It's about this time of year that I like to start doing that man-thing where you compile a list of your favourites of the year.
This year, instead of busting a blood vessel deciding what makes the shortlist, I thought I'd just look at the playcount in iTunes. And it seems that my Top 20 Albums of 2005 looks a little like this:
Jamie Lidell - Multiply
Gonzales - Solo Piano
Isolée - We Are Monster
Gorillaz - Demon Days
The Soft Pink Truth - Do You Want New Wave, or Do You Want...
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Róisín Murphy - Ruby Blue
MIA - Arular
Kate Bush - Aerial (disc 2)
Tussle - Kling Klang
Jackson & His Computer Band - Smash!
Coco Rosie - Noah's Ark
Goldfrapp - Supernature
Whitey - The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is A Train - deffo my fave title of the year
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Richie Hawtin - DE9: Transitions
Fourtet - Everything Ecstatic
Marc Leclair - Musique Pour 3 Femmes
DJ Koze - Kosi Comes Around
A few surprises for me: I had no idea how hard I'd caned Gonzales, Tussle and The Soft Pink Truth; I would have thought Goldfrapp and Fourtet were higher (tho maybe that's cos other people keep playing them too); and I'd have put Mugison's "Mugimama, Is This Monkey Music?" LP in there; ditto the Dandy Jack - massive thanks to <a href="http://www.dissensus.com/member.php?userid=334">Vache</a> for turning me on to that one.
Anyway, forget what you think you know - surrender yourself to the irrefutible logic of the machine. What's your Top 20 list look like?
This year, instead of busting a blood vessel deciding what makes the shortlist, I thought I'd just look at the playcount in iTunes. And it seems that my Top 20 Albums of 2005 looks a little like this:
Jamie Lidell - Multiply
Gonzales - Solo Piano
Isolée - We Are Monster
Gorillaz - Demon Days
The Soft Pink Truth - Do You Want New Wave, or Do You Want...
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Róisín Murphy - Ruby Blue
MIA - Arular
Kate Bush - Aerial (disc 2)
Tussle - Kling Klang
Jackson & His Computer Band - Smash!
Coco Rosie - Noah's Ark
Goldfrapp - Supernature
Whitey - The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is A Train - deffo my fave title of the year
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Richie Hawtin - DE9: Transitions
Fourtet - Everything Ecstatic
Marc Leclair - Musique Pour 3 Femmes
DJ Koze - Kosi Comes Around
A few surprises for me: I had no idea how hard I'd caned Gonzales, Tussle and The Soft Pink Truth; I would have thought Goldfrapp and Fourtet were higher (tho maybe that's cos other people keep playing them too); and I'd have put Mugison's "Mugimama, Is This Monkey Music?" LP in there; ditto the Dandy Jack - massive thanks to <a href="http://www.dissensus.com/member.php?userid=334">Vache</a> for turning me on to that one.
Anyway, forget what you think you know - surrender yourself to the irrefutible logic of the machine. What's your Top 20 list look like?