Magnolia Thunderpussy's Top Selling Albums of 2005

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My day job is marketing, promotions and being a buyer for Magnolia Thunderpussy, a fairly legendary record shop in Columbus since 1970. If indie retail is dead, nobody told our customers, the fine people who paid my salary by buying the following this past year:

1. Watershed – 5th Of July (Idol)
2. Mars Volta – Frances The Mute (Universal)
3. House Of Heroes – House Of Heroes (Gotee)
4. Gorillaz – Demon Days (Virgin)
5. Blueprint – 1988 (Rhymesayers)
6. Arcade Fire – Funeral (Merge)
7. Beck – Guero (Geffen)
8. White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan (V2)
9. Danger Doom – Mouse & The Mask (Epitaph)
10. Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth (Interscope)
11. 311 – Don't Tread On Me (Volcano)
12. Decemberists – Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
13. Stellastarr – Harmonies For The Haunted (RCA)
14. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm (Dim Mak/Vice)
15. Mudvayne – Lost & Found (Epic)
16. Greenhouse Effect – Vs. Radiohead (Weightless)
17. Coldplay – X&Y (Capitol)
18. Sleater-Kinney – Woods (Sup Pop)
19. High On Fire – Blessed Black Wings (Relapse)
20. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
21. Common – Be (Getting Out Our Dreams/Geffen)
22. Dresden Dolls – Dresden Dolls (Roadrunner)
23. Queens Of The Stone Age – Lullabies To Paralyze (Interscope)
24. Spoon – Gimme Fiction (Merge)
25. Bright Eyes – I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (Saddle Creek)
26. Black Keys – Rubber Factory (Fat Possum)
27. Death From Above 1979 – You're A Woman, I'm A Machine (Vice)
28. Death Cab For Cutie – John Byrd EP (Barsuk/CIMS)
29. Death Cab For Cutie – Plans (Atlantic)
30. Greenhouse Effect – Columbus Or Bust (Weightless)
31. American Head Charge – Feeding (RTE/DRT)
32. Interpol – Evil (Matador/CIMS)
33. Killers – Hot Fuss (Island)
34. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Howl (Red Int/Red Ink)
35. Kings Of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak (RCA)
36. Shins – Oh Inverted World (Sub Pop)
37. Kanye West – Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam)
38. Atmosphere – Headshots: Se7en (Rhymesayers)
39. Edan – Beauty & The Beat (Lewis)
40. Sage Francis – Healthy Distrust (Epitaph)
41. Tegan & Sara – So Jealous (Vapor/Sanctuary)
42. The Kills – No Wow (Rough Trade/RCA)
43. Postal Service – Give Up (Sub Pop)
44. Copywrite – Cruise Control Mixtape Volume 1 (Nature Sounds)
45. Quasimoto – Further Adventures Of Lord Quas (Stones Throw)
46. Sigur Rós – Takk (Geffen)
47. Atmosphere – You Cant Imagine How Much Fun… (Rhymesayers)
48. The Dead Schembechlers – Wolverine Destroyers (LOCAL)
49. Mars Volta – Scab Dates (Universal)
50. Clutch – Robot Hive: Exodus (RTE/DRT)
51. Felt – Felt 2: Tribute To Lisa Bonet (Rhymesayers)
52. Bobaflex – Apologize For Nothing (TVT)
53. Bright Eyes – Digital Ash In A Digital Urn (Saddle Creek)
54. LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem (DFA)
55. System Of A Down – Mezmerize (Sony)
56. Interpol – Antics (Matador)
57. M83 – Before The Dawn Heals Us (Mute)
58. Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Domino)
59. Iron & Wine – Woman King (Sub Pop)
60. Deadsea – Desiderata (LOCAL)
61. Korn – See You On The Other Side (Virgin)
62. Nile – Annihilation Of The Wicked (Relapse)
63. Aesop Rock – Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives (Definitive Jux)
64. Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine (Sony)
65. At The Drive-In – Anthology: This Station Is… (Fearless)
66. Hot Hot Heat – Elevator (Sire)
67. Ani Difranco – Knuckle Down (Righteous Babe)
68. Doves – Some Cities (Capitol)
69. Envelope – Insignificant Anthems (Weightless)
70. VNV Nation – Matter + Form (Metropolis)
71. Weezer – Make Believe (Interscope)
72. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – S/T (self-released)
73. V/A – Motown Remixed (Motown)
74. Tori Amos – Beekeeper (Epic)
75. MF Doom – Mm..Food (Rhymesayers)
76. Witchcraft – Firewood (Candlelight)
77. Arch Enemy – Doomsday Machine (Century Media)
78. Handsome Boy Modeling School – White People (Elektra)
79. Stephen Malkmus – Face The Truth (Matador)
80. Mars Volta – De-Loused In The Comatorium (Strummer/Universal)
81. Prefuse 73 – Surrounded By Silence (Warp)
82. Unwritten Law – Here's To The Mourning (Lava)
83. Louis XIV – The Best Little Secrets Are Kept (Atlantic)
84. Nevermore – This Godless Endeavor (Century Media)
85. Opeth – Ghost Reveries (Roadrunner)
86. Wolf Parade – Apologies To The Queen Mary (Sub Pop)
87. Green Day – American Idiot (Reprise)
88. The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema (Matador)
89. Ryan Adams – Jacksonville City Nights (Lost Highway)
90. Black Dahlia Murder – Miasma (Metal Blade)
91. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Tepid Peppermint… (Tee Pee)
92. Jesu – Jesu (Hydra Head)
93. Mindless Self Indulgence – You'll Rebel To Anything (Metropolis)
94. The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)
95. Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
96. Strapping Young Lad – Alien (Century Media)
97. Cage – Hell's Winter (Definitive Jux)
98. Le Tigre – This Island (Strummer/Universal)
99. Behemoth – Demigod (Olympic)
100. Dead Meadow – Feathers (Matador)
101. Low – Great Destroyer (Sub Pop)
102. Modest Mouse – Good News For People Who Love Bad News (Epic)
103. Obituary – Frozen In Time (Roadrunner)
104. As I Lay Dying – Shadows Are Security (Metal Blade)
105. Boards Of Canada – The Campfire Headphase (Warp)
106. Garbage – Bleed Like Me (Geffen)
107. Lyrics Born – Same !@#$ Different Day (Quannum Projects)
108. New Order – Waiting For The Sirens’ Call (Reprise)
109. Stars – Set Yourself On Fire (Arts & Crafts)
110. Corrosion Of Conformity – In The Arms Of God (Sanctuary)
111. Crowbar – Lifesblood For The Downtrodden (Candlelight)
112. Kaiser Chiefs – Employment (Universal)
113. My Morning Jacket – Z (ATO)
114. Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters (Polydor)
115. Elliott Smith – From A Basement On The Hill (Anti)
116. Wumpscut – Evoke (Metropolis)
117. Against Me – Searching For A Former Clarity (Fat Wreck Chords)
118. Black Label Society – Mafia (Artemis)
119. Cephalic Carnage – Anomalies (Relapse)
120. The Cloud Room – The Cloud Room (Gigantic)
121. Darkest Hour – Undoing Ruin (Victory)
122. Demons & Wizard – Touched By The Crimson King (Steamhammer)
123. Blackalicious – The Craft (Anti)
124. Little Brother – The Minstrel Show (ABB/Atlantic)
125. Loretta Lynn – Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
126. Muse – Absolution (Warner Brothers)
127. My Chemical Romance – Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (Reprise)
128. Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans (Sounds Familyre)
129. Foo Fighters – In Your Honor (Sony)
130. Illogic – Write To Death 2 (Dove Ink)
131. Iron & Wine – Creek Drank The Cradle (Sub Pop)
132. Jack Johnson – In Between Dreams (Universal)
133. Judas Priest – Angel Of Retribution (Sony)
134. The Locust – Safety Second Body Last (Ipecac)
135. Nashville Pussy – Get Some! (Spitfire)
136. The National – Alligator (Beggars Banquet)
137. Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute/Warner)
138. Aborted – Archaic Abattoir (Olympic)
139. Blueprint – Iron & Niacin (Weightless)
140. The Evens – The Evens (Dischord)
141. Ben Folds – Songs For Silverman (Epic)
142. Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have It So Much Better (Domino)
143. General Patton – General Patton Vs The X-ecutioners (Ipecac)
144. Jakki The Motamouth – God Vs. Satan (NCS/Babygrande)
145. The Raveonettes – Pretty In Black (Columbia)
146. Andrew Bird – Mysterious Production Of Eggs (Righteous Babe)
147. Dinosaur Jr – You're Living All Over Me (Merge)
148. Eels – Blinking Lights & Other Revelations (Vagrant)
149. Gogol Bordello – Gypsy Punks Underdog World… (Side One Dumy)
150. Sevendust – Next (Winedark)

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Saturday, 14 January 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

How many albums did Sevendust sell?
I can'r believe they even got to sell any.

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Sunday, 15 January 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Metal note: Cut the list off at #149 next year...

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Sunday, 15 January 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

11. 311 – Don't Tread On Me (Volcano)

I didn't realize these guys were still somewhat popular.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:14 (twenty years ago)

I've been to Magnolia, and their metal section is somewhat awe-inspiring. Perhaps explains the puzzling popularity of Sevendust.

― Drew Lichtenberg, Monday, 16 January 2006 04:54 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

This seems like a good place to put the Top Albums we sold in 2006...

1.	The Lab Rats - Half Full Ashtrays, Half Empty Glasses (LOCAL)
2.	Tool - 10,000 Days (Volcano)
3.	Soul Position - Things Go Better With RJ & Al (Weightless)
4.	Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere (Downtown)
5.	Shaggy 2 Dope - F.T.F.O. (Psychopathic)
6.	TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain (Interscope)
7.	Lacuna Coil - Karmacode (Century Medidia)
8.	Slayer - Christ Illusion (Warner Brothers)
9.	Black Keys - Magic Potion (Nonesuch)
10.	Greenhouse Effect - Vs. Radiohead (Weightless)
11.	Danger Doom - Mouse & The Mask (Epitaph)
12.	The Dead Schembechlers - Wolverine Destroyers (LOCAL)
13.	Envelope - Insignificant Anthems (Weightless)
14.	Teeth Of The Hydra - Greenland (Tee Pee)
15.	The Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Show Your Bones (Interscope)
16.	Jack's Mannequin - Everything In Transition (Maverick)
17.	J-Dilla - Donuts (Stones Throw)
18.	Dresden Dolls - Yes Virginia (Roadrunner)
19.	Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics (Warner Brothers)
20.	She Wants Revene - She Wants Revenge (Geffen)
21.	Death Cab For Cutie - Plans (Atlantic)
22.	Mars Volta - Scab Dates (Universal)
23.	Mastodon - Blood Mountain (Reprise)
24.	Thom Yorke - Eraser (XL)
25.	Cat Power - Greatest (Matador)
26.	Flogging Molly - Whiskey On A Sunday (SideOneDummy)
27.	Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
28.	The Sword - Age Of Winters (Kemado)
29.	Korn - See You On The Other Side (Virgin)
30.	Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (Geffen)
31.	Tom Waits - Orphans (Anti)
32.	Beck - Information (Interscope)
33.	BRMC - Howl (Red Ink)
34.	Trivium - The Crusade (Roadrunner)
35.	Buckcherry - 15 (Eleven Seven)
36.	Ghostface - Fishscale (Def Jam)
37.	Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clay Your Hands Say Yeah (CYHSY)
38.	The Eagles Of Death - Death By Sexy (Downtown)
39.	Wolfmother - Wolfmother (Interscope)
40.	In Flames - Come Clarity (Ferret)
41.	Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Merge)
42.	Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary (Sub Pop)
43.	The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth (RCA)
44.	Animal Collective - Feels (Fat Cat)
45.	Bobaflex - Apologize For Nothing (TVT)
46.	Jesu - Silver (Hydra Head)
47.	The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (V2)
48.	Built To Spill - You In Reverse (Warner Brothers)
49.	Cannibal Corpse - Kill (Metal Blade)
50.	Celtic Frost - Monotheist (Century Media)
51.	Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam (J)
52.	The Decemberists - Crane Wife (Capitol)
53.	The Postal Service - Give Up (Sub Pop)
54.	Belle & Sebastian - Life Pursuit (Matador)
55.	Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (Anti)
56.	Sigur Ros - Takk (Geffen)
57.	Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase (Warp)
58.	Boris - Pink (Southern Lord)
59.	The Streets - The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living (Vice)
60.	Arcade Fire - Funeral (Merge)
61.	J-Dilla - The Shining (BBE)
62.	Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor (Atlantic)
63.	Placebo - Meds (Astralwerks)
64.	Spitball - Welcome To Spitsville (Silent)
65.	Boris - Akuma No Uta (Southern Lord)
66.	Johnny Cash - American 5: A Hundred Highways (Lost Highway)
67.	Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom (Ipecac)
68.	Mastodon - Call Of The Mastodon (Relapse)
69.	Matisyahu - Live At Stubbs (Or)
70.	Mr Lif - Mo Mega (Definitive Jux)
71.	Aceyalone - Magnificent City (Decon)
72.	The Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (Domino)
73.	Deadboy & Elephantman - We Are Night Sky (Fat Possum)
74.	My Morning Jacket - Z (ATO)
75.	The Shins - Oh Inverted World (Sub Pop)
76.	Silversun Pickups - Carnavas (Dangerbird)
77.	Spoon - Gimme Fiction (Merge)
78.	Katatonia - Great Cold Distance (Peaceville)
79.	Mogwai - Mr Beast (Matador)
80.	Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (Kill Rock Stars)
81.	Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan (Asthmatic Kitty)
82.	Decapitated - Organic Halucinosis (Earache)
83.	The Decemberists - Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
 
84.	Edan - Beauty & The Beat (Lewis Entertainment)
85.	Gorillaz - Demon Days (Virgin)
86.	SunnO))) - Black One (Southern Lord)
87.	Zero - The Problem Child (LOCAL)
88.	Black Angels - Passover (Light In The Attic)
89.	Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks Underdog (SideOneDummy)
90.	GZA/Genuis - Liquid Swords (Geffen)
91.	Impaled Nazarene - Pro Patria Finlandia (The End)
92.	Ladytron - Witching Hour (Rykodisc)
93.	Madonna - Confessions On A Dance Floor (Warner Brothers)
94.	Mars Volta - Amputechture (Universal)
95.	The Twilight Singer - Powder Burns (One Little Indian)
96.	Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene (Arts & Crafts)
97.	Deicide - Stench Of Redemption (Earache)
98.	Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth (Crucial Blast)
99.	Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself (RCA)
100.	Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation (Earache)
101.	Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium (Warner Brothers)
102.	Satyricon - Now Diabolical (Century Media)
103.	Shiny Toy Guns - We Are Pilots (Universal)
104.	The Stills - Without Feathers (Vice)
105.	Bleeding Through - The Truth (Trustkill)
106.	Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet? (Spinefarm)
107.	Dresden Dolls - Dresden Dolls (Roadrunner)
108.	Goatwhore - Haunting Curse (Metal Blade)
109.	Jakki The Motamouth - God Vs Satan (Babygrande)
110.	Jenny Lewis / Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
111.	Ministry - Rio Grande Blood (Megaforce)
112.	Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch (Sire)
113.	Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You… (Matador)
114.	Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine (Sony)
115.	Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage (Roadrunner)
116.	Editors - Back Room (Fader)
117.	Jesu - Jesu (Hydra Head)
118.	Kool Keith - Return Of Dr Octagon (OCD)
119.	Mastodon - Workhouse Chronicles [DVD] (Relapse)
120.	Morrissey - Ringleader Of The Tormentors (Sanctuary)
121.	Rebel Meets Rebel - Rebel Meets Rebel (Big Vin)
122.	The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)
123.	At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command (Fearless)
124.	Enslaved - Ruun (Candlelight)
125.	Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
126.	Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life & Death (Sanctuary)
127.	Metric - Live It Out (Last Gang)
128.	The National - Alligator (Beggars Banquet)
129.	Joanna Newsom - Ys (Drag City)
130.	Pelican - Fire In Our Throats… (Hydra Head)
131.	Ringworm - Justice Replaced By Revenge (Victory)
132.	Tool - Schism (Volcano)
133.	The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off (Record Collection)
134.	Hank Williams III - Straight To Hell (Bruc)
135.	Neil Young - Living With War (Reprise)
136.	Berzerker - World Of Lies (Earache)
137.	Blueprint - 1988 (Rhymesayers)
138.	Brand New - The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me (Interscope)
139.	Cocorosie - La Maison De Mon Reve (Touch And Go)
140.	Deicide - When London Burns [DVD] (Earache)
141.	Diplo - Fabriclive 24 (Fabric)
142.	Diplo - Florida (Bid Dada)
143.	Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better (Sony)
144.	Gomez - How We Operate (Red Ink)
145.	New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (Matador)
146.	NOFX - Wolves In Wolves’ Clothing (Fat Wreck Chords)
147.	Peaches - Teaches Of Peaches (XL)
148.	Sleep - Dopesmoker (Tee Pee)
149.	Sufjan Stevens - Songs For Christmas (Asthmatic Kitty)
150.	The Sun - Blame It On The Youth [DVD] (Warner Brothers)
151.	Wilco - Kicking Television: Live In Chicago (Nonesuch)
152.	Witch - Witch (Tee Pee)
153.	Young Jeezy - Let's Get It: Thug Motivation (Def Jam)
154.	Converge - No Heroes (Epitaph)
155.	V/A - Dancing In The Dark (Dancing Ferret)
156.	Ed Gein - Judas Goats & Dieseleaters (Metal Blade)
157.	Thelonious Monk / John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall (Blue Note)
158.	Muse - Black Holes & Revelations (Warner Brothers)
159.	O.D.O.T. - The Odot Takever (LOCAL)
160.	Tom Petty - Highway Companion (Warner Brothers)
161.	Portishead - Portishead (London)
162.	Spoon - Kill The Moonlight (Merge)
163.	Stars - Set Yourself On Fire (Arts & Crafts)
164.	Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities (Caldo Verde)
165.	Sunn0))) / Boris - Altar (Southern Lord)
166.	Type O Negative - Symphony For The Devil [DVD] (Steamhammer)

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

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