Sleater-Kinney's The Woods would definitely be my pick for no. 1 of the year. Twin Cinema by New Pornographers would be in my list, too.
I hate to break it to you, oh impotent one, but you're not the big bad anymore, you're not even the kind of naughty.
Xander ,'Showtime'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Glamcookie - Oct 08, 2005 7:50:04 am PDT #769 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Kate P. - Oct 08, 2005 7:57:33 am PDT #770 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
The Decemberists, Picaresque. t /new band crush
Gandalfe - Oct 08, 2005 10:24:18 am PDT #771 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Anyone who is in the mood for big loud guitars and and an effeminate goth-y male singer should check out the new HIM album, Dark Light. Very metal. And rather Finnish.
JohnSweden - Oct 08, 2005 9:56:30 pm PDT #772 of 10003
I can't even.
The Decemberists, Picaresque.
I'm seeing the Decemberists on Thursday, Kate!
Atropa - Oct 08, 2005 10:13:32 pm PDT #773 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Anyone who is in the mood for big loud guitars and and an effeminate goth-y male singer should check out the new HIM album, Dark Light. Very metal. And rather Finnish.
I got it on the day of release, not only because I am a guiltily-swooning fan girl of the lead vocalist, but because my day had been dreadful. Swoony gothy-pop-metal is a good cure for dreadful days. At least, it is if you're me.
Atropa - Oct 08, 2005 10:13:36 pm PDT #774 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Kate P. - Oct 09, 2005 6:31:32 am PDT #775 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I'm seeing the Decemberists on Thursday, Kate!
Woo! I'm seeing them tonight! I'm super excited.
Mr. Broom - Oct 09, 2005 8:34:22 am PDT #776 of 10003
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
You guys are in for a hell of a show, each of you--they don't disappoint.
As for Top Albums of 2005, I haven't heard nearly enough Okkervil River love in this thread. "Black Sheep Boy" is jawdroppingly impressive in places and just plain beautiful the rest of the way through.
dw - Oct 09, 2005 11:48:52 am PDT #777 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
I've had Picaresque pencilled in at #1 for months now. #2-10, though, may just end up as one big lump with mpre than nine albums.
There's no "insta-classic" this year (like in 2002), but there are a lot of good-to-very-good albums.
Gandalfe - Oct 09, 2005 12:14:08 pm PDT #778 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
I got it on the day of release, not only because I am a guiltily-swooning fan girl of the lead vocalist, but because my day had been dreadful. Swoony gothy-pop-metal is a good cure for dreadful days. At least, it is if you're me.
I got it the day it came out, too. If you've heard their earlier stuff, it's not really surprising, they don't go anywhere they haven't been before, unlike, say Apoptygma Berzerk's new album. Although the opening for Wings Of a Butterfly would be perfect entrance music for a wrestler.
That almost makes it sound like I don't like it, but I do. There's something to be said for consistancy.