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
artist | song | release | label | year
Pash | Down | This is a Care Package comp | EXF | 2005
The Appleseed Cast | Innocent Vigilant Ordinary | Two Conversations | Tiger Style | 2003
Volante | Hum | 45 Degrees North | Guilt Ridden Pop | 2001
Cursive | Eight Light Minutes | Such Blinding Stars For Starvin | Crank | 1997
The Soup Dragons | Girl in the World | Hang-Ten | Sire | 1987
Sebadoh | New Worship | Smash Your Head on the Punk | Sub Pop | 1992
The Thermals | A Passing Feeling | More Parts Per Million | Sub Pop | 2003
Swamp Thing | 21 Lbs. In a 10 Lb. Box | Learning to Disintegrate | Flaming Pie | 1985
Didjits | Under the Christmas Fish | Hey Judester | Touch and Go | 1988
The Sixfifteens | Model Glue | Feature, Conference, Transfer | Fake Chapter | 2005
Lightning Bolt | Planet of the Wolves | I Love Guitar Wolf compilation | Narnack | [Bryan’s sotw] 2005
The Offs | One More Shot | First Record | CD | 1984
The Bell Rays | Rocket Ship Santa | Merry Christmas From the Bell | Cheap Lullaby | 2005
Tot Rocket and the Twins | What did You Expect | Hyped 2 Death #12 | Hyped 2 Death | 1980/2002
Madhouse | Plastic | Madhouse | Fountain of Youth | 1985
Burdocks | Iveco | What We Do is Secret | Black Mountain | 2005
Harris | Solid Ground | The Light is Seeping Through t | X | 2005
Moving Targets | Less Than Gravity | Burning in Water | Taang! | 1986
The Outlets | Someday | Whole New World | One Way | 1985
Neighborhoods | Christmas I Recall | ? | ? | ?
Christmas | O Holy Night | Boston Rock Christmas | Boston Rock | 1985
Showcase Showdown | Ho Ho Ho Chi Mhin | Merry Christmas I Fucked Your | Tario | [request] 1995
Protokoll | Risen | Protokoll | Opcode | [my sotw] 2005
The Dambuilders | Special Ed | Ruby Red | Atlantic | 1995
The Modern Lovers | She Cracked | The Original Modern Lovers | BOMP! | 1981/2000
The Glass Set | Everyone’s a Thief | The Glass Set | G5 | 2005
The Descendents | Get the Time | Enjoy | New Alliance | 1986
Samiam | You Looking at Me | Underground single | New Red Archives | 1990
Cadillac Blindside | Three Week Wine Bender | These Liquid Lungs | Fueled by Ramen | 2002
This is Exploding | Without a Fight | Until the Next Red Light | Derby Racer | 2004
Radon | Lying to You | Radon | No Idea | 2000
Grabass Charlestons | Check Me Out, I’m Stupid | Split with Billy Reese Peters | No Idea | 2002
Poster Children | Hollywood | Flower Plower | Limited Potential | 1989
The Clean | Point That Thing Somewhere E | Anthology | Merge | 2003
Attack Formation | Russian (Glacier Song) | Somebody as Anybody | Afro | 2005
didjits | give it back | give it back | touch & go | 1990 | 7″
rye coalition | dressing up for the indictment | hee saw dhuh kaet | gern blandsten | 1997 | CD
dils | i hate the rich | class war | dionysius | 2000 | CD
mars | 3-E | 78+ | atavistic | 1996 | CD
dicks | dicks hate the police | 1980-1986 | AT | 1997 | CD
rapeman | steak & black onions | two nuns and a pack mule | touch & go | 1990 | LP
tsol | no way out | s/t | posh boy | 1981 | LP
astoveboat | thee ungodly squall | new bedford | load | 1998 | CD
prefects | things in general | amateur wankers | acute | 2004 | CD
delta 72 | on the lam | r+b of membership | touch & go | 1996 | CD
saints | no time | (i’m)stranded | australian | 1986 | LP
karp | forget the minions | s/t | K | 1997 | CD
BGK | buy or die | a dutch feast | AT | 1999 | CD
protokoll | risen | s/t | opcode | 2005 | CD
fire engine | get up and use me | aufgeladen und bereit fur action und spass | rough trade | 1981 LP
jesus lizard | karpis | goat | touch & go | 1991 | LP
smack | for a daqui | sexual life of savages | soul jazz | 2005 | CD
liars | if you’re a wizard then why do you wear glasses? | they were wrong, so we drowned | mute | 2004 | CD
pylon | the human body | gyrate | ? | 1980 | LP
heroine sheiks | let’s fight | rape on the installment plan | reptilian | 2001 | CD
delta 5 | mind your own business | mind your own business | rough trade | ? | 7″
cop shoot cop | waiting for the punchline | consumer revolt | big cat | 1992 | CD
germs | we must bleed | (MIA) | slash | 1979 | CD
test icicles | lmn hoes | boa vs. python | domino | CD | 2005
mission of burma | this is not a photograph | s/t | rykodisc | 1988 | CD
sightings | dudes | arrived in gold | load | 2005 | CD
this heat | s.p.q.r. | deceit | rough trade | ? | LP
a-frames | nuclear | a-frames 2 | s-s records | 2003 | LP
swell maps | let’s build a car | collision time revisited | mute | 1989 | LP
hammerhead | all this is yours | into the vortex | amrep | 1994 | CD
talking heads | artists only | more songs about buildings and food | sire | 1978 | LP
lightning bolt | planet of the wolves | i love guitar wolf very much | narnack | 2005 | CD
fellini | rock europeau | sexual life of savages | soul jazz | 2005 | CD
today is the day | execution style | dope, guns, and fucking in the streets 8-11 | amrep | 1997 | CD
bush tetras | too many creeps | too many creeps | bush tetra | 1980 | 7″
vaz | tri-panic express | the lie that matches the furniture | narnack | 2005 | CD
homosexuals | divorce proceedings from reality | the homosexuals’ CD | morphius | 2004 | CD
DNA | nearing | DNA on DNA | more | 2004 | CD