Alt. Forum top 10 of 2005

[BigHedd]

ya so these lists are a bit trivial and teh epitome of subjectivity, but everyone knows they like to make em, so without further adue, Bighedd's top 10 of '05:

1. My Morning Jacket - Z
2. Sufjen Stevens - Illinoise
3. Rosebuds - Friends Are Good Neighbors
4. Animal Collective - Feels
5. The National - Alligator
6. Animal Collective & Vashti Bunyen - Prospect Hummer EP
7. Mount Eerie - No Flashlight
8. Beanie Sigel - The B. Coming
9. New Idea Sociaety - You Are Awake Or Asleep
10. Caribou - The Milk Of Human Kindness
10. Blockparty - Silent Alarm

Honarable Mentions: Edan - Beauty & The Beat, Common - Be, Lil Wayne - The Carter II, Thunderbirds Are Now - Justamustache, Jon legend - Get Lifted, Kanye West - Late Registration, Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens (would probably be in my 10 if I could listen to it a bit longer), Bedstuy Meets Blue Eyes Mixtape.

other lists welcome

[Clem]

01. Hot Chip - Coming On Strong
02. Thunderbirds Are Now! - Justamustache
03. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
04. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
05. Tom Vek - We Have Sound
06. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
07. Black Rob - The Black Rob Report
08. French Toast - In a Cave
09. The Evens - The Evens
10. Missy Higgins - The Sound of White

Honorable mentions: Kanye West - Late Registration, Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful, Thunderbirds Are Now! - Necks EP, Ryan Adams - Jacksonville City Nights, Young Jeezy - Thug Motivation 101: Let's Get It, The Fiery Furnaces - EP, The Joggers - With A Cape and A Cane, Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger, Tom Vek - We Have Sound, Common - Be, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, etc.

Definitely one of the better years in recent memory as far as music goes. I should make this just like top 20. I probably will when I'm not so lazy.

[BigHedd]

01. Hot Chip - Coming On Strong
02. Feist - Let It Die
03. Thunderbirds Are Now! - Justamustache
04. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
05. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
06. Tom Vek - We Have Sound
07. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
08. Black Rob - The Black Rob Report
09. French Toast - In a Cave
10. The Evens - The Evens
11. Missy Higgins - The Sound of White

Honorable mentions: Kanye West - Late Registration, Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful, Thunderbirds Are Now! - Necks EP, Ryan Adams - Jacksonville City Nights, Young Jeezy - Thug Motivation 101: Let's Get It, The Fiery Furnaces - EP, The Joggers - With A Cape and A Cane, Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger, Tom Vek - We Have Sound, Common - Be, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, etc.

Definitely one of the better years in recent memory as far as music goes. I should make this just like top 20. I probably will when I'm not so lazy.
no to nitpick clem, but let it die came out in '04.

[Edgecrusher]

This is my non-hip hop list, in no order

The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
The Mars Volta - Scabdates
System Of A Down - Hypnotize
Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet
Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel To Anything
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Buckethead & Friends - Enter The Chicken
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Strapping Young Lad - Alien

[Clem]

no to nitpick clem, but let it die came out in '04.
I checked amazon.com and it said it came out in 05. But they probably aren't all that reliable.

[The_Poet]

Beanie Sigel and Black Rob are alternative aritsts now?

[BigHedd]

Beanie Sigel and Black Rob are alternative aritsts now?
does it say non-hip hop in the title? no. keep it movin. you stay losin Poet. whats the point of even posting?

[The_Poet]

does it say non-hip hop in the title? no. keep it movin. you stay losin Poet. whats the point of even posting?

You are missing a couple of screws in your head. Smart move by not answering the question.

[nineteen80sbaby]

My list in no particular order, more than ten sorry but can't narrow it down.
Ryan Adams - 29
Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
Ryan Adams - Jacksonville City Nights
....THREE albums Ryan Adams released this year, they are all ****ing brilliant, if you havent heard of him or listened to the new stuff, GO GET IT NOW!!
Ladytron - Witching Hour
Sigur Ros - Takk..
Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
Babyshambles - Down In Albion (ex-libertine, druggy and kate moss b.f. pete doherty's new group/album)
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Antony & The Johnstons - I am a bird now
Nada Surf - The Weight Is a Gift
The Bravery - The Bravery
New Order - Waiting For The Siren's Call
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Ad Frank & The Fast Easy Women - Ad Frank is the World's Best Ex-boyfriend
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - HOWL

i would recommend to anyone who hasn't heard, check em out.

[Clem]

My list in no particular order, more than ten sorry but can't narrow it down.
Ryan Adams - 29
Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
Ryan Adams - Jacksonville City Nights
....THREE albums Ryan Adams released this year, they are all ****ing brilliant, if you havent heard of him or listened to the new stuff, GO GET IT NOW!!
Ladytron - Witching Hour
Sigur Ros - Takk..
Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Antony & The Johnstons - I am a bird now
Nada Surf - The Weight Is a Gift
The Bravery - The Bravery
New Order - Waiting For The Siren's Call
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Ad Frank & The Fast Easy Women - Ad Frank is the World's Best Ex-boyfriend
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - HOWL

i would recommend to anyone who hasn't heard, check em out.

Is 29 coming out this year? Damn.. are you sure The Go! Team and Bloc Party are 2005, because that will completely **** my list up.

[Clem]

Beanie Sigel and Black Rob are alternative aritsts now?
No, but he didn't ask for only alternative artists. He said top 10. Keep it moving.

[nineteen80sbaby]

Is 29 coming out this year? Damn.. are you sure The Go! Team and Bloc Party are 2005, because that will completely **** my list up.

29 will be out december 20th, but is online right now (probably best record of the year, hands down, any genre imho). bloc party was early '05 and the go! team was released in the u.s. in october '05 (sample clearence issues).

[BigHedd]

29 will be out december 20th, but is online right now (probably best record of the year, hands down, any genre imho). bloc party was early '05 and the go! team was released in the u.s. in october '05 (sample clearence issues).
ya, i was a little iffy about the go team, but you are correct about th erelease date. Great album indeed..should have put them on the honorable mention list.

[The_Poet]

No, but he didn't ask for only alternative artists. He said top 10. Keep it moving.

Alt. Forum top 10 of 2005. What do we talk about in the Alt Forum? Alternative artists right? :blink:

[BigHedd]

Alt. Forum top 10 of 2005. What do we talk about in the Alt Forum? Alternative artists right? :blink:
why do you care? Why don't you and your 23,000 posts go flood someone elses threads.

[informerx]

Oasis-Don't Believe The Truth!

[Elnicky]

I'll attempt this if I can think of 10

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
3. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
4. Decemberists - Picaresque
5. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
6. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
7. Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
8. Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
9. The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers

This is all I can really think of, Antony and the Johnsons was pretty cool as was the Andrew Bird album and Queens of the Stone Age. When was the Joanna Newsom album? If that was 2005 put that at 10.

[skanky80]

How about Beck you dork-ass motherf*ckers?

[BigHedd]

How about Beck you dork-ass motherf*ckers?
that hard to come up with a list, eh? (no canuck pun intended...seriously)

[skanky80]

that hard to come up with a list, eh? (no canuck pun intended...seriously)

Huh? Where did I say it was hard to make a list? I'll make one, I just didnt feel like it at the time I posted thar/posted this.

[Elnicky]

How about Beck you dork-ass motherf*ckers?
This dork ass motherf*cker was quite disappointed by the beck album. Around the beginning of the year I would of expected it to make my list but then again I would of expected the weezer to also...

[Clem]

How about Beck you dork-ass motherf*ckers?
It was a step back in the right direction for him. But, I don't think I'd place it in my top 25.

[Bone Daddy]

The Mars Volta- Frances The Mute
Bloc Party- Silent Alarm
Bloc Party- Silent Alarm Re-mixed
Pelican- The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
Neil Young- Prairie Wind
Arcade Fire- Funeral (I know this was last year but I still dig it)
Beyond that therre was a lot of hit and miss sh!t. The NIN got old fast. System was a walking abortion this year. Beck was catchy but slim. Queens was dead on arrival. Depeche Mode and New Order dropped the most half assed albums of their careers.

[skanky80]

01. LCD Soundsystem-LCD Soundsystem
02. MF Doom and Dangermouse as Dangerdoom-The Mouse and the Mask
03. Beck-Guero
04. Corrosion Of Conformity-In The Arms of God
05. The Go! Team-Thunder, Lightning, Strike
06. Neil Young- Prairie Wind
07. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah-Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
08. Buck 65-This Right Here Is
09. Arcade Fire- Funeral (or was this 2004?)
10. Gza and DJ Muggs-Grandmasters

Honorable mentions to The Mars Volta, QOTSA, and Thunderbirds Are Now!

No offence Clem, but you liked that Hot Chip CD? Another album I shouldn't have bought IMO.

[Clem]

01. LCD Soundsystem-LCD Soundsystem
02. MF Doom and Dangermouse as Dangerdoom-The Mouse and the Mask
03. Beck-Guero
04. Corrosion Of Conformity-In The Arms of God
05. The Go! Team-Thunder, Lightning, Strike
06. Neil Young- Prairie Wind
07. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah-Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
08. Buck 65-This Right Here Is
09. Arcade Fire- Funeral (or was this 2004?)
10. Gza and DJ Muggs-Grandmasters

Honorable mentions to The Mars Volta, QOTSA, and Thunderbirds Are Now!

No offence Clem, but you liked that Hot Chip CD? Another album I shouldn't have bought IMO.
I think the Arcade Fire was last year. Yeah, I absolutely love the Hot Chip album. Crap Kraft Dinner is one of the better songs I've heard in a long time.

[skanky80]

I think the Arcade Fire was last year. Yeah, I absolutely love the Hot Chip album. Crap Kraft Dinner is one of the better songs I've heard in a long time.

Oh ok, my bad. Wasnt sure if it was this year or last.

I also forgot to add Small Sins by The Ladies and Gentlemen. One of my personal favorites this year.

[Dub Ste]

Yeah, I absolutely love the Hot Chip album.


have you seen them live? i saw them supporting LCD Soundsystem in Madrid earlier this year, and i honestly thought they were just bad. Having said that, i wasnt really paying much attention so....

[Clem]

have you seen them live? i saw them supporting LCD Soundsystem in Madrid earlier this year, and i honestly thought they were just bad. Having said that, i wasnt really paying much attention so....
Nope. I haven't caught the live. Honestly, I wouldn't expect the album to translate that well live. There is a lot going on.

[Bone Daddy]

I think the Arcade Fire was last year. Yeah, I absolutely love the Hot Chip album. Crap Kraft Dinner is one of the better songs I've heard in a long time.
It was late 2004 so I think we can count them for this year. They're nominated for this years Grammy's.

[Clem]

It was late 2004 so I think we can count them for this year. They're nominated for this years Grammy's.
Oh, well as long as they're nominated for a Grammy.

[BigHedd]

It was late 2004 so I think we can count them for this year. They're nominated for this years Grammy's.
wtf? god damn the man. Well there goes their indie cred. Funeral is my favorite album released this decade along with Kid A.

Anywho, the year of release does not have to do with you being nominated for a grammy (see: Greenday)

Also, Im bumping Beauty & The beat and putting "Alligator" on my sh1ts.

[Clem]

wtf? god damn the man. Well there goes their indie cred. Funeral is my favorite album released this decade along with Kid A.

Anywho, the year of release does not have to do with you being nominated for a grammy (see: Greenday)

Also, Im bumping Beauty & The beat and putting "Alligator" on my sh1ts.
I always go through stages with Alligator. I'll end up listening to it over and over. Then I won't be able to stand it.

The Jens Lekman is making a strong case.

[BigHedd]

I always go through stages with Alligator. I'll end up listening to it over and over. Then I won't be able to stand it.

The Jens Lekman is making a strong case.
Ya, sometimes alligator comes of as really unoriginal in how ist presented, but his sh1ts sincere, and I like that. Plus I like the guitar mucho mucho. But really its just nice to hear some downtrodden voice when its as nasty and drab as it is today (im in MI).

And ya, Jens is that sh1t. Funniest man making music. But the hilarious thing is you don't even notice his humor because the actual instrumentation and the arrangements are just rediculous 95% of the time, so you don't here him talk about half off the swedish non-sense that he does.

[peachmoon]

in no order.

why?-elephany eyelash
aqueduct-i sold gold
architecture in helsinki-in case we die
fishboy-little d
the fiery furnaces-ep
the fiery furnaces-rehearsing my choir
clap your hands say yeah-s/t
wolf parade-apologies to the queen mary
bright eyes-digital ash in a digital urn
the decemberists-picaresque

[Kanekash]

Another year, and my list is once again the best.

1) Trivium - Ascendancy
2) Strength In Numbers - The Veil
3) Ill Nino - One Nation Underground
4) Manntis - Sleep In Your Grave
5) Hell With - Asylum of the Human Predator
6) Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin
7) Bloodsimple - Bloodsimple
8) Disturbed - 10 Thousand Fists
9) God Forbid - IV
10) Norma Jean - O God, The Aftermath


I haven't heard the Mary J. Blige album yet. But I consider that hip hop anywayz. Im sticking with Poet's rules.

[skanky80]

Another year, and my list is once again the best.

1) Trivium - Ascendancy
2) Strength In Numbers - The Veil
3) Ill Nino - One Nation Underground
4) Manntis - Sleep In Your Grave
5) Hell With - Asylum of the Human Predator
6) Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin
7) Bloodsimple - Bloodsimple
8) Disturbed - 10 Thousand Fists
9) God Forbid - IV
10) Norma Jean - O God, The Aftermath


Your list is the best? F*ck outta here with that homo sh*t.

Having a Disturbed album on your list=admitting you have no taste.

[Kanekash]

Your list is the best? F*ck outta here with that homo sh*t.

Having a Disturbed album on your list=admitting you have no taste.
EXSQUEEZE ME! NO YOU DIDN'T.
I rather listen to Disturbed than Dangermouse or Beck.



And sweetie, my list is the best. Checkmate!

[Borg166]

1. Common - Be
2. M.I.A. - Arular
3. Markus Guentner - 1981
4. Kanye West - Late Registration
5. Platinum Pied Pipers - Triple P
6. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
7. Coldplay - X & Y
8. MED - Push Comes to Shove
9. Steve Spacek - Space Shift
10. 50 Cent - The Massacre

Honorable mentions:

Jamie Lidell - Multiply
13 & God - 13 & God
Cage - Hell's Winter
The Game - The Documentary
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Imogen Heap - Speak for Yourself
DJ Quik - Trauma
Original Soundtrack - Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel