Top Albums of 2005
Rank▼ All Time Rank▼ Artist▼ Album▼ Genres▼
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Worlds Apart Indie Rock
Andrew Bird Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
15
1130
 Animal Collective Feels Experimental Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
2
289
 Antony and The Johnsons I Am a Bird Now Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Archer Prewitt Wilderness Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Architecture in Helsinki In Case We Die Twee Pop
34
2514
 Art Brut Bang Bang Rock and Roll Indie Rock
Babyshambles Down in Albion Indie Rock
25
2113
 Beck Guero Alternative Rock
Black Mountain Black Mountain Indie Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Stoner Rock
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Howl Blues Rock, Indie Rock
7
578
 Bloc Party Silent Alarm Post-Punk Revival
Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase IDM
Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack Contemporary Folk, Film Soundtrack, Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney Superwolf Alt-Country, Contemporary Folk
Boris Pink Noise Rock, Stoner Metal
Brendan Benson The Alternative to Love Indie Pop, Power Pop
6
563
 Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning Indie Folk
Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn Indietronica
British Sea Power Open Season Post-Punk Revival
Broadcast Tender Buttons Indietronica
41
2867
 Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene Indie Rock
Bruce Springsteen Devils & Dust Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Buck 65 This Right Here Is Buck 65 Hip Hop
Caribou The Milk of Human Kindness Indietronica, Psychedelic Pop
32
2468
 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Indie Rock
CocoRosie Noah's Ark Folktronica, Freak Folk, Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock
Coldplay X&Y Britpop
23
2047
 Common Be Conscious Hip Hop
CSS Cansei de Ser Sexy Dance-Pop, Dance-Punk
DangerDoom The Mouse and the Mask Abstract Hip Hop
Death Cab for Cutie Plans Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Deerhoof The Runners Four Experimental Rock
Depeche Mode Playing the Angel Synthpop
Devendra Banhart Cripple Crow Contemporary Folk
Doves Some Cities Britpop, Dream Pop, Indie Rock
Edan Beauty and the Beat Abstract Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop
35
2558
 Editors The Back Room Post-Punk Revival
26
2202
 Eels Blinking Lights and Other Revelations Indie Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Elbow Leaders of the Free World Art Rock, Indie Rock
14
1103
 Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine Baroque Pop, Piano Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Four Tet Everything Ecstatic Electronic
31
2457
 Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better Post-Punk Revival
Goldfrapp Supernature Electropop, Synthpop
11
794
 Gorillaz Demon Days Trip Hop
Hard-Fi Stars of CCTV Indie Rock
Iron & Wine Woman King EP Folk Rock, Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
37
2673
 Isolée We Are Monster Microhouse
29
2291
 Jamie Lidell Multiply Blue Eyed Soul
Josh Rouse Nashville Folk Rock, Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Kaiser Chiefs Employment Britpop, Indie Rock
4
371
 Kanye West Late Registration Hip Hop
24
2064
 Kate Bush Aerial Art Pop
27
2216
 Konono No. 1 Congotronics Tradi-Modern
Kraftwerk Minimum-Maximum Electropop, Synthpop
5
469
 LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem Dance-Punk, Indietronica
Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain Noise Rock
33
2488
 Lil Wayne Tha Carter II Gangsta Rap
Loney, Dear Loney, Noir Twee Pop
38
2770
 Low The Great Destroyer Indie Rock
M. Ward Transistor Radio Americana, Contemporary Folk
M83 Before the Dawn Heals Us Dream Pop, Electronic
39
2786
 Madonna Confessions on a Dance Floor Dance-Pop, Nu-Disco
Maria Taylor 11:11 Dream Pop, Indie Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Mariah Carey The Emancipation of Mimi Contemporary R&B, Pop
Martha Wainwright Martha Wainwright Folk Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Maxïmo Park A Certain Trigger Post-Punk Revival
Mercury Rev The Secret Migration Indie Pop, Neo-Psychedelia
3
336
 M.I.A. Arular Electropop, UK Hip Hop
10
721
 My Morning Jacket Z Indie Rock
Neil Young Prairie Wind Country Rock, Folk Rock
Nine Inch Nails With Teeth Alternative Rock, Industrial Rock
Oasis Don't Believe the Truth Pop Rock
Of Montreal The Sunlandic Twins Indie Pop, Psychedelic Pop
16
1138
 Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy Indie Folk, Indie Rock
Opeth Ghost Reveries Progressive Metal
Out Hud Let Us Never Speak of It Again Dance-Punk
Patrick Wolf Wind in the Wires Art Pop, Chamber Pop, Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
40
2787
 Paul McCartney Chaos and Creation in the Backyard Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Quasimoto The Further Adventures of Lord Quas Abstract Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze Alternative Rock, Stoner Rock
28
2277
 Richard Hawley Coles Corner Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
17
1144
 Robyn Robyn Electropop
Roots Manuva Awfully Deep UK Hip Hop
30
2442
 Ry Cooder Chavez Ravine Americana, Latin American Music
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Cold Roses Alt-Country, Americana
Sage Francis A Healthy Distrust Conscious Hip Hop
12
1024
 Sigur Rós Takk... Post-Rock
Six Organs of Admittance School of the Flower American Primitivism, Psychedelic Folk
9
720
 Sleater-Kinney The Woods Indie Rock
21
1610
 Spoon Gimme Fiction Indie Rock
Sr. Chinarro El fuego amigo Indie Pop
Stephen Malkmus Face the Truth Indie Rock
1
95
 Sufjan Stevens Illinois Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter
System of a Down Mezmerize Alternative Metal
Tapes 'n Tapes The Loon Indie Rock
Teenage Fanclub Man-Made Jangle Pop, Power Pop
The Books Lost and Safe Experimental, Folktronica
The Chemical Brothers Push the Button Big Beat
The Darkness One Way Ticket to Hell...And Back Hard Rock
19
1419
 The Decemberists Picaresque Chamber Pop, Indie Folk
The Game The Documentary Gangsta Rap
The Go-Betweens Oceans Apart Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Jangle Pop
20
1566
 The Hold Steady Separation Sunday Indie Rock, Pub Rock
The Kills No Wow Garage Rock Revival, Indie Rock
The Magic Numbers The Magic Numbers Indie Pop
42
2948
 The Mars Volta Frances the Mute Art Rock, Experimental Rock, Progressive Rock
36
2616
 The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
8
717
 The National Alligator Post-Punk Revival
18
1241
 The New Pornographers Twin Cinema Indie Pop, Power Pop
The Rakes Capture/Release Post-Punk Revival
The Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang Rock
22
1630
 The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan Alternative Rock, Garage Rock Revival
Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Hard Bop
Tocotronic Pure vernunft darf niemals siegen Indie Rock
Tom Zé Estudando o pagode (na opereta segregamulher e amor) Art Pop, MPB
Vashti Bunyan Lookaftering Chamber Folk
Vitalic OK Cowboy Electroclash
Wilco Kicking Television: Live in Chicago Alternative Rock
13
1063
 Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary Indie Rock
Wolfmother Wolfmother Hard Rock