Everyone Else Is Doing A TOP TEN List…
Published December 31st, 2005 in Music.It seems that everybody with blog or newspaper opinion column is doing a Top Ten list of their favourite albums of 2005. Well you may say… “you have a blog”… and I’d say “you’re right, what a great idea, I should do my own Top Ten List”.
My Top Ten Albums Of 2005 (in alphabetical order):
Fiona Apple: Extraordinary Machine
Beck: Guero
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Howl
Coldplay: X and Y
Gorillaz: Demon Days
Lior: Autumn Flow
The Panics: Sleeps Like A Curse
Queens Of The Stone Age: Lullabies To Paralyze
Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
Kanye West: Late Registration
Arstists whose albums just missed out making the list include: Sophie Koh, Laura Veirs, Ben Lee and Paul McCartney.
My Concert Of The Year:
Queens Of The Stone Age @ The Palace, Melbourne
Honourable Mentions:
The Panics @ Northcote Social Club, Melbourne
Richard Ashcroft (on support for Coldplay) @ Berlin Kindl-Buehne Wuhlheide, Berlin
Film Of The Year:
Good Night, and Good Luck
Selected Sample Of Top Ten Albums
Triple J 2005 Audience Poll For Best Albums Of The Year:
01 Wolfmother: Wolfmother
02 Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
03 The White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan
04 Bernard Fanning: Tea and Sympathy
05 Gorillaz: Demon Days
06 Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better
07 Foo Fighters: In Your Honour
08 Queens Of The Stone Age: Lullabies To Paralyze
09 Ben Lee: Awake Is The New Sleep
10 System Of A Down: Mezmerize
Kingsmills Top Ten:
01 The Panics: Sleeps Like A Curse
02 The Arcade Fire: Funeral
03 Gorillaz: Demon Days
04 Wolfmother: Wolfmother
05 Kanye West: Late Registration
06 Dungen: Ta Det Lugnt
07 The White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan
08 The Beautiful Girls: We’re Already Gone
09 Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better
10 Jaga Jazzist: What We Must
Rolling Stone Australia (RS649 Yearbook) Top 50 Records Of 2005:
01 Kanye West: Late Registration
02 Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
03 The White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan
04 Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better
05 Beck: Guero
06 System Of A Down: Mezmerize/Hypnotize
07 Wolfmother: Wolfmother
08 Bright Eyes: I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
09 Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
10 MIA: Arular
3 Responses to “Everyone Else Is Doing A TOP TEN List…”
- 1 Pingback on Jul 11th, 2006 at 08:15
- 2 Pingback on Jan 9th, 2007 at 04:26
How on earth can you seriously say that the “Best Concert of the Year” was Queens of the Stone Age. How can that have been better than Coldplay Live in Berlin on a hot summers day??? Memories do seem to fade quite quickly…