I did a google for best albums of 2005  (being a big music fan)

And here is a wonderful list of lists, from joe public and all the main
music magazines..indicating their top ten albums for 2005.

I am either getting old, or else there is pure rubbish in the charts these
times.  I didn't recognise anything among these lists.  Heck, even the big
music magazines couldn't agree in general terms on their top ten albums of
the year.

http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/2005.shtml

as an example........here are three top lists........and i see feck all
correlation.  Critics are all over the place with their picks.



Rolling Stone (big mag)

1. Late Registration by Kanye West
2. A Bigger Bang by The Rolling Stones
3. Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes
4. Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple
5. Devils & Dust by Bruce Springsteen
6. Z by My Morning Jacket
7. Guero by Beck
8. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes
9. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
10. The Massacre by 50 Cent



Q magazine (one of the biggest in the UK)

1. X&Y by Coldplay
2. Demon Days by Gorillaz
3. Employment by Kaiser Chiefs
4. Don't Believe The Truth by Oasis
5. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes
6. Back To Bedlam by James Blunt
7. You Could Have It So Much Better by Franz Ferdinand
8. Funeral by Arcade Fire
9. Eye To The Telescope by KT Tunstall
10. Stars Of CCTV by Hard-Fi


Amazon.com Editors' Picks

1. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
2. Arular by M.I.A.
3. Twin Cinema by The New Pornographers
4. Z by My Morning Jacket
5. Dimanche a Bamako by Amadou & Mariam
6. Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall [Live]
7. I Am A Bird Now by Antony & The Johnsons
8. No Direction Home: The Soundtrack by Bob Dylan
9. Guero by Beck
10. Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple

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> as an example........here are three top lists........and i see feck all
> correlation.  Critics are all over the place with their picks.
>
>
>
> Rolling Stone (big mag)
>
> 1. Late Registration by Kanye West
> 2. A Bigger Bang by The Rolling Stones
> 3. Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes
> 4. Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple
> 5. Devils & Dust by Bruce Springsteen
> 6. Z by My Morning Jacket
> 7. Guero by Beck
> 8. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes
> 9. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
> 10. The Massacre by 50 Cent
>
>
>
> Q magazine (one of the biggest in the UK)
>
> 1. X&Y by Coldplay
> 2. Demon Days by Gorillaz
> 3. Employment by Kaiser Chiefs
> 4. Don't Believe The Truth by Oasis
> 5. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes
> 6. Back To Bedlam by James Blunt
> 7. You Could Have It So Much Better by Franz Ferdinand
> 8. Funeral by Arcade Fire
> 9. Eye To The Telescope by KT Tunstall
> 10. Stars Of CCTV by Hard-Fi
>
>
> Amazon.com Editors' Picks
>
> 1. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
> 2. Arular by M.I.A.
> 3. Twin Cinema by The New Pornographers
> 4. Z by My Morning Jacket
> 5. Dimanche a Bamako by Amadou & Mariam
> 6. Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall [Live]
> 7. I Am A Bird Now by Antony & The Johnsons
> 8. No Direction Home: The Soundtrack by Bob Dylan
> 9. Guero by Beck
> 10. Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple
>
>
>
I'll go with Q but there's four I'd either give away or sell on eBay ;p

You can have the other 20 that are listed (even the Stones).

--
Doobie Doobie Do, da da di da da

DoobieDo <dave@bytext.co.uk> wrote in news:MPG.1e1b92f7f1403842989a45@news-
text.blueyonder.co.uk:

>
> I'll go with Q but there's four I'd either give away or sell on eBay ;p
>
> You can have the other 20 that are listed (even the Stones).
>


so you don't rate music these times either, doobiedo?

I have got so depressed with the charts in the past 15 years.

ALl we ever hear now is manufactured bands, and pop-idol/X-factor type
karaoke singers.

And don't start me on wankers such as McFly.

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, robert blake wrote:

> as an example........here are three top lists........and i see feck all
> correlation.  Critics are all over the place with their picks.
>
>
>
> Rolling Stone (big mag)
>
> 1. Late Registration by Kanye West

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 2. A Bigger Bang by The Rolling Stones

I've heard of them.  I don't listen to them.

> 3. Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 4. Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 5. Devils & Dust by Bruce Springsteen

I've heard of him.  I don't listen to him.

> 6. Z by My Morning Jacket

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 7. Guero by Beck

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 8. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 9. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 10. The Massacre by 50 Cent

Never heard of him/her/them.

>
> Q magazine (one of the biggest in the UK)
>
> 1. X&Y by Coldplay

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 2. Demon Days by Gorillaz

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 3. Employment by Kaiser Chiefs

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 4. Don't Believe The Truth by Oasis

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 5. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 6. Back To Bedlam by James Blunt

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 7. You Could Have It So Much Better by Franz Ferdinand

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 8. Funeral by Arcade Fire

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 9. Eye To The Telescope by KT Tunstall

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 10. Stars Of CCTV by Hard-Fi

Never heard of him/her/them.

>
>
> Amazon.com Editors' Picks
>
> 1. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 2. Arular by M.I.A.

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 3. Twin Cinema by The New Pornographers

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 4. Z by My Morning Jacket

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 5. Dimanche a Bamako by Amadou & Mariam

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 6. Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall [Live]

Now *that* one I would like to hear.

> 7. I Am A Bird Now by Antony & The Johnsons

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 8. No Direction Home: The Soundtrack by Bob Dylan

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 9. Guero by Beck

Never heard of him/her/them.

> 10. Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple

Never heard of him/her/them.

One out of thirty isn't so bad.

--
Norman De Forest      http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/Profile.html
af380@chebucto.ns.ca   [=||=]  (At the Sign of the Flashing Cursor)
"Oh how I miss the days when it was easier to catch gonorhea than a
computer virus."       -- Big Will in alt.comp.virus, March 9, 2005

"Norman L. DeForest" <af380@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote in
news:Pine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.1051227143418.21491C-100000
@halifax.chebucto.ns.ca:

>
> One out of thirty isn't so bad.

lol

so it isn't just me, Norman.

I am relieved to know!

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:09:32 GMT, robert blake <4444D@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>I did a google for best albums of 2005  (being a big music fan)

How old are you if i might ask?

I've heard of a lot of them on the lists, but think the lists were
chosen for personal favorites, not really based on sales or popularity
or whatever.

ad_libitum <> wrote in news:nc33r190h52r2tu5dlgd042clef216uo8h@4ax.com:

> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:09:32 GMT, robert blake <4444D@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
>
> How old are you if i might ask?

41



> I've heard of a lot of them on the lists, but think the lists were
> chosen for personal favorites, not really based on sales or popularity
> or whatever.

i know one or two people who are dismissive of my view re modern
music........and they'll say so and so is brilliant.  But when i challenge
them to name me a song of the artist's that I should look out for, they
struggle.

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> DoobieDo <dave@bytext.co.uk> wrote in news:MPG.1e1b92f7f1403842989a45@news
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> text.blueyonder.co.uk:
> 
>
>
> so you don't rate music these times either, doobiedo?
>
> I have got so depressed with the charts in the past 15 years.
>
> ALl we ever hear now is manufactured bands, and pop-idol/X-factor type
> karaoke singers.
>
ditto, except for ....

> And don't start me on wankers such as McFly.
>
I quite like them, having said that any group that plays it's own instrument
s
are OK by me...

So that includes Busted, Oasis, Darkness, Franz, even Coldplay [1] and o
f
course the Stones (but I think they should pack it in now, don't need the mo
ney
and well over pensionable age).


[1] Coldplay - I did get the Parachutes album and listening to it made m
e SO
depressed I put Radiohead on :((



--
Doobie Doobie Do, da da di da da

robert blake wrote

> I am either getting old, or else there is pure rubbish in the charts
> these times.

I have to agree.  They give buskers a bad name.

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Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com