And I just realized that my top ten is 90% female.
oh well, it'll provide a balance.

I'm hedging my bets here because I have high hopes for Ryan Adams' 29 which comes out late December (although I should have my copy next week...) but I'm gonna post my list. I've got exactly two out of 20 from the list as tabulated when I posted this...I'm guessing there won't be much Ordinary Boys or Orange Peels love out there, but hey...these are my favorites of 2005, despite the fact that they won't come close to touching the big list!

1. British Sea Power: Open Season
2. Richard Hawley: Cole’s Corner
3. Hard-Fi: Stars of CCTV
4. The Ordinary Boys: Brassbound
5. Josh Rouse: Nashville
6. The Pernice Brothers: Discover a Lovelier You
7. Greg Dulli: Amber Headlights
8. The Orange Peels: Circling the Sun
9. Youth Group: Skeleton Jar
10. The Magic Numbers: The Magic Numbers
11. Clem Snide: The End of Love
12. Bloc Party: Silent Alarm/Remixed
13. Richmond Fontaine: The Fitzgerald
14. Mike Doughty: Haughty Melodic
15. Adam Richman: Patience and Science
16. Kaiser Chiefs: Employment
17. Brendan Benson: The Alternative to Love
18. Shout Out Louds: Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
19. Halloween Alaska: Too Tall To Care
20. Sun Kil Moon: Tiny Cities

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Originally posted by The Furnace Is Fiery:
Along with that list...I think Absence by Dalek is 2004 too(?). With the U.S. import of The Go! Team, on the packaging it is listed as 2005. I will be including it in this year's list(may not make Top 20...but will be on my list). I don't know about some of the other one's listed, but, if it is a 2005 release in the region you are voting in....anything counts. So, those in UK, Arcade Fire may be in your list(as I know it was a 2005 releasse there and doing well). Same with Aussie releases...etc., etc.

I think that's fair, and that it's an honor system thing. I buy a lot of UK imports (Hard-Fi and The Editors won't get US releases until 2006, but I've got them on my 2005 list) but I don't always get them. As long as the record got a release in 2005, we have to trust that the poster is being honest.

1. Ryan Adams And The Cardinals: Cold Roses
2. The Kills: No Wow
3. Sleater Kinney: The Woods
4. Sigur Ros: Takk...
5. Death Cab For Cutie: Plans
6. British Sea Power: Open Season
7. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
8. Coldplay: X&Y
9. Eels: Blinking Lights And Other Revalations
10. Athlete: Tourist
(11.) Doves: Some Cities
(12.) Paul McCartney: Chaos And Creation

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Originally posted by philosopherEric:
I'm hedging my bets here because I have high hopes for Ryan Adams' 29 which comes out late December (although I should have my copy next week...) but I'm gonna post my list. I've got exactly two out of 20 from the list as tabulated when I posted this...I'm guessing there won't be much Ordinary Boys or Orange Peels love out there, but hey...these are my favorites of 2005, despite the fact that they won't come close to touching the big list!

Sorry pE, "Circling the Sun" actually came very close to cracking my top 20. I think if I would have compiled a top 25, it would have made it.

Fair enough. I was just wondering what was up with AIH. Certainly i don't think everyone would like it but I was curious if everyone had heard it.

For the most part, it sounds like they have. I don't pretend to have heard every album listed here... in fact ashamed to admit when i posted my list i hadn't heard Wolf Parade more than once. My girlfriend owns it and it is never in the house

Oh well. Looks like it will end up #1 anyhow.

Seamus' list shouldn't be counted because he has an annoying name. And it's not 20. And he has 2 posts. And he's from Connecticut. Nice to see some Ryan Adams love, though.

Regarding listing albums that we have not heard, I really don't see the point. I've read the reviews of many of the big indy and alt bands and just plain no they are not my thing. The Monk and Trane album would have gotten a 98 from metacritic , at least, (and it was reviewed everywhere!) had it been included, but most people here didn't listen to it.

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Originally posted by J_Deighton:
Regarding listing albums that we have not heard, I really don't see the point.

The point is that you get a better idea of which albums the person listened to and didn't like. If I see an album appearing in a lot of people's top 5, but not appearing at all on a lot of other lists, I might think that the people who don't have it listed may not have heard it, and that it is therefore underrated in our combined poll because it hasn't been listened to by as many people as a lot of other albums. The only way to know for sure though, is if people list some of the more prominent albums that they listened to and just didn't like. It's just a suggestion. Nobody has to do it or anything.

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Regarding listing albums that we have not heard, I really don't see the point. I've read the reviews of many of the big indy and alt bands and just plain no they are not my thing. The Monk and Trane album would have gotten a 98 from metacritic , at least, (and it was reviewed everywhere!) had it been included, but most people here didn't listen to it.

It will be in my Top 20, and I believe two others as well. Four if you count your list.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:

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Originally posted by J_Deighton:
Regarding listing albums that we have not heard, I really don't see the point.

The point is that you get a better idea of which albums the person listened to and didn't like. If I see an album appearing in a lot of people's top 5, but not appearing at all on a lot of other lists, I might think that the people who don't have it listed may not have heard it, and that it is therefore underrated in our combined poll because it hasn't been listened to by as many people as a lot of other albums. The only way to know for sure though, is if people list some of the more prominent albums that they listened to and just didn't like. It's just a suggestion. Nobody has to do it or anything.

I like the idea of seeing all the critically acclaimed stuff people didn't like, but I still assert it should be a seperate thread. Otherwise, you're going to have likes and dislikes next to each other and it could get confusing.

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Originally posted by Kuro:
1) Emiliana Torrini— Fisherman's Woman
2) Sleater-Kinney— The Woods
3) M.I.A.— Arular
4) Kate Bush— Aerial
5) Wolf Parade— Apologies to the Queen Mary
6) Vashti Bunyan— Lookaftering
7) Tori Amos— The Beekeeper
8) Shakira— Fijación Oral Vol. 1
9) Imogen Heap— Speak For Yourself
10) Björk— Drawing Restraint 9
11) Fiona Apple— Extraordinary Machine
12) Antony and the Johnsons— I Am a Bird Now
13) Me'shell Ndegeocello— The Spirit Music Jamia: Dance of the Infidel
14) Broken Social Scene— Broken Social Scene
15) The White Stripes— Get Behind Me Satan
16) Metric— Live It Out
17) Architecture in Helsinki— In Case We Die
18) Sufjan Stevens— Illinois
19) The Fiery Furnaces— EP
20) Colleen— The Golden Morning Breaks

A couple excellent choices.

1. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
2. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake its morning
3. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
4. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
5. White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
6. Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
7. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
8. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
9. Broken Social Scene
10. Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth

By the way, I assume when people don't post full top 20s, they count as #1) 20, #2) 19, #3) 18, etc as far as they went, right?

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Originally posted by Bobthespirit:
By the way, I assume when people don't post full top 20s, they count as #1) 20, #2) 19, #3) 18, etc as far as they went, right?

That's the way I understood it. Fiery said you could post as many or as few albums as you wanted. Obviously anything over 20 wouldn't get any points, but top 10 or top 5 lists should get counted.

1: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
2: Broken Social Scene-Broken Social Scene
3: Bloc Party-Silent Alarm
4: Sleater Kinney-The Woods
5: Franz Ferdinand-You Could Have It So Much Better
6: Black Mountain-Black Mountain
7: Architecture in Helsinki-In Case We Die
8: Maximo Park-A Certain Trigger
9: The National-Alligator
10: Wolf Parade-Apologies To The Queen Mary
11: New Pornographrers-Twin Cinema
12: Sufjan Stevens-Illinois
13: Spoon-Gimmie Fiction
14: Death Cab For Cutie-Plans
15: Okkervil River-Black Sheep Boy
16: White Stripes-Get Behind Me Satan
17: Art Brut-Band Band Rock and Roll
18: Stars-Set Yourself on Fire
19: My Morning Jacket-Z
20: Motion City Soundtrack-Commit This To Memory

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too bad the grammy voters didn't recognize this cd and nominate it for best album .

Homer: (hands Grammy to bellhop as tip)

Bellhop: Wow! An awards statue! ... Aw, it's a Grammy. (throws it over the balcony)

Hobo: Hey, don't throw your garbage down here!

The Grammys are a notoriously laughable awards process that probably deserves it's own thread. Otherwise, I could go on forever listing the musical atrocities given awards by these folks over the years. I'm quite sure the Academy wouldn't know a quality album if it bit them on the ass.

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Originally posted by ericg75:
The Grammys are a notoriously laughable awards process that probably deserves it's own thread. Otherwise, I could go on forever listing the musical atrocities given awards by these folks over the years. I'm quite sure the Academy wouldn't know a quality album if it bit them on the ass.

I agree. I almost started a new thread this morning. Oh hell, I'll start it right now.

are EPs okay? I can change it if they aren't acceptable or whatever...
1.Dungen-Ta Det Lungt (only released in the UK this year, and I only picked up on it this year)
2.Sufjan Stevens-Illinois
3.Broken Social Scene-s/t
4.Okkervil River-Black Sheep Boy
5.Angels of Light & Akron Family-s/t
6.Deerhoof-Green Cosmos EP
7.Boom Bip-Blue Eyes in the Red Room
8.Sigur Ros-Takk...
9.The Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra-Horses in the Sky
10.Calexico & Iron and Wine-In The Reins EP
11.The Decemberists-Picaresque
12.Why?-Elephant Eyelash
13.Doveman-Acrobat
14.Jens Lekman-Oh You're So Silent, Jens
15.Boards of Canada-The Campfire Headphase
16.Hood-Outside Closer
17.Architecture in Helsinki-In Case We Die
18.Matt Sweeney & Bonnie 'prince' Billy-Superwolf
19.Caribou-The Milk Of Human Kindness
20.Animal Collective-Feels
21.Wolf Parade-Apologies to Queen Mary
22.Kanye West-Late Registration
23.Gruff Rhys-Yr Atal Genhedlaeth
24.Sleater-Kinney-The Woods
25.The Drones-Wait Long By the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By

Shorn from a shortlist of 90.

it may change. no, it will definitely change and I may reign it in to 20.

*top 20, 3 'honourable mentions' for the sake of it, harmless really..the 20+3 will stay the same content wise (probably) but will switch around like I said.

**okay, didn't see people with top 25s...now a top 25!

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