# 2005 mid-year best album list **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 30, 2005, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-mid-year-best-album-list/310481 "2005-06-30T05:25:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![vtynos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f07891/32.png) [@vtynos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vtynos)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-mid-year-best-album-list/310481/21 "2005-07-01T11:54:14Z")
Albums: 1. Bright Eyes - I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning 2. M.I.A. - Arular 3. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm 4. Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die 5. The Decemberists - Picaresque I’m going to do a singles list, too. Top 20: 1. Mike Jones ft. Slim Thug and Paul Wall - Still Tippin’ 2. Amerie - 1 Thing 3. M.I.A. - Bucky Done Gun 4. The Futureheads - Hounds Of Love 5. Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone (I think this might actually have come out at the end of '04, but I’m putting it in anyway, because i’m pissed that I slept on it) 6. Art Brut - Emily Kane 7. Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl 8. Ciara ft. Ludacris - Oh! 9. Wolf Parade - Shine A Light 10. Ying Yang Twinz - Wait 11. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home On Ice 12. The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) 13. Basement Jaxx - Oh My Gosh 14. Architecture In Helsinki - It’5! 15. Game ft. 50 Cent, Young Buck, Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks - Hate It Or Love It (Remix) 16. Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure 17. Kanye West - Diamonds from Sierra Leone 18. Jennifer Lopez ft. Fabolous - Get Right (Remix) 19. Interpol - Evil 20. Lil Jon and The Eastside Boyz ft. Usher and Ludacris - Lovers and Friends ---
**Author:** ![Phish\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@Phish\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phish_Head)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-mid-year-best-album-list/310481/22 "2005-07-01T13:25:57Z")
**Bruce Springsteen** - _Devils & Dust_ ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-mid-year-best-album-list/310481/23 "2005-07-01T14:55:59Z")
> [@Hung Mung](#): > > I haven’t bought much new music this year, but **NIN** ’s With Teeth is absolutely fantastic. Y’know, if I had been expecting anything great from that album, it would’ve been on my list of big disappointments. ---
**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-mid-year-best-album-list/310481/24 "2005-07-01T15:06:09Z")
My Top5 so far…(in no order) The Decemberistst - Picaresque Head of Femur - Hysterical Stars Four Tet - Ecstatic Anthony & The Johnson - I am Bird now Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs Honorable mentions; Eels - Blinking Lights and other stories Clap your Hands say Yeah - Clap your Hands say Yeah Engineers - Engineers Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-mid-year-best-album-list/310481/25 "2005-07-01T15:07:08Z")
Honestly, I really liked Weezer’s _Make Believe_. I know it let a lot of people down, but I think it was their strongest album since the impossible-to-top _Pinkerton_. Ben Folds’ \*Songs For Silverman \* was really strong too. I still haven’t heard the new Raveonettes or White Stripes albums, or _Picaresque_, which everyone is loving, but I’m eagerly awaiting hearing those and I’m sure I’ll love them. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-mid-year-best-album-list/310481/26 "2005-07-01T15:20:10Z")
It hasn’t been mentioned yet, but I quite like Garbage’s _Bleed Like Me_. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-mid-year-best-album-list/310481/27 "2005-07-01T15:21:39Z")
Adding some metal… System of a Down - Mezmerize Mudvayne - Lost and Found Octavia Sperati - Winter Enclosure ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-mid-year-best-album-list/310481/28 "2005-07-01T15:57:05Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > System of a Down - Mezmerize Duh, I knew I was forgetting something. Put that at number three on my list and bump MSI down to four. I wasn’t that impressed with Octavia Sperati, but I can definitely see where others might be. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-mid-year-best-album-list/310481/29 "2005-07-01T17:29:33Z")
Shelly Fairchild–_Ride_ ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-mid-year-best-album-list/310481/30 "2005-07-01T17:42:18Z")
> [@EuroMDguy](#): > > Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy I haven’t heard this yet but I _loved_ **Don’t Fall in Love With Everyone You See**. Loved, loved, loved. But I was very “eh” about their follow-up album. Is the new one more like Don’t Fall in Love, or is it more, um, emo, I guess? My favorite album so far has been Electric Six’s **Senor Smoke**. I was dissappointed with Spoon’s new one, and I’m okay with Beck’s, but I can’t stop listening to the song “Jimmy Carter” by Electric Six. ZJ ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-mid-year-best-album-list/310481/31 "2005-07-01T17:49:18Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > Huh… you are the only other person I’ve seen (other than myself) that actually liked that albums :D. I bought it after listening to it with a buddy. I’ve recommended it to several people and they’ve enjoyed it too. So, it’s all word of mouth around here. Oh, and to tell you how impressed I was, I bought that record the day after I heard it. I couldn’t get it out of my head. I wasn’t disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-mid-year-best-album-list/310481/32 "2005-07-01T19:50:40Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > Huh… you are the only other person I’ve seen (other than myself) that actually liked that albums :D. I’m a longtime NIN fan (about 13 years) and I think it’s a great album. On my first listen, I didn’t quite know what to make of it, but once it began to sink in, I loved it. There are some really great tracks on there - “Sunspots” and “Right Where it Belongs” come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-mid-year-best-album-list/310481/33 "2005-07-01T20:22:28Z")
1. _Residents_:\*\* Animal Lover\*\* 2. _Beyond Sensory Experience_: **Pursuit of Pleasure** 3. _Inade_: **colliding dimensions** 4. _Herbst9_: **buried under time and sand** 5. _Henrik Nordvargr Bjorkk_: **The dead never sleep** ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-mid-year-best-album-list/310481/34 "2005-07-01T23:02:20Z")
> [@EuroMDguy](#): > > My Top5 so far…(in no order) > The Decemberistst - Picaresque > Head of Femur - Hysterical Stars > Four Tet - Ecstatic > Anthony & The Johnson - I am Bird now > Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs > > Honorable mentions; > Eels - Blinking Lights and other stories > Clap your Hands say Yeah - Clap your Hands say Yeah > Engineers - Engineers > Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree > Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy Are you sure you’re not my boyfriend. Yeah, your location is in Maryland, but you may just be trying to trick me. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-mid-year-best-album-list/310481.md?page=1)