Top Albums of 2005





Rank All Time Rank Artist Album Genres
Maria Taylor 11:11 Dream Pop, Indie Pop, Singer/Songwriter
The Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang Rock
Maxïmo Park A Certain Trigger Post-Punk Revival
Sage Francis A Healthy Distrust Conscious Hip Hop
24
2064
Kate Bush Aerial Art Pop
8
717
The National Alligator Post-Punk Revival
Andrew Bird Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
13
1063
Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary Indie Rock
3
336
M.I.A. Arular Electropop, UK Hip Hop
Roots Manuva Awfully Deep UK Hip Hop
34
2514
Art Brut Bang Bang Rock and Roll Indie Rock
23
2047
Common Be Conscious Hip Hop
Edan Beauty and the Beat Abstract Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop
M83 Before the Dawn Heals Us Dream Pop, Electronic
Black Mountain Black Mountain Indie Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Stoner Rock
16
1138
Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy Indie Folk, Indie Rock
26
2202
Eels Blinking Lights and Other Revelations Indie Pop, Singer/Songwriter
41
2867
Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene Indie Rock
CSS Cansei de Ser Sexy Dance-Pop, Dance-Punk
The Rakes Capture/Release Post-Punk Revival
40
2787
Paul McCartney Chaos and Creation in the Backyard Pop, Singer/Songwriter
30
2442
Ry Cooder Chavez Ravine Americana, Latin American Music
32
2468
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Indie Rock
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Cold Roses Alt-Country, Americana
28
2277
Richard Hawley Coles Corner Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
39
2786
Madonna Confessions on a Dance Floor Dance-Pop, Nu-Disco
27
2216
Konono No. 1 Congotronics Tradi-Modern
Devendra Banhart Cripple Crow Contemporary Folk
11
794
Gorillaz Demon Days Trip Hop
Bruce Springsteen Devils & Dust Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn Indietronica
Oasis Don't Believe the Truth Pop Rock
Babyshambles Down in Albion Indie Rock
Sr. Chinarro El fuego amigo Indie Pop
Kaiser Chiefs Employment Britpop, Indie Rock
Tom Zé Estudando o pagode (na opereta segregamulher e amor) Art Pop, MPB
Four Tet Everything Ecstatic Electronic
14
1103
Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine Baroque Pop, Piano Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Stephen Malkmus Face the Truth Indie Rock
15
1130
Animal Collective Feels Experimental Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
42
2948
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute Art Rock, Experimental Rock, Progressive Rock
22
1630
The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan Alternative Rock, Garage Rock Revival
Opeth Ghost Reveries Progressive Metal
21
1610
Spoon Gimme Fiction Indie Rock
25
2113
Beck Guero Alternative Rock
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Howl Blues Rock, Indie Rock
Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain Noise Rock
2
289
Antony and The Johnsons I Am a Bird Now Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
1
95
Sufjan Stevens Illinois Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
6
563
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning Indie Folk
Architecture in Helsinki In Case We Die Twee Pop
Wilco Kicking Television: Live in Chicago Alternative Rock
4
371
Kanye West Late Registration Hip Hop
5
469
LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem Dance-Punk, Indietronica
Elbow Leaders of the Free World Art Rock, Indie Rock
Out Hud Let Us Never Speak of It Again Dance-Punk
Loney, Dear Loney, Noir Twee Pop
Vashti Bunyan Lookaftering Chamber Folk
The Books Lost and Safe Experimental, Folktronica
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze Alternative Rock, Stoner Rock
Teenage Fanclub Man-Made Jangle Pop, Power Pop
Martha Wainwright Martha Wainwright Folk Pop, Singer/Songwriter
System of a Down Mezmerize Alternative Metal
Kraftwerk Minimum-Maximum Electropop, Synthpop
29
2291
Jamie Lidell Multiply Blue Eyed Soul
Josh Rouse Nashville Folk Rock, Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
The Kills No Wow Garage Rock Revival, Indie Rock
CocoRosie Noah's Ark Folktronica, Freak Folk, Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock
The Go-Betweens Oceans Apart Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Jangle Pop
Vitalic OK Cowboy Electroclash
The Darkness One Way Ticket to Hell...And Back Hard Rock
British Sea Power Open Season Post-Punk Revival
19
1419
The Decemberists Picaresque Chamber Pop, Indie Folk
Boris Pink Noise Rock, Stoner Metal
Death Cab for Cutie Plans Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Depeche Mode Playing the Angel Synthpop
Neil Young Prairie Wind Country Rock, Folk Rock
Tocotronic Pure vernunft darf niemals siegen Indie Rock
The Chemical Brothers Push the Button Big Beat
17
1144
Robyn Robyn Electropop
Six Organs of Admittance School of the Flower American Primitivism, Psychedelic Folk
20
1566
The Hold Steady Separation Sunday Indie Rock, Pub Rock
7
578
Bloc Party Silent Alarm Post-Punk Revival
Doves Some Cities Britpop, Dream Pop, Indie Rock
Hard-Fi Stars of CCTV Indie Rock
Goldfrapp Supernature Electropop, Synthpop
Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney Superwolf Alt-Country, Contemporary Folk
12
1024
Sigur Rós Takk... Post-Rock
Broadcast Tender Buttons Indietronica
33
2488
Lil Wayne Tha Carter II Gangsta Rap
Brendan Benson The Alternative to Love Indie Pop, Power Pop
35
2558
Editors The Back Room Post-Punk Revival
Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack Contemporary Folk, Film Soundtrack, Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase IDM
The Game The Documentary Gangsta Rap
Mariah Carey The Emancipation of Mimi Contemporary R&B, Pop
Quasimoto The Further Adventures of Lord Quas Abstract Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
38
2770
Low The Great Destroyer Indie Rock
Tapes 'n Tapes The Loon Indie Rock
The Magic Numbers The Magic Numbers Indie Pop
Caribou The Milk of Human Kindness Indietronica, Psychedelic Pop
DangerDoom The Mouse and the Mask Abstract Hip Hop
Deerhoof The Runners Four Experimental Rock
Mercury Rev The Secret Migration Indie Pop, Neo-Psychedelia
Of Montreal The Sunlandic Twins Indie Pop, Psychedelic Pop
36
2616
The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
9
720
Sleater-Kinney The Woods Indie Rock
Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Hard Bop
Buck 65 This Right Here Is Buck 65 Hip Hop
M. Ward Transistor Radio Americana, Contemporary Folk
18
1241
The New Pornographers Twin Cinema Indie Pop, Power Pop
37
2673
Isolée We Are Monster Microhouse
Archer Prewitt Wilderness Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Patrick Wolf Wind in the Wires Art Pop, Chamber Pop, Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Nine Inch Nails With Teeth Alternative Rock, Industrial Rock
Wolfmother Wolfmother Hard Rock
Iron & Wine Woman King EP Folk Rock, Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Worlds Apart Indie Rock
Coldplay X&Y Britpop
31
2457
Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better Post-Punk Revival
10
721
My Morning Jacket Z Indie Rock