Thought I’d better sneak this one in before the end of January. Here’s the track listing to my annual compilation, this year cleverly titled as ‘The Best Songs I Bought In 2005 Ever’. Turns out it was a surprisingly good year.
The Best Songs I Bought In 2005 Ever
- Leaders of the Free World by Elbow from the album Leaders of the Free World
- Fake Tales of San Francisco by Arctic Monkeys from the EP Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
- Did You Leave My Hat On The Windowsill? by The People from the album NEMIS SxSW 2005
- More Brother Rides by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy from the album Greatest Palace Music
- Glósóli by Sigur Rós from the album Takk…
- Crown of Love by The Arcade Fire from the album Funeral
- Krafty by New Order from the album Waiting for the Sirens’ Call
- Not A Reasonable Man by I Am Kloot from the album I Am Kloot
- 1500 Years by Ralfe Band from the single 1500 Years
- The Ride (Pt II) by Calexico from the album The Black Light
- Nothing Really Ends by Deus from the album Pocket Revolution
- Duffer St. George by The Fiery Furnaces from the The Fiery Furnaces EP
- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel from the album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
- I Got Fucked By Liberty Mutual by Whitey Houston from the single I Got Fucked by Liberty Mutual
- Avant Garde Music by Ballboy from the album A Guide for the Daylight Hours
- The Sound Of German Hip Hop by Clem Snide from the single Fill Me With Your Light
- Don’t Run Our Hearts Around by Black Mountain from the album Black Mountain
- 08:08am by Titan Go King’s from the single Go! Go! Idol
- Let Me See The Colts by Smog from the album A River Ain’t Too Much To Love
And remember this is compiled from music I bought this year, but was not necessarily released this year.
Comments
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Oooh, plenty I know and love, but just as many I’ve never, ever heard of (sobs ashamedly). Cracking list. I’ve got your “ComPeelation” on at the moment, by the way…
Speaking of “Takk”, are you a long-time Sigur Ros fan, or are you one of the many who have got to know them through “Takk”? Either way, everyone should own “Agaetis Byrjun”, or else be shot in cold blood for music ignorance.
Duffer St George… and I don’t care…
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That’s just a great selection. 2005 was a good year :) I’ll have to check out the ones I don’t know (The People, Ralfe Band, Ballboy and Titan Go Kings), because the ones I do know are pretty much all superb. Elbow have been yet again criminally abandoned by the music buying public this year (Bloody Coldplay fans..)
If you like I am Kloot, both their other albums are well worth a listen, too.
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Some well tuned minds here! Glad to see it’s not just me with good taste in music :P
I second Colly on the death sentence for anyone not in ownership of “Agaetis Byrjun”... quality stuff. Thanks to Simon, who reviewed it on his site, I finally got around to listening to Leaders of the Free World by Elbow (who were breathtaking at Reading last summer) which also is pretty damn quality – so thanks for the indirect nudge :)
Onwards with more great music in 2006!
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Colly: I thought everyone got into them with Agaetis Byrjun? Maybe that was just the Americans.
Glosoli was cool. Although I find it impossible to try and describe it without mentioning the word “mountain”, and thus fall into the Sigur Ros reviewers cliche trap and instantly render what I’m saying trite and pointless.
Um, yup.
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Hey RIch,
Fancy a swap….
18 Niagara Avenue
W54UD
Happy new year!
D
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Colly – Takk… is the first Sigur Ros album I’ve actually owned, but I’ve been a lurker for a few years, IYSWIM
Daz – I’ve got you on the swap list :-)
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