Your Album of the Year for 2005.

[Beware the Beast Man]

Most of the stuff I came across this year wasn't released in 2005 (my pick technically came out in 2004). While QOTSA and White Stripes released good discs this year, they paled compared to their earlier work.

My pick goes to "Future Perfect" by Autolux. If your into early 90's "shoegazer" stuff infused with a bit of pop (as well as Sonic Youth-ish noise rock), then you'll like it. I managed to get dolo amber and asthmaticeog into them as well.

[johnnie]

1. Assah Mahtah Afakt

It took us five fucking years to get it done so it is my favorite because I got so sick of it.

[trogdor]

2. Green Day "American Idiot"

Hands down. It's been a looooooooooooooong time since we've had a really killer rock album.

[ghostsofgiants]

5. That came out in '04

[ghostsofgiants]

3. It's a tie, I think...

"Frances the Mute" by The Mars Volta


and

"Kezia" by Protest the Hero

[Strawman]

4. Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike

Getting tired of lo-fi indie rock from seratonin deficient white college kids? This is the album for you.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. Kickass album.

[asthmaticeog]

7. I will enthusiastically second that.

I've seen 'em live three times this year - SO much fun. Fantastic band. They could do for Eastern European music what the Pogues did for Irish folk.

[dolo amber]

19. That album came closest to

earworming me damn near to death this year, I'll certainly give it that. x(

But yeah, one of my top picks fo' sho. :hi:

And the Autolux record is pretty much the shit! :D

[progmom]

8. I can never narrow it down to just one.

World/electronica/hip hop with political commentary... I can listen to this record over and over.

and also:

[peekaloo]

10. Yay M.I.A.!

:yourock:

Kanye's a lightweight.

[AllegroRondo]

9. Bela Fleck - Different Planets

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

11. This is probably cheating, but the 30th anniversary reissue of

Patti Smith's "Horses". Obviously the album itself is utterly brilliant, but the live version of the album, recorded in the Summer, also kicks serious ass (and she's nearly 60!).

"Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine ..."


I'll put my brother onto "Future Perfect" - it sounds like it might be his sort of thing.

[darkstar]

16. Seconded on Patti Smith

Best live recording in a long, long time, IMO. Chill worthy.


:toast:

[Initech]

12. My pick - Opeth's "Ghost Reveries"

The rest of my top 5:

#2 - The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute



#3 - Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel



#4 - The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang



#5 - Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze

[bif]

13. "Kicking Television" by Wilco

[jane_pippin]

14. Surprise surprise, I'm going with this one:

Black Lips



http://www.intheredrecords.com/pages/blacklips.html


Although that Dylan No Direction Home bootleg series is up there too. (I've been very...let's call it focused on music this year. As in I listened to about 5-6 records over and over and over. Perhaps there's a New Year's resolution hiding in this somewhere.)

[WCGreen]

15. John Coltrane and Thelonius Monk....

Voice of America Recording found this year....

From 1956....

Don't tell anyone but I am getting Mrs. WCGreen the CD for Christmas...

[hippiechick]

17. I've seen ALOT of people talking about it ...

And rating it bery highly.
Must investigate.

:hi:

[Kazak]

18. Broadcast - Tender Buttons

:)