"Don't You Think It's a Little Early for Your 2005 Top Eleven List?"

1. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
2. Antony & the Johnsons - I am bird now
3. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
4. Bright Eyes - I'm wide awake, its morning
5. Rufus Wainwright - Want Two
6. Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration
7. Bonnie Prince Billy / Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
8. Iron and Wine - Woman King
9. Willy Mason - Where the Humans Eat
10. Mogwai - Government Commissions (BBC Sessions)
11. Doves - Some Cities

OK, i'm ready, here come the haters!!!

1. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2. M.I.A - Arular
3. Low - Great Destroyer
4. Brooke Valentine - Chain Letter
5. V/A - Rio Baile Funk (if the rerelease counts ;))

I have an enormous amount of 2005 music that I haven't even listened to yet. I'm greatly interested in seeing how this differs from my end-of-year list, however.

Autechre
Beck
Cam’ron
Coachwhips
Jimmy Chamberlin Complex
Regina Spektor
Half-Handed Cloud
Graham Coxon
Mary Timony
50 Foot Wave
Pit er Pat

There’s so much potentially bomb-ass stuff on the horizon though that most of these won’t make it to the ’05 P&J ballot.

1. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

1. Kelly Clarkson, "Since U Been Gone"
2. Killers, "Mr. Brightside"
3. Trick Daddy feat. Ludacris, Cee-Lo & Lil' Kim, "Sugar"
4. Pitbull feat. Lil Jon, "Toma"
5. M83, "Don't Save Us From Flames"
6. Ludacris, "Get Back"
7. Bowling For Soup, "Almost"
8. Akon, "Lonely"
9. LCD Soundsystem, "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House"
10. Avril Lavigne, "Nobody's Home"
11. Keane, "Somewhere Only We Know"

1. Eluvium, "Talk Amongst the Trees"
2. Jason Anderson, "The Wreath"
3. The Capstan Shafts, "Demon Dog of the American Park Service"
4. The Perceptionists, "Black Dialogue"
5. Aarktica, "Bleeding Light"
6. Robert Pollard, "Zoom" 7"
7. Winter Vacation, "The Netherlands, 1980"
8. The Casting Couch, "5 Songs" EP
9. The Cars Are the Stars, "Fragments"
10. Momus, "Otto Spooky"

I'm probably forgetting some of the best stuff, I need all my CDs in front of me

hold steady
fannypack
m.i.a.
o-zone
duhks
mannie fresh
radio phnom penh
rough guide to brazilian hiphop
hope 7
bobby o
joey & norman mb present good times 4
yello
shooter jennings

and probably lots of other stuff i can't think of right now

1) Josh Rouse : Nashville

2) Brendan Benson : The Alternative To Love

3) Ed Harcourt : Strangers

4) LCD Soundsystem : LCD Soundsystem

5) Carla Bruni : Quelqu'un M'a Dit

6) Heartless Bastards : Stairs and Elevators

7) Fiery Furnaces : EP

8) Mando Diao : Hurricane Bar

9) Al Green : Everything's OK

10) Out Hud : Let Us Never Speak of it Again

11) Doves : Some Cities

I expect this to change by the end of the day.

alec k. redfearn & the eyesores the quiet room
sabrina malheiros equilibria
forever einstein racket science

David R., great minds think alike! (to some extent)

Bloc Party / Silent Alarm
Tunng / Mother's Daughter and Other Songs
Piano Magic / Disaffected
Tom Vek / We Have Sound
MIA / Arular
Tompaulin / Into the Black
Ellis the Vacuumchild / Peace by Extermination
Eluvium / Talk Amongst the Trees
TTC / Bâtards Sensibles
The Raveonettes / Pretty in Black

Ha! I was just trying to ride yr jock & Yanc3y's jock simultaneously.

(Holy crap new Eyesores!!!)

e.g.:

spoonie gee
the rough guide to boogaloo

???

01 Fiery Furnaces – EP
02 Beck – Guero
03 M.I.A. – Arular
04 Antony and the Johnsons – I Am a Bird Now
05 Out Hud – Let Us Never Speak of It Again
06 The Decemberists – Picaresque
07 Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
08 Hamasaki Ayumi – My Story
09 The National – Alligator
10 Emma – Free Me
11 Dalek – Absence

Bloc Party, Caribou, Buck 65, and Magnolia Electric Co. could all make it on there too.

Shooter Jennings
Kasabian
Mastodon
Beck
QOTSA (sorta)
Sage Francis (sorta)
Sharon Jones and Dap-Kings (tho that may be last year)
M.I.A.

Have some stuff to chase down and get around to, for sure.

Stars Set Yourself On Fire
Perceptionists Black Dialogue
Low The Great Destroyer

Gotta hear the Mannie Fresh, Sleater-Kinney (who I have traditionally not been into but have been informed have taken a Comets on Fire sorta route), and the inevitable MF Doom album, wherever it may originate from. And this doesn't count potential rereleases (Anniemal; Bright Like Neon Love).

The rest, ask me in December.

11. Ying Yang Twins - "Wait (The Whisper Song)"
10. My Chemical Romance - "Helena"
9. Futureheads - "Hounds of Love"
8. Lil' Jon f/ Usher & Ludacris - "Lovers and Friends"
7. Ciara f/ Ludacris - "Oh"
6. Tori Alamaze - "Don't Cha"
5. Regina Spektor - "Us"
4. M83 - "Don't Save Us from the Flames (Superpitcher Remix)"
3. Amerie - "1 Thing"
2. Mike Jones f/ Slim Thug & Paul Wall - "Still Tippin'"
1. Tweet f/ Missy and 50 Cent - "Turn Off da Lights (Remix)"

5.Spoon - Gimme Fiction
6.Hood - Outside Closer
7.Iron & Wine - Woman King EP
8.Antony & The Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
9.Prefuse 73 - Surrounded by Silence
10.Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness

SK's "The Woods" sounds great but I haven't listened to it enough, same for Sharon Jones, Four Tet, 13+God and Animal Collective/Vashti Bunyan. Also I think it's worth mentioning Losta and Safe was fairly dissapointing.

Top Ten albums, but I won't rank them yet.

M83 -- Before the Dawn Heals Us
Rhythm and Sound -- See Mi Yah
Low -- The Great Destroyer
New Order -- Waiting For the Sirens Call
Markus Guentner -- 1981
Caribou -- The Milk of Human Kindness
Roots Manuva -- Awfully Deep
A Silver Mt Zion -- Horses in the Sky
Polmo Polpo -- Kiss Me Again and Again (an EP)
and what the hell, Daft Punk -- Human After All

I'm excited about the new Xiu Xiu -- this is the first time since 1995 (Blur) that the band responsible for my top album of the year has come back the next year with a new album with which to defend their crown.

This is the reason I patiently await the new Delays record.

Sort of. Released in '04 but didn't get poppular until '05. Debuted on the top 100 two weeks ago, I believe.

v/a-Run The Road
Justus Kohncke - Doppelben
Vitalic - OK Cowboy
Slim Thug - Already Platinum
v/a-Aim High 2
Ruff Sqwad-Guns N Roses
Daft Punk - Human After All
M83-Before The Dawn Heals Us
DJ Smallz/Cee-lo/Tori Alamaze-Dirty RnB # 4
MIA-Arular
Mannie Fresh-Mind Of Mannie Fresh
(probably the Tweet record when I hear it)

pretty sure could be in my top ten at years end: vitalic, mannie fresh, hold steady

1)the game ft 50 cent - hate it or love it
2)slk feat lethal b - hype hype (dj wonder refix)
3)vitalic - u & i
4)out hud - it's for you
5)lady sovereign - random (menta remix)
6)fire camp - no!
7)sizzla - spring break
8)tori alamaze - don't cha
9)junior senior - itch u can't skratch
10)the killers - mr. brightside (jacques lu cont remix)
11)pitbull - toma

Brooke Valentine, Chain Letter
MIA, Arular
Bunky, Born to be a Motorcycle
DJ Musical Mix, Soca 2k5 Mix pt. 17
Bellafea, Family Tree EP
Fiery Furnaces, EP
USE, USE
V/A, Run the Road
TI, Urban Legend

I guess also LCD Soundsystem, but I doubt that'll make it into the end-of-year tally...

...

9998. A Guy Called Gerald - TO ALL THINGS WHAT THEY NEED
9999. Various Artists - RUN THE ROAD
10000. M.I.A. - ARULAR

1. LCD Soundsystem, "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House"
2. Ben Folds, "Landed"
3. Weezer, "Beverly Hills"
4. The Dhuks, "Dance Hall Girls"
5. Bright Eyes, "Down A Rabbit Hole"
6. Bright Eyes, "Road To Joy"
7. Electric Six, "Future Is The Future"
8. Amerie, "1 Thing"
9. Solomon Burke, "It Makes No Difference"
10. Lee Ann Womack, "I May Hate Myself In The Morning"
11. Ben Folds, "Bitches Ain't S--t"

It's certainly better than Arular though, I'll grant you that.

You lost me from here.

But it IS better than Arular!

1. Amerie - "1 Thing"
2. The Game f/ 50 Cent - "Hate It Or Love It"
3. Ying Yang Twins - "Wait"
4. Tweet - "Turn Da Lights Off"
5. Cassidy - "I’m A Hustler"
6. System of a Down - “BYOB (Bring Your Own Bombs)”
7. U2 - "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own"
8. My Chemical Romance - “Helena”
9. Lee Ann Womack - “I May Hate Myself In The Morning”
10. Snoop Dogg f/ Justin Timberlake - “Signs”
11. John Legend - "Ordinary People"

The poetry song didn't bother me so much, but I tend to ignore lyrics most of the time. I can convince myself that the poem is an extended piece of found sound and then I can easily let it slip into the background.

His attempts at downtempo/chillout house are skippable, but everything else on the album is quite good.l

1. Gorillaz - "Dirty Harry"
2. Vitalic - "My Friend Dario"
3. that hilarious cover of "I Kill Everything I Fuck"
4. LCD Soundsystem - "Daft Punk is Playing At My House"
5. Alterkicks - "Do Everything I Taught You"
6. Daft Punk - "Technologic"
7. Coldplay - "Talk"
8. 50 Cent - "Disco Inferno"
9. New Order - "Krafty"
10. Fischerspooner - "Just Let Go"

...

10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 * 10 to the 10 zillionth power. that godawful "Ron Artest" piece of shit

all very good

the lovejoy album is not very good.

!

Six Organs Of Admittance - School Of The Flower
Cass McCombs - Prefection
M Ward - Transistor Radio

M.I.A. - Arular
Justus Kohncke - Doppelleben
Boris - FeedBacker

ALBUMS
1. Fannypack See You Next Tuesday
2. Various Artists Run the Road
3. The New York Dolls Live from Royal Festival Hall, 2004
4. M.I.A. Arular
5. Mannie Fresh The Mind of Mannie Fresh
6. Living Things Black Skies in Broad Daylight
7. Kultur Shock Kultura-Diktatura
8. Deana Carter The Story of My Life
9. Buck 65 This Right Here is Buck 65
10. Rachid Taha Tékitoi

(For my commentary see this thread which I pointlessly started here.

Also the Bose, the Forgotten Hero soundtrack is better than Kisna, and I want Motion Trio on there too

oy vey

But weirdly, they use the B-side rather than the A of "Spoonin' Rap," which on its A-side is the best rap song ever; it still sounds great on the B, but the lyrics aren't nearly as emotionally complicated.

Patrick Wolf - Wind In The Wires
Vitalic - OK Cowboy
John Moore - Half Awake
LCD Soundsystem
New Order - Waiting For The Sirens' Call
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Optimo - How To Kill The DJ 2

MIA and Daft Punk may be the next two.

Also, That "I Kill Everything I Fuck" cover is total genius.

1. bloc party
2. doves
3. bright eyes (wide awake)
4. lcd soundsystem
5. fiery furnaces
6. kathleen edwards
7. stars
8. lou barlow
9. sharon jones
10. superwolf
11. keren ann

though I'm about to issue a revision that puts LCD above bright eyes; andrew bird is getting inserted somewhere, and, just like most everyone else, M.I.A. is getting a spot.

Hood
The Wedding Present
Sam Prekop
Superwolf
Bloc Party
M.I.A.

I'm still undecided about the Vitalic album.

Next up, probably LCD Soundsystem, Mary Timony (is that out yet?).

Low - Great Destroyer
The Evens - s/t
Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy - Superwolf
A Frames - Black Forest
STNNNG - Dignified Sissy
Rank Strangers - Chop Chop (ep)
The Seawhores record that never seems to actually come out
The Belles of Skin City record that never seems to come out
Mars Volta - Frances the Mute*
T.I. - Urban Legend
Camron - Purple Haze

*that's what I'm saying TODAY...it could eventually make my fictional worst of the year list (which I also won't actually make)....I really can't get a handle on how I feel about Mars Volta

Brendan Benson An Alternative To Love
Josh Rouse Nashville
Bonnie Prince Billy Superwolf
Iron and Wine Woman King
Magnolia Electric Co Trials and Errors & What Comes After The Blues?Clem Snide End Of Love
Pernice Brothers Nobody's Watching
Graham Coxon Happiness in Magazines (05 Us Release)

Still have not heard new ones by Archer Prewitt and Sam Prekop

M Ward and Kathleen Edward's latest are on the way to me.

Jim

Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep
Bah Samba - Bah Samba 4
Freddy Fresh - Outstanding In His Field
Hiltmeyer Inc - Sendling 70
LCD Soundsystem - s/t
Lemon Jelly - 64-95
Micatone - Nomad Songs
Neon Heights - A Hot Trip To Heaven
Telepopmusik - Angel Milk
VA - Kitsune X
Prefuse 73 - Surrounded By Silence

New Order by a long goddamn shot
Daft Punk

Then in a fairly undifferentiated-but-all-good heap:
Low
MIA
M83
High on Fire
Bloc Party

While on the reissue tip:

Satwa

And up and coming but I have strong faith it will be so:

The Mountain Goats

The Fall, Hex Education Hour

Albums:

1 Sleater Kinney - The Woods (Sub Pop)
2 Justus Köhncke - Doppelleben (Kompakt)
3 Electrelane - Axes (Too Pure/Beggars)
4 Mikkel Metal - Close Selections (Echocord)
5 New Order - Waiting for the Sirens Call (Warner Bros)
6 M.I.A - Arular (XL)
7 Jeans Team - Musik Von Oben (Louisville Records)
8 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Naturally (Daptone)
9 Markus Guentner - 1981 (Kompakt)
10 Ark - Caliente (Perlon)
11 Vitalic - Ok Cowboy (Pias)
12 Marco Passarani - Sullen Look (Peacefrog)
13 Petra Haden - The Who Sell Out (Bar-None)
14 Sa-Ra Creative Partners (Ubiquity)
15 Masha Qrella - Unsolved Remained (Morr Music)
16 Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Yah (Burial Mix)
17 Monade - A Few Steps More (Too Pure)
18 Mary Timony - Ex Hex (Lookout!)
19 Hella - Church Gone Wild/Chirpin' Hard (Suicide Squeeze)
20 (spot yet to be filled...)

Comps:

1 V/A - Camping (Bpitch Control)
2 Basement Jaxx - The Singles (XL)
3 Superpitcher - Today (Kompakt)
4 Triple R - Selection 3 (Trapez)
5 V/A - Run the Road (679)

that about sums it up

biggest duds, hands down: bloc party, doves, daft punk

Amerie, "1 Thing"
Basement Jaxx, "Oh My Gosh"
Kelly Clarkson, "Since U Been Gone"
Kaiser Chiefs, "I Predict a Riot"
The Killers, "Mr. Brightside"
Lady Sovereign, "Random"
LCD Soundsystem, "Daft Punk is Playing at My House"
Out Hud, "One Life to Leave"
Snoop Dogg ft. P. Williams and V. Marquez, "Let's Get Blown"
Snoop Dogg ft. J. Timberlake and C. Wilson, "Signs"
Vitalic, "My Friend Dario"

1. Arular -- M.I.A.
2. Separation Sunday -- Hold Steady
3. Black Dialogue -- Perceptionists
4. The Woods -- Sleater-Kinney
5. Stairs and Elevators -- Heartless Bastards
6. This Right Here is Buck 65 -- Buck 65
7. Run the Road -- Various Artists
8. The Sunset Tree -- Mountain Goats
9. 1988 -- Blueprint
10. Funky Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa -- Various
11. The End of Love -- Clem Snide

System of a Down -- Mesmerize
Bloc Party -- Silent Alarm
MIA -- Arular
Mars Volta -- Frances the Mute
Shooter Jennings -- Put the O Back in Country
New Order -- Waiting For the Siren's Call
Mike Jones -- Who is Mike Jones?
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings -- Naturally
Beck -- Guero
Hold Steady -- Seperation Sunday
Mastodon -- Leviathan (if that counts as this year)

Stll need to hear: Sleater Kinney, Quasimoto, Slim Thug, Mannie Fresh and M. Ward Mountain Goats

All totally subject to change etc etc

The others i haven't liked enough to include.

I need to hear lots: spoon, mountain goats, mike jones, maxiiimo park, robyn, rachel stevens,

Hopefully Mannie Fresh and Fannypack

and possibly Clem Snide - end of Love

lcd soundsystem
bloc party
mia
woodbine
vitalic
smog

Nedelle
Malkmus
M.I.A.
Billy Corgan
Graham Coxon
High On Fire
Mary Timony
Earth
Excepter
Cam'ron
Avarus

need to hear: system of a down, strokes, ww & vv, animal collective, mouthus, dead machines, and many many others.

The Mars Volta Frances the Mute
Mannie Fresh The Mind of...
M.I.A. Arular
Goldmund Corduroy Road
Stephan Matthieu The Sad Mac
Jack Nitzsche Hearing is Believing
Vertigo Mixed by Andy Votel
Antony and the Johnsons I Am a Bird Now
Sleater-Kinney The Woods
Judee Sill Till Dreams Come True
Gang Gang Dance God's Money
Fannypack See You Next Tuesday

1. Alden Tyrell: Disco Lunar Module Superdunkel rmx
2. Oliver Koletzki: Der Mueckenschwarm
3. Mathew Jonson: Marionette
4. Extrawelt: Soopertrack
5. Lifelike and Kris Menace: Discopolis
6. Brightlight: Past Midnight
7. Kronik Spasme / Rahziel: Untitled (AR 04)
8. Misc: Talking Ghosts
9. Jichael Mackson: Breitling Orbiter 8
10. The Hacker: Radiation Remixes
11. Jaumetic: Lash Series Vol 1

(list limited to things which have already been commercially released)

That'd be Shining - In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster
and/or
Caribou - The Milk Of Human Kindness

Take your pick.

That's just about all I've listened to all the way through that didn't get mostly skipped through like TP3: Reloaded. I haven't gotten around to Fannypack yet and the new Turin Brakes was just alright.

Songs, though (!!!)

1. Amerie - "One Thing"
2. Kelly Clarkson - "Since U Been Gone"
3. Okkervil River - "For Real"
4. LCD Soundsystem - "Daft Punk is Playing at My House"
5. Smog - "The Well"
6. Sufjan Stevens - "Casimir Pulaski Day"
7. Imogen Heap - "Hide and Seek"
8. Wolf Parade/Sunset Rubdown - "I'll Believe in Anything"
9. MIA - "Hombre"
10. Spoon - "Sister Jack"
11. Hangedup - "Kling Klang"
12. Pitbull - "Toma"
13. Herman Dune - "Not on Top"
14. Andrew Bird - "Fake Palindromes"
15. Iron and Wine - "Evening On The Ground"

At the end of the day, there will likely be some Kano. And of course, way more unexpected mega-awesomeness.

On the borderline (i.e. I hope I hear things I like more before the end of the year): Fannypack, White Stripes, Mannie Fresh, Mike Jones. I have high hopes for Missy, based on the singles. I'm still waiting to hear a great country or hip-hop album.

V/A - Aim High 2
Mike Jones - Who Is Mike Jones?
Superpitcher - Today
OG Ron C - Fuck Action 40
TOK - Unknown Language
Beanie Sigel - The B. Coming
Raveonettes - Pretty In Black
Keyshia Cole - The Way it Is
DJ Harry - Bhangra Blast 2
C-Murder - Truest Shit I Ever Said

Bubbling:

Amerie, Rapid Ric, Young Jeezy, Messy Marv, Outhud, Hold Steady, Isolee, Run the Road, Fannypack, Z-Ro, Edan, Mariah Carey, Geto Boys, Justus K.

10 songs. There are so many others.

Missy - Lose Control (JLC Remix)
Paul Wall - Sittin Sideways
T.I. - ASAP
Rhianna - Pon De Replay
Ruff Sqwad - Bring It Down
Young Jeezy feat. Gucci Mane - Icey
Ashanti - Only U
Snoop - Signs
B.G. feat Homebwoi - Where da at
Common, Mos Def and Scarface - The Corner (Remix)

fe zaffe, I must hear this!

xp-shit, forgot Triple Rs

in no order:

kelly clarkson - since u been gone
r kelly - trapped in the closet part I
r kelly(f. birdman) - girls go crazy
lcd soundsystem - tribulations
t.i. - bring 'em out
ciara (f. luda) - oh
mobius band - starts off with a bang
gwen stefani - hollaback girl
annie - heartbeat
cecile w/ jlc - na na na
killer mike f. big boi & sleepy brown - my chrome

sleater kinney
m83
antony and the johnsons
six organs of admittance
isolee
keith fullerton whitman
bonnie prince billy and matt sweeney present superwolf
lcd soundsystem
dead meadow
colleen

Albums:

Arular
Street Anthems 2
Essential Heating Vol 2
RWD AAA Mix
Aftershock Shockin! Mixtape
Reggae Gold 2005
The Cookbook
Aim High Vol 2
and if Run The Road counts that too

Disappointments:
Kano (yawn)
Roll Deep (why?)
Hellfish (actually this is pretty good, but I thought it would be better--nothing tops the first track)
Lord of the Decks 3 (also pretty good, but seriously overshadowed by like every other grime mix this year.)

Anticipation:
0=0
Virus Syndicate
Nettle
Wiley
Newham Generals
David Banner

SINGLES:
Kelly Clarkson "Since U Been Gone"
Deana Carter "The Girl You Left Me For"
Ashlee Simpson "La La"
Wait, hold the list; I am agonizing. How can "La La" be only number three? It deserves to be number one. I'm in excruciating pain over this.
Johnny Prez "Tu Pum Pum"
Daddy Yankee "Gasolina"
Amerie "1 Thing"
T. Waters "Throw'd Off"
Ebony Eyes "In Your Face"
Lady Sovereign "Cha Ching"
Belinda "Angel"
The Game f. 50 Cent "Hate It or Love It"
Also Trick Daddy, Slim Thug, Dierks Bentley, 50 Cent, Trillville, Caesars, Fettes Brot, Miranda Lambert, Shooter Jennings, Kelly Osbourne, Kumbia Kings, Cheka, Marion Raven, Kentucky Headhunters, Stat Quo, Trina.

ALBUMS:
Fannypack See You Next Tuesday
Various Artists Run the Road
M.I.A. Arular
Deana Carter The Story of My Life
Annie Anniemal
Mannie Fresh The Mind of Mannie Fresh
Living Things Black Skies in Broad Daylight
Kultur Shock Kultura-Diktatura
Miranda Lambert Kerosene
Various Artists Radio Phnom Penh
Buck 65 This Right Here Is Buck 65

Superaquello, Bien Gorgeous
Superaquello, La Emergencia
Mannie Fresh, The Mind of Mannie Fresh
Brooke Valentine, Chain Letter
Joey DeFrancesco with Jimmy Smith, Legacy
Dallas Wayne, I'm Your Biggest Fan
X, Live in Los Angeles
Intocable, Diez (X)
Andrea Echeverri, Andrea Echeverri
Cafe Tacuba, Un Viaje
Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues, whatever that album's called

no order implied, but Billy will be the first to get knocked off.

Animal Collective/Vashti Bunyan - I Remember Learning How To Dive
Amerie - One Thing
Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl
Nathan Fake - Dinamo
Mike Jones - Still Tippin'
Mathew Jonson - Marionette [Live Edit]
Lawrence - Swap
Dirk Leyers - Wellen
Luciano - Octogonal
Wighnomy Brothers - Pele Boss

Bubbling under: YMCK, The Chemicals, Gorillaz, Will Smith

Upcoming: Robyn, Rachel Stevens, JC Chasez, Shirokuma

The Killers, "Mr Brightside (Jacques Lu Cont remix)"
Kelly Clarkson, "Since U Been Gone"
Snoop feat Justin Timberlake, "Signs"
Rob Thomas, "Lonely No More"
Gorillaz feat De La Soul, "Feels Good"
Basement Jaxx, "Oh My Gosh"
Interpol, "Evil"
50 Cent, "Disco Inferno"
The Mountain Goats, "This Year"
The Go-Betweens, "Here Comes The City"
Missy Elliott feat Ciara, "Lose Control"

1. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
2. Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
3. Jimmy Chamberlin Complex - Life Begins Again
4. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird (Now?)
5. Billy Corgan - TheFutureEmbrace
6. Kasabian
7. System Of A Down - Mezmerize
8. LCD Soundsystem

I dislike a lot more than I like so far.

I forgot one (I'm sure I've forgotten more than just one, though).

1. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
2. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Cold Roses
3. Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
4. Jimmy Chamberlin Complex - Life Begins Again
5. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird (Now?)
6. Billy Corgan - TheFutureEmbrace
7. Kasabian
8. System Of A Down - Mezmerize
9. LCD Soundsystem

Cannot stand her and that album. I'm amazed by the overwhelming majority of people who have placed it on their lists.

Vitalic, OK Cowboy
Brooke Valentine, Chain Letter
M.I.A., Arular
Ellen Allien, Thrills
Ruff Sqwad, Guns'N'Roses
Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine
Tati, Quebra Barroco
Roots Manuva, Awfully Deep
Isolée, We Are Monster
Rufus Wainwright, Want Two

(bubbling under: Kano, Saint Etienne, Saul Williams, Justus Köhncke, Lady Fury)

singles

Daddy Yankee ft. Pitbull, NORE & Lil Jon, 'Gasolina' (rmx)
Ciara ft. Ludacris, 'Oh'
Amerie, '1 Thing'
Kelly Clarkson, 'Since U Been Gone'
No Lay, 'Unorthodox Daughter'
Katy Pearl ft. Jendor, 'Mr DJ'
Rachel Stevens, 'Negotiate With Love'
Gwen Stefani, 'Hollaback Girl'
Tori Alamaze, 'Don't Cha'
Petey Pablo ft. Rasheeda, 'Vibrate'

(so many more bubbling under!)

ALBUMS
1. Hold Steady
2. Miranda Lambert
3. Fannypack
4. Atomic Swindlers - Coming Out Electric
5. Rod Lee - Vol. 5: The Official
6. Darcy's Wild Life soundtrack
7. The Sirens - The Sirens
8. MIA
9. Mannie Fresh
10. Deana Carter
11. (tie) Subterrranean Masquerade, Crash Kelly, Shooter Jennings, Bobby O, Radio Phnom Penh, Joey & Norman MB Present Good Times 4, Living Things, Dierks Bentley, Elizabeth McQueen and the Firebrands

SINGLES
1. Shooter Jennings - 4th of July
2. Miranda Lambert - Kerosene (not technically a single, but so what)
3. Dierks Bentley - Lot of Leavin' Left to Do
4. Kentucky Headhunters - Big Boss Man
5. Ashlee Simpson - La La
6. Trick Daddy - Sugar
7. Erika Jo - I Break Things
8. O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei
9. Lady Sovereign - Ca-Ching
10. Tim McGraw - Drugs or Jesus
11. Daddy Yankee - Gasolina

01 The Decemberists – Picaresque
02 VA – Run the Road
03 Lee Ann Womack – There’s More Where That Came From
04 Beck – Guero
05 VA – Aim High, Vol. 2
06 Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
07 Justus Kohncke – Doppelleben
08 Out Hud – Let Us Never Speak of It Again
09 The National – Alligator
10 Miranda Lambert – Kerosene
11 M.I.A. – Arular

Maybe: Got That Purp, Stephen Malkmus, OG Ron C, Maximo Park, Fannypack, Toby Keith, Kelly Osbourne, Fiery Furnaces

01 Amerie – “1 Thing”
02 Shooter Jennings – “4th of July”
03 Kelly Clarkson – “Since U Been Gone”
04 50 Cent ft. The Game – “Hate It or Love It”
05 Mike Jones ft. Slim Thug and Paul Wall – “Still Tippin’” (Diplo remix)
06 Trick Daddy ft. Lil Kim and Cee-Lo – “Sugar
07 Feist – “Inside and Out”
08 Tori Alamaze – “Don’t Cha”
09 The Killers – “Mr. Brightside”
10 Out Hud – “One Life to Leave”
11 Kelly Osbourne – “One Word”

1. Amerie, "1 Thing"
2. Luda feat. Bobby Valentino, "Pimpin' All Over the World"
3. Missy Elliott feat. Ciara and Fatman Scoop, "Lose Control"
4. Of Montreal “Wraith Pinned to the Mist”
5. Akon, "Lonely"
6. The Futureheads, "Decent Days and Nights"
7. Gwen Stefani, "Hollaback Girl"
8. Brooke Valentine, “Girlfight”
9. Kelly Clarkson, "Behind These Hazel Eyes"
10. Bloc Party, "Banquet"
11. Backstreet Boys, "Incomplete"

So Anthony, you sentimentally prefer "I want to come first" to "I like it better when it hurts"?

"La La" holds together better as a song, though I don't know yet how to explain why. Also, I prefer the enticing brrr (or is it a grrr) that Ashlee puts in her voice.

But on to more socially significant topics, I'm with the ILX majority in preferring Lindsay's looks back when she had more meat on her.

I think the spelling of 'Unortho/adox Daughter' might be a typo in the RTR booklet? It's named after her crew and they spell their name Unorthodox. But it's magnificent nonetheless.

1. Feist- Inside and Out
2. Amerie- 1 Thing
3. T.I.- Bring Em Out
4. Edan- Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme
5. The Game ft 50 Cent- Hate It Or Love It
6. Ying Yang Twins- Wait (The Whisper Song)
7. Helen Love- Debbie Loves Joey
8. Eels- Hey Man (Now You’re Really Living)
9. Adam Green- Emily
10. TTC- Dans Le Club
11. Rednose Distrikt- Bling Bling

Albums:

1. Adam Green- Gemstones
2. Tom Russell- Hotwalker
3. Roots Manuva- Awfully Deep
4. Eels- Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
5. Antony and the Johnsons- I’m A Bird Now
6. Herman Dune- Not On Top
7. Jamie Lidell- Multiply
8. Alkaline Trio- Crimson
9. Gwen Stefani- Love Angel Music Baby
10. Cowboy Troy- Loco Motive
11. Go Betweens- Oceans Apart

Yes, but can I count it as 2005 (or late 2004)?

haha cool! you can totally play both choruses at the same time, Nickelback-style.

Highly Anticipating: Missy Elliot, Robyn, Girls Aloud, Sugababes, Goldfrapp

On the way up: Stephan Malkmus, New Pornographers, Mountain Goats, Vitalic

On the way out: M.I.A, Bloc Party

Not likely. They're already doing press for it.

hon mentions to hood, of montreal, barrage, new order

the upcoming mahogany album will almost certainly knock one of the above out with great ease.

As in "The Robin Hood of snooker"?? I never knew he was so multi-talented!

According to RYM this is 2004, I heard this group on Dirty Radio - impressed although they come from Canada, there is definately a British/ Irish feel to their music.

1. Midi Miliz - Non Standards
2. Vitalic - Ok Cowboy
3. Alan Braxe & Friends - The Upper Cuts
4. Welt in Scherben - Scherbengericht
5. Water Lilly - Sputnika
6. Green Velvet - Walk In Love
7. Minimize To Maximize
8. DJ T - Boogie Playground
9. Colleen - The Golden Morning Breaks
10. Richard Davis - Details
11. TBA - Annulé

yes but it came out in Aust in 2005

1. Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
2. Electric Six - Senor Smoke
3. Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
4. Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
5. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
6. R. Kelly - TP3.Reloaded
7. Fischerspooner - Odyssey
8. Kelly Osbourne - Sleeping In The Nothing
9. Emperor X - Central Hug/Friend Army/Fractal Dunes
10. Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth
11. Eels - Blinking Lights & Other Revelations

fe zaffe, I'd be interested to hear some of your thoughts about this!
Just received it today. Very good in parts, but also, frustrating.

but right now I'm inclined toward Deana Carter, Dierks Bentley, Reckless Kelly from the country side; Mannie Fresh; Mars Volta;
Elizabeth McQueen's pub-rock collection; maybe the Eels, though that one is kind of iffy; Beck's album I like but I'll probably change my mind; ditto Bobby Pinson's latest, which I like more and more; Annie, which isn't consistently great but which I find really charming, so far; and I'm awfully glad to see the Everly Brothers's classic long-OP "Two Yanks in England" (pretty canonical stuff for me and Sharon) has been reissued. And the Jack Nitzsche collection of productions, too.

Albums:
1. And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
2. Mercenary
3. the Liquor and Poker sampler that came with the Backyard Babies CD, but defintely NOT the BBs CD itself
4. Mannie Fresh
5. Fast 'n' Bulbous
6. MIA
7. Fannypack
8. Blueprint
9. Alacranes Musical/Banda Lamento Show exitos twofer
10. Orishas-"El Kilo"
11. Rhapsody-"Tales from Enchanted Lands Vol 2" or whatever came out in '04

I hope I hear some more stuff. I just heard "4th of July" and "1 Thing" and both sounded real good.

1. Orthrelm - OV
2. Bob Drake - The Shunned Country
3. Jackson & His Computer Band - Smash
4. Mu - Out of Breach
5. Derek Bailey/Amy Denio/Dennis Palmer - The Gospel Record EP
6. Silentest - Nightengales EP
7. Alan Braxe & Friends - The Upper Cuts
8. Jennifer Gentle - Malende
9. Jane - Berserker
10. Justus Kohncke - Doppelleben
11. Eric Malmberg - Den Gatfulla Manniskan

LCD Soundsystem - s/t
Vitalic - OK Cowboy
Ladytron - The Witching Hour
Fischerspooner - Odyssey
Shortwave Set - The Debt Collection
Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
Gwen Stefani - Love Angel Music Baby

Brendan Benson - The Alternative to Love
Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
The Dead 60's - S/T (UK Version)
Kasabian - S/T (Expanded)
Gorillaz - Demon Days
The Coral - The Invisible Invasion
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have it so Much Better
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth

Gza vs Muggs - Grandmasters

The WU is back !

ha whoaaa there

Isolee - Wearemonster
Six Organs Of Admittance - School Of The Flower
Hanne Hukkelberg - Little Things
Field Music - s/t
Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Phase
Animal Collective - Feels
Cass Mccombs - Prefection
Orthrelm - OV

Maybes:
Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
Teenage Fanclub - Man-made
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas

top-11:
Goldfrapp - Supernature
Ladytron - Witching Hour
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
Daft Punk - Human After All
Out Hud - Let Us Never Speak of It Again
Saint Etienne - Tales From Turnpike House

Up there:
Alan Braxe and Friends - The Upper Cuts
Low - The Great Destroyer
Isolee - Wearemonster
Vitalic - OK, Cowboy
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
va - Run the Road
Fannypack - See You Next Tuesday

ALBUMS
Fannypack See You Next Tuesday
Various Artists Run the Road
M.I.A. Arular
Deana Carter The Story of My Life
Annie Anniemal
Mannie Fresh The Mind of Mannie Fresh
Living Things Ahead of the Lions (new title, and trades three new tracks for three old)
Kultur Shock Kultura-Diktatura
Miranda Lambert Kerosene
Bobby Bare The Moon Was Blue
Dungen Ta Det Lugnt
Also in the running: Radio Phnom Penh, Buck 65, The Hold Steady, The Gore Gore Girls (EP). I don't get sent a lot of hip-hop albums, or they'd be all over this list. Still haven't heard the latest Electric Six. Or the new Franz Ferdinand.

SINGLES
Kelly Clarkson "Since U Been Gone"
Rich Boy (w/ or w/out Pitbull) "Get to Poppin'"
Deana Carter "The Girl You Left Me For"
Ashlee Simpson "La La"
Miranda Lambert "Kerosene"
T. Waters "Throw'd Off"
Daddy Yankee "Gasolina"
Foxy Brown f. Sizzla "Come Fly With Me"
Amerie "1 Thing"
Ebony Eyes "In Your Face"
Ciara f. Ludacris "Oh"
--But this list will be in complete turmoil until late December, and some of these could easily be replaced by the Game ("Hate It or Love It" and "Put You on the Game"), Johnny Prez, Kanye ("Diamonds"), Tank, Trick Daddy, Juelz Santana, Slim Thug, Dierks Bentley, Prodigy, Missy Elliott ("On & On"), 50 Cent ("Candy Shop"), Trillville, Caesars, Fettes Brot, more Miranda Lambert, Shooter Jennings, Kumbia Kings, Cheka, Marion Raven, Kentucky Headhunters, Kelly Osbourne, Stat Quo, Trina, Shakira, Don Omar, Paul Wall. [I disqualified "Cha Ching" and "Angel" on account of being too old and 'cause I needed room.]

Or something like that.

1. hold steady
2. miranda lambert
3. deana carter
4. fannypack
5. m.i.a
6. big & rich
7. living things
8. hard skin
9. mannie fresh
10. rod lee
11. young jeezy
12. the sirens

hold it right there, bucko. does this mean people have the new big & rich album? has there been a thread about it? has there been movement in the time-space continuum? WHY HAVE I NOT BEEN INFORMED?

Rolling 2005 Country Thread

also, eyeballing my list, i'm thinking that, were the year and/or world to end today, i'd probably give 5 p&j points each to rod lee and the sirens, and leave mannie and jeezy pointless, since they'd both get some from other people. that's just the kinda guy i am (when it comes to 5-pointers, anyway.)

I finally heard this the other day, I was in a record store and I kept hearing what I thought was garbled Association records with Byrds guitar licks...something wrong with the sound in this place?? But I kinda liked it.

I dunno, it's going to be a tough year. I don't know what I think about Hold Steady or New Pornographers at this point, I like both of them far more than I did initially...but...Deana Carter still feels fresh to me. Mannie and Kayne I still like a lot. Big and Rich actually has been in my changer for a long time and damned if I don't like it more and more, actually more than their first album. Ditto Seu Jorge's record if only for his great cover of "Chatterton" and the song about silicone breast implants, it feels just so timely to me. And I love the Fast n Bulbous Beefheart album, but right now I have been listening to the James Carter Pavement thing and damned if maybe that one is better than the Beefheart. I also feel like the reissue of my beloved Everly Brothers' Warner LP "Two Yanks in England" merits a vote, a wasted vote or three or five, but that's just such a great record. I'm never gonna get Antony and the Johnsons, either, despite many, many efforts to get into it and very many indignant e-mails from my all-purpose man in L.A., David Scott, upon whom I depend on for insight into things like that--usually I come around since he's a man of taste, but...and in country, besides Deana and Big and, nothing I've heard really sustains as an album, altho I halfway think that Dwight Yoakam's new one is the most *accomplished yet weird* country record of the year, in other words it's the one besides Deana and Big and that I have enjoyed the most yet have so many misgivings about as both a human being and as a music fan.

1. of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
2. Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
3. Michaelangelo - s/t ("The Guinn Album")
4. Milk 'n' Cookies - s/t
5. Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
6. Jennifer Gentle - Valende

1. "The Party's Crashing Us" - of Montreal
2. "So Begins Our Alabee" - of Montreal
3. "Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games" - of Montreal
4. "I Do Dream You" - Jennifer Gentle
5. "Another One Goes By" - Mazarin
6. "Do the Whirlwind" - Architecture in Helsinki
7. "You Can't Fool Me Dennis" - Mystery Jets
8. "Girl" - Beck
9. "Bounce" - Fatty Koo
10. "I Predict a Riot" - Kaiser Chiefs