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...back to 2004...

--Q1---- --Q2---- --Q3---- --Q4-- --final--


--what i've got so far (50 as of 6/4/05)--

--one--
andrew bird - and the mysterious production of eggs
deerhoof - green cosmos EP
fiery furnaces - EP
gruff rhys - yr atal genhedlaeth
ponys - celebration castle
spoon - gimme fiction
--two--
archer prewitt - wilderness
bob drake - the shunned country
castanets - what kind of cure
destroyer - notorious lightning and other works EP
fog - 10th avenue freakout
hood - outside closer
out hud - let us never speak of it again
russian futurists - our thickness
sam prekop - who's your new professor
stars - set yourself on fire
venetian snares - rossz csillag allat szuletett
--three--
architecture in helsinki - in case we die
black mountain - black mountain
books - lost and safe
british sea power - open season
doves - some cities
eluvium - talk amongst the trees
four tet - everything estatic
of montreal - the sunlandic twins
oneida - the wedding
thirteen + god - thirteen + god
wilco - a ghost is born EP
--four--
caribou - the milk of human kindness
daedelus - exquisite corpse
frames - burn the maps
jeans team - musik von oben
jennifer gentle - valende
laurent garnier - the cloud making machine
m83 - before the dawn heals us
m. ward - transistor radio
magnolia electric co. - what comes after the blues
single frame - body end basement
vitalic - ok cowboy
xiu xiu - life and live
--five--
animal collective - prospect hummer EP
lcd soundsystem - lcd soundsystem
magnolia electric co. - trials and errors
prefuse 73 - surrounded by silence
--six--
...and you will know us by the trail of dead - worlds apart
bloc party - silent alarm
mercury rev - secret migration
mia - arular
mu - out of breach
six organs of admittance - school of the flower


--albums actually purchased in 2005--
brian eno - taking tiger mountain (by strategy)
castanets - cathedral
epic soundtracks - rise above
fall - 45895 b-sides
fiery furnaces - blueberry boat
fiery furnaces - EP
gang of four - entertainment!
happy mondays - pills, thrills, and bellyaches
hymie's basement - hymie's basement
jim o'rourke - insignificance
joy division - closer (replacing old copy)
liars - they threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top
lightning bolt - wonderful rainbow
mission of burma - signals, calls, and marches
pink floyd - the wall
wilco - a ghost is born



--notes--
--top albums of 2005 (first half)--
fiery furnaces - EP
ponys - celebration castle
deerhoof - green cosmos EP
gruff rhys - yr atal genhedlaeth
andrew bird - and the mysterious production of eggs
spoon - gimme fiction
destroyer - notorious lightning and other works EP
fog - 10th avenue freakout
hood - outside closer
russian futurists - our thickness

if the second half of 2005 is this weak, it's going to be tough to come up with a healthy top 20 at the end of the year



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