Your Top Ten Albums of 2005

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: Your Top Ten Albums of 2005

I'll disagree with Garrett on "Cold Roses." Is it different from Adams' work with Whiskeytown? Yes. Is it worse? No. I think "Cold Roses" is among Adams' strongest work because it's very consistent. There are very few throwaways on the record, if any.

Adams is prolific as hell. He has released three albums just this year. And when a guy releases that much material, there are bound to be duds. But that's not really the case on "Cold Roses." And it was the case on most of the Whiskeytown stuff.

I think Adams is very comfortable with himself on "Cold Roses." I never really got that sense with the Whiskeytown and early Adams solo stuff. Maybe that was part of the appeal of that material, that Adams seemed so tormented. But he sure seemed confident and comfortable during "Cold Roses."

Thanks for the insight on Adams. I know I made a thread asking about him, but I don't remember anything about it. I feel like I'm asking the same question I did in the earlier thread, but I just can't remember the answer. If you were to suggest two or three Ryan Adams' to start on, which ones would they be? As I said in this thread, I'm loving Cold Roses, and from what I've heard on his Rock N Roll album, I have enjoyed as well.

[pk500]

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Hmm ... BGarrett's advice two pages earlier was very solid, in my opinion. Here are my favorite Adams/Whiskeytown records, in order:

1. Adams -- "Cold Roses"
2. Whiskeytown -- "Pneumonia"
3. Adams -- "Gold"
4. Adams -- "Jacksonville City Nights"
5. Adams -- "Heartbreaker"

Your mileage may vary!

Take care,
PK

[BGarrett7]

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If you were to suggest two or three Ryan Adams' to start on, which ones would they be?

I'll do a top three...

1) Whiskeytown, Stangers Alamanc
2) Ryan Adams, Demolition
3) Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker

And you would also be very well off if you could hunt down two sets of demos to download, Suicide Handbook and 48 Hours.

EDIT: Btw, here is your original thread on Ryan. I pretty much told you the same thing there as I have in this thread.

[Kevin926]

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I made this a topic similar to this at the start of December, see it <A HREF="http://forums.operationsports.com/vBulletin/showthread.php?t=152094">here.</A>

With that said, I realize I forgot some with my last post and since this is top ten, here are mine only including albums released in 2005...




Off the top of my head in '06, the albums I am looking forward to most are the debut from Arctic Monkeys, and new albums from The Walkmen and The Killers.

[sense]

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Hopefully I'm not forgetting any, I never thought I'd see the day were I would have a Top 10 so void of NYC rappers.......

10. Rapper Big Pooh - Sleepers
9. Black Market Militia - Black Market Militia
8. Common - Be
7. Felt - A Tribute to Lisa Bonet
6. One Be Lo - S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M.
5. Brown James - Plain Brown Rapper
4. Pumpkinhead - Orange Moon Over Brooklyn
3. Little Brother - The Minstrel Show
2. Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
1. Blueprint - 1988

Honorable Mention:
- Smif N Wessun: Reloaded
- Sean Price: Monkey Bars
- Cesar Commanche: Squirrel and the Aces
- AZ: A.W.O.L.
- The Chapter: Us vs. Them
- Saigon: Greatest Story Never Told
- J-Live: The Hear After
- Blackalicious: The Craft
- Buckshot & 9th: Chemistry
- Ras Kass: Verbal Murder
- Apathy: Where's Your Album?
- GZA & DJ Muggs: The Grandmasters
- Kanye West: Late Registration
- Think Differently: Wu-Tang Clan Meets the Indie Culture


Yeah..........Justus League/Rhymesayers absolutely ran 2005.

BCC also had a very nice ressurection, IMO.






To all my NC heads on here, since they "New State of Hip-Hop" thread was lost in the EE removal I figured I'd post this here......

You guys really need to check out Brown James. I'd gotten his album (Plain Brown Rapper) a couple of months ago but had no clue he was from NC (Fayetteville to be exact). His sound/style is more NYC. He's got a much different style than LB and Justus League but his album easily the sleeper of '05, IMO. I think it just hit the retail shelves a month ago, but definately check it out. I can't find any type of bio on the kid and have no clue how long he's been in the game.

Thats an EXTREMELY DOPE LIST!!!!!!

Two albums i would put up there are Slum village and supastition album.

And that new Jean Grae album is pretty sick. (Ain't no other female emcee on her Radar)

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: Your Top Ten Albums of 2005






10. Beck - Guero
9. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
8. Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
7. My Morning Jacket - Z
6. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
5. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
4. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
3. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
2. The Gorillaz - Demon Days
1. Brendan Benson - The Alternative To Love

[BGarrett7]

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8. Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
1. Brendan Benson - The Alternative To Love

Didn't you just start listening to Cold Roses like a week ago? And didn't you say you were getting the Brendan Benson album "after Christmas"? Two of your top ten you had like ten combined days to listen to.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Didn't you just start listening to Cold Roses like a week ago? And didn't you say you were getting the Brendan Benson album "after Christmas"? Two of your top ten you had like ten combined days to listen to.

I first listenend to Cold Roses in October. And I started listening to some songs off of Alternative to Love at the end of November/early December.

[BGarrett7]

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I first listenend to Cold Roses in October. And I started listening to some songs off of Alternative to Love at the end of November/early December.

Ah, alrighty. Gotcha.

[Silverstring]

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1) Arular-M.I.A
2) Illinoise-Sufjan Stevens
3) Takk-Sigur Ros
4) Apologies to The Queen Mary-Wolf Parade
5) Late Registration- Kanye West
6) Twin Cinema-New Porngraphers
7) Oceans Apart- The Go-Betweens
8) Chaos and Creation in the Backyard- Paul McCartney
9) Z-My Morning Jacket
10) LCD Soundsystem

[ILLCHILL]

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I get CDs so randomly I don't even know which are from which year. I do hoever know that Emery's "The Question" came out this year and is insane. So there's my top 1 list I suppose.