Pick only two: BANDS THAT HAVE AFFECTED YOU THE MOST IN 2005

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Animal Collective
I mean, they are the future of music. Wasn't it John Titor or whoever who said that music in 2026 would be mostly consistent of a few people gathered round the fireplace, enjoying what they played and what each other was playing?
Sung Tongs took a long time for me to get into - over a year! But now what at first sounded alien and random seems very intimate and intricate. Feels, a completely different album, is more solid and accomplished, sometimes tamer but often more beautiful than Sung Tongs.
And all I want to say is I'd be overjoyed if AC managed to top the duet with Vashti Bunyan on Prospect Hummer. Definitely their crowning achievement.

Belle And Sebastian
So as I mentioned on another thread, I avoided B&S like the plague while they were "popular". 1996 raised it's ugly head. Blur stuck their heads up their arses and Oasis turned out to be thoroughly undecent people. British music was in a temporary slump and the best we had was Kula Shaker, Space and Placebo. So no wonder I avoided B&S. Indie rock had fallen asleep.
So I read a thread, about this time last year. Someone reccomended "Sleep The Clock Around" and some unreasonable force made me download it. I listened. And wasn;t it a wonderful sound?
Since then I have slowly and surely acquired nearly their entire back catalogue. I love this band, though I'm a little late to jump on the bandwagon. If You're Feeling Sinister is an album for walking around in Hitchin in the rain on a Saturday, trying to find my friends. Dear Catastrophe Waitress was bought on my trip to Dublin in March. Boy With The Arab Strap was my cycle ride to deliver my Dad's Father's Day present. All humdrum att the end of the day, but good memories all the less.
Plus, the trumpet line in "I Love My Car"
And the guitar solo on "We Are The Sleepyheads"
The beautiful "There's Too Much Love"
All aceness!

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Saturday, 3 December 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

Off the top of my head, I'd say Fannypack and Bob Dylan.

Fannypack for winning me over to the whole MIA/Lady Sov/FP nexus of kickass lady rap/electro, and Dylan for once again winning me over with parts of his back catalog that I hadn't yet assimilated.

― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 3 December 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

new to my ears in 2006

1. Witchcraft, for restoring my faith in rock music for at least ten more years

2. Hush Arbors

― Roger (Roger Fidelity), Saturday, 3 December 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

I'm still recovering from Smash Mouth's Christmas album The Gift Of Rock

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 3 December 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

Call me slow maybe but I've just discovered 65 Days of Static. Oh man. I am loving this stuff.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 3 December 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

You know I don't mean to rain on your parade or anything, and hey if something touched you than yeah cool... but... Belle and fucking Sebastion? Come the fuck on.

― ______, Saturday, 3 December 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

DIMMU BORGIR!

fuck yas!

― Grell (Grell), Saturday, 3 December 2005 07:36 (twenty years ago)

You know I don't mean to rain on your parade or anything, and hey if something touched you than yeah cool... but... Belle and fucking Sebastion? Come the fuck on.
-- ______ (__...), December 3rd, 2005 7:02 AM.

Do you write for Pitchfork?

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Saturday, 3 December 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

The Capes!

CMJ Number #43 with a bullet!

― Hit It, Rockapella! (rockapella), Saturday, 3 December 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

New: Bloc Party. Old: Depeche Mode. Reasons: they both rule. Yay!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 December 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

richard maxfield and crazy frog

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 3 December 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Akron/Family & Alog both completely kick my ass every time i listen to them...

I've liked Alog for a while, but Miniatures rocked me like a hurricane.

― bobby.lasers, Saturday, 3 December 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

yeah Animal Collective was awesome as always. Older stuff: Charlemagne Palestine, Chrome, Harmonia/Guru Guru/Gottsching

― Rizz (Rizz), Saturday, 3 December 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Ian Matthews "Valley Hi" & "If You Saw Thro' My Eyes"

New discovery for me this year and these albums have been thoroughly satisfying all year long.

Marianas "Summering" EP
http://www.marianasmusic.com

My band, but i'm not trying to throw in a cheap advertisement (well, apart from the website link). I was immersed in these songs for most of this year and am very proud of them. So they are the answer I have to give.

― Elastique (Elastique), Saturday, 3 December 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Jessica Simpson's cover of These Boots : For a split second I thought this was the cause of my morning sickness, then I realized I was pregnant.

Tiga - You're Gonna Want Me : I'm hooked on the hook.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 3 December 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Kenny Chesneys Two Albums--i cant explain it, but there is something fascinating about the collision of private and public personae in those texts that made me realise something new about what was on the radio.

and Bruce Springsteens Nebraska, because its been a hard year, adn im on the prarie

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 3 December 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Boredoms

Sonic Boom/Spectrum

― vartman (novaheat), Saturday, 3 December 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

The Arcade Fire and The Magic Numbers, without a shadow of a doubt. They've put joy in my heart, pure and simple.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 3 December 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

I don't like music that affects me.

― ((())__, Saturday, 3 December 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Animal Collective and Buzzcocks

people need to stop talking about/trying to describe Feels, though. hearing a college radio DJ in Boulder go on about it was one of the worst things.

― lemin (lemin), Saturday, 3 December 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Van der Graaf Generator and the Mars Volta. The former for totally exploding my idea of what "prog" could be, and the latter for playing the best set of music I saw all year.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 3 December 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Spoon's "Gimme Fiction," because I'm an unabashed fan.
The Clientele "Strange Geometry" (and this might be skewed because it's a recent obsession). But after dismissing the band's first two releases, this one just seemed to find me in the right state of mind.

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Saturday, 3 December 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

M83 and section 25.

ooh, numerology.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 3 December 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

yeah M83 is totally my other vote, wow.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 3 December 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

modern: Xenomania
(runners-up: Jewels & Stone)

revive: The Montclairs
(runners-up: Dollar)

― Paul (scifisoul), Saturday, 3 December 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower

The Mint Chicks

― chad beck (chadly), Sunday, 4 December 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Jeans Team

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Sunday, 4 December 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

GO! TEAM!

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Sunday, 4 December 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

(Revealing my youth here but) Seeing as I only started listening to music seriously around the turn of this century, every year gets better and better for me in this regard. But it's been an especially incredible year for me, and for all three of my choices (can I have three?), I have the guys (and girl) at the wonderful Hyde Park Records to thank.

The Minutemen inspired me in all ways musical and not. They instilled a true sense of the DIY in me, and their music is pure nervy bliss at being alive.

Shudder to Think defied my expectations constantly. I listen to Pony Express Record and am blown away every time by Craig's voice and ability to write a hook that gets away from you and manages to come back and hit you upside the head before you can get away from it at the same time.

Wu-Tang Clan are responsible for my interest in rap. Pretty much period. Complexity and bombast that never cease to entrance me.

But this is really just the tip of the iceberg, as I have also been properly introduced to Fugazi, David Bowie, and Elton John this year as well.

End hyperbole.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Sunday, 4 December 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Guido Moebius
Nathan Michel

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Sunday, 4 December 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

Boredoms and ~~Kayo Dot~~ Soft Machine

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 4 December 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

ellen allien
imagining the music of peaches collaborating with the white stripes

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 4 December 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

Jens Lekman

Sufjan Stevens

― white boi, Monday, 5 December 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Jamie Liddell : modern soul music!!!! what a voice, wicked beats.

Surjan Stevens : the best musical arranger on the planet.

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists : Discovered them supporting Hot Snakes, lots of energy, great pop tunes. Cant get enough of it.

― Mr Monket (apn99), Monday, 5 December 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

OLD: Relevant back catalogues of John Martyn, Fairport Convention

NEU: Les Georges Leningrad, Angels of Light

― sparrow, Monday, 5 December 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Of Montreal, Sufjan Stevens, & Field Music

― darin (darin), Monday, 5 December 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

STNNNG
Bob Dylan

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 5 December 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Pet Shop Boys, Dylan, and maybe Cyndi Lauper or MIA

― dan. (dan.), Monday, 5 December 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

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