Music: Best Albums of the Year Series: 2005

[Langdon Alger]

^ X&Y is unfairly underrated, most consistent and last good Coldplay album imo.

Anyways, good year but fairly easy choice for me. The eerie cold atmosphere still stands up, still maybe my favourite alt rock album of the decade

kent - Du & jag döden

As far as Coldplay is concerned, I agree X and Y is good, but I wouldn’t say it’s their last good album. Viva La Vida was pretty good too. Lost interest in them after that though.

 

[Aladyyn]

A strangely weak year tbh

Lenka Dusilová - Mezi Světy
Sigh - Gallows Gallery
Bomb the Music Industry! - Album Minus Band
Slough Feg - Atavism
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Lumsk - Troll
The Moon and the Nightspirit - Of Dreams Forgotten and Fables Untold
Daïtro - Laisser vivre les squelettes

 

[HoseEmDown]

Fall out boy : from under the cork tree

 

[Azathoth]

Only voted Other.

Some pretty decent to great metal albums this year.
Deathspell Omega-Kenose
Nevermore-This Godless Endeavor
Primordial-The Gathering Wilderness
Opeth-Ghost Reveries
Nile-Annihilation of the Wicked
Moonsorrow-Verisakeet

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

Heck, I was fine with the green album.

Maladroit has some good jams, Everything Will Be Alright is good, The White Album has some real solid tracks.....Weezer has still more or less been Weezer as far as I'm concerned.

 

[tacogeoff]

Coldplay/Kane quite easily for me but followed very closely by 50 cent - The Massacre

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

Other.

Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams

 

[Langdon Alger]

Maladroit has some good jams, Everything Will Be Alright is good, The White Album has some real solid tracks.....Weezer has still more or less been Weezer as far as I'm concerned.

Well, they’re a good band, for sure. Certainly have never been a great band.

 

[Saturated Fats]

This is a weird year for me, and I had a tough time putting together my list. I genuinely can't think which of the several albums that I thoroughly enjoy, I would like to put first. So I ruminated on it, and decided on the incomparably gorgeous lullabies of Vashti Bunyan and her second album (after a 35-year hiatus), Lookaftering. It is remarkable that someone who released something so vital in 1970, could go 35 years without practicing music as a craft, and then come back with this. It is everything you want folk to be, and everything the likes of Bon Iver, Devendra Banhart, and Joanna Newsom strive to be (although Newsom comes closest to it). It's like Nico, Judee Sill, Nick Drake, and Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes coming together, and turning the volume down. Which is absolutely, 100% my jam.

My top 10
Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering
The Newfound Interest in Connecticut - Tell Me About the Long Dark Path Home
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

The Decemberists - Picaresque
Mogwai - Government Commissions: BBC Sessions 1996-2003
The Drones - Wait Long By the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By
Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

 

[belair]

The Mars Volta was a really great album musically, but I just couldn't vote for it. Too much filler noise and overproduction. It was a mess that had some really good moments.

Pretty good year overall for releases but very few of these albums stuck with me long-term. I'd probably take Silent Alarm if I had to choose one.

 

[Langdon Alger]

Thoughts on QOTSA “Lullabies to Paralyze”?

Tough to follow Songs for the deaf.