I'm not updating the first page anymore just because it takes way too much time to do it once or twice a week but I will start doing it again near the end of the year (we're getting close).

What do you guys think of the idea of having this list "released" so to speak, to the front page? Geoff could put together a list of "DVDTalk Member's favorite albums of 2005" with a link to reviews and Amazon stuff.

I know this is a DVD board but if you guys can put up reviews of Sex Pillows why not the Year in Music?

My List so far:
1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2. Within Temptation - Silent Force
3. Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution
4. Corrosion of Conformity - In the Arms of God
5. Dream Theater - Octavarium
6. Thrice - Vheissu
7. John Petrucci - Suspended Animation

My 2005 Music List!

*****

1. The Magic Numbers
2. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
3. Coldplay - X & Y
4. Archer Prewitt - Wilderness
5. Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
6. Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
7. Arcade Fire - Funeral
8. Brendan Benson - The Alternative to Love
9. Athlete - Tourist
10. Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures

11. Feeder - Pushing the Senses
12. Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth
13. Prefuse 73 - Surrounded by Silence
14. Elbow - Leaders of the Free World
15. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
16. Ben Lee - Awake is the New Sleep
17. Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor
18. Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
19. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
20. Brandi Carlile

Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask
Mylo - Destroy Rock and Roll
Laura Cantrell - Humming By the Flowered Vine
British Sea Power - Open Season
LCD Soundsystem
The Wedding Present - Take Fountain
System of a Down - Mezmerize
Jamie Cullum - Catching Tales
Martha Wainwright
My Morning Jacket - Z
Chiara Chivello - Last Quarter Moon
Lizz Wright - Dreaming Wide Awake
Matt Pond PA - Several Arrows Later
Spoon - Gimme Fiction

****

Motifs - Paris Combo
Fine China - The Jaws of Life
Goldfrapp - Supernature
Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets are Kept
Gorillaz - Demon Days
M.I.A - Arular
Kraftwerk - Minimum-Maximum
Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
Iron & Wine - Woman King EP
Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
Anna Nalick - Wreck of the Day
Jason Mraz - Mr. A-Z
Rob Dickinson - Fresh Wine for the Horses
A-ha - Analogue
In Between Dreams - Jack Johnson
Idlewild - Warnings/Promises
Timo Maas - Pictures
Audioslave - Out of Exile
Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful
Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
Rosie Thomas - If Songs Could Be Held
New Order - Waiting for the Sirens' Call
Nickel Creek - Why Should the Fire Die?
Paul Van Dyk - Politics of Dancing 2
Telepopmusik - Angel Milk
Stellastarr* - Harmonies For The Haunted
Sigur Ros - Takk...
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
DJ Tiesto - In Search of Sunrise, Vol. 4: Latin America
Jane Monheit - Taking a Chance on Love
Amin van Buuren - Shivers
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Iron & Wines + Calexico - In the Reins
Dar Williams - My Better Self
Guero - Beck
Chris Rice - Amusing
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl

***

NIN - With Teeth
Rob Thomas - Something To Be
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Brian Eno - Another Day on Earth
The Great Depression - Blindside
Cowboy Junkies - Early 21st Century BLues
The Chemical Brothers - Push the Button
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
JEM - Finally Awaken
Taproot - Blue-Sky Research
Marc Broussard - Carencro
Deep Dish - George is On
Fischerspooner - Odyssey
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Armand Van Helden - Nympho
Broken Social Scene
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Cold Roses
David Gray - Life in Slow Motion
Bethany Dillon - Imagination
Nightbird - Erasure
Fear Factory - Transgression
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
In the Clear - Ivy
Lullabies to Paralyze - Queens of the Stone Age
Closer - David Sanborn
Doves - Some Cities
Kanye West - Late Registration
Got It Going On - Chieli Minucci
In Motion - Copeland
The Bravery
Pussycat Dolls - PCD
Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
Mariah Carey - The Emancipation of Mimi
Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business

**
The Junior Varsity - Wide Eyed
Enya - Amarantine
Adani & Wolf
Waiting for an Echo - Solas
The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Origin 1 (US edition)
Sunset - Camiel
Tracy Chapman - Where You Live
When I'm With You - Chuck Loeb
TobyMac - Renovating
Angel of Retribution - Judas Priest
The Beekeeper - Tori Amos
Same Mother - Jason Moran
My American Songbook Vol.1 - Nelson Rangell
Stop Doing Bad Things - Spitalfield
The Massacre - 50 Cent
Language, Sex, Violence, Other? - Sterophonics

*

In The Arms of God - Corrosion of Conformity
Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You A Unicorn - Kaddisfly
13 - Six Feet Under
Out of Nowhere - Two Siberians
Tree Down Below - Doom
Planets - Adema
Alien - Strapping Young Lad
Blackbird - Shelly Berg Trio
Big Band - Kevin Mahogany

0

So Far:

The Good
1) Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
2) Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
3) My Morning Jacket - Z
4) Billy Corgan - The Future Embrace
5) Danger Doom - The Mouse and The Mask
6) Wilco - Kicking Television

The Bad
1) Weezer - Make Believe
2) NIN - With Teeth
3) Franz Ferdinand - YCHISMB
4) Kanye West - Late Registration
5) Foo Fighters - In Your Honor

Still Listening To/In The Pile
Death Cab - Plans
Broken Social Scene
Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary
Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Thelonious Monk w/ John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall

So far:

The Good:
1. Idlewild - Warnings/Promises
2. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
3. Dredg - Catch Without Arms
4. Weezer - Make Believe


The Disappointing:
01. Nine Inch Nails - [With Teeth]
02. Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
03. Garbage - Bleed For Me


Eh:
Queens of the Stone Age- Lullabyes to Paralyze
System of a Down - Mezmerize

I think that's all I've heard from this year so far.

Sounds like a great idea to me.

We're going to continue with this and start a Rank 'Em 2006 next year, right? You know, how about doing it retroactively too, a Rank 'Em 2004 wouldn't be bad, especially in the beginning of 2006 when many albums haven't been released.

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
3. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
4. Coldplay - X & Y
5. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
6. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
7. Iron & Wine - Woman King EP
8. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
9. Beck - Guero
10. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
11. Matt Pond PA - Several Arrows Later
12. The Decemberists - Picaresque
13. LCD Soundsystem
14. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
15. Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor
16. Ben Lee - Awake is the New Sleep
17. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Cold Roses
18. My Morning Jacket - Z
19. Nickel Creek - Why Should the Fire Die?
20. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
21. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
22. Weezer - Make Believe
23. David Gray - Life in Slow Motion
24. Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
25. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
26. Kanye West - Late Registration
27. Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
28. Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful
29. Copeland - In Motion
30. Audioslave - Out of Exile
31. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
32. Gorillaz - Demon Days
33. Mariah Carey - The Emancipation of Mimi
34. Jason Mraz - Mr. A-Z
35. Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business

+Danny

I'm still going through new stuff from this year (another 8 discs this weekend alone), but this should more or less be a final(ish!) list.

Albums


1. Patrick Wolf, Wind In the Wires


2. Okkervil River, Black Sheep Boy


3. Micah P. Hinson & the Gospel of Progress


4. Dälek, Absence


5. Andrew Bird, The Mysterious Production of Eggs


6. Eluvium, Talk Amongst the Trees


7. 13 & God


8. The National, Alligator


9. Edgar 'Jones' Jones, Soothing Music for Stray Cats


10. De Novo Dahl, Cats and Kittens

11. Jamie Lidell, Multiply
12. Kelley Polar, Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens
12. Bloc Party, Silent Alarm
13. M.I.A., Arular
15. Richmond Fontaine, The Fitzgerald

Songs

1. Okkervil River, "Black"
2. John Vanderslice, "Dead Slate Pacific"
3. The Mogs, "Kelly Blame"
4. The Ravonettes Ft. Ronnie Spector, "Ode to L.A."
5. Jamie Lidell, "Multiply"
6. Wonder & Plan B, "Cap Back"
7. Ladytron, "Destroy Evertything You Touch"
8. Micah P. Hinson & the Gospel of Progress, "At Last, Our Promises"
9. Coldplay, "Fix You"
10. De Novo Dahl, "All Over Town"
11. Celebration, "Foxes"
12. Editors, "Camera"
13. Sons & Daughters, "Rama Lama"
14. Lightning Bolt, "2 Morro Morro Land"
15. Calla, "Swagger"

Bleah

Go! Team, Thunder Lightning Strike
Broken Social Scene
Fatlip, The Loneliest Punk
New Pornographers, Twin Cinema
Prefuse 73, Reads the Books

Hey Bus. Are you planning on doing this thread again next year? If not, I'd be interested in running it next year. I have way too much time on my hands sometimes.

More importantly, will we be getting another (final) update this year?

yeah, auto is quicker than Bus! lotsaofupdates good! j/k seriously, I think we need at least 2 persons (who have lot of time in their hands) leading this kind of thread.

My top...5...

1. Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift
2. Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree
3. Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Contain
4. Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
5. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

I notice that not one of you has the Akron/Family & Angels of Light split LP listed. Ohhhhhh, it's so good--hopefully you fellas'll pick it up or give it a listen soon! Here's my top 25 for TMT:

25. Stars – Set Yourself on Fire
24. Pernice Brothers – Discover a Lovelier You
23. John Vanderslice – Pixel Revolt
22. Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary
21. Matt Pond PA – Several Arrows Later
20. Iron and Wine & Calexico – In the Reins (EP)
19. Wilco – Kicking Television
18. Rogue Wave – Descended Like Vultures
17. Chad VanGaalen - Infiniheart
16. Damien Jurado – On My Way to Absence
15. Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy
14. Ryan Adams – Cold Roses
13. Akron/Family – Akron/Family
12. The National - Alligator
11. Iron and Wine – Woman King (EP)
10. Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering
09. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
08. Sigur Rós – Takk...
07. Mountain Goats – The Sunset Tree
06. Amadou and Mariam – Dimanche a Bamako
05. Four Tet – Everything Ecstatic
04. Micah P. Hinson – Micah P. Hinson and the Gospel of Progress
03. Andrew Bird – Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
02. Akron/Family & Angels of Light – Akron/Family & Angels of Light
01. M. Ward – Transistor Radio

I'm going to update it. The problem is I kept writing stuff down on paper as far as the system used, then putting into a spreadsheet and I kept losing the "how-to" part of it.

Also, interest in this has gone up in the past couple of months. I will be updating this and redoing my list as well.

I'd recommend everyone get in their votes asap. At some point this week I will print this whole thread out and after that your changes won't get counted.

1. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2. Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask

I think thats it.

That's it. The thread is being printed - results coming soon.

About to make another last ton of updates before '05 ends but ... oh @#$#!, any update will not be counted so I will no longer make additional updates in my 1st post. I am going to make another post with my definitive rankings and list sometime next year. I still have lot of '05 albums to listen & buy anyway.

Sort it all out amongst yourselves

I suggest a post mortem new thread on 2005 and a further separate thread for 2006 which I'll sticky if/when I spot it!