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):

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

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"Some Cities" - Doves

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"X&Y" - Coldplay

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"Get Behind Me Satain" - White Stripes

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"Frances the Mute" - The Mars Volta

(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

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:

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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. :thumbsup:

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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Eisley - Room Noises

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Shivaree - Who's Got Trouble?

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The Raveonettes - Pretty In Black

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M.I.A - Arular

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Feist - Let It Die

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

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

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.

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

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

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I second this :thumbsup:

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

and now for a metalhead's opinion
Dream Theater - Octavarium
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Demons and Wizards - Touched by the Crimson King
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Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny of Souls
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine(technically not released yet, but It's been leaked)

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.

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.

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 =(

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.

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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.

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

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

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Love this album!

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

"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

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The Books - Lost and Safe

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LCD Soundsystem

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The Kills - No Wow

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The Stares - Spine to Sea

and some sweet reissues:
the complete field mice discography

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

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.

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

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.

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Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

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The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers


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Magnolia Electric Co. - What Comes After the Blues


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Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger

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.

In no particular order...

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

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

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Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets Are Kept

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New Order - Waiting for the Sirens' Call

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LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem<br>
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Gorillaz - Demon Days

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

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.

A CD so good, I listen to it daily.


Mafia by Black Label Society
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