Nov 28, 2010

The Best Albums Of 2005

Top 50


  1. Silent alarm - BLOC PARTY
  2. LCD Soundsystem - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
  3. Gimme fiction - SPOON
  4. Picaresque - THE DECEMBERISTS
  5. Fall heads roll - THE FALL
  6. Golden ocean - 50 FOOT WAVE
  7. No wow - THE KILLS
  8. You could have it so much better - FRANZ FERDINAND
  9. I'm wide awake, it's morning / Digital ash in a digital urn - BRIGHT EYES
  10. Illinois - SUFJAN STEVENS
  11. Cuts across the land - THE DUKE SPIRIT
  12. Lullabies to paralyze - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
  13. The great destroyer - LOW
  14. Broken Social Scene - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
  15. Everything ecstatic - FOUR TET
  16. Let us never speak of it again - OUT HUD
  17. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH
  18. The woods - SLEATER-KINNEY
  19. Witching hour - LADYTRON
  20. Set yourself on fire - STARS
  21. Pretty in black - THE RAVEONETTES
  22. Twin cinema - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
  23. The secret migration - MERCURY REV
  24. Plans - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
  25. Ex hex - MARY TIMONY
  26. Face the truth - STEPHEN MALKMUS
  27. Late registration - KANYE WEST
  28. Get behind me Satan - THE WHITE STRIPES
  29. Cripple crow - DEVENDRA BANHART
  30. The mouse and the mask - DANGER DOOM
  31. Apologies to the Queen Mary - WOLF PARADE
  32. Live it out - METRIC
  33. Grab that gun - THE ORGAN
  34. The back room - EDITORS
  35. Absence - DALEK
  36. Wilderness - WILDERNESS
  37. Elevator - HOT HOT HEAT
  38. Employment - KAISER CHIEFS
  39. Stars of CCTV - HARD-FI
  40. Capture / Release - THE RAKES
  41. A certain trigger - MAXIMO PARK
  42. Tree city - ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET
  43. The Bravery - THE BRAVERY
  44. Arular - M.I.A.
  45. We have sound - TOM VEK
  46. Feels - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
  47. Tournament of hearts - CONSTANTINES
  48. The alternative to love - BRENDAN BENSON
  49. Man-made - TEENAGE FANCLUB
  50. Oceans apart - THE GO-BETWEENS
Also recommended:

Separation Sunday - THE HOLD STEADY, Black forest - A FRAMES, The repulsion box - SONS AND DAUGHTERS, Waiting for the sirens' call - NEW ORDER, Odyssey - FISCHERSPOONER, The documentary - THE GAME, Surrounded by silence - PREFUSE 73, The new fellas - THE CRIBS, Tanglewood numbers - SILVER JEWS, A river ain't too much to love - SMOG, Take fountain - THE WEDDING PRESENT, Menos El Oso - MINUS THE BEAR, Birds make good neighbors - THE ROSEBUDS, Descended like vultures - ROGUE WAVE, The invisible invasion - THE CORAL, The Magic Numbers - THE MAGIC NUMBERS, Some cities - DOVES, Black Mountain - BLACK MOUNTAIN, Z - MY MORNING JACKET, Demon days - GORILLAZ, Guero - BECK, Lost and safe - THE BOOKS, Noah's ark - COCOROSIE, Year of meteors - LAURA VEIRS, Pixel revolt - JOHN VANDERSLICE, Discover a lovelier you - PERNICE BROTHERS, …Tick…Tick…Tick - STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3, Worlds apart - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, Howl - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Hearts and unicorns - GIANT DRAG, Nice and nicely done - SPINTO BAND, Underwater cinematographer - MOST SERENE REPUBLIC, Duel at dawn - MOMMY AND DADDY, With love and squalor - WE ARE SCIENTISTS, Weight is a gift - NADA SURF, Down in Albion - BABYSHAMBLES, Black rays defense - THE BEAT UP, The Others - THE OTHERS, Harmonies for the haunted - STELLASTARR*, Odditorium or Warlords of Mars - THE DANDY WARHOLS, Push the button - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, Before the dawn heals us - M83, In the clear - IVY, Open season - BRITISH SEA POWER, Oh no - OK GO, Gimmie trouble - ADULT., Home sweet home - KANO, You can't imagine how much fun we're having - ATMOSPHERE, In your honor - FOO FIGHTERS, Warnings / Promises - IDLEWILD, Laughter's fifth - LOVE AS LAUGHTER, Emoh - LOU BARLOW, Infiniheart - CHAD VANGAALEN, Blinking lights and other revelations - EELS, Cold roses / Jacksonville city nights - RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS, 29 - RYAN ADAMS, Rehearsing my choir / EP - THE FIERY FURNACES, Everything is - NINE BLACK ALPS, For screening purposes only - TEST ICICLES, The Dead 60's - THE DEAD 60'S, Axes - ELECTRELANE, Bleed like me - GARBAGE, Frances the mute - THE MARS VOLTA, What comes after the blues - MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO, Trials & errors - MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO, Loose in the air - THE DOUBLE, Pony Up! - PONY UP!, Matson Jones - MATSON JONES, The wedding - ONEIDA, I am a bird now - ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, Andrew Bird & the mysterious production of eggs - ANDREW BIRD, Somebody’s miracle - LIZ PHAIR, Be - COMMON, Black dialogue - PERCEPTIONISTS, In case we die - ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI, Black sheep boy - OKKERVIL RIVER, All harm ends here - EARLY DAY MINERS, Howl howl gaff gaff - SHOUT OUT LOUDS, Flex time - THE DIALS, The runners four - DEERHOOF, Tender buttons - BROADCAST, The best party ever - THE BOY LEAST LIKELY TO, Superwolf  - MATT SWEENEY AND BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, Takk - SIGUR ROS, Bang bang rock and roll - ART BRUT, Give blood - BRAKES, Heat - COLDER, Awfully deep - ROOTS MANUVA, Grandmasters - DJ MUGGS VS. GZA/GENIUS, New whirl odor - PUBLIC ENEMY, My machine - PRINCESS SUPERSTAR, Purple haze - CAM'RON,  Beauty and the beat - EDAN, Out of breach (Manchester's revenge) - MU, Extraordinary machine - FIONA APPLE, Aerial - KATE BUSH, As is now - PAUL WELLER, Devils and dust - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Honeycomb - FRANK BLACK, Body of song - BOB MOULD, TheFutureEmbrace - BILLY CORGAN, Made in China - JULIANA HATFIELD, Pocket revolution - dEUS, Fires in distant buildings - GRAVENHURST, The lighthouse - ANA DA SILVA, Knuckle down - ANI DIFRANCO, Awake is the new sleep - BEN LEE, Nashville - JOSH ROUSE, Transistor radio - M WARD, On my way to absence - DAMIEN JURADO, Dignity and shame - CROOKED FINGERS, The view from the floor - SLOW DAZZLE, At the national grid - THE BATS, Spelled in bones - FRUIT BATS, More deep cuts - THEE MORE SHALLOWS, Alpine static - KINSKI, Mezmerize / Hypnotize - SYSTEM OF A DOWN, With teeth - NINE INCH NAILS, Out of my head - THE D4, Such triumph - NARRATOR, I was born at night - MENEGUAR, Black comet - THE HEAVENLY STATES, Hurricane bar - MANDO DIAO, Celebration - CELEBRATION, Aw come aw wry - PHOSPHORESCENT, Quit +/or fight - HOLOPAW, The color and the light - JENNIFER O'CONNOR, Okemah and the melody of riot - SON VOLT, Engineers - ENGINEERS, Field Music - FIELD MUSIC, Road to Rouen - SUPERGRASS, Here come The Tears - THE TEARS, Super extra gravity - THE CARDIGANS, Alligator - THE NATIONAL, OK cowboy - VITALIC, Jesu - JESU, Gypsy punks: Underdog world strike - GOGOL BORDELLO, The best little secrets are kept - LOUIS XIV, Easy beat - DR. DOG, The last romance - ARAB STRAP, Lucky dog recordings 03-04 - STUART A STAPLES, Strange geometry - THE CLIENTELE, Let it die - FEIST, The baby and the satellite - MICAH P HINSON, Tiger, my friend - PSAPP, God's money - GANG GANG DANCE, Woman king - IRON AND WINE, In the reins - CALEXICO / IRON AND WINE, Excerpts from the diary of Todd Zilla - GRANDADDY, Oscillons from the anti-sun - STEREOLAB, Prisoners of love - YO LA TENGO, The complete Peel Sessions 1978 - 2004 - THE FALL, B-sides & rarities - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS

Nov 12, 2010

The Best Albums Of 2004

Top 50


  1. Franz Ferdinand - FRANZ FERDINAND
  2. Abattoir blues / The lyre of Orpheus - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
  3. Good news for people who love bad news - MODEST MOUSE
  4. Louden up now - !!!
  5. Desperate youth, blood thirsty babes - TV ON THE RADIO
  6. Pawn shoppe heart - THE VON BONDIES
  7. Antics - INTERPOL
  8. You are the quarry - MORRISSEY
  9. Funeral - THE ARCADE FIRE
  10. Sonic nurse - SONIC YOUTH
  11. Misery is a butterfly - BLONDE REDHEAD
  12. Bubblegum - MARK LANEGAN BAND
  13. No cities left - THE DEARS
  14. To the 5 boroughs - BEASTIE BOYS
  15. Hot fuss - THE KILLERS
  16. The power out - ELECTRELANE
  17. Bows + arrows - THE WALKMEN
  18. You're a woman, I’m a machine - DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979
  19. Tyrannosaurus Hives - THE HIVES
  20. Uh huh her - PJ HARVEY
  21. More adventurous - RILO KILEY
  22. The Concretes - THE CONCRETES
  23. Thunder, lightning, strike - THE GO! TEAM
  24. The Futureheads - THE FUTUREHEADS
  25. The royal society - THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER
  26. Audit in progress - HOT SNAKES
  27. This island - LE TIGRE
  28. The college dropout - KANYE WEST
  29. American idiot - GREEN DAY
  30. Shake the sheets - TED LEO + THE PHARMACISTS
  31. Damage - BLUES EXPLOSION
  32. Auf Der Maur - AUF DER MAUR
  33. Cellar door - JOHN VANDERSLICE
  34. Our endless numbered days - IRON AND WINE
  35. The dirty south - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
  36. Love songs for patriots - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB
  37. Is all over the map - GIANT SAND
  38. Universal audio - THE DELGADOS
  39. LP - AMBULANCE LTD
  40. They were wrong, so we drowned - LIARS
  41. Sur les traces de black eskimo - LES GEORGES LENINGRAD
  42. 76/77 - COBRA KILLER
  43. Stealing of a nation - RADIO 4
  44. Margerine eclipse - STEREOLAB
  45. La maison de mon reve - COCOROSIE
  46. Love and distance - THE HELIO SEQUENCE
  47. Almost killed me - THE HOLD STEADY
  48. Fuckin A - THE THERMALS
  49. The Libertines - THE LIBERTINES
  50. Showtime - DIZZEE RASCAL
Also recommended:

Wet from birth - THE FAINT, Future perfect - AUTOLUX, Midnight Movies - MIDNIGHT MOVIES, Out of the shadow - ROGUE WAVE, These were The Earlies - THE EARLIES, Origin vol. 1 - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, Sex, love and rock 'n' roll - SOCIAL DISTORTION, Half smiles of the decomposed - GUIDED BY VOICES, A-ha shake heart break - KINGS OF LEON, 22-20s - 22-20s, Rubber factory - THE BLACK KEYS, Madvillainy - MADVILLAIN, Murs 3:16 the 9th edition - MURS, The tipping point - THE ROOTS, Faking the books - LALI PUNA, The new danger - MOS DEF, White people - HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL, Devin Dazzle & The Neon Fever - FELIX DA HOUSECAT, I com - MISS KITTIN, A grand don't come for free - THE STREETS, Winchester cathedral - CLINIC, Monolithic baby! - MONSTER MAGNET, Now here is nowhere - SECRET MACHINES, Lesser matters - THE RADIO DEPT., Around the sun - R.E.M., A ghost is born - WILCO, From a basement on the hill - ELLIOTT SMITH, She loves you - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS, America’s sweetheart - COURTNEY LOVE, Baby - THE DETROIT COBRAS, Three fingers - THE ROGERS SISTERS, Thunder + lightning - MODEY LEMON, Street’s disciple - NAS, The grey album - DANGER MOUSE, Das not compute - DIVISION OF LAURA LEE, Leave no ashes - BURNING BRIDES, Winning days - THE VINES, Up all night - RAZORLIGHT, Modern apprentice - IKARA COLT, Blueberry boat - THE FIERY FURNACES, 50 foot wave - 50 FOOT WAVE, Love the cup - SONS AND DAUGHTERS, All songs written by: Human Television - HUMAN TELEVISION, Awcmon Noyoucmon - LAMBCHOP, Monsoon - PRESTON SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY, Onoffon - MISSION OF BURMA, Porcelain - SPARTA, Secret wars - ONEIDA, Penance soiree - THE ICARUS LINE, 04 - SIX BY SEVEN, Heroes to zeros - THE BETA BAND, In exile deo - JULIANA HATFIELD, Whiskey tango ghosts - TANYA DONELLY, Tasty - KELIS, Revolutionary but gangsta - DEAD PREZ, Tical 0: the prequel - METHOD MAN, In a safe place - THE ALBUM LEAF, As the cry flows - SEAFOOD, Armed love - THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY, Fur - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT, Wild like children - TILLY AND THE WALL, One plus one is one - BADLY DRAWN BOY, Achilles heel - PEDRO THE LION, Panda park - 90 DAY MEN, The Dresden Dolls - THE DRESDEN DOLLS, Treble and tremble - EARLIMART, Folker - PAUL WESTERBERG, Together we’re heavy - THE POLYPHONIC SPREE, The laughing stock of indie rock - SOLEX, Rejoicing in the hands / Nino rojo - DEVANDRA BANHART, The delivery man - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE IMPOSTERS, New roman times - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN, Fine lines - ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET, Radios burn faster - READ YELLOW, Yes to everything - THE WASHDOWN, Red bedroom - THE FEVER, School of etiquette - BOYSKOUT, Girls of war - DIE MONITR BATSS, No wicked heart shall prosper - SELFISH C*NT, Radical connector - MOUSE ON MARS, Ten - CLOUDDEAD, The handler - HAR MAR SUPERSTAR, The Pretty Toney album - GHOSTFACE, Encore - EMINEM, The beautiful struggle - TALIB KWELI, Cee-Lo Green is the soul machine - CEE-LO, Talkie walkie - AIR, Medulla - BJORK, Blue cathedral - COMETS ON FIRE, Burned mind - WOLF EYES, Summer in Abaddon - PINBACK, Trial of the century - FRENCH KICKS, Fontaine Toups - FONTAINE TOUPS, The difference between you and me is that I’m not on fire - McLUSKY, Kiss and tell - SAHARA HOTNIGHTS, Gold medal - THE DONNAS, Winged life - SHEARWATER, The lost riots - HOPE OF THE STATES, Over the counter culture - THE ORDINARY BOYS, Phantom Planet - PHANTOM PLANET, Drill a hole in that substrate & tell me what you see - JIM WHITE, Seven swans - SUFJAN STEVENS, Micah P Hinson and The Gospel Of Progress - MICAH P HINSON AND THE GOSPEL OF PROGRESS, Real gone - TOM WAITS, Where the humans eat - WILLY MASON, Post to wire - RICHMOND FONTAINE, The heat - JESSE MALIN, Soviet kitsch - REGINA SPEKTOR, Satan’s circus - DEATH IN VEGAS, Always outnumbered, never outgunned - THE PRODIGY, Any minute now - SOULWAX, C.aarme - C.AARME, Power - Q AND NOT U, Purity pledge - TODD, Named and shamed - THE FLAMING STARS, i - THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, Alphabetical - PHOENIX, Scissor Sisters - SCISSOR SISTERS, How to dismantle an atomic bomb - U2, Trampin’ - PATTI SMITH, Educated guess - ANI DIFRANCO, The milk-eyed mender - JOANNA NEWSOM, Spooked - ROBYN HITCHCOCK, Van Lear Rose - LORETTA LYNN, Rendezvous - LUNA, No more songs about sleep and fire - POSTER CHILDREN, Those are not my bongos - FUCK, Pyramid Electric Co. - JASON MOLINA, Bangers vs. fuckers - COACHWHIPS, Get saved - PILOT TO GUNNER, Moratoria - BIKINI ATOLL, Inches - LES SAVY FAV, Interim - THE FALL