July 05, 2005

Top 10 So Far

Halfway through the year. In the wee hours of 2005 I made a promise, resolution, covenant with myself ... whatever you want to call it ... to acquire less music this year and spend more time with each record. I've done better, but I still have records that I am not as familiar with as I'd like to be. Somehow the great ones end up sticking out and getting heard, but many of my all-time favorites are ones that didn't grab me initially, so I still have that suspicion that I may be missing out on something great. For instance, my favorite record of all-time, OK Computer by Radiohead really took some time to grow on me, and if I hadn't given it that 6th or 7th spin, I would've missed out on Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail To the Thief, all of which are classics in my collection. Anyway, enough rambling ... Here is my top 10 so far of 2005, with a caveat that some cd's I own, I just haven't gotten to listen enough to include, and some that I list below, I may be sick of by the end of the year. So here goes, in no particular order ...

Top 10 of 2005 as of Tuesday, July 5th at 8:24 pm:

Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
Beck - Guero
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
Feist - Let It Die
Aimee Mann - The Forgotten Arm
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
The Decemberists - Picaresque
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree

Please let me know what I'm missing out on in the comments section
Posted by Tom at July 5, 2005 08:38 PM
Comments

bloc party, feist & stars don't even register on metacritic.com. dude you are way indie!

btw, the bloc party is on eMusic so I'll catch up soon...

Posted by: diatriber at July 6, 2005 10:08 PM

http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/blocparty/silentalarm

http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/stars/setyourselfonfire

Records tend to fall off metacritic after a certain amount of time. That's actually where I learned of Bloc Party and Stars. Feist was introduced to me by Frank at chromewaves. Indie is an over-used term, just as "alternative" was in the '90's. I prefer the terms "fresh" and "sincere".

Posted by: tom at July 7, 2005 10:37 AM

admit it - you are so indie that it disappeared for awhile and you'll pulled back into being in style again.

Posted by: diatriber at July 7, 2005 03:41 PM

Alright, I'll admit it. But that doesn't mean I don't still love "Private Eyes" by Hall & Oates and "Photograph" by Def Leppard.

Posted by: tom at July 7, 2005 04:34 PM