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What would you recommend outside this list, and heartily endorse on the list?

Metacritic - Best Albums of 2005

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I'm pretty damn hip and with it. Out of thirty there were five artists that I knew about prior to 2+2, and another 3 or so that I have heard about here. I hear Led Zeppelin has some albums out...

Swede

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Common - Be
Diplo - Florida
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

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Reviews of this list and additions please. I want new music, and we haven't had one of these in a while.

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Wow, thats crazy. I was just going to make a post about "Z" by My Morning Jacket today. I've been listening to this album for a little over a week and love it. I might be influenced by the fact that they are one of my favorite bands...

Anyway, its good to see it is getting some attention.

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I am 30 years old, married, and hopelessly unhip. Which of these albums will I enjoy?

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From this list I have and enjoy the following:

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14
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30

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The first one pretty much anyone could enjoy.


Also, from that list I really like:
Mezmerize by System Of A Down
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes
Late Registration by Kanye West
Takk... by Sigur Rós

...and thats all I own.

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Guero by Beck is incredible.

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I also agree with the Bright Eyes album.

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Here is the list (maybe this makes it easier) - rank is a "metascore" which is a weighted average of published critics and users of metacritic.com-

1. Z by My Morning Jacket
2. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
3. The Runners Four by Deerhoof
4. I Am A Bird Now by Antony And The Johnsons
5. Apologies To The Queen Mary by Wolf Parade
6. Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple
7. The Woods by Sleater-Kinney
8. Arular by M.I.A.
9. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
10. Minimum-Maximum [Live] by Kraftwerk
11. Black Sheep Boy by Okkervil River
12. The Mysterious Production Of Eggs by Andrew Bird
13. Mezmerize by System Of A Down
14. Thunder, Lightning, Strike by The Go! Team
15. LCD Soundsystem by LCD Soundsystem
16. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes
17. Blinking Lights And Other Revelations by Eels
18. Beauty And The Beat by Edan
19. Oceans Apart by The Go-Betweens
20. Separation Sunday by The Hold Steady
21. Twin Cinema by The New Pornographers
22. Chavez Ravine by Ry Cooder
23. This Right Here Is Buck 65 by Buck
24. Late Registration by Kanye West
25. Leaders Of The Free World by Elbow
26. Takk... by Sigur Rós
27. School Of The Flower by Six Organs Of Admittance
28. Cinder by Dirty Three
29. Lost And Safe by The Books
30. Gimme Fiction by Spoon

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2 Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
5 Apologies To The Queen Mary by Wolf Parade
7 The Woods by Sleater-Kinney
8 Arular by M.I.A.
9 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
14 Thunder, Lightning, Strike by The Go! Team
16 I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes
20 Separation Sunday by The Hold Steady
21 Twin Cinema by The New Pornographers
24 Late Registration by Kanye West
27 School Of The Flower by Six Organs Of Admittance
30 Gimme Fiction by Spoon

I have and do not enjoy:
4 I Am A Bird Now by Antony And The Johnsons

Not on this list, but among my favorites:

Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Idlewild - Warnings/Promises
The National - Alligator
Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die
Boy Least Likely To - Best Party Ever
The Kills - No Wow
Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger

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Just saw Beck in concert last week. Guero will only get better with age.

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Never heard of Sufjan Stevens. 50 albums for 50 states? That is unbelievably ambitious and awesome. I love Dylan & Springsteen, so if his work is similar to that type of songwriting, I will check it out. Can anybody confirm?

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My two favorite albums this year are

Ray Lamontagne - Trouble

and

Ben Taylor - Another Run around the Sun


But I haven't heard anything from that list so I am guessing I am not listing to right genres for the board. (Ben Taylor is James Taylor's son)

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Not so much. Well, I suppose it shares some narrative qualities, but the sound is not even close to either. You should check it out anyway.

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I thought as much...I was mainly referring to the "storytelling" aspects of the lyrics. I will check out and post a TR.

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I just saw him a few weeks ago as well. Brilliant.

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It's absolutely criminal that The National isn't on this list.

And I have to agree with Broken Social Scene not making it. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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takk is an amazing album... despite the fact that i don't speak icelandic (?)

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takk is an amazing album... despite the fact that i don't speak icelandic (?)

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It's not a real language.

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do you know what the actual language is?

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From Amazon:

Hopelandic--an
otherworldly mutation of Icelandic, sung in the falsetto cadence of angels;

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Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die

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How this did not make the list I do no know.

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From Amazon:

Hopelandic--an
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hah, wow.. that's interesting... i think i like sigur ros even more now [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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is this going to be one of those music threads where everyone brags about how they know cooler and more obscure bands than everyone else?

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Shouldn't you be able to figure that out by 25th reply?

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Shouldn't you be able to figure that out by 25th reply?

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yeah... [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

just thought I'd add something since these bands are all too cool and obscure for me. that said I think there was a lot of The Shins love in one of these a while ago, so maybe I'll check out these My Morning Jacket people.

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#2, "Illinois", as many people said, is very good.

The best albums of 2005 that are not on the list include:
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
RPWL - The World Through My Eyes
Niacin - Organik

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Thank you. I didn't even know Ry Cooder released an album last year.

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I am currently listening to "Antony and the Johnstons - I am a bird now". It won the Mercury award. I like it a lot.

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Hopelandic--an
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hah, wow.. that's interesting... i think i like sigur ros even more now [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Takk actually is sung in icelandic. The other albums were not.

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From Amazon:

Hopelandic--an
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hah, wow.. that's interesting... i think i like sigur ros even more now [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Takk actually is sung in icelandic. The other albums were not.

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Good to know. See now I like that more now!

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I'm on board with the albums by The New Pornographers, Spoon, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

I don't enjoy Surfjan Stevens as much as I think I'm supposed to. Am I the only one?

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What does that even mean? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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What National album and what Broken Social Scene album should I check out?

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I just don't get the amount of hype surrounding the album.

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You Forgot it In People; and [censored]..probably Aligator. But I love Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers.

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Oddly I would agree with most of this list...even though I hate music critics...maybe the Hole is greater than than the Some.

Lost And Safe by The Books is not so great...quirky noises ... somewhat annoying...

They forgot: White Stripes --Get Behind Me Satan
Dungen-- Ta det lugnt
and some hiphop that has been discussed recently.

And of course the Tender & Vulnerable !!i!

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I think because You Forgot It In People was so amazing, I was a little letdown by their most recent album. But it's still really good. I don't know all the albums on the list (hence the post), but still too bad Broken Social Scene's latest didn't make the cut.

I like The Go! Team's "Thunder Lightning Strike" off this list - it's a retro (incorporates 70s cop show theme song type melodies, and old school hip hop beats), sometimes unique sound, cool instrumentation too. I heard they're great in concert (gonna see them this week).