Welcome to part 6 of the best albums and songs of the '00s poll. This month we will be focusing on the year 2005.

Please submit at least 5 songs and/or albums, preferably but not necessarily with ranking, lists without ranking will get an average score of 10 points per album. The deadline is midnight on the 31st of July. For the scoring, rules and other details check here.

Please have a look at the 2004 album and song lists before voting.
You can also vote for albums and songs outside the AM top 3000.
I would appreciate if you vote in form:
rank. artist name - albums/songs name. Thanks [/quote]

Great year.

here is my album list in progress

Only 10 albums so far (stuff I've been listening to during the past 4 years)

Syd Matters is a decent French one-man indie-folk band who plays a mix of Nick Drake and Radiohead (without the genius of course)

Expect Bright Eyes to enter soon (probably at a very high rank), as well as the great and crazy Katerine and many others (R. Hawley, Sigur Ros...)

Album list in progress

Albums
It will be interesting to see how close these results are to the first AM P&J we did back at the end of 2005.

1. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
2. The Decemberists - Picaresque
3. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (Underrated Stripes album)
4. Bright Eyes - I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
5. Bruce Springsteen - Devils and Dust (My favorite of his since Tunnel of Love)
6. Anthony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
7. M.I.A. - Arular
8. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
9. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
10. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
11. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better With Franz Ferdinand
12. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
13. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
14. Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
15. My Morning Jackets - Z
16. Gorillaz - Demon Days
17. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
18. Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart
19. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
20. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak

Songs

1. M83 - Teen Angst
2. The Darkness - Dinner Lady Arms
3. Richard Hawley - The Ocean
4. Martha Wainwright - Factory
5. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - When Will You Come Back Home?
6. Pernice Brothers - Amazing Glow
7. The Rolling Stones - Let Me Down Slow
8. Ry Cooder - Soy Luz y Sombra
9. Kanye West feat. Adam Levine - Heard 'Em Say
10. Billy Corgan - Mina Loy (M.O.H.)
11. Sigur Ros - Andvari
12. Bob Mould - Underneath Days
13. Kathleen Edwards - In State
14. Josh Rouse - It's the Nighttime
15. Madonna - How High
16. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - The Hardest Part
17. Stephen Malkmus - Freeze the Saints
18. Kate Bush - How to be Invisible
19. Laura Cantrell - Bees
20. Eels - Ugly Love

21. The Game feat. 50 Cent - Westside Story
22. Daft Punk - Make Love
23. The Go-Betweens - Born to a Family
24. Brian Eno - And Then So Clear
25. Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.
26. British Sea Power - The Land Beyond
27. Opeth - Isolation Years
28. Beanie Sigel - I Can't Go On This Way
29. Bloc Party - Compliments
30. John Hiatt - Thunderbird
31. John Doe - Mama Don't
32. Antony and The Johnsons - Bird Gehrl
33. Bruce Springsteen - Matamoros Banks
34. Amadou & Mariam - Coulibaly
35. Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
36. Malcolm Middleton - Burst Noel
37. Oasis - Keep the Dream Alive
38. Nine Inch Nails - Sunspots
39. Maximo Park - Going Missing
40. Queens of the Stone Age - The Blood is Love
41. Mike Jones feat. Big Moe - Flossin'
42. Pinetop Seven - A Page from the Desert
43. The Raveonettes - Here Comes Mary
44. Neil Young - Falling Off the Face of the Earth
45. Pelican - Aurora Borealis
46. Boards of Canada - Chromakey Dreamcoat
47. Danger Doom - Basket Case
48. Foo Fighters - DOA
49. The Hold Steady - Your Little Hoodrat Friend
50. Mariah Carey feat. Snoop Dogg - Say Somethin'

Albums

1. Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
2. Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine
3. Kate Bush - Aerial
4. Antony and The Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
5. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses
6. Kanye West - Late Registration
7. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
8. The Game - The Documentary
9. Gorillaz - Demon Days
10. Billy Corgan - The Future Embrace
11. Bob Mould - Body of Song
12. The Darkness - One Way Ticket to Hell...and Back
13. Beanie Sigel - The B. Coming
14. John Hiatt - Master of Disaster
15. The Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart
16. Paul Wall - The Peoples Champ
17. Brian Eno - Another Day on Earth
18. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
19. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
20. Anthony Hamilton - Ain't Nobody Worryin'

21. Martha Wainwright - Martha Wainwright
22. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
23. Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche a Bamako
24. Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor
25. Dwight Yoakam - Blame the Vain
26. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
27. Young Jeezy - Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101
28. British Sea Power - Open Season
29. Pernice Brothers - Discover a Lovelier You
30. Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
31. Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust
32. Mike Jones - Who is Mike Jones?
33. Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth
34. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
35. John Doe - Forever Hasn't Happened Yet
36. The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
37. Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask
38. Richard Thompson - Front Parlour Ballads
39. Robbie Williams - Intensive Care
40. Black Mountain - Black Mountain
41. The National - Alligator
42. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
43. Kathleen Edwards - Back to Me
44. Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth
45. Neil Young - Prairie Wind
46. Laura Cantrell - Humming by the Flowered Vine
47. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
48. Josh Rouse - Nashville
49. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Jacksonville City Nights
50. Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (#32)
2. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (#92)
3. MIA - Arular (#171)
4. My Morning Jacket - Z (#177)
5. The National - Alligator (#231)
6. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now (#240)
7. Fiona Apple - Extraodrinary Machine (#272)
8. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production Of Eggs (#277)
9. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (#308)
10. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (#350)
11. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (#374)
12. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree (#379)
13. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
14. The Decemberists - Picaresque
15. Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
16. Wolf Parade - Apologies To Queen Mary
17. Jamie Lidell - Multiply
18. Richard Hawley - Cole's Corner
19. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
20. Deerhoof - The Runners Four

This list isn't that different from the one I had at the end of 2005. I had Wolf Parade up at #4, Architecture in Helsinki up at #7, My Morning Jacket down at #10 and Fiona Apple down at #17, but my very top hasn't changed much in six years.

Albums:
1. The National - Alligator
2. Eels Blinking - Lights And Other Revelations
3. Gorillaz - Demon Days
4. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
5. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
6. Coldplay - X&Y
7. My Morning Jacket - Z
8. Anthony And The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
9. Kanye West - Late Registration
10. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem

Songs:
1. The National - Abel
2. Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
3. Sarah Bettens - I'm Okay
4. Coldplay - Til Kingdom Come
5. Depeche Mode - Precious
6. Gorillaz - DARE
7. Coldplay - Fix You
8. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
9. Eels - Blinking Lights (For Me)
10. Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.

ALBUMS

1. CARIBOU - THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS
2. DEERHOOF - THE RUNNERS FOUR
3. SUFJAN STEVENS - ILLINOIS
4. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
5. CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH
6. RAVEONETTES - PRETTY IN BLACK
7. VITALIC - OK COWBOY
8. FIERY FURNACES - EP
9. WHITE STRIPES - GET BEHIND ME SATAN
10. KANYE WEST - LATE REGISTRATION
11. ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS - I AM A BIRD NOW
12. BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
13. DAFT PUNK - HUMAN AFTER ALL
14. ROBYN - ROBYN
15. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - FEELS
16. DEVENDRA BANHART - CRIPPLE CROW
17. VOLCANO! - BEAUTIFUL SEIZURE
18. BORIS - PINK
19. BRIGHT EYES - I'M WIDE AWAKE, IT'S MORNING
20. FRANZ FERDINAND - YOU COULD HAVE IT SO MUCH BETTER

1. Sigur Ros- Takk
2. Robyn- s/t
3. Sleater-Kinney- the Woods
4. Ladytron- Witching Hour
5. Mew- And the Glass Handed Kites
6. CSS- Cansei de Ser Sexy
7. MIA- Arular
*8. The Duke Spirit- Cuts Across the Land
9. Kate Bush- Aerial
10.Art Brut- Bang Bang Rock & Roll

*For Duke Spirit's Cuts Across the Land AMG has it released in 04, Wikipedia has it as 05 and Metacritic has it as 06. I hope it was 05 or even 06. I hate to have left a terrific underrated album like theirs out of my BEST OF 04 LIST or whatever year it came out.

Just saw Amadou & Mariam's Dimanche A Bamako appearing on several lists. I know that on most sites it's listed as a 2005 release. However, it came out first in France on Because Records in 2004.
The same counts for the Konono No.1 album. First issued by the Belgian Crammed Discs company, also in 2004.

When it comes to MGMT, I am going to be voting for them in the year Oracular Spectacular came out.

Songs:

1 . Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
2 . Gorillaz - DARE
3 . Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life
4 . Madonna - Hung Up
5 . Kanye West - Gold Digger
6 . LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing at My House
7 . M.I.A. - 10 Dollar
8 . Amerie - 1 Thing
9 . The Game feat. 50 Cent - Hate It or Love It
10 . Gorillaz - Feel Good, Inc.
11 . Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
12 . Röyksopp - What Else Is There
13 . Antony & The Johnsons - Hope There's Someone
14 . Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor
15 . LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations
16 . Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
17 . Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To
18 . Four Tet - Smile Around the Face
19 . The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize
20 . Low - Monkey

Songs:

1. Strapping Young Lad – Imperial
2. Sufjan Stevens – Jacksonville
3. Neil Young – The Painter
4. Richard Hawley – The Ocean
5. Edan – Making Planets feat. Mr Lif
6. Nathan Fake – The Sky Was Pink (James Holden remix)
7. Dolly Parton – Both Sides Now
8. Hans Peter Lindström – I Feel Space
9. Madonna – Hung Up (Durkin mix)
10. Mr. Bungle – Pink Cigarette
11. Neil Young – It’s A Dream
12. Teenage Fanclub – Falling Leaves
13. Spoon – I Summon You
14. Ladytron – Destroy Everything You Touch
15. Porcupine Tree – Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
16. Go-Betweens – Darlinghurst Nights
17. Ulver – Blinded By Blood
18. Sufjan Stevens – John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
19. Chemical Brothers – Galvanize
20. Sebastien Tellier – La Ritournelle
21. Neil Young – Prairie Wind
22. Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
23. Guillemots – Trains To Brazil
24. Extrawelt – Soopertrack
25. Sufjan Stevens – Chicago
26. Meshuggah – In Death - Is Life
27. Meshuggah – In Death – Is Death



Albums:

1. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
2. Neil Young – Prairie Wind
3. Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
4. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
5. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – Cold Roses

My 10th song entry (Pink Cigarette) is from 1999...

I find Sleater-Kinney very irritating (at least the first song).
Someday you'll have to tell me why you like such a noisy agression. I just can't stand it. I know I sound like an old grandpa (and i don't give a damn) but seriously, I wonder why people like to be hurt by noise and screams. Do you want to be punished for your sins or what ?
That's my problem with punk/hardcore.

By this year I was starting to find many pop singles heavily online.

The 2004/5 version of CSS's Let's Make and Listen to Death From Above... was this different than the later version?

Albums-

1. Sufjan Stevens- Illinois
2. Kanye West- Late Registration
3. M.I.A.- Arular
4. LCD Soundsystem- LCD Soundsystem
5. Gorillaz- Demon Days
6. Antony and the Johnsons- I Am a Bird Now
7. Bright Eyes- I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
8. Bloc Party- Silent Alarm
9. My Morning Jacket- Z
10. Franz Ferdinand- You Could Have It So Much Better

Songs-

1. Kanye West- Gold Digger
2. Arctic Monkeys- I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
3. Madonna- Hung Up
4. Amerie- 1 Thing
5. Franz Ferdinand- Do You Want To
6. Gorillaz- Feel Good Inc.
7. LCD Soundsysem- Daft Punk Is Playing at My House
8. The Game (featuring 50 Cent)- Hate It Or Love It
9. Sufjan Stevens- Chicago
10. Sufjan Stevens- Casimir Pulaski Day
11. Antony and the Johnsons- Hope There's Someone
12. Gorillaz- DARE
13. The White Stripes- My Doorbell
14. Sufjan Stevens- John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
15. Kanye West- Gone
16. CSS- Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
17. LCD Soundsystem- Tribulations
18. Editors- Munich
19. Justice- Waters of Nazareth
20. Spoon- I Turn My Camera On

Albums:

1. Pernice Brothers - Discover a Lovelier You
2. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
3. of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
4. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
5. Goldfrapp - Supernature
6. Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth
7. Hockey Night - Keep Guessin'
8. Robyn - Robyn
9. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
10. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
11. DANGERDOOM - The Mouse and the Mask
12. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
13. Against Me! - Searching for a Former Clarity
14. The Decemberists - Picaresque
15. Beck- Guerolito
15. M.I.A. - Arular
16. Jim Noir- Tower of Love
17. Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
18. Kelley Polar - Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens
19. Kanye West - Late Registration

Albums

[01] Edan | Beauty and The Beat
[02] Kanye West | Late Registration
[03] Sufjan Stevens | Illinois
[04] Sleater-Kinney | The Woods
[05] Deerhoof | The Runners Four
[06] Konono No. 1 | Congotronics
[07] Boris | Pink
[08] Amadou and Mariam | Dimanche & Bamako
[09] Gang Gang Dance | God's Money
[10] Dave Holland Big Band | Overtime
[11] Kate Bush | Aerial
[12] Sunn 0))) | Black One
[13] The Clientele | Strange Geometry
[14] Super Furry Animals | Love Kraft
[15] Broadcast | Tender Buttons
[16] Gorillaz | Demon Days
[17] British Sea Power | Open Season
[18] Lightning Bolt | Hypermagic Mountain
[19] My Morning Jacket | Z
[20] Eels | Blinking Lights and Other Revelations


Songs

[01] Lindstrøm | I Feel Space
[02] Kanye West feat. Consequence and Cam'ron | Gone
[03] Amerie | 1 Thing
[04] Edan feat. Mr. Lif | Making Planets
[05] The Clientele | Since K Got Over Me
[06] Super Furry Animals | Zoom!
[07] Boris | Farewell
[08] Boards of Canada | Dayvan Cowboy
[09] Gnarls Barkley | Crazy
[10] British Sea Power | True Adventures
[11] Sufjan Stevens | Casimir Pulaski Day
[12] Sleater-Kinney | The Fox
[13] Deerhoof | Running Thoughts
[14] CSS | Let's Make Love and Listen To Death From Above
[15] Kate Bush | Sunset
[16] Gang Gang Dance | Glory In Itself/Egyptian
[17] Konono No. 1 | Masikulu
[18] Dave Holland Big Band | The Monterey Suite: I. Bring It On
[19] Amadou and Mariam | La Réalité
[20] Sufjan Stevens | Chicago
[21] Edan | Rock and Roll
[22] The New Pornographers | The Bleeding Heart Show
[23] Kanye West | Diamonds From Sierra Leone
[24] Amon Tobin | The Lighthouse
[25] Sunn 0))) | It Took The Night To Believe
[26] The King Khan & BBQ Show | Love You So
[27] Antony and The Johnsons | Hope There's Someone
[28] Vitalic | La Rock 01
[29] The Fall | Blindness
[30] Ricardo Villalobos | Sieso
[31] Gorillaz feat. De La Soul | Feel Good Inc.
[32] Common | The Corner
[33] Girls Aloud | Biology
[34] Sufjan Stevens | Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, IL
[35] The Fiery Furnaces | Here Comes The Summer
[36] Broadcast | Corporeal
[37] Isolée | Schrapnell
[38] Sigur Rós | Glósóli
[39] Three 6 Mafia | Stay Fly
[40] LCD Soundsystem | Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
[41] Robyn | Be Mine!
[42] Eels | Things The Grandchildren Should Know
[43] The White Stripes | My Doorbell
[44] Spoon | I Turn My Camera On
[45] My Morning Jacket | Off the Record
[46] Animal Collective | The Purple Bottle
[47] The National | Mr. November
[48] Sleater-Kinney | Entertain
[49] Lightning Bolt | Dead Cowboy
[50] Mercury Rev | Vermillion

It's true that the more you listen to a good album, the better it gets. But it's hard for me going at SK a second time when at first I thought they wanted to harm my ears and brain
It's like kids : once you've put your fingers in the plug, you don't do it again
As I can't listen to every album, I usually listen to the first 2 tracks and 2 other tracks in the middle (as if there was an A and B side). Then if I like it I listen to the whole album.
Here I couldn't go past the 3rd track. So maybe I stumbled over the most aggressive tracks of "The Woods", or are there more melodic songs deprived of screams and harcore distortred guitars ?

Screaming and off-key guitar riffs, when executed right, can contain more emotional energy than more pop oriented melodies.

Also, I think when you're used to hearing the same chord progressions over and over, something totally out of left field is welcome to the ears.

Although that particular album took a little while to grow on me. Anyway, try Modern Girl, I think its track 5. It's more melodic.

I guess I stumbled over the wrong (i.e. most abrasive) songs. "Jumper" isn't bad at all. And even the first track after a second listen, gets better. I might have over reacted too soon. I can hear the melody and feel the energy behind the noise now.
I'm a bit nervous these days : I have taken the decision to quit my job in August to go free lance. So now I'm in the office with not much motivation and a strange feeling of mixed relief and expectation for the future.
Just like a prisoner who knows that he'll be out in a few weeks.

New Songs list, sans "Crazy":

[01] Lindstrøm | I Feel Space
[02] Kanye West feat. Consequence and Cam'ron | Gone
[03] Amerie | 1 Thing
[04] Edan feat. Mr. Lif | Making Planets
[05] The Clientele | Since K Got Over Me
[06] Super Furry Animals | Zoom!
[07] Boris | Farewell
[08] Boards of Canada | Dayvan Cowboy
[09] British Sea Power | True Adventures
[10] Sufjan Stevens | Casimir Pulaski Day
[11] Sleater-Kinney | The Fox
[12] Deerhoof | Running Thoughts
[13] CSS | Let's Make Love and Listen To Death From Above
[14] Kate Bush | Sunset
[15] Gang Gang Dance | Glory In Itself/Egyptian
[16] Konono No. 1 | Masikulu
[17] Dave Holland Big Band | The Monterey Suite: I. Bring It On
[18] Amadou and Mariam | La Réalité
[19] Sufjan Stevens | Chicago
[20] The New Pornographers | The Bleeding Heart Show
[21] Edan | Rock and Roll
[22] Kanye West | Diamonds From Sierra Leone
[23] Amon Tobin | The Lighthouse
[24] Sunn 0))) | It Took The Night To Believe
[25] The King Khan & BBQ Show | Love You So
[26] Antony and The Johnsons | Hope There's Someone
[27] Vitalic | La Rock 01
[28] The Fall | Blindness
[29] Ricardo Villalobos | Sieso
[30] Gorillaz feat. De La Soul | Feel Good Inc.
[31] Common | The Corner
[32] Girls Aloud | Biology
[33] Sufjan Stevens | Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, IL
[34] The Fiery Furnaces | Here Comes The Summer
[35] Broadcast | Corporeal
[36] Isolée | Schrapnell
[37] Sigur Rós | Glósóli
[38] Three 6 Mafia | Stay Fly
[39] LCD Soundsystem | Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
[40] Robyn | Be Mine!
[41] Eels | Things The Grandchildren Should Know
[42] The White Stripes | My Doorbell
[43] Spoon | I Turn My Camera On
[44] My Morning Jacket | Off the Record
[45] Animal Collective | The Purple Bottle
[46] The National | Mr. November
[47] Sleater-Kinney | Entertain
[48] Lightning Bolt | Dead Cowboy
[49] Mercury Rev | Vermillion
[50] Madonna | Hung Up

Yes, nicolas, good luck with the change in your career. I only know you through your posts on AM but something tells me you'll be absolutely fine.

As for Sleater-Kinney, the insightful comments by others following your initial post is making me listen to The Woods again. Because OMFG I couldn't make myself listen to a whole album of such horrible screeching noise on first attempt. But as always there are people on this forum with convincing opposing arguments, so I'm giving it another shot.

While we're talking about The Woods, I'll add that I was also unimpressed with this album on first listen until I got to "Jumpers." The run of songs from "Jumpers" on is excellent and has put this in top 5 of the year territory for me. I've also gone on an SK kick the last couple of days and bought the album One Beat, which I voted for back in 2002. This band is really good, and it's too bad they stopped while still in their prime.

For me, The Woods was Sleater Kinney's worst album by a long shot, but the critics don't agree. If it wasn't for One Beat, I'd call SK overrated, but One Beat is so good, that it justifies their entire career for me.

I liked One Beat immediately the first time I heard it, whereas it took me a little time to like The Woods. Those two are easily my favorite S-Ks.

Songs:

1. LCD Soundsystem- Tribulations
2. Beck- Hell Yes (Guerolito remix)
3. Lindstrøm- I Feel Space
4. Clientelle- Since K Got Over Me
5. Sufjan Stevens- John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
6. M83- Don't Save Us From the Flames
7. Ladytron- Destroy Everything You Touch
8. Tegan and Sara- Walking With a Ghost
9. Goldfrapp- Ooh La La
10. Antony and The Johnsons- Hope There's Someone
11. Paul McCartney- Jenny Wren
12. Madonna- Hung Up
13. Sufjan Stevens- Chicago
14. Death Cab For Cutie- Soul Meets Body
15. System of a Down- BYOB
16. Spoon- I Turn My Camera On
17. The Game feat. 50 Cent- Hate It or Love It
18. LCD Soundsystem- Daft Punk Is Playing at My House
19. Imogen Heap- Hide and Seek

Albums 2005:

01. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM-LCD Soundsystem
02. SUFJAN STEVENS-Illinoise
03. SYSTEM OF A DOWN-Mesmerize
04. MAXÏMO PARK-A Certain Trigger
05. The NATIONAL-Alligator
06. NEW PORNOGRAPHERS-Twin Cinema
07. VENETIAN SNARES-Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett
08. ANTONY & THE JOHNSTONS-I Am A Bird Now
09. The EDITORS-The Back Room
10. BLACK EYED PEAS-Monkey Business
11. KID 606-Resilience
12. ROSETTA-The Galilean Satellites
13. KANYE WEST-Late Registration
14. DOZER-Through The Eye Of Heathens
15. CADENCE WEAPON-Breaking Kayfabe
16. BROADCAST-Tender Buttons
17. EPHEL DUATH-Pain Necessary To Know
18. COCOROSIE-Noah's Ark
19. SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS-Naturally
20. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE-Feels
21. DEAD MEADOW-Feathers
22. VITALIC-OK Cowboy
23. KOENJI HYAKKEI-Angherr Shisspa
24. The KILLS-No Wow
25. ELECTRIC MASADA-At The Mountains Of Madness
26. HIGH ON FIRE-Blessed Black Wings
27. ELBOW-Leaders Of The Free World
28. JAMIE LIDELL-Multiply
29. EDAN-Beauty And The Beat
30. KORPIKLAANI-Voice Of Wilderness
31. DEVENDRA BANHART-Cripple Crow
32. WOLF PARADE-Apologies To The Queen Mary
33. CHARMING HOSTESS-Punch
34. VARIOUS ARTISTS-Run The Road
35. The MARS VOLTA-Frances The Mute
36. VEX'D-Degenerate
37. The BOOKS-Lost And Safe
38. MISSY ELLIOTT-The Cookbook
39. PSYCLON 9-I.N.R.I.
40. ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO-Anthem Of The Space
41. FRANZ FERDINAND-You Could Have It So Much Better
42. LIGHTNING BOLT-Hypermagic Mountain
43. XAVIER RUDD-Food In The Belly
44. BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE-Broken Social Scene
45. GOGOL BORDELLO-Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
46. DÄLEK-Absence
47. The DECEMBERISTS-Picaresque
48. 65DAYSOFSTATIC-One Time For All Time
49. PATRICK WOLF-Wind In The Wires
50. ROBYN-Robyn



Individual Songs 2005:

01. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM-TRIBULATIONS (from LCD Soundsystem-Pop/Electronica)
02. SYSTEM OF A DOWN-B.Y.O.B. (from Mesmerize-Metal)
03. SUFJAN STEVENS-THEY ARE NIGHT ZOMBIES! THEY ARE NEIGHBORS! (from Illinoise-Singer/songwriter)
04. ARCTIC MONKEYS-I BET YOU LOOK GOOD ON THE DANCEFLOOR (single-Pop/Rock)
05. SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS-HOW DO I LET A GOOD MAN DOWN? (from Naturally-R&B/Soul)
06. NEW PORNOGRAPHERS-FALLING THROUGH YOUR CLOTHES (from Twin Cinema-Pop/Rock)
07. The EDITORS-MUNICH (from The Back Room-Pop/Rock)
08. SKREAM-MIDNIGHT REQUEST LINE (single-Electronica/Dubstep)
09. ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS-MAN IS THE BABY (from I Am A Bird Now-Pop/Rock)
10. TARANTELLA-ESQUELETOS (from Esqueletos-Pop/Rock)

11. The KILLS-LOVE IS A DESERTER (from No Wow-Pop/Rock)
12. MAXÏMO PARK-ONCE, A GLIMPSE (from A Certain Trigger-Pop/Rock)
13. ULVER-FOR THE LOVE OF GOD (from Blood Inside-Pop/Rock)
14. BLACK EYED PEAS-DON'T LIE (from Monkey Business-Hiphop/Pop)
15. VENETIAN SNARES-ÖNGYILKOS VASÁRNAP (from Rossz Csillag Alatt Született-Electronica)
16. The NATIONAL-BABY, WE'LL BE FINE (from Alligator-Pop/Rock)
17. VARIOUS PRODUCTION-HATER (single-Electronica/Dubstep)
18. M.I.A.-PULL UP THE PEOPLE (from Arular-Electronica)
19. KORPIKLAANI-COTTAGES & SAUNAS (from Voice Of Wilderness-Metal)
20. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM-DAFT PUNK IS PLAYING AT MY HOUSE (from LCD Soundsystem-Pop/Electronica)

21. The GAME-RUNNIN' (from The Documentary-Hiphop)
22. WOLFMOTHER-WOMAN (from Wolfmother-Pop/Rock)
23. MISSY ELLIOTT-CAN'T STOP (from The Cookbook-Hiphop)
24. KID 606-KING OF HARM (from Resilience-Electronica)
25. DOZER-DRAWING DEAD (from Through The Eye Of Heathens-Metal)
26. MALCOLM MIDDLETON-BREAK MY HEART (from Into The Woods-Pop/Rock)
27. GORILLAZ-KIDS WITH GUNS (from Demon Days-Pop/Electronica)
28. OKKERVIL RIVER-FOR REAL (from Black Sheep Boy-Pop/Rock)
29. ROSETTA-DÉPARTE (from The Galilean Satellites-Metal)
30. KANYE WEST-MY WAY HOME (from Late Registration-Hiphop)

31. BLACK MOUNTAIN-DON'T RUN OUR HEARTS AROUND (from Black Mountain-Pop/Rock)
32. XAVIER RUDD-POCKETS OF PEACE (from Food In The Belly-Singer/songwriter)
33. The HOLD STEADY-STEVIE NIX (from Separation Sunday-Pop/Rock)
34. HIGH ON FIRE-DEVILUTION (from Blessed Black Wings-Metal)
35. CADENCE WEAPON-OLIVER SQUARE (from Breaking Kayfabe-Hiphop)
36. BROADCAST-I FOUND THE F. (from Tender Buttons-Pop/Rock)
37. VITALIC-NEWMAN (from OK Cowboy-Electronica/Techno)
38. KOENJI HYAKKEI-ANGHERR SHISSPA (from Angherr Shisspa-Prog/Experimental)
39. ART BRUT-MODERN ART (ALBUM VERSION) (from Bang Bang Rock & Roll-Pop/Rock)
40. CARIBOU-YETI (from The Milk Of Human Kindness-Pop/Rock)

41. SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS-MY MAN IS A MEAN MAN (from Naturally-R&B/Soul)
42. PSYCLON 9-THE FEEBLE MIND (from INRI-Pop/Electronica)
43. DEVENDRA BANHART-LONG HAIRED CHILD (from Cripple Crow-Singer/songwriter)
44. The EDITORS-LIGHTS (from The Back Room-Pop/Rock)
45. BEANIE SIGEL-PURPLE RAIN (from The B. Coming-Hiphop)
46. The BOOKS-BE GOOD TO THEM ALWAYS (from Lost And Safe-Pop/Rock)
47. ELBOW-FORGET MYSELF (from Leaders Of The Free World-Pop/Rock)
48. QUANTIC SOUL ORCHESTRA-HOLD ON TIGHT (from Pushin' On-Dance)
49. VIRUS SYNDICATE-SLOW DOWN (single-Hiphop/Grime)
50. COCOROSIE-BEAUTIFUL BOYZ (from Noah's Ark-Pop/Rock)

51. NEW PORNOGRAPHERS-TWIN CINEMA (from Twin Cinema-Pop/Rock)
52. JAMIE LIDELL-A LITTLE BIT MORE (from Multiply-Pop/Electronica)
53. EPHEL DUATH-NEW DISORDER (from Pain Necessary To Know-Metal/Experimental)
54. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE-GRASS (from Feels-Pop/Rock)
55. 65DAYSOFSTATIC-RADIO PROTECTOR (from One Time For All Time-Pop/Rock)
56. LOVE IS ALL-TALK TALK TALK (single-Pop/Rock)
57. SYSTEM OF A DOWN-VIOLENT PORNOGRAPHY (from Mermerize-Metal)
58. CHARMING HOSTESS-TORSO (from Punch-Pop/Rock)
59. VEX'D-GUNMAN (from Degenerate-Electronica/Dubstep)
60. WOLF PARADE-FANCY CLAPS (from Apologies To The Queen Mary-Pop/Rock)

61. SUFJAN STEVENS-THE TALLEST MAN, THE BROADEST SHOULDERS (from Illinoise-Singer/songwriter)
62. The BUDOS BAND-EASTBOUND (from The Budos Band-Dance)
63. DEAD MEADOW-FEATHERS (from Feathers-Pop/Rock)
64. The MARS VOLTA-CYGNUS...VISMUND CYGNUS (from Frances The Mute-Pop/Rock)
65. DATAROCK-FA FA FA (from Datarock Datarock-Pop/Electronica)
66. JOHN DOE-THE LOSING KIND (from Forever Hasn't Happened Yet-Pop/Rock) Also member of punklegends X.
67. MAXÏMO PARK-GOING MISSING (from A Certain Trigger-Pop/Rock)
68. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE-YOU GOT A KILLER SCENE THERE, MAN! (from Lullabies To Paralyze-Pop/Rock)
69. The JUAN MACLEAN-SHINING SKINNED FRIEND (from Less Than Human-Pop/Electronica)
70. SCARY KIDS SCARING KIDS-THE ONLY MEDICINE (from The City Sleeps In Flames-Punk)

71. SIGUR RÓS-GONG (from Takk-Pop/Rock)
72. CLIPSE-HATE IT OR LOVE IT (from We Got It Cheap vol. 2-Hiphop)
73. CRACOW KLEZMER BAND-PAGIEL (from Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass-World/Yiddish)
74. BRENDAN BENSON-SPIT IT OUT (from The Alternative To Love-Pop/Rock)
75. BLOC PARTY-LUNO (from Silent Alarm-Pop/Rock)
76. DIGITAL MYSTIKZ-NEVERLAND (single-Electronica/Dubstep)
77. The KING KHAN & B.B.Q. SHOW-WADDLIN' AROUND (from The King Khan & BBQ Show-Pop/Rock)
78. BOARDS OF CANADA-CHROMAKEY DREAMCOAT (from The Campfire Headphase-Electronica)
79. The DUKE SPIRIT-LION RIP (from Cut Across The Land-Pop/Rock)
80. GOGOL BORDELLO-I WOULD NEVER WANNA BE YOUNG AGAIN (from Gypsy Punks-World/Folk)

81. 50 CENT-SO AMAZING (from The Massacre-Hiphop)
82. The CRIBS-MIRROR KISSERS (from The New Fellas-Pop/Rock)
83. TASSEL & NATUREL-IT'S LIKE THIS (from Fillet Of Soul, Opus 2-Electronica)
84. MARTHA WAINWRIGHT-BLOODY MOTHER FUCKING ASSHOLE (from Martha Wainwright-Singer/songwriter)
85. ELECTRIC MASADA-LILIN (from At The Mountains Of Madness-Experimental) John Zorn's outfit.
86. SAGE FRANCIS-SLOW DOWN GANDHI (from A Healthy Mistrust-Hiphop)
87. C.C.S.-SUPERAFIM (from Cansei De Ser Sexy-Pop/Rock)
88. ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS-HOPE THERE'S SOMEONE (from I Am A Bird Now-Pop/Rock)
89. BENJAMIN HERMAN-DURBAN POISON (single-Dance/Fusion)
90. BLACK ANGELS-MANIPULATION (single-Pop/Rock)

91. DEERHOOF-SCREAM TEAM (from The Runners Four-Pop/Rock)
92. KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN-STEREO MUSIC FOR YAMAHA DISKLAVIER, ELECTRIC GUITAR & COMPUTER (from Multiples-Experimental)
93. O.K. GO-HERE IT GOES AGAIN (from Oh No!-Pop/Rock)
94. PATRICK WOLF-THIS WEATHER (from Wind In The Wires-Pop/Rock)
95. EDAN-FUMBLING OVER WORDS THAT RHYME (from Beauty And The Beat-Hiphop)
96. NOEL GILPIN EMPORIUM-WILL YOU MISS ME WHEN I'M DEAD (from Sugar Lumps-Pop/Rock)
97. STEREOPHONICS-DAKOTA (from Language. Sex. Violence. Other?-Pop/Rock)
98. !T.O.O.H.!-ANALÝZA ZÁHNEDY (from Rád A Trest-Metal)
99. FAT FREDDY'S DROP-HOPE (ALBUM VERSION) (from Based On A True Story-Pop/Electronica)
100. The GOSSIP-STANDING IN THE WAY OF CONTROL (single-Pop/Rock)

101. ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO-POPPY ROCK (from Anthem Of The Space-Pop/Rock)
102. AKRON/FAMILY-RUNNING, RETURNING (from Akron/Family-Pop/Rock)
103. KELLEY POLAR-MY BEAUTY IN THE MOON (from Love Songs Of The Hanging Gardens-Electronica/Club)
104. BRIGHT EYES-LAND LOCKED BLUES (from I'm Wide Awake It's Morning-Pop/Rock)
105. ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO-HELL IS WHERE THE HEART IS (from Satyriasis-Pop/Rock)
106. DURRTY GOODZ-GIMMIE DAT (from Run The Road-Hiphop/Grime)
107. The WHITE STRIPES-LITTLE GHOST (from Get Behind Me Satan-Pop/Rock)
108. TOBY DRIVER-EPTACEROS (from In The L..L..Library Loft-Rock/Experimental)
109. FIELD MUSIC-LUCK IS A FINE THING (from Field Music-Pop/Rock)
110. FRANZ FERDINAND-EVIL AND A HEATHEN (from You Could Have It So Much Better-Pop/Rock)

111. LEFTIES SOUL CONNECTION-SLING SHOT (single-Dance)
112. SIEBEN-OGHAM THE KNOWLEDGE (from Ogham In The Night-Singer/songwriter)
113. M83-DON'T SAVE US FROM THE FLAMES (from Before The Dawn Heals Us-Pop/Rock)
114. RICHMOND FONTAINE-EXIT 149B (from The Fitzgerald-Pop/Rock)
115. SKREAM-ANGRY (single-Electronica/Dubstep)
116. BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE-7/4 (from Broken Social Scene-Pop/Rock)
117. BORIS-PINK (from Pink-Rock/Experimental)
118. OTIS TAYLOR-HOOKERS IN THE STREET (from Below The Fold-Blues)
119. EARTH-AN INQUEST CONCERNING TEETH (from Hex: Or Printing In The Infernal Method-Pop/Rock)
120. M. WARD-FOUR HOURS IN WASHINGTON (from Transistor Radio-Singer/songwriter)

121. OPETH-GHOST OF PERDITION (from Ghost Reveries-Metal)
122. SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE-HOME (from School Of The Flower-Pop/Rock)
123. DÄLEK-EYES TO FORM SHADOWS (from Absence-Hiphop)
124. The DECEMBERISTS-THE INFANTA (from Picaresque-Pop/Rock)
125. SKALPEL-FLYING OFFICER (from Konfusion-Fusion)
126. JOHN TEJADA-PARANOIA (single-Electronica/Techno)
127. ROBYN-CRASH AND BURN GIRL (from Robyn-Pop)
128. WHY?-CRUSHED BONES (from Elephant Eyelash-Pop/Rock)
129. LIGHTNING BOLT-2 MORRO MORRO LAND (from Hypermagic Mountain-Experimental)
130. JOSH ROUSE-CAROLINA (from Nashville-Singer/songwriter)

131. ALICIA KEYS-IF I AIN'T GOT YOU (LIVE) (from Unplugged-R&B/Soul)
132. QUASIMOTO-TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS (from The Further Adventures Of Lord Quas-Hiphop)
133. GANG GANG DANCE-EGO WAR (from God's Money-Pop/Experimental)
134. The CLIENTELE-SINCE 'K' GOT OVER ME (from Strange Geometry-Pop/Rock)
135. MY MORNING JACKET-WORDLESS CHORUS (from Z.-Pop/Rock)
136. KID 606-SPANISH SONG (from Resilience-Electronica)
137. The MAGIC NUMBERS-MORNINGS ELEVENS (from The Magic Numbers-Pop/Rock)
138. JACK JOHNSON-CRYING SHAME (from In Between Dreams-Singer/songwriter)
139. NINE HORSES-ATOM AND CELL (from Snow Borne Sorrow-Pop/Rock) Sideproject by David Sylvian.
140. SUNNO)))-CURSED REALMS (from Black One-Rock/Experimental)

141. OASIS-THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING IDLE (from Don't Believe The Truth-Pop/Rock)
142. DISTANCE-1 ON 1 (single-Electronica/Dubstep)
143. ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI-NEVEREVEREVERDID (from In Case We Die-Pop/Rock)
144. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM-ON REPEAT (from LCD Soundsystem-Pop/Electronica)
145. AUDIOSLAVE-YOUR TIME HAS COME (from Out Of Exile-Pop/Rock)
146. WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE-MIDNIGHT (from Ashes To Dust-Singer/songwriter)
147. GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT-FIRE FLIES AND EMPTY SKIES (from All Is Violent, All Is Bright-Pop/Rock)
148. SPOON-THE INFINITE PET (from Gimme Fiction-Pop/Rock)
149. MATIAS AGUAYO-DE PAPEL (from Are You Really Lost?-Electronica/Techno)
150. DARK SPACE-DARK 2.8 (from Dark Space II-Metal/Experimental)

151. INTERPOL-NOT EVEN JAIL (DANIEL KESSLER REMIX) (single-Pop/Rock)
152. JAGA JAZZIST-OSLO SKYLINE (from What We Must-Electronica/Fusion)
153. The BRAVERY-FEARLESS (from The Bravery-Pop/Rock)
154. BAÏKONOUR-PROTO COEUR (from For The Lonely Hearts Of The Cosmos-Pop/Rock)
155. KAISER CHIEFS-EVERYDAY I LOVE YOU LESS AND LESS (from Employment-Pop/Rock)
156. 13 & GOD-TIN STRONG (from 13 & God-Pop/Electronica)
157. DIGITALISM-ZDARLIGHT (single-Electronica)
158. MERCURY REV-VERMILLION (from The Secret Migration-Pop/Rock)
159. WE vs. DEATH-WAVE GOODBYE (from Postneoliberalparadise-Pop/Rock)
160. ROOTS MANUVA-CHIN HIGH (from Awfully Deep-Hiphop)

161. DIRTY PROJECTORS-TOUR ALONG THE POTOMAC (from The Getty Adress-Pop/Rock)
162. SMOG-ROCK BOTTOM RISER (from A River Ain't Too Much To Love-Singer/songwriter) Smog = Bill Callahan.
163. PLATNUM-DRINK MY WINE (from Rock Me-Electronica)
164. CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH-OVER AND OVER AGAIN (from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah-Pop/Rock)
165. JOAKIM-TEENAGE KISS (VOCAL MIX) (single-Electronica)
166. TAPES 'N TAPES-INSISTOR (from The Loon-Pop/Rock)
167. COLDPLAY-LOW (from X & Y-Pop/Rock)
168. GOTH TRAD-SPACE WALK (from Mad Raver's Dancefloor-Electronica/Dubstep)
169. BRAZILIAN GIRLS-HOMME (from Brazilian Girls-Pop/Rock)
170. FOUR TET-SUN DRUMS AND SOIL (from Everything Ecstatic-Electronica)

171. PELICAN-RED RAN AMBER (from The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Law-Rock/Metal)
172. EARTHLESS-FLOWER TRAVELIN' MAN (from Sonic Prayer-Pop/Rock)
173. DEVENDRA BANHART-LAZY BUTTERFLY (from Cripple Crow-Singer/songwriter)
174. TRENTEMØLLER-SUNSTROKE (single-Electronica/Techno)
175. :OF THE WAND & THE MOON:-MY BLACK FAITH (from Sonnenheim-Pop/Rock)
176. MEW-WHY ARE YOU LOOKING GRAVE? (from And The Glass Handed Kites-Pop/Rock)
177. BABYSHAMBLES-FUCK FOREVER (from Down In Albion-Pop/Rock)
178. FANTÔMAS-04/03/05 SUNDAY (from Suspended Animation-Metal)
179. INFIDEL?/CASTRO!-DAMAGE FRACTAL SERIES 1: DISMANTLE (from Bio Entropic Damage Fractal-Experimental)
180. APHEX TWIN-WHERE'S YOUR GIRLFRIEND? (single-Electronica/Techno)

Albums:

1. Gorillaz - Demon Days
2. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
3. Madonna - Confessions on a Dancefloor
4. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
5. Clor - Clor
6. Sigur Ros - Takk
7. Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
8. Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary
9. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
10. New Order - Waiting for the Sirens' Call
11. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
12. Goldfrapp - Supernature
13. Girls Aloud - Chemistry
14. Ladytron - Witching Hour
15. Vive la Fete - Grand Prix
16. Echo and the Bunnymen - Siberia

songs... what a great song year... mostly because of so many great albums!

1. SUFJAN STEVENS - CASIMIR PULASKI DAY
2. CARIBOU - BARNOWL
3. CARIBOU - A FINAL WARNING
4. KANYE WEST - GONE
5. VITALIC - LA ROCK 1
6. VITALIC - MY FRIEND DARIO
7. ROBYN - BE MINE
8. AMERIE - 1 THING
9. CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH - UPON THIS TIDAL WAVE OF YOUNG BLOOD
10. DEERHOOF - WRONG TIME CAPSULE
11. MY MORNING JACKET - OFF THE RECORD
12. SUFJAN STEVENS - CHICAGO
13. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - DAFT PUNK IS PLAYING AT MY HOUSE
14. ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS - HOPE THERE'S SOMEONE
15. RAVEONETTES - TWILIGHT
16. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - TRIBULATIONS
17. CARIBOU - BRAHMINY KITE
18. DEERHOOF - YOU CAN SEE
19. SUFJAN STEVENS - JACKSONVILLE
20. DEERHOOF - SPIRIT DITTIES OF NO ONE

I see a lot of votes for Robyn's Robyn album. I want to give it love, too, but I was hoping to include it for 2007, when it included the massive "With Every Heartbeat". What say you, Petri?

About "John Wayne Gacy Jr" have you read this ?
Absolutely fascinating...

Yes, Nic, non-Americans like us knew very little about this serial killer before Sufjan's song.
By the way, nicolas, I wish you the best of luck with your new job.

Strange that Sufjan isn't mentioned in such a lengthy article.

I've looked into this and the mention of the song has been removed on obscure grounds (see the discussion page in Wikipedia ). This is what I found : (sorry but for the caps, I copy pasted it)

(quote)
A recently added "In Music" section with info about the Sufjan Stevens song "John Wayne Gacy Jr" from the album Illinois has been removed. I see a comment at the top of the page reading:

DO NOT ADD "TRIVIA", "IN POPULAR CULTURE", OR "MEDIA" SECTIONS TO THIS ARTICLE. HE'S A CONVICTED KILLER, PEOPLE, NOT SOMETHING TO BE CELEBRATED WITH TRIVIALITIES. THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE ENTRIES WOULD BE NON-FICTION FILMS, BOOKS OR TELEVISION SPECIALS, OR SONGS THAT HE WROTE HIMSELF. REFERENCES IN A SONG BY BANDS OR SONGWRITERS, OTHERWISE UNRELATED TELEVISION SHOWS SUCH AS THE SIMPSONS WILL BE REMOVED WITHOUT FURTHER DISCUSSION (end of quote)

That is stupid I guess.

So Mindrocker you didn't include Amadou and Mariam in your 2005 list as well ? it could have helped the album, although I doubt it will pass anyway.

NOT SOMETHING TO BE CELEBRATED WITH TRIVIALITIES

Maybe they are afraid of the victims' families possible actions against them ??
But otherwise that is mere censorship.

Albums:

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2. The National - Alligator
3. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
4. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
5. Sigur Rós - Takk
6. Tom McRae - All Maps Wellcome
7. Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust

I thought I did my Wikipedia research on the songs on OK Cowboy and must have missed that.

Was La Rock 1 a different version back in 2001 or the exact same.

Was My Friend Dario a 2005 single?

My favourite live album from one of the best live bands of this moment, at #1:

* Albums

1. Wilco - Kicking Television: Live in Chicago
2. Josh Rouse - Nashville
3. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
4. Decemberists - Picaresque
5. Editors - The Back Room
6. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
7. Eels - Blinking Lights And Other Revelations
8. Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
9. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses
10. National - Alligator
11. Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now
12. Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche A Bamako
13. My Morning Jacket - Z
14. Kent - Du Och Jag Döden
15. Ane Brun - A Temporary Dive
16. Kraftwerk - Minimum-Maximum
17. Martha Wainwright - Martha Wainwright
18. Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die
19. Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
20. Richard Hawley - Coles Corner

Not eligible, but pretty good EP's:
Iron & Wine - Woman King (would have been #4)
Iron & Wine / Calexico - In The Reins (#19)

I'm voting for Kids now, not later:

* Songs

1. Eels - Trouble With Dreams
2. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
3. Decemberists - 16 Military Wives
4. Ane Brun - To Let Myself Go
5. MGMT - Kids
6. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Magnolia Mountain
7. Tracy Chapman - Change
8. Rifles - Peace And Quiet
9. Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To
10. Josh Rouse - Sad Eyes
11. LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations
12. She Wants Revenge - Sister
13. Editors - Blood
14. Antony & The Johnsons - Hope There's Someone
15. Iron & Wine - Evening On The Ground (Lilith's Song)
16. Mary Gauthier - Wheel Inside The Wheel
17. Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
18. Editors - Munich
19. Go-Betweens - Here Comes A City
20. Mystery Jets - You Can't Fool Me Dennis

Songs of 2005:

1 : Matisyahu : King Without a Crown [Live at Stubb's] : Video
2 : Franz Ferdinand : Eleanor Put Your Boots On : Video
3 : Bonobo : Nothing Owed [Live] : Video
4 : The Mitchell Brothers : Alone With The TV : Video
5 : Arctic Monkeys : I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor :
6 : Dengue Fever : One Thousand Tears of a Tarantula : Video
7 : 65daysofstatic : Drove Through Ghosts to Get Here : Video
8 : Buck 65 : Blood Of A Young Wolf : Video
9 : Sufjan Stevens : Chicago :
10 : Jean Grae : It's a Wrap : Video
11 : Jackson And His Computer Band : Rock On : Video
12 : Antony & The Johnsons : For Today I Am a Boy :
13 : Gorillaz : Feel Good Inc. :
14 : David Fenech : La Boum 2005 :
15 : Konono Nº1 : Paradiso : Video
16 : Mia Doi Todd : Casa Nova : Video
17 : Steve Spacek : Dollar : Video
18 : U.S.E. (United State Of Electronica) : It Is On! :
19 : CocoRosie : Beautiful Boyz : Video
20 : Lil' Wayne : Hustler Musik :

21 : Mount Eerie : Uh Oh! It's Morning Time Again :
22 : Buck 65 : Devil's Eyes :
23 : Herman Düne : Not On Top :
24 : Madonna : Hung up :
25 : Animal Collective : Grass :
26 : Bell Orchestre : Salvatore Amato :
27 : Eviatar Banai : Tipa Shel Or :
28 : The Dead 60s : Soul Survivor :
29 : Fiona Apple : Tymps (The Sick in the Head Song) :
30 : Bettye Lavette : Little Sparrow :
31 : M. Ward : Hi Fi :
32 : Kanye West : Gone :
33 : Kanye West : Diamonds from Sierra Leone :
34 : Neon Blonde : Headlines :
35 : Gilad Kahana : Noar :
36 : Super Numeri : The Chart :
37 : Bright Eyes : First Day of My Life :
38 : Acoustic Ladyland : Iggy :
39 : Suburban Kids With Biblical Names : Loop Duplicate My Heart :
40 : Mazarin : Another One Goes By :
41 : Acoustic Ladyland : Deckchair :
42 : Frida Hyvönen : I Drive My Friend :
43 : Electric Masada : Idalah-Abal :
44 : Kammerflimmer Kollektief : Lichterloh :
45 : A Hawk And A Hacksaw : The Moon Under Water :
46 : Mia Doi Todd : The Way :
47 : Antony & The Johnsons : You Are My Sister :
48 : Animal Collective : Banshee Beat :
49 : Brazilian Girls : Don't Stop :
50 : Redrama : I Don't Know What to Tell You :
51 : Burial : South London Boroughs :
52 : The Welfare Poets : These Times :
53 : Shout Out Louds : Wish I Was Dead :
54 : The Game : Hate It Or Love It :
55 : Edan : Making Planets :
56 : From Monument To Masses : The Quiet Before :
57 : Lou Rhodes : Tremble :
58 : Devendra Banhart : Hey Mama Wolf :
59 : Two Gallants : Las Cruces Jail :
60 : Silver Jews : Sometimes a Pony Gets Depressed :
61 : Kanye West : Touch the Sky :
62 : The Budos Band : Up From The South :
63 : The Legendary K.O. : George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People :
64 : Nortec Collective : Tengo La Voz :
65 : Tocotronic : Aber hier leben, nein danke :
66 : Mac Dre & Mac Mall : Dredio :
67 : Laura Veirs : Galaxies :
68 : Paul Kalkbrenner : Gebrünn Gebrünn :
69 : Venetian Snares : Hajnal :
70 : Spoon : I Summon You :
71 : Kate Bush : King of the Mountain :
72 : International Pony : Our House :
73 : Three 6 Mafia : Stay Fly :
74 : Broadcast : Black Cat :
75 : Common & The Last Poets : The Corner :
76 : Edan : Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme :
77 : Kanye West : Gold Digger :
78 : Ramses Revolution : In Control :
79 : Los Siquicos Litoralenos : Necesita Ecualizacion :
80 : My Morning Jacket : Off the Record :
81 : Justice : Waters Of Nazareth :
82 : The Fiery Furnaces : The Wayward Granddaughter :
83 : Adolf Noise : Zuviel Zeit! :
84 : Immortal Technique : Bin Laden :
85 : Boards Of Canada : Dayvan Cowboy :
86 : The Kills : The Good Ones :
87 : Out Hud : It's For You :
88 : Vapnet : Kalla Mig :
89 : Editors : Munich :
90 : The New Pornographers : Sing Me Spanish Techno

Ok, 3 albums left to listen, but here are already my songs vote, no new song could enter this top 20 in the span of 10 days :

1. Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is out to get us
2. Animal Collective - Banshee Beat
3. Wolf Parade - I'll Believe in Anything
4. Gorillaz - El Mañana
5. Queens of the Stone Age - I Never Came
6. Tapes'n Tapes - Insistor
7. Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
8. Animal Collective - The Purple Bottle
9. Kanye West - Gone
10. Boris - Farewell
11. Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass
12. Architecture in Helsinki - The Cemetary
13. Subways, The - Oh Yeah
14. Rakes, The - Binary Love
15. LCD Soundsystem - Great Release
16. Robyn - Be Mine
17. Architecture in Helsinki - Do The Whirlwind
18. Kanye West - Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix) (Feat. Jay-Z)
19. Electrelane - Eight Steps
20. Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr

30 bubbling under :

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Will You Smile Again ?
Amerie - 1 Thing
Architecture in Helsinki - Maybe You Can Owe Me
Boris - Pink
Camille - Vertige
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Is This Love ?
CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
Edan - Torture Chamber
Foo Fighters - Best of You
Gorillaz - Dare
Gorillaz - Every Planet We Reach Is Dead
Kill the Young - Fragile
LCD Soundsystem - Movement
Les Fatals Picards - Quoi encore ?
M.I.A. - 10 Dollar
Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure
Millencolin - Farewell My Hell
Rakes, The - Retreat
Robyn - Who's That Girl
Robyn - Konichiwa Bitches
Subways, The - Somewhere
Subways, The - Mary
Sufjan Stevens - They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From The Dead!!
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
System of a Down - Question!
The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize
Vitalic - My Friend Dario
Vitalic - No Fun
Vitalic - La Rock 01
We Are Scientists - Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt

Comments on some of my top 10 songs :

Banshee Beat / Purple Bottle : with Of Montreal's "The Past is a Grotesque Animal" those are my favorite cryptic lyrics of the 2000s. As strange as they are, I find them great and universal : Purple Bottle is, still in term of lyrics, one of my very favorite love songs, it is pure, simple and direct :
For instance :
"Make me sick, sick, sick to kiss you
And I think that I woud vomit
But I'll do that on Mondays, I don't have a work way"
I just find that wonderful...
Musically Banshee Beat is slightly better, despite the awesome drum work on Purple Bottle. Banshee Beat sounds like a pond making music, which is strange but great. And it's a great song about breaking-up and moving on.

I'll Believe in Anything :
I'm not a big fan of Wolf Parade, but this song is a wonder, it never is as it seems. Could sound depressing but ends uplifting, really dissonant but still beautiful, really a (slightly) hidden gem of the decade.

Farewell :
Is this a great opener or not : on the one hand it is by far for me the best song to open an album this year, but it does not reflect at all the music of its album. Anyway, it is one of the most haunting and heavy song of the decade, without any of the big riffs and drums of the rest of the album. Sort of Sigur Ros meets drone-metal, plain magic.

Insistor : In a list full of twisted or dark songs, this catchy sing-along retro song with a stomping beat and intense vocal performance is a breath of fresh air. After that the album came as a big letdown, but this remains as a glowing success.

ALBUMS:

1. SUFJAN STEVENS "Illinoise"
2. ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS "I Am a Bird Now"
3. RICHARD HAWLEY "Coles Corner"
4. BRIGHT EYES "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning"
5. THE DECEMBERISTS "Picaresque"
6. RY COODER "Chávez Ravine"
7. AMADOU & MARIAM "Dimanche à Bamako"
8. KANYE WEST "Late Registration"
9. GORILLAZ "Demon Days"
10. DEVENDRA BANHART "Cripple Crow"
11. VASHTI BUNYAN "Lookaftering"
12. MARY GAUTHIER "Mercy Now"
13. MY MORNING JACKET "Z"
14. SR. CHINARRO "El fuego amigo"
15. REFREE "La matrona"
16. NACHO VEGAS "Desaparezca aquí"
17. JOSH ROUSE "Nashville"
18. E.S.T. "Viaticum"
19. ALI FARKA TOURÉ & TOUMANI DIABATÉ "In the Heart of the Moon"
20. THE WHITE STRIPES "Get Behind Me Satan"
21. THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS "Twin Cinema"
22. BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE "Broken Social Scene"
23. FIONA APPLE "Extraordinary Machine"
24. M.I.A. "Arular"
25. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM "LCD Soundsystem"

SONGS:

1. SUFJAN STEVENS "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." (#49 in my all-time list)
2. MARY GAUTHIER "I Drink" (2005 version)
3. BRIGHT EYES "Old Soul Song (For the New World Order)"
4. RICHARD HAWLEY "Coles Corner"
5. ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS "Hope There's Someone"
6. REFREE "La reina de les neus"
7. DEVENDRA BANHART "Santa Maria de Feira"
8. SUFJAN STEVENS "Chicago"
9. MADONNA "Hung Up"
10. KANYE WEST featuring JAY-Z "Diamonds From Sierra Leone"
11. GORILLAZ featuring NENEH CHERRY "Kids With Guns"
12. M.I.A. "Pull Up the People"
13. AMADOU & MARIAM "Coulibaly"
14. RY COODER "Chinito Chinito"
15. RICHARD HAWLEY "The Ocean"
16. THE DECEMBERISTS "16 Military Wives"
17. ARCTIC MONKEYS "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"
18. THE WHITE STRIPES "Blue Orchid"
19. GOLDFRAPP "Ooh La La"
20. BRIGHT EYES "First Day of My Life"
21. SUFJAN STEVENS "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us"
22. VASHTI BUNYAN "If I Were"
23. COCOROSIE "Noah's Ark"
24. ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS "Fistful of Love"
25. SR. CHINARRO "El peor poema"
26. SLEATER-KINNEY "Jumpers"
27. CSS "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above"
28. ROBYN "Be Mine!"
29. AMERIE "1 Thing"
30. KANYE WEST featuring JAMIE FOXX "Gold Digger"
31. GORILLAZ featuring DE LA SOUL "Feel Good Inc."
32. SÉBASTIEN TELLIER "La Ritournelle"
33. RICHARD HAWLEY "Hotel Room"
34. CLEM SNIDE "End of Love"
35. JOSH ROUSE "Winters in the Hamptons"
36. LORI MEYERS "El aprendiz"
37. MY MORNING JACKET "Wordless Chorus"
38. THE DECEMBERISTS "Infanta"
39. SUFJAN STEVENS "Casimir Pulaski Day"
40. ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS "Spiralling"
41. DEVENDRA BANHART "I Feel Just Like a Child"
42. EDITORS "Munich"
43. FRANZ FERDINAND "Do You Want To"
44. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House"
45. DAMIAN MARLEY "Welcome to Jamrock"
46. SÓLO LOS SOLO "Todo el mundo lo sabe"
47. KANYE WEST featuring LUPE FIASCO "Touch the Sky"
48. AMADOU & MARIAM "La realité"
49. SALIF KEITA "Yambo"
50. ALI FARKA TOURÉ & TOUMANI DIABATÉ "Ai Ga Bani"

FAVOURITE COMPILATION: FABRIZIO DE ANDRÉ "In direzione ostinata e contraria"


The Spotify link for the songs list

Making those yearly lists I realized that many of my choices were singer-songwriters, while previously I could have expected a lot of pop bands filling my lists. So it seems that I prefer "singer-songwriters" to "musicians", in fact all my favourite artists could fit in a broad concept of "singer-songwriter" that could include Prince, Kurt Cobain, Kanye West or David Bowie. After all they all "sing" the songs they "wrote". Moreover, and taking the argument to the limit, I don't really believe in rock bands. Most of them are a singer-songwriter backed by some friends (the best bands like the Beatles are lucky to have two singer-songwriters instead of one). Do you really think that the Stones would have been a significantly different band with, let's say, Chas Chandler instead Bill Wyman?
But this is another debate. We all know what we're talking about when we talk about "singers-songwriters". You know, confessional tone, spare backing and well-crafted lyrics in the best-case scenario. This style has shown its ability to evolve in time and adapt to the sensibilities of different generations. That's the case of Refree, the solo project of Raül Fernández. Raül began in the late 1990s playing in indie pop and post-rock bands singing in English like Corn Flakes, Romodance or Élena. Raül launched his solo project in 2002 with his album "Quitamiedos" ("Guardrails", 2002), mixing Spanish and English and introducing singer-songwriter moods without abandoning his post-rock style. His second album, "Nones" ("Odds", 2003) was his great leap forward, holding without complexes a more pure singer-songwriter style (with jazz, pop and post-rock influences), showing his sensitive side and introducing Catalonian (his native language) along with Spanish. His inventiveness as a musician also led him to work with many artists as collaborator, arranger or producer, including Josh Rouse, Fernando Alfaro, El Hijo, Aroah, Nacho Umbert, Roger Mas or Las Migas.
I've selected the song "La reina de les neus" ("The Snow Queen") from his third album, "La matrona" ("The Midwife", 2005), a quite enigmatic song with lyrics based in the fairy tale by Hans Chrstian Andersen. But Xavier Cervantes from Rockdelux dared to interprete the lyrics in the key of drug addiction: "Fairy tales are not what they seem. Not even the ones by Hans Christian Andersen, from whose melancholic Snow Queen Raül Fernández writes a song non rethoric about heroin. About a junkey artist that justifies his mistakes with song names?". This last question mark leaves the meaning open to interpretation, since I've (tried to) translate the lyrics now it's up to you. And what about the music? Well, just listen to the delicate music box that dominates the song, the horn and string quartet arrangements, the pa-pa-ra-ra backing vocals. Contemporary and classic sounds for the new singer-songwriters.



LA REINA DE LES NEUS
Composer: Raül Fernández
Performer: REFREE
First release: 2005 ("La matrona" album)
Length: 4'30"

Penso en veure'l despert,
sé que no és gran cosa,
potser si no mirem serà capaç de respirar
sota el gel.

Ja fa un temps que és menys gran
no sé si li van perdre
una edat a la meitat d'un dia que no era seu,
potser d'un vers.

Quan l'escolto no em sap greu
que sigui un pèl més alt,
que tingui un vidre mig clavat a la retina
i que les mans que no sap on posar
justifiquin els errors amb el nombre de cançons
que troben i perden.

Que tant se val si més tard
vindran mesos amb erra
i ens tindran esperant que el dia sigui un xic més llarg
potser demà.

Quan l'escolto no en sap greu
que sigui un pèl més alt,
que tingui una vidre mig clavat a la retina
i que les mans, que no sap on posar,
desconeguin els carrers i la forma dels diners
que troben i perden.

Pa pa ra raa
Pa pa ra ra ra ra ra raa
Pa pa ra ra ra ra ra raa

I busca pels racons
històries mortes dels herois
mentre jeu
amb la reina de les neus.


THE SNOW QUEEN

I think of seeing him awake,
I know it's not too much,
maybe if we don't look he would be able to breathe
under the ice.

For some time now he's younger,
I don't know if they lose one of his ages
in the middle of a day that it was not his,
maybe from a verse.

When I listen to him I don't mind
that he may be a little taller,
that he may have a glass half stuck in his retina
and that the hands he don't know what to do with
could justify the mistakes with the number of songs
found and lost.

It doesn't matter if later
the months with 'R' will come
and we will wait for the day to be a little longer,
maybe tomorrow.

When I listen to him I don't mind
that he may be a little taller,
that he may have a glass half stuck in his retina
and that the hands he don't know what to do with
don't know the streets and the shape of the money
found and lost.

Pa pa ra raa
Pa pa ra ra ra ra ra raa
Pa pa ra ra ra ra ra raa

And he seeks on the corners
dead stories from the heroes
while he lies
with the snow queen.



Great video too:



The rest of the Spanish Top 5 of 2005:
2. SR. CHINARRO "El peor poema": Screams that break the glass / It would be easier to change the subject / in the worst poem.
3. LORI MEYERS "El aprendiz": Sometimes loneliness doesn't matter / if I only can look inside your dreams.
4. SÓLO LOS SOLO "Todo el mundo lo sabe": They came so hip that you can't resist / the ryhthm grabs you and leaves you shattered.
5. JOAN MIQUEL OLIVER "Surfistes en càmera lenta": Surfers in slow motion / slipping over the ocean.

I love that song, Honorio. It will be in my song list

It's beautiful, isn't it?
Merci nicolas

Yes, it's one of the songs I really liked in the Spanish comp you gave me. thanks for that

Albums:
1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2. Why? - Elephant Eyelash
3. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
4. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
5. Arab Strap - The Last Romance
6. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
7. Malcolm Middleton - Into the Woods
8. The National - Alligator
9. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
10. Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
11. Buck 65 - Secret House Against the World
12. Tarwater - The Needle Was Travelling
13. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
14. Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
15. The Rakes - Capture/Release
16. Editors - The Back Room
17. Camille - Le fil
18. Cansei de Ser Sexy - CSS
19. CocoRosie - Noah's Ark
20. Stuart A. Staples - Lucky Dog Recordings 03-04

Songs:
1. Sole - Dumb This Down
2. Sufjan Stevens - Jacksonville
3. LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations
4. Malcolm Middleton - Solemn Thirsty
5. Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
6. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
7. Art Brut - Emily Kane
8. Why? - Sanddollars
9. The National - Baby We'll Be Fine
10. Why? - Rubber Traits
11. Why? - Fall Saddles
12. LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
13. Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
14. Editors - Munich
15. Camille - Pâle septembre
16. CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above
17. Buck 65 - Blood Of A Young Wolf
18. Buck 65 - Devil's Eyes
19. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
20. Wolf Parade - Shine a Light

TOP 20 ALBUMS:

1. |Hard-Fi -- Stars of CCTV
2. |Jack Johnson -- In Between Dreams
3. |Nine Inch Nails -- With Teeth
4. |Death Cab For Cuties -- Plans
5. |Bloc Party -- Silent Alarm
6. |Common -- Be
7. |Kaiser Chiefs -- Employment
8. |Gorillaz -- Demon Days
9. |White Stripes -- Get Behind Me Satan
10.|Kanye West -- Late Registration
11.|Depeche Mode -- Playing The Angel
12.|Coldplay X&Y
13.|Foo Fighters -- In Your Honor
14.|Garbage -- Bleed Like Me
15.|The Bravery -- The Bravery
16.|Dropkick Murphys -- The Warriors Code
17.|New Order -- Waiting For The Sirens Call
18.|M.I.A. -- Arular
19.|My Morning Jacket - Z
20.|Bruce Springsteen -- Devils & Dust

TOP 100 SONGS:

1. The Cardigans | I Need Some Fine Wine And You, You Need To Be Nicer
2. Dropkick Murphys | I’m Shipping Up To Boston
3. Death Cab For Cutie | Soul Meets Body
4. Damian Marley | Welcome To Jamrock
5. Stereophonics | Dakota
6. Depeche Mode | Precious
7. Gorillaz | Feelgood Inc.
8. The Chemical Brothers | Galvanize
9. Jack Johnson | Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
10. The Mars Volta | The Widow
11. Amerie | 1 Thing
12. Hard-Fi | Hard To Beat
13. M83 | Don’t Save Us From The Flames
14. Coldplay | Fix You
15. Kanye West | Touch The Sky
16. Nine Inch Nails | The Hand That Feeds
17. Common | Go!
18. M.I.A. | Bucky Done Gun
19. LCD Soundsystem | Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
20. White Stripes | Blue Orchid
21. Editors | Munich
22. New Order | Krafty
23. Bright Eyes | Easy/Lucky/Free
24. Franz Ferdinand | Do You Want To
25. Weezer | This Is Such A Pity
26. Foo Fighters | Cold Day In The Sun
27. Garbage | Why Do You Love Me
28. Jack Johnson | Good People
29. Death Cab For Cutie | I Will Follow You Into The Dark
30. We Are Scientists | It’s A Hit
31. Bloc Party | Helicopter
32. Gorillaz | DARE
33. OK Go | Here It Goes Again
34. The Bravery | An Honest Mistake
35. Kanye West | Diamonds From Sierra Leone
36. Bloc Party | Like Eating Glass
37. Beck | E-Pro
38. Common | Testify
39. Dropkick Murphys | Tessie
40. White Stripes | The Denial Twist
41. Fiona Apple | Not About Love
42. Hard-Fi | Cash Machine
43. M83 | Teen Angst
44. The Cardigans | Don’t Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds)
45. System Of A Down | B.Y.O.B.
46. Death Cab For Cutie | Crooked Teeth
47 Hot Hot Heat | Goodnight, Goodnight
48. Nine Inch Nials | Everyday Is Exactly The Same
49. M.I.A. | Sunshowers
50. Royksopp | What Else Is There?
51. The National | Secret Meeting
52. My Morning Jacket | Off The Record
53. Rihanna | Pon De Replay
54. Motley Crue | If I Die Tomorrow
55. Panic! At The Disco | The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage
56. New Order | Guilt Is An Useless Emotion
57. Oasis | Lyla
58. Anberlin | Paperthin Anthem
59. Beck | Girl
60. Queens Of The Stone Age | Little Sister
61. The Chemical Brothers | Believe
62. Doves | Black And White Town
63. Foo Fighters | Best Of You
64. Gorillaz | Kids Weith Guns
65. Starsailor | In The Crossfire
66. Garbage | Sex Is Not The Enemy
67. Kaiser Chiefs | Modern way
68. David Gray | The One I Love
69. Coldplay | The Hardest Part
70. Madonna | Hung Up
71. Bloc Party | So Here We Are
72. Common | The Corner
73. LCD Soundsystem | Tribulations
74. Hard-Fi | Living For The Weekend
75. White Stripes | My Doorbell
76. The National | Abel
77. Snoop Dogg | Signs
78. Death Cab For Cutie | Summer Skin
79. HIM | Wings Of A Butterfly
80. Kanye West | Gold Digger
81. Nine Inch Nails | The Line Begins To Blur
82. Shakira | Hips Don’t Lie
83. Jack Johnson | Better Together
84. Oasis | The Importance Of Being Idle
85. Weezer | We Are All On Drugs
86. Damian Marley & Nas | Road To Zion
87. Spoon | Sister Jack
88. Gorillaz | El Manana
89. Dropkick Murphys | Sunshine Highway
90. We Are Scientists | Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt
91. Okkervil River | For Real
92. INXS | Afterglow
93. Stereophonics | Superman
94. The Darkness | One Way Ticket
95. Unwritten Law | Save Me (Wake Up Call)
96. Foo Fighters | DOA
97. Editors | All Sparks
98. Audioslave | Your Time Has Come
99. 10 Years | Wasteland
100. Supergrass | St. Petersburg

It's been a hectic couple of weeks, moving and my computer died, but it's good to be back in the poll.

Songs
01 , Antony and the Johnsons , Hope There's Someone
02 , Game, The , Hate It or Love It
03 , Sigur Rós , Hoppípolla
04 , M.I.A. , Bucky Done Gun
05 , Robyn , Be Mine
06 , Damien Marley , Welcome to Jamrock
07 , Gorillaz , Feel Good Inc.
08 , Sufjan Stevens , Chicago
09 , Kanye West , Gold Digger
10 , Lil Wayne , Fireman
11 , Three 6 Mafia , Stay Fly
12 , Jack's Mannequin , Holiday From Real
13 , 50 Cent , Just a Little Bit
14 , White Stripes, The , Blue Orchid
15 , Death Cab For Cutie , I Will Follow You into the Dark
16 , Nine Inch Nails , The Hand That Feeds
17 , Kanye West , Diamonds From Sierra Leone
18 , Amerie , 1 Thing
19 , Coheed & Cambria , Welcome Home
20 , Arctic Monkeys , I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor

Albums
01 , Jack's Mannequin , Everything in Transit
02 , Antony and the Johnsons , I Am a Bird Now
03 , M.I.A. , Arular
04 , LCD Soundsystem , s.t.
05 , Robyn , s.t.
06 , Kanye West , Late Registration
07 , Gorillaz , Demon Days
08 , White Stripes, The , Get Behind Me Satan
09 , R. Kelly , Trapped in the Closet
10 , Sufjan Stevens , Illinoise

I liked the music on Illinoise a lot, but I found many of lyrics to be annoying.

Thanks Andre
Yes, I'll try to lend an ear to the decembersits although my wishlist is very full.

Another thing "La Ritournelle" by Sébastien Tellier is from 2003. It was first issued on the album Politics that year. Just check on RYM.

ALBUMS
1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
3. Kanye West - Late Registration
4. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
5. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
6. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
7. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
8. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
9. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
10. M.I.A. - Arular

SONGS
1. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
2. Kanye West - Gold Digger
3. Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
4. LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk is Playing at My House
5. Sleater-Kinney - The Fox
6. Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
7. The New Pornographers - The Bleeding Heart Show
8. The Hold Steady - Your Little Hoodrat Friend
9. Kanye West - Roses
10. The New Pornographers - Stacked Crooked

Could be my personal favorite year in albums ever...

Albums
1. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
2. Jenny Wilson - Love and Youth
3. Paavoharju - Yhä hämärää
4. Animal Collective - Feels
5. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
6. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
7. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
8. Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering
9. Gang Gang Dance - God's Money
10. Sigur Rós - Takk...
11. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - Horses in the Sky
12. Martha Wainwright - s/t
13. Sergio - Swords
14. PMMP - Kovemmat kädet
15. The Raveonettes - Pretty in Black
16. Broken Social Scene
17. Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires
18. Hood - Outside Closer
19. The Decemberists - Picaresque
20. Regina - Katso maisemaa

Thanks, Petri, reminding me of marvelous Jenny Wilson. So this is my new top 20:

1: Jenny Wilson : Let my Shoes Lead Me Forward : YouTube
2 : Matisyahu : King Without a Crown [Live at Stubb's]
3 : Franz Ferdinand : Eleanor Put Your Boots On
4 : Bonobo : Nothing Owed [Live]
5 : The Mitchell Brothers : Alone With The TV
6 : Arctic Monkeys : I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
7 : Dengue Fever : One Thousand Tears of a Tarantula
8 : 65daysofstatic : Drove Through Ghosts to Get Here
9 : Buck 65 : Blood Of A Young Wolf
10 : Sufjan Stevens : Chicago
11 : Jenny Wilson : Love and Youth
12 : Jean Grae : It's a Wrap
13 : Jackson And His Computer Band : Rock On
14 : Antony & The Johnsons : For Today I Am a Boy
15 : Gorillaz : Feel Good Inc.
16 : David Fenech : La Boum 2005
17 : Konono Nº1 : Paradiso
18 : Mia Doi Todd : Casa Nova
19 : Steve Spacek : Dollar
20 : U.S.E. (United State Of Electronica) : It Is On!

Songs

1 Sufjan Stevens Chicago
2 Foo Fighters Resolve
3 LCD Soundsystem Tribulations
4 Sufjan Stevens John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
5 Coldplay Speed of Sound
6 Sigur Ros Andvari
7 Mariah Carey We Belong Together
8 Depeche Mode Precious
9 Babyshambles Fuck Forever
10 Sebastien Tellier La Ritournelle
11 Editors Munich
12 All-American Rejects Dirty Little Secret
13 Sarah Bettens I'm Okay
14 Billy Corgan Mina Loy
15 Bravery An Honest Mistake
16 Foo Fighters End Over End
17 Darkness Dinner Lady Arms
18 Editors All Sparks
19 Garbage Sex Is Not the Enemy
20 Ry Cooder Soy Luz y Somnra
21 Anberlin Paperthin Anthem
22 Franz Ferdinand Do You Want To
23 Foo Fighters Best of You
24 Hard-Fi Hard to Beat
25 Foo Fighters The Deepest Blues Are Black
26 Robyn Be Mine
27 Foo Fighters DOA
28 Sugababes Push the Bottom
29 Foo Fighters No Way Back
30 Goldfrapp Ooh La La
31 Foo Fighters Miracle
32 clor Love and Pain
33 Academy Is Skeptics and True Believers
34 All-American Rejects It Ends Tonight
35 Audioslave Your Time Has Come
36 Refree La Reina De Les Neus
37 Cardigans I Need Some Fine Wine and You, You Need to Be Nicer
38 Coldplay Til Kingdom Come
39 Coral In the Morning
40 Daft Punk Make Love
41 Kaiser Chiefs Modern Way
42 Mars Volta The Widow
43 M83 Teen Angst
44 Martha Wainwright Factory
45 Oasis Keep the Dream Alive
46 Queens of the Stone Age Little Sister
47 Royksopp What Else is There
48 Starsailor In the Crossfire
50 Kanye West Gold Digger
51 Madonna Hung Up
49 Death Cab For Cutie What Sarah Said
52 Death Cab For Cutie Crooked Teeth
53 LCD Soundsystem Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
54 Death Cab For Cutie Someday You Will Be Loved
55 White Stripes My Doorbell
56 Gorillaz DARE
57 Missy Elliott Lose Control
58 R. Kelly Trapped in the Closet
59 Pharrell Williams feat. Gwen Stefani Can I Have It Like That
60 Amber Pacific Postcards
61 Anberlin Time & Confusion
62 Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah Is This Love
63 Death Cab For Cutie Your Heart Is An Empty Room
64 Decemberists 16 Military Wives
65 Gorillaz Kids With Guns
66 Jack Johnson No Other Way
67 Panic at the Disco I Write Sins Not Tragedies
68 Jack Johnson Never Know
69 Sufjan Stevens The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!
70 White Stripes Blue Orchid
71 Sufjan Stevens Jacksonville
72 Guillemots Trains to Brazil
73 Sufjan Stevens Casimir PulaskiDay
74 Neil Young It's a Dream
75 Queens of the Stone Age The Blood is Love
76 Rolling Stones Let Me Down Slow
77 Stereophonics Dakota
78 Strokes Juicebox
79 CSS Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above
80 Maximo Park Apply Some Pressure
81 Coldplay Fix You
82 Go-Betweens Darlinghurst Nights
83 Gorillaz Dirty Harry
84 Amerie 1 Thing
85 Spoon I Turn My Camera On
86 Art Brut Emily Kane
87 Arctic Monkeys Fake Tales of San Francisco
88 Fiona Apple Not About Love
89 Lindstrom I Feel Space
90 National Abel
91 Razorlight Somewhere Else
92 National Secret Meeting
93 Richard Hawley The Ocean
94 Wolf Parade Shine a Light
95 Arctic Monkeys I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
96 Gorillaz Feel Good Inc.
97 Antony and the Johnsons Hope There's Someone
98 M.I.A. Bucky Done Gun
99 Justice Waters of Nazareth
100 Bright Eyes First Day of My Live
101 Eels Blinking Lights (For Me)
102 M.I.A. 20 Dollar
103 Chemical Brothers Galvanize

Albums

1 Sufan Stevens Illinois
2 Foo Fighters In Your Honor
3 Coldplay X&Y
4 Death Cab For Cutie Plans
5 Sigur Rios Takk
6 LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem
7 Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better
8 Editors The Back Room
9 Robyn Robyn
10 Beck Guero
11 Decemberists Picaresque
12 New Pornograhpers Twin Cinema

For sure, the best year since the beginning of the decade.

Albums :
1. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
2. Hubert Felix Thiefaine - Scandale Mélancolique
3. Gorillaz - Demon Days
4. Madrugada - The Deep End
5. The Kills - No Wow
6. Anthony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
7. Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
8. Juliette - Mutatis mutandis
9. Sigur Ros - Takk
10. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
11. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better With Franz Ferdinand
12. Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche à Bamako
13. The Rakes - Capture/Release
14. Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
15. Supergrass - Road to Rouen
16. Belle And Sebastian - Push Barman To Open Old Wounds
17. Dyonisos - Monsters in love
18. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
19. Syd Matters - Someday We Will Foresee Obstacles
20. Little Barrie - We are Little Barrie
21. Benjamin Biolay - A l'origine
22. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
23. Yann Tiersen - Les retrouvailles
24. Editors - The Back Room
25. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
26. The National - Alligator
27. Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
28. The Decemberists - Picaresque
29. Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
30. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
31. Piano Magic - Disaffected
32. Xiu Xiu - La Forêt
33. Animal Collective - Feels
34. Anaïs - The Cheap Show
35. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
36. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
37. My Morning Jackets - Z
38. Daniel Mille - Après La Pluie
39. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
40. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak

Romain: une grande liste, comme toujours!... However, there is a mistake: I think "Push Barman to Open Old Wounds" is ineligible because it’s a compilation of EPs. Anyway, is Petri's decision if the album is eligible, of course.

I'm listening to Robyn and guess what ? I like it ! Strange things happen.

Surprised there is not more support for Gimme Fiction, my favorite of Spoon's ongoing sterling run of albums. And I encourage everyone to seek out the Spinto Band's super-fun album from this year.

Albums:

1. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
2. The Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done
3. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
4. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
5. Beck - Guero
6. Kanye West - Late Registration
7. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
8. The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
9. Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
10. Daft Punk - Human After All
11. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
12. The National - Alligator
13. Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman
14. Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth
15. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
16. Gorillaz - Demon Days
17. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
18. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better

Songs:

1. Spoon - I Summon You
2. Amerie - 1 Thing
3. The Spinto Band - Direct to Helmet
4. Nickel Creek - Helena (Please Note: this is easily the best overwrought song titled "Helena" that was released this year... I'm talking to you My Chemical Romance)
5. Spoon - Sister Jack
6. Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
7. Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
8. Daft Punk - Technologic
9. The Magic Numbers - Love Me Like You
10. Spoon - I Turn My Camera On
11. Kanye West - Gone
12. The Spinto Band - Oh Mandy
13. Beck - Black Tambourine
14. Spoon - The Beast and Dragon, Adored
15. Missy Elliot - Lose Control
16. Sleater-Kinney - Entertain
17. Broken Social Scene - Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)
18. Kanye West - Heard 'Em Say
19. Antony and the Johnsons - You Are My Sister
20. The Spinto Band - Atari

1. Kanye West - Gone
2. Coldplay- Speed of Sound
3. Gorillaz- Feel Good Inc.
4. Coldplay – Fix You
5. Moby – Lift Me Up
6. Depeche Mode- Precious
7. Oasis- Let There Be Love
8. Oasis- The Importance of Being Idle
9. The Game feat. 50 Cent- Hate It or Love It
10. Oasis- Lyla
11. Anthony and the Johnsons – Hope there’s Someone
12. Sufjan Stevens- Chicago
13. Depeche Mode- Nothing’s Impossible
14. System of a Down- BYOB
15. Coldplay- Talk
16. The National – Mr. November
17. Stereophonics- Dakota
18. Sufjan Stevens- Casmir Pulaski Day
19. Lindstrom – I Feel Space
20. Coldplay- The Hardest Part
21. David Gray – The One I Love
22. Depeche Mode- Suffer Well
23. Foo Fighters – Best of You
24. Arctic Monkeys- I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
25. The Mitchell Brothers- Alone With The TV

1. Sufjan Stevens - Come on feel the Illinoise
2. Architecture in Helsinki - In case we die
3. Animal Collective - Feels
4. The Rakes - Capture Release
5. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
6. Gorillaz - Demon Days
7. The Subways - Young for Eternity
8. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
9. Vitalic - OK Cowboy
10. Kanye West - Late Registration
11. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
12. Robyn - Robyn
13. Les Fatals Picards - Picardia Indepenza
14. Edan - The Beauty and the Beat
15. Camille - Le fil
16. The National - Alligator
17. Boris - Pink
18. Electrelane - Axes
19. M.I.A. - Arular
20. Dangerdoom - The Mouse & the Mask
21. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
22. Sigur Ros - Takk
23. Why? - Elephant Eyelash
24. The Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done
25. My Morning Jacket - Z
26. System of a Down - Mesmerize

No time to listen to Gimme Fiction before my holidays (nor to the Four Tet albums).
I'm a bird now will be a serious competitor for the 100th position in my final list, I find his constant vibratos (vibrati ?) really annoying, except on the opening track.

(wouhou, the letters confirmation to post this message are "BECK")

Sigh... I can't keep track of when singles are released before the albums they're on...

My new songs list:

Songs:

1. Spoon - I Summon You
2. Amerie - 1 Thing
3. The Spinto Band - Direct to Helmet
4. Nickel Creek - Helena (Please Note: this is easily the best overwrought song titled "Helena" that was released this year... I'm talking to you My Chemical Romance)
5. Spoon - Sister Jack
6. Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
7. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor
8. Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
9. Daft Punk - Technologic
10. The Magic Numbers - Love Me Like You
11. Spoon - I Turn My Camera On
12. Kanye West - Gone
13. The Spinto Band - Oh Mandy
14. Beck - Black Tambourine
15. Spoon - The Beast and Dragon, Adored
16. Missy Elliot - Lose Control
17. Sleater-Kinney - Entertain
18. Broken Social Scene - Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)
19. Kanye West - Heard 'Em Say
20. Antony and the Johnsons - You Are My Sister
21. The Spinto Band - Atari

I am surprised (and a bit saddened) by the lack of support for Feels. MPP is probably overhyped here, but Feels seems terribly overlooked ! It's a wonderfully strange album about love with, I can admit, some "too strange" songs like Flesh Canoe, but lots of marvelous moments too.

1. The National - Alligator
2. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
3. The Decemberists - Picaresque
4. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
5. Antony and The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
6. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
7. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
8. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
9. Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV
10 My Morning Jacket - Z

I'm posting earlier than usual this month because on next monday I'm meeting Honorio and Henrik who are coming to Paris for 1 week

BTW, Honorio, we have the same top 3 this year and 6 albums in common in our respective top 10s.

Albums

Only 3 albums in my top 200

1 . Sufjan Stevens | Illinois
2 . Antony & The Johnsons | I Am A Bird Now
3 . Richard Hawley | Coles Corner
4 . Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Naturally
5 . Bright Eyes | I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
6 . Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté | In The Heart Of the Moon
7 . Amadou & Mariam | Dimanche à Bamako
8 . Ry Cooder | Chávez Ravine
9 . My Morning Jacket | Z
10 . M.I.A. | Arular
11 . Hayes Carll | Little Rock
12 . Philippe Katerine | Robots après tout
13 . Andrew Bird | Andrew Bird And The Misterious Production of Eggs
14 . LCD Soundsystem | LCD Soundsystem
15 . Eels | Blinking Lights And Other Revelations
16 . Kanye West | Late Registration
17 . The Decemberists | Picaresque
18 . Dick Annegarn | Plouc
19 . Jack Rose | Kensington Blues
20 . Nicole Willis & the Soul investigators | Keep Reachin'(excellent retro soul from Finland)

21 . Various Artists | Les Artistes Tôt Ou Tard en duos
22 . Ryan Adams | Cold Roses
23 . Mathieu Boogaerts | Michel
24 . Earl "Chinna" Smith | Inna De Yard
25 . Syd Matters | Someday We Will Foresee Obstacles
26. Wolfmother - s/t
27. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
28. Robyn - st
29. Bettye Lavette - I've Got My Own Hell To Raise
30. Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation In The Backyard

Songs


1 . Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr
2 . Antony & The Johnsons - Hope There's Someone
3 . Antony & The Johnsons - Fistful Of Love
4 . Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
5 . Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - This Land Is Your Land
6 . Richard Hawley - Just Like The Rain
7 . Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
8 . The Decemberists - 16 Military Wives
9 . My Morning Jacket - Off The Record
10 . Dick Annegarn - Pierre
11 . Bright Eyes - First Day Of My Life
12 . Philippe Katerine - Le 20-04-2005
13 . Amadou & Mariam - La Réalité
14 . Earl "Chinna" Smith - Homegrown
15 . Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté - Ai Ga Bani
16 . Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - If This Ain't Love
17 . Ry Cooder - Chinito Chinito
18 . JP Nataf, Mathieu Boogaerts & Bombes 2 Bal - Demain, Demain
19 . Refree - La Reina de les neus
20 . Hayes Carll - Hey Baby Where You Been

21 . Josh Rouse - It's The Nighttime
22 . Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
23 . M.I.A. - Bucky Done Gun
24 . The Game ft. 50 Cent - Hate It or Love It
25 . Richard Hawley - The Ocean
26 . Amadou & Mariam - Senegal Fast Food
27 . Mary Gauthier - I Drink
28 . The White Stripes - My Doorbell
29 . Ryan Adams - Magnolia Mountain
30 . Moussu T E Lei Jovents - La Ciotat

31 . Camille - Ta Douleur
32 . LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations
33 . Andrew Bird - Sovay
34 . Bruce Springsteen - Devils and Dust
35 . The Rolling Stones - Let Me Down Slow
36 . Sufjan Stevens - The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
37 . Fiona Apple - O Sailor
38 . Antony & The Johnsons - Man Is the Baby
39 . Editors - Munich
40 . Yann Tiersen - La Boulange

41 . Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Your Thing Is A Drag
42 . Mathieu Boogaerts - Une bonne nouvelle
43 . Corey Harris - Daily Bread
44 . Pernice Brothers - Amazing Glow
45 . Bright Eyes - Another Travelin' Song
46 . Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is out to Get Us!
47 . Eels - Trouble With Dreams
48 . Kanye West - Gone
49 . Neil Young - The Painter
50 . Richard Hawley - Born Under A Bad Sign

Hi Petri,

Can I add Takk... by Sigur Ros as my #8 Album and move everything else down 1 spot? Thank you!

I hope they let you because that is their true masterpiece. I'm suprised even () outranks it but I guess they're one of those bands whose acclaimed keeps decreasing with every album (since 98) no matter how good they truly are like their fellow country woman Bjork.

Sorry, I change my list of albums, I simply forgot Kaiser Chief and In my own list, The Katerine album was put in 2006 and I removed the Belle and Sebastian album (thanks Honorio)
Sorry for that.

1. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
2. Hubert Felix Thiefaine - Scandale Mélancolique
3. Gorillaz - Demon Days
4. Madrugada - The Deep End
5. The Kills - No Wow
6. Anthony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
7. Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
8. Philip Katerine - Robots après tout
9. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
10. Juliette - Mutatis mutandis
11. Sigur Ros - Takk
12. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
13. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better With Franz Ferdinand
14. Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche a Bamako
15. The Rakes - Capture/Release
16. Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
17. Supergrass - Road to Rouen
18. Dyonisos - Monsters in love
19. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
20. Syd Matters - Someday We Will Foresee Obstacles
21. Little Barrie - We are Little Barrie
22. Benjamin Biolay - A l'origine
23. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
24. Yann Tiersen - Les retrouvailles
25. Editors - The Back Room
26. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
27. The National - Alligator
28. Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
29. The Decemberists - Picaresque
30. Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
31. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
32. Piano Magic - Disaffected
33. Xiu Xiu - La Forêt
34. Animal Collective - Feels
35. Anaïs - The Cheap Show
36. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
37. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
38. My Morning Jackets - Z
39. Daniel Mille - Après La Pluie
40. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
41. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak


For the outcast artists here some examples :

Hubert-Felix Thiefaine :


Madrugada :


Philippe Katerine :


Juliette :


Dyonisos :

Dan M, thank you for your comments and for picking these relatively unknown albums. Hayes Carll deserves a better acclaim IMO as an intelligent country-rock singer with very solid songs in the vein of Ryan Adams with a Texas singer/songwriter flavor.
Mathieu Boogaerts is a favorite of mine, i saw him in concert and it was great. I'm always a bit disappointed by his albums (not enough good songs ) , but on "Michel" songs like "Une bone nouvelle" or "C'est dommage are great highlights. I think I prefer the man to his albums.

And Romain at least there's somebody else who likes Katerine . This album is his most acclaimed (although I prefer the latest), with electro arrangements made with Gonzalez, reminding of Kraftwerk and LCD Soundsystem.. For a foreign listener it may sound strange because the lyrics are very important. Their irony and surrealistic humor, contrasting with the kitsch of the music, make Katerine a male equivalent of Brigitte Fontaine at least in my opinion. I'll post a song in te 00's recommandation thread.

Albums

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

Big jump

2. M.I.A. - Arular
3. Gorillaz - Demon Days
4. Fat Freddy's Drop - Based on a True Story (superb reggae and neo-soul from New Zealand)
5. Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche à bamako
6. My Morning Jacket - Z (if it wasn't for "What a Wonderful Man"...)
7. The Decemberists - Picaresque
8. The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
9. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
10. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
11. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
12. Gravenhurst - Fires in Distant Buildings
13. Robyn - Robyn
14. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
15. Kate Bush - Aerial
16. Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
17. Josh Rouse - Nashville
18. Antony & The Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
19. Common - Be
20. Cunninlynguists - A Piece of Strange (Why don't the critics care about this band?)



Songs

1. Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy Jr.
2. Depeche Mode - Precious (Great to see many others loving it too!)
3. Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
4. My Morning Jacket - It Beats 4 U
5. My Morning Jacket - Wordless Chorus
6. M.I.A. - Pull Up the People
7. Amadou & Mariam - La Réalité
8. Gorillaz - Kids With Guns
9. Madonna - Hung Up
10. Antony & The Johnsons - Man Is the Baby
11. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
12. Richard Hawley - The Ocean
13. The Decemberists - Eli, the Barrow Boy
14. Sleater-Kinney - Night Light
15. Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers
16. Sufjan Stevens - The Seer's Tower
17. Sufjan Stevens - They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From The Dead!! Ahhhh!
18. Sufjan Stevens - Concerning the UFO sighting near Highland, Illinois
19. Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
20. Damian Marley - Welcome to Jamrock