the Budos Band debut was pretty damn good too.

Most of my picks have been listed already (Dalek, the Fall, so on) but I'm surprised nobody yet has listed the Mono/Pelican split.

You know, I really like the guitar work on the Pelican album, but that drummer is fucking horrible.

Well, most of these have already been mentioned but these I have liked a lot. In no particular order:

Bastro - Antlers: Live 1991
Shipping News - Flies the Fields
Zu/Mats Gustafsson - How to Raise an Ox
Earth - Hex; or Printing in the Infernal Method
Matt Sweeney and Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Superwolf
Bellini - Small Stones
Sleeping People - Sleeping People
Pit Er Pat - Shakey
Deerhoof - The Runners Four and Green Cosmos EP
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much to Love
Koenjihyakkei - Angherr Shisspa
Dirty Three - Cinder
Oxes - Oxes EP

Eksvplot wrote:the Budos Band debut was pretty damn good too.

Oh, no shit. Heard it for the first time last weekend. Damn good, indeed.

MajorEverettMiller wrote:

Eksvplot wrote:the Budos Band debut was pretty damn good too.

Oh, no shit. Heard it for the first time last weekend. Damn good, indeed.

yeah, it's really fuckin' solid. nice production too. they haven't really gotten the attention they deserve yet, but then again they have yet to go on tour.

glad you like it though, Major.

if you get the chance, be sure to check out the new, debut record by the El Michels Affair. i must have listened to it about forty fifty times since i got it in November.

also, the new Smog gets better and better, though that song "the well" is kinda hokey.

great lists. here's an oakland contribution (saw about half these live last year; no regrets)

Best 10 New Records Heard in 2005
1. King Khan and BBQ Show
2. Reigning Sound- Home For Orphans
3. Black Lips- Let It Bloom
4. Deadly Snakes- Porcella
5. Blank Its- demo
6. Lamps- S/T
7. A-Frames- Black Forest
8. Feelers- Learn to Hate the Feelers
9. Demon’s Claws- S/T
10. Human Eye- S/T