artist | song | release | label | year
Mazarin | NE Winter | We’re Already There | I and Ear | 2005
My Dad is Dead | Down is Up | A Divided House | Unhinged | 2005
Bettie Serveert | Hands Off | Attagirl | Palomine | 2004
Rare Animal Zoo | Imaginary Friends | This is a Care Package comp | Exotic Fever | 2005
Yohimbe Bros. | The Secret Frequency | The Tao of Yo | Thirsty Cat | 2004
Test Icicles | Boa vs. Python | Boa vs. Python | Domino | 2005 [request]
Jack Endino | Van Allen Wrench | Permanent Fatal Error | Wondertaker | 2005
The Blue Revision | Disparition | Day Terrors | Columbus Discount | 2005 [my sotw]
French Toast | Insane | In a Cave | Dischord | 2005
The Impossible Shapes | Survival | Horus | Secretly Canadian | 2005
Malachi Constant | Phoning In | Infinite Justice | Guilt Ridden Pop | 2005
The Sharp Ease | Patio Chair | Going Modern | OlFactory | 2005
The Mendoza Line | Name Names | Full of Light and Full of Fire | Misra | 2005
The Sixfifteens | Whose Heart do I Have | Feature, Conference, Transfer | Fake Chapter | 2005
Red Sparowes | Alone and unaware, the landscape was transformed in front of our eyes | At the Soundless Dawn | Neurot | 2005
Baby Boy H | Running Blind | The Later | Radar Recordings | 2005
The Bags | Caveman Rejoice | Sharpen Your Sticks | Mad Oak | 2005
Gatsby | Grad School | Floods and Fires | X | 2004
The Charms | Need Your Life | Pussycat | Red Car | 2005
Count Me Outs | Jefferson Hairplan | Count Me Outs | X | 2005
Chris Brokaw | Huntington Beach Sunset | “I Was Born, But…” original score | X | 2005
The Upper Crust | Friend of a Friend of the Working Class | Let Them Eat Rock | Upstart | 1995 [request]
The Dents | On My Own | Time for Biting | Abbey Lounge | 2005
Ketman | Song Binbin | Dobrze | Lifted and Gifted | 2005
The Sharking | Ocean | The Sharking | 202 Lions | 2005
Guapo | V | Black Oni | Ipecac | 2005
Dinosaur Jr. | Budge | Bug | Merge | 1988/2005
Big Dipper | Faith Healer | Live at East Campus | WMBR | 1988/2005
Roky Erickson & the Aliens | Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play | I Have Always Been Here Before | Shout Factory | 1977/2005
We Acediasts | Kousho | Pre Acediasts | Mesh Key | 2001/2005
Weird War | Put it in Your Pocket | Illuminated by the Light | Drag City | 2005
LOST AND FOUND – filling in for late Larry |
Hawkwind | Realms | Space Bandits | Castle | 1990/1999
The Lost | Everybody Knows | The Lost Tapes ’65-’66 | Arf Arf | ?
Nicols | She Had a Name to Find Out | Pebbles #12 | Archive International | 1999
La Revolucion de Emiliano Zapato/Nada del Hombre Me es Ajeno (Hoy) | En Medio de la Lluvia | Love, Peace, and Poetry (Mexican Psych) comp | Normal | ?
Ruben y sus Emociones | Mari y Juana | Planetary Pebbles #2 | Archive International | ?
Azteca | Azteca Theme | Chicano Power! Comp | Soul Jazz | ?
Powers of Blue | You Blow my Mind | Everything You Always Wanted to Know About ’60s Mind Exploding Punkadellic Garage Rock Instrumentals But Were Afraid to Ask | Arf Arf | 1993
Bad Religion | Along the Way | Back to the Known | Epitaph | 12″ ’84
Black Furies | Killer Inside | Death Trip Saturday Night | Gearhead | CD 05
Lords of Altamont | $4.95 | Lords Have Mercy | Gearhead | CD 05
Deerhunter | Language/Violence | s/t | Stick Figure | CD 05
Cassandra Complex | Too Stupid to Sin | Theomania | Play it Again Sam | LP ’88
Black Ice | The Stillness | Terrible Birds | Hungry Eye | CD 05
Volcano Suns | Greasy Spine | single | LSR/Homestead | 7″ ’86
Joggers | We’ve Been Talked Down | With a Cape and a Cane | Startime Intl/Vagrant | CD 05
The Denizens | I Know You Hate Me | EP | Young Soul Rebel | 7″ 05
Clorox Girls | Upperhand | This Dimension | Smarguy | CD 05
New Bomb Turks | Born Toulouse Lautrec | Destroy Oh Boy | Crypt | LP ’93
F Minus | Living Hell | Won’t Bleed Me, Failed Society | Alt. Tentacles | CD 05
Metallica | Blitzkrieg | Kill Em All | Elektra | LP ’83
The Hellbenders | Feed the Friction | split w/ Safety Pins | Dead Beat | LP 05
The Cripples | Bruises | Culture | Dirtnap | CD 05
Drunk Injuns | They Walked in Line | Frontside Grind | Beware | LP ’87
Nausea | Here Today | The Punk Terrorist Anthology Vol. 1 | Alt. Tentacles | CD 05
The Black Clouds | Cool 2 Drive | Live on Pipeline | – | CD 05
Honkeyball | Unaffected American | s/t | Summit | CD ’95
Strike Anywhere | Chorus of One | To Live in Discontent | Jade Tree | CD 05
Bombshells | Doing Hard Time | Audio Wasteland | Bombshell | CD 05
The Flakes | That’s All | Back to School | Dollar Record | CD 05
The Easybeats | Heaven and Hell | The Definitive Series | Albert | CD ’92
Pop Will Eat Itself | Karmadrome | Karmadrome | RCA | CD ’92
Nelly | Angel Y Khriz: Fua | Grand Slam MVP 2 | MVP | CD 05
Gothic Slam* | Stand Up and Fight | Killer Instinct | Torrid | LP ’88
The Nerves | One Way Ticket | Children of Nuggets 4 comp | Rhino | CD 05
The Hypstrz | Action Woman | Live at the Longhorn | Bomp | CD 05
The Pulses | Give Up and Let Their Children Win | Gather Round and Destroy Our Records | Dirtnap | CD 05
Faith Healers | Moon Inna Joon | Peel Sessions | BBC | CD 05
Government Issue | Where You Live | You | Giant/Dutch East | LP ’87
Hot Cross | Tacoma | Protect comp | Fat | CD 05
Green Day | I Want to be Alone | The Big One comp | FS | LP ’91
Reatards | Make it Fit | Not Fucked Enough | Empty | CD 05
The Fall | Breaking the Rules | Fall Heads Roll | Narnack | CD 05
The Go Team | Feel Good by Numbers | Thunder | Columbia | CD 05
Hawkwind | Out of the Shadows | Space Bandits | Castle | CD ’99
Best of 2005 |
Rank | Artist | Song | Release | Label | Year
20 | Dead Meadow | Stacy’s Song | Feathers | Matador | 2005
19 | Constants | Gelatinous Meets Plum for a Moonlight Rendezvous | Invasion of the Bionic Wolves EP | Radar Recordings | 2005
18 | The Narrator | This Party’s Over | Such Triumph | Flameshovel | 2005
17 | Oneida | Heavenly Cry | The Wedding | Jagjaguwar | 2005
16 | New Electric | Don’t Send Me Home | New Electric | Perpetual Motion Machine | 2005
15 | Snitches Get Stitches | Kodiac with a Kojak | I Liked You Better When You Were a Corpse | Empty | 2005
14 | Dumbwaiters | Icons (Too Many People) | Musick | Fiani | 2004
13 | By the End of Tonight | 4’s, 5’s, and the Piano Never Made it Home | A Tribute to Tigers | Temporary Residence | 2005
12 | Polysics | Making Sense | Polysics or Die!!! | Tofu | 2004
bed | Tristeza | Bromas | A Colores | Better Looking | 2005
11 | Oxford Collapse | Proofreading | A Good Ground | Kanine | 2005
10 | Cadeaux | Show Me the Moment | Physical City | Sound Document | 2005
9 | Burdocks | Let’s Cut Each Other Up | What We do is Secret | Black Mountain | 2005
bed | Dungen | Jamna Plagor | Ta Det Lugnt | Kemado | 2004
8 | AM Stereo | So Far Over You | Can’t | Gentlemen’s Recording Company | 2005
7 | Bleach 03 | Kuropen Bigaku Tenshi-Chan to Kangaemashita (My Sweet Angel and I Considered the Aesthetics of the Black Pen) | Bleach 03 | Australian Cattle God | 2005
6 | Protokoll | Moving Forward | Protokoll | Opcode | 2005
5 | Clickers | My Life as a Failed Impartial Observer | 1 | dancedance | 2005
4 | French Toast | Float Away | In a Cave | Dischord | 2005
3 | Pelican | Sirius | The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw | Hydrahead | 2005
bed | Continental | Ghost War | From What was Lost | U-Dot | 2005
2 | Shipping News | (Morays or) Demon | Flies the Fields | ¼ Stick | 2005
1 | Kinski | The Snowy Parts of Scandinavia | Alpine Static | Sub Pop | 2005
1 | Kinski | Edge Set | Alpine Static | Sub Pop | 2005
x | Death From Above 1979 | Better Off Dead | Romance Bloody Romance | Vice | 2005 [cover song of the year; disappointing album of the year]
Artist | Title | Release | Format | Label | Year
Circle Jerks | Killing For Jesus | Wönderful | LP
Real Kids | Foggy Notion | 10″ | Norton | 2005
Jackie Mittoo | Get Up And Get It [background] | The Keyboard King at Studio One | CD | Universal Sounds | 2000
Manitoba’s Wild Kingdom | The Party Starts Now! | LP
Halo of Flies | Insecticide Stomp | Dope Guns & Fucking in the Streets Vol 1-4 | LP | Amphetamine Reptile
Guitar Wolf | Indian Guitar | LP | Goner
Moe Tucker | Guess I’m Falling in Love | 12″ EP | 50 Skadillion Watts
Jackie Mittoo | Henry the Great [background] | The Keyboard King at Studio One | CD | Universal Sounds | 2000
Worst | Earache | Earache | 7″ | Big Neck | 2005
Wire | The 15th | 154 | LP
Treatment | Sonic Who | 7″ | 2005
Turbonegro | Manimal | Hot Cars and Spent Contraceptives | LP
Germs | Manimal | GI | LP | Slash
Jackie Mittoo | Black Organ [background] | The Keyboard King at Studio One | CD | Universal Sounds | 2000
Latest | Dead On Wrong | The Latest | LP | Peer Pressure Zombie | 2004
Denizens | I Know You Hate Me | 7″ | Young Soul Rebels | 2005
Doubt | Time Out | Powerpearls Vol 6 | LP
Jackie Mittoo | Totally Together [background] | The Keyboard King at Studio One | CD | Universal Sounds | 2000
Elevator | Your I’s Are Too Close Together | Powerpearls Vol 4 | LP
Stooges | TV Eye | Fun House | LP | Elektra | 1970
Vibrators | Baby Baby | LP
Volt | Test Bild | Volt | 12″ EP | In the Red | 2005
Cheap Trick | Elo Kiddies | Cheap Trick | LP | Epic | 1977
Jackie Mittoo | Oboe [background] | The Keyboard King at Studio One | CD | Universal Sounds | 2000
Motörhead | Overkill | Overkill | LP
Venom | Angel Dust | LP
Jackie Mittoo | Wall Street [background] | The Keyboard King at Studio One | CD | Universal Sounds | 2000
Jackie Mittoo | Darker Shade of Black [background] | The Keyboard King at Studio One | CD | Universal Sounds | 2000
Mexican Blackbirds | Gonna Get My Daggers | 12″ EP | 2005
feedtime | Pumping a Line | Suction | LP
Feelies | What Goes On | Only Life | LP
Queen Cobra | Bad to Worse | Queen Cobra | LP | Peer Pressure Zombie
Jackie Mittoo | Hot Tamale [background] | The Keyboard King at Studio One | CD | Universal Sounds | 2000
Things | She’s Trash | 7″ | 2005
Reatards | Human Race | 7″ | 2005
Thee Monkey Butlers | Sapperticker Boogie | 7″ | Babydoll | 2005
Wipers | Can This Be | Youth of America | LP
Jackie Mittoo | Reggae Rock [background] | The Keyboard King at Studio One | CD | Universal Sounds | 2000
Minutemen | Tour Spiel | Project Mersh | 12″ EP | SST
Only Living Witness | December | Prone Mortal Form | Century Media | CD ’93
Death from Above 1979 | Better Off Dead | Romance Bloody Romance | Last Gang/Vice | CD 05
Cocked n Loaded | Fight Night | Ding Dong Doom Baby | – | CD 05
The Hidden | Reception | Church & War | – | CD 05
Agent Sparks | Choke | Not so Merry | Immortal | CD 05
Red Invasion | This is How I Live, This is How I Die | I’m Not Too Young to Die | Pelado | CD 05
Sylvain Sylvain | Emily | s/t | RCA | LP ’80
Bullets to Broadway | Happily Ever After | Drink Positive | Red Scare | CD 05
Somebody’s Chyldren | I’m Going Back to New York City | Modo Hollywood A Go Go 1967 comp | Archive Intl. | LP ’83
The Guilty Hearts | Big Mouth Mickey | s/t | Voodoo Rhythm | CD 05
DJ Grann | Plico: Esto es Guillaera | MVP2 | MVP | CD 05
Animals and Men | Render us Harmless | Revel in the Static | Hyped 2 Death | CD 05
Burdocks | Iveco | What We Do is Secret | Black Mountain Music | CD 05
Jukebox Zeros | Ch. 48 | Four on the Floor | Steel Cage | CD )5
The Lazy Cowgirls | Rock of Gibraltar | Here and Now Live | Sympathy | CD 01
Mach 5 | Quincy Girl | Meet Mach 5 | Lawless | CD 05
International Noise Conspiracy | Black Mask | Armed Love | Epitaph/American | CD 05
AC/DC | What’s Next to the Moon | Powerage | Atlantic | LP ’78, req
Saboteur | Mommy’s Little Anarchist | s/t | End Sounds | CD 05
The Saints | Orstralia | Enternally Yours | Sire | LP ’78, req
The A-Lines | Heidi’s Head | single | Sympathy | 7″ 05
Righteous Jams | Rage of Discipline | Rage of Discipline | Kung Fu | CD 05
Damage Case | Red Alert | Punx Unite comp | Charged/Side One Dummy | CD 05
Smoke or Fire | Indecision | Protect comp | Fat | CD 05
Saxon* | Fire in the Sky | Denim & Leather | Carrere | LP ’81
Rock n Roll Soldiers | Borborion | The Two EPs | Gearhead/East West | CD 05
Black Flag | Hell’s Getting Hotter | The Blasting Concept comp | SST | LPL ’83
The Subteens | Liquor | So That’s What the Kids are Calling It | Young Ave | CD 05
The Greenhornes | No More | Sewed Soles | V2 | CD 05
Bunk Dogger | Red Alert | Bubblepop: 20 UK Pop Oddities comp | RPM | CD 05
Face to Face | Ordinary | Shoot the Moon, The Essential Collection | Vagrant | CD 05
Safety Pins | I’m Rotten | split w/ Hellbenders | Dead Beat | LP ’05
Tad | Behemoth | God’s Balls | Sub Pop | LP ’89
Horace Pinker | PoliSci 101 | Texas One Ten | Thick | CD 05
The Hatepinks | Boredom Bills | Sehr Gut Rock und Roll | Gonna Puke | CD 05
Ringers | Cue the Strings | Curses | 1234 Go | CD 05
The Drones | Baby | Waiting by the River | All Tomorrow’s Parties | CD 05
Patti Smith | Free Money | Horses 1975/2005 | Arista | CD 05
The Merry Go Round | Gonna Leave You Alone | Listen Listen | Cherry Red | CD 05
Big Dipper | Faith Healer | Live on East Campus | – | CD ’89/05