Bullz-Eye Year in Music: 2005
All year long we heard nothing but tales of woe about what a sorry state the
music business was in. One label, which shall remain nameless but rhymes with
the back half of ‘baloney,’ even went so far as to punish the few people who
were honest enough to buy their product in a store by subjecting their computers
to malicious spyware. Not nice.
Here’s the funny part, though: for as wrecked as the business is financially, it
is firing on all cylinders creatively. There were scores of great records
released this year, and the Bullz-Eye music staff has assembled their lists of
the best 2005 had to offer.
Mike Farley
“(Nada Surf’s record label) affectionately put a disclaimer on the cover art
about these songs sticking in your head for years. Folks, that was no joke.”
#1 Album: Alternate Routes --
Good and Reckless and True
Will Harris
“…you haven’t lived ‘til you’ve heard Paul Anka croon ‘The Lovecats.’”
#1 Album: Click Five --
Greetings from
Imrie House
David Medsker
(On Rob Dickinson) “’My Name Is Love’? Try ‘My Chorus is Velcro.’”
#1 Album: New Pornographers --
Twin Cinema
John Paulsen
(On Spoon’s
Gimme Fiction) “Fiction is Spoon’s version of
Good News For
People Who Like Bad News. That is, they just might be this year’s Modest
Mouse – a hard-working band, finally getting their due.”
#1 Album: White Stripes --
Get Behind Me Satan
Red Rocker
(On the reissue of Motörhead’s Overkill) “So why were we listening to REO
Speedwagon in 1979?”
#1 Album: Bruce Springsteen --
Devils and Dust
R. David Smola
“If radio wasn’t playing the same 12 songs, (Michael Penn’s) “Room 712, The
Apache” would have been an enormous hit.”
#1 Album: System of a Down -- Mezmerize
Jason Thompson
(On Diamond Nights’
Popsicle) “I liked this album because it made me feel like cherry pie,
fireworks on the 4th of July, a mermaid's tail, and the belly of the whale.”
#1 Album: They Might Be Giants -- Here Come the ABCs
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