Thought I’d better sneak this one in before the end of January. Here’s the track listing to my annual compilation, this year cleverly titled as ‘The Best Songs I Bought In 2005 Ever’. Turns out it was a surprisingly good year.
Oooh, plenty I know and love, but just as many I’ve never, ever heard of (sobs ashamedly). Cracking list. I’ve got your “ComPeelation” on at the moment, by the way…
Speaking of “Takk”, are you a long-time Sigur Ros fan, or are you one of the many who have got to know them through “Takk”? Either way, everyone should own “Agaetis Byrjun”, or else be shot in cold blood for music ignorance.
That’s just a great selection. 2005 was a good year :) I’ll have to check out the ones I don’t know (The People, Ralfe Band, Ballboy and Titan Go Kings), because the ones I do know are pretty much all superb. Elbow have been yet again criminally abandoned by the music buying public this year (Bloody Coldplay fans..)
If you like I am Kloot, both their other albums are well worth a listen, too.
Some well tuned minds here! Glad to see it’s not just me with good taste in music :P
I second Colly on the death sentence for anyone not in ownership of “Agaetis Byrjun”... quality stuff. Thanks to Simon, who reviewed it on his site, I finally got around to listening to Leaders of the Free World by Elbow (who were breathtaking at Reading last summer) which also is pretty damn quality – so thanks for the indirect nudge :)
Colly: I thought everyone got into them with Agaetis Byrjun? Maybe that was just the Americans.
Glosoli was cool. Although I find it impossible to try and describe it without mentioning the word “mountain”, and thus fall into the Sigur Ros reviewers cliche trap and instantly render what I’m saying trite and pointless.
Colly wrote:
Oooh, plenty I know and love, but just as many I’ve never, ever heard of (sobs ashamedly). Cracking list. I’ve got your “ComPeelation” on at the moment, by the way…
Speaking of “Takk”, are you a long-time Sigur Ros fan, or are you one of the many who have got to know them through “Takk”? Either way, everyone should own “Agaetis Byrjun”, or else be shot in cold blood for music ignorance.
Duffer St George… and I don’t care…
Neil wrote:
That’s just a great selection. 2005 was a good year :) I’ll have to check out the ones I don’t know (The People, Ralfe Band, Ballboy and Titan Go Kings), because the ones I do know are pretty much all superb. Elbow have been yet again criminally abandoned by the music buying public this year (Bloody Coldplay fans..)
If you like I am Kloot, both their other albums are well worth a listen, too.
Simon Plenderleith wrote:
Some well tuned minds here! Glad to see it’s not just me with good taste in music :P
I second Colly on the death sentence for anyone not in ownership of “Agaetis Byrjun”... quality stuff. Thanks to Simon, who reviewed it on his site, I finally got around to listening to Leaders of the Free World by Elbow (who were breathtaking at Reading last summer) which also is pretty damn quality – so thanks for the indirect nudge :)
Onwards with more great music in 2006!
Small Paul wrote:
Colly: I thought everyone got into them with Agaetis Byrjun? Maybe that was just the Americans.
Glosoli was cool. Although I find it impossible to try and describe it without mentioning the word “mountain”, and thus fall into the Sigur Ros reviewers cliche trap and instantly render what I’m saying trite and pointless.
Um, yup.
daz wrote:
Hey RIch,
Fancy a swap….
18 Niagara Avenue
W54UD
Happy new year!
D
Rich wrote:
Colly – Takk… is the first Sigur Ros album I’ve actually owned, but I’ve been a lurker for a few years, IYSWIM
Daz – I’ve got you on the swap list :-)