The Best Albums Of 2005

Top 50

1. Silent alarm - BLOC PARTY
2. LCD Soundsystem - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
3. Gimme fiction - SPOON
4. Picaresque - THE DECEMBERISTS
5. Fall heads roll - THE FALL
6. Golden ocean - 50 FOOT WAVE
7. No wow - THE KILLS
8. You could have it so much better - FRANZ FERDINAND
9. I'm wide awake, it's morning / Digital ash in a digital urn - BRIGHT EYES
10. Illinois - SUFJAN STEVENS
11. Cuts across the land - THE DUKE SPIRIT
12. Lullabies to paralyze - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
13. The great destroyer - LOW
14. Broken Social Scene - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
15. Everything ecstatic - FOUR TET
16. Let us never speak of it again - OUT HUD
17. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH
18. The woods - SLEATER-KINNEY
19. Witching hour - LADYTRON
20. Set yourself on fire - STARS
21. Pretty in black - THE RAVEONETTES
22. Twin cinema - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
23. The secret migration - MERCURY REV
24. Plans - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
25. Ex hex - MARY TIMONY
26. Face the truth - STEPHEN MALKMUS
27. Late registration - KANYE WEST
28. Get behind me Satan - THE WHITE STRIPES
29. Cripple crow - DEVENDRA BANHART
30. The mouse and the mask - DANGER DOOM
31. Apologies to the Queen Mary - WOLF PARADE
32. Live it out - METRIC
33. Grab that gun - THE ORGAN
34. The back room - EDITORS
35. Absence - DALEK
36. Wilderness - WILDERNESS
37. Elevator - HOT HOT HEAT
38. Employment - KAISER CHIEFS
39. Stars of CCTV - HARD-FI
40. Capture / Release - THE RAKES
41. A certain trigger - MAXIMO PARK
42. Tree city - ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET
43. The Bravery - THE BRAVERY
44. Arular - M.I.A.
45. We have sound - TOM VEK
46. Feels - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
47. Tournament of hearts - CONSTANTINES
48. The alternative to love - BRENDAN BENSON
49. Man-made - TEENAGE FANCLUB
50. Oceans apart - THE GO-BETWEENS

Also recommended:

Separation Sunday - THE HOLD STEADY, Black forest - A FRAMES, The repulsion box - SONS AND DAUGHTERS, Waiting for the sirens' call - NEW ORDER, Odyssey - FISCHERSPOONER, The documentary - THE GAME, Surrounded by silence - PREFUSE 73, The new fellas - THE CRIBS, Tanglewood numbers - SILVER JEWS, A river ain't too much to love - SMOG, Take fountain - THE WEDDING PRESENT, Menos El Oso - MINUS THE BEAR, Birds make good neighbors - THE ROSEBUDS, Descended like vultures - ROGUE WAVE, The invisible invasion - THE CORAL, The Magic Numbers - THE MAGIC NUMBERS, Some cities - DOVES, Black Mountain - BLACK MOUNTAIN, Z - MY MORNING JACKET, Demon days - GORILLAZ, Guero - BECK, Lost and safe - THE BOOKS, Noah's ark - COCOROSIE, Year of meteors - LAURA VEIRS, Pixel revolt - JOHN VANDERSLICE, Discover a lovelier you - PERNICE BROTHERS, …Tick…Tick…Tick - STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3, Worlds apart - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, Howl - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Hearts and unicorns - GIANT DRAG, Nice and nicely done - SPINTO BAND, Underwater cinematographer - MOST SERENE REPUBLIC, Duel at dawn - MOMMY AND DADDY, With love and squalor - WE ARE SCIENTISTS, Weight is a gift - NADA SURF, Down in Albion - BABYSHAMBLES, Black rays defense - THE BEAT UP, The Others - THE OTHERS, Harmonies for the haunted - STELLASTARR*, Odditorium or Warlords of Mars - THE DANDY WARHOLS, Push the button - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, Before the dawn heals us - M83, In the clear - IVY, Open season - BRITISH SEA POWER, Oh no - OK GO, Gimmie trouble - ADULT., Home sweet home - KANO, You can't imagine how much fun we're having - ATMOSPHERE, In your honor - FOO FIGHTERS, Warnings / Promises - IDLEWILD, Laughter's fifth - LOVE AS LAUGHTER, Emoh - LOU BARLOW, Infiniheart - CHAD VANGAALEN, Blinking lights and other revelations - EELS, Cold roses / Jacksonville city nights - RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS, 29 - RYAN ADAMS, Rehearsing my choir / EP - THE FIERY FURNACES, Everything is - NINE BLACK ALPS, For screening purposes only - TEST ICICLES, The Dead 60's - THE DEAD 60'S, Axes - ELECTRELANE, Bleed like me - GARBAGE, Frances the mute - THE MARS VOLTA, What comes after the blues - MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO, Trials & errors - MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO, Loose in the air - THE DOUBLE, Pony Up! - PONY UP!, Matson Jones - MATSON JONES, The wedding - ONEIDA, I am a bird now - ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, Andrew Bird & the mysterious production of eggs - ANDREW BIRD, Somebody’s miracle - LIZ PHAIR, Be - COMMON, Black dialogue - PERCEPTIONISTS, In case we die - ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI, Black sheep boy - OKKERVIL RIVER, All harm ends here - EARLY DAY MINERS, Howl howl gaff gaff - SHOUT OUT LOUDS, Flex time - THE DIALS, The runners four - DEERHOOF, Tender buttons - BROADCAST, The best party ever - THE BOY LEAST LIKELY TO, Superwolf  - MATT SWEENEY AND BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, Takk - SIGUR ROS, Bang bang rock and roll - ART BRUT, Give blood - BRAKES, Heat - COLDER, Awfully deep - ROOTS MANUVA, Grandmasters - DJ MUGGS VS. GZA/GENIUS, New whirl odor - PUBLIC ENEMY, My machine - PRINCESS SUPERSTAR, Purple haze - CAM'RON,  Beauty and the beat - EDAN, Out of breach (Manchester's revenge) - MU, Extraordinary machine - FIONA APPLE, Aerial - KATE BUSH, As is now - PAUL WELLER, Devils and dust - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Honeycomb - FRANK BLACK, Body of song - BOB MOULD, TheFutureEmbrace - BILLY CORGAN, Made in China - JULIANA HATFIELD, Pocket revolution - dEUS, Fires in distant buildings - GRAVENHURST, The lighthouse - ANA DA SILVA, Knuckle down - ANI DIFRANCO, Awake is the new sleep - BEN LEE, Nashville - JOSH ROUSE, Transistor radio - M WARD, On my way to absence - DAMIEN JURADO, Dignity and shame - CROOKED FINGERS, The view from the floor - SLOW DAZZLE, At the national grid - THE BATS, Spelled in bones - FRUIT BATS, More deep cuts - THEE MORE SHALLOWS, Alpine static - KINSKI, Mezmerize / Hypnotize - SYSTEM OF A DOWN, With teeth - NINE INCH NAILS, Out of my head - THE D4, Such triumph - NARRATOR, I was born at night - MENEGUAR, Black comet - THE HEAVENLY STATES, Hurricane bar - MANDO DIAO, Celebration - CELEBRATION, Aw come aw wry - PHOSPHORESCENT, Quit +/or fight - HOLOPAW, The color and the light - JENNIFER O'CONNOR, Okemah and the melody of riot - SON VOLT, Engineers - ENGINEERS, Field Music - FIELD MUSIC, Road to Rouen - SUPERGRASS, Here come The Tears - THE TEARS, Super extra gravity - THE CARDIGANS, Alligator - THE NATIONAL, OK cowboy - VITALIC, Jesu - JESU, Gypsy punks: Underdog world strike - GOGOL BORDELLO, The best little secrets are kept - LOUIS XIV, Easy beat - DR. DOG, The last romance - ARAB STRAP, Lucky dog recordings 03-04 - STUART A STAPLES, Strange geometry - THE CLIENTELE, Let it die - FEIST, The baby and the satellite - MICAH P HINSON, Tiger, my friend - PSAPP, God's money - GANG GANG DANCE, Woman king - IRON AND WINE, In the reins - CALEXICO / IRON AND WINE, Excerpts from the diary of Todd Zilla - GRANDADDY, Oscillons from the anti-sun - STEREOLAB, Prisoners of love - YO LA TENGO, The complete Peel Sessions 1978 - 2004 - THE FALL, B-sides & rarities - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS