Here's my Top 20 for 2005:
1. Animal Collective – Feels
2. Deerhoof – The Runners Four
3. Konono No. 1 – Congotronics
4. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
5. Andrew Bird – The Mysterious Production of Eggs
6. Broken Social Scene – s/t
7. Six Organs of Admittance – School of the Flower
8. Spoon – Gimme Fiction
9. The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
10. The Decemberists – Picaresque
11. Devendra Banhart – Cripple Crow
12. Antony & The Johnsons – I Am a Bird Now
13. The Fiery Furnaces – EP
14. The Mountain Goats – The Sunset Tree
15. The Go-Betweens – Oceans Apart
16. The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday
17. Calexico/Iron & Wine – In the Reins
18. Eric Matthews – Six Kinds of Passion Looking For An Exit
19. Danger Doom – The Mouse and the Mask
20. Lyrics Born – Same !@#$ Different Day
Also-rans: Architecture In Helsinki – In Case We Die, Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy, Clem Snide – The End of Love, Vashti Bunyan – Lookaftering
I feel like I just about new musiced myself out in 05.
I and a friend have decided on Feb. 8 for our Devin Davis at the Hideout night if any Chicago folk are still thinking about it.
You can hear a bunch of Davis mp3s right here.
You can hear a bunch of Davis mp3s right here.
Oh, I didn't realize he'd posted some of the WMBR stuff. Cool!
33 and 1/3 list finally makes pitchfork news: [link]
Oh, I didn't realize he'd posted some of the WMBR stuff. Cool!
Neither did I. That is cool.
I came in to mark Corwood's best of 05 list since Air We Breathe is still one of my most listened to albums and has resulted in the most new to me music purchases in the past 2 years.
anyhoo - I will also report that my new month on emusic just started and tonight I downloaded:
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
Iron & Wine/Calexico - In The Reins
Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell - Begonias
Sweet! I'm working on a My Favorite New Music of 05 mix, which I intend to complete and send to Tina, along with the Best of 04 mix I've owed her for over a year now.
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
Iron & Wine/Calexico - In The Reins
Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell - Begonias
All excellent choices msbelle! You are really going to like
Begonias,
I think. If I can pimp just ONE song to you it would be "Carolina" by M. Ward off of his album
End of Amnesia.
I will happily refund you with any song from my account sent to buffistarawk if you don't totally love it.
My account refreshes in exactly 56 minutes and though I will be in bed by then my first download tomorrow will be Robert Pollards'
From a Compound Eye.
Which will cost me 26 tracks darn it. Oh, RP - why for do you have to have so many songs per album?!?
which I intend to complete and send to Tina
Sweet!
along with the Best of 04 mix I've owed her for over a year now.
Also sweet!
I can return the favor with my best of 05 mix as well.
RP - why for do you have to have so many songs per album?!?
That man acts like his every half-thought is brilliant. Fortunately, he's generally right.
I can return the favor with my best of 05 mix as well.
Little I can say to that besides AWESOME.
Fortunately, he's generally right.
Uh-huh. And the thing is you can't just grab a couple tracks because it will be track 17 that has four kind of boring songs before it and five really kind of bad songs after it that is just KILLER.
Whenever I end the month at emusic with some left over in my account (not often) I collect a little more GBV and Yo La Tengo. I have just about every YLT that they've got but I've got a ways to go with GBV. I am just happy they have so much though.
