A little late, but better late than never. Here it is, my best of/worst of 2005 list. Enjoy kids.
Best Albums
1. Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit
2. Mae - The Everglow
3. Cartel - Chroma
4. Acceptance - Phantoms
5 Anberlin - Never Take friendship personal
6. Socratic - Lunch for the sky
7. Beck - Guero
8. Panic! At the disco - a fever you can't sweat out
9. Circa Survive - Juturna
10. The Academy Is - Almost Here
Honorable mentions:
1. Fall Out Boy -From under the cork tree (if it weren't for all the 14 year olds…)
2. Armor for sleep - what to do when you are dead
3. The Starting Line - Based on a True Story
4. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
5. Bright Eyes - I'm wide awake, it's morning
Best EP's of 2005
1. Mute Math - rewind EP
2. Tourmaline - Strange distress calls (technially a cd...but they keep making new songs, there will probably be a new CD from them w/ a lot of SDC songs on it in the near future...)
3. The format - snails
Most Disappointing albums of 2005
1. Dave Matthews Band - Stand up
2. Coheed and Cambria -Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV
3. Day at the Fair – The Rocking Chair Years
4. Unwritten Law - here's to the mourning
5. Yellowcard - lights and sounds (the album hasn't come out yet, i know, but the single blows so i'm assuming the CD isn't gonna be worth much either, esp w/ fall out boy basically taking over the 14 year old fans YC had)
Best Music Video(s) of 2005
1. My Chemical Romance - The Ghost of You
2. Wilber Pan - Bi Hu Man Bu
3. ok go- a million ways
4. Bright Eyes - Easy/Lucky/Free
5. Fall Out Boy - Sugar we're going down
Worst Music Video(s) of 2005
1. Fall Out Boy - Dance Dance (too much storyline)
2. Taking Back Sunday - Set Phasers to Stun (if ur not gonna be in ur own video, at least make it interesting)
3. Coldplay - fix you (ok i get it, chris = coldplay)
4. The Early November - The mountain range in my living room (um, weird.)
Best B- Side of 2005
1. Mute Math- chaos
(I don't really listen to B-sides)
Best Vocals of 2005
1. Steven Christian (Anberlin)
2. William Pugh (Cartel)
3. Dave Elkins (Mae)
4. Andrew McMahon (Jack's Mannequin)
5. Anthony Green (Circa Survive)
Best lyrics of 2005
1. Cartel:
"And all these stupid silly songs
keep trying to catch your ear
I'm trying desperately
It's just so hard to persevere
And even if you listened
I never had much to say
Cause it's the same old song
I'm written for the day.."
The Mistrel's prayer
2. Mae:
"Hey! Wait! Knock me downs and I'll get up again.
Oh! Pain! A remedy that can erase your sting.
I'll keep holding, and I'll keep trying.
I feel this fight, it is slowly dying now but I feel painless"
Painless
3. Socratic-
"Lets take a walk down back to that playground
where we were just girls and boys, sand and toys,
nothing ruined our days besides the rain.
As we get older, it rains more often, we become toys
waiting for someone to pick us out of the sand.
To hold our hearts and help us understand."
B to E
4. The Academy is...-
"I'm not the type to forget about nights like this,
where every single move that I make is documented
and scored for style points.
The once ambitious one now holds the smoking gun.
And if I die in my sleep, are you still willing to be everything
you promised you would be?"
Classifieds
5. Jacks Mannequin-
"Hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there
I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this
Like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.
Don't fly fast, oh pilot can you help me?
Can you make this last? This plane is all I got
so keep it steady now, Cause every inch you see is bruised"
Bruised
Biggest Sellouts of 2005
1. Fall Out Boy
2. The Academy Is... (mtv2 abducted them...)
3. Finch
Best Live Show
1. Mute Math (the music's much too loud tour)
2. Midtown (Bamboozle, plain white tees/action action tour)
3. The Academy Is...(bamboozle)
4. Hidden in Plain View (when are they NOT on tour, but they always are fun, the downtown show was pretty awesome)
5. My Chemical Romance (bamboozle. 4 kids passed out, enough said.)
Best Record Labels of 2005
1. Fueled By Ramen
2. Tooth and nail
Best Overrated Band(s)
1. Panic! At the disco
2. The Killers
Most Underrated Band(s)
1. Socratic
2. Steel Train
3. Jack's Mannequin
4. Mute Math
5. Cartel ( i once thought they were too poppy, but now i'm really into them- good call twann)
Best Single
1. Sugar We're going down -FOB
2. Helena - My Chem
3. Feel Good Inc. - Gorrilaz
4. Mae - Suspension
5. Death Cab - Soul Meets Body
6. Kelly Clarkson - Since U been gone (don't tell me you never sang that song at the top of your lungs this year)
Worst Single
1. Simple Plan - how could this happen to me
2. Ashlee Simpson - I didn't steal your boyfriend
3. Starting line - bedroom talk (they could have picked a better one instead of us getting to hear about kenny vasoli's first time...aghdsaij)
4. Yellowcard - lights and sounds
Best Movies of 2005
1.Batman Begins
2.Charlie and the chocolate factory
3. Point Break (bcuz i didn't really wtch many movies this year, and point break was new to me and changed my life- for the better of course)
4. North Shore (same reason)
5. Sin City
Best TV Shows of 2005
1 Lost
2.The Office
3. Degrassi
4. Family Guy
5. Beauty and the Geek (whooo rich rubin haha)
The Next Big Thing(s) of 2006
1. Cartel. Yeah, they're catching on and going on some good tours.
2. I really have my fingers crossed for Mute Math
3. The Academy Is... all over Mtv2/Mtv/MtvU. Maybe VH1 next.
4. Something Corporate's new album will be awesome AND once andrew gets on tour again ppl will flock to see them
5. Lost will probably catch on more, once ppl realize how freakin awesome it is.
Say goodbye to...
1. Yellowcard. The new cd will suck, and Ryan Key has some lump on his throat and they had to cancel the UK dates.
2. The Used. If i hear another person say they are their favorite "hard core" band i will puke in their shoes.
3. Six Feet Under. CryCryCry :(
4. Mitch Hedberg. Best Comedian. RIP.
Predictions For 2006
1.HelloGoodbye = even bigger, and maybe halifax, cuz of their little real world appearance
2. Hopefully ppl will finally get sick of American Idol, cuz really I can't take anymore stupid pop songs in the world.
3. The Early November triple CD will rule. If it doesn't get pushed back to far...
4. More John Cusack moviessss.
Most Anticipated For 2006
1. Brand New
2. Something Corporate
3. TEN
4. My Chem
5. Mute Math maybe making a full length?
Best Album Art
1. Socratic (esp after vinny took me thru what certain ppl mean to him)
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2.Mae - The everglow
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3.Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit
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4.The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
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5. Panic! At the disco - A fever you can't sweat out
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Best Websites
1. http://www.hiddeninplainview.com/
2. http://www.hellogoodbye.net/
3. http://www.anberlin.com/
4. http://www.jacksmannequin.com/
5. http://www.theeverglow.com/ (mae)
Worst things to happen to a band this year:
1. Bayside's drummer dying in the car accident
2. Numerous van breakins for the junior varsity and kidnapping and murder of the one guys g/f Olda
Best things to happen to a band this year:
1. Socratic getting on the myspace records comp
2. Hellogoodbye/Halifax on the real world
Funniest feuds:
1. Jenoah burning a fall out boy poster on stage
2. Creed's Scott Stapp getting drunk in a bar and fighting w/ the guys in 311 haha
Best songs of the year:
1. Mae - suspension
2. Cartel - Luckie St.
3. Panic! At the disco- I write sins, not tragedies
4. Mute Math - Plan B
5. Jack's Mannequin - Holiday from real
6. Sia - Breath Me
7. Socratic - U and Left turns
8. Hidden in Plain View - Garden Statement
9. David Fonseca - the 80s
10. Fall Out Boy - Get busy living or get busy dying
