Considering I am currently trying to build a whoop-ass early 90's R&B music collection, I have not been keeping up with new 2K5 releases (but, BOY OH BOY, I can listen to Color Me Badd or Bel Biv DeVoe anytime I want!!) All things considered, my favorite NEW stuff is as follows:



1. Open Hand - You & Me (for some good ol' rock)



2. Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night (I also love wizard metal)



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The following are later 2K4 albums I can't get enough of,which cap off the top 5 list:



3. Social Distortion - Sex, Love, Rock & Roll (one of my top 5 fav bands, of all time)



4. Joey Cape & Tony Sly - Acoustic (No Use For A Name + Lagwagon = perfection)



5. Minus The Bear - Highly Refined Pirates (they get wasted a lot & makes genius music)





VIVA LA CRISCO TWISTER!!

Atm listening to bloc party, arcade fire, sarah blasko, sage francis, aerop rock, the maroons, an april march, and always have my bloody valentine and stereolab nearby.

I'm digging the new Bloc Party, but I keep going back and forth on Sage's new one. What do you think of A Healthy Distrust?

Not his greatest, but i like his anger so i'm biased. If you like sage though you'll like a guy by the name of Qwel, of a crew called 'Typical Cats'

for some reason i have been stuck on beulah and sleep station lately.

wooo...music blog!...so far in my playlist, its thrice, boy sets fire, in flames, from autumn to ashes and last days of april

i have over 250 albums plus however many mp3s, and listen to most of the on and off, so this is really hard! i couldn't tell you how many of them are 2005ish though. Kasabian would be up there, so would Prodigy. otherwise i don't think i have much stuff from this year.



eskimokiss, my bloody valentine rock! no one i know has ever heard of them!

Yeah, same here. I love that whole shoe-gaze era. I discovered them late (in 1999) thanks to a 'cyber' friend who put me onto many fab bands. I was hooked the first time I heard them (First song of theirs I downloaded was 'When You Sleep' which incidently became my favourite song of theirs) and bought Loveless, Glider, Isn't Anything and Tremelo within a month. Been looking for Geek, This is Your Bloody Valentine, and Ecstacy and Wine since then, but have most songs on mp3 anyhow.

i don't have many, just My Bloody Valentine. it was playing in a shop while i was browsing so i bought it there and then. haven't found any more since unfortunatly.



i tend only to download to see what a band's like before i buy, i much prefere to own the cds, so i haven't done that yet... though i am sorely tempted!

whoo



1. Beck - Guero, this album is great!



2. Fantomas - Suspended Animation - nothing like this



3. Queens of the Stoneage - Lullabys to Paralyze



4. The Muse - Absolution



5. The Mars Volta - Fances the Mute



this is going to be a great year for music!!!

I've been meaning to check out Beck's new one. They were playing it at the record store the other day, and I liked what I heard.

Can't wait for new:

Weezer

NIN

Pearl Jam

SOAD

Lostprophets

30stm

and possibly a new Death Cab EP?

Didn't know Pearl Jam had a new one. Have you heard NIN's new single? Heard it's good. I'm also looking forward to hear what the Gorillaz new one sounds like. And I think all these artist have albums coming out this year:



Flamming Lips

311

Outkast

DJ Shadow

Portishead

Scissor Sisters

The White Stripes

Tool

Foo Fighters



Sounds like it is going to be quite a year

the new Gorillaz sound is pretty cool. hasn't changed too much, but i've only heard the one song so it's not really that much to judge it on. i didn't know lostprophets had a new know due. the big one for me is Audioslave.

When I first heard the new Gorillaz song I thought it was new Outkast.

Portishead are releasing a new album!?!?! About bloody time, it's been almost 10 years!

Check out this site. It always has tons of release dates.



http://www.tophitsonline.com/newreleases.htm

maybe they're too busy listening to pearl jam or some other top fo' band..

oh man honestly, someones got to listen....



moneen - are we really happy with who we are



no better way to start the day then agressive, melodic punk

I'm listening to Godspeed you black emperor! , Mogwai, Tortoise, Tool, Aphex Twin, Add N to (x), and stuff. I miss John Peel though, he gave me lots of things to like!

O.K. since no one has mentioned the yahoo forum

ElectroAmbientDreamPop, allow me to.

included along with the obvious are shoe-gazer, ethereal, etc. etc...

downtempo



people who host various internet radio shows on music of the sort will post times they will be on air. bands, dj's, etc. artists will post their websites and info on the music they play.



it ranges from "kinda sorta obscure" to "pretty damn obscure"



the past few days they have gone off on a total tangent talking about Japanese Electronic Pop. but uasually there's much less of a subject.



when ever a year is up people will post their "Best of" the year lists, which are neat to look through. One person list was 50 CD's long.



but yea. any one who like's downtempo is pretty much garenteed to find somethng they havent even heard of.

& if not. damn I'm impressed. lol

bonobo - remixes & b-side

lovage - music to make love to your old lady by

pixies - doolittle

fingathing - superhero music

felix da housecat - kittenz and zee glitz

miles davis - doo bop

Super Furry Animals are always at the top of my list , but i heard the new Weezer single on the radio earlier and i'm really looking forward to that album. The Futureheads album is quite good, I haven't had much of a chance to hear that much new stuff recently, a bit bummed to learn that the Kaiser Chiefs album is a bit of a let down but im keen to hear something new.

Super Furry Animals are always at the top of my list , but i heard the new Weezer single on the radio earlier and i'm really looking forward to that album. The Futureheads album is quite good, I haven't had much of a chance to hear that much new stuff recently, a bit bummed to learn that the Kaiser Chiefs album is a bit of a let down but im keen to hear something new.

Yeah I'm not digging the Kaiser Chiefs. Just sounds like the same thing over and over. I had to force myself to get through the whol album. I haven't heard the new Weezer single, have to check it out.

British Sea Power are quite good too, first album is anyway and they have a new one on the way, obvious Joy Division influences.

i dig "hot hot heat" and "the used"

anyone heard the new Millencolin cd? I got it about a week and a half before it was released..............yeah, I'm cool. I've loved Millencolin for a long time, and I think they've stayed pretty true to their own sound, but it seems to me the last two of theirs have been a little weird........But I still love them.

Some good taste in music here. All everyone I know listens to is the crap they play on the radio: Maroon 5, Story of the Year... that kind of garbage. Right now I'm listening to:



Death Cab

Arcade Fire

Air

Pinback

Department of Eagles

Stereolab

Blonde Redhead



I'm not really feeling the new Weezer single. I'm a big fan of the blue album and Pinkerton, so the new stuff is just ok. I'm looking to get the King Louis XIV album and Fischerspooner, along with the obvious Theivery Corp and Prodigy. And I agree with whoever said it's a good ear for music. 2004 wasn't bad at all, and with Mogwai and some others, I think 05 will be even better. Also looking forward to a new portishead album. That will be amazing!



-gameyy

So far this year:





Duran Duran Duran - Simply Pleasure



Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Allat Született



Shitmat - Full English Breakfest



Autechre - Untilted



Aphex Twin - Analord releases

& I like the new ETBG cd "adapt or die" :o)

my favorite CD so far for "05

Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles

The Decemberists - Picaresque

& I don't know what else has come out recently. :D

Just got Slightly Stoopid's new one. Haven't had a chance to decide how much I like it. I'll let you all know after a few more rotations.

NEW ADDITIONS:



And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - 'Worlds Apart'

[boy, oh boy...this album makes me want to do happy things to nature]



Converge - 'When Forever Comes Crashing'

[ok, so it's not really "new" as it is remastered. but man, oh MAN...it makes me want to do naughty things to my speakers]

Why can't i work with you guys , if i mention any stuff like the bands listed above i get told that my colleagues listen to "proper music". Everybody at my work chooses local radio stations ie. shite or play crap compilation CD's, i have no idea how many fucking times i had to listen to 9 to 5 on rotation the other day but its a good thing i don't work with weaponry.

I've got two words pushed together to make one uber-word for you: HEADPHONES.

Sorry, i hate to admit this albeit in front of people i dont know, but i currently work in a callcentre, uuuurrghhh!!!

callcentre's can be good sometimes.



i used to work telesales, and one time during the FA cup final (soccer if you're anerican, i'm not sure) i managed to get a guy to leave his phone next to the tv with me on the other end. he didn't get any more interuptions, and i didn't have to work and could hear the commentary and all paid for by the company :D



so glad they didn't note who was on what phone when!

Its okay if you can get a moment of respite like you did but i work with some horrible people, some lovely people too but there are so many raciost people out there , both ends of the phone. A colleague of mine the other day described someone as "one of them" with her index finger planted firmly in the middle of her forehead. I was furious and ripped into her but you can imagine what it's like musically. Nights out are nothing but Paul Smith/Ben sherman shirts.



Sorry i derailed, Has anyone heard the new white stripes track? AC/DC wannabe anyone, not that its a bad thing.

stars and decemberists...excellent choices. i just saw the decemberists at the henry fonda in LA. best show ever.

arcade fire,the engineers,mars volta,jaga jazzist,four tet,qosa,kathreine polwart,the cardiacs. i could go on.... all releaesed this year,

vibration13,



seeing your list of instrumental awesomeness, I HIGHLY recommend Explosions in the Sky, which you didn't list.





The good new stuff this year is Beck's Guero, The Mars Volta's Frances the Mute, and I recommend everyone to pick up the new Gorillaz and System of a Down in the coming weeks.

Inner ear vibrations.

Definatly

.. The Bravery- The Bravery!!!!



.. Kaki King- Everybody loves you



.. Ambulance Ltd. (i forgot the album title)



.. Radiohead- Hail to the theif (yeah, still)



..The Hives- Tyranasaurus Hives

some older ones, yes.

I really lik the new Mars Volta,

and really I'm starting to get into

Afex twin.

--Good solid nod to Kasabian,

the Killers (!) and Franz Ferdinand (!!!)

Just listened to the new Ben Lee album, 'Awake is the new Sleep.'



Its good to work to, and has a couple of catchy singles. Get it!!

=w=

weezer - make believe



go buy it, it's good

The Shins!!, the shins!! hello? anybody out there? The main song from Garden State...new slang...my heart divided between their two albums.



"Inthe morning" from The Coral...makes you think in summer sunny mornings...



Beloved band of all times: Built To Spill



Always on my mind: stereolab (heard about the new DVD boxset?), portishead, radiohead, cocteau twins, yo la tengo...weezer? their first album and no more.

new recent stuff i've got:



Millencolin - Kingwood

Noxious - By Word Of Mouth

65daysofstatic - The Fall Of Math



otherwise it's all pre-2004 since i've been buying older stuff and can't afford the new stuff too :P

hey bettyboo,you are a star, i saw garden state last week and thought it was a great film and the musuc was superb, i hope thats the band(the shins you said yeah?)you hear on her headphones when shes in the doctors, and the incident with rhe dog etc, nice acoustic stuff, im in the uk so films here come out a bit later than most,try out nick drake or julee sills(i think thats her name) both dead but the music lives on beatifully.

i mean music was superb,