Currently Listening Ear-Bleeding Country: The Best of Dinosaur Jr. By Dinosaur Jr. see related

in the year 2005

top 5 albums

1.  brilliantly constructed, conceptual, and cohesive:  The Mars Volta "Frances the Mute"

2.  ...:  Sigur Ros "Takk"

3.  bountifully creative, retrospective, and family oriented:  Fiery Furnaces "Rehearsing My Choir"

4.  celebration of a state from a state of mind:  Sufjan Stevens "Illinoise"

5.  let's go out tonight:  Kelley Stoltz "Sun Comes Through"

top 5 shows

1.  Low/Pedro the Lion @ Beachland
2.  Dredg @ Beachland
3.  mewithoutYou @ Peabodys
4.  Stars/Most Serene Republic @ Grog Shop
5a. Sufjan Stevens @ Beachland
5b. Psalters @ Grace Fellowship (outdoors)

Looking forward to a new year of music and looking back to Dinosaur Jr., Fugazi, and Smiths; looking back, forward, and back.

(Bryan)