Re: Nominations for Best \"Rock\" Album of 2005 - The Hipster Debate
 

Animal Collective's "Feels" is excellent. People need to hear this. That and "Sung Tongs".

I'm surprised I haven't seen anybody mention them so far.

Re: Nominations for Best \"Rock\" Album of 2005
 

Since I had The Go! Team on my 2004 list (it was #1), my nominees for 2005 would be:

Idlewild - Warnings/Promises
Decemberists - Picaresque
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
Beck - Guero
The National - Alligator
Death Cab For Cutie - Plans

Re: Nominations for Best \"Rock\" Album of 2005
 

Holy crap! Am I the first person in 13 pages to mention Trail of Dead and Death Cab???

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Re: Nominations for Best \"Rock\" Album of 2005
 

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Yeah because they were both really underwhelming, no? Same reason I haven't tossed out the new Broken Social Scene.

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No is correct. Worlds Apart and Plans are the best albums of each respective band's career.

Re: Nominations for Best \"Rock\" Album of 2005
 

In Your Opinion...

Source Tags and Codes is ridiculous. And I can't get behind Death Cab...all their albums sound that same, but mayhaps Plans is really good, I haven't listened to it.

PS: Wouldn't all of the problems raised by music discussions begin to be solved by not making sweeping generalizations and/or declarative statements...

Re: Nominations for Best \"Rock\" Album of 2005
 

FU I was gonna say it first. Anyways here's albums I was digging...(ugh I hate making these lists)

Bloc Party
Mae - Everglow
Chiodos - Alls Well That Ends Well

Re: Nominations for Best \"Rock\" Album of 2005
 

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PS: Wouldn't all of the problems raised by music discussions begin to be solved by not making sweeping generalizations and/or declarative statements...

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Good luck changing a long, storied history of indie rocker dialogue. Haven't you seen High Fidelity? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Re: Nominations for Best \"Rock\" Album of 2005
 

You cant seriously put any album they've put out above source tags, can you??

Say it aint so.

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Holy crap! Am I the first person in 13 pages to mention ...Death Cab???

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OOT's taste must be improving.

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