Top 10's of 2005 and upcoming releases.
List your top 10 best and worst albums of 2005.
Strictly music. Don't vote an album as horrid just because you don't like how the band look. Only vote if you've actually listened to the whole album and like/dislike the music.
Also, list the top 10 albums (if you can) of artists you are awaiting releases from in 2006. 1 being most anticipated, 10 (or lowest number) being not much.
-AC
Best Albums...
1.Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2.Chiodos - Alls Well that Ends Well
3.Editors - The Editors
4.Coldplay - X&Z (despite a lot of hate, this album has some great music)
5. test icicles debut
6. we are scientists debut
7. Chemical Brothers - Psuh the button
8. Hard-Fi Stars of CCTV
9.The Subways debut
10. Take that Best Of - JK. Although i wish I had it...
Worsed...
Well, I liked all the albums that i bought. Hours by FFAF was a bit of a let down but still ok.
Next/This Year.....
Morrisey' new album whcih he is talking up alot atm
A new vines album...could be hit and miss
new Radiohead album...despite what you might expect AC. Hope its as good as hail to the Thief.
New Strokes album.
new lostprophets and bloc party Albums aswell.
this post was a clear travesty to grammer...but im tired.
Best Albums
1.Gorillaz - Demon Days
2.The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
3.The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
4.Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
5. Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quas
6.DangerDoom - The Mouse and the Mask
7.Cage - Hell's Winter
8.Kanye West - Late Registration
I can't really list anymore...i was only positive about the first 5 maybe? Anyway, 05 was disappointing for me, at least for my taste.
Looking forward to...
Madvillain 2
New Mars Volta
New Dre
New Radiohead
New Strokes
New Can Ox
Serengeti - Gasoline Rainbows
Omar Rodriguez Solo album
Ghostface and Doom album
hopefully some new artists and just so much more....'06 is looking good.
1. Opeth- Ghost Reveries
2. Porcupine Tree- Deadwing
3. Fantomas- Suspended Animation
4. Gorillaz- Demon Days
5. Cage- Hell's Winter
6. Audioslave- Out of Exile
7. Zion I- True & Livin'
8. System of a Down- Mezmerize
9. Dredg- catch without arms
10. The Mars Volta- Frances The Mute
Worst CD I bought from this year would be With Teeth.
I'm looking forward to pretty much everything in Wolf Dog's list along with new Tool, Radiohead, Willhaven, Deftones, Tomahawk.
Peeping Tom (another new Patton project) assuming he puts it out, plus whatever else he might do.
Mine:
1) Hypnotize by System of a Down.
2) Ghost Reveries by Opeth.
3) Suspended Animation by Fantômas.
4) Make Believe by Weezer.
5) Deadwing by Porcupine Tree.
6) You'll Rebel to Anything by Mindless Self Indulgence.
7) Mezmerize by System of a Down.
8) Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes.
9) Catch Without Arms by Dredg.
10) Lullabies to Paralyze by Queens of the Stone Age.
Worst is also With Teeth.
Looking forward to: Tool mostly, Radiohead and Grandaddy JUST behind that. Other Patton stuff. New Cave In and also The Cure. All those are my top most anticipated.
Honourable mention to: New Deftones...I'm quite interested to hear what they do. Red Hot Chili Peppers and POSSIBLY The Smashing Pumpkins (if they DO reform). Metallica might drop something by the end of the year also.
-AC
Hmmmm....top 10 faves of this year:
1. Audioslave - Out of Exile
2. SOAD - Mesmerize
3. QOTSA - Lullabies to Paralyze
4. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
5. MSI - You'll Rebel to Anything
6. SOAD - Hypnotize
7. Gorillaz - Demon Days
8. Dredg - Catch Without Arms
9. Weezer - Make Believe
10. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
The precise order of that list of course shifts on a daily basis, but I do believe that of the CDs that I got that came out this year, those are my favorites.
Only thing I regret getting, really, was With Teeth.
What I'm looking forward too....well, pretty much the same as everyone else, it seems -- Tool and Radiohead topping the list.
best
cold roses by ryan adams
get behind me satan by the white stripes
jacksonville city nights by ryan adams
first impressions of earth by the strokes
29 by ryan adams
trouble by ray lamontange
want two by rufus wainwright
i am a bird now by anthony and the johnsons
silent alarm by bloc party
the roads dont love you by gemma hayes
and an honourable mention to madeleine peyroux who's album i also enjoyed
those were the albums i enjoyed the most in 2005
albums that i found disappointing or just dont like
employment by kaiser chiefs
one way ticket to hell...and back by the darkness
life in slow motion by david gray
some cities by doves
on and on by jack johnson
aha shake heartbeat by kings of leon
dont believe the truth by oasis
no wow by the kills (might have been 2004 but i cant remember)
who killed the zutons?...by the zutons
you could have it so much better by franz ferdinand
as for albums i'm looking forward to this year
hopefully Adam Duritz will get his life back on track and write a new counting crows album and hopefully it'll be out this year
anything by ryan adams (even if its only the one album this year)
and my own album...heehee
Adding another catagory for those who wish to partake:
Biggest surprise album? Eg: For me it was Say Hello to Sunshine by Finch. Didn't expect to like it one bit, at all. Bought it off the back of reviews (not just because they were good, but because they said some things that caught my eye) and the fact that I had heard a single from it which I liked. Thought the album would be a let down, but I really liked it.
So basically, one you bought on a whim or by recommendation without a clue about and ended up liking.
-AC
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Adding another catagory for those who wish to partake:Biggest surprise album? Eg: For me it was Say Hello to Sunshine by Finch. Didn't expect to like it one bit, at all. Bought it off the back of reviews (not just because they were good, but because they said some things that caught my eye) and the fact that I had heard a single from it which I liked. Thought the album would be a let down, but I really liked it.
So basically, one you bought on a whim or by recommendation without a clue about and ended up liking.
-AC
unfortunately i dont get to do that as often as i would like any more...my disposable income aint what it used to be after becoming a poor student again and the returns policies of the local stores are swaps only
the ones i picked up that were better than expected over the last few years were
small moments by david kitt
faded seaside glamour by delays
old crow medicine show self titled
mojave by willard grant conspiracy
music for the morning after by pete yorn
vulture street by powderfinger
danse macabre by the faint
kitty jay by seth lakeman
real feelness by the pattern
ethanomusicology vol 1 by russell gunn
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Adding another catagory for those who wish to partake:Biggest surprise album? Eg: For me it was Say Hello to Sunshine by Finch. Didn't expect to like it one bit, at all. Bought it off the back of reviews (not just because they were good, but because they said some things that caught my eye) and the fact that I had heard a single from it which I liked. Thought the album would be a let down, but I really liked it.
So basically, one you bought on a whim or by recommendation without a clue about and ended up liking.
-AC
Just recently, Pollyanna by Northstar. Hadnt listened to the band much, but I liked the couple songs I'd heard so I bought it. Great CD
And yeah, Transatlantacism is a lot better than Plans
Best Albums:
1) Common - Be
2) Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
3) Lyrics Born - Same Sh*t Different Day
4) M Ward - Transister Radio
5) Blackalicious - The Craft
6) Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
7) Dios Malos - Dios (Malos)
8) Gorillaz - Demon Days
9) Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now
10) MIA - Arular
Originally posted by Imaginary
Yeesh, I guess I won't be buying With Teeth after all...
Don't pay attention to all these haterz, they just jealous a my homeboy T-Rez. sp_ike
In all seriousness though, With Teeth isn't that bad. It was definitely a disappointment after The Fragile, but I would still buy it again. It has some decent tracks, a couple great tracks, and at least one really annoying song. I would say it's at least the second worst album I bought this year, maybe the first, but not because it was particularly awful—just because I didn't buy any albums that I didn't like.
My worst is either With Teeth or The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place by Explosions in the Sky (damn that's a mouthful). TEINACDP (damn that's an acronym) is fine if you listen to one song off it, in fact it's quite good, but listening to the whole thing is sooooo repetitive. It's like running around in circles. I swear that they have the same song on there at least twice. I know it wasn't released in '05, but it was a big disappointment for me after hearing everybody tell me how great it was and how it would change my life.
As for my top ten... I'm too damn lazy...
best of 2005, for me (couldnt put it in order though!):
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
God Forbid - IV: constitution of Treason
The Agony Scene - Darkest Red
Betzefer - Down Low
Bleed the Sky - Paradigm in Entropy
Byzantine - ...And they Shall Take up Serpents
DevilDriver - The Fury of Our Makers Hand
Opeth - Ghost reveries
Soulfly - Dark Ages
Leng T'che - The Process of Elimination