Album of the year

[Becks]

I'm bored at work and just have to start this one! Have seen a bit of chat on the Junior forum and thought I'd ask - Album of 2005 anyone?

I must say I have been mostly listening to stuff from before this year, so the award has to go to Sleater Kinney, The Woods, which I got for Christmas and is just so awesome that I'm having to lend it to Carol to stop Samsonite from throttling me for playing it too much.

Aww look at out little Edinburgh music clique!

So anyways guys, what's it to be?

[richardm]

system of a down - mezmerize

a brilliant album

[Becks]

You mean System of a Down have made an album that's significantly different to their last four or five of utter tripe? I was a metal kid and I still never liked that tuneless nonsense about tapeworms.

And they're rubbish live. Pah.

I forgot to say that anyone who posts in the next nine minutes will be subject to my bored at work personal critiques of their choices.

I think I need to get out more.

[richardm]

lol, well i like it. it does get a little bit crap towards the end actually, but i think its a good album. probably one of the best i got last year, so either its great, or iv been getting really bad music all year

actually, "the subways - young for eternity" was great aswell, so maybe that was a better album...or "queens of the stoneage - lullabies to paralyze"

[brooner]

oh dear. let the agony begin.

couldn't possibly name just one so here's a wee run down of something vaguely resembling a top whatever but in no order whatsoever (although the top 3 would probably form my top 3), from what i can remember as standing out last year:

low - the great destroyer
arcade fire - funeral
malcolm middleton - into the woods
death from above 1979 - i'm a woman, you're a machine
wolf parade - apologies to queen mary
sons & daughters - the repulsion box
sigur rós - takk
arab strap - the last romance
art brut - bang bang rock and roll
king creosote - kc rules ok
architecture in helsinki - in case we die
a silver mt zion - horses in the sky

[Becks]

I knew you'd do that! Which is precisely why I said Album singular! Pick one you big loser

[helen]

I can't just choose one album!! but to quote my post from the junior forum:

Athlete - Tourist (great album and brilliant live show too)
Doves - Some Cities (i only got it the other day but its doves at their best. love it)
Editors - The Back Room (i got into them fairly early on, before they were really known, and the debut did not disappoint)
The Arcade Fire - Funeral (so different, they just have something about them)
British Sea Power - Open Season(again, they just have something about them. im sure the only band ever to have written a song about an antarctic ice shelf...)
Idlewild - Warnings/Promises (got this for £3, bargain. many were disappointed, but i love it)
Sigur Ros - Takk... (masterpiece)
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (well, it did come top of most of the best of 2005 lists...)
Coldplay - X&Y (yes i know they are so hugely hyped, but personally i loved it. musically brilliant. different to their older stuff though, and i love that in a different way)

also I got Elbow's Leaders Of The Free World recently and Stereophonics Language, Sex, Violence, Other? both are very good too. If I had to choose a favourite...between Athlete, Doves and BSP probably...

I'm preparing myself for being torn to shreds by the music facists...

[J.Tullster]

I think I might only have bought one album last year....hmmm....Gorillaz - Demon Days on the cheap, it's crackin. Also like Idlewild's - warnings/promises and Franz Ferdinand's - you could have it so much better are also good.

[Lizi Beee]

new discovery for me would be "Voldemort Can't Stop The Rock" by Harry and the Potters i kid ye not, some of the best lines in those songs...

[Wendles]

Hee hee hee - Kate Bush 'Aerial'

[rosalind]

Hee hee hee - Kate Bush 'Aerial'

Is it actually good then? I gave up thoughts of buying it when I heard the washing mashine song...

[Shea]

lol, well i like it. it does get a little bit crap towards the end actually, but i think its a good album. probably one of the best i got last year, so either its great, or iv been getting really bad music all year

actually, "the subways - young for eternity" was great aswell, so maybe that was a better album...or "queens of the stoneage - lullabies to paralyze"

Crap at the end!?! Lost in Hollywood and Violent Pornography are the best songs on it!

[samsonite]

system of a down?
is this what its come to? the kids of today are into armenian peasant metal? oh dear. and they are rubbish live. i also have it on good authority that they are a bunch of twats.

the kate bush album is guid.

my album of the year, probably not the best but the dearest to my heart and certainly worthy - "into the woods" by malcolm middleton (yes belinda, more 'obscure' scottish indie)

my full lists - http://www.nonimage.co.uk/non/2005/12/0 ... -of-lists/

[Patrick]

Sigur Ros: Takk... gets my vote.

Honourable mentions to:
Kate Bush: Aerial
White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan
Martha Wainwright: Martha Wainwright
Sons and Daughters: The Repulsion Box

The "I Really Don't Get This, Is It Just Me?" award goes to the Arcade Fire album. Aren't they just Mercury Rev without any tunes?

Patrick

[Rhys]

Ah well now, I've seen Sons and Daughters live, and they were terrible. But then SOAD are also jobbie. No real point made there, but it seemed necessary anyway.

Best album has to be the one I bought for 10 Kronor in Arctic Sweden "Punk & Rock Classics" consisting of:

The Ramones - Sheena is a punk rocker (live)
Iggy Pop - Lust for life
The Knack - My Sharona
Buzzcocks - Ever fallen in love ( with someone you shouldn't 've?)
Generation X - Dancing with myself
Tom Robinson Band - 2-4-6-8 Motorway
Blondie - Denis
Stiff Little Fingers - Love of the common people
The Stranglers - Peaches
Billy Squier - The stroke
The Ramones - Pet Semetary
Motors - Airport
The Vapors - Turning Japanese
Blondie - Atomic
The Tubes - She's a beauty
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - 21st Century Boy

Amazing stuff for the equivalent of 80p. All I need now is to get it back off G, the thieving git