| Rod's 'Top Tens' for 2005 Albums I loved: Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor Per Gessle - Son of a Plumber Garbage - Bleed Like Me Cyndi Lauper - The Body Acoustic Neil Diamond - 12 Songs Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine Buck 65 - This Right Here Is Carole Pope - Transcend Bananarama - Drama New Order - Waiting for the Siren's Call LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem Supergrass - Road to Rouen Dwight Yoakam - Blame the Vain Simple Minds - Black & White 050505 Albums I liked, but don't love, yet: A-Ha - Analogue Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel Enya - Amarantine Erasure - Nightbird Lisa Marie Presley - Now What David Sylvian (Nine Horses) - Snow Bourne Snow Tori Amos - The Beekeeper Goldfrapp - Supernature Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze Suzie Suh - Susie Suh Jamiroquai - Dynamite Ric Ocasek - Nexterday Rick Astley - Portrait Albums I liked but need to listen to more: Robbie Williams - Intensive Care Andy Bell (Erasure) - Electric Blue James Blunt - Back to Bedlam Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill Acoustic Sheryl Crow - Wildflower Tracy Chapman - Where You Live Dandy Warhols - Odditorium Cowboy Junkies - Early 21st Century Blues Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket) - Winter Pays for Summer Michelle Shocked - Threesome Major Disappointments: Kate Bush - Aerial Barbra Streisand - Guilty Pleasures Bette Midler - Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth INXS - Switch The Tears (Suede) - Here Comes the Tears Billy Idol - Devil's Playground Olivia Newton John - Stronger Than Before Elizabethtown soundtrack (w/new Lindsey Buckingham song) Carly Simon - Moonlight Serenade Sarah Brightman - Love Changes Everything tATu - Dangerous and Moving Among the worst albums I've ever heard: Scott Stapp (Creed) - The Great Divide Rick Springfield - The Day After Yesterday Stevie Wonder - A Time to Love Institute (Gavin Rossdale) - Distort Yourself Ricky Martin - Life Tracks I loved (not on the above albums) INXS - Dirty Vegas Deep Dish feat Stevie Nicks - Dreams Kelly Osbourne - One Word Great covers She Will Have Her Way - The Songs of Tim and Neil Finn (album) The Man Who Sold the World (David Bowie) - Jordis Unga (Rock Star INXS) Dirty Laundry (Don Henley) - Lisa Marie Presley Michael Buble - Save the Last Dance for Me Close to You (Carpenters) - Rick Astley No Matter What (Badfinger) - Def Leppard Baby I Love Your Way (Peter Frampton) - Mig Ayesa (Rock Star INXS) Metal Guru (T Rex) - Rooney Remasters, re-issues and compilations: Captain & Tennille catalog + DVD box set Eurythmics catalog remasters Rickie Lee Jones - Duchess of Coolville Anthology Adam & the Ants catalog remasters Boomtown Rats catalog remasters ABBA Complete Recording Sessions (box set) Barbra Streisand Guilty 25th Ann Ed Bionic Woman on DVD (UK) Elton John Captain Fantastic (deluxe edition) Frida (ABBA) remasters Rick Springfield - Written in Rock Anthology ABC catalog remasters Human League - Original Remixes (UK) and 2 catalog titles Olivia Newton John - Gold Universal "Gold" series Stock Aitken Waterman Gold Rosanne Cash catalog remasters Yello catalog Musical Wish list for 2006 Kate Bush singles collection (box set) Kate Bush catalog Remaster Pretenders catalog remaster Rickie Lee Jones catalog remaster A good new Duran Duran album Something new from DalBello Hudson Brothers on cd/dvd Dead or Alive 12" mixes on CD Carpenters tv specials on DVD Concerts and Shows Duran Duran, Staples Centre Feb 26 Nina Hagen, Silverlake Street Festival Mar 20 Cher, Hollywood Bowl Apr 28 Avenue Q Oct 7 Elton John, the Red Piano Oct 8 Avenue Q Nov 7 Rickie Lee Jones, Wilshire Theatre, Nov 12 Ellen Dec 6 Avenue Q Dec 26 Movies I loved King Kong Walk the Line Brokeback Mountain Crash The Island Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Cinderella Man War of the Worlds Batman Begins Happy Endings Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit Chronicles of Narnia Serenity Fantastic Four (only for Chris Evans) Amityville Horror (only for Ryan Reynolds) Being Julia TV shows that warmed my tivo: CSI CSI:NY Survivor Veronica Mars My Name is Earl The Closer Medium Rock Star INXS Prison Break Nip/Tuck House Commander in Chief Jack & Bobby (RIP) Books I really enjoyed: A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby Killing Yourself to Live - Chuck Klosterman The Woman I Am - Helen Reddy Letters to Montgomery Clift - Noel Alumit A Lotus Grows in the Mud - Goldie Hawn If I Was - Midge Ure The Future of Music - David Kusek Specimen Days - Michael Cunningham Angels Crest - Leslie Schwartz My Life so Far - Jane Fonda A Million Little Pieces - James Frey Autographs (chronological order): Motels, Key Club Jan Ian Hunter, Key Club Mar 11 Tori Amos, Tower Sunset Mar 14 Sandra Bernhardt, Silent Movie Theatre Mar 20 Nina Hagen, Silverlake Street Festival Mar 20 Garbage, Wiltern Apr 11 Queens of the Stone Age, Henry Fonda Theatre Apr 18 The Eels, Roxy May 12 Erasure, Avalon May 13 LCD Soundsystem, El Rey May 15 Rachel Yamagata, Amoeba July 18 Naked Eyes, House of Blues Aug 28 ABC, House of Blues Aug 28 Styx, Wiltern Sept 29 Gowan, Wiltern Sept 29 Casablanca, Pantages Oct 2 LeAnn Rimes, Beverly Hilton Oct 10 Eric Carmen, House of Blues Oct 21 Donny Osmond, Borders Westwood Nov 7 Raul Malo, Roxy Nov 17 Tony Orlando & Dawn, Tower Sherman Oaks Nov 27 Sting, Wilshire Theatre Dec 1 Burt Bacharach, Wilshire Theatre Dec 1 Renee Olstead, Wilshire Theatre Dec 1 Desperate Housewives cast, Wiltern Dec 4 Shooter Jennings - Troubadour Dec 8 Captain & Tennille, Tower Records Sherman Oaks Dec 15 | | |