2005 Recap - Music

[NOTE: While grammatically necessary, italics are not used in this post because I have a fucking life to live.]

2005 albums I purchased this year:

Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
The Jayhawks - Live from the Women's Club, Vol. 2
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Coldplay - X&Y
KCRW: Sounds Eclectic 3
Beck - Guero
Fiery Furnaces - EP
The Golden Republic - s/t
Jem - Finally Woken
Iron and Wine - Woman King EP
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

2005 albums I received burned copies of:

Gorillaz - Demon Days
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine

Favorite album released in 2005: Coldplay - X&Y. Solid from start to finish, Coldplay gets the nod over Death Cab for Cutie's Plans. Plans has just a few problems, the major one being "Someday You Will Be Loved" stuck in the middle of it, like a steel ladder lying across a lane of the interstate.

Red Hot Chili Peppers Memorial "I like these guys but can't be bothered to buy their album" Award: 3-way tie among Oasis, Weezer, and Foo Fighters.

Soul Asylum Funeral/Urinal Memorial Award for best half-rhyming couplet: Death Cab - "Summer Skin".

And I knew your heart I couldn't win / Because the season's change was a conduit

Stinker of the Year Award: Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman. Just plain boring.

Best Lyrics/Imagery: Death Cab - Plans. Lots to choose from here, but I think a part of "Crooked Teeth" is most impressive: at night, the sun in the trees / made the skyline look like crooked teeth / in the mouth of a man who was devouring us both

Records of the Year: They don't rock, but man do they bounce...

Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
Gorillaz - Feel Good, Inc.
Spoon - I Turn My Camera On
The White Stripes - Denial Twist
Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To

Song of the Year: Stars - "Your Ex-Lover is Dead". Pretty + Means Something = Songwriting Award. Runnerup: Josh Rouse - "My Love Has Gone". He loses because he left his wife and moved to France.

Worst Lyric That is Mercilessly Repeated Several Times within a Song Award: Fiona Apple - "Please Please Please". Steady, steady / steady steady / steady goin' NOwhere

I'm Sorry I Yelled at You - I'd Still Buy Your Albums, Even If They Were Made of Your Poop, But You've Gotta Admit That "When The Pawn..." is a Lot More Impressive, I'm Just Slightly Disappointed Award: Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine