best of 2005.

bryan · Post by **bryan** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 1:15 am

kent wrote:Now i really hate my top 20. it's all totally wrong.

who needs a definitive list? my changes every day.

too much music. not enough time or $$ to deal with it all!

user_103 · Post by **user_103** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 1:28 am

yeah, i just listened to like five records that totally fucked my top ten up. oh well...

user_482 · Post by **user_482** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:22 am

Astromero - Astromero 2CD
Bastard Noise & T.E.F. - Astronomical Sound Images CD
The Cherry Point - Night of the Bloody Tapes CD
The Cherry Point & Blud Thirst - Keep My Grave Open LP
Devillock - These Graves CD
Aaron Dilloway - Bad Dreams CD
Aaron Dilloway / The Cherry Point - split 7"
Gate to Gate - I Turn Black Keys CD
Gruntsplatter - Pest Maiden CD
Heavy Seals - Jazz Bust CD
Hive Mind - Tunnel Birth 2LP
Impregnable - Smile She Says 7"
Kapotte Muziek - Praag/Rotterdam CD
Killer Bug - Beyond the Valley of the Tapes 2CD
KNIVES - Switchblade Princess 7"
Richard Ramirez & Skin Crime - Pleasure, Commerce & Disease CD
The Rita - Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence CD
Sickness / Slogun - The Scars of Happiness / Always Numb CD
John Wiese - Teenage Hallucination: 1992-1999 CD
Yellow Swans - Dreamed Yellow Swans CD
Yellow Swans & The Cherry Point - Live at Camp Blood CD

or...

LHD - Electrophorous LP
LHD - Fascination 7"
LHD - Hotel Fire 7"
LHD - Opaque CD
LHD - Triple Void LP
LHD - Young & Restless CD

sevenarts · Post by **sevenarts** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:50 am

shameless

Alastair · Post by **Alastair** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 12:54 pm

kent wrote:yeah, i just listened to like five records that totally fucked my top ten up. oh well...

Did you pay for any of them?

user_60 · Post by **user_60** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:28 pm

kent wrote:yeah, i just listened to like five records that totally fucked my top ten up. oh well...

What were they?

dialecticbricks · Post by **dialecticbricks** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 9:21 pm

1- Superpitcher- Today
2- The Geto Boys- The Foundation
3- 4G- Cloud
4- David Allan Coe- For the Soul and For the Mind: Demos 71-74
5- The Clipse We Got it 4 Free Vol.2
6- S.L.A.B.- S.L.A.B. presents The Anthem
7- Optimo- Psyche Out!
8- Jesse Somfay- Between Heartbeats
9- Antony & The Johnsons- I Am A Bird Now
10-Jamie Lidell- Multiply
11- Coil- The Ape of Naples
12- Paul Wall- The People's Champ
13- Kelly Clarkson- Breakaway
14- Brotherhood of the Occult Sisterhood- Lucifer's Bride
15- DJ Koze- Kosi Comes Around
16- John Wall- Cphon
17- Damian Lazarus- Suck My Deck
18- Southern Style DJ's- Bankhead Pool Palace
19- Big Tuck- Polar Bear
20- Jackson & His Computer Band- Smash

incredibly overrated-
Konono no.1
Isolee
Common/Kanye West
Kelley Polar Quartet
Edan
Birchville Cat Motel

no comments whatsoever taking two hours to come up with 20 records is punishment enough.

take care and see you in 2008
db

user_548 · Post by **user_548** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 9:43 pm

dialecticbricks wrote: incredibly overrated-
Konono no.1

Agreed.

user_103 · Post by **user_103** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 9:51 pm

Pip wrote:
kent wrote:yeah, i just listened to like five records that totally fucked my top ten up. oh well...
Did you pay for any of them?

3 of them but what exactly does that have to do with with me liking them as records?

Aaron Dilloway - Beggar Master (have a copy coming in the mail)
Yellow Swans/Cherry Point - Live at Camp Blood (had a copy up in alaska that i finally listened to)
Greg Kelley - Is Uncomfortable (have a copy coming the mail)
Lightning bolt - hypermagic mountain (christmas present from my mom)
Double Leopards/Mouthus - tour lp (which i downloaded)

edit: sorry pip. i acted like a bit of a dick.

bombinthebeehive · Post by **bombinthebeehive** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 4:01 am

dialecticbricks wrote:20- Jackson & His Computer Band- Smash

oh wow, nice. definitely one of the better 'idm' records to come out in recent memory.... 'rock on' is the jam.

here are some of my most listened to records of 2005, off the top of my head. nothing too drastically different from what we've seen:

Rowe/Nakamura/SachikoM/Yoshihide - EL005
Joe Colley - Psychic Stress Soundtracks
Sean Meehan - Sectors (for Constant)
Norbert Moslang - Capture
Los Glissandinos - Stand Clear
Ernie Althoff - Dark By 6
Omit - Tracer
Guerra/Earle - In
Astromero - s/t
T.E.F. and Bastard Noise - Astronomical Sound Images
Keith Berry - The Ear that was Sold to a Fish
Arek Gulbenkoglu - Points Alone
v/a Nitro Dragsters: A Tribute to OVMN and the Incapacitants
v/a - At The End of the Rope (this is 2005 right?)
God - Anti-Sex Anti-Wiretapping
Burning Star Core - Mes Soldats Stupides
Akiyama/Muller - Points and Slashes
Bird Show - Green Inferno
Tenement Halls - Knitting Needles and Bicycle Bells
Paul Wall - The People's Champ

unfortunately i've got a big ole' stack of new shit that i havent even begun to tap into.

user_60 · Post by **user_60** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:27 am

angrymice wrote:
dialecticbricks wrote: incredibly overrated-
Konono no.1
Agreed.

Whoa, yeah, people should totally stop enjoying it.

Richard Pinnell · Post by **Richard Pinnell** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:59 am

bombinthebeehive wrote:
Ernie Althoff - Dark By 6

Yeah thats a nice one Ryan. I only received a week or two back so its still on regular rotation here. Hard to describe, somewhere between Steve Roden and Jeph Jerman and at the same time nothing like either.

Installation pieces sometimes requiring audience involvement, all really interesting stuff. you really need to read the sleeve notes and check out the photos to gain better understanding of this one.

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user_801 · Post by **user_801** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:05 am

Richard Pinnell wrote:
bombinthebeehive wrote:
Ernie Althoff - Dark By 6

Yeah thats a nice one Ryan. I only received a week or two back so its still on regular rotation here. Hard to describe, somewhere between Steve Roden and Jeph Jerman and at the same time nothing like either.

Installation pieces sometimes requiring audience involvement, all really interesting stuff. you really need to read the sleeve notes and check out the photos to gain better understanding of this one.

hey richard,
glad your enjoying this one! there wasn't so much talk about this CD unfortunately but for me it was also (obviously!) a favourite for 2005...
enjoy

user_333 · Post by **user_333** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:22 am

Drinky Crow wrote:Here's another indie rock list for you guys.

01. The Books - Lost and Safe
02. Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett
03. Gang Gang Dance - God's Money
04. The Shining - In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster
05. Beck - Gameboy Variations EP
06. Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
07. Black Mountain - Black Mountain
08. Mazarin - We're Already There
09. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
10. The Rosebuds - Birds Make Good Neighbors

Alastair · Post by **Alastair** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:19 pm

kent wrote:
Pip wrote:
kent wrote:yeah, i just listened to like five records that totally fucked my top ten up. oh well...
Did you pay for any of them?
3 of them but what exactly does that have to do with with me liking them as records?

Aaron Dilloway - Beggar Master (have a copy coming in the mail)
Yellow Swans/Cherry Point - Live at Camp Blood (had a copy up in alaska that i finally listened to)
Greg Kelley - Is Uncomfortable (have a copy coming the mail)
Lightning bolt - hypermagic mountain (christmas present from my mom)
Double Leopards/Mouthus - tour lp (which i downloaded)

edit: sorry pip. i acted like a bit of a dick.

Dunno if you edited something out, but I'm not offended by anything you said in your post. My snarky line originated in your avowal that you download most of your stuff in another thread (attendtion record label owners or whatever it's called) which rubbed me up the wrong way. I think I was the dick here

Alastair · Post by **Alastair** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:48 pm

OK, here we go. My first XI of 2005:

1. Rowe/Nakamura/M/Yoshihide - EL005 (Erstlive)

2. Graham Halliwell - Recorded Delivery (Confront Collectors Series)

3. Tetuzi Akiyama - Route 13 to the Gates of Hell: Live in Tokyo (Headz)

4. 4G - Cloud (Erstwhile)

5. Los Glissandinos - Stand Clear (Creative Sources)

6. Khanate - Capture and Release (Hydra Head)

7. John Wall - Cphon (Utterpsalm)

8. Tony Conrad/Faust - Outside The Dream Syndicate Alive (Table of the Elements) (recorded in 1995 but only just released)

9. Tomas Korber - Effacement (Cut)

10. Mark Wastell - Vibra #2 (Longbox)

11. Will Guthrie - Spear (Antboy)

Reissues of the year:

The Van Der Graaf Generator reissues (EMI/Charisma). Done properly at last, with some very good extra tracks. Time for the solo albums now, please.

Stereolab - Oscillations From The Anti-Sun (Too Pure) The 3CD non-chronological round up of non-album tracks is helpful, even if I have them all on vinyl, but the cherry on top is the DVD of all their videos and their rather weedy appearance on "Later".

Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory and In A Glass House (DRT Entertainment) Nice transfers, nice booklets, pity about the slipcases.

Best recording of audience members leaving mid-set:

Taku Sugimoto - Live In Australia (IMJ)

user_548 · Post by **user_548** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:08 pm

Brother Zoot wrote:Whoa, yeah, people should totally stop enjoying it.

Oh come on, clearly I'm not saying that, and I doubt seriously that that was dialecticbricks' point either. I just don't understand why Konono no.1 has gotten so much attention, but I don't see why it would be necessary to couch that in 'personal opinion' caveats as it should be understood.

bryan · Post by **bryan** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:31 pm

angrymice wrote:I just don't understand why Konono no.1 has gotten so much attention

I've not payed much attention to Konono no. 1 until y'all said it was overrated. So I downloaded some to hear for myself why they get more hype than they apparently deserve...

user_260 · Post by **user_260** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:43 am

14 pages of this and still half of my picks weren't represented - i don't know if this means i live in an alternate reality or if everyone just thinks my tastes suck...you make the call:

[and yeah, if it came out in the usa in 2005, regardless of if it originally came out 1 year prior or 40, it goes on the list]

alphabetically...

1. the boredoms - seadrum/house of sun [vice]
2. broadcast - tender buttons [warp]
3. shirley collins & davy graham - folk roots, new routes [fledg'ling]
4. fursaxa - lepidoptera [atp]
5. shin jung hyun & the men - its a lie! [world psychedelia]
6. mudboy - this is folk music [last visible dog]
7. six organs of admittance - school of the flower [drag city]
8. sufjan stevens - illinois [asthmatic kitty]
9. v/a - american primitive vol. 2 [revenant]
10.v/a - folk & pop music of sumatra vol. 2 [sublime frequencies]

honorable mentions:
v/a - the invisible pyramid: elegy [last visible dog] (felt like cheating)
v/a - guitars of the golden triangle [sublime frequencies]
animal collective/vashti bunyan - prospect hummer [fat cat]
josephine foster - hazel eyes i will lead you [locust]
v/a - fonotone records [dust-to-digital] (not finished yet, but i love it so far)

user_60 · Post by **user_60** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:24 am

angrymice wrote:
Brother Zoot wrote:Whoa, yeah, people should totally stop enjoying it.
Oh come on, clearly I'm not saying that, and I doubt seriously that that was dialecticbricks' point either. I just don't understand why Konono no.1 has gotten so much attention, but I don't see why it would be necessary to couch that in 'personal opinion' caveats as it should be understood.

It struck me as a personal opinion about other people's personal opinions rather than about the music per se. But maybe that's just me.