Your "Top 10 Best of '05" Thread

Well, with less than a week of '05 left, I think it's safe to say that there will be no more releases, and can let us formulate our "Best Of" lists. IMO, this has been a phenominal year in music, and it wouldn't surprise me if next year I discovered some albums from this one.

My top 10 (loosely in order, and also subject to change):

-Porcupine Tree's "Deadwing"
-dredg's "Catch Without Arms"
-Opeth's "Ghost Reveries"
-Nine Inch Nails' "With Teeth"
-Strapping Young Lad's "Alien"
-Sigur Ros' "Takk..."
-The Pineapple Thief's "10 Stories Down"
-Pelican's "The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw"
-The Wallflowers' "Rebel, Sweetheart"
-The Mars Volta's "Frances The Mute"

And honorable mention goes to:
-Sir Milard Mulch's "How To Sell The Whole F#@!Ing Universe To Everybody... Once And For All!"

Should be noted that just yesterday I got Devlab's (Devin Townsend's) "Devlab" and Roger Waters' "Ca Ira", so the jury is still out on those ones.

So go ahead, post up your lists.

This is my favourite disc of the year, bar none. It's been a tremendous success for the band, and they'll still be riding high off it no matter what happens next year. Who else in the world but NIN can completely drop off the map for five years and then return with back-to-back #1 modern rock hits?

Ca Ira is also terrific, but I'm not so sure about the other top eight... that Monk & Coltrane "Live at Carnegie Hall" album is probably in there, even though it was recorded in 1957. I'm also (belatedly) getting more into the new records by M.I.A. and Queens of the Stone Age. It's been quite an eclectic twelve months.

I'm trying to think what came out this yr that I bought

The two mars volta albums obviously, with Frances topping the list
Takk
The new White Stripes Album as ok, but meh
With Teeth was good
umm.. oh god.. what else, I got a whole bunch of CDs but not ones that were released this yr..

Kate Bush - Aerial

These 2 are my favourites from 2005

Most of the others I bought aren't 2005 releases

There's been so much good stuff released this year that I'm hard pressed to narrow it down, however this has to be my favourite:

Mine too, Deadwing is shite.

Van Der Graaf Generator - Present (2CD)
My only 2005 release, got to be the best I`ve heard this year...

Hah, I knew this was going to happen...Cheese with the Bunnymen, Botley with NIN, Lej with TMV...now the only person we're missing is Mother with Dream Theater!

It will be me with Marillion next year.

The only ones I've got released this year are:

Shangra La -- Mark Knopfler
HTDAAB -- U2
Live In Tokyo -- G3
Biggerbang -- Rolling Stones
Suspended Animation -- John Petrucci

Last, and least -- Siberia -- Echo & The Bunnymen







Just kidding, Cheesemeister. Calm down and push that vein back in your forehead.
Siberia is excellent, folks!

Kraftwerk – Minimum Maximum
Ladytron – Witching Hour
Sigur Rós – Takk....
Mizar – kobna ubavna (terrible beauty)
Beck - Guero
Obojeni program – Da li je to covek ili masina
The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute
Канда, Коџа и Небојша - Прекид стварности
Ian Brown – Greatest
Kate Bush – Aerials (wow)
Porcupine Tree – Deadwing
The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
KT Tunstall – Eye to the Telescope
Tom Waits – Real Gone
The Tears – Hear Come the Tears
Gorillaz – Demon Days

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Animal Collective - Feels
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
Sigur Ros - Takk
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Sleater Kinney - The Woods
Broken Social Scene - Self-titled

umm I think there are more I can't think of them now.

That was actually an '04 release, stratters.

Hmmm. You're right.

It was a very fast year.