Wednesday, December 07, 2005

2005 Year-End Survey

artist of the year
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Ryan Adams
ten favorite records of the year
Babyshambles Down in Albion
Living Things Ahead of the Lions
Bloc Party Silent Alarm
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Idlewild Warnings / Promises
Kaiser Chiefs Employment
Rilo Kiley More Adventurous
The Cloud Room s/t
Ryan Adams 29
Editors The Back Room
five honorable mentions
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Howl
Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better
Art Brut Bang Bang Rock N’ Roll
British Sea Power Open Season
Serena Maneesh s/t
ten favorite songs of the year
Love Steals Us From Loneliness by Idlewild
Fallen by Franz Ferdinand
When the Sun Goes Down by Arctic Monkeys
Na Na Na Na Na by Kaiser Chiefs
You Only Live Once by The Strokes
Part of the Queue by Oasis
Albion by Babyshambles
Always Love by Nada Surf
Modern Art by Art Brut
Inaction by We Are Scientists
five favorite live shows of the year
...Trail of Dead, April 7 at Black Cat
Ted Leo + Pharmacists, November 23 at Ottobar
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, September 28 at 9:30
Idlewild, September 10 at 8x10
Rilo Kiley, September 8 at Sonar
favorite songwriter(s) of the year
Conor Oberst for I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Ryan Adams for 29, Jacksonville City Nights & Cold Roses
favorite e.p's or mini-albums of the year
Artic Monkeys Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
favorite reissue of the year
At the Drive-In – relationship on Command
favorite album art
Kaiser Chiefs – Employments luxury liner brochure
favorite video of the year
Idlewild Love Steals Us From Lonliness
Jamie Thraves, director
biggest disappointmetn of the year
The leaked Weezer demos being better than the entirely
new, different and boring album they released
favorite music discoveries of the year
Old Gang of Four, The Posies
New Voxtrot, Rotary Ten, Departure
the next big thing
Rotary Ten will be huge when the Arctic Monkey’s
get spanked with an NME backlash
The biggest loss to music this year
The end of C.B.G.B.
That NYC doesn’t accept it’s place in cultural history and preserve
the club is atrocious. The club and what it represents has never
been more needed than now, during the reign of "mall punk."
most underrated artist of the year
Idlewild have now released three of the year’s finest rock records
consecutively and no one knows (with the exception of Details,
who named Warnings/ Promises album of the year)
most overrated artist of the year
The Babyshambles record was good, but Pete Doherty’s shit live
performances and erratic behavior make Mick Jones’ production
prowess seem necessary to make him even appear coherent