For me it's Stevie Wonder's A Time To Love

LCD Soundsystem

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It's incredible - sorta like every cool alternative art rock album in your record collection fused together. It's got elements of Brian Eno, Talking Heads, funk, punk, eletronica - it's all there, I swear.

Zeitsprung-Peter Schilling (German language album)

After long consideration--my favorite album in my eclectic tastes in music is:

David Behrman: My Dear Siegfried + 5 QSRL Pieces (XI Recordings)
http://experimentalintermedia.org/xi/129.shtml

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Runners-up:
Alvin Lucier: Wind Shadows (New World Records)
Ellen Band/David Lee Myers: Two Ships (Pogus Productions)
Iannis Xenakis: Le Legende D'Eer (Mode Records)
Robert Ashley: Celestial Excursions (Lovely Music, Ltd.)
Alvin Curran: Toto Angelica (ReR Megacorp)
Al Margolis/If, Bwana: Rex Xhu Ping (Pogus Productions)
Mario Davidovsky: The Music of Mario Davidovsky Vol. 3 (Bridge Records)
Depeche Mode: Playing The Angel (Mute)
Gordon Mumma: Electronic Music of Theater and Public Activity
Various Artists: Deep Wireless 2 (New Adventues in Sound Art)
Pamela Z: A Delay Is Better (Starkland)
John Cage: Early Piano Works (ECM)
Frank Denyer: Faint Traces (Mode)
Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble: The Eleventh Hour (ECM)

Amarantine ~ Enya

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My favourite would be

KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope

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Closely followed by...

The Editors - The Back Room

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Haven't bought/listened to many full albums this year, I did like Funeral by Arcade Fire (although a late 2004 release, I first discovered it late January)

For me it's Stevie Wonder's A Time To Love

No offense to anyone here, but I have very little interest in todays music, so I don't follow. I listen to stuff from the 60s, 70s and 80s, some early 90s, call me old fashioned. I didn't know Stevie Wonder had a new album though, I always enjoyed HIS music.

LCD Soundsystem

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg500/g598/g59800panv0.jpg

It's incredible - sorta like every cool alternative art rock album in your record collection fused together. It's got elements of Brian Eno, Talking Heads, funk, punk, eletronica - it's all there, I swear.


http://www.hofstrachronicle.com/media/paper222/news/2005/04/07/Entertainment/Cd.Review.lcd.Soundsystem.Lcd.Soundsystem-917561.shtml

Deborah Gibson "Memory Lane Vol. 1 & 2"

Some of my favorites were actually released in 2004...

Deborah Gibson "Memory Lane Vol. 1 & 2"

Some of my favorites were actually released in 2004...


I thought this year was pretty good for music, however, last year I bought more albums from the likes of Keane, Snow Patrol, The Killers, Scissor Sisters etc...

Robert Plant  -  Mighty Rearranger
Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
Paul McCartney - Choas & Creation
:)

Sugababes - Taller In More Ways

Of the albums that I actually bought in 2005, I'd have to go with 'Pieces of A Dream - The Best of Anastacia'

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I've been thinking about this, but the only album I've bought this year is...




Depeche Mode: Playing The Angel (Mute)



...so that's final. :)

Another good one is "Red Book" by Texas

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"Sleep" featuring Paul Buchanan (of The Blue Nile) is such an excellent song  8)

"Z" by My Morning Jacket.

Honorable mentions include: "You Could Have Had It So Much Better With Franz Ferdinand" by Franz Ferdinand, "The Woods" by Sleater-Kinney, and "Employment" by Kaiser Chiefs.

I guess my vote would be EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE from Fiona Apple... Its great... :)

I guess my vote would be EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE from Fiona Apple... Its great... :)


Well, I've only heard the single off of it "O Sailor", but I have to say judging from that it must be a damn good album.

Well, I've only heard the single off of it "O Sailor", but I have to say judging from that it must be a damn good album.
It is awesome.. I just love her...all her stuff is great and she has an AMAZING voice!

My favourite would be

KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope

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I find KT very addictive.

Out of exile-Audioslave

Honorable mention:
Ten thousand fists-Disturbed
In your hounor-Foo Fighters

The Emancipation of Mimi - Mariah Carey


What a fantastic album.  I bought Charmbracelet, and thought it was good but I knew she could do better and she did.  Yeah she's had some problems over the years and I'm not going to make excuses for her, but this album really was a comeback and while I like U2, I was disappointed that she lost Album of the Year.

ten thousand fists