Music Gourmets Presents 60 Years of Great Music - 2005

[Zeeba Neighba]

To quote "Sister Christian", we're motorin' through the 21st century!

Welcome to the next year in our "Great Music" series - 2005

Here's the rules:

Each Friday (typically) we'll introduce a new year from 1957 through 2016. Each member selects an album released in that year with a few lines (or more) on why you picked it/enjoy it. Your selection does not have to be the most important release or the most admired release of that year (though it certainly can be), simply an album that grabs you and that you really love.

However, once an album is selected by a member, you must choose a different album.

Together we will compile quite the canon of "Great Music" and, who knows, maybe inspire each other to check out some new artists (or to revisit old forgotten classics).

This week - the albums of 2005

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Daturah - s/t



Like my pick last week, amazing and atmospheric. Also, very spiritual.

 

[axolotl]

Let's hear it for 2005! Hats and horns, as sg would say.

Or, just for giggles, at this point:

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2005

 

[Mattafett]

Little Big Town - The Road to Here

A different pick for me. A lot of this record speaks to me. Especially the song I picked.

 

[patrikc325]

Wolfmother - Wolfmother

 

[LeslieC]

Death Cab for Cutie - Plans

 

[axolotl]

Nine Horses ~ Snow Borne Sorrow

 

[lpfreak1170]

Richard Hawley - Coles Corner


Achingly beautiful...one I turn to when feeling melancholy.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Richard Hawley - Coles Corner


Achingly beautiful...one I turn to when feeling melancholy.

Edit: Thumbs up btw to the album, not to you potentially feeling melancholy

 

[lpfreak1170]

Edit: Thumbs up btw to the album, not to you potentially feeling melancholy

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

The Budos Band - s/t


In an earlier year I think I chose a band called The Daktaris - a neo Afro-Funk group staffed mostly by Daptone Records studio musicians. This is another band born of Daptone regulars.

A lot of jazz leaves me bewildered. This I like very much. Similar Afrobeat rhythm section as the Daktaris, but on the front of the stage this time is a wonderful jazzy NY horn section. The afrobeat rhythms keep your shoulders pumping, but the American horns (and occasional organ or flute) on top make for a fun contrast.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - The Best Of OMD

You can't select a greatest hits of music from 20 years back for your pick

Was this a lownotes for the What Are You Listening to Thread?
(of course it was, you already picked Richard Hawley)

 

[lpfreak1170]

You can't select a greatest hits of music from 20 years back for your pick

Was this a lownotes for the What Are You Listening to Thread?
(of course it was, you already picked Richard Hawley)

I have no idea what you're even talking about.

 

[axolotl]

I have no idea what you're even talking about.

I have no idea, either.

That album is from 30 years ago.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

I have no idea, either.

That album is from 30 years ago.

Yikes! Where have the years gone?
(Why don't we have a crying/tear emoji?)

 

[axolotl]

Yikes! Where have the years gone?
(Why don't we have a crying/tear emoji?)

Egads! It's unseemly.

They don't want us crybabies to post so much.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Egads the huge manatee.

 

[JazzyRandy]

K'naan - The Dusty Foot Philosopher

Today, I would probably put two or three or four of my HMs in this spot, but I remember how much I loved this when it was released and that memory is enough to keep this in the top spot for another iteration of this list.

That and the fact that one of my son's best friends is ending a year in Egypt because his family is from northern Africa and they moved to Egypt last summer to be closer to home but the boy is returning back to my son's high school in August because home for him is America and this album seems somehow fitting to me as a backdrop to all that ...

 

[patrikc325]

HM's

Kaiser Chiefs - Employment


The Cat Empire - Two shoes


Hard -Fi - Stars of CCTV


Ryan Adams- Cold Roses


New Pornographers - Twin Cinema

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Anyone else late this week like me (Sam??):

Anyhow good "Honorable Mentions" by PatrikC but happily my choice for the year wasn't there so I can still post it as my choice

The Decemberists - Picaresque

IMO their best album

I'd throw The White Stripes' Get Behind Me Satan in as an Honorable Mention; Gorrilaz Demon Days as well