fringey top fives of 2005

Ahhh.... so those hacks at NME/Xfm have seen fringey is on to a good thing and done their own top 5 tracks of the year. OH and they will soon regret printing actual real PHOTOs of themselves.

In the meantime - the fringey top fives of 2005:

TOP FIVE TUNES:

*White Rose Movement - Love is a Number
*Soulwax - NY Excuse
*Futureheads - Hounds of Love
*Arcade Fire - Rebellion/Lies
*Art Brut - Good Weekend
*Dogs - End of an Era
*Razorlight - Somewhere Else (god help me!)
*DFA 1979 - Romantic Rights
*The Strokes - Juicebox
*Bloc Party - Banquet - been around ages but rereleased April 2005!
*Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure
*We Are Scientists - Great Escape
*Editors - Bullets
*The Rakes - Strasberg

(OK - so we couldn't actually narrow it down to a top five. But if you are the kind of person who is prepared to choose between 'Bullets' and 'Banquet' or 'Love is a Number' and 'Hounds of Love', then you don't deserve ears and we don't want you in fringey anyway.)

TOP FIVE ALBUMS:

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor

LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem

Dogs - Turn against this land

Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman I'm A Machine

(see above about the choosing a top 5 problem!)