The 33rd P&J Albums Poll!

Several of the 2005 P&J poll pages are apparently fucked at the Voice site. Have fun trying to find anything you may or may not have voted for that year.

one of the only times on these threads that I have any desire to vote for the #1, but I'll go with the SOAD instead.

Voted for Separation Sunday then, but since I rarely listen to my most recent top tens it's hard for me to know if I've second thoughts.

Hold Steady now, Kanye then, both still great.

The top two, Seperation Sunday, The Sunset Tree and Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane are my faves from the list. Went with Arular.

Goin with Sunset Tree, which I voted for at the time, but I'm tempted to vote for Arular, which took me Kala to get into.

silent alarm.

Kanye.

M.I.A.:

Wide Right: Sleeping on the Couch (Pop Top) - One of my very favorite records of the decade. With a name like "Royanne," what else could the main character of their best song be save for a snooty guidance counselor? But the music doesn't court such fatalism. No matter how country fried the stories, this is ultimately rock and roll, each glam rock steal and Bad Company silence fueling an anger working class hero Leah Archibald means to harness as a potential transformative energy source. It makes her cover of Loretta Lynn's "The Pill" sound like the Dolls' cover of "Pills" and holds forth the promise that the Royannes of the world will one day drop their snootiness - that day when we're all clever and classless and free.

LMP: A Century of Song (Polyholiday) - If you're willing to forgive the crap tracks on 69 Love Songs, then you should grant the same leniency to this five-disc (plus one disc of outtakes!) life project where two wisenheimers record one song for each year of the 20th century. Often the styles are inappropriate to the era covered (esp. during the first half of the century). Often the choices to represent a year are perverse (esp. during the second half of the century). Detailed liners justifying (or not) each style/choice included. Worth the price of admission alone is the 1969 entry, "Hits of '69." From the liners: "The whole joke is that it seems like it's going to be a medley of well-known hits, but it progressively uses songs that would never find their way into a disco megamix." You will laugh many, many times.

Africanism Allstars: Africanism III (Tommy Boy) - I guess Orientalism was too forward. Still, I'm a sucker for this world beat-appropriating disco mix in the Kongas/Tantra mold. Never heard the first two.

Spoon Gimme ftw

M.I.A. by a longshot. I like the Konono, Jeezy, Common, & LCD albums, too, roughly in that order.

Oh, and Bettye Lavette, who I didn't see.

My top 4 at the time were, in order, M.I.A., the Hold Steady, the Mountain Goats, and Kanye West. They'd probably be in the same order now too, only with the Go-Betweens on top. So I voted M.I.A.

Yes, The Go-Betweens. A divine record. Can barely listen to them since Grant's passing. Not as difficult as listening to Nirvana, though. God does not exist.

FUCK HOW COULD I FORGET THE GO-BETWEENS?

Certainly the only album released in 2005 that gets steady rotation around these parts.

oh well -- it's not on the list. I don't need to feel guilty.

How many bands are better than The Go-Betweens? Maybe 5?

One of them is in this top ten, but for the wrong album.

antony is flattered.

Right, The New Pornographers. Twin Cinema was mildly worse than Electric Version which was mildly worse than Mass Romantic. So it's still a goddamn great record. I was stunned when I first heard it, stunned that they could keep it up at such a high level of fantastitude. But Challengers is waaaaaay worse than Twin Cinema.

I meant S-K, but I loved Twin Cinema and still think it's their best.

Lol. But I wouldn't argue with S-K either. Ok, S-K, New Porns, NY Dolls, New Order, and someone else are all better than The Go-Betweens. But that's it.

Oh yeah Roxanne Shanté.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Kanye was fourth on my list that year. It turns out it was three spots too low. One of my favorite albums EVER.

http://www.bay-of-fundie.com/img/2006/bush-kool-aid-bof.jpg

Arular, I guess.

I have no idea why the kool-aid guy has Bush's face. I didn't notice that when I posted it.

I thought it might be obscurely related to "George Bush doesn't care about black people" actually

Maybe that's it.

that's a funny jpg

Man, System of a Down /really/ didn't hold up very well, did they?

Anyway, I voted for Sufjan, and I don't care who knows it.

FUCK HOW COULD I FORGET THE GO-BETWEENS?

I was gonna say...

Where's the love for Gogol Bordello, y'all?
Where's Chuck?

it's pretty crazy that ppl are now ashamed of liking sufjan stevens.

I think they always were on this board. Still, I voted for him.

i think its pretty crazy that ppl liked him in the first place

Really? You find it surprising that Sufjan is popular?

WASHINGTON, DC - NPR® announced today that its programs have attracted record high audiences, with 19.5 million weekly listeners tuning in to NPR programming on public radio stations each week - a 19 percent increase compared with Fall 2000 figures.

: ( I only listen to it for the news, man.

I like NPR, too, I'm just saying that it shouldn't be surprising that Sufjan is popular when there's a whole demographic out there that his music is tailor-made for.

I voted for My Morning Jacket, because Z actually surprised me as being the best album of their career (you could argue for their debut, I suppose). Otherwise this year is notable for a lot of great acts bringin albums that aren't as good as their last go-around--Kanye, New Pornos, Sufjan, Spoon, Beck, White Stripes, etc. Those are albums that when I hear them, I itch to put on another album I like more.

Voted M.I.A.

Runners-up: Hold Steady, Coltrane/Monk, Jeezy, White Stripes, Franz Ferdinand, Kanye, Spoon (in more or less that order.)

Liked their EP better: Bloc Party

Should probably go back and listen to again someday: Go! Team.

Ick: Antony and the Johnsons

Actually, oops -- I obviously should have voted Hold Steady instead, like I did then, but what the heck:

1 Hold Steady, The Separation Sunday Frenchkiss 15 points
2 Lambert, Miranda Kerosene Sony Nashville 13 points
3 Carter, Deana The Story of My Life Vanguard 12 points
4 Fannypack See You Next Tuesday Tommy Boy 11 points
5 M.I.A. Arular XL 10 points
6 Bang Sugar Bang Thwak Thwak Go Crazy!! SOS 9 points
7 Lil' Wayne Tha Carter 2 Universal/Motown 9 points
8 Simpson, Ashlee I Am Me Geffen 8 points
9 Fresh, Mannie The Mind of . . . Mannie Fresh Cash Money 7 points
10 Hard Skin Same Meat Different Gravy TKO 6 points

The Carter 2 should have made the list. And I still haven't heard Miranda's debut album; although "Kerosene" was sure great--maybe even single of the year great.

it was realeased in december of that year, so if it was even eligible by deadline i doubt that many people heard it, let alone digested it and decided where it would place among albums they had lived with for months.

this is probably my favorite year of this decade for albums. maybe '03.

I like the Ying Yang Twins and Damian Marley that year a lot.

Ugh. Another boring P&J year.

I'm voting for the Trane/Monk, though it feels like a copout.

And in listening to Arular again, Galang is about the only decent thing on there. Everything else feels trite and thin.

it seems like albums take more than 2 years to sink in on the "this was definitely the best of the year" level, at least when I don't have a clear favorite on the list. maybe this is why I hardly listen to (new) albums anymore :/

Voted Arular, but if Edan or Caribou were on the list I would have voted for one of those two.

Other bands/artists who made better albums than anything on this list (aside from M.I.A.): The Black Lips, Mylo, Isolée, Sigur Ros, Queens of the Stone Age, Stephen Malkmus, Out Hud, Robyn, Quasimoto, Cam'Ron, Kelley Polar. And these are all much better albums. In fact, most of this list sounds stale two years later, especially Animal Collective, Common, Hold Steady, Kanye, and that plain stoopid DangerDoom. (At the same time, some good, if not great stuff that did make the list, like Gorillaz, Monk/Coltrane, Go! Team, Dungen, Deerhoof, and Bloc Party, which has somehow only gotten better with time).

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

haha.

thug motivation is awesome though.

grim

i voted for that for real

me too

who didnt

I voted for it.

others (with maybe some redundancies or even a couple where I got the year wrong; if so, I hereby apologize in advance):

(Various) – You Ain’t Talkin’ To Me: Charlie Poole And The Roots Of Country Music (Columbia/Legacy reissue)
Jefferson Airplane – The Essential (RCA/Legacy reissue)
(Various) – Dirty Laundry: The Soul of Black Country (Trikont reissue)
Buffalo – Volcanic Rock (Aztec reissue)
Little Big Town – The Road To Here (Equity)
(Various) – New York Noise Vol. 2 (Soul Jazz reissue)
Foxy/OXO/Company B – Ishology (Re/Empire reissue)
Desmond Dekker – You Can Get It If You Really Want: The Definitive Collection (Trojan reissue)
Gary Allan – Tough All Over (MCA Nashville)
George Brigman And Split – Jungle Rot (Bona Fide reissue)
(Various) – Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937 (Old Hat reissue)
Carrie Underwood – Some Hearts (Arista)
Faith Hill – Fireflies (Warner Bros.)
(Various) – Keats Rides A Harley (Warning Label reissue)
Optimo – Present Psyche Out (Eskimo mix album)
(Various) – New York Noise Vol. 2 (Soul Jazz reissue)
707 – Greatest Hits Live (GB Music reissue)
(Various) – New Thing! (Soul Jazz reissue)
Drunk Horse – In Tongues (Tee Pee)
Lady Sovereign – Vertically Challenged (Chocolate Industries EP)
Buck 65 – This Right Here Is (Warner Bros. reissue)
(Various) – The Rough Guide To Boogaloo (Rough Guide/World Music Network reissue)
The Electric Boogie Dawgz – Sloppy, Fast & Loud (Hooch)
(Various) – Darcy’s Wild Life (Sony BMG Strategic Marketing Group)
Roky Erickson – I Have Always Been Here Before: The Roky Erickson Anthology (Shout! Factory reissue)
Toby Keith – Honkytonk University (Dreamworks)
The Living Things – Ahead Of The Lions (Jive/Zomba)
Shooter Jennings – Put The O Back In Country (Universal South)
Novadriver – Deeper High (Small Stone)
(Various) – Grlz: Women Ahead Of Their Time (Crippled Dick Hot Wax! reissue)
Jamie O’Neal – Brave (EMI)
The Bishops – Cross Cuts (Ace/Chiswick reissue)
Robyn – Robyn (Konichiwa)
Minsk – Out Of A Center Which Is Neither Dead Nor Alive (At A Loss)
The Little River Band – The Definitive Collection (Capitol/EMI reissue)
The Tiptons – Drive (Zipa! Spoot Music)
*NSync – Greatest Hits (Jive/Zomba reissue)
Yolanda Perez – Esto Es Amor (Fonovisa/Univision)
Destiny’s Child - #1’s (Sony Urban Music/Columbia reissue)
The Mighty Jeremiahs – The Mighty Jeremiahs (Ear X-Tacy)
The Duhks – The Duhks (Sugar Hill)
Hank Davison Band – Hard Way (Elite Special)
Dierks Bentley – Modern Day Drifter (Capitol)
Hot Rollers – Got Your Number (Sweaty Betty)
Jason Moran – Same Mother (EMI)
Brooks & Dunn – Hillbilly Deluxe (Arista Nashville)
The Count Bishops – The Count Bishops (Ace/Chiswick reissue)
(Various) – Desperate Housewives (Hollywood)
Derin Dow – Retroactive (Crapshoot Music)
Buffalo – Only Want You For Your Body (Aztec reissue)
Bobby O – Outside The Inside (Radikal)
Black Lips – Let It Bloom (In The Red)
Shelly Fairchild – Ride (Columbia)
Bocephus King – All Children Believe In Heaven (Tonic)
Doomfoxx – Doomfoxx (Armageddon Music)
Todd Tamanend Clark – Nova Psychedelia: 1975-1985 (Anopheles reissue)
George Brigman And Split – I Can Heart The Ants Dancin’ (Bona Fide reissue)
Annie – Anniemal (Big Beat)
Elizabeth McQueen and the Firebrands – Happy Doing What We’re Doing (Freedom)
Odyssey Band – Back In Time (Pi)
The Ex – Singles, Period: The Vinyl Years 1980-1990 (Touch & Go reissue)
Cowboy Troy – Locomotive (Warner Bros./Raybaw)
The Birthday Massacre – Violet (Metropolis)
The Necros – Tangled Up/Live Or Else (Ryko/Restless reissue)
The Rolling Stones – A Bigger Bang (EMI)
Bobby O – Outside The Inside (Radikal)
Thomas Mapfumo – Spirits To Bite The Ears: The Singles Collection 1977-1986 (DBK Works reissue)
Riverside – Simple Life (weareriverside.com)
Early Man – Closing In (Matador)
Human Eye – Human Eye (In The Red)
Crazy Frog – Presents Crazy Hits (Universal)
Charles Lloyd – Jumping The Creek (ECM)
Brie Larsen – Finally Out Of P.E. (Casablanca)
Steve Kuhn With Strings – Promises Kept (ECM)
The Tomatoes – The Rise And Fall Of The Tomatoes (Revolution Blues)
(Various) – House You: Compiled & Mixed By DJ Cer (Moist Music mix album)
Jessica Lurie – Licorice & Smoke (Zipa!)
Lindsay Lohan – A Little More Personal (Raw) (Casablanca)
Blueprint – 1988 (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
(Various) – Kompakt: Total 6 (Kompakt)
Eyeball Skeleton - #1 (My Pal God)
Joy Lynn White – One More Time (Thortch)
(Various) – Crunk Hits (TVT)
Savage – Cold Blooded (Stratosphere)
MX-80 – We’re An American Band (Family Vineyard)
(Various) – Cameo-Parkway 1957-1967 (Abkco reissue)
Sex Slaves – Bite Your Tongue (Radical)
The Offspring – Greatest Hits (Columbia reissue)
(Various) – Chitlin Blues (Empire/Universal)
Curumin – Achados E Perdidos (Quannum Projects)
(Various) – Fonotone Sampler (Dust-To-Digital promo reissue)
Penny Dale – Undaunted (pennydale.com)
Master C&J Featuring Liz Torres – Can’t Get Enough: The Classics And More (Trax reissue)
First Band From Outer Space – We’re Only In It For the Space Rock (Transubstans)
Detroit Disciples – Saving Grace (Route 44)
The Grand Trick – The Decadent Session (Transubstans)
(Various) – Cornerstone Mixtape December 05: The Best Of 2005 (Cornerstone mix album)
TNT - All The Way To The Sun (Mayhem)
Leann Rimes – This Woman (Curb)
Glamorous Bertha Payne – Bedroom Offer (Fi-Rea EP)
Uncle Billy’s Smokehouse – Tracks (Egg)
(Various) – Cornerstone Mixtape December 05: Disc 3: The Music Meeting (Cornerstone mix album)
Candis Palmer – All Men Ain’t Dogs (Sipp V.M. EP)
The Dirty Birds – Rust & Resurrection (The Big Sleep Music)
Terri Clark – Life Goes On (Mercury)
Chelsea – Urban Kids: A Punk Rock Anthology (Castle reissue)
(Various) – Guitars Of The Golden Triangle: Folk and Pop Music Of Myanmar (Burma) Vol. 2 (Sublime Frequencies)
Jonathan Kane – February (Table Of The Elements)
Johnny Casino’s Easy Action – We’ve Forgotten More Than You’ll Ever Know (Steel Cage)
Mad Professor – Method To The Madness (Trojan reissue)
Eileen Carey – Hearts Of Time (eileencarey.com)
J.D. Blackfoot – Yellowhand (Yonder Music Ltd.)
Backbiter – Time Again/Magnet Heart Suite (Blue Mask/Blue Man From Uranus)
Alvin Youngblood Hart – Motivational Speaker (Tone-Cool/Artemis)
Keith Anderson - Three Chord Country And American Rock & Roll (Arista Nashville)
Cathedral – The Garden Of Unearthly Delights (Nuclear Blast)
Boris Kovac & La Campanella – World After History (Piranha)
Indian Jewlery – Health And Wellbeing (swarmofangels.com promo EP)
Howling Diablos – Car Wash (Alive)
Rod Lee – Operation Start-Up Vol. 1 (Club Kingz/Morphius Urban)
Candida Pax – Day (Shadoks Music/Normal reissue)
Beautiful Creatures – Deuce (Spitfire)
Pissed Jeans – Shallow (Parts Unknown EP)
(Various) – Sonic Cathedral: Sirens (soniccathedral.com/The End)
Tea Leaf Green – Taught To Be Proud (Greenhouse)
Gabriel Lopez The Bilingual Bandit – Crossing A New Frontera (Gami )
Ying Yang Twins – U.S.A. Still Reunited (TVT)
Youngbloodz – Ev’rybody Know Me (LaFace/Zomba)
Rhonda Towns – I Wanna Be Loved By You (Dawn)
Damien “Jr. Gong” Marley – Welcome To Jamrock (Tuff Gong/Universal)
The Darkness – One Way Ticket To Hell…And Back (Atlantic)
Nick Castro And The Poison Tree – Further From Grace (Strange Attractors Audio House)
Eluvium – Talk Amongst The Trees (Temporary Residence)
Dozer – Through The Eyes Of Heathens (Small Stone)
Gracie – Evolved (Range)
Angel Of Decay – Covered In Scars (Desolation House)
A-Frames – Black Forest (Sub Pop)
Dooley-O - I Gotcha (Lewis Entertainment)
Flyleaf – Flyleaf (Octone)
Bering Strait – Pages (Universal South)
Ibrahim Electric – Meets Ray Anderson (Stunt)
Heathen Shame – Speed The Parting Guest (Twisted Village)
Hurricane Mason – It’s Only Miles (DitchBoy)
The Hatepinks – Plastic Bag Ambitions (TKO)
Gogol Bordello – Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike (Side One Dummy)
Hot Apple Pie – Hot Apple Pie (Dreamworks)
Bango – Bango (Shadoks Music/Normal reissue)
Chris Cagle – Anywhere But Here (Capitol)
Legendary Moody Scott - Simply Moody: We Gotta Bust Outta The Ghetto (CDH)
Milk ‘N’ Cookies - Milk ‘N’ Cookies (RPM reissue)
Motorcycle Black Madonnas – It’s Everywhere (Blue Mask)
The Leaving Trains – Emotional Legs (Steel Cage)
F-Minus – Won’t Bleed Me/Failed Society (Alternative Tentacles)
The Smokin’ Joe Kubek Band – Best Of: Served Up Texas Style (Rounder reissue)
Jana Peri – Catching Flies With Vinegar (Hot Jupiter)
Ginger – Valor Del Corazon (Round)
Rory Gallagher – Big Guns: The Very Best Of (Capo/Sony BMG reissue)
Bill Cole & William Parker – Live At The Prism (Boxholder)
Carpet Knights – Lost And So Strange Is My Mind (Transubstans)
Asleep At The Wheel – The Very Best Of (Bismeux Productions reissue)
Bobby Bare – The Moon Was Blue (Dualtone)
Jon Nicholson – A Lil Sump’m Sump’m (Warner Bros.)
Tokyo Dragons – Give Me The Fear (Escapi Music)
The Science Fiction Idols – Diamonds And Demons (sciencefictionidols.com)
Louis XIV – The Best Little Secrets Are Kept (Pineapple/Atlantic)
The Jai Alai Savant – Thunderstatement (GSL EP)
Infidel? / Castro - Bioentripic Damage Fractal (Crucial Blast)
Miko Marks – Freeway Bound (Mirrome)
Marion Raven – Here I Am (WEA Japan)
Johanna Stahley – I’m Not Perfect (johannastahley.com/yellopop.com)
Renee’ Austin – Right About Love (Blind Pig)
The Maybelles – White Trash Jenny (Little Red Hen)
Trish Murphy – Girls Get In Free (Valley Entertainment)
Sonic Orchid – Sonic Orchid (sonicorchid.com EP)
Tumbleweed Junction – 100 Mi Of Hard Dirt Road (tumbleweedjunction.com)
Erika Jo – Erika Jo (Universal South)
Drop The Lime – This Means Forever (Tigerbeat 6)
James Carter Organ Trio – Live At The Blue Note (Half Note)
68 Fastback – Busted 4 Speed (myspace.com/68fastbackaustralia)
The Kentucky Headhunters – Big Boss Man (CBUJ)
Dsico That No-Talent Hack – City Stirs (Metal Postcard EP)
Zbigniew Karkowski – One And Many (Sub Rosa)
FM Bats – Everybody Out Shark In The Water (Vinyl Dog EP)
Dion Saluzzi – Senderos (ECM)
The Black Angels – The Black Angels (Light in the Attic EP)
The True Brothers – Wanted: Country Outlaw Tribute (Big Mama Recording Studios)
Jenni Rivera – Parrandera, Rebelde Y Atrevida (Fonovisa/Univision)
Lily Holbrook – Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt (EMI)
Eugene Chadbourne – The Hills Have Jazz (Boxholder)
Don Omar – Da Hitman Presents Reggaeton Latino (Universal/Machete)
James McMurtry – Childish Things (Compadre)
Go Betty Go – Nothing Is More (Side One Dummy)
Gang Gang Dance – God’s Money (The Social Registry)
My Morning Jacket – Z (Ato/RCA)
D.O.A. – War On 45 (Sudden Death reissue)
Anemo – Slowburn (City Canyons)
COH – 0397 Postpop (Mego)
B-Star – What We Do (Rench Audio EP)
Brewed By Noon – Brewed By Noon (Xcellar)
The Jazzabillies – Show Me: Kickin’ Western Swing (O-Tone)
Fugi – Mary, Don’t Take Me On No Bad Trip (Funy Delicacie/Tuff City reissue)
El Pus – Hoodlum Rock Vol. 1 (Virgin)
At War With Self – Torn Between Dimensions (Free Electric Sound)
Martika – Toy Soldiers: The Best Of (Columbia/Legacy reissue)
Fatty Koo – House Of Fatty Koo (DSA Label/Sony Urban/Columbia)
Abramis Brama – Nar Tystanden Lagt Sig (Transubstans)
Mardo – Mardo (House of Restitution)
CJ Sleez – Back From The Brink (Spinerazor EP)
Shiny Mama – What Comes Around Goes Around (Schismatik)

[oops, yep -- My Morning Jacket redundant for sure. Also probably not as good as I thought it was.]

Also redundant (as in on the list twice):

(Various) – New York Noise Vol. 2 (Soul Jazz reissue)

Is it my imagination, or is that a WHOLE LOT MORE records than you've posted for the other years?

Yeah--I was too lazy to trim the list down this time.

Most Known Unknown <- best album not here

I still feel that the Atmosphere and I Self Devine 2005 albums were the best CDs released by Rhymesayers up to that point, and a couple of the best CDs of the year, and neither seemed to reach or connect with critics, even previous Atmosphere voters. Could be sequencing: The second half of You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having is where all the songs are.

that I Self Divine is great, don't really like atmosphere and find it rather juvenile but ant's production (i think it was him?) on I Self's album still sounds smart. I swear he used the same sample someone used on the new Freeway.