Sister Ray's Top 30 Records of 2005. Whaddya think?

12. FOG - 10th Avenue Freakout
13. JOSE GONZALEZ - Veneer
17. JANE - Berzerker
23. KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN - Dartmouth Street
26. MOUNT EERIE - Singers
28. ALEX UNDER - Dispositives

And the only place I ever heard of Isolee is on ILM.

Yes, it's from an e-mail recieved today . Anyone care to enlighten me as to what the second post above means? If I've stepped on someone's toes by submitting this then apologies.

still amazed how anyone can listen to A&TheJs for the duration of a whole album let alone a few minutes.

no BOC seems a surprise, for them.

lol

Jane = Panda Bear of Animal Collective + Scott Mou/DJ Casio.

xposts

Rough Trade shops top 100 List of 2005 is due this week - keep checking the website.

Unfortuantely, there are people here who think gratuitous hostility is okay. Perhaps to an asshole, everyone looks like a turd?

-- Rockist_Scientist (Al__suca...), November 21st, 2005. (RSLaRue) (later)

You forgot to say "amirite?" at the end.

The Rough Trade Shops Top 100 Albums for 2005 - Based on shop sales and staff votes.
http://www.roughtrade.com/site/chart_detail.lasso?chart_id=2005

top 20 see list

21 - 100

21 hawley, richard coles corner
22 lightning bolt hypermagic mountain
23 kuvezin, albert and yat kha re-covers
24 cocorosie noah's ark
25 the magic numbers the magic numbers
26 gorillaz demon days
27 clap your hands say yeah clap your hands say yeah
28 the shortwave set the debt collection
29 spinto band nice and nicely done
30 edan beauty and the beat
31 broadcast tender buttons
32 bunyan, vashti just another diamond day
33 king creosote rocket diy
34 the white stripes get behind me satan
35 cagedbaby will see you now
36 franz ferdinand you could have it so much better
37 eno, brian another day on earth
38 bloc party silent alarm
39 bright eyes i'm wide awake, its morning
40 lemon jelly 64 - 95
41 maximo park a certain trigger
42 sons and daughters the repulsion box
43 cary, caitlin and cockrell, thad begonias
44 babyshambles down in albion
45 coil ...and the ambulance died in his arms
46 my morning jacket z
47 british sea power open season
48 the national alligator
49 beck guero
50 clor clor
51 m ward transistor radio
52 iron and wine / calexico in the reins
53 kaiser chiefs employment
54 micah p hinson the baby and the satellite
55 psapp tiger, my friend
56 tellier, sebastien la ritournelle
57 mercury rev the secret migration
58 tunstall, kt eye to the telescope
59 the go betweens oceans apart
60 rilo kiley more adventurous
61 torrini, emiliana fisherman's woman
62 the kills no wow
63 the clientele strange geometry
64 murphy, roisin ruby blue
65 the chemical brothers push the button
66 young, neil prairie wind
67 serena maneesh serena maneesh
68 wainwright, rufus want two
69 sigur ros takk...
70 barlow, lou emoh
71 sweeney, matt and bonnie prince billy superwolf
72 taylor, chip and rodriguez, carrie red dog tracks
73 gang of four return the gift
74 the broken family band welcome home, loser
75 tunng this is...
76 rose, jack kensington blues
77 the mountain goats zopilte machine
78 nadler, marissa the saga of mayflower may
79 espers the weed tree
80 lidell, jamie multiply
81 architecture in helsinki in case we die
82 part chimp i am come
83 sleater kinney the woods
84 silva, ana da the lighthouse
85 test-icicles for screening purposes only
86 soulwax nite versions
87 joyzipper the heartlight set
88 isolee we are monster
89 smog a river ain't too much to love
90 four tet everything ecstatic
91 son volt okemah and the melody of riot
92 magnolia electric co. what comes after the blues
93 dangerdoom the mouse and the mask
94 dury, baxter floor show
95 broken social scene feel good lost
96 dungen ta det lungt
97 konono no1 congotronics
98 jones, edgar 'jones' soothing music for stray cats
99 saint etienne tales from turnpike house
100 alva noto / ryuichi sakamoto insen

1 brakes give blood
2 black mountain black mountain
3 stevens, sufjan illinoise
4 m.i.a. arular
5 lcd soundsystem lcd soundsystem
6 antony and the johnsons i am a bird now
7 king creosote kc rules ok
8 the boy least likely to the best party ever
9 swift, richard the novelist / walking without effort
10 gonzalez, jose veneer
11 russell, tom hotwalker: charles bukowski and a ballad for gone america
12 the rakes capture / release
13 two gallants the throes
14 vek, tom we have sound
15 banhart, devendra cripple crow
16 low the great destroyer
17 arcade fire funeral
18 wolf parade apologies to the queen mary
19 boards of canada the campfire headphase
20 the fall fall heads roll

some turkeys in that list

Sister Ray's a big steaming pile of crap anyway. They're ridiculously expensive and have nothing but a good location going for them.

And Sister Ray used to be a great shop about 7-8 years ago. It's really gone downhill though, as have the two Reckless Records shops which, for second-hand places are hideously expensive.

The worst for getting dates wrong though is Q who always include about 3 or 4 albums from the previous year in their Top 50...

Jaded, lazy and out of touch
Although Arcade Fire's Funeral was released in the UK in 2005 through Rough Trade, the album was originally made available in the US through Merge in mid-2004 (and the songs' publishing credits accordingly read 2004, not 2005).Similarly, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's debut was self-released this summer, though it will undoubtedly appear in 2006's end-of-year lists. While this may seem a pedantic and "indier-than-thou" point, it does reveal the UK mainstream music press's adherence to domestic release dates and promotional schedules comprised of jaded, lazy and out-of-touch scribes, waiting to quote verbatim the next hyperbole-laden press release.
DP Woodhead
St Ives, Cornwall