2005 mid-year best album list

Cafe Society
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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
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Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust

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Y’know, if I had been expecting anything great from that album, it would’ve been on my list of big disappointments.

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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

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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.

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It hasn’t been mentioned yet, but I quite like Garbage’s Bleed Like Me.

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Adding some metal…

System of a Down - Mezmerize
Mudvayne - Lost and Found
Octavia Sperati - Winter Enclosure

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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.

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Shelly Fairchild–Ride

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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

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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.

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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.

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  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
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Are you sure you’re not my boyfriend. Yeah, your location is in Maryland, but you may just be trying to trick me. :slight_smile: