Monday, December 26, 2005

Five favorite albums of 2005

Sufjan Stevens
Come on feel the Illinoise

Galactic Heroes
Every Sidewalk (ok, I know it's really from 2004 but I didn't hear it until 2005. And if I say it counts, it counts.)

Architecture In Helsinki
In Case We Die

Tenniscoats
The ending theme

Hal
Hal 2005

Five favorite Swedish albums of 2005

Billie The Vision & The Dancers
The world according to Pablo

Sibiria
Norrlands inland

Jenny Wilson
Love and youth

Laakso
My gods

Christian Kjellvander
Faya

Eight favorite (legal!) downloads of 2005

Devon Sproule - Plea for a good night's rest

I'm from Barcelona - We're from Barcelona

All Of My Brother's Girlfriends - Give him a great big kiss

Taxi, Taxi - Old big trees

Agent Simple - Make a right at Jordfallsmotet

Sophie Rimheden ft Annika Holmberg - Can you save me?

El Perro Del Mar - God knows

All Girl Summer Fun Band - Jason Lee

Oh, and I've probably forgot about 36354365 songs but these are the ones that comes to mind.

Also:
Feist. Indiekören. The Pipettes. Vapnet. The Sprites. Saturday Looks Good To Me. Lady Sovereign. Kepz. Camera Obscura.

Best song of 2005, all categories:
Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens.

posted by Hello Saferide # 12/26/2005 05:40:00 PM

Comments:

Fine choice for song of the year. Truly breathtaking. Sensual, spiritual, and like most great songs, tragic. This song passed me by on first hearing the album, it's very delicate, most of the other songs grab your attention(hey, he's got cheerleaders!), it's easy to get caught up in the euphoria of them that you don't notice the little things... a great lesson for life!

# posted by

sharon : 12/26/2005 09:59:00 PM

of course you're right about song of the year; a beautiful, thoughtful, touching song. good luck in 2006 - hopefully we'll see you in the states soon

craig

swedesplease
songs:illinois

# posted by

Craig : 12/30/2005 05:33:00 AM

thank you! (and craig - you know where I first found Devon Sproule!)

The status with me and "Casimir Pulaski Day" is currently: me working really hard not to listen to it every day... because I'm so scared I'll ever grow tired of it.

# posted by

Hello Saferide : 12/30/2005 12:50:00 PM

that's funny about Devon as I hoped that might be the case:)

# posted by

Craig : 12/31/2005 02:46:00 AM

What's your favorite song of 2005, Craig? and everyone else?

# posted by

Hello Saferide : 1/01/2006 04:00:00 PM

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