Favorite albums of 2005

After much consideration, here’s my list of favorite albums released in 2005.

1. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Howl
2. The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
3. Queens of the Stone Age – Lullabies to Paralyze
4. Eels – Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
5. System Of a Down – Mezmerize
6. Doves – Some Cities
7. Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary
8. Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
9. Sufjan Stevens – Come On Feel the Illinoise
10. Athlete – Tourist

Also very mentionable (In alphabetical order)

• …And You Will Know Us By Trail Of Dead – Worlds Apart
• Adams, Ryan – 29
• Adams, Ryan – Cold Roses
• Adams, Ryan & The Cardinals – Jacksonville City Nights
• Arcade Fire – Funeral
• Audioslave – Out of Exile
• Beck – Guero
• Block Party – Silent Alarm
• Bravery, The – The Bravery
• Broughton, David Thomas – The Complete Guide to Insufficiency
• dEUS – Pocket Revolution
• Elbow – Leaders of the Free World
• Electric Six – Señor Smoke
• Foo Fighters – In Your Honor
• Gorillaz – Demon Days
• Harcourt, Ed – Elephant’s Graveyard
• Kashmir – No Balance Palace
• Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
• Mercury Rev – The Secret Migration
• Nationals, The – Alligator
• Nine Black Alps – Everything Is
• Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth
• Opeth – Ghost Reveries
• Rouse, Josh – Nashville
• Spoon – Gimme Fiction
• Standard, The – Albatross
• Subways, The – Young for Eternity
• System of a Down – Hypnotize
• Turbonegro – Party Animals
• Whitey – The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is A Train
• Wilco – Kicking Television (Live) [If this wasn't live recordings from their three previous albums, it would definitely have been high up on that top ten list. I guess Wilco just have to be satisfied with the fact that they propably would have taken the top spots with their last two albums, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born]
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