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« on: 26 Aug 2005, 14:10 »
The title of "Best Album of 2005" will be shared between the new Broken Social Scene album and the Everyone Loves Katamari OST.

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« Reply #1 on: 26 Aug 2005, 14:21 »
But we still have four months and five days until the end of 2005!

However I shall make sure I acquire said albums. I don't think I even heard an album from this year so I'll keep my own entry quiet until I'm sure I have something that qualifies.

Perhaps sp2 will put forward Coldplay's 'X&Y'?
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« Reply #2 on: 26 Aug 2005, 15:01 »
Is there a "best thrash/Gothenburg hybrid" category, and can I give that honor to the new Darkest Hour?
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« Reply #3 on: 26 Aug 2005, 15:01 »
I haven't given the new BSS album a complete listen through well because of "Rehearsing my choir by the Furnaces".  This album is awesome, just so wierd and at first I couldn't understand why I was liking it, but what the Friedbergers have done is awesome.  So yea this cd has my vote for the year (ironically I found out about both these leaks at the same time)
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« Reply #4 on: 26 Aug 2005, 15:04 »
Open Season by British Sea Power I'd have to say.

However I have recently begun to re-appreciate Silent Alarm by Bloc Party and Never Apologise, Never Explain by Therapy?
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« Reply #5 on: 26 Aug 2005, 15:29 »
I vote "Blinking Lights & Other Revelations" for pure Eelsy goodness. Plus the tour was incredi-gasmic.
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« Reply #6 on: 26 Aug 2005, 15:41 »
Quote from: jeph
The title of "Best Album of 2005" will be shared between the new Broken Social Scene album and the Everyone Loves Katamari OST.

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I read somewhere a while back that the soundtrack for the new Katamari is going to have a version of theme barked by dogs.  If that is true I will have to get my hands on a copy of it.
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« Reply #7 on: 26 Aug 2005, 15:59 »
I have to agree that the new broken social scene is pretty good (listened to it 4x since Monday).  of course, the leaked version is missing a song, so my opinion is not complete!  one song probably won't change my opinion by much though.

Also, the new Sigur Rós and Animal Collective have gotten a lot of play for me lately.

I'm sure my end of year list shall be long; this year feels like it went on decades music-wise.  the music at the beginning of the year feels miles away right now... except Archer Prewitt's 'Wilderness'.  I still enjoy that one tons.
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« Reply #8 on: 26 Aug 2005, 15:59 »
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I read somewhere a while back that the soundtrack for the new Katamari is going to have a version of theme barked by dogs.  If that is true I will have to get my hands on a copy of it.


That is beautiful.  BEAUTIFUL.

And I say BSS's album would make my top-'o-the-list if it regained the original title and had Windsurfing Nation as the first track.  It rocks...so...hard...

Actually, the second song.  Or any other song except that FIRST ONE OH MY GOD KILL MY EARS.  Ok I'm done now.
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« Reply #9 on: 26 Aug 2005, 16:00 »
I'm not sure what mine is going to be. Trying to recall what's come out this year. The new Candlemass maybe? I may have to hold out and see if Ewigkeit's 'CONSPIRITUS' is released on time, as reading interviews about it, it would seem that the drugs have finally completely annihilated Jim Fogarty's sanity*, which can only mean it's going to be even better than Radio Ixtlan, though I'm still worried that given the more mediocre tracks the fucking incredible mind-raping brilliance of 'Strange Volk' may have been a fluke. Still, fucked up avant-garde electrometal based on the writings of David Icke, how can it be bad?

*I suspected this when I learned that the album title was to be spelt ALL CAPS.
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« Reply #10 on: 26 Aug 2005, 17:27 »
There are a lot of good bands putting albums out this fall, so I'm going to hold off judgement a bit.
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« Reply #11 on: 26 Aug 2005, 17:33 »
Deathspell Omega - Kénôse
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« Reply #12 on: 26 Aug 2005, 17:48 »
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t
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« Reply #13 on: 26 Aug 2005, 19:26 »
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I may have to hold out and see if Ewigkeit's 'CONSPIRITUS' is released on time


Oh! is that that one man electronic thing? you posted a link to those guys along time ago! I thought it was really good and then completely forgot about it. Maybe I ought to pick up an album or something.


Anyways, The Residents' Animal Lover takes the cake this year.
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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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« Reply #14 on: 26 Aug 2005, 20:03 »
Some of these are re-issues but to me that counts.
Avarus-Ruskeatimanti
Birchville Cat Motel-Chi Vampires
Lau Nau-Kuutarha
Magik Markers-I Trust My Guitar
Seht-Application Antartica Download Form
Yellow Swans-Dreamed Yellow Swans
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« Reply #15 on: 26 Aug 2005, 20:16 »
Hands-down the best album of the year so far for me has been the Mountain Goats' the Sunset Tree.  It's not often I get so excited when I discover an artist I hadn't heard before.

Also, if we're including in the nominations albums that were released outside their home country only this year: Little Chills by Darren Hanlon (Australian release 2004, overseas release 2005).  This had the same effect on me as the Sunset Tree: straight away I went out and grabbed up everything by the artist that I could get my hands on.
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« Reply #16 on: 26 Aug 2005, 20:19 »
Say High To Your Mom - Ferocious Mopes

Really dug it. I haven't heard the new BSS album yet, I'm really looking forward to that. I agree with Kid Modernist, too. CYHASY put out a great one.

Hopefully Death Cab For Cutie's cd will be able to make my list. *Backs away slowly from all the glares*.
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« Reply #17 on: 26 Aug 2005, 20:46 »
It's gonna be a tie for me:

Bear Vs. Shark - Terrorhawk
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
The Ponys - Celebration Castle
Sleater Kinney - The Woods
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« Reply #18 on: 26 Aug 2005, 21:25 »
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Oh! is that that one man electronic thing? you posted a link to those guys along time ago! I thought it was really good and then completely forgot about it. Maybe I ought to pick up an album or something.


Damn yes it is. Jim Fogarty + Basement studio + drugs + the complete works of David Icke. And I've got to admit, if it means inventin genres like psychedlic glitch-folk and epic electrometal with each song, and sampling Dr. Who and the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, then rock the fuck on.
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« Reply #19 on: 26 Aug 2005, 22:07 »
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Bear Vs. Shark - Terrorhawk


This is on my list of nominations for sure.
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« Reply #20 on: 26 Aug 2005, 22:19 »
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« Reply #21 on: 26 Aug 2005, 22:45 »
Strike Anywhere - To Live in Discontent. Because I'm biased.
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« Reply #22 on: 27 Aug 2005, 00:10 »
Come on you guyzzz, hilary duff's new greatest hits cd is number one right now!!!!! ZOMG! Totally my fave!!!! BEST ALBUM EVAR!!!!!
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« Reply #23 on: 27 Aug 2005, 01:47 »
This thread doesn't have enough Pixel Revolt by John Vanderslice
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« Reply #24 on: 27 Aug 2005, 01:58 »
some of these I suspect:

Kaizer's Orchestra - Maestro
M.I.A - Arular
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Eels - Blinking Lights and other revelations
Andersens Dreams

albums coming that I suspect might end up on the list as well:
Kashmir - No Balance Palace
Kitty Wu - Knives and Daggers
Mew - Mew and the Glass Handed Kites(perhaps, I like the single, but I can't stand their lyrics anymore, as a whole Frengers stank lyric-wise)
Jomi Massage - From Where No One Belongs I Will Sing...
Kĺ - Sammenbidt Blidt
Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel

I could never choose a definitive album of the year, there are too much good music for that.
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« Reply #25 on: 27 Aug 2005, 02:48 »
Uh, I guess the new falconer album. I haven't listened to much new music. I don't really follow new releases. I was wandering in the store and I found that album, so I bought it. had no idea it was actually out.
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« Reply #26 on: 27 Aug 2005, 03:09 »
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
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« Reply #27 on: 27 Aug 2005, 03:25 »
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Deathspell Omega - Kénôse

Indeed.
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« Reply #28 on: 27 Aug 2005, 05:24 »
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Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
Possibly


No matter what I do, I can't seem to get into Venetian Snares. Is this new album any more accessible?
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« Reply #29 on: 27 Aug 2005, 05:36 »
mines between:

 the new Venetian Snares
Bear Vs. Shark - Terrorhawk
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Minus The Bear - Menos El Oso
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« Reply #30 on: 27 Aug 2005, 05:57 »
Since my 'buy The New Pornographers' new album' plan fell through I haven't actually bought an album released this year this year. But there are still four months and up to four Ryan Adams albums to come so I will hold off the judgement that I wasn't entitled to make.
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« Reply #31 on: 27 Aug 2005, 08:46 »
Funeral was in 2004.......

I honestly don't know this one. I have to wait for the new Against Me! to come out.
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« Reply #32 on: 27 Aug 2005, 08:58 »
I'm very much liking the new Broken Social Scene album.

But I'm probably going to go for "Set yourself on Fire" By Stars.
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« Reply #33 on: 27 Aug 2005, 10:15 »
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No matter what I do, I can't seem to get into Venetian Snares. Is this new album any more accessible?


Yeah. A lot more. He replaces about half the mentalism of previous albums with classical music. So now there's only about 10 snares a second and some violin, as opposed to 18 snares and some static*. It works better than you can possibly imagine.

*exaggeration, baby.
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« Reply #34 on: 27 Aug 2005, 10:34 »
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Come on you guyzzz, hilary duff's new greatest hits cd is number one right now!!!!! ZOMG! Totally my fave!!!! BEST ALBUM EVAR!!!!!



Greatest hits? Doesn't she only have like, 2 albums? what's the fucking point?
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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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« Reply #35 on: 27 Aug 2005, 10:48 »
I didn't even know she had 2 songs?!
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« Reply #36 on: 27 Aug 2005, 11:42 »
She does, she just changes the lyrics a little bit each time...

So, I guess my battle is between:
Eels - Blinking Lights & Other Revelations
Gwar - Live From Mt. Fuji (I've been waiting for a live Gwar CD for a while. I'll probably never listen to it again once I go to one of their shows...)
The Bad Plus - Suspicious Activity? (This will take the cake when it comes out...)
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« Reply #37 on: 27 Aug 2005, 12:05 »
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Mew - Mew and the Glass Handed Kites(perhaps, I like the single, but I can't stand their lyrics anymore, as a whole Frengers stank lyric-wise)


I'm really excited about this album. Probably the first album I've been excited about this year come to think of it. I generally love it when bands sing in keys like Jonas does anyway, but Mew have a REALLY good sound to back it up. The lyrics are a bit wishwash in places, granted, but Comforting Sounds has some of my favourite lyrics ever. Hope this album makes them big outside Denmark, as only a few people in the UK seem to know about them. (from their tour supporting Gretch mostly)
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« Reply #38 on: 27 Aug 2005, 12:08 »
The new BSS is high, since I heard it for the first time today.

Wiki says 'Set Yourself On Fire' was 2004.

'Picaresque', 'Frances The Mute', 'Lullabies To Paralyze' there's a few for consideration.
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« Reply #39 on: 27 Aug 2005, 12:17 »
Dayum.

Well then, it's Looking like new Broken Social Scene =/
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« Reply #40 on: 27 Aug 2005, 12:18 »
I can't judge right now. Not without hearing the new Opeth and Franz Ferdinand cs's first. Those are gonna rock.
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« Reply #41 on: 27 Aug 2005, 13:01 »
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Dayum.

Well then, it's Looking like new Broken Social Scene =/

I don't see any reason to complain, it's an awesome album.

Also, forgot to mention 'You Could Have It So Much Better... with Franz Ferdinand'  Out October 3rd kids!
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« Reply #42 on: 27 Aug 2005, 14:18 »
You're 15....

mmmm, for some reason the prospect of a new Franz Ferdinand album doesn't make me explode with happy.
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« Reply #43 on: 27 Aug 2005, 14:26 »
My dad loves them, though. I heard the first single off of their new album. It's basically moments from the first album strung together. It was ok. The video was funny.
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« Reply #44 on: 27 Aug 2005, 14:41 »
Nothing this year has impressed me that much, but from what I bought (and can remember), I liked:

Into The Moat - The Design
The Holy Shroud - Ghost Repeaters
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

I have yet to listen to Minus The Bear's new record and I will probably give Bear Vs. Shark a try as well, they sound like something I might like.
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« Reply #45 on: 27 Aug 2005, 21:20 »
Top 3 in order:
Silver Screen - The Greatest Story Never Told (Hands Down)
Boom Bip - Blue Eyed In The Red Room
The American Analog Set - Set Free

New BSS is good, but doesn't really deserve to be on a best of list, unless it's been an UNBELIEVABLY lackluster year.  Right now, it's just a sort of lackluster year.
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« Reply #46 on: 27 Aug 2005, 23:31 »
ANIMAL COLLECTIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


seriously, this album is perfect!
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« Reply #47 on: 28 Aug 2005, 11:56 »
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois is going to be the top of my list, no question.

I'm currently on my second listen of the BSS album, and it's good, but I'm not hearing anything special.  Also, there is a lot of "heeeyy, didn't i hear that on the last album?!" going on.

others include:

Decemberists - Picaresque
Boy Least Likely To - The Best Party EVER
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« Reply #48 on: 28 Aug 2005, 12:40 »
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I'm really excited about this album. Probably the first album I've been excited about this year come to think of it. I generally love it when bands sing in keys like Jonas does anyway, but Mew have a REALLY good sound to back it up. The lyrics are a bit wishwash in places, granted, but Comforting Sounds has some of my favourite lyrics ever. Hope this album makes them big outside Denmark, as only a few people in the UK seem to know about them. (from their tour supporting Gretch mostly)


Well judging from the new single Special, it doesn't look that promising, maybe I just miss their happy-go-lightly pop days, I Should Have Been A Tsin Tsi, Mica, Saliva etc. They had better lyrics then, or at least less pretentious. The whole hardrock transformation on Frengers appealed to me at first, but it wore off after some time, it sort of jars when listened to many times.
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« Reply #49 on: 28 Aug 2005, 15:21 »
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Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
The Ponys - Celebration Castle
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

Winner!

I'm excited for the new BSS album, though. Terribly excited.
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