Feature / Music
Scene Point Blank's Favorites: Year End (2005)

Individual Staff Lists

Jason

1. Blue Monday - Rewritten (Bridge Nine Records)
2. Blacklisted - ...The Beat Goes On (Deathwish Inc.)
3. Crime In Stereo - The Contract (Nitro)
4. The Loved Ones - EP (Jade Tree)
5. Mental - Planet Mental (Lockin' Out)
6. With Honor - This Is Our Revenge (Victory)
7. Allegiance - Overlooked (Rivalry)
8. Go It Alone - The Only Blood Between Us (Rivalry)
9. The Fire Still Burns - Keeping Hope Alive (Blackout!)
10. Internal Affairs - S/T (Malfunction)
11. Daggermouth - Stallone (Feeding Frenzy)
12. Shook Ones - 16 (Endwell)
13. Lights Out - Overload (Youngblood)
14. Various Artists - Generations: A Hardcore Compilation (Revelation)
15. Of Faith And Fire - Battleborn (Helicopter)
16. Paint It Black - Paradise (Jade Tree)
17. Sinking Ships - Meridian (Run For Cover)
18. Smoke Or Fire - Above This City (Fat Wreck Chords)
19. Kill Your Idols - From Companionship To Competition (Side One Dummy)
20. Small Towns Burn A Little Slower - Mortality As Home Entertainment (Triple Crown)
21. Ruiner - What Could Possibly Go Right (1917)
22. Elliott - Photorecordings (Revelation)
23. Killing The Dream - In Place Apart (Deathwish Inc.)
24. Noth Lincoln - Truth Is A Menace (No Idea)
25. Dead Hearts - No Love, No Hope (Reflections)

Neil F.

1. Idlewild - Warnings / Promises (Parlophone)
2. System of a Down - Hypnotize (Sony)
3. Daft Punk - Human After All (Virgin)
4. System of a Down - Mezmerize (Sony)
5. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (V2)
6. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart (Interscope)
7. Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering (Fat Cat)
8. Send More Paramedics / Zombie Apocalypse - Tales Told By Dead Men (Hellbent)
9. Scum - Gospels for the Sick (Tuba)
10. Girls Aloud - Chemistry (Polydor)
11. The Nothing / Send More Paramedics - North of England, South of Hell - (In At The Deep End)
12. Basement Jaxx - The Singles (XL)
13. Nizlopi - Half of These Songs Are About You (Nova)
14. New Order - Waiting For the Siren's Call (Warner)
15. Bring Me The Horizon - This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For (Thirty Days Of Night)
16. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute (Warner)
17. Sons and Daughters - The Repulsion Box (Domino)
18. Dead Blonde Girlfriend - Dead Blonde Girlfriend (Art Monkey)
19. Psyclon 9 - I.N.R.I. (Metropolis)
20. Green Day - Bullet in a Bible (Reprise)
21. VNV Nation - Matter + Form (Metropolis)

Gareth

1. Ulver - Blood Inside (Jester)
2. Coheed And Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV... (Columbia)
3. Every Time I Die - Gutter Phenomenon (Ferret)
4. Cursed - II (Goodfellow)
5. He Is Legend - I Am Hollywood (Solid State)
6. Sinai Beach - Immersed (Victory)
7. The Dream Is Dead - Hail The New Pawn (Escape Artist)
8. Alkaline Trio - Crimson (Vagrant)
9. Killwhitneydead - So Pretty, So Plastic (Tribunal)
10. Gatsby's American Dream - Volcano (Fearless)
11. Most Precious Blood - Merciless (Trustkill)
12. Sleeper X - Everything You Know Is Wrong EP (Cartel)
13. Anberlin - Never Take Friendship Personal (Tooth And Nail)
14. Hate Eternal - I, Monarch (Earache)
15. Cave In - Perfect Pitch Black (Hydrahead)
16. Stars - Set Yourself On Fire (Arts & Crafts)
17. Between The Buried And Me - Alaska (Victory)
18. Burning Cities - 1111 (self-released)
19. Eisley - Room Noises (Reprise)
20. The Amenta - Occasus i
21. All Shall Perish - Hate.Malice.Revenge (Nuclear Blast)
22. Despised Icon - The Healing Process (Century Media)
23. American Headcharge - The Feeding (Nitrus)
24. Sword - Lord By Fire (self-released)
25. Sinead O'Connor - Throw Down Your Arms (Rocket Science)

Peanut

1. British Sea Power- Open Season (Rough Trade)
2. Eels- Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (Dreamworks)
3. Goldfrapp- Supernature (Mute)
4. New Order- Waiting For The Sirens' Call (Warner)
5. Girls Aloud- Chemistry (Polydor)
6. Test Icicles- For Screening Purposes Only (Domino)
7. Basement Jaxx- The Singles (XL)
8. Alkaline Trio- Crimson (Vagrant)
9. Send More Paramedics / Zombie Apocalypse - Tales Told by Dead Men (Hellbent)
10. Gorillaz- Demon Days (Virgin)
11. Broken Social Scene- Broken Social Scene (Arts & Crafts)
12. Kanye West- Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella)
13. Bright Eyes- I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Saddle Creek)
14. Kate Bush- Aerial (EMI)
15. Mars Volta- Francis The Mute (Universal)

Mitchell

1. Propagandhi - Potemkin City Limits (Fat Wreck Chords/G7)
2. Akron Family - Akron Family (Young God)
3. CKY - An Answer Can Be Found (Island)
4. Sufjan Stevens- Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
5. Modern Life Is War - Witness (Deathwish)
6. Bane - The Note (Equal Vision)
7. Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain i
8. Against Me! - Searching For A Former Clarity (Fat Wreck Chords)
9. Gospel - The Moon Is A Dead World (Level Plane)
10. Immolation - Harnessing Ruin (Olympic)
11. Lights Out - Overload (Youngblood)
12. Jesu - Jesu (Hydra Head)
13. Baroness - Second (Hyperrealist)
14. Meneguar - I Was Born At Night (Magic Bullet)
15. Transistor Transistor - Erase All Names And Likeness (Level Plane)
16. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw (Hydra Head)
17. The Starting Point - It's Something You Learn (Self-released)
18. Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation (Earache)
19. Sunn0))) - Black One (Southern Lord)
20. Time For Living - Demo2k5 (Self-released)
21. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene (Arts&Crafts)
22. Internal Affairs - Internal Affairs (Malfunction)
23. This Is Hell - EP (State Of Mind)
24. Alkaline Trio - Crimson (Vagrant)
25. Paint It Black - Paradise (Jade Tree)

Giles

1. Red Sparowes - At The Soundless Dawn (Neurot Recordings)
2. Modern Life is War - Witness (Deathwish Inc.)
3. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Naturally (Daptone)
4. Logh - A Sunset Panorama (Hydra Head)
5. Jesu - Jesu (Hydra Head)
6. Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness (Domino)
7. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
8. Kanye West - Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella)
9. Sigur Rós - Takk (Geffen)
10. Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway (RCA)
11. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
12. Cursed - II (Goodfellow)
13. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us (Mute)
14. Buried Inside - Chronoclast (Relapse)
15. Common - Be (Roc-A-Fella)
16. Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw (Hydra Head)
17. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (Vice)
18. Blue Monday - Rewritten (Bridge Nine)
19. Minus the Bear - Menos el Oso (Suicide Squeeze)
20. Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary (Sub Pop)
21. Broken Social Scene -Broken Social Scene (Arts & Crafts)
22. A Silver Mount Zion - Horses in the Sky (Constellation)
23. Decemberists - Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
24. Dalek - Absence (Ipecac)
25. Sunn 0))) - Black One (Southern Lord)

Shane

1. Sigur Ros - Takk... (Geffen)
2. Akron/Family - Akron/Family (Young God)
3. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Naturally (Daptone)
4. Jesu - Jesu (Hydra Head)
5. Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees (Temporary Residence)
6. Tristeza - A Colores (Better Looking)
7. Fingers-Cut, Megamachine - Fingers-Cut, Megamachine (Thick)
8. A Silver Mt. Zion - Horses in the Sky (Constellation)
9. Common - Be (Geffen)
10. Mountains - Mountains (Apestaartje)
11. Growing - His Return (Megablade)
12. Baroness - Second (Hyperrealist)
13. My Morning Jacket - Z (ATO)
14. Earth - Hex: or Printing in the Infernal Method (Southern Lord)
15. Lichens - Physic Nature of Being (Kranky)
16. Meneguar - I Was Born at Night (Magic Bullet)
17. Eraldo Bernocchi and Harold Budd - Music for "Fragments From the Inside" (Sub Rosa)
18. Khanate - Capture and Release (Hydrahead)
19. Dead Meadow - Feathers (Matador)
20. New Idea Society - You Are Awake or Asleep (Magic Bullet)
21. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase (Warp)
22. Greg Davis and Sebastien Roux - Paquet Surprise (Carpark)
23. Minus Story - Heaven and Hell (Jagjaguwar)
24. Pissed Jeans - Shallow (Parts Unknown)
25. Boris with Merzbow - Sun Baked Snow Cave (Hydrahead)

Josh

1. A Wilhelm Scream - Ruiner (Nitro Records)
2. Against Me! - Searching For A Former Clarity (Fat Wreck Chords)
3. Thrice -Vheissu (Island Records)
4. Death By Stereo - Death For Life (Epitaph Records)
5. Paint It Black - Paradise (Jade Tree Records)
6. Western Addiction - Cognicide (Fat Wreck Chords)
7. Smoke Or Fire - Above The City (Fat Wreck Chords)
8. Propagandhi - Potemkin City Limits (Fat Wreck Chords)
9. Daggermouth - Stallone (Feeding Frenzy Records)
10. Minus The Bear - Menos El Oso (Suicide Squeeze Records)
11. Tim Barry - Demo CDR (Self-Released)
12. Lagwagon - Resolve (Fat Wreck Chords)
13. The Suicide Machines - War Profiteering Is Killing Us All (Side One Dummy Records)
14. Latterman - No Matter Where We Go... (Deep Elm Records)
15. Hank Jones - Saturdays Of Thunder (Undecided Records)
16. Coheed And Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV (Columbia Records)
17. 7 Seconds - Take It Back Take It On Take It Over! (Side One Dummy Records)
18. Bane - The Note (Equal Vision Records)
19. Ringworm - Justice Replaced By Revenge (Victory Records)
20. Modern Life Is War - Witness (Deathwish Records)
21. Somerset - Pandora (Punknews Records)
22. Comeback Kid - Wake The Dead (Victory Records)
23. Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This To Memory (Epitaph Records)
24. Stretch Arm Strong - Free At Last (East/West / We Put Out Records)
25. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw (Hydra Head Records)

Michael

1. Jesu - Jesu (Hydra Head)
2. Fantômas - Suspended Animation (Ipecac)
3. These Days - These Days (This Blessing, This Curse)
4. Red Sparowes - At the Soundless Dawn (Neurot)
5. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans (Atlantic)
6. Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw (Hydra Head)
7. â?¦And You Will Know it is Us By the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart (Interscope)
8. Cursed - II (Good Fellow)
9. Renee Heartfelt - Death of the Ghost (Textbook Music)
10. Cave In - Perfect Pitch Black (Hydra Head)
11. Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel (Reprise)
12. This is Hell - This is Hell (State of Mind)
13. Knut - Terraformer (Hydra Head)
14. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze (Interscope)
15. Doomriders - Black Thunder (Deathwish Inc.)
16. Killing the Dream - In Place, Apart (Deathwish Inc.)
17. Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation (Earache)
18. Rise and Fall - Hellmouth (Surprise Attack)
19. American Werewolves - 1968 (Fractured Transmitter)
20. Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites (Translation Loss)
21. Foo Fighters - In Your Honor (RCA)
22. I Am the Avalanche - I Am the Avalanche (Drive-Thru)
23. Logh - A Sunset Panorama (Hydra Head)
24. Tides - Resurface (Teenage Disco Bloodbath)
25. Minus the Bear - Menos el Oso (Suicide Squeeze)

Neil

1. A Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band With Choir - Horses in the Sky (Constellation)
2. Antony & the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
3. Xiu Xiu - La Forét (5 Rue Christine)
4. Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower (Drag City)
5. Jesu - Jesu (Hydra Head)
6. Dälek - Absence (Ipecac)
7. Bucket Full of Teeth - IV (Level Plane)
8. Modern Life is War - Witness (Deathwish Inc.)
9. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (Rough Trade)
10. Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain (Load)
11. Sunn O))) - Black One (Southern Lord)
12. Earth - Hex (Or Printing in the Infernal Method) (Southern Lord)
13. Whores of Leith - Whores of Leith (Giant Tank)
14. Decemberists - Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
15. Transistor Transistor - Erase All Names and Likeness (Level Plane)
16. Animal Collective - Feels (Fat Cat)
17. Gospel - The Moon is a Dead World (Level Plane)
18. Iron and Wine - Woman King (Sub Pop)
19. Hangedup - Clatter for Control (Constellation)
20. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Naturally (Daptone)
21. Akron/Family - Akron/Family (Young God)
22. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene (Arts & Crafts)
23. High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings (Relapse)
24. This is Hell - This is Hell EP (State of Mind)
25. Yann Tiersen - Les Retrouvailles (EMI France)

Scott

1. Resplendent - Am I Free? I Am Free (Mixxtape)
2. Dead Meadow - Feathers (Matador)
3. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production Of Eggs (Righteous Babe)
4. Jesu - Jesu (Hydra Head)
5. Neil Diamond - 12 Songs (Sony)
6. Hot Snakes - Peel Sessions (Swami)
7. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw (Hydra Head )
8. Oxes - Oxes EP (Monitor)
9. Murder City Devils, The End (Music Video Distributors)
10. Sweetthieves - Demo (Independent)

Pat

1. Antony & the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
2. Modern Life Is War - Witness (Deathwish Inc.)
3. Kanye West - Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella)
4. Animal Collective - Feels (Fat Cat)
5. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
6. The Decemberists - Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
7. Bane - The Note (Equal Vision)
8. Xiu Xiu - La Foret (5 Rue Christine)
9. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Saddle Creek)
10. Killing the Dream - In Place, Apart (Deathwish Inc.)
11. With Honor - This Is Our Revenge (Victory)
12. Bonnie "Prince" Billy/Matt Sweeney - Superwolf (Drag City)
13. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (Matador)
14. Final Fight - Under Attack (Straight On)
15. Go It Alone - The Only Blood between Us (Rivalry)
16. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene (Arts and Crafts)
17. These Days - These Days (This Blessing, This Curse)
18. Sugar Eater - Nine Songs (Eyephat)
19. Iron & Wine - Woman King (Sub Pop)
20. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us (Mute)

Matt

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
2. Propagandhi - Potemkin City Limits (Fat Wreck Chords)
3. Minus The Bear- Menos El Oso (Suicide Squeeze)
4. The Evens - The Evens (Dischord)
5. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene (Arts & Crafts)
6. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute (Universal Records)
7. 7 Seconds - Take It Back Take It On Take It Over! (Side One Dummy)
8. The Lawrence Arms - Cocktails and Dreams (Asian Man)
9. Red Sparowes - At the Soundless Dawn (Neurot Recordings)
10. Gospel - The Moon is a Dead World (Level Plane)
11. Bright Eyes- I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Saddle Creek)
12. Final Fight - Under Attack (Straight On)
13. Against Me! - Searching For A Former Clarity (Fat Wreck Chords)
14. Bear vs Shark - Terrorhawk (Equal Vision)
15. Stars - Set Yourself On Fire (Arts & Crafts)
16. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us (Mute)
17. Foo Fighters - In Your Honor (RCA)
18. Bucket Full of Teeth - IV (Level Plane)
19. Death By Stereo - Death For Life (Epitaph)
20. Sigur Rós - Takk (Geffen)
21. A Silver Mount Zion - Horses in the Sky (Constellation)
22. Xiu Xiu - La Forét (5 Rue Christine)
23. Iron and Wine - Woman King (Sub Pop)
24. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw (Hydra Head)
25. New Idea Society - You Are Awake or Asleep (Magic Bullet)

Terry

1. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
2. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (Vice)
3. Black Mountain - s/t (Jagjaguwar)
4. Wilderness - s/t (Jagjaguwar)
5. M.I.A - Arular (XL)
6. Meneguar - I Was Born At Night (Magic Bullet)
7. Stars - Set Yourself On Fire (Arts & Crafts)
8. LCD Soundsystem - s/t (DFA)
9. Jens Lekman - Oh, You're So Silent Jens (Secretly Canadian)
10. M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us (Mute)
11. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene (Arts & Crafts)
12. Paul Wall - The Peoples Champ (Atlantic)
13. Gospel - The Moon Is A Dead World (Level Plane)
14. Back When - We Sang As Ghosts (Shock Value)
15. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Beckons The Thaw (Hydra Head)
16. Magnolia Electric Co. - What Comes After The Blues (Secretly Canadian)
17. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans (Atlantic)
18. Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust (Epitaph)
19. 13 & God - s/t (Anticon/Alien Transistor)
20. Wolf Parade - All Hail Queen Mary (Sub Pop)
21. Cage - Hell's Winter (Definitive Jux)
22. Modern Life Is War - Witness (Deathwish Inc.)
23. A Day In Black And White - Notes (Level Plane)
24. Lucero - Nobody's Darling (Liberty & Lament / East West)
25. Chamillionaire - The Sound of Revenge (Universal)

Bob

1. Coliseum - Goddamage (Auxiliary)
2. Cursed - II (Goodfellow)
3. Sunn0))) - Black One (Southern Lord)
4. Earth - Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method (Southern Lord)
5. Red Sparowes - At the Soundless Dawn (Neurot)
6. Lords - Swords (Jade Tree)
7. Integrity- Sliver in the Hands of Time (Good Life)
8. Breather Resist- Full of Tongues (Auxiliary)
9. Torche - s/t (Robotic Empire)
10. Earth - Legacy of Dissolution (No Quarter)
11. Cave In - Perfect Pitch Black (Hydra Head)
12. Criteria - When We Break (Saddle Creek)
13. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw (Hydra Head)
14. Negative Approach - Ready to Fight (Reptilian)
15. Suicide File - Some Mistakes You Never Stop Paying For (Indecision)
16. The Kills - No Wow (RCA)
17. Bane - The Note (Equal Vision)
18. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Saddle Creek)
19. Minus the Bear - Menos El Oso (Suicide Squeeze)
20. Jesu - Jesu (Hydra Head)
21. Lucero - Nobody's Darlings (Liberty & Lament / East West)
22. Forensics - Hogback Sessions Vol. 1 (Magic Bullet)
23. Corrosion of Conformity - In the Arms of God (Sanctuary)
24. New Idea Society - You are Awake or Asleep (Magic Bullet)
25. Doomriders - Black Thunder (Deathwish Inc.)

Zed

1. Buried Inside - Chronoclast (Relapse)
2. Regulations - Electric Guitar (Havoc)
3. Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain (Load)
4. Look Back And Laugh - Look Back And Laugh (Lengua Armada)
5. Animal Collective - Feels (Fat Cat)
6. Jesu - Jesu (Hydra Head)
7. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
8. Eluvium - Talk Amongst The Trees (Temporary Residence)
9. Kanye West - Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella)
10. Minus Story - No Life For Ghosts (Jagjaguwar)
11. Red Sparowes - At The Soundless Dawn (Neurot)
12. Modern Life Is War - Witness (Deathwish Inc.)
13. Gospel - The Moon Is A Dead World (Level-Plane)
14. Holy Fuck - Holy Fuck (Dependent)
15. Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation (Earache)
16. Deathspell Omega - Kenose (Southern Lord / Flame)
17. Cursed - II
18. Annihilation Time - II (Manic Ride)
19. Final Fight - Under Attack (Straight On)
20. Deerhoof - The Runners Four (Kill Rock Stars)
21. Hyatari - Light Carriers (Earache / Codebreaker)
22. Danger Doom - The Mouse & The Mask (Epitaph)
23. La Quiete / Louise Cyphre Split (Electric Human Project)
24. Lights Out - Overload (Youngblood)
25. Bullets In - Conceive