Michael Costello's "Top 100 Albums of 2005" and "Top 10 Worse Albums of 2005"

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Top 100 Albums of 2005.

1. Sigur Rós: Takk.
2. Paul McCartney: Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.
3. Shout Out Louds: Howl Howl Gaff Gaff.
4. Acid House Kings: Sing Along With Acid House Kings.
5. Broadcast: Tender Buttons.
6. The New Pornographers: Twin Cinema.
7. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
8. Antony and the Jonsons: I Am a Bird Now.
9. Calla: Collisions.
10. John Cale: Blackacetate
11. Neil Diamond: 12 Songs
12. My Morning Jacket: Z.
13. Delia Gonzalex & Gavin Russom: The Days of Mars
14. The Quantic Soul Orchestra: Pushin' On.
15. Animal Collective: Feels
16. M.I.A.: Arular.
17. LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem.
18. Goldfrapp: Supernature.
19. The Cloud Room: The Cloud Room.
20. Eisley: Room Noises.
21. The Most Serene Republic: Underwater Cinematographer
22. The Warlocks: Surgery.
23. Devendra Banhart: Cripple Crow.
24. The White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan.
25. Franz Ferdinand: You Can Have It So Much Better With...Franz Ferdinand.
26. Babyshambles: Down in Albion.
27. We Are Scientists: With Love and Squalor.
28. Broken Social Scene: Broken Social Scene.
29. stellastarr*: Harmonies for the Haunted.
30. The Joggers: With a Cape and a Cane.
31. The Like: Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking.
32. Supergrass: Road to Rouen.
33. Missy Elliott: The Cookbook.
34. Super Furry Animals: Love Kraft.
35. Depeche Mode: Playing the Angel.
36. Oasis: Don't Believe the Truth.
37. The London Apartments: Romanticism Aside.
38. Kings of Leon: Aha Shake Heartbreak.
39. Gang Gang Dance: God's Money.
40. The German Art Students: Name-Droppers.
41. Brian Eno: Another Day on Earth.
42. YTCracker - N.E.S. (NerdRap Entertainment System).
43. Deerhoof: The Runners Four.
44. Dressy Bessy: Electrified.
45. Coldplay: X&Y.
46. Bruce Springsteen: Devils & Dust.
47. The Mars Volta: Frances the Mute.
48. And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: Worlds Apart.
49. Of Montreal: The Sunlandic Twins.
50. Idlewild: Warnings/Promises
51. Queens of the Stone Age: Lullabies to Paralyze.
52. The A-Frames: Black Forest.
53. The Juan Maclean: Less Than Human.
54. Fantômas: Suspended Animation.
55. Little Barrie: We Are Little Barrie
56. Petra Haden: Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out.
57. The Coral: The Invisible Invasion.
58. Kate Bush: Aerial.
59. Big Star: In Space.
60. The Dead 60s: The Dead 60s
61. Serena Manessh: Serena Maneesh.
62. Architecture in Helsinki: In Case We Die.
63. British Sea Power: Open Season.
64. Nikki Costa: Can'tneverdidnothin'.
65. Sufjan Steven: Illinois.
66. Kid 606: Resilience.
67. Devin Davis: Lonely People of the World, Unite!
68. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Howl.
69. Jason Forrest: Shamelessly Exciting.
70. Patrick Wolf: Wind in the Wires.
71. Sleater-Kinney: The Woods.
72. Tom Vek: We Have Sound.
73. Eels: Blink Lights and Other Revalations.
74. Sons and Daughters: The Repulsion Box.
75. The National: Alligator.
76. The Deathray Davies: The Kick and the Snare
77. The Drones: Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will float By.
78. The Fiery Furnaces: EP.
79. Low: The Great Destroyer.
80. Teenage Fanclub: Man-Made.
81. Keith Fullerton Whitman. Multiples.
82. Edan: Beauty and the Beat.
83. Spoon: Gimme Fiction.
84. Neon Blonde: Chandeliers in the Savannah.
85. Kanye West: Late Registration.
86. Roisin Murphy: Ruby Blue
87. M83: Before the Dawn Heals Us.
88. The Zincs: Dimmer.
89. Jamiroquai: Dynamite.
90. 22-20s: 22-20s.
91. The Raveonettes: Pretty in Black.
92. The Kills: No Wow.
93. Maximo Park: A Certian Trigger
94. Stephen Malkmus: Face the Truth.
95. Wilderness: Wilderness.
96. The Ponys: Celebration Castle.
97. The Duke Spirit: Cut Across the Land (w/ Bonus CD).
98. The Howling Hex: All-Night Fox.
99. Tahiti 80: Fosbury.
100. Gorillaz: Demon Days.

Top 10 Worse Albums of 2005
1. David Banner: Certified.
2. Ying Yang Twins: U.S.A. (United States of Atlanta).
3. Craig David: The Story Goes.
4. Billy Corgan: The Future Embrace.
5. Hammock: Kenotic.
6. Gogol Bordello: East Infection.
7. Kevin Blechdom: Eat My Heart Out.
8. Turbonegro: Party Animals.
9. Erasure: Nightbird.
10. Louis XIV: The Best Little Secrets Are Kept.

― MichaelCostello1, Sunday, 18 December 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

print this out and take it to your nearest record store as a guide to goodness

― gear (gear), Sunday, 18 December 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

sorry, wrong thread

― gear (gear), Sunday, 18 December 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

i wish i had time to listen to 100 records from this year

― gear (gear), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

mp3 is killing discretion

― frickin' username (fandango), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

I bought about 40% of that list.

― Michael Costello, Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm poor :-(

I still think I'd have struggled to even hear all those though. Like, actually give them the time they deserved.

― frickin' username (fandango), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

Why not Top 365?

― frickin' username (fandango), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

I listen to about 2 to 4 albums a day.

― Michael Costello, Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

I am old :|

― frickin' username (fandango), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

ive heard five of those!

― Yawn (Wintermute), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

is there a reason why the list reads like "i never listen to anything until i've been told to like it"?

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

What's the Calla like compared to their debut?

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

that calla record blows compared to the debut...

in addition:
"mp3 is killing discretion"

otm

― bobby.lasers (bobby.lasers), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

i don't think the broadcast album has aged well for me. it's not nearly as good as the last one, at least i have come lately to this opinion. but it is still getting all sorts of praise so i am probably wrong in thinking it all a bit samey.

― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 18 December 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

someone got a magnet subscription last christmas

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Monday, 19 December 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

Hey "Nightbird" is not at all bad. As a matter of fact, it is the best Erasure album since "I Say! I Say! I Say!"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 19 December 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

michael are you familiar with any music from before 2005?

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Monday, 19 December 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

I like how between 81 and 100 you get all like "Damn, how am I going to get to lay any indie chyx with my list so far? Better start appealing to them, I suppose...."

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 19 December 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

Wow, I didn't even know some of those bands had new albums this year.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 19 December 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

"between 81 and 100"

― gear (gear), Monday, 19 December 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

no okkervil = dud

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Monday, 19 December 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

That Hammock album is totally awesome. And that Billy Corgan album is much better than The Kills and Babyshambles.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Monday, 19 December 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

some of you might know that i am michael's brother.
anyway here's my crappy list that i didn't even want to make but did anyway because i have nothing else better to do.

1. Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
2. Sigur Ros - Takk...
3. Broken Social Scene
4. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
5. Hammock - Kenotic
6. Electrelane - Axes
7. MIA - Arular
8. Fantomas - Suspended Animation
9. Xiu Xiu - La Foret
10. Caribou - Milk of Human Kindness

yeah...so there's my shitty list. feel free to make fun of it.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Monday, 19 December 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

Similarly, that Ying Yang twins album is totally awesome. And that David Banner album is much better than the Missy Elliott.

x-post

― R. J. Greene, Monday, 19 December 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

So who are these Costello brothers and how many are there?

― Jena (JenaP), Monday, 19 December 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

we are well groomed gentlemen from new jersey.
on this board there are 2 of us (me and mike) but in reality there are thousands of us multiplying by the second. soon enough there will be enough of us to crush the entire band of coldplay (or U2) and urinate on their mother's hands while they cry.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Monday, 19 December 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

Lost me at 2.

― Mitya (mitya), Monday, 19 December 2005 06:27 (twenty years ago)

I like some of those and don't like others, just like any other list. What baffles me is how my number one, Okkervil River, isn't even on that list? Maybe you didn't hear it or don't like it but I think it's better than anything else I saw on that list...

― BeeOK (boo radley), Monday, 19 December 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

missed Simon H's post.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Monday, 19 December 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

You lost me at #1.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 19 December 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

It reads like Mojo and pitchfork getting together to make a list and finding common ground. Arleady mentioned, but that's a lot of music to listen to as well.

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 19 December 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

It's not really. It's just a lot of music to go to the trouble of ranking. I could probably shore up 100 albums from this year that I heard and thought were at least decent. I just don't think there's much point

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

My Top 50 EPs, lol:

1. Audion : Just Fucking
2. Jichael Mackson : Breitling Orbiter 5
3. Quiet Village Project : Can't Be Beat
4. Smackulator : Kicked Tuda Curp
5. White Light Circus : Marching Orders
6. Solieb : Plastic Facility
7. Alden Tyrell : Disco Lunar Module Superdunkel rmx
8. Aphex Twin : Run Jeremys Window Licker
9. Oliver Koletzki : Der Mückenschwarm
10. Extrawelt : Soopertrack
11. Mathew Jonson : Return Of The Zombie Bikers
12. Brightlight : Past Midnight
13. Solieb : Isotropy
14. Lifelike and Kris Menace : Discopolis
15. Carl Craig : Darkness
16. Argy : Love Dose
17. Paul Kalkbrenner : Tatü-Tata
18. The Emperor Machine : Vertical Tones & Horizontal Noise Part 1
19. T. P. Heckmann : Acid Cushion
20. Zok Zok : No. 6
21. Mathew Jonson : Marionette
22. Luciano : Bomberos
23. Butane : On the Ket
24. Legowelt : Beyond The Congo
25. Shed : Looking Back
26. DJ Koze A.K.A. Monaco Schranze / Gebrüder Teichmann : Speicher 25
27. Sleeparchive : Research
28. M.A.N.D.Y. : Jah
29. NSI : Max Binski
30. Tekel : Snake Tartare
31. Speedy J & George Issakidis : Collabs 400
32. Sad Mafioso : Je Me Souviens
33. Franklin De Costa : Karmarouge Noir One
34. Quartet : Of Love
35. Solieb : Circus Maximus
36. Motiivi : Tuntematon
37. Kiko and Gino : Electric Boy
38. Venom 18 : Mystery Organisation
39. Holz : Mein Block
40. Konrad Black : Draconia
41. Pom Pom : Pom Pom 22
42. Richard Bartz : 1000 Styles
43. P. Diddy and Felix Da Housecat : Jack U
44. Madonna : Hung Up
45. Tony Rohr : My Basement Smells Like Lesbians
46. Ricardo Villalobos : Achso
47. The Hacker : Radiation Remixes
48. Holeg Spies feat Bakxiii : Lost In Darkness
49. Tok Tok : Körperteile
50. Dave Armstrong & Redroche : Love Has Gone

― Yawn (Wintermute), Monday, 19 December 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

the Banner's better than all but maybe 2 or 3 albums on that list of 100.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Monday, 19 December 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Banner stinks

― Michael Costello, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

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