2005 album of the year

[choc_soldier]

What is your personal favourite(s) for this year?

Triple J have got their annual poll up and running...

http://www.triplej.net.au/2005/default.htm

Here is what I selected:

Coldplay - X&Y
End Of Fashion - End Of Fashion
Finn Brothers - Everyone Is Here
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
Shihad - Love Is The New Hate
System Of A Down - Mezmerize
Wolfmother - Wolfmother

 

[c_eagle]

Sanity called, they want their rock best seller list back.

 

[Azkatro]

I'd go as far to say Hypnotize is better than Mesmerize, if you had to consider them seperately. Certainly my pick anyway.

 

[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]

I had trouble selecting 10 albums from that list - 2005 wasn't the best year for good music...

 

[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]

Powderfinger is my tip to win, despite the handicap of not releasing an album this year.

 

[half]

lol parra panther those albums suck

stars - set yourself on fire
m.i.a. - arular
bloc party - silent alarm
queens of the stone age - lullabies to paralyze
archer prewitt - wilderness

 

[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]

Past years results:

2004
1. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
2. John Butler Trio - Sunrise Over Sea
3. Missy Higgins - The Sound Of White

2003
1. Powderfinger "Vulture Street"
2. White Stripes "Elephant"
3. Radiohead "Hail To The Thief"

2002
1. Silverchair - Diorama
2. The Vines - Highly Evolved
3. Foo Fighters - One By One

ewwwwwwww....i wonder how bad it will be this year? it'll be hard to top 2004 for crappiness.

 

[raider_ktj]

After The Fall-Always.Forever.Now
Gyroscope-Are you involved?
Mudvayne-Lost and Found

 

[choc_soldier]

haha... how did i know the "cool" brigade would muster once i decided to post that... :-k

 

[Alex28]

Sanity called, they want their rock best seller list back.

funny

I had trouble selecting 10 albums from that list - 2005 wasn't the best year for good music...

Wake up to yourself - it's been a great year for music.

My Top 10:

Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
Leader of the Free World - Elbow
Black Sheep Boy - Okkervil River
Woman King EP - Iron & Wine
Veneer - Jose Gonzales
Sleeps Like A Curse - The Panics
Gimme Fiction - Spoon
Dios Malos - Dios Malos
Some Cities - Doves
In Case We Die - Architecture in Helsinki

Iron & Wine wasn't nominated, so I inserted Arcade Fire - Funeral instead (even though it is considered a 2004 release...)

 

[half]

05 has been really weak compared to 03

 

[Alex28]

I actually think it's on par with 2003 - the releases by the big acts have disappointed (Foo Fighters, Coldplay) but some artists have really kicked my arse this year (Sufjan, Okkervil River, Elbow).

If you look at what JJJ listeners voted in for their top ten of 2003:

10. The Living End "Modern Artillery"
9. Muse "Absolution"
8. John Butler Trio "Living 2001-2002"
7. Ben Harper "Diamonds On The Inside"
6. Something For Kate "The Official Fiction"
5. Jack Johnson "On & On"
4. Jet "Get Born"
3. Radiohead "Hail To The Thief"
2. White Stripes "Elephant"
1. Powderfinger "Vulture Street"

I'll take 2005 (with a Radiohead and The Shins release please) any day - what a big fat pile of bland there is there.

 

[Pazza]

Transmission vol 6

 

[Manurewa_Marlins]

Common - B.E

 

[HevyDevy]

Past years results:

2004
1. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
2. John Butler Trio - Sunrise Over Sea
3. Missy Higgins - The Sound Of White

2003
1. Powderfinger "Vulture Street"
2. White Stripes "Elephant"
3. Radiohead "Hail To The Thief"

2002
1. Silverchair - Diorama
2. The Vines - Highly Evolved
3. Foo Fighters - One By One

ewwwwwwww....i wonder how bad it will be this year? it'll be hard to top 2004 for crappiness.

Wow - there's three predictable crap lists from the J's

My picks:

Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Ephel Duath - Pain Necessary To Know
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Dream Theater - Octavarium

 

[skeepe]

My votes from the list:

Audioslave - Out of Exile
Bodyjar - Bodyjar
Downsyde - When the Dust Settles
Dropkick Murphys - The Warriors Code
Fear Factory - Transgression
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Millencolin - Kingwood
Propagandhi - Potemkin City Lights
Reel Big Fish - We're Not Happy Till You're Not Happy
Tex, Don & Charlie - All is Forgiven

 

[half]

not fair to judge 2003 by the jjj list ffs

2003: the shins, the notwist, the wrens, broken social scene, dizzee rascal, yeah yeah yeahs, manitoba and plenty more tbh

 

[Godz Illa]

not fair to judge 2003 by the jjj list ffs

2003: the shins, the notwist, the wrens, broken social scene, dizzee rascal, yeah yeah yeahs, manitoba and plenty more tbh

And Outkast dude, Outkast.

 

[Alex28]

Dodz Illa - I clearly stand corrected ;-)

Half - I understand what you are saying...and there were heaps of great albums out then (Doves, Elbow, Radiohead, The Shins)...but 2005 has been far from ordinary. It is much much better than 2004 agreed - 2004 was a sh*t year for music. 2003 was great, but 2005 has been pretty great too.

 

[joel caine number 1 fan]

heres mine top 5

5.Opeth - Ghost Reveries - not the best opeth album but i still blows most cds apart (except the top 4)
4.Wheatus - too soon monsoon - good follow up album wont make it big in aus
3.3 doors down - seventeen days: great follow up to a cd that olny made the top 20 here in aus after a year of the release
2.Lifehouse - lifehouse : the album of 05 by far this is a awesome rock album
1.Trivium - Ascendancy: well it was gonna take a huge album too knock of the number 2 and here it is Trivium