MUSICALLY. VOCALLY, LYRICALLY, live;

Roísín Murphy's Sequins

these are my faves, off the to of my head. i'm probably missing something


THE BEEKEEPER - Tori Amos (album of the year)

Antony & The Johnsons
The Decemberists
Goldfrapp
Kate Bush
Bloc Party
The Editors
a-ha
Lewis Taylor
The National
Juliet
The Dears and Arcade Fire, although they both came out in 2004, i didn't get them until early this year
White Stripes
Interpol (or was that 2004?)
New Order
Herbie Hancock
Erasure
Depeche Mode
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill acoustic was incredible



But for me the best musical releases of the year were the Cure and Eurythmics reissues. Fucking incredible

The albums I played most in 2005 were all older releases:

3 of 'em were released in the last part of '04, so they were still "new" when 2005 dawned:




I also bought (and played the shit out of):




Those were truthfully my "Albums of 2005". I played these albums ad naseum throughout the year.

If we were going to go by 2005 releases, these would have to be my favorite of the year:






As much as I hate to admit it, I did give this one quite a few spins over the summer:


My reissue of the year, which I found in pristine condition for $40!!:

Axchi696 said:

Where? Why? How?

GangstaFam said:

There's a local record chain near my apartment that has the best CD prices of any used record store in the area. I'm not sure if it was a mistake or what, but when I saw "the brick" for $40, I knew that I'd regret passing it up. I pretty much made my money back by trading in my old Talking Heads CDs.

Axchi696 said:

Even used, that's still a great price. How is it? I've been eyeing it at Best Buy for $150 but I just can't spend that much.

GangstaFam said:

It's incredible. The sound quality is all that I'd hoped for and more. Fear of Music, Remain in Light and Speaking in Tongues are the ones I've listened to the most, and they're almost like listening to brand new albums! RIL in particular, is a revelation. I had bought the Once in a Lifetime box a year or two ago, but even so, hearing the entire album sound this good just makes me .

There are a few minor quibbles (they could've included more as far as unreleased material, not all of the videos are on the DVD side, the CD packaging is stupid IMO), but overall it's completely worth it!

Axchi696 said:

Tell me more about the stupid packaging?

TRON said:

Well, the entire thing is packaged in a white plastic box, which is pretty cool, I guess. However, each album is packaged in a jewel box with a completely white back. There is no back cover visible, there is no tracklist on the back of the box, there is no writing on the spine of the CD. Other than the album cover, there is no way to distinguish each disc from each other. If you weren't already familiar with which song belonged to which disc, you'd have to open up the case (and in many cases, open up the actual booklet) to look for the tracklisting.

Not huge problems, but I do think they're annoying enough.

#1 Kate Bush/Aerial - by lightyears!!!
#2 Tori Amos/The Beekeeper
#3 Róisín Murphy/Ruby Blue

Reissues of the year:

#1 David Bowie/David Live (1974)
#2 David Bowie/Stage (1978)
#3 Eurythmics/Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (1983)

Also, with the Talking Heads Brick, since the albums are DualDiscs, they are thicker than a regular audio CD. I have to put them in my car stereo about 3 or 4 times to get it to recognize them.

Axchi696 said:

Dude! Copy 'em first. They'll get majorly fucked if you don't.

TRON said:

I'm actually in the process of taking the old stuff out of iTunes and putting the newly remastered songs in. This way I can just plug the iPod in the car and keep the CDs pristine in their cases. I can save them for playing in my surround sound system.

Fear of Music in Surround Sound...

Axchi696 said:

I need these now.

TRON said:

I'll be on the lookout for another $40 copy.

HamsterHuey said:

i agree, it's probably my fav too, well except perhaps for Chad




but it's called Ruby Blue

IstenSzek said:

Good morning, Ruby!!!

Cheek said:

Good morning, Crystal

IstenSzek said:

You're starting to jack this thread!!!

Cheek said:

no i'm not

IstenSzek said:

Okay, you already did it!

Cheek said:

should i stop now?

IstenSzek said:

No! You just can't stop now!!!


Oh....wait... ...Larry's calling me...

Cheek said:

is it time for his sponge bath?

IstenSzek said:

No! Prince got into trouble again...

I've got to go to help him...

Cheek said:

did he divorce yet another wife for a 16 year old latina?

IstenSzek said:

Cheek said:

larry must be so jealous, being stuck with Tina the Towel Twirler

IstenSzek said:

Larry's an ass!

He tried to steal my Skinhéad O' Connor CD...

I slapped him with the Bible!