albums of the year

just picking over the tracks that might end up on my best of 2005 CDR...

It's been a year of good tunes featuring on otherwise disappointing albums, eg Teenage Fanclub, Beck. Plus, having become an iPod owner this year, I am losing the discipline to sit and listen to one LP from start to finish. The tempation is to skip about between favourite tracks, without devoting the time to properly get inside a whole record.

Anyway, my cdr will eventually feature the likes of The Fall (there's a surprise), Malcolm Middleton, Maximo Park, Martha Wainwright, Sufjan Stevens, Elbow, Seth Lakeman , Alabama 3, Arctic Monkeys, etc etc many other too tedious to list.

Last year, judging by most people's final 'best of 2004' cdrs, the most popular LPs were by Nick Cave, Morrissey, and Franz Ferdinand...it'll be interesting to see if anyone runs away with it this year.