NME's Top 50 of 2005

[Frau_Blucher]

Transcribed from the hard copy - what a pain in the ass they are to not broadcast this digitally. Anyway, some great stuff. I'd have to say 2005 was a VERY exciting year in music.

1 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2 Arcade Fire - Funeral
3 Franz Ferdinand - You Can Have It So Much Better
4 Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
5 Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
6 The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
7 Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
8 Kanye West - Late Registration
9 Babyshambles - Down In Albion
10 Gorillaz - Demon Days
11 The Cribs - The New Fellas
12 Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
13 The Rakes - Capture/Release
14 Dungen - Ta Det Lungt
15 Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
16 British Sea Power - Open Season
17 The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
18 Art Brut - Bang, Bang Rock 'n' Roll
19 Coldplay - X&Y
20 Editors - The Back Room
21 LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
22 Raveonettes - Pretty In Black
23 Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV
24 Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth
25 MIA - Arular
26 Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
27 Kate Bush - Aerial
28 Absentee - Donkey Stock
29 Madonna - Confessions on A Dance Floor
30 Doves - Some Cities
31 Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
32 Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
33 We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor
34 Rufus Wainwright - Want Two
35 Elbow - Leaders Of The Free World
36 The Bravery - The Bravery
37 Circulus - Lick On The Tip Of An Envelope
38 Autolux - Future Perfect
39 Vitalic - OK Cowboy
40 The Brakes - The Brakes
41 Nine Black Alps - Everything Is
42 Sigur Ros - Takk
43 The Engineers- The Engineers
44 Field Music - Field Music
45 Shout Out Louds- Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
46 The Duke Spirit- Cuts Across The Land
47 Sleater-Kinney- The Woods
48 Ladytron - The Witching Hour
49 Dead Meadow - Feathers
50 Test Icicles - For Screening Purposes Only

[schwenko]

Is this in order of "goodness"?
And they left out the best album of the year, IMHO, St Etienne, Tales From Turnpike House (to be released in the USA Jan 2006).

[djsanti]

NME has gone digital my friend. You can also get a couple of issues for free digitally just to test it out. I've tried it and it's very nice although I think I still want the actual paper so i can read in the train.

Martin

[Frau_Blucher]

Here's the OMM Top 100 albums of 2005. Not a very good list IMHO, but there's little blirbs about each one that might make it informative for anyone looking for some fresh fruit amonst rotten apples:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/stor ... 18,00.html

[schwenko]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>Here's the OMM Top 100 albums of 2005. Not a very good list IMHO, but there's little blirbs about each one that might make it informative for anyone looking for some fresh fruit amonst rotten apples:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/stor ... 18,00.html
[/quote]

e.g.

#50 St Etienne-Tales From Turnpike House
#32 Goldfrapp-Supernature