2005 in music.

Jimmy Eat World's Futures bafflingly won 2004. Let's see who wins 2005.

Billboard chart-topping albums of 2005:
2Pac - Loyal to the Game (cont. from 2004)
Eminem - Encore (cont. from 2004)
Green Day - American Idiot (cont. from 2004)
The Game - The Documentary
Kenny Chesney - Be As You Are
3 Doors Down - Seventeen Days
Ray Charles - Genius Loves Company (cont. from 2004)
Omarion - O
50 Cent - The Massacre
Mariah Carey - The Emancipation of Mimi
Rob Thomas - Something to Be
Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Dave Matthews Band - Stand Up
System of a Down - Mezmerize
Audioslave - Out of Exile
Coldplay - X&Y
George Strait - Somewhere Down in Texas
R. Kelly - TP3
Various Artists - Now! Volume 19
Faith Hill - Fireflies
Staind - Chapter V
Hilary Duff - Most Wanted
Kanye West - Late Registration
Paul Wall - The People's Champ
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
Gretchen Wilson - All Jacked Up
Nickelback - All the Right Reasons
Alicia Keys - Unplugged
Ashlee Simpson - I Am Me
Destiny's Child - #1s
Various Artists - Now! Volume 20
Kenny Chesney - The Road and the Radio
Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor
System of a Down - Hypnotize
Eminem - Curtain Call

Billboard chart-topping singles of 2005:
Mario - Let Me Love You (cont. from 2004)
50 Cent and Olivia - Candy Shop
Gwen Steffani - Hollaback Girl (cont. from 2004)
Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
Carrie Underwood - Inside Your Heaven
Kanye West - Gold Digger
Chris Brown - Run It
Mariah Carey - Don't Forget About Us

What are your top three albums for 2005? We will keep a running tally and eventually have some sort of bracket. For me it would be:
1. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
2. Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth
3. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy

What are some of the forgotten gems from the year? What is overrated? What did you discover at a young age and what did you discover later?

YEARS IN MUSIC • forum.chorus.fm

 

remainder of the top 15:
4. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
5. Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
6. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
7. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
8. Cave In - Perfect Pitch Black
9. The National - Alligator
10. Kanye West - Late Registration
11. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
12. My Morning Jacket - Z
13. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
14. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
15. Coldplay - X&Y

honorable mentions:
As Cities Burn - Son I Loved You at Your Darkest
Audioslave - Out of Exile
Beck - Guero
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
The Bravery - The Bravery
Brendan Benson - The Alternative to Love
Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
Bright Eyes - I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
Circa Survive - Juturna
Cohered and Cambria - Good Apollo, Im Burning Star IV, Vol. One
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Every Time I Die - Gutter Phenomenon
Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Headphones - Headphones
High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
Jamie Lidell - Multiply
John Frusciante - Curtains
Low - The Great Destroyer
Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
System of a Down - Hypnotize
System of a Down - Mezmerize
Thrice - Vheissu
Wolfmother - Wolfmother

stuff to check out:
50 Cent - The Massacre
Autechre - Untilted
Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
Common - Be
Deerhoof - The Runners Four
Doves - Come Cities
Dr. Dog - Easy Beat
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic
The Game - The Documentary
Kathleen Edwards - Back to Me
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
MIA - Arular
Mariah Carey - The Emancipation of Mimi
Paramore - All We Know is Falling
Propagandhi - Potemkin City Limits
Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

 

Of all White Stripes albums, Pat!

Just baffling! lol

 

what? it's their best haha

 

Pretty sure this is the #1 2000s indie rock year, at least of the primarily dude-fronted era. Quick glance I’ve got like a 7 or 8 way tie for 1 before I think too hard about it

 

1. The Glow - The Ghosts Are Out...
2. Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory
3. The National - Alligator

 

Firmly into my CD-buying era now. Laughing remembering how many of the chart-topping albums from this year I purchased.

 

such a good year:

1. Bright Eyes - im wide awake...
2. Sufan - Illinois
3. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
4. The National - Alligator
5. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

Just missed...
DCFC - Plans
bright eyes - digital ash
kanye - late registration
wolf parade - apologies to queen the mary
MMJ - z
thrice - vheissu
the hold stead - separation sunday
okkervil - black sheep boy
TWS - get behind me satan

 

1. Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV
2. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
3. Sigur Ros - Takk...

Also love both Bright Eyes albums, and Vhiessu is a banger as well.

 

1. Thrice - Vheissu
2. Minus The Bear - Menos El Oso
3. Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This To Memory
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4. Mae - The Everglow
5. System Of A Down - Mezmerize/Hypnotize
6. Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
7. Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth
8. Every Time I Die - Gutter Phenomenon
9. 311 - Don't Tread On Me
10. Coldplay - X&Y
11. Kanye West - Late Registration
12. Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
13. Beck - Guero
14. Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
15. Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift
16. Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree
17. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
18. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
19. Switchfoot - Nothing Is Sound
20. Coheed And Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness
21. Our Lady Peace - Healthy In Paranoid Times
22. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
23. My Morning Jacket - Z
24. Weezer - Make Believe
25. Cartel - Chroma
26. The National - Alligator
27. Gorillaz - Demon Days
28. Alkaline Trio - Crimson
29. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
30. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

Honorable Mention:
Against Me! - Searching For A Former Clarity
The All-American Rejects - Move Along
Anberlin - Never Take Friendship Personal
Audioslave - Out Of Exile
Augustana - All The Stars And Boulevards
Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
Boys Night Out - Trainwreck
The Bravery - The Bravery
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Circa Survive - Juturna
CKY - An Answer Can Be Found
Clutch - Robot Hive/Exodus
Common - Be
Copeland - In Motion
Dave Matthews Band - Stand Up
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Doves - Some Cities
Dr. Dog - Easy Beat
Dropkick Murphys - The Warrior's Code
Editors - The Back Room
Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
The Evan Anthem - Sens
Feeder - Pushing The Senses
Finch - Say Hello To Sunshine
Fountains Of Wayne - Out-of-State Plates
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
The Fray - How To Save A Life
Garbage - Bleed Like Me
Gratitude - Gratitude
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Hot Hot Heat - Elevator
Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
Jack's Mannequin - Everything In Transit
Jason Mraz - Mr. A-Z
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Korn - See You On The Other Side
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Limp Bizkit - The Unquestionable Truth, Part 1
Longwave - There's A Fire
Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic
Mudvayne - Lost and Found
MxPx - Panic
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
O.A.R. - Stories Of A Strangers
OK Go - Oh No
Paramore - All We Know Is Falling
The Receiving End Of Sirens - Between The Heart and The Synapse
Rob Thomas - Something To Be
Ryan Adams - 29
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Jacksonville City Nights
Shinedown - Us and Them
Sigur Ros - Takk...
The Spill Canvas - One Fell Swoop
Stereophonics - Language.Sex.Violence.Other?
Story Of The Year - In the Wake of Determination
Taproot - Blue-Sky Research
Team Sleep - Team Sleep
Thirty Seconds To Mars - A Beautiful Lie
Transplants - Haunted Cities
Unwritten Law - Here's To The Mourning
Vendetta Red - Sisters Of the Red Death
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary

Checking Out in Full for First Time - Artist Name (their respective '05 Album):
The Academy Is...
Accceptance
A Day To Remember
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Animal Collective
Armor For Sleep
Averi
A Wilhelm Scream
Bear Vs. Shark
Better Than Ezra
Between The Buried And Me
Black Lab
Bob Mould
Bomb The Music Industry!
Bright Eyes
Cave In
Chiodos
City And Colour
Comeback Kid
Daft Punk
Depeche Mode
Dierks Bentley
Dredg
Funeral For A Friend
Gojira
Hard-Fi
High On Fire
John Frusciante
Lifehouse
Limbeck
Low
M83
Nightmare Of You
Oceansize
Okkervil River
Paul McCartney
Pennywise
Silverstein
The Starting Line
The Subways
Sufjan Stevens
Waking Ashland
The Wallflowers

 

1) Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
2) Gorillaz - Demon Days
3) Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth

4) Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
5) Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit
6) Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV
7) Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
8) The Starting Line - Based on a True Story
9) Armor for Sleep - What to Do When You're Dead
10) The Academy Is - Almost Here
11) Paramore - All We Know is Falling
12) Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
13) Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory
14) Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
15) The Fray - How to Save a Life

 

My number 1 Album from his year shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone here.....

1. Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
2. Panic! at the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
3. Backstreet Boys - Never Gone

The rest..

Cartel - Chroma
Thrice - Vheissu
Notorious BIG - Duets
Thirty Seconds To Mars - A Beautiful Lie
The Fray - How To Save a Life
Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit
Jason Mraz - Mr. A-Z
All America Rejects - Move Along
Ying Yang Twins - U.S.A. (United State of Atlanta)
Lifehouse - ST
Acceptance - Phantoms
Kanye West - Late Registration
Anberlin - Never Take Friendship Personal
Paramore - All we know is falling
Ashlee Simpson - I Am Me
Coldplay - X&Y
Gretchen Wilson - All Jacked Up
Kenny Chesney - The Road and the Radio

 

1. Kanye West - Late Registration
2. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake...
3. Bear vs. Shark - Terrorhawk

very good year:
Bomb the Music Industry - Album Minus Band
Bomb the Music Industry - To Leave and Die
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Little Brother - Minstrel Show
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Day at the Fair - The Rocking Chair Years
Hidden in Plain View - Life in Dreaming
Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit
Bayside - Bayside
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Valencia - This Could Be a Possibility
The Starting Line - Based on a True Story
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
Notorious BIG - Duets

 

Am I going to be the only one with FOB in their top 3?

Probably...

 

1. Thrice - Vheissu
2. Kanye West - Late Registration
3. Circa Survive - Juturna
4. Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. One
5. Minus The Bear - Menos El Olso
6. Sigur Ros - Takk...
7. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
8. The National - Alligator

 

This is too packed a year for me to give From Under the Cork Tree a top 3 vote, but I think it’s worth some discussion. Pretty easy top 5 pop punk album of all time in my opinion, it’s just about perfect.

 

Listen, I'm totally ok with that.

I'm happy to be the only one waving their FOB flag for 2005

 

hell yeah

 

On vacay till Wednesday

 

real ones know digital ash is the better of the two bright eyes albums

 

As I was going through the wiki list of album release dates, I was literally remembering in my head which Best Buy or Target I walked into to purchase each one of those CDs as they came out.... fuckin nostalgia is a powerful thing lol

I also bought my first car in June of 2005 - with a 6 CD changer. I was so pumped to load that bad boy up.

 

I still love going to the store and buying CDs.

 

Also, for anyone who gives a crap...

I finally got TTTYG on Vinyl. I can now die a happy woman.

 

Such a loaded year for music.
1. Minus the bear - menos el oso
2. Jacks mannequin - EIT
3. Kanye - Late Registration
4. Cartel - Chroma
5. Mae - Everglow

3-5 were impossibly hard to rank. My next 5 probably make the top 3 in every subsequent year too.

 

Their best album.