Top Ten of 2005

[Alexissleeping]

I haven't seen this list on thie site yet. I was just wondering how the Moz enthusiast would rate this past year's releases - These are my favorites from the past year, Also, I tried to include a few other Albums from other genre's so as to not discriminte other styles of music-

ALEXISSLEEPING 10 TEN 2005

1.Morrissey- Live at the Quarry
2.Editors-Back Room
3.We Are Scientist-With Love and Squalor
4.The Rosebuds- Birds Make good...
5.Shout Out Louds- Howl, Howl..
6.LCD Soundsystem
7.Maximo Park- A Certain Trigger
8.Franz Ferdinand- You Could have it so much better...
9.New Order-Waiting for the Siren's Call
10.Hot Hot Heat- Elevator

Honorable Mentions- Kane West, Green Day, Animal Collective, Surjan Stevens

 

[Codreanu]

01. Parker and Lily - "The Low Lows"

02. Picastro - "Metal Cares"

03. Audiotransparent - "Nevland"

04. The Remote Viewer - "Let Your Heart Draw a Line"

05. Idaho - "The Lone Gunman"

06. L'altra - "Different Days"

07. July Skies - "The English Cold"

08. Hood - "Outside Closer"

09. Malcolm Middleton - "Into the Woods"

10. Coastal - "Halfway to You"

Honourable Mentions:

Mark Eitzel - "Candy Ass"

Piano Magic - "Opencast Heart" ep

Piano Magic - "Disaffected"

Aarktica - "Bleeding Light"

Annelies Monsere - "Helder"

Xiu Xiu - "La Foret"

Damien Jurado - "On My Way to Absence"

Mi and L'au - s/t

Doveman - "The Acrobat"

Liz Durrett - "Husk"

Thee More Shallows - "More Deep Cuts"

Remora - "Enamored"

Savoy Grand - "People and What they Want"

Jason Anderson - "The Wreath"

Drekka - "Extractioning"

South San Gabriel - "The Carlton Chronicles"

Maria Taylor - "11:11"

Early Day Miners - "All Harm Ends Here"

The Montgolfier Brothers - "All my Bad Thoughts"

Library Tapes - "Lost in the Bright Lights of a Shattered Life"

The London Apartments - "Romanticism Aside"

Fred Thomas - "Tuesday Series: March, 01, 2005"

Marissa Nadler - "The Saga of Mayflower May"

Brian McBride - "When the Detail Lost its Freedom"

Notables:

Dawn Smithson - "Safer Here"

Kepler - "Attic Salt"

Boduf Songs - s/t

The White Birch - "Come Up for Air"

The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Seller - "The Mother of Love Emulates the Shapes of Cynthia"

The Books - "Lost and Safe"

Smog - "A River is too Much to Love"

Shearwater - "Thieves" ep

Annelies Monsere - "7" ep

Summer at Shatter Creek - "All the Answers"

Lovers - "The Gutter and the Garden"

Maquiladora - "A House all on Fire"

Elizabeth Anka Vajagic - "Nostalgia/Pain"

Lowlights - "Dark End Road"

Drowsy - "Growing Green"

Hood - "The Hood Tapes"

Jandek - "Khartoum"

Nat Baldwin - "Lights Out"

Great Lake Swimmers - "Body and Minds"

http://www.morrissey-solo.com/discuss/index.cgi?noframes;read=293158

 

[The Killing Moon]

Echo & The Bunnymen - Siberia

My fave album of the year.