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2005 Individual Votes

Here are the individual lists of each contributor that voted. With over 120 different albums voted for it shows just how little we actually agree about music here at diskant. We agree much more about films with just under 50 films voted for. The final top tens were worked out using a points system, not by the number of people voting. These are the lists as submitted and so include some items which were disallowed for various reasons.

Albums (read article)

Fraser Campbell
1. Charlottefield – How Long Are You Staying
2. Large Mound – Go Forth and Amplify
3. Modey Lemon – The Curious City
4. Antony and the Johnsons – I Am a Bird Now
5. The Fall – The Complete Peel Sessions, 1978-2004
6. Urban Jr – Music For The Asses
7. System of a Down – Mesmerize
8. QOTSA – Lullabies to Paralyze
9. Dirtbombs – If You Don’t Already Have a Look
10. Kate Bush – Aerial

Tom Coogan
1. Deerhoof – The Runners Four
2. Soeza – Why Do You Do
3. Sleater Kinney – The Woods
4. Part Chimp – I am come
5. Quack Quack – Quack Quack
6. Smog – A River Ain’t Too Much to Love
7. Scout Niblett – Kidnapped By Neptune
8. Lightning Bolt – Hypermagic Mountain
9. Boards of Canada – Campfire Headphase
10. Animal Collective – Feels

Crayola
1. Keith John Adams – Pip
2. Shining – In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster
3. Andrew Plummer – Diamond Suicide
4. Alog – Miniatures
5. Volcano The Bear – Catonapotato
6. Like A Stuntman – Fresh Air Is Not The Worst Thing In Town
7. Martin White – The Excitement Is Over At Last
8. Big Joan – Insects And Engines
9. Birdbrain – I Fly
10. Sage Francis – A Healthy Distrust

Stuart Fowkes
1. Jesu – Jesu
2. Aesop Rock – Fast Cars, Danger, Fire & Knives
3. Sleater Kinney – The Woods
4. Electrelane – Axes
5. Queen Adreena – The Butcher and the Butterfly
6. Scout Niblett – Kidnapped By Neptune
7. M Ward – Transistor Radio
8. Dive Dive – Tilting At Windmills
9. Gang Gang Dance – God’s Money
10. Roots Manuva – Awfully Deep

Jon Goodwin
1. Soeza – Why Do You do?
2. Lightning Bolt – Hypermagic Mountain
3. Jeff and Jack Lewis – City and Eastern Songs
4. Smog – A River Ain’t Too Much to Love
5. Charlottefield – How Long Are You Staying
6. Quack Quack – Quack Quack
7. Woman – Das Hexer
8. The Evens – The Evens

Jason Graham
1. Why? – Elephant Eyes
2. Unsane – Blood Run
3. Deerhoof – The Runners Four
4. Yo La Tengo – Prisoners Of Love
5. Various – Broken Flowers soundtrack
6. Part Chimp – I Am Come
7. Dinosaur Jr – You’re Living All Over Me
8. Spoon – Gimme Fiction
9. White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
10. Malcolm Middleton – Into The Woods

Alex McChesney
1. Antony and the Johnsons – I Am A Bird Now
2. Broadcast – Tender Buttons
3. Dirty Three – Live! At Meredith
4. LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem
5. Buck 65 – Secret House Against The World
6. Jackson and his Computer Band – Smash
7. AFX – Hangable Auto Bulb
8. Four Tet – Everything Ecstatic
9. Songs of Green Pheasant – Songs of Green Pheasant
10. Mugison – Mugimama Is This Monkey Music

Simon Minter
1. That Fucking Tank – A Document of the First Set
2. Circle – Forest
3. Sonic Youth – Goo box set
4. Tibetan Buddhist rites from the monastaries of Bhutan compilation
5. Drona Parva – Salvia Dor
6. Hey Colossus – II
7. Sunn o))) – White 2
8. Kuwayama-Kijima with Carter Thornton – Shrine
9. Part Chimp – I am come
10. This Aint Vegas – The night Don Benito saved my life

Joe Morris
1. Arcade Fire – Funeral
2. The National – Alligator
3. Maximo Park – A Certain Trigger
4. Hood – Outside Closer
5. Sufjan Stevens – Come On Feel The Illinoise!
6. Sage Francis – A Healthy Distrust
7. Engineers – Engineers
8. Boards of Canada – Campfire Headphase
9. Dalek – Absence
10. Low – The Great Destroyer

Simon Proffitt
1. The Psychic Paramount – Gamelan Into The Mink Supernatural
2. Thuja – Pine Cone Temples
3. Part Chimp – I Am Come
4. Serena Maneesh – Serena Maneesh
5. Lightning Bolt – Hypermagic Mountain
6. Jesu – Jesu
7. Lau Nau – Kuutarha
8. Deerhoof – The Runners Four
9. Khanate – Capture/Release
10. Alexander Tucker – Old Fog

Alasdair Rothin
1. Roisin Murphy – Ruby Blue
2. Girls Aloud – Chemistry
3. Sons And Daughters – The Repulsion Box
4. P atrick Wolf – Wind In The Wires
5. Four Tet – Everything Estatic
6. Gorillaz – Demon Days
7. Rachel Stevens – Come and Get It
8. Jamie Lidell – Multiply
9. MIA – Arular
10. Freeform Five – Strangest Things

Ian Scanlon
1. The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday
2. Aberfeldy – Young Forever
3. Last of the Real Hardmen – EP
4. Reigns – We lowered a microphone into the ground
5. Superwolf – S/T
6. The Broken Family Band – Welcome Home Loser
7. Jason Anderson – The Wreath
8. The Magic Numbers – s/t
9. The Fall – Heads Roll
10. Tortoise and Bonnie Prince Billy – The Brave and the Bold

Thorsten Sideb0ard
1. Like A Stuntman – Fresh Air Is Not The Worst Thing In Town
2. The Lucksmiths – Warmer Corners
3. Acid House Kings – Sing Along With The Acid House Kings
4. Ezee Tiger – Ezee Tiger
5. Death Sentence: Panda! – Puppy, Kitty, Or Both
6. Windy And Carl – Dream House / Dedications To Flea
7. Tape – Rideau
8. Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene
9. 13 & God – 13 & God
10. Dangerdoom – The Mouse and The Mask

Ollie Simpson
1. Animal Collective – Feels
2. Antony and the Johnsons – I Am a Bird Now
3. Lightning Bolt – Hypermagic Mountain
4. Part Chimp – I Am Come
5. Hey Colossus – II
6. Six Organs of Admittance – School of the Flower
7. Brother Danielson – Brother is to Son
8. Earth – Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method
9. A Hawk and a Hacksaw – Darkness at Noon
10. Sunn o))) – Black1

Marceline Smith
1. Rachel Stevens – Come And Get It
2. Hookers Green No.1 – On How The Illustrious Captain Moon Won The War For Us
3. Scout Niblett – Kidnapped By Neptune
4. Girls Aloud – Chemistry
5. Hood – Outside Closer
6. Saint Etienne – Tales From Turnpike House
7. Aoki Takamasa & Tujiko Noriko – 28
8. Annie – Anniemal
9. Ellen Allien – Thrills
10. IsolĂ©e – We Are Monster

David Stockwell
1. Birchville Cat Motel – Chi Vampires
2. Flaherty/Corsano Duo – Last Eyes
3. Malcolm Middleton – Into The Woods
4. Steven R. Smith – Crown of Marches
5. Jesu – s/t
6. Pumice – Raft
7. Boards of Canada – The Campfire Headphase
8. Broadcast – Tender Buttons
9. (Smog) – A River Ain’t Too Much To Love
10. James Blackshaw – Sunshrine

Chris Summerlin
1. Superwolf – S/T
2. Love As Laughter – Laughters Fifth
3. John Fahey – The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick (Live)
4. The Unit Ama – S/T
5. Part Chimp – I Am Come
6. Lungfish – Feral Hymns
7. Mark Ribot – Spiritual Unity
8. Deerhoof – The Runners Four
9. Soeza – Why Do You Do
10. Ted Leo – Shake The Streets

Graeme Williams
1. Angels of Light – Sings Other People
2. Jesu – s/t
3. Corrupted – El Mundo Frio
4. Nile – Annihilation of the Wicked
5. Deathspell Omega – Kenose
6. Richie Hawtin – DE9 Transitions
7. Birchville Cat Motel with Lee Ranaldo – 30th December 2004
8. Khanate – Capture and Release
9. Six Organs of Admittance – School of the Flower
10. Om – Variations on a Theme

Films (read article)

Fraser Campbell
1. Napoleon Dynamite
2. Kung Fu Hustle
3. Sin City
4. Ong Bak
5. Batman Begins
6. Downfall
7. Crash
8. The Life Aquatic
9. Dig!
10. House of Flying Daggers

Tom Coogan
1. Batman Begins,
2. Sideways
3. I Heart Huckabees
4. Downfall
5. Napoleon Dynamite
6. Land of the Dead
7. Maria Full of Grace
8. Revenge of the Sith

Stuart Fowkes
1. Sideways
2. Life Aquatic
3. Land of the Dead
4. Kung Fu Hustle
5. Wolf Creek
6. Corpse Bride

Jon Goodwin
1. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2. I Heart Huckabees
3. The American Astronaut
4. The Constant Gardener
5. We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
6. Sideways
7. Napoleon Dynamite
8. Broken Flowers
9. The Edukators
10. Star Wars

Jason Graham
1. Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
2. Dig!
3. The 40 Year Old Virgin
4. Melinda And Melinda
5. 2046
6. Enron – The Smartest Guys In The Room
7. Sideways
8. End Of The Century
9. Napoleon Dynamite
10. Hitch

Alex McChesney
1. The Life Aquatic
2. The Woodsman
3. Broken Flowers
4. Sideways
5. Sin City
6. Primer
7. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
8. A Very Long Engagement
9. Thumbsucker
10. Me and You and Everyone We Know

Simon Minter
1. DiG!
2. The Machinist
3. Sideways
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
5. The Descent
6. I Heart Huckabees
7. The Life Aquatic

Joe Morris
1. Batman Begins
2. Sin City
3. Closer
4. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
5. Dig!
6. The Beat That Stopped My Heart
7. Broken Flowers
8. Sideways

Simon Proffitt
1. [intentionally blank]
2. Thumbsucker
3. Crash

Thorsten Sideb0ard
1. Sin City
2. Broken Flowers
3. Dig
4. Capturing The Friedmans

Ollie Simpson
1. Sin City
2. Batman Begins
3. Casshern

Marceline Smith
1. Howl’s Moving Castle
2. Me and You and Everyone We Know
3. House of Flying Daggers
4. The Life Aquatic
5. 2046
6. The Cat Returns
7. Sin City
8. Closer
9. Downfall
10. Maria Full of Grace

David Stockwell
1. Howl’s Moving Castle
2. The Machinist
3. Batman Begins
4. Sideways
5. DiG!
6. Ghost in the Shell 2
7. A History of Violence
8. Bonbon El Perro
9. Steamboy
10. Kingdom of Heaven

Chris Summerlin
1. A History Of Violence

Graeme Williams
1. Downfall
2. Land of the Dead