"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"

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