Top 63 Music Albums of 2005
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2005-LOST HIGHWAY
Produced By TOM SCHICK
1. Magnolia Moontan
2. Sweet Illusions
3. Meadowlake Street
4. When Will You Come Back Home
5. Beautiful Sorta
6. Now That You're Gone
7. Cherry Lane
8. Mockingbird
9. How Do You Keep Love Alive
1. Easy Plateau
2. Let It Ride
3. Rosebud
4. Cold Roses
5. If I Am A Stranger
6. Dance All Night
7. Blossom
8. Life Is Beautiful
9. Friends
2005 was quite as year for Ryan Adams. He released 3 albums, and played the Hurricane Katrina benefit, AND somehow found the time to hang out and play shows with Phil Lesh. Cold Roses was his first album of the year, and his first with The Cardinals. The album is typical Adams: some amazingly catchy and beautiful songs, surrounded by songs that just seem to scream "look at me! I'm prolific, and I'm not afraid to release anything!". Adams ups the annoyance quotient by releasing this as a double album, when the music on both discs would easily fit on one.
But, the good moments far outshine the bad, as is usually the case with Ryan Adams. The Cardinals are a great band, and he even gets the excellent Rachel Yamagata to sing along. All in all, you'll be happy with this. It's an album that has grown on me steadily over the years, and it never disappoints. Just don't pay double album price for it..buy it online for a better price. Ripping people off like that is not cool. [First added to this chart: 04/11/2012]
Produced By TOM SCHICK
1. Magnolia Moontan
2. Sweet Illusions
3. Meadowlake Street
4. When Will You Come Back Home
5. Beautiful Sorta
6. Now That You're Gone
7. Cherry Lane
8. Mockingbird
9. How Do You Keep Love Alive
1. Easy Plateau
2. Let It Ride
3. Rosebud
4. Cold Roses
5. If I Am A Stranger
6. Dance All Night
7. Blossom
8. Life Is Beautiful
9. Friends
2005 was quite as year for Ryan Adams. He released 3 albums, and played the Hurricane Katrina benefit, AND somehow found the time to hang out and play shows with Phil Lesh. Cold Roses was his first album of the year, and his first with The Cardinals. The album is typical Adams: some amazingly catchy and beautiful songs, surrounded by songs that just seem to scream "look at me! I'm prolific, and I'm not afraid to release anything!". Adams ups the annoyance quotient by releasing this as a double album, when the music on both discs would easily fit on one.
But, the good moments far outshine the bad, as is usually the case with Ryan Adams. The Cardinals are a great band, and he even gets the excellent Rachel Yamagata to sing along. All in all, you'll be happy with this. It's an album that has grown on me steadily over the years, and it never disappoints. Just don't pay double album price for it..buy it online for a better price. Ripping people off like that is not cool. [First added to this chart: 04/11/2012]
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Produced by Jay Farrar. Unfairly rated as average by many critics, and ignored unfairly by many listeners. Okemah is Son Volt regrouping and going back to what made Trace so great. Songs like the burning "Bandages And Scars", "Afterglow 61", and "Ipecac" show that Farrar was still a formidable songwriter, and that Son Volt still had plenty of greatness in them. The best moments from a Son Volt show are from this album. That's because it's a great album. Period.
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Produced by Karina Benznicki & Eli Cane. Recorded live in Chicago in 2005, this is a great document of everything that makes Wilco a great band. So many great songs from so many great albums...this two disc album could have easily been stretched to four without ever getting dull. The audience is stoked, particularly for winning tracks like "Via Chicago", "Jesus, Etc.", and "Misunderstood". A positively great performance by one of the greatest bands of our time. A must have live album.
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2005-LOST HIGHWAY
Produced By TOM SCHICK
1. A Kiss Before I Go
2. The End
3. Hard Way To Fall
4. Dear John
5. The Hardest Part
6. Games
7. Silver Bullets
8. Peaceful Valley
9. September
10. My Heart Is Broken
11. Trains
12. Pa
13. Withering Heights
14. Don’t Fail Me Now
In 2005, it was hard to find anyone more prolific than Ryan Adams. He released three albums that year: Cold Roses, Jacksonville City Nights, and 29. Jacksonville (a reference to Adam’s hometown in North Carolina) is the more country oriented of the three, and contains some of Adams’ more beautiful songs. With the opening track, Adams lets you know that this is most definitely a country album, led by Jon Graboff’s pedal steel. “Dear John” is a duet with Norah Jones, and almost all of the songs are listed as group compositions.
The album is not as strong as the excellent Cold Roses, but is still a fine album from Adams. Like all of his records, it does contain its share of filler, but unlike some of his efforts, it’s not too long that those lesser tracks become burdensome. Adams is a streaky writer…his streaks are very large, and he tends to record it all. Still, Jacksonville is a good look at the more country side of Ryan Adams. [First added to this chart: 04/12/2012]
Produced By TOM SCHICK
1. A Kiss Before I Go
2. The End
3. Hard Way To Fall
4. Dear John
5. The Hardest Part
6. Games
7. Silver Bullets
8. Peaceful Valley
9. September
10. My Heart Is Broken
11. Trains
12. Pa
13. Withering Heights
14. Don’t Fail Me Now
In 2005, it was hard to find anyone more prolific than Ryan Adams. He released three albums that year: Cold Roses, Jacksonville City Nights, and 29. Jacksonville (a reference to Adam’s hometown in North Carolina) is the more country oriented of the three, and contains some of Adams’ more beautiful songs. With the opening track, Adams lets you know that this is most definitely a country album, led by Jon Graboff’s pedal steel. “Dear John” is a duet with Norah Jones, and almost all of the songs are listed as group compositions.
The album is not as strong as the excellent Cold Roses, but is still a fine album from Adams. Like all of his records, it does contain its share of filler, but unlike some of his efforts, it’s not too long that those lesser tracks become burdensome. Adams is a streaky writer…his streaks are very large, and he tends to record it all. Still, Jacksonville is a good look at the more country side of Ryan Adams. [First added to this chart: 04/12/2012]
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2005 – GEFFEN
Produced By SIGUR ROS & KEN THOMAS
1. Takk…
2. Glósóli
3. Hoppipolla
4. Með Blóðnasir
5. Sé Lest
6. Sæglópur
7. Mílanó
8. Gong
9. Andvari
10. Svo Hljótt
11. Heysátan
Post rock bands like Godspeed You! Black Emporer and Explosions In The Sky tend to make music that is darker. But if you want your post rock to be lighter and happier, then you may want to check out Iceland’s own Sigur Ros. Takk… (Icelandic for thanks) is their fourth album, and there are some changes here from their first three efforts. There is a lot more guitar used here (Jonsi Birgisson uses a bow on his instrument a lot), and the vocals more are in Icelandic and less in gibberish or made up languages. The songs here are also closer to traditional arrangements. Not that there’s any rock here, nor is the music any less avant garde. It’s more like dream pop…without the actual pop. Jonsi’s extremely high falsetto vocals set the stage for a listening experience that is anything but ordinary, to say the least.
The music here is beautiful, sometimes breathtaking. You won’t understand a word, but that’s not important…what’s important are the pictures of sound that the band paints. Takk… features songs with soaring highs and pretty melodic passages, as well as a dizzying assortment of time signatures, which keeps things rhythmically challenging. And that’s the key to Sigur Ros. If you like your music to be challenging (but listenable), then this will be for you. The key to post rock is in finding ways that traditional rock instruments can make non traditional music. Sigur Ros is one of the best at it, and Takk… stands as one of their three classic albums, along with Ágætis Byrjun and the strangely titled (). Music from Iceland is definitely about more than just Bjork. If you can get into what Sigur Ros does, the joys can be many. [First added to this chart: 11/05/2017]
Produced By SIGUR ROS & KEN THOMAS
1. Takk…
2. Glósóli
3. Hoppipolla
4. Með Blóðnasir
5. Sé Lest
6. Sæglópur
7. Mílanó
8. Gong
9. Andvari
10. Svo Hljótt
11. Heysátan
Post rock bands like Godspeed You! Black Emporer and Explosions In The Sky tend to make music that is darker. But if you want your post rock to be lighter and happier, then you may want to check out Iceland’s own Sigur Ros. Takk… (Icelandic for thanks) is their fourth album, and there are some changes here from their first three efforts. There is a lot more guitar used here (Jonsi Birgisson uses a bow on his instrument a lot), and the vocals more are in Icelandic and less in gibberish or made up languages. The songs here are also closer to traditional arrangements. Not that there’s any rock here, nor is the music any less avant garde. It’s more like dream pop…without the actual pop. Jonsi’s extremely high falsetto vocals set the stage for a listening experience that is anything but ordinary, to say the least.
The music here is beautiful, sometimes breathtaking. You won’t understand a word, but that’s not important…what’s important are the pictures of sound that the band paints. Takk… features songs with soaring highs and pretty melodic passages, as well as a dizzying assortment of time signatures, which keeps things rhythmically challenging. And that’s the key to Sigur Ros. If you like your music to be challenging (but listenable), then this will be for you. The key to post rock is in finding ways that traditional rock instruments can make non traditional music. Sigur Ros is one of the best at it, and Takk… stands as one of their three classic albums, along with Ágætis Byrjun and the strangely titled (). Music from Iceland is definitely about more than just Bjork. If you can get into what Sigur Ros does, the joys can be many. [First added to this chart: 11/05/2017]
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2005
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Produced by Dave Sardy. When I first heard this album, I hated it. But it's been growing on me ever since. You can't think too much about the lyrics...but musically, particularly guitarist Andrew Stockdale, there's a lot going on here. "Woman" was the hit,evoking comparisons to Led Zeppelin. But there's a lot more here than just that. There are instrumental adventures all over this album, making it a surprising and more than solid debut. Not much since, but this one is a keeper.
[First added to this chart: 11/23/2012]
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2005 – EPIC
Produced By AARON JOHNSON & MIKE FLYNN
1. She Is
2. Over My Head (Cable Car)
3. How To Save A Life
4. All At Once
5. Fall Away
6. Heaven Forbid
7. Look After You
8. Hundred
9. Vienna
10. Dead Wrong
11. Little House
12. Trust Me
The Fray showed up out of nowhere (Denver) in 2005 with the release of their debut album, How To Save A Life. Another in a line of bands like Keane and Coldplay, the main instrument of The Fray is the piano. Of those three bands, The Fray is the one most likely to put you to sleep. They were formed in a religious setting, but they are not a Christian band. This album was a huge success, thanks to the first two singles. “Over My Head (Cable Car)” and especially the title track kept The Fray at or near the top of the charts for a considerable amount of time. Although marketed as alternative rock, this album barely rocks at all. At times, it feels stagnant and uninspired…but it also sold a gazillion copies. But so did that song by Snow Patrol…
Aside from the pair of hits, the best songs here are “All At Once” and “Look After You”. “Dead Wrong” is about as hard as these guys rock. Other than these songs, you’ll be hard pressed to find much else worth turning up. It’s a whole lot of piano, and they might remind you of The Cranberries without the magic of Delores O’Riordan. The second album was almost as big a hit, but they stopped being noticed with their third and fourth releases. And four albums in almost twenty years isn’t going to hold an audience, especially when the music does little to hold your attention. If you must have the hits, they’re here. Otherwise, very average stuff. [First added to this chart: 10/28/2020]
Produced By AARON JOHNSON & MIKE FLYNN
1. She Is
2. Over My Head (Cable Car)
3. How To Save A Life
4. All At Once
5. Fall Away
6. Heaven Forbid
7. Look After You
8. Hundred
9. Vienna
10. Dead Wrong
11. Little House
12. Trust Me
The Fray showed up out of nowhere (Denver) in 2005 with the release of their debut album, How To Save A Life. Another in a line of bands like Keane and Coldplay, the main instrument of The Fray is the piano. Of those three bands, The Fray is the one most likely to put you to sleep. They were formed in a religious setting, but they are not a Christian band. This album was a huge success, thanks to the first two singles. “Over My Head (Cable Car)” and especially the title track kept The Fray at or near the top of the charts for a considerable amount of time. Although marketed as alternative rock, this album barely rocks at all. At times, it feels stagnant and uninspired…but it also sold a gazillion copies. But so did that song by Snow Patrol…
Aside from the pair of hits, the best songs here are “All At Once” and “Look After You”. “Dead Wrong” is about as hard as these guys rock. Other than these songs, you’ll be hard pressed to find much else worth turning up. It’s a whole lot of piano, and they might remind you of The Cranberries without the magic of Delores O’Riordan. The second album was almost as big a hit, but they stopped being noticed with their third and fourth releases. And four albums in almost twenty years isn’t going to hold an audience, especially when the music does little to hold your attention. If you must have the hits, they’re here. Otherwise, very average stuff. [First added to this chart: 10/28/2020]
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Produced by Paul Epworth and Bloc Party. You can't please all of the people all of the time, but Bloc Party certainly did try with their debut album. Silent Alarm crosses genres so many times, it's hard to keep track. The result is a fascinating and well rounded album that sounds better and better with each subsequent listening. So much to like about this..."So Here We Are", "Positive Tension", "Pioneers", "Banquet". A great collection of ambitious and well crafted songs. This deserves every bit of praise that it gets.
[First added to this chart: 08/08/2012]
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2005 – B-UNIQUE
Produced By STEPHEN STREET & STEPHEN HARRIS
1. Every Day I Love You Less And Less
2. I Predict A Riot
3. Modern Way
4. Na Na Na Na Naa
5. You Can Have It All
6. Oh My God
7. Born To Be A Dancer
8. Saturday Night
9. What Did I Ever Give You?
10. Time Honoured Tradition
11. Caroline, Yes
12. Team Mate
Kaiser Chiefs are another one of those bands that seem to be exclusively British. They are quite popular in their home country of England, and have won numerous music awards, and sell gazillions of albums. In America, Kaiser Chiefs are not well known at all…perhaps because they are so exclusively British. Employment is their debut album, released in 2005. And it made them stars. In Britain. The album is fast and loud, taking its cues from New Wave and Britpop that came before them. Lots of Na-Na-Na’s and punk energy, synths and loud guitars and tight singing. It doesn’t all work, and it can be tedious in spots, but as a debut album, it shows a lot of promise for sure.
The best tracks here are well worth hearing: “Oh My God”, “Everyday I Love You Less And Less”, and “I Predict A Riot” are absolute fun, while “You Can’t Have It All” and “Modern Way” are fine as well. The rest is a step below, but there’s enough here to keep you entertained. They’ve released seven albums so far, each one a top ten entry on the British charts…even though they haven’t seen the top 100 in America in over a dozen years. They’re interesting for sure, just not as palatable to the American audiences. But if British alternative is your cup of tea, then Kaiser Chiefs may just be for you. They’ll sit nicely among your collection of Oasis and Blur albums. [First added to this chart: 08/23/2020]
Produced By STEPHEN STREET & STEPHEN HARRIS
1. Every Day I Love You Less And Less
2. I Predict A Riot
3. Modern Way
4. Na Na Na Na Naa
5. You Can Have It All
6. Oh My God
7. Born To Be A Dancer
8. Saturday Night
9. What Did I Ever Give You?
10. Time Honoured Tradition
11. Caroline, Yes
12. Team Mate
Kaiser Chiefs are another one of those bands that seem to be exclusively British. They are quite popular in their home country of England, and have won numerous music awards, and sell gazillions of albums. In America, Kaiser Chiefs are not well known at all…perhaps because they are so exclusively British. Employment is their debut album, released in 2005. And it made them stars. In Britain. The album is fast and loud, taking its cues from New Wave and Britpop that came before them. Lots of Na-Na-Na’s and punk energy, synths and loud guitars and tight singing. It doesn’t all work, and it can be tedious in spots, but as a debut album, it shows a lot of promise for sure.
The best tracks here are well worth hearing: “Oh My God”, “Everyday I Love You Less And Less”, and “I Predict A Riot” are absolute fun, while “You Can’t Have It All” and “Modern Way” are fine as well. The rest is a step below, but there’s enough here to keep you entertained. They’ve released seven albums so far, each one a top ten entry on the British charts…even though they haven’t seen the top 100 in America in over a dozen years. They’re interesting for sure, just not as palatable to the American audiences. But if British alternative is your cup of tea, then Kaiser Chiefs may just be for you. They’ll sit nicely among your collection of Oasis and Blur albums. [First added to this chart: 08/23/2020]
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Top 63 Music Albums of 2005 composition
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| Ryan Adams & The Cardinals | 2 | 3% | |
| Son Volt | 2 | 3% | |
| Okkervil River | 2 | 3% | |
| Neil Young | 1 | 2% | |
| Ladytron | 1 | 2% | |
| Bob Dylan | 1 | 2% | |
| John Prine | 1 | 2% | |
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