top contenders for album of the year so far?
 

my picks, in order (i'm pretty sure these are all 2005)...

20. kinski - alpine static
19. exceptor - throne
18. a taste of ra - s/t
17. le fly pan am - 'n'écoutez pas'
16. dead machines - futures
15. majik - the human hand
14. mindflayer - die and mold
13. spires that in the sunset rise - four winds the walker
12. yuma nora - red train graphing the sunset of all
11. circulus - the lick on the tip of an envelope yet to be sent
10. wooden wand and the vanishing voice - lun marquer contre la moissonneuse
9. brothers of the occult sisterhood - run from your honey mind
8. panicsville - perverse
7. the north sea/xenis emputae band split
6. the skaters - dark rye bread
5. jane - berserker
4. orthrelm - ov
3. mountain goats - the sunset tree
2. davenport - field tales
1. six organs of admittance - the school of the flower

plenty more awesome stuff that would normally make the list, but there's just been so much great shit already. hell, i could make a top 10 list of just new davenport-related releases. here are my biggest disappointments of the year so far (i actually enjoyed all of these but rarely listen to them, which is quite surprising)...

devendra banhart - cripple crow
black dice - broken ear record
xiu xiu - la foret
keith fullerton whitman - multiples
the coughs - fright makes right

Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

Can't think of anything else at the moment. :/

the white stripes - get behind me satan
om - variations on a theme
behold... the arctopus - nano-nucleonic cyborg summoning
lewis black - luther burbank performing arts center blues

fuck the white stripes

Slough Feg-Atavism
The Reverend Bizarre-Crush The Insects
Candlemass-Candlemass

I don't think I have bought a single new album this year. Ooh, except Planet mental. And that was disappointing.

I love the White Stripes :(

I haven't heard that one.....

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i would've put the white stripes' new one in my "biggest disappointments" list just because of that godawful single (as well as a few other bad tracks on the album), but overall i don't think it's bad at all. besides, i really didn't have such high hopes for the album after hearing several TERRIBLE live bootlegs right before the album leaked.

I didn't mean to imply 'Get Behind Me' belongs on the worst albums list or anything. Just that the White Stripes (and Coldplay too before anyone nominates those silly fucks) are terribly overrated, overhyped, and overplayed. Once or twice a week in the rotation is fine, but not 3 times a day like it was delivered down by the ghost of Jimi Hendrix himself as a gift to all rockers past and present, thank you very much. :D

SYL - Alien
Napalm Death - Code is Red...
Extinction of Mankind - Nightmare Seconds
Frontline Assembly - Civilization
SOAD - Mesmerize (I like it :( )
Gorillaz - Demon Days
whatever the name of that new Nile is

The new Nile is disappointing.

New Gorillaz is very good.

I only heard it once but it was awesome from what I remember

I haven't heard much this year :(

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listening to an album once and calling it one of the best of the year is kinda creeeepy.. maaaaaan.

I can tell you what the best album of the next year is going to be: the new kayo dot

the new gorillaz album isn't as good as the old gorillaz album, IMO.

my top 3 picks would be:
thievery corporation - the cosmic game
dj z-trip - shifting gears
MIA - arular

in rough but not exact order

jamie lidell - multiply
autechre - untilted
lcd soundsystem - s/t
silver mt zion - horses in the sky
MIA - arular
sigur ros - takk
sufjan stevens - illinois
white stripes - get behind me satan
gorillaz - demon days
m83 - before the dawn heals us
prefuse 73 - surrounded by silence
out hud - let us never speak of it again
the books - lost and safe
annie - anniemal
kraftwerk - minimummaximum
death in vegas - satans circus (US release)
caribou - milk of human kindness
four tet - everything ecstatic
isolee - we are monster
kano - home sweet home

The best album yet is easily the New Pornographers' "Twin Cinema." Perfect.

i'm just going to keep updating my list above with stuff i remember....

the last time i remember knowing the current singles and albums and being able to tell which new band was playing what song on the radio was when i was in high school. and that was a long fucking time ago, let me tell you.

Total metalhead. Get ready for the Priest shirts and Iron Maiden concerts.

just like his dad. :( >: