Gotta say I really underrated Sun Kil Moon's Modest Mouse covers album, Tiny Cities. I don't even think I had it in my top 30 at the end og last year, but it's in my top 20 now. It's very good. I prefer all the songs to the Modest Mouse versions.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
Gotta say I really underrated Sun Kil Moon's Modest Mouse covers album, Tiny Cities. I don't even think I had it in my top 30 at the end og last year, but it's in my top 20 now. It's very good. I prefer all the songs to the Modest Mouse versions.

I loved Tiny Cities fromt he get go, but it seems to be getting better the older it gets. IMHO, it's turning into a timeless classic. I never tire of listening to it. It sounds fresh all the time.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
Gotta say I really underrated Sun Kil Moon's Modest Mouse covers album, Tiny Cities. I don't even think I had it in my top 30 at the end og last year, but it's in my top 20 now. It's very good. I prefer all the songs to the Modest Mouse versions.

Blasphemyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
Gotta say I really underrated Sun Kil Moon's Modest Mouse covers album, Tiny Cities. I don't even think I had it in my top 30 at the end og last year, but it's in my top 20 now. It's very good. I prefer all the songs to the Modest Mouse versions.

Blasphemyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

I'm with you on that one B. I liked Mark Kozelek's previous album of covers (2000's What's Next To The Moon) because he presented a beauty in the songs that wasn't immediately evident in the original AC/DC versions. But, since I'm already aware of the beauty in the Modest Mouse versions, Kozelek's covers didn't really shed any new light on these songs. In fact, without the sonically rich textures that Brock and company lay on their tunes, the stripped down versions seem very boring.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
Gotta say I really underrated Sun Kil Moon's Modest Mouse covers album, Tiny Cities. I don't even think I had it in my top 30 at the end og last year, but it's in my top 20 now. It's very good. I prefer all the songs to the Modest Mouse versions.

Absolutely. I can't stand Modest Mouse, but I really like the songs, as interpreted by Kozelek.

I'm going to have to check out this Modest Mouse cover album, because outside of Good News, I haven't ever been able to get into Modest Mouse's albums.

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I'm going to have to check out this Modest Mouse cover album, because outside of Good News, I haven't ever been able to get into Modest Mouse's albums.

Well, like most of Kozelek's covers, they bear little resemblance to the originals, so it's entirely possible to like one and not the other. I still think his AC/DC cover album is better. It was truly amazing the way he transformed those songs.

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I'm going to have to check out this Modest Mouse cover album, because outside of Good News, I haven't ever been able to get into Modest Mouse's albums.

Well, I really like Moon and Antarctica, but I pretty much feel the same way. The old Modest Mouse stuff is just too raw and sloppy for me. Kozelek covers Modest Mouse songs that I do not like (apart from "Ocean Breathes Salty") and turns them into mellow, but emotional acoustic numbers. There's probably a good chance you'll like it.

My list is pretty similar to the one I had at the end of last year.

A few albums crept up a bit, like My Morning Jacket, Antony, Thee More Shallows, and a few crept down a bit, like Wolf Parade, Andrew Bird, White Stripes, Spoon, and Decemberists.

But the top two are still easily the top two for me (Woods and Illinois), and no album I'd say has moved more than five spots in either direciton. Save for Demon Days moving from like #40 to #25.

I'm a fan of most of Modest Mouse's work, and was pretty disappointed with Tiny Cities.


As for my top 10 from 2005, the only real change I've found over the last year is that I keep going back to Feels. It moved up a bunch of spots for me.
Otherwise Decemberists, Wolf Parade, Sufjan, Andrew Bird, Okkervil River, Spoon, Silver Jews, Stephen Malkums, and the New Pornograhpers are pretty much where they were. [1-5 and 7-10, with Animal Collective jumping from 20ish to 6.]

Well, obviously this is way late, but I joined to add my 2006 list. Anyway, here are my favorites from 2005 off the top of my head.

1. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
2. Kanye West - Late Registration
3. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
4. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
5. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
6. The Mountain Goats - Sunset Tree
7. The Decemberists - Picaresque
8. Edan - Beauty and the Beat
9. Andrew Bird - Mysterious Production of Eggs
10. Common - Be

Much like iYa Lo Tengo! I joined to list my 2006 albums, so I'm listing my 2005 (and 2004) lists as well.

01 Hard-Fi - Stars of C.C.T.V.
02 Röyksopp - The Understanding
03 Elbow - Leaders of the Free World
04 Starsailor - On the Outside
05 Coldplay - X & Y
06 Saint Etienne - Tales From Turnpike House
07 Sugababes - Taller in More Ways
08 The Tears - Here Come The Tears
09 Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
10 Doves - Some Cities
11 The Duke Spirit - Cuts Across the Land
12 Goldie Lookin' Chain - Safe as F***
13 Various Artists for Warchild - Help: A Day In The Life
14 Gorillaz - Demon Days
15 Deep Dish - George Is On
16 Madonna - Confessions on a Dancefloor
17 Annie - Anniemal
18 New Order - Waiting for the Sirens' Call
19 Goldfrapp - Supernature
20 The Coral - The Invisible Invasion

Actually I like waiting a year (or at least 3 months) before coming up with a best of list. So for 2005:

1. Buddy Guy - Bring 'Em In
2. Sufjan Stevens - Come on feel the Illinoise
3. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
4. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
5. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
6. Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better
7. Gorillaz - Demon Days
8. White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
9. Bruce Springsteen - Devils and Dust
10. Neil Diamon - 12 Songs
11. Decemberits - Picaresque
12. Kate Bush - Aerial
13. Shakira - Fajacion Oral
14. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
15. Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
16. Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
17. Elvis Costello - Rivers in Reverse
18. Ponys - Celebration Castle
19. Van Morrison - Magic Time
20. Neil Young - Prarie Time

Honorable Mentions
Brian Setzer - Rockabilly Riot
Fort Minor - The Rising Tied
Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree

[QUOTES]Originally posted by philosopherEric:
When we discussed dong this last year, the year of release was a question. My take is that a Best Records of 2005 list should include, for each person who posts one, records that they FIRST HEARD IN THEIR ENTIREITY in 2005 AND that had a release of some sort in 2005 (in other words, if you heard OK Computer for the first time in 2005, you can't list it here because it did not get a release or reissue in 2005). If you heard a track in late 2004 but you bought the record in 2005, then it's a 2005 release. But if you bought the import in 2004, and LISTENED TO THE RECORD in 2004, then you can't count it as a 2005 release merely because it got a US or Canadian release in 2005. It's a honor system thing...I think trying to determine which records were widely available to whom and where is kind of silly...just be honest about it.[\QUOTES]And you're right!

2005's a hard one for me in that there were a lot of good albums, but none that really stuck out as a number 1, five star album. Anyway, here's my list:

1. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
2. Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine
3. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
4. Emiliana Torrini - Fisherman’s Woman
5. Low – The Great Destroyer
6. The Drones – Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By
7. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
8. Weezer – Make Believe
9. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Face the Truth
10. Neil Young – Prairie Wind
11. Dirty Three – Cinder
12. The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike
13. Beck – Guero
14. Teenage Fanclub – Man-Made
15. Devendra Banhard – Cripple Crow
16. M Ward – Transistor Radio
17. NIN – With Teeth
18. Queens of the Stone Age – Lullabies to Paralyze
19. Bruce Springsteen – Devils and Dust
20. Rolling Stones – A Bigger Bang

A list with my favorites albums of 2005

01. Oasis – Don’t Believe The Truth
02. Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have It So Much Better
03. Arcade Fire – Funeral
04. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
05. Coldplay – X&Y
06. The Tears - Here Comes The Tears
07. Babyshambles – Down In Albion
08. The Bravery – The Bravery
09. Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
10. Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise

11. Hard-Fi – Stars Of CCTV
12. Queens Of The Stone Age – Lullabies To Paralyze
13. The Cribs – The New Fellas
14. The Rakes – Capture/Release
15. Editors – The Back Room
16. Mercury Rev - Secret Migration
17. Super Furry Animals – Love Kraft
18. Bright Eyes – Digital Ash In A Digital Urn
19. LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem
20. Sigur Rós – Takk…
21. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Howl

22. Doves – Some Cities
23. The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
24. Kaiser Chiefs – Employment
25. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
26. Elbow – Leaders Of The Free World
27. The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
28. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
29. The Futureheads - The Futureheads
30. Low - The Great Destroyer



You will not find these 3 great albums in my list cause I still don’t own them n i don’t know all the tracks…
1.Broken Social Scene - s/t
2.My Morning Jacket - Z
3.Antony And The Johnsons – I Am A Bird Now

updated, but mostly the same:

01. Spoon: Gimme Fiction
02. Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
03. The New Pornographers: Twin Cinema
04. Andrew Bird: The Mysterious Production of Eggs
05. Wolf Parade: Apologies to the Queen Mary
06. The Decemberists: Picaresque
07. Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
08. Sleater-Kinney: The Woods
09. Okkervil River: The Black Sheep Boy
10. Sigur Rós: Takk...
11. Broken Social Scene: s/t
12. My Morning Jacket: Z
13. Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
14. Architecture in Helsinki: In Case We Die
15. M83: Before the Dawn Heal Us
16. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: s/t
17. Mae: The Everglow
18. Jamie Lidell: Multiply
19. The Clientele: Strange Geometry
20. Stars: Set Yourself on Fire
21. Rogue Wave: Descended Like Vultures
22. Ladytron: Witching Hour
23. Doves: Some Cities
24. The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree
25. Caribou: The Milk of Human Kindness

My Number 1 changed.

Same here:

I know that there has to be some new people and also old people that would like to shar their lists of the top albums of 2005 or even mention an album or two.

My personal list has changed quite a bit, so I will need to re-post it. Personally, I love these kind of lists because it gives us a chance to debate some choices and also find new stuff that we have't heard.

I know I posted a list back in '05, but I'm sure its changed a little.

1. Sufjan Stevens- Illinois
2. Spoon- Gimme Fiction
3. Mountain Goats- The Sunset Tree
4. New Pornographers- Twin Cinema
5. The Hold Steady- Separation Sunday
6. Sigur Ros- Takk…
7. Decemberists- Picaresque
8. The National- Alligator
9. Okkervil River- Black Sheep Boy
10. Of Montreal- The Sunlandic Twins

This was a monster year for music, with a lot of great music releases from top to bottom. Personally, I just love this year's feel with a slew of indie acts releasing great material. I am actually unhappy with this order because I could change it so many time. I love all of these albums:

1. My Morning Jacket – Z
2. Spoon – Gimme Fiction
3. Kanye West – Late Registration
4. The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
5. Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have it So Much Better
6. The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
7. Andrew Bird – Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
8. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
9. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
10. The National – Alligator
11. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – S/T
12. The Decemberists – Picaresque
13. Broken Social Scene – S/T
14. Common – Be
15. The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute
16. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
17. Beck – Guero
18. Danger Doom – The Mouse and the Mask
19. System of a Down – Mezmerize
20. Gorillaz – Demon Days