That obnoxious year end Best of Post
Here it is:
Best Of 2005: as always, no discernable order / priority
(new):
• Boredoms- ‘Seadrum/House of Sun’ (Vice Recordings)
• Campaign For Real Time: “Yes, I Mean No’ (curve Of The earth)
• Cave In ‘Pitch Perfect Black’ (Hydrahead)
• Christopher O’Riley : ‘Hold Me to This’ C.O.R. plays Radiohead vol 2. (World Village)
• Dalek: ‘Absence’ (Ipecac)
• Dave Douglas: ‘Keystone’ (CD/DVD - Greenland)
• Electric Masada (Tzadik)
• Jandek: Khartoum (Corwood Industries)
• Lady Soverign; ‘Vertically Challenged’ (cdep Chocolate Industries)
• Lungfish: ‘Feral Hymns’ (Dischord)
• M.I.A.: Arular (XL)
• MF Doom / Danger Mouse:’DangerDoom’ (Epitaph)
• Nine Inch Nails ‘With Teeth’ (nothing / Interscope)
• Q and Not U: ‘Power’ (Dischord)
• Queens of the Stone Age: ‘Lullabies to Paralyze’ (Interscope)
• Marc Ribot; ‘Spiritual Unity (Pi recordings)
• Routineers: ‘s/t’ (Dischord)
• Sunn ))) O: ‘Black One’ (Southern Lord)
• The Evens ‘s/t’ (Dischord)
• V/A: ‘run the Road vol 1. (Vice recordings)
• Vandermark 5: ‘The Color Of Memory’ (2xcd, Atavistic)
• Wilco: ‘Kicking television (2xcd live – Nonesuch)
(posthoumous / Reissues, released in 2005)
• Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane @ Carnegie Hall NYC 1957 (Blue Note)
• Painkiller 2003 Live @ tonic NYC (Tzadik)
• Ennio Morricone: ‘crime and dissonance’ (2xcd Ipecac)
• Masada: ‘Sanhedrin’ (Unreleased studio recordings 1994 – 1997: 2xcd Tzadik)
• Stooges: ‘Funhouse’ (2xcd reissue Elektra)
• V/A: “No New York†(Russian import/ bootleg/reissue? Brian Eno produced)
•
New to Me
• Albert Ayler: ‘Holy Ghost (10xcd box – Revenant)
• Ennio Morricone ‘Ballad of hank Mccain’ (180g lp)
• OST: The Life Aquatic According to Steve Zissou (Seu Jorge’s Brazillian David Bowie arrangements)
• Thelonious Monk: ‘Underground’ (Columbia)
• MF Doom: ‘MMM Food’
• Shellac: Final Peel sessions December 2004: ‘Steady As She Goes’, ‘Paco’, and ‘The End Of Radio’
Songs/ tunes: ‘Virginia Moon’ (Dave Grohl / Norah Jones), ‘The End Of Radio’ (Shellac), ‘Trepanning’(Cave In), ‘Only’ (NIN), ‘The Mask’ (Dangerdoom feat. Ghostface Killa), ‘Boo Boo’s Birthday’ (Thelonious Monk)
Listened to the new Lungfish last night, still assembling an opinion
Here's my list for Perfect Sound Forever:
A Frames- Black Forest (Sub Pop)
Campaign For Real Time- Yes…..I Mean, No (Big Scary Monsters/Curve Of The Earth)
Feast Whisperpants and Penis Tea Flush- ATP 2005!!! (Ultra Ezcema)
First Strike- Live at Ralph’s, Worcester MA 12/3/2005
Gay For Johnny Depp- Blood, The Natural Lubricant (Captians Of Industry)
Petra Haden Sings The Who Sell Out (Bar/None)
Jandek live at Scottish Rite Theater, Austin TX 8/28/2005
Lucero- Nobody’s Darlings (East/West)
Lungfish- Feral Hymns (Dischord)
Shipping News- Flies The Field (Quarterstick)
Suckdog- Drugs Are Nice DVD (Nut Music)
Gwen Stefani: 'Love, Angel, Music, Baby' (Interscope, technically 2004, new to me this year)
Zorn/Douglas/ Patton/Laswell/ Burger/Perowsky :
'The Stone: Issue One' (Tzadik)
"The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders" Sufjan Stevens
"The Fallen" Franz Ferdinand
"$10" M.I.A.
"Twin Cinema" The New Pornographers
"3" Big Bear
"Trumpet for a Lung" Hopewell
"Be Good to Them Always" The Books
"Brit Pop" Furvis
"Little Boys" Devnadra Banhart
"Holly" The Elevator Drops
"Jeremy" Feast Whisperpants and Penis Tea Flush
"Mic Check" Kano
"Losing My Edge" LCD Soundsystem
"Afri-Cola" Oxes
"Let it Out" Roll Deep
"Destruction V.I.P" Jammer
"Drink Beer" Bear Man
"Pencil Rot" Stephen Malkmus