Best albums of first 1/2 of 2005? - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

Derwood · 06-23-2005, 05:32 AM

I started a similar thread last year. Just post what you think the best albums have been so far in 2005.

Mine (in no particluar order):

"I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" - Bright Eyes

"Some Cities" - Doves

"X&Y" - Coldplay

"Get Behind Me Satain" - White Stripes

"Frances the Mute" - The Mars Volta

Stompy · 06-23-2005, 06:17 AM

(I'm not sure what half those albums are up there

)

NIN - With Teeth
Fantomas - Suspended Animation
Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel To Anything
System of a Down - Mesmerize

sherpahigh · 06-23-2005, 06:43 AM

Lots of great stuff coming out lately and it looks pretty good for the rest of the year too. Here's a few of the best ones i've picked up so far this year:

There's a few others that could be up there as well but I haven't given them enough of a chance yet to say for sure. Been great listening so far though, seems like every tuesday lately there's something new worth picking up.

AVoiceOfReason · 06-23-2005, 07:45 AM

I'm going to go with COLD ROSES by Ryan Adams. I've listened to a ton of stuff on Rhapsody this year; the new Oasis, White Stripes, Ringo Starr, Aimee Mann and a few others I'm not thinking of as I sit here, but Adams' disc takes my gold medal thus far.

Bacchanal · 06-23-2005, 08:13 AM

My list, other than the first they're in no order:

1. Cephalic Carnage - Anomalies
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Team Sleep - Team Sleep
NIN - With Teeth
Fantomas - Suspended Animation

rockzilla · 06-23-2005, 10:29 AM

Almost all of my picks are up there so far... Mars Volta, Beck, Queens Of The Stone Age, Gorillaz.

The only new one I'll add is Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth. It's the next best thing to hearing a new Pavement album.

streak_56 · 06-23-2005, 10:45 AM

X&Y - Coldplay

Self Titled - Matt Mays and El Torpedo

Self Titled - Theory of a Dead Man

Mesmorize - System of a Down

Sitting, Waiting, Wishing - Jack Johnson

trickyy · 06-23-2005, 11:41 AM

clap your hands and say yeah. they just put out a pretty good album.

spoon - gimme fiction

m83 - before the dawn heals us

kanye west will probably be up here soon (august, apparently).

i agree with many already listed, but i still need to hear with teeth.

springhaze · 06-23-2005, 11:53 AM

Jagged Little Pill Acoustic - Alanis Morissette
With Teeth - NIN
Guero - Beck
Gasoline - Theory of a Deadman
Music from the O.C. - Mix 4

FoolThemAll · 06-23-2005, 05:17 PM

Only two of the CDs I've bought so far this year were released in 2005. One was Belle & Sebastian's Push Barman to Open Old Wounds, but that was a compilation of EPs released years earlier overseas. The other was Brendan Benson's The Alternative to Love. That was pretty good, so I'll go with that.

muckluck · 06-23-2005, 06:23 PM

Out of Exile - Audioslave and the new NIN album were both pretty good.

Sleepyjack · 06-23-2005, 07:40 PM

just off the top of my head....

Sleater Kinney - The Woods
Architecture In Helsinki - in case we die
Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
Antony and the JOhnsons- I am a bird now
System of a down - Mesmerize
Shining - In the kingdom of kitsch you will be a monster
THe Books - Lost and Safe
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
The Decemberists - Picaresque

meanSpleen · 06-23-2005, 09:31 PM

Of releases this year so far (released Jan 1 or later), here are my top 5 in no particular order!

Eisley - Room Noises

Shivaree - Who's Got Trouble?

The Raveonettes - Pretty In Black

M.I.A - Arular

Feist - Let It Die

Sleepyjack · 06-30-2005, 09:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trickyy

clap your hands and say yeah. they just put out a pretty good album.

I've been listening to this all week, another great album for 2005

Seanland · 06-30-2005, 10:38 PM

Ying Yang Twins - US of Atlanta
Gorillaz - Demon Days
System of a Down - Mesmorize

sgn43 · 07-01-2005, 12:02 AM

it just came out a week ago:

Dredg - Catch Without Arms

easily my favorite album of the year so far. I also have to give a vote for Fantomas - Suspended Animation.

alpha · 07-01-2005, 04:00 AM

Love the new Coldplay. SOAD's new was great too.

cellophanedeity · 07-01-2005, 06:45 AM

Ani Difranco's Knuckle Down may be the best album of hers so far.

muckluck · 07-01-2005, 01:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sgn43

it just came out a week ago:

Dredg - Catch Without Arms

easily my favorite album of the year so far.

I second this

Wyodiver33 · 07-02-2005, 12:52 PM

Thanks for the heads up on Dredg. So far I like it a lot.

Zephyr66 · 07-02-2005, 09:37 PM

and now for a metalhead's opinion
Dream Theater - Octavarium

Demons and Wizards - Touched by the Crimson King

Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny of Souls
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine(technically not released yet, but It's been leaked)

saut · 07-03-2005, 08:07 AM

The only two that impressed me at all were

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
and
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavour

Hopefully the 2nd half of '05 is as good as I was expecting the whole year to be.

Snoogans · 07-03-2005, 12:15 PM

Queens of the stoneage - Lullabies to paralyze.

I got it the day it came out, listened to it pretty much every day since. I cannot get tired of it.

Fourtyrulz · 07-08-2005, 08:32 PM

I second the new Cephalic Carnage as well as Fantomas' - Suspended Animation (the latter I picked up at Best Buy last week). I cannot wait to see songs like Wraith and Piecemaker live! |\m/| ( - - ) |\m/|

Edit: Owned by metal-archives =(

meanSpleen · 07-08-2005, 10:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fourtyrulz

Edit: I wish I was cool enough to post pics =(

I can teach you to be cool, for free!
1) go to http://allmusic.com
2) search for the album
3) copy the album cover URL
4) use the spiffy image tags to display the picture.

==

Feel free to click on "quote" of my post, derwoods, or sherpahigh's as we are all cool kids. You will be able to see how we linked to the images and stuff.

batteraziiz · 07-10-2005, 02:00 PM

Hip-hop/Industrial/Metalhead's opinion:
NIN - With Teeth
MSI - You'll Rebel To Anything
Black Lung - The Coming Dark Age
Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust
Atmosphere - Headshots: Se7en
Twiztid - Man's Myth
Murs & Slug - Felt 2: A Tribute To Lisa Bonet
Static-X - Start A War

saut · 07-10-2005, 11:15 PM

Ulver's new one, Blood Inside, is also quite excellent.

djflish · 07-12-2005, 04:57 AM

Love this album!

h2ogo69 · 07-12-2005, 05:41 AM

john frusciante - curtains
mars volta - francess the mute
nin - with teeth
dredg - catch without arms
bright eyes - i'm wide awake it's morning
into the moat - the design

iwhore · 07-17-2005, 02:56 PM

"Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear" by The Number Twelve Looks Like You
"Francis The Mute" by The Mars Volta
"Lullabies to Paralyse" by Queens Of The Stone Age
(Self Titled) by War of Ages

oldbob · 08-08-2005, 08:21 PM

The Books - Lost and Safe

LCD Soundsystem

The Kills - No Wow

The Stares - Spine to Sea

and some sweet reissues:
the complete field mice discography

ninety09 · 08-09-2005, 02:56 AM

Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Dream Theater - Octavarium
System of a Down - Mesmerize

Sleepyjack · 08-10-2005, 03:56 AM

Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
Edan: Beauty and the beat
Okkervil River: Black Sheep Boy

are a few more albums i've been listening to, a lot, lately.

Draconis · 08-11-2005, 06:15 AM

as.if.in.a.dream - Anders Olson

Lost and Safe - The Books

The Fall of Math - 65daysofstatic

Fear of a Black Tangent - Busdriver

Demon Days - Gorillaz

Alternative to Love - Brendan Benson

Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes

Gimme Fiction - Spoon

Picaresque - The Decemberists

Aborted · 08-11-2005, 10:19 AM

Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth. I love the record, I had a blast at the Milton Keynes Bowl show on July 9, and I thoroughly enjoy reading every press article that slates it.

Jeff · 08-12-2005, 12:22 PM

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers

Magnolia Electric Co. - What Comes After the Blues

Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger

FoolThemAll · 08-12-2005, 05:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FoolThemAll

The other was Brendan Benson's The Alternative to Love. That was pretty good, so I'll go with that.

Gotten more 2005 releases since then, so the list looks more like:

Brendan Benson - The Alternative to Love
Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs
Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins

Of those, I still need to give the Andrew Bird a few more listens, but my favorite so far by far is The Sunlandic Twins. The Queens is great when good, and boring when not. For every fantastic "Burn the Witch" or "Someone's in the Wolf", there's an uninteresting "In My Head" or "You've Got a Killer Scene There, Man...". Andrew Bird's the same way, wonderful spots and lackluster spots, though I'm more hopeful that the lackluster would grow on me with further listens. Benson's good, but only a couple tracks might qualify as more than ordinary.

labob · 08-12-2005, 10:34 PM

In no particular order...

Gang Of Four - Entertainment!(Remastered)
This one is here on a technicality, as it was originally released in 1979

We Are Wolves - NON-STOP Je Te Plie En Deux

Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets Are Kept

New Order - Waiting for the Sirens' Call

LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem<br>

Gorillaz - Demon Days

I Am Kloot - Gods & Monsters (This one gets an Honorable mention, as it was released in August. Their earlier stuff is much better)

snowy · 08-12-2005, 10:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aborted

Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth. I love the record, I had a blast at the Milton Keynes Bowl show on July 9, and I thoroughly enjoy reading every press article that slates it.

Oooh, jealous...

I've been meaning to go back to Borders and read the article on them in Q...I've been in love with Noel Gallagher for 10 years now. That aside, I love the FEEL of the new album. It's very vintage. Love it.

spectre · 08-12-2005, 11:36 PM

A CD so good, I listen to it daily.

Mafia by Black Label Society

06-23-2005, 05:32 AM	#1 (permalink)
Derwood Who You Crappin? Location: Everywhere and Nowhere	Best albums of first 1/2 of 2005? I started a similar thread last year. Just post what you think the best albums have been so far in 2005. Mine (in no particluar order): "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" - Bright Eyes "Some Cities" - Doves "X&Y" - Coldplay "Get Behind Me Satain" - White Stripes "Frances the Mute" - The Mars Volta __________________ "You can't shoot a country until it becomes a democracy." - Willravel Last edited by Derwood; 06-23-2005 at 09:31 AM..

06-23-2005, 06:17 AM	#2 (permalink)
Stompy Banned from being Banned Location: Donkey	(I'm not sure what half those albums are up there ) NIN - With Teeth Fantomas - Suspended Animation Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel To Anything System of a Down - Mesmerize __________________ I love lamp.

06-23-2005, 06:43 AM	#3 (permalink)
sherpahigh So Hip it Hurts Location: Up here in my tree	Lots of great stuff coming out lately and it looks pretty good for the rest of the year too. Here's a few of the best ones i've picked up so far this year: There's a few others that could be up there as well but I haven't given them enough of a chance yet to say for sure. Been great listening so far though, seems like every tuesday lately there's something new worth picking up. __________________ "It'd be better for me if you don't understand"

06-23-2005, 07:45 AM	#4 (permalink)
AVoiceOfReason Psycho Location: Greenwood, Arkansas	I'm going to go with COLD ROSES by Ryan Adams. I've listened to a ton of stuff on Rhapsody this year; the new Oasis, White Stripes, Ringo Starr, Aimee Mann and a few others I'm not thinking of as I sit here, but Adams' disc takes my gold medal thus far. __________________ AVOR A Voice Of Reason, not necessarily the ONLY one.

06-23-2005, 11:53 AM	#9 (permalink)
springhaze Upright	Jagged Little Pill Acoustic - Alanis Morissette With Teeth - NIN Guero - Beck Gasoline - Theory of a Deadman Music from the O.C. - Mix 4 __________________ "Don't ever mistrust those voices in your head"

06-23-2005, 08:13 AM	#5 (permalink)
Bacchanal Laid back Location: Jayhawkland	My list, other than the first they're in no order: 1. Cephalic Carnage - Anomalies The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked Gorillaz - Demon Days Team Sleep - Team Sleep NIN - With Teeth Fantomas - Suspended Animation

06-23-2005, 10:29 AM	#6 (permalink)
rockzilla Junkie Location: The Kitchen	Almost all of my picks are up there so far... Mars Volta, Beck, Queens Of The Stone Age, Gorillaz. The only new one I'll add is Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth. It's the next best thing to hearing a new Pavement album.

06-23-2005, 10:45 AM	#7 (permalink)
streak_56 who ever said streaking was a bad thing? Location: Calgary	X&Y - Coldplay Self Titled - Matt Mays and El Torpedo Self Titled - Theory of a Dead Man Mesmorize - System of a Down Sitting, Waiting, Wishing - Jack Johnson

06-23-2005, 11:41 AM	#8 (permalink)
trickyy ►	clap your hands and say yeah. they just put out a pretty good album. spoon - gimme fiction m83 - before the dawn heals us kanye west will probably be up here soon (august, apparently). i agree with many already listed, but i still need to hear with teeth.

06-23-2005, 05:17 PM	#10 (permalink)
FoolThemAll Walking is Still Honest Location: Seattle, WA	Only two of the CDs I've bought so far this year were released in 2005. One was Belle & Sebastian's Push Barman to Open Old Wounds, but that was a compilation of EPs released years earlier overseas. The other was Brendan Benson's The Alternative to Love. That was pretty good, so I'll go with that. __________________ I wonder if we're stuck in Rome.

06-23-2005, 06:23 PM	#11 (permalink)
muckluck Psycho	Out of Exile - Audioslave and the new NIN album were both pretty good. __________________

06-23-2005, 07:40 PM	#12 (permalink)
Sleepyjack Fast'n'Bulbous Location: Australia, Perth	just off the top of my head.... Sleater Kinney - The Woods Architecture In Helsinki - in case we die Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger Antony and the JOhnsons- I am a bird now System of a down - Mesmerize Shining - In the kingdom of kitsch you will be a monster THe Books - Lost and Safe Bloc Party - Silent Alarm The Decemberists - Picaresque

06-23-2005, 09:31 PM	#13 (permalink)
meanSpleen Squid hat! Location: A Few Miles Away From Halx	Of releases this year so far (released Jan 1 or later), here are my top 5 in no particular order! Eisley - Room Noises Shivaree - Who's Got Trouble? The Raveonettes - Pretty In Black M.I.A - Arular Feist - Let It Die __________________ Like TFP? Donate To Keep It Alive!!

06-30-2005, 10:38 PM	#15 (permalink)
Seanland Psycho Location: Ontario, Canada	Ying Yang Twins - US of Atlanta Gorillaz - Demon Days System of a Down - Mesmorize

07-01-2005, 12:02 AM	#16 (permalink)
sgn43 Insane Location: Los Angeles	it just came out a week ago: Dredg - Catch Without Arms easily my favorite album of the year so far. I also have to give a vote for Fantomas - Suspended Animation. __________________ To be great is to be misunderstood. -Emerson

07-12-2005, 04:57 AM	#28 (permalink)
djflish The Mighty Boosh Location: I mostly come out at night, mostly...	Love this album! __________________ Europes two great narcotics, Alcohol and Christianity. I know which one I prefer.

07-01-2005, 04:00 AM	#17 (permalink)
alpha Insane Location: Finland	Love the new Coldplay. SOAD's new was great too.

07-01-2005, 06:45 AM	#18 (permalink)
cellophanedeity Heliotrope Location: A warm room	Ani Difranco's Knuckle Down may be the best album of hers so far.

07-02-2005, 12:52 PM	#20 (permalink)
Wyodiver33 Just here for the beer. Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Floriduh	Thanks for the heads up on Dredg. So far I like it a lot. __________________ I like stuff.

07-02-2005, 09:37 PM	#21 (permalink)
Zephyr66 My custom title's the shit! Location: Canada	and now for a metalhead's opinion Dream Theater - Octavarium Demons and Wizards - Touched by the Crimson King Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny of Souls Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine(technically not released yet, but It's been leaked) Last edited by Zephyr66; 07-17-2005 at 07:18 PM..

07-03-2005, 08:07 AM	#22 (permalink)
saut Registered User Location: Pittsburgh	The only two that impressed me at all were Porcupine Tree - Deadwing and Nevermore - This Godless Endeavour Hopefully the 2nd half of '05 is as good as I was expecting the whole year to be.

07-03-2005, 12:15 PM	#23 (permalink)
Snoogans Veteran Location: Uppsala, Sweden	Queens of the stoneage - Lullabies to paralyze. I got it the day it came out, listened to it pretty much every day since. I cannot get tired of it. __________________ Internet hint: If someone's asking if what they do is weird, it always is.

07-08-2005, 08:32 PM	#24 (permalink)
Fourtyrulz Psycho Location: io-where?	I second the new Cephalic Carnage as well as Fantomas' - Suspended Animation (the latter I picked up at Best Buy last week). I cannot wait to see songs like Wraith and Piecemaker live! \|\m/\| ( - - ) \|\m/\| Edit: Owned by metal-archives =( __________________ the·o·ry - a working hypothesis that is considered probable based on experimental evidence or factual or conceptual analysis and is accepted as a basis for experimentation. faith - Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence. - Merriam-Webster's dictionary Last edited by Fourtyrulz; 07-11-2005 at 10:17 AM..

07-10-2005, 02:00 PM	#26 (permalink)
batteraziiz Upright Location: Canadizzle	Hip-hop/Industrial/Metalhead's opinion: NIN - With Teeth MSI - You'll Rebel To Anything Black Lung - The Coming Dark Age Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust Atmosphere - Headshots: Se7en Twiztid - Man's Myth Murs & Slug - Felt 2: A Tribute To Lisa Bonet Static-X - Start A War

07-10-2005, 11:15 PM	#27 (permalink)
saut Registered User Location: Pittsburgh	Ulver's new one, Blood Inside, is also quite excellent.

07-12-2005, 05:41 AM	#29 (permalink)
h2ogo69 Banned	john frusciante - curtains mars volta - francess the mute nin - with teeth dredg - catch without arms bright eyes - i'm wide awake it's morning into the moat - the design

07-17-2005, 02:56 PM	#30 (permalink)
iwhore Upright Location: South Carolina	"Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear" by The Number Twelve Looks Like You "Francis The Mute" by The Mars Volta "Lullabies to Paralyse" by Queens Of The Stone Age (Self Titled) by War of Ages __________________ Hi, I'm Vic.

08-08-2005, 08:21 PM	#31 (permalink)
oldbob Insane Location: Detroit	The Books - Lost and Safe LCD Soundsystem The Kills - No Wow The Stares - Spine to Sea and some sweet reissues: the complete field mice discography __________________ children who refuse to brush will have inordinately bad breath.

08-09-2005, 02:56 AM	#32 (permalink)
ninety09 Flavour of the Weak Location: Canada	Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth Dream Theater - Octavarium System of a Down - Mesmerize

08-10-2005, 03:56 AM	#33 (permalink)
Sleepyjack Fast'n'Bulbous Location: Australia, Perth	Sufjan Stevens: Illinois Edan: Beauty and the beat Okkervil River: Black Sheep Boy are a few more albums i've been listening to, a lot, lately.

08-11-2005, 06:15 AM	#34 (permalink)
Draconis Insane Location: Normandy, June of '44	as.if.in.a.dream - Anders Olson Lost and Safe - The Books The Fall of Math - 65daysofstatic Fear of a Black Tangent - Busdriver Demon Days - Gorillaz Alternative to Love - Brendan Benson Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes Gimme Fiction - Spoon Picaresque - The Decemberists __________________ STEVE MCKENNA!

08-11-2005, 10:19 AM	#35 (permalink)
Aborted Tilted Location: London	Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth. I love the record, I had a blast at the Milton Keynes Bowl show on July 9, and I thoroughly enjoy reading every press article that slates it.

08-12-2005, 12:22 PM	#36 (permalink)
Jeff And we'll all float on ok... Location: Iowa City	Bloc Party - Silent Alarm The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers Magnolia Electric Co. - What Comes After the Blues Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger __________________ For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. --Charles Bukowski

08-12-2005, 10:34 PM	#38 (permalink)
labob Tilted Location: Orange County, CA	In no particular order... Gang Of Four - Entertainment!(Remastered) This one is here on a technicality, as it was originally released in 1979 We Are Wolves - NON-STOP Je Te Plie En Deux Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets Are Kept New Order - Waiting for the Sirens' Call LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem<br> Gorillaz - Demon Days I Am Kloot - Gods & Monsters (This one gets an Honorable mention, as it was released in August. Their earlier stuff is much better) __________________ "A man's only as old as the woman he feels" -Groucho Marx Last edited by labob; 09-21-2005 at 09:17 PM..

08-12-2005, 11:36 PM	#40 (permalink)
spectre Junkie	A CD so good, I listen to it daily. Mafia by Black Label Society __________________ "Fuck these chains No goddamn slave I will be different" ~ Machine Head