Z on Year End Lists

[dragonboy]

I thought I'd start a thread where we could post Z's placing in different publications Best Albums of 2005 lists etc.

Uncut Magazine:

1. Funeral - The Arcade Fire
2. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
3. No Direction Home (Bootleg Series Vol.7) - Bob Dylan
8. Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes
13. Cripple Crow - Devendra Banhart
15. Cold Roses - Ryan Adams
17. Prarie Wind - Neil Young
22. I Am A Bird Now - Antony & The Johnsons
26. Z - My Morning Jacket
34. I'm Wide Awake It's Morning - Bright Eyes
37. Guero - Beck

I couldn't be arsed to write the whole list (50 in total) I just pointed out a couple of other Albums by Artists that seem to pop up regularly on the forum.

 :)

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

can someone explain the Arcade Fire to me?  I'm not feeling it.  If I wanted Rusted Root to jam out with Godspeed!  You Black Emporer and have David Byrne guest vocal, well I'd just get three stereo's to play it all at once.....

[hard helmet]

can someone explain the Arcade Fire to me?  I'm not feeling it.  If I wanted Rusted Root to jam out with Godspeed!  You Black Emporer and have David Byrne guest vocal, well I'd just get three stereo's to play it all at once.....

I'm with you conaway.  I feel like I've given it my best shot and I just can't seem to find anything that clicks.  I'm sure a lot of people disagree, but it's just not there for me. ???

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

the coolest thing about them is that they're from Montreal.  other than that, I'm lost as to what makes them any better than say...Kansas, for instance.

[ratsprayer]

can someone explain the Arcade Fire to me?  I'm not feeling it.  If I wanted Rusted Root to jam out with Godspeed!  You Black Emporer and have David Byrne guest vocal, well I'd just get three stereo's to play it all at once.....

if you went to see them live, im sure youd have different feelings.  i personally dig the cd a lot, but they put on one of the top 5 shows ive ever seen, strangely enough, one year ago today.  i dont really know anything mindblowing to say about them, they just spark some awesome feeling inside, and i dont argue with that.  i certainly see why people wouldnt like them, though.  

music is all subjective, people.  it means what you want it to mean.   ;D ;D ;D

[Chills]

Crown Of Love is a cool song. No?

[EC]

I really like Funeral.  But I've found that people are REALLY crazy about Arcade Fire, or they REALLY don't like it.

I know exactly why I like it, too.  It makes me move when it comes on.  I like the energy in there.  And I like some of the songwriting.  And I like the instrumentation.

[wellfleet]

JohnC I am so with you on the Arcade Fire. I dig "Haiti" but sorry, Pitchfork, this is not the second coming, it's not Sgt. Pepper, hell, it's not even Dr. Pepper. But at least they're creative. Better them than Hoobastank. Although I have to fall back on "if it makes someone happy, it's inherently got value no matter how I feel about it". This also applies, begrudgingly, to Hoobastank.
Working at a record store in Montreal (I miss home!!!), I got the full-on fever pitch of Arcade madness and it's not pretty. EC has it right though, you either hate it or love it. EC is way cool, clearly, but most people I've met who were into AF were very pretentious. You know, the people with that mod haircut and the ironic jacket and tie that's supposed to look unkempt but actually costs Peru's GDP in hair wax and urban outfitters? Yeah, that bugs me a little.  But good to see Z get the mad props.

[Easy Morning Rebel]

I thought I'd start a thread where we could post Z's placing in different publications Best Albums of 2005 lists etc.

Uncut Magazine:

1. Funeral - The Arcade Fire
2. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
3. No Direction Home (Bootleg Series Vol.7) - Bob Dylan
8. Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes
13. Cripple Crow - Devendra Banhart
15. Cold Roses - Ryan Adams
17. Prarie Wind - Neil Young
22. I Am A Bird Now - Antony & The Johnsons
26. Z - My Morning Jacket
34. I'm Wide Awake It's Morning - Bright Eyes
37. Guero - Beck

I couldn't be arsed to write the whole list (50 in total) I just pointed out a couple of other Albums by Artists that seem to pop up regularly on the forum.

:)

I think it's very cool that Z is before Bright Eyes on that list.  :)

[dragonboy]

can someone explain the Arcade Fire to me?  I'm not feeling it.

I've not heard anything by them but was surprised to find their Album at number on.

[dragonboy]

I think it's very cool that Z is before Bright Eyes on that list.  :)

I predict that Z will be placed much higher in Mojo's year end list. Next issue comes out early Dec.

[Easy Morning Rebel]

I predict that Z will be placed much higher in Mojo's year end list. Next issue comes out early Dec.

That's great! I must see that chart, if I can get the magazine.

[primushead]

Speaking of Arcade fire...what is Funeral doing on the top albums of 2005?  I think it was released in september or october of 2004...wasn't it?

[dragonboy]

Good point Primushead!
I checked on amazon.com & .co.uk for release dates.
.com says Sept2004 .co.uk says Feb2005.
I guess it was released later in the UK? Uncut is a UK magazine.

[Dee.]

That sneaky cd..

This is like a flashback.  It was Pitchfork's #1 cd of 2004.  Enough already, I say.

[LaurieBlue]

http://www.xpn.org/top50_2005home.php

WXPN 2005 Top 10 Lists

Matt Reilly, Evening Show Host
1. Death Cab For Cutie- Plans
2. Innaway- Innaway
3. My Morning Jacket- Z
4. Spoon- Gimme Fiction
5. Arcade Fire- Funeral
6. Thievery Corp.- Cosmic Game
7. James McMurtry- Childish Things
8. New Pornographers- Twin Cinema
9. Band Of Bees- Free The Bees
10. Seu Jorge- Cru


Dan Reed, Music Director
1. My Morning Jacket – Z
2. Rolling Stones – A Bigger Bang
3. Kanye West – Late Registration
4. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Howl
5. White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
6. New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
7. A Band of Bees – Free The Bees
8. Beck – Guero
9. Greg Dulli – Greg Dulli's Amber Headlights
10. Spottiswoode & His Enemies – Building A Road

David Dye, World Café Host
(in no particular order)
Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate - In the Heart of the Moon
Beck - Guerro
Feist - Let It Die
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
My Morning Jacket - Z
Laura Veirs - Year of Meteors
Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez - Red Dog Tracks
Andrew Bird - And the Mysterious Production of Eggs
Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic


Bruce Warren, Program Director
1. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
2. My Morning Jacket – Z
3. Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift
4. LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem
5. Bright Eyes – I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
6. Kanye West – Late Registration
7. Spoon – Gimme Fiction
8. Common – Be
9. Ryan Adams – Cold Roses
10. The Decemberists – Picaresque

Michaela Majoun - XPN Morning Show
("In alpha order, not ranked")
Amos Lee - Amos Lee
King Britt - Presents: Sister Gertrude Morgan
Matisyahu - Live at Stubb's
Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic
My Morning Jacket -Z
Rodney Crowell - The Outsider
Shemekia Copeland - The Soul Truth
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Thelonius Monk with John Coltrane - at Carnegie Hall
Tori Amos - The Beekeeper
Various Artists - Philly Local: Right on Track

[LaurieBlue]

http://www.thestrand.ca/media/paper404/news/2005/12/01/FilmMusic/Best-Albums.Of.2005-1116796.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.thestrand.ca

10. My Morning Jacket - Z

It's tempting to say that My Morning Jacket are the right band at the wrong time. But that begs the question: what time would have been right for a band like this? For all the "Southern rock" comparisons, it's difficult to imagine any actual fans of Skynyrd and the Allmans (aside from, er, me) loving MMJ. The era that is congenial for a band of sensitive Southerners helmed by a songwriter as subtle and ambitious as Jim James has yet to happen. Either way, Z charts the course between Eat A Peach, Tumbleweed Connection and Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground, and should please open-minded fans of all three.

[LaurieBlue]

http://www.filter-mag.com/news/interior.2800.html

  
Filter's Top 10 of 2005, Day Three: Blake Sennet of Rilo Kiley
by Staff & Blake Sennet | 12.05.2005

 Move over hot red-heads, it's time to give the guitarist some lime light. Even after the success of last year's More Adventurous with Rilo Kiley (and y'know small tours with a little-known band called Coldplay), Blake Sennet managed to juggle his new outlet in his self-fronted band The Elected. The Elected are planing to release the follow up to their debut Me First on January 24, 2006 on Sub Pop entitled Sun, Sun, Sun. Before that hits, check out Blake's top picks of '05.

Blake Sennet of Rilo Kiley and the Elected

1. Feist – Let It Die (Universal)
2. Calexico/Iron and Wine – In the Reins (Overcoat)
3. Bright Eyes – I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (Saddle Creek)
4. Devendra Banhart – Cripple Crow (XL/Beggars)
5. Death Cab for Cutie – Plans (Atlantic)
6. My Morning Jacket – Z (ATO)
7. Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguar)
8. Kathy McCarty – Dead Dog's Eyeball: Songs of Daniel Johnston (Bar None)
9. M. Ward – Transistor Radio (Merge)
10. David Dondero – South of the South (Team Love)  

[dragonboy]

Number 6? That's a bit more like it!
Seriously, i've never even heard of number 1!  :-[

[Coltrane]

Feist has played with Broken Social Scene and she's featured a bit on the new record.


And the Arcade Fire are a great band. And Funeral is a great record.


case closed.