Best Albums Of 2005

[Izzy]

Oh wait, i remembered one decent album this year produced,

Opeth - Ghost Reveries - melodic death metal, or something like that - its a fine album, helped immensly by leaving cookie monster vocals to a minimum, shows off their superb musical abilities, great arrangements, and some powerhouse riffs, my album of the year, against zero competition.....victory by default

How are those guys? I've heard them be compared to Tool

Yep, very very much like Tool, the same kind of vocals and that incredible musical depth to everything they do

Do you recommend them? And, if you do, what album?

They are certainly worth a go - but i've only got their latest album so can't speak for the rest, if 10 min songs are ur thing then it might be worth a download or two.

[RichardNixon]

Garbage- Bleed Like Me
Tori Amos- The Beekeeper
NIN- With Teeth
Bruce Springsteen- Devils and Dust
Martha Wainwright- s/t

[Gunner80]

2. Disturbed - 10,000 fist - Great "melodic" metal album.

Disturbed is not a metal band.

My favorites of this year.

Bruce Dickinson- Tyranny of Souls
Destruction- Inventor of Evil
Manilla Road- Gates of Fire
Slough Feg- Atavism
Judas Priest- Angel of Retribution
Shadow Gallery- Room V
Exodus- Shovel Headed Kill Machine
Candlemass- Candlemass
Battlecry- Battlecry

Yes they are!  Maybe not as "metal" as the crap you listen to.

[metallex78]

My picks for best this year:

Audioslave - Out Of Exile
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth

[D]

Nine Inch Nails "With Teeth" is the best album of the year. Trent Reznor can still write angry rock songs as well as beautiful ballads.


Other great ones are Audioslave "Out Of Exile" (full of great songs) and Depeche Mode "Playing The Angel" (noise can be a beautiful thing)

Foo Fighters "In Your Honor" and Queens Of The Stone Age "Lullabies To Paralyze" were also enjoyable.


Best compilation of the year was Screaming Trees "Ocean Of Confusion".





/jarmo

Totally agree with NIN "With Teeth"

I am very unimpressed however with both Audioslave singles Ive heard. I guess Im just not a big Chris Cornell fan as I never liked Soundgarden either.


So my favorites would be:

Nine Inch Nails "With Teeth" hands down winner

Bon Jovi "Have A Nice Day

Joe Osburn EP

Tommy Lee Tommyland the ride

[Walk]

Yes they are!  Maybe not as "metal" as the crap you listen to.

Pay more attention to the song structures. They reuse the same boring, simple, power chord groove "riff" for the whole song, they have no or lame solos, the songs are stupidly downtuned, the guitars are rhythm driven instead of melody driven, the bass is funky and stands out too much, and they follow the forumulaic verse-chorus-verse pattern all the time. Oh yeah, there are the annoying soft verses and screaming "heavy" choruses too. They're a hard rock mallcore band, not heavy metal.

http://www.entertainment.inuk.com/music/numetalguide.html

I doubt if you've heard bands like Slough Feg, Shadow Gallery, or Manilla Road, since they're nearly universally loved in the metal scene. They're making some of the finest music we have today.

[Veon]

off the top of my head...

The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Audioslave - Out of Exile
Buckcherry - 15


And the re-release/re-issue/best boxset (and I would have said this before the movie came out) - Johnny Cash: Legend

[D]

White Stripes, forgot all about that. definitely

[JustUsOwls]

weezer make believe

[Mikkamakka]

Tori Amos: The Beekeeper

[Malcolm]

Disturbed-10,000 Fists
Bon Jovi-Have A Nice Day
Audioslave-Out Of Exile
The Rolling Stones-A Bigger Bang

[Skeletor]

1. Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
2. Opeth - Ghost Reveries (and my copy's autographed by the band, w00t!)

If you like Opeth, Agalloch and Arcturus are similar, but much better.

Respect for mentioning three of my favorite bands in a sentence! So what do you think of the new Arcturus?

And Izzy listening to Opeth? What's the world coming to

[Kujo]

Plans - Death Cab For Cutie
With Teeth - Nine Inch Nails
Demon Days - Gorillaz
Set Yourself On Fire - Stars
Tyranny of Souls - Bruce Dickinson
Mafia - Black Label Society
Dont Believe the Truth - Oasis
Devils & Dust - Bruce Springsteen
Lullabies To Paralyze - Queens of the Stoneage
Out of Exile - Audioslave
Mighty Rearranger - Robert Plant
A Bigger Bang - The Rolling Stones
Chapter V - Staind
A Different Kind of Pain - Cold
Guero - Beck
In Your Honor - Foo Fighters
Octavarium - Dream Theater
Stand Up - Dave Matthews Band
Tage Mahal - Jon Oliva
Prarie Wind - Neil Young
Angel of Retribution - Judas Priest
Devils Playground - Billy Idol
Karma and Effect - Seether
X&Y - Coldplay
PT=MC2 - Pat Travers
The Future Embrace - Billy Corgan

Worst of the Year that I wasted money on:
Love, Angel, Music, Baby - Gwen Stefani.

[Markus Asraelius]

This was a very disappointing year in my mind for music. But, I'd have to say With Teeth by Nine Inch Nails as my favorite.

[ryan_of_lax]

Nine Inch Nails! With Teeth. Love that CD.

The CDs by Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade are awesome.
Both are bands out of Montreal and have a very distinct sound. They make me happy to be alive in this time of music

[Eazy E]

Plans - Death Cab For Cutie
With Teeth - Nine Inch Nails
Demon Days - Gorillaz
Set Yourself On Fire - Stars
Tyranny of Souls - Bruce Dickinson
Mafia - Black Label Society
Dont Believe the Truth - Oasis
Devils & Dust - Bruce Springsteen
Lullabies To Paralyze - Queens of the Stoneage
Out of Exile - Audioslave
Mighty Rearranger - Robert Plant
A Bigger Bang - The Rolling Stones
Chapter V - Staind
A Different Kind of Pain - Cold
Guero - Beck
In Your Honor - Foo Fighters
Octavarium - Dream Theater
Stand Up - Dave Matthews Band
Tage Mahal - Jon Oliva
Prarie Wind - Neil Young
Angel of Retribution - Judas Priest
Devils Playground - Billy Idol
Karma and Effect - Seether
X&Y - Coldplay
PT=MC2 - Pat Travers
The Future Embrace - Billy Corgan

Worst of the Year that I wasted money on:
Love, Angel, Music, Baby - Gwen Stefani.

Wow, could you narrow it down a little? 

A lot of people have said "With Teeth", is it really that good?  I've heard 3 songs from it (The Hand That Feeds, Right Where It Belongs & Only)... I thought the first two were great, but I didn't really like the 'talking' deal on Only.  A few friends didn't seem too enthusiastic about the album either.  Is the rest of the album on par with The Hand That Feeds & Right Where It Belongs?... will you still be listening to it in a couple of years?

[ryan_of_lax]

Its not as layered as past NIN CDs. It's probably about as close to a "full band" type CD that NIN will make. It feels really raw to me, even though it still has plenty of weird sounds throughout.

But I really think it's an amazing CD. It's just not as "big" as The Fragile or The Downward Spiral. Its a CD of seperate songs... No stories through the lyrics or themes in songs. Just a "regular" CD.

I'd really recomend it though!

[Carlos_f_Rose]

Ive just listened to complete albums this year, and both are fantasticos... so they are :

Green Day - American Idiot (Never thought I would like this kind of music)

Izzy Stradlin - Like a Dog (Excellent album, really underrated)

Even when the latter is better...

take care have fun dont smoke too much of maria, and juana either... 


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[-Jack-]

'05 did'nt have much for me. I enjoyed With Teeth.. Queens of The Stone Age's album.. but my favorite? Enter The Chicken by Buckethead! wo0o0o.

I havent gotten a hold of the new stradlin album yet though.. I would love it hear it

[Genesis]

U2's 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb'. The best release of 2005 IMO.