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December 26, 2005: Irene's favorites of 2005, in no particular order of importance
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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sean Smith | "Someone Somewhere has Sensed that I am a Frightened Man" | Sean Smith | Isota Records | |
| Gyan Riley & Terry Riley | "La Cigàle (The Locust)" | VA: Imaginational Anthem | Tompkins Square | |
| Mike Wexler | "March Violets" | Mike Wexler | I and Ear | |
| Nick Schillace | "A Walk Through the Field"/ "Kye (Was a Dead Dog)" | Box Canyon | American Sketch | |
| Nick Castro & The Poison Tree | "Deep, Deep Sea" | Further From Grace | Strange Attractors | |
| Devendra Banhart | "Cripple Crow" | Cripple Crow | XL | |
| José González | "Crosses" | Veneer | Parasol | |
| Gary Higgins | "Thicker Than a Smokey" | Red Hash | Drag City | |
| Sufjan Stevens | "Casmir Pulaski Day" | Illinois | Asthmatic Kitty | |
| Art of Flying | "The Magpie Said" | asifyouwerethesea | Discobolus Records | |
| Josephine Foster | "There are Eyes Above" | Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You | Locust Music | |
| Marissa Nadler | "Old Love Haunts Me in the Morning" | The Saga of Mayflower May | Eclipse Records | |
| Wingdale Community Singers | "Dog in Winter" | Wingdale Community Singers | Plain Recordings | |
| Zöe Keating | "The Legions (Reverie)" | One Cello x 16: Natoma | (self released) | |
| Espers | "Black is the Color" | The Weed Tree | Locust Music | |
| David Poe | "Love is Red" | Love is Red | The Lab | |
| Adrian Crowley | "Brake Lines" | A Northern Country | Ba-Da-Bing! | |
| Mia Doi Todd | "My Room is White" | Manzanita | Plug Research | |
| Pat Metheny Group | "The Way Up: part 3" excerpt | The Way Up | Nonesuch Records | |
| Badi Assad | "Bachelorette" | Badi Assad | edge music | |
| Laura Veirs | "Rialto" | Year of Meteors | Nonesuch | |
| Bart Davenport | "L.A. Girls" | Maroon Cocoon | Antenna Farm Records | |
| Apothecary Hymns | "The Marigold" | Trowel and Era | Locust Music | |
| Emiliana Torrini | "Nothing Brings me Down" | Fisherman's Woman | Rough Trade | |
| Neblung Price | "Marigold" | Third | (self released) | |
| The Mountain Goats | "This Year" | The Sunset Tree | 4AD | |
| Richard Thompson | "Old Thames Side" | Front Parlour Ballads | Cooking Vinyl | |
| Bill Fay | "Be Not So Fearful" | Bill Fay | Eclectic Discs | |
| Magnet | "The Last Day of Summer" | On Your Side | BMG | |
| Kitchen Cynics | "Maria Midnight" | Hoodie Craw | (self released) | |
| Hi-Fi Sky | "That Bird" | Music For Synchronized Swimming in Space | ||
| Alice Bierhorst | "What a Difference (The Morning Makes)" | Jubilee | Shur | |
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Honorable selections (Albums I liked but couldn't fit in the show) |
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| The Angels of Light: "The Angels of Light Sing 'Other People' " [Young God Records] | ||||
| The Bad Plus: "Suspicious Activity" [Columbia] | ||||
| B'eirth: "Birch Book" | ||||
| Bob Brozman: "Blues Reflex" | ||||
| Vashti Bunyan: "Lookaftering" [FatCat] | ||||
| Gary Burton: "Next Generation" [Concorde Records] | ||||
| Laura Cantrell: "Humming by the Flowered Vine" [Matador] | ||||
| t.griffin coraline: "The Sea Won't Take Long" [Shiny Little Records] | ||||
| Elvis Costello: "The Delivery Man" [Lost Highway] | ||||
| Currituck Co.: "In Turn Returns" [Troubleman Unlimited] | ||||
| Damon & Naomi with Kurihara: "The Earth is Blue" [20/20/20] | ||||
| John Doe: "Forever Hasn't Happened Yet" [Yep Roc] | ||||
| Bob Dylan: "No Direction Home" [Sony] | ||||
| Dirty Three: "Cinder" [Touch'n'Go] | ||||
| Nikolai Dunger: "This Cloud is Learning" [Overcoat] | ||||
| Fast'n'Bulbous - The Captain Beefheart Project: "Pork Chop Blue Around the Rind" [Cuneiform Records] | ||||
| Lee Feldman: "I've Forgotten Everything" (self-released) | ||||
| The Fiery Furnaces: "Rehearsing My Choir" [Rough Trade] | ||||
| Dominic Frasca: "Deviations" [Cantaloupe Records] | ||||
| Greta Gertler & Peccadillo: "Nervous Breakthroughs (1998-2004)" (self-released) | ||||
| The Go-Betweens: "Oceans Apart" [Yep Roc] | ||||
| Grace Cathedral Park:"In the Evenings of Regret " [La Verdad] | ||||
| Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra: "Not In Our Name" [Verve] | ||||
| Scott Helland: "Brocade" | ||||
| Dave Holland Big Band: "Overtime" [Dare2 Records] | ||||
| Hotbird 7: "Hotbird 7" EP [self-released] | ||||
| Ida: "Heart Like a River" [Polyvinyl Records] | ||||
| The Kingsbury Manx:"The Fast Rise and Fall of the South" [Yep Roc] | ||||
| Brad Mehldau Trio: "Day is Done" [Nonesuch Records] | ||||
| Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane: "At Carnegie Hall" [Blue Note] | ||||
| Moondog: "1977 - 1999 the German Years" [Roof Music] | ||||
| Chris Moore: "Figurines" [self-released] | ||||
| Jason Moran: "Same Mother" [Blue Note] | ||||
| Nethers: "In Fields We Will Lie" [Box Theory Records] | ||||
| Harris Newman: "Accidents with Nature and Each Other" [Strange Attractors] | ||||
| Marianne Nowattny: "Skymother Mountain" [Abaton Book Company] | ||||
| Hermeto Pascoal: "Eu e Eles" | ||||
| Alasdair Roberts "No Earthly Man" [Drag City] | ||||
| Scavenger Quartet: "We Who Live On Land" [ReR USA] | ||||
| Sigur Rós: "Takk" [Geffen] | ||||
| Slow Six: "Private Times in Public Places" [If.Then.Else.records] | ||||
| Tan Sleeve: "Bad From Both Sides" (self-released) | ||||
| Tape: "Rideau" [Hapna] | ||||
| Viking Moses: "Crosses" [Marriage Records] | ||||
| M. Ward: "Transistor Radio" [Merge Records] | ||||
| Greg Weeks: "Blood is Trouble" [Ba Da Bing!] | ||||
| Larry Yes: "Whole Lotta Skeletons" [Discobolus Records] | ||||
| Reissues: | ||||
| Chrysalis: "Definition" [Rev-Ola] | ||||
| Donovan: "Try for the Sun: The Journey of Donovan" (Box Set) (Epic/Legacy) | ||||
| The Fool: "The Fool" [Rev-Ola] | ||||
| The Free Design: various reissues [Light in the Attic] | ||||
| Fresh Maggots: Fresh Maggots [Sunbeam Records] | ||||
| Fuchsia: "Fuchsia" [Night Wings Records] | ||||
| Jackpine Savage: "Together (a participation musical-concept album for all children)" [Dimension 5/cd reissue by King-Japan] | ||||
| Plainsong: "Plainsong"/ "In Search of Amelia Earhart" [Perfect Pitch UK] | ||||
| Gary McFarlane: "America the Beautiful: An Account of its Disappearance"/ "Does the Sun Really Shine on the Moon?" [reissue: El/Cherry Red] | ||||
| Robert Wyatt: "Theatre Royal, Drury Lane" [Rykodisc] | ||||
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