What I usually do with my days off, anyway.

I did this once this year when snow was still on the ground. So let's see where we are as summer reaches its end!

Taken right from the pages of Nick Curley, because only he has a more intense fascination with musical listmaking.


2005 ranked in an order that meagerly fails to justify thinking about art in degrees of superiority

40. Princess – Princess
39. Yann Tiersen and Shannon Wright – S/T
38. Caribou – The Milk of Human Kindness
37. Gonzalez, Jose - Veneer
36. M83 – Before the Dawn Heals Us
35. Tilly and the Wall – Wild Like Children
34. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
33. Port-Royal - Flames
32. Black Mountain – Black Mountain
31. The Books – Lost and Safe
30. Lekman, Jens - Oh You're So Silent, Jens
29. The Angels of Light & Akron/Family – Akron/Family & Angels of Light
28. Doveman – The Acrobat
27. L’altra – Different Days
26. Prefuse 73 - Reads the Books EP
25. Boredoms – Seadrum / House of Sun
24. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
23. Phosphorescent – Aw Come Aw Wry
22. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
21. Art Brut – Bang Bang Rock & Roll
20. Castanets – First Light’s Freeze
19. Mount Eerie – No Flashlight
18. Animal Collective – Feels
17. The Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band – Horses in the Sky
16. Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Matt Sweeney – Superwolf
15. The Angels of Light – The Angels of Light Sing “Other People”
14. Cloud Cult – Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus
13. Feist - Let It Die
12. William Parker Quartet – Sound Unity
11. Why? - Elephant Eyelash
10. Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic
09. Akron/Family – Akron/Family
08. Six Organs of Admittance – School of the Flower
07. The Fiery Furnaces – Rehearsing My Choir
06. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
05. Antony and the Johnsons – I am a Bird Now
04. Hinson, Micah P. – The Gospel of Progress
03. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning / Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
02. Sigur Ros – Takk...
01. Cocorosie – Noah’s Ark





2005 new music that I’ve yet to hear but will be proud to rank with a militant hand as soon as I acquire them for free (polaris star indicates that I actually really want to track it down as opposed to just harboring mild curiosity)

1. John Stevens Quartet, NEW COOL
2. Windy and Carl, THE DREAM HOUSE
3. Various Artists, BY THE FRUITS YOU SHALL KNOW THE ROOTS
4. The Album Leaf, SEAL BEACH EP
5. White Out and Jim O'Rourke, CHINA IS NEAR
6. Colleen, GOLDEN MORNING BREAKS
7. Vashti Bunyan, LOOKAFTERING
8. Clor, CLOR
9. Viking Moses, CROSSES
10. Blood on the Wall, AWESOMER
11. Field Music, FIELD MUSIC
12. The One AM Radio, A NAME WRIT IN WATER
13. Johann Johannson, DIS
14. Mahogany, MEMORY COLUMN
15. Jackie-O Motherfucker, FLAGS OF THE SACRED HARP
16. Simon Joyner, ROOM TEMPERATURE
17. Page France, HELLO DEAR WIND
18. Dirty Three, CINDER
19. OOIOO, GOLD AND GREEN
20. Thanksgiving, THANKSGIVING PTS. 1, 2 & 3
21. Richard Swift, THE NOVELIST