I'll repost my 2005 list then as well. Its probably drastically different from what I posted here back then. And I agree with FKA. 2005 was a MONSTER year. If I saw any of my top 15 or so topping someone else's list, I'd have no arguement with that.

1. Animal Collective - Feels
2. Wolf Parade- Apologies to the Queen Mary
3. Deerhoof - Runners Four
4. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t
5. Sufjan Stephens - Illinois
6. The National - Alligator
7. Broken Social Scene - s/t
8. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake its Morning
9. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
10. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
11. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
12. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
13. My Morning Jacket - Z
14. Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth
15. Okkervil River - Badly Drawn Boy
16. White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
17. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
18. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Cold Roses
19. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have it so much better
20. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us

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15. Okkervil River - Badly Drawn Boy

I didn't know they collaborated.

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Originally posted by Hophead:
15. Okkervil River - Badly Drawn Boy

I didn't know they collaborated.

Ha, thanks for catching. I guess I was typing my list and my mind was wandering. Funny thing is that I've never listened to Badly Drawn Boy a single time in my life. I have no idea what they sound like.

2005 was a ridiculous year.

1. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
2. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
3. Decemberists - Picaresque
4. The National - Alligator
5. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
6. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t
7. Andrew Bird - And the Mysterious Production of Eggs
8. Voxtrot - Raised by Wolves EP
9. Broken Social Scene - s/t
10. Eels - Blinking Lights and Revelations
11. Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
12. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
13. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
14. My Morning Jacket - Z
15. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday

Damn, what a year.

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2005 was a ridiculous year.

1. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
2. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
3. Decemberists - Picaresque
4. The National - Alligator
5. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
6. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t
7. Andrew Bird - And the Mysterious Production of Eggs
8. Voxtrot - Raised by Wolves EP
9. Broken Social Scene - s/t
10. Eels - Blinking Lights and Revelations
11. Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
12. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
13. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
14. My Morning Jacket - Z
15. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday

Damn, what a year.

Best year of Decade IMHO...

You don't even have listed Sleater-Kinney's THE WOODS, which I think is decade's best album, or Wolf Parade, or Kayne West's Late Registration, or Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, or Low's The Great Destroyer, or Sigur Ros Takk, or Antony and the Johnsons, or Deerhoof The Runner's Four, Or Elbows Leaders of the Free World, or Stripes Get Behind Me Satan

Several 2005 efforts will be in my best of Decade...The Woods, The Sunset Tree, and Blinking Lights for sure...Blinking Lights, for such a rag tag simple album, has such tremendous staying power...no single song blows you away...but the cummulative hard-life-lived wisdom just sounds better with every listen...an absolute classic, almost Rubber Soul like in it's understated charm.

the year in Music would have been a lot different had Sufjan not dropped "the bomb". Great lists by the way.

I was always interested in the Eels "Bright Lights..", but I never really checked it out. Maybe I should go try to find it somewhere.

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Originally posted by Hophead:
15. Okkervil River - Badly Drawn Boy

I didn't know they collaborated.

Ha, thanks for catching. I guess I was typing my list and my mind was wandering. Funny thing is that I've never listened to Badly Drawn Boy a single time in my life. I have no idea what they sound like.

badly drawn boy is alright, his first album, the hour of bewilderbeast, is pretty good and a nice relaxing listen. Its nice folk/pop with horns and guitar and strings (think a less creative andrew bird). the rest of his stuff is fairly forgettable (its still nice pop) but he did the soundtrack to About a Boy, which was a fairly forgettable movie based off a mediocre book by Nick Hornby, who also wrote High Fidelity which is not a mediocre book but a fantastic and easy read which was made into a pretty good movie with a great cameo by the Boss. highly recommend the book and sorry for the connections rant.

sufjan, clap your hands, my morning jacket and okkervil river would all make my top 5. just don't know where.

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2005 was a ridiculous year.

1. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
2. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
3. Decemberists - Picaresque
4. The National - Alligator
5. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
6. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t
7. Andrew Bird - And the Mysterious Production of Eggs
8. Voxtrot - Raised by Wolves EP
9. Broken Social Scene - s/t
10. Eels - Blinking Lights and Revelations
11. Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
12. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
13. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
14. My Morning Jacket - Z
15. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday

Damn, what a year.

Best year of Decade IMHO...

You don't even have listed Sleater-Kinney's THE WOODS, which I think is decade's best album, or Wolf Parade, or Kayne West's Late Registration, or Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, or Low's The Great Destroyer, or Sigur Ros Takk, or Antony and the Johnsons, or Deerhoof The Runner's Four, Or Elbows Leaders of the Free World, or Stripes Get Behind Me Satan

Several 2005 efforts will be in my best of Decade...The Woods, The Sunset Tree, and Blinking Lights for sure...Blinking Lights, for such a rag tag simple album, has such tremendous staying power...no single song blows you away...but the cummulative hard-life-lived wisdom just sounds better with every listen...an absolute classic, almost Rubber Soul like in it's understated charm.

I haven't heard the Sleater-Kinney album, but there was a reason I left Bright Eyes and Wolf Parade off.

i was not here in 05 but i found a list i made for anoher music forum back then:

1.Herman Dune - not on top
2.Buck 65 - This right here is Buck 65
3.Bright Eyes - I'm wide awake it's morning
4.M Ward - Transistor Radio
5.Jon Rae and the River - Old songs for the new town
6.Langhorne Slim - When The Sun's Gone Down
7.Mendoza line - Full Of Light And Full Of Fire
8.50 foot wave - Golden ocean
9.Eels - Blinking Lights...
10.Magnolia Electric Co. - Trials and Errors
11.Mike Coykendall - Hello Hello Hello
12.Great Lake Swimmers - Bodies and minds
13.Lucero - Nobody's darling
14.Okervill River - Black Sheep Boys
15.Robbie Fulks - georgia hard
16.Constantines - Tournament of Hearts
17.Fembots - The City
18.Magnolia Electric Co - What Comes After The Blues
19.Buck 65 - Secret House Against The World
20.The Grabs - sex fashion and money

21 to 50 in no particular order:

Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Frank Black - Honeycomb
Iron & wine - Woman king
Raveonettes - Pretty in Black
Bellewether - Seven and six
Ry Cooder - Chavez ravine
Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust
Black Mountain - S/T
Caitlin Cary And Thad Cockrell - Begonias
Heavy Trash - Heavy Trash
Chatam County Line - Route 23
John Doe - Forever hasnt happened yet
Freakwater - Thinking of you
Jim And Jennie and the pinetops - Rivers Roll On By
Pilot Scott Tracy - Any City
The Moaners - Dark Snack
Micah P Hinson - Micah P Hinson And The Gospel Of Progress
Bobby Bare - The Moon Was Blue
Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
Clem Snide - The end of love
The Deadly Snakes - Porcella
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - Exploration
Mando Diao - Hurricane Bar
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez - Red dog tracks
White Hassle - Your language
Sons and Daughters - Repulsion Box
Black rebel motorcycle club - howl
Vic Chesnutt - Ghetto Bells
The kills - no wow
Shooting at unarmed men_Soon There Will Be

Tri-crown year.

1 / The Decemberists / Picaresque (9.9)
2 / The New Pornographers / Twin Cinema (9.9)
3 / Death Cab for Cutie / Plans (9.9)
4 / Andrew Bird / The Mysterious Production of Eggs (9.5)
5 / Sufjan Stevens / Come on, Feel the Illinoise! (9.4)

6 / Wolf Parade / Apologies to the Queen Mary (9.2)
7 / Franz Ferdinand / You Could Have it So Much Better (9.2)
8 / The Fiery Furnaces / EP (9.1)
9 / Art Brut / Bang Bang Rock and Roll (9.0)
10 / Kaiser Chiefs / Employment (8.8)

11 / Deerhoof / The Runners Four (8.8)
12 / The White Stripes / Get Behind Me Satan (8.7)
13 / Spoon / Gimme Fiction (8.6)
14 / The National / Alligator (8.6)
15 / The Dead 60s / The Dead 60s (8.6)

16 / Of Montreal / Sunlandic Twins (8.5)
17 / Adult. / Gimmie Trouble (8.4)
18 / Devendra Banhart / Cripple Crow (8.3)
19 / Animal Collective / Feels (8.3)
20 / The Go! Team / Thunder, Lightning, Strike (8.2)

Ballsy to put Plans at the top! But I like it too.

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8 / The Fiery Furnaces / EP (9.1)

(sigh) Reminds me of the days when I thought they could do no wrong. It all went downhill after this excellent album.

No. Don't be like that! Go back and listen to Bitter Tea some more. It's a wonderful album. And then listen to Widow City. The more you listen, the more you'll like it!

RL and I rarely agree on music, but I'm with him 100% on the Fiery Furnaces. I thought their first few releases were good, but their post-EP stuff is pretty lacking. I don't think they were able to rebound from the Grandma Album

I think Widow City is actually very similar to EP. Yeah, I like Bitter Tea too, but if you're looking for something like EP, I think Widow City is closer to EP than Bitter Tea.

2005: the year that keeps giving.

Just discovered "Silent Alarm" by Bloc Party and "The Great Destroyer" by Low. Both are pretty good. Don't know why it took me that long to get to listen to them.

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2005: the year that keeps giving.

Just discovered . . . "The Great Destroyer" by Low.

That was top 10 for me back in'05. Their new one will definitely slip into my top 20 this year. I remember dissing these guys back during my college DJ days (mid-late 90s, what the hell was I thinking?), now I'm falling in love with them. I just recently watched the Low in Europe DVD and I bought their Long Division album and Christmas EP.

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Originally posted by Chamberk:
2005: the year that keeps giving.

Just discovered . . . "The Great Destroyer" by Low.

That was top 10 for me back in'05. Their new one will definitely slip into my top 20 this year. I remember dissing these guys back during my college DJ days (mid-late 90s, what the hell was I thinking?), now I'm falling in love with them. I just recently watched the Low in Europe DVD and I bought their Long Division album and Christmas EP.

Great Destroyer was a huge disappointment for me. That poppier sound just didn't work for me. If you haven't already, check out 2000's Things We Lost in the Fire, my fave and often considered a must in the genre in the '00s.

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Great Destroyer was a huge disappointment for me. That poppier sound just didn't work for me.

That's just it. I'm much more of a "Pop" kinda guy. If they had never delved into it, I would have never given them a chance-- it's also why that will probably always be my favorite album by them.

1. Animal Collective - Feels
2. M I A - Arular
3. Deerhoof - The Runners Four
4. LCD Soundsystem - LCD SOundsystem
5. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Producitons of Eggs
6. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
7. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
8. Kanye West - Late Registration
9. Paavoharju - Yha Hamaraa
10. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap your hands say yeah
11. Love is All - Nine TImes the same song
12. The Decemberists - Picaresque
13. Boards of Canada - Campfire Headphase
14. Serena Maneesh - Serena Maneesh
15. Mountain GOats - The SUnset Tree
16. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
17. Antony & THe Johnsons - I am a Bird NOw
18. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
19. Bright Eyes - I m wide awake, its morning
20. Vitalic - Ok Cowboy

21. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
22. The NEw pronographers - Twin Cinema
23. The Boy Least Likely to - Best Party Ever
24. Isolee - We are Monster
25. My Morning Jacket - Z

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