The must list.

Esto lo puse en last.fm pero como no puedo accesarlo desde mi fascista oficina, y quiero imprimirlo entonces de una vez lo pongo aquí.

Perdón por que está en inglés.. no lo vuelvo a hacer!

Since I began broadcasting a little internet radio show on http://www.ego99.tk, a Mexican radio station which only broadcasts live radio shows, not podcasts, I have discovered a new way of listening to music and sharing it.
I have made nearly 50 playlists over 2005, a new one for each week. But if I must revise, there were a few albums that have been recurrent in my show. These are my favorites, not necessarily the best, although MY number 1 album is the best 2005 album, no questions asked.
Here we go:

1. Kate Bush Aerial
After waiting for so long. Aproximately 4745 days of waiting. She came back with the most amazing album of this year. Nobody could create such a mixture of the bizarre, the tenderness, the flamboyant, the magnificent, the original, but Kate Bush. My favorite track of the album: Nocturn

2. Antony and the Johnsons:Antony and the Johnsons – I Am a Bird Now
What can we say about this artist? Today as I was driving home from Guanajuato city, I introduced my best friend to this album, and she was hipnotized by it. I didn’t have to explain anything, she just whispered: Hermoso (beautiful)

3. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: Bonnie Prince Billy Matt Sweeney – Superwolf
Song writing perfecton, lovely lyrics, perfect arrangements and a wonderful video to go along with the single
“I gave you”

4. Sleater-Kinney: Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
This is one of my favorite albums of female punk rock. It is perfect. It gives me back my strength, it makes me turn on the volume, it makes me scream. I respect these women.

5. Minus Story: Minus Story – No Rest for Ghosts
One of the late 2005 discoveries. I was wandering around emusic.com and I came across this album title. I thought it was beautiful. I downloaded the whole album and even though at first I found a faint reminisence of Mercury Rev, that quickly disappeared. Melancholy to it’s highest expression.

6. The New Pornographers: The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
What can I say about an album that is on most people’s Best of 2005, list? I know. This album makes me so fucking happy!

7. Fiona Apple: Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine
Another long awaited album. The debate over which version is best can be put to rest. The official album is brilliant. Fiona is authentic and gives you words like they were punches. Reinvention of the drama queen, reinvention of the word angry with ultimate class

8. Archer Prewitt: Archer Prewitt – Wilderness
This album hast a distinctive emotion. A perfection and elegance that I can’t begin to describe.
Thrill Jockey always gives me this level of satisfaction.

9. Baxter Dury: Floorshow
Psychodelic low fi pop. The originality of Baxter Dury is not a let down. If Len Parrot’s Memorial Lift was the first taste of what he could do even under his famous last name, this one is where the door slams. Brilliant.

10. Broken Social Scene: Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene
The wonderful Canadian band, gave this year one of the most amazing sounds ever to come out of a speaker. The creativity in music is defined by this one album.

11. The Clientele: The Clientele – Strange Geometry
British bands. When will they let us breathe? This is the sound that defines indie rock. Some of the most lovely tracks full of simple ways to make your heart skip or slow down.

12. The Decemberists: The Decemberists – Picaresque
This album was the introduction of my love for the theatrical in music. I had fallen in love with the Decemberists before, but the worship came with this album.

13. Aimee Mann: Aimee Mann – The Forgotten Arm
They called it a concept album, whatever. Individually each track has a musicianship so superior simply created to savor it. Plus Aimee Mann’s voice is always a delicacy.

14. Piano Magic: Piano Magic – Disaffected
What a wonderful piece of nostalgia of those old 4ad moments, with a violent shove into the first decade of the 2000’s

15. Laura Veirs: Laura Veirs – Year of Meteors
I have a huge addiction to this woman’s metaphors.
How can you not hold your breath to a line like this:

Slain
By your zirconium smile
I was slain
By your olivine eyes