YEAR-END LISTS, 2K5 – By Cory Alan and howie

Every day between Christmas and New Year’s Day, Cory Alan and Mr. Furious are posting to the MFR [blog], publishing year-end thoughts and posts that slipped out of the regular rotation. Mr. Furious Records – Giving You Music.

RECORDS OF THE YEAR

10. JV All*Stars, Boys Forget Your Girls Forget Your Boys
9. The Decembrists, Picaresque
8. Halloween, Alaska, Too Tall To Hide
7. Death Cab For Cutie, Plans
6. Vicious Vicious, Don’t Look So Surprised
5. Bright Eyes, I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning
4. The Return, Danger Danger Silent Stranger
3. Common, Be
2. Mike Doughty, Haughty Melodic
1. Spoon, Gimme Fiction

RUNNERS-UP

11. Bloc Party, Silent Alarm
12. Coheed and Cambria, Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness
13. Erin McKeown, We Will Become Like Birds
14. Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine
15. Nine Inch Nails, With Teeth
16. Nada Surf, The Weight Is A Gift
17. Kid Dakota, The West Is The Future
18. Stars, Set Yourself On Fire
19. tapes ‘n tapes, The Loon
20. Kanye West, Late Registration

2005 RECORDS WE’LL BE BUYING IN 2006 AFTER READING OTHER LISTS

Arcade Fire, Funeral
Firey Furnaces, EP
Beck, Guero
Keith Fullerton Whitman, Multiples
MIA, Arular
Konono No. 1, Congotronics
Wolf Parade, Apologies to the Queen Mary
Ladytron, The Witching Hour
Sleater-Kinney, The Woods
The New Pornographers, Twin Cinema

MR FURIOUS FAVORITES

Sally Ride, Don’t Let Them Take Us ALIVE! (Cory)
Beach-Puppy, Creepy Eepy and Bike, How Is That Possible (tie) (howie)