The Decemberists, Picaresque. t /new band crush
Buffy! If I wanted to fight, you could tell by the being dead already.
Glory ,'Potential'
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.
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
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.
tina f. - Oct 09, 2005 2:53:40 pm PDT #779 of 10003
2005 was not as strong as some previous years, but it was tough for me to pick a number one, and I do see a couple of intant classics.
Tina's Best of 2005 (so far)
1. Bright Eyes
I'm Wide Awake it's Morning
2. The Hold Steady
Separation Sunday
3. Kanye West
Late Registration
4. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, self-titled
5. Sufjan Stevens
Illinois
6. The Decemberists
Picaresque
7. Andrew Bird
The Mysterious Production of Eggs
8. Iron and Wine and Calexico
In the Reins (EP)
9. Les Breastfeeders
Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe
10. Spoon
Gimme Fiction
Bands releasing albums in 2005 that could still make the top ten (those last two could easily be thrown down to honorable mention): Deerhoof, Fiery Furnaces, Sun Kil Moon, and TV on the Radio (I think it is supposed to come out in 2005 but it might be 2006)
2005 Honorable Mention: The Eels Blinking Lights and Other Revelations, Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy, The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan, New Pornographers Twin Cinema, Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, The Go Betweens Oceans Apart, Iron and Wine Woman King (EP), The Fiery Furnaces EP, Brendan Benson The Alternative to Love, Bloc Party Silent Alarm, Teenage Fanclub Man-made
2005 Wish-it-Would-Have-Been-Betters: Beck Guero, Stephen Malkmus Face the Truth, Death Cab Plans, and honestly the White Stripes album go could here, too.