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Was 2005 the worst year for music of the past decade?
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| Sykonee |
As I've been listening through all my music lately, I noticed bizarre lack of releases from 2005 in my collection (conversely, a huge number of 1995 releases! ...but that's a different topic). At first I thought it was due to being on a shoe-string budget that year, but when I took a look at what particular 'classic' albums I did have from that year, the results were few:
Vitalic - OK Cowboy
Ladytron - Witching Hour
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Chris Fortier - Balance 007
Various - Fahrenheit Project, Part 5
Five out of 23 from 2005 make this list (and including an Ultimae compilation's debatable). By comparison, I have 30 2006 LPs, and 30 2004 LPs, so it's not like I haven't been gathering up old music at a reasonable clip from the surrounding years. For whatever reason though, 2005's been getting the shaft.
Have I been missing out on something from this year, or was it really just slim pickings for good tunes? |
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| Scoops |
Markus Schulz - Miami 05
Sasha – Fundacion NYC
Luke Fair – Original Series: OS_0.3
Matthew Dekay – Trousy
tons of good tunes:
Pryda - AfterMath
Pryda - The Gift
Killers - Mr. Brightside(Thin White Duke remix)
Depeche Mode - Precious (Sashas Gargantuan Vocal Mix)
PQM - Over the Edge (Andrew Bennet rmx)
Terry Grant ft Jennifer Horne - I'll Kill You(Luke Chable rmx)
James Zabiela - Robophobia |
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| Floorfiller |
Boards of Canada - Campfire Headphase
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
Daft Punk - Human After All
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| LoveHate |
Deep dish - flashdance
Eric prydz - call on me
Mylo - drop the pressure
Armand van helden - mymymy
Juniorjack - stupidsco
Shapeshifters - Lola's theme
What's op jippering about :conf: |
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| Lews |
I'd also add Pole Folder - Zero Gold. It's not brilliant, but solid.
2005 really wasn't great. Was 2004 much better? Maybe it's because my dates are ed on iTunes, but I have a large lack of quality works popping up on that year, too. |
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| Sykonee |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
I'd also add Pole Folder - Zero Gold. It's not brilliant, but solid.
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Yeah, I have that one too. Thought about including it in that list, but I feel the hype going into it failed to live up to the result. Human After All ain't all that good, though it was influential, I'll give it that.
Haven't got that Ulrich album (none of his yet, sadly), nor that Boards either, though it's also debatable whether it's a classic album or not. It'd be like including Solar Fields' Leaving Home from that year too.
Any other albums? While I'm sure single tracks that have held up are about in '05, I'm more interested in the LPs that stood out. |
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| Paradox Lost |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sykonee
Chris Fortier - Balance 007
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If I'm correctly recalling your original TC review for his edition, weren't your feelings toward his edition a bit…harsh? |
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| theqlogic87 |
| Every year is a bad year for music, always has been |
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| Sykonee |
| quote: | Originally posted by Paradox Lost
If I'm correctly recalling your original TC review for his edition, weren't your feelings toward his edition a bit…harsh? |
I haven't reviewed that one. Jimmy Van M, Joris Voorn, and Agoria, yes. Only Fortier I've ever reviewed is Trance America, a mix from the year 2000.
I think maybe my original post is too narrow a topic. Glancing through music I've gathered throughout the '00s, 2005 turns out the least total hours. Ranking the years by total hours, it'd go about thus:
2000 - 91 hours
2007 - 88.1
2001 - 74.6
2009 - 68.3
2008 - 65.3
2003 - 50.6
2002 - 49.9
2004 - 49.3
2006 - 49.2
2005 - 42.2
While some factors slightly skew the top years (working music shop early-'00s; reviewing material in the late-'00s), it's not to such a degree that 2005 should lag behind 2000 by nearly 50 hours worth of music (to say nothing of most of my '90s years out-pacing 2005 an average of 25 hours).
I'm just wondering whether other folks here have a similar discrepancy, if it's just a coincidence, or 2005 really is comparatively lacking for music options. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Fair Away Trains Passing By is from 2001, and it was merely reissued in 2005.
2005 was absolute dog, but that whole mid-00s era was the pits. Just about all of the music mentioned in this thread is mediocre at best, which pretty much sums it up. You can probably dredge up a list of interesting albums but they’ll almost all be outliers. The general trends in electronic music from 2005 were all piss-poor, and record sales and club attendances were right down. Nobody was listening, nobody cared. That recent thread about minimal techno pretty much sums up most people’s feelings towards that era.
One album worth mentioning, though, is Pendulum – Hold Your Colour, which began the long, slow revival of drum ‘n bass. |
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| Woony |
This is all the records from 2005 on my wantlist and my wantlist has well over 1700 records :stongue:
Although 2005 had this which is probably one of my all time favorite records. |
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| Scoops |
| quote: | Originally posted by LoveHate
Eric prydz - call on me
Mylo - drop the pressure
Armand van helden - mymymy
Juniorjack - stupidsco
Shapeshifters - Lola's theme
What's op jippering about :conf: |
those are 2004!!!!! |
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