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Five Best Non-2005 Albums I Heard For The First Time This Year

In no order:

  • Lynn, Loretta – Van Lear Rose
  • Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2
  • Various Artists – No New York
  • Kaskade – San Francisco Sessions (Volume 04?): Soundtrack to the Soul
  • Diplo and MIA – Piracy Funds Terrorism, Volume 1

Notes: Listening to pre-2005 albums contributed to such a good music year for me. Outside of these five albums are a number of artists I either came across for the first time this year or became much more familiar with their work. They include: Fiery Furnaces, Rilo Kiley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Can, Nitin Sawhney, Charles Mingus, and Hang on the Box.

Five Most Disappointing Albums Of The Year

In no order:

  • MIA – Arular
  • V/A – Run the Road, Volume 02
  • Rock remix albums (Yes, I knew they would be bad, but still; e.g., Beck’s Guerolito, Bloc Party’s Silent Alarm Remixed, Death From Above 1979’s Romance Bloody Romance: Remixes & B-Sides)
  • Weezer – Make Believe
  • White Stripes, The – Walking With A Ghost + 4 Live Tracks

Best Shows Of The Year

In no order:

    Fiery Furnaces with Blood on the Wall and Dios Malos
    April 8, 2005
    930 Club

    Kills, The with Scout Niblett and Routineers
    April 13, 2005
    Black Cat

    Nashville Pussy with Jesse Diamond and the Thousand (did not see), Zeke, Nebula, Honky, Square Johns, and Grafton (did not see)
    September 16, 2005
    CBGB