DU Album of the Year

[democracyindanger]

Make your nominations. A poll is useless, because every album is is the album of the year to somebody.

My vote: Gilles Peterson Presents, the BBC Recordings. Live performances from his BBC Radio show. Bjork, The Roots and others blowing the doors off the studio. If you don't get this album you are a pathetic, miserable human being, and you probably don't even know it.

[Capn Sunshine]

1. LATERALUS , by Tool

The vinyl limited edition is a work of art

[ghostsofgiants]

3. That came out in, what '01?

[SlavesandBulldozers]

20. yeah 01

it was recorded in 00 i believe.

[ghostsofgiants]

21. Then how can it be the album of the year?

If this was '01 I'd probably agree with you though, haha.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

2. EVERYTHING IN TRANSIT - Jack's Mannequin

nt

[HEyHEY]

4. Funeral - the arcade fire

[Lautremont]

15. Isn't that from '04?

Ignore this pedantry if what everyone else means is "personal favourite albums I first heard in '05," which is a perfectly good question too.

[ghostsofgiants]

5. Protest the Hero - "Kezia"

I can't get enough of it.

[ghostsofgiants]

25. Actually it's tied with The Mars Volta's "Frances The Mute"

How the shit could I forget TMV?!

[mvd]

6. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema

Rest of my top 20 ( orders might change: )

2. Stacie Rose - Shadow And Splendor
3. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
4. The Veronicas - Secret Life of..
5. Hope 7 - self-titled
6. Anna Nalick - Wreck Of The Day
7. Saving Jane - Girl Next Door
8. Brandi Carlile - self-titled
9. White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
10. The Like - Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?
11. Teenage Fanclub - Man-Made
12. Cindy Alexander - Angels & Demons
13. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
14. Lee Ann Womack - There's More Where That Came From
15. Garbage - Bleed Like Me
16. Josh Ritter - Hello Starling (limited edition)
17. Liz Phair - Somebody's Miracle
18. Amy Rigby - Little Fugitive
19. Decemberists - Picaresque
20. Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures

honorable mentions:

Jerra - Play Like A Girl
Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself
David Gray - Life In Slow Motion
Wallflowers - Rebel, Sweetheart
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Fisher - The Lovely Years
Martha Wainwright - self-titled
Madonna - Confessions On A Dance Floor
Little Big Town - The Road To Here
Julie Gribble - So Typical

Others I liked a lot:

Sheryl Crow - Wildflower
Bruce Springsteen - Devils And Dust
Courtney Jaye - Traveling Light
Eisley - Room Noises
Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now
Tracy Bonham - Blink The Brightest
Kathleen Edwards - Back To Me
Sigur Ros - Takk
Emma - Free Me
Brie Larson - Finally Out Of P.E.
Laura Veirs - Year Of Meteors
Miss Mary - Ready 2 Pop
Tori Amos - The Beekeeper
Doves - Some Cities
Tristan Prettyman - Twentythree
Annie - Anniemal
Marion Raven - Here I Am
Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart
Aslyn - Lemon Love
All American Rejects - Move Along
Metric - Live It Out
Miranda Lambert - Kerosene
Brad Paisley - Time Well Wasted
Trisha Yearwood - Jasper County
Deana Carter - Story Of My Life

And I liked others, too. Including the promising Hope Partlow that has a couple songs that hint at more ("Crazy Summer Nights," "Like You Do,") Shakira's Oral Fixation Volume 2, Alexz Johnson, Mae...

I had to do my list now because when I return in Jan, this topic will have been done.

[mvd]

7. Addendum

There were albums I wanted to get, but couldn't get them by my deadline. These include Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree, Kate Bush - Aerial, Magic Numbers - self-titled, Anthony Hamilton - Ain't Nobody Worryin, Keyshia Cole - The Way It Is, John Legend - Get Lifted

I like some R&B, but I tend to be late in getting it.

[mvd]

8. kick for more choices

:kick:

[mr blur]

9. 5 great ones from '05:

Richard Thompson - Front Parlour Ballads
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Robert Plant - Mighty Rearranger
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Richard hell - Spurts

[mvd]

10. I was surprised at how good that Franz Ferdinand is

It very nearly made my best list. The Jerra and Julie Gribble are tied, but rather than putting in ties, I gave the two slots to male artists, since as usual I have more female artists in my top 20.

[ghostsofgiants]

22. Funeral came out in '04

Though it IS a gret album.

[bif]

11. "Kicking Television" by Wilco

[CalebHayes]

12. "Late Reg" by Kanye West

[AwakeAtLast]

13. "Hypnotize" - System of a Down

If you haven't listened to the lyrics, you are missing out big time!

I never have it too far from my CD player in the car.

:thumbsup:

[Maestro]

19. Both of them!

For sure!

[ghostsofgiants]

24. Very good call!

(You'd probably enjoy Kezia.)

[tuvor]

14. This year's for the girls. (I can't pick just one.)

MIA's Arular


Feist's Let it Die


Shakira's Fijacion Oral vol. 1

[fishwax]

16. Transistor Radio

by M. Ward. Though on a different day I'd probably have a different choice ...

[seemunkee]

17. Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall [LIVE]

Found in the Library of Congress archives this year by a guy I knew back in college. Phenomenal find of two jazz giants.

[Maestro]

18. Did Steve Earle's album come out in '05?

If so, I nominate that one or Green Day's American Idiot, but I think that was '04 as well.

[ghostsofgiants]

23. Yep, they were both '04

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

26. EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE (leaked version) - Fiona Apple

:D

[gardenista]

27. Either version is ok by me!

We've been listening to the CD incessantly.