17 January 2006

Music Picks for 2005 (Re-post)

This was an intense year. A lot happened. Change was the theme I think, hence all the time-spanning genre-crossing.

Here are the albums that kept me sane and sometimes happy, in no specific order.

Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man – Out of Season

Tommy Dorsey – Best of Tommy Dorsey

Sparklehorse – It’s a Wonderful Life

Cocorosie – La Maison De Mon Reve

Transmissionary Six – Get Down

Smashing Pumpkins – Gish

Depeche Mode – Music for the Masses

Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell

Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes

The Arcade Fire – Funeral

Pulp – Countdown

Depeche Mode – Some Great Reward

Annie – Anniemal

The Smiths – Rank

Autolux – Future Perfect

Bjork – Medulla

Nina Simone – How It Feels To Be Free

The Cure – Seventeen Seconds

Cocorosie – Noah’s Ark

The Cure – Disintegration

Hot Snakes – Suicide Invoice

Blood Brothers – Crimes

Patrick Wolf – Wind in the Wires

Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas

Bobby Birdman – Heart Caves

!!! – Louden Up Now

Patrick Wolf – Lycanthropy

American Music Club – Love Songs for Patriots

The Cure – Three Imaginary Boys

Marmoset – Hidden Forbidden

Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Nico – Chelsea Girl

Miss Kittin – I Com

M.I.A. – Arular

Golden Boy with Miss Kittin – Or

Joy Division – Substance

Various Artists – Luaka Bop 10th-Year Anniversary

Goldfrapp – Supernature

Ladytron – Witching Hour

Depeche Mode – Playing the Angel

Adult. – Gimme Trouble

Colder – Heat

Madonna – Confessions on a Dancefloor

Sufjan Stevens – Come on Feel The Illinoise!

The Decemberists – Live At the Theatre of Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA May, 2005

The American Analog Set – Set Free

The Hidden Cameras – Mississauga Goddamn

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!

Maximilian Hecker – Infinite Love Songs

Bobby Birdman – Born Free Forever

Cut Copy – Bright Like Neon Love

LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem

Colder – Again

Interpol – Antics

Les Savy Fav – Inches

Hot Snakes – Audit in Progress

The Radio Department – Lesser Matters

Blonde Redhead – Misery Is a Butterfly

David Bowie – Changes

Frausdots – Couture, Couture, Couture

Turbonegro – Apocalypse Dudes

Leonard Cohen – Death of a Ladies’ Man

Massive Attack – Mezzanine

Morrissey – Vauxhall And I

Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon

The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow

Out Hud – Let Us Never Speak of It Again

Kaiser Chiefs – Employment

Pulp – Different Class

Bjork – Homogenic

Fischerspooner – Odyssey

Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters

Currently reading : Call Me Crazy: A Memoir By Anne Heche Release date: 04 March, 2003

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