinning my best of '04 discs (Arcade Fire - Funeral, U2 - How to Dismantle..., Green Day - American Idiot, Modest Mouse - Good News...) or delving into back catalogs that I hadn't before (New Order/Joy Division, The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, Pet Shop Boys). I'm the first mammal to wear pants. | |
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white stripes was a bit of a letdown for me...i liked it a lot on the first listen, then after that, i liked it less and less...it just didn't pack the punch that the last one had. | |
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I actually find 2005 to be a bit sparse, but I admit to not being as feverishly adventurous as I was last year.
So far, I like 5, count 'em, 5 albums from this year. Feel free to join in the Prince Album Poll 2018! Let'a celebrate his legacy by counting down the most beloved Prince albums, as decided by you! | |
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Moonbeam said: I actually find 2005 to be a bit sparse, but I admit to not being as feverishly adventurous as I was last year.
So far, I like 5, count 'em, 5 albums from this year. and you won't list them?
It's time you did another top 100 thread or something, I like those. | |
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Going through my 2005 album list...
I really liked these: Goldfrapp - Supernature Shakira - Fijación Oral Vol. 1 LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem Sing Sing - Sing Sing And I Emma - Free Me Saint Etienne - Tales From Turnpike House These were pretty good: Sleater Kinney - The Woods Andrea Echeverri - Andrea Echeverri M.I.A. - Arular The Bravery - The Bravery Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel To Anything Nikka Costa - Can'tneverdidnothin' Annie - Anniemal Garbage - Bleed Like Me Just okay: Tori Amos - The Beekeeper The Raveonettes - Pretty In Black Geri Halliwell - Passion Mediaeval Baebes - Mirabilis Have not yet formed an opinion: Transplants - Haunted Cities Scarling - So Long, Scarecrow Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan Bif Naked - Superbeautifulmonster Bad: Adult. - D.U.M.E. album edit [Edited 9/9/05 14:49pm] | |
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