Your favourite albums of 2005?

[Suikojowy]

What have been your favourite albums this year?

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2. The Arcade Fire - Funeral (2005 release in the uk)
3. Bright Eyes - I'm wide awake, it's morning
4. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
5. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
6. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock And Roll
7. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
8. Antony and The Johnsons - I am a bird now
9. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better

I tried to keep it to 5 but meh.

[Chris]

Definitely Sinéad O'Connor's reggae/ roots album from this summer, stunning Island grooves.


http://www.backstage7.de/cd/album_05/sinead_o_connor/sinead_o_connor.JPG

[Shoeberto]

The only new '05 album I listened to was Gorillaz - Demon Days, and it was sooooo good.

[escobert]

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/rnnr/awol.JPG

AZ A.W.O.L. Album of the year ;)

[Aurey]

Aww, I was gonna do this.

Gang Gang Dance - <i>God's Money</i>
Animal Collective - <i>Feels</i>
Hangedup - <i>Clatter For Control</i>
Sanso-Xtro - <i>Sentimentalist</i>
Antony & The Johnsons - <i>I Am a Bird Now</i>
Broken Social Scene - <i>s/t</i>
Black Dice - <i>Broken Ear Record</i>
Sufjan Stevens - <i>Illinois</i>
Final Fantasy (aka Owen Pallett) - <i>Has a Good Home</i>
Dandi Wind - <i>Concrete Igloo</i>
Lightning Bolt - <i>Hypermagic Mountain</i>
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-la-la Band - <i>Horses in the Sky</i>
Isol&#233;e - <i>We Are Monster</i>
Jaga Jazzist - <i>What We Must</i>
Shining - <i>In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster</i>
Sleater-Kinney - <i>The Woods</i>
Patrick Wolf - <i>Wind in The Wires</i>
Double Leopards - <i>A Hole Is True</i> & <i>Savage Summer Sun</i>
Sunn O))) - <i>Black 1</i>

edit: Added a few more. :P

[jrgen]

2005 wasn't nearly as good as 2004. Although when I think about it, 2004 was one of the best musical years ever.

These are the ones that come to mind right now:

Adversus - Einer Nacht Gewesenes
Dark Tranquillity - Character
Dornenreich - Hexenwind
Eisblut - Schlachtwerk
Eisregen - Hexenhaus
Feindflug - Volk und Armee
Janus - Nachtmahr
Lacrimosa - Lichtgestalt
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Oathean - As A Solitary Tree Against The Sky
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Sigh - Gallows Gallery
Subway to Sally - Nord Nord Ost
Totenmond - TonbergUrtod

My favourite one is definately Janus, followed by Lacrimosa, Dornenreich and Subway to Sally.

[Buddhist Monkey]

Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Rent Motion Picture Soundtrack (Eh heh..kind of been obsessing over this one.)

[Crushed Hope]

#1. Kamelot - The Black Halo
#2. Solefald - Red for Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part One
#3. Korpiklaani - Voice of Wilderness

[Alixsar]

Frances the Mute was okay, but Mars Volta's other album was better. Um...yeah, this was a bad year for music.

[Skarr]

Coldplay's X&Y album was awesome.

[Yamaneko]

Porcupine Tree's <i>Deadwing</i> was my favorite album this year.

[ZeZipster]

KillRadio - Raised On Whipped Cream
The Matches - E. Von Dahl Killed The Locals

[Jimmch939]

Frances the Mute was okay, but Mars Volta's other album was better. Um...yeah, this was a bad year for music.

I thought that frances was much better than deloused.

Mars Volta - Frances the Mute (Best record this year?)
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Pelican - The Fire in our Throats will Beckon the Thaw
Gospel - The Moon is a Dead World (Best record this year?)
Doomriders - Black Thunder
Boris - Pink
Dead Meadow - Feathers
Red Sparrows - At the Soundless Dawn (Record of the year?)
Jesu - Jesu
Transistor Transistor - Erase all Names and Likeness
*Boris - Soundtrack to the film Mabuta No Ura

I'm sure there are plenty of others that were really good that I can't think of off the top of my head.

Edit: Albums with a * in front means that they were tacked on after my original post.

[Slade]

The only new '05 album I listened to was Gorillaz - Demon Days, and it was sooooo good.
That was about the only '05 album I got too. My sisters got a few albums from this year but I never got around to stealing off with their CDs to listen to them........yet.

[Momiji]

Hawthorne Heights - The Silence in Black and White. I just...like them a lot. XD

[Mittopotahis]

Basically the only good album all year was Nickelback - All the Right Reasons.

[Rusty]

Eminem - Curtain Call - The Hits.

There were many fantastic songs this year - by heaps of different artists, but a album as a whole, Eminem wins it for me.

[* White Aeris *]

Gorillaz--- Demon Days
Green Day--- American Idiot

[Epiphany]

Immolation, Harnessing Ruin
Primordial, The Gathering Wilderness
Cryptopsy, Once Was Not
Nevermore, This Godless Endeavor
Opeth, Ghost Reveries
Behemoth, Demigod
Hypocrisy, Virus
Strapping Young Lad, Alien
Judas Priest, Angel of Retribution
Porcupine Tree, Deadwing
Paradise Lost, Paradise Lost
Hammerfall, Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken
Helloween, Keeper Of The Seven Keys : The Legacy

[Slothy]

I was about to say nothing until I was reminded Frances the Mute came out this year. Blows Deloused out of the water if you ask me (and I love Deloused).

[jrgen]

I forgot about Hypocrisy and Boris.

[Zeldy]

http://www.periodistadigital.com/imgs/efep/20050913/1126608031623w.jpg

[Venom]

Avenged sevenfold-City of Evil.

[Strider]

I'd say it's a toss-up between...

Shinedown's Us and Them
Audioslave's Out of Exile
Avenged Sevenfold's City of Evil

[GooeyToast]

Only album I bought this year was Fantomas' Suspended Animation.

[Cz]

I thought this year was a great year for new music, if only because people in the UK finally started giving indie some recognition. This list is in no particular order:

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
British Sea Power - Open Season
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Beck - Guero
The Futureheads - The Futureheads
Editors - The Back Room
The Rakes - Capture/Release

[Pure Strife]

Got to be Coheed and Cambria's Good Apollo :)

[a nirvana fan]

Well this year I really liked..

Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Nirvana - Sliver: Best Of The Box
Goldfinger - Disconnection Notice

That's about all I can remember

[Psydekick]

Gorillaz-Demon days is the only album I have really listened to this year.:)

[dragoonknight_kain]

Millencolin - Kingwood

Best album of the year.:D

[Eternal Sphere]

Riverside - "Second Life Syndrome"
Redemption - "The Fullness Of Time"
Sieges Even - "The Art Of Navigating By The Stars"
Porcupine Tree - "Deadwing"
John Petrucci - "Suspended Animation"
Circus Maximus - "The 1st Chapter"

[Reles]

I can't believe you like Arcade Fire, I love you now.

:D <3

[Isis]

Green Day: American Idiot > All.

[Cz]

Green Day: American Idiot > All.Shame it was released in 2004, then. :rolleyes2