I finished compiling my best of 2005 for my show tomorrow morning on KALX. Tune in and check it out. I imagine I won't be able to play everything, but feel free to follow along at home.
| Artist | Album | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| !!! | Take Ecstacy With Me/Get Up | EP |
| All India Radio | Permanent Evolutions | |
| Allien, Ellen | Thrills | |
| Alva Noto / Ryuichi Sakamoto | Insen | |
| Amendola, Scott (Band) | Believe | |
| Amon Tobin | Chaos Theory : Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack | |
| And you will know us by the trail of dead | Worlds Apart | |
| Arc and Sender | Arc and Sender | |
| Below the Sea | Blame it on the Past | |
| Books, The | Lost and Safe | |
| Captured! By Robots | The Ten Commandments | |
| Cars Are The Stars, The | Fragments | |
| Cat-A-Tac | Cat-A-Tac | EP |
| Corvus Corax | Best Of Corvus Corax | C |
| Criteria | When We Break | |
| Death Cab For Cutie | Plans | |
| Delia Gonzales and Gavin Russom | Days of Mars | |
| Dredg | Catch Without Arms | |
| Electrelane | Axes [live] | |
| Electric Light Orchestra | All Over the World: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra | C |
| Emiliana Torrini | Fisherman's Woman | |
| Esthero | Wikked Lil' Grrrls | |
| Fields, Jordan | Presents 2084 | |
| Fischerspooner | Odyssey | |
| Flatt & Scruggs | Foggy Mountain Gospel | C |
| Fourtet | Everything Ecstatic | |
| Frames, The | Burn the Maps | |
| Gonzalez, Jose | Veneer | |
| Guerrero, Tommy | Year of the Monkey | |
| Haden, Petra | Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out | |
| Happy Apple | The Peace Between Our Companies | |
| Harvey Danger | Little By Little | |
| Honeyhander | Wooly Mannerisms | |
| Husky Rescue | Country Falls | |
| Ida | Heart Like A River | |
| Imogen Heap | Speak For Yourself | |
| Iron and Wine | In the Reins | |
| Iron and Wine | Woman King | EP |
| Khalife, Rami | Scene from Hellek | |
| Kieth Jarrett | Radiance [live] | |
| Lemon Drop Kid | Style | |
| Lucky Leo | S.O.L. | |
| Made in Mexico | Zodiac Zoo | |
| Mae | The Everglow | |
| Maximo Park | A Certain Trigger | |
| Maximo Park | Apply Some Pressure | EP |
| Mia Doi Todd | Manzanita | |
| Mice Parade | Bem-Vinda Vontade | |
| Minus the Bear | Menos El Oso | |
| Mobius Band | City Vs. Country | EP |
| Mobius Band | The Loving Sounds Of Static | |
| Murphy, Chris | Salton Songs : Electric Violin Music | |
| Nedelle | From the Lion's Mouth | |
| Nino Astronauta | San Fernando Rd. | EP |
| Niyaz | Niyaz | |
| O'Riley, Christopher | Hold me to This | |
| Pelican | The Fire in our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw | |
| Placebo | Once More With Feeling 1996-2004 | |
| Rogue Wave | Ten To 1 (10 : 1) | EP |
| Rosebuds | Birds Make Good Neighboors | |
| Sames, The | You are the Sames | |
| Saxon Shore | The Exquisite Death Of Saxon Shore | |
| Secret Machines | The Road Leads Where It's Led | EP |
| Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra | Moods and Grooves | |
| Sigur Ros | Takk… | |
| Silver Screen | The Greatest Story Never Told | |
| Silversun Pickups | Pikul | |
| Smith, Sean | Sean Smith | |
| Soundtrack of Our Lives, The | Origin, Vol. 1 | |
| Spoon | Gimme Fiction | |
| Stationary Odyssey | More or Less is More | |
| Statistics | Often Lie | |
| Stellastarr | Harmonies For The Haunted | |
| Subtractive Lad | Giving Up The Ghost | |
| Sun Kil Moon | Tiny Cities | |
| Thievery Corporation | The Cosmic Game | |
| Ticonderoga | Ticonderoga | |
| Timony, Mary | Ex Hex | |
| V/A | Army of Me : Remixes and Covers | C |
| V/A | spinART Records : The Audible Spectrum | C |
| V/A | Verve Remixed, Vol. 3 | C |
| Vannier, Jean-Claude | L' Enfant Assasin des Mouches | |
| Wax Tailor | Tales of the Forgotten Melodies | |
| Wilderness | Wilderness | |
| Xiu Xiu | La Foret | |
| ZZZZ | Palm Reader |
Note : C = Compilation
6 Comments
this post makes me feel…not stupid…but, at the very least, uninformed. i shall go to bed now, hugging my memory of your complete lack of hair (and the tonsure song i made up) to my chest as an opiate for my musical void.
Yeah, I haven’t heard most of those, but, you know, some. I thought the Wolf Parade album was the best one I heard last year. I listen to it at least once a week, and I still haven’t gotten sick of it.
From your list, I liked “Gimme Fiction” and the Fourtet album. “Menos El Oso” is my favorite album title from the list.
Is there any way I can listen to this show since I missed it on the radio?
An album I just started listening to today that I think should be on this list is The Mouse and the Mask by MF Doom and DJ Danger Mouse. It’s theme is Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. Definitely worth checking out if you haven’t yet.
On second thought…I think you were playing this album on NYE right?
A way to listen to the show. Yes, I’ll email you how.
Danger Doom doing The Mouse and The Mask, indeed I did play that on New Years and I dig it a bunch.