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Becoming Seattle

I guess I’m slowly becoming more Seattle and less Scottish when I recognize the majority of the albums on the KEXP listener’s choice for 2005. I didn’t vote this year due to wanton tardiness, so I can’t disagree with the list too much!

I would have liked to see Franz Ferdinand higher, as although I wasn’t keen on the album early on it definitely grew on me through the year. Death Cab for Cutie that high in the top 10 is nice. And it seems to be a KEXP tradition that I never seem to have heard the #1 vote (Sufjan Steven, Illinois).