Best Albums of 2005
Listed below are the best albums of 2005 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 59,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 5 hours ago).
"NIN are a hell of a band (it’s a bit more complex than that) but they can be pretty hard to get into. Trent Reznor’s style of dark, swirling thumping music is fantastic and doesn’t really have a good comparison (perhaps later Radiohead and Marilyn Manson) but it’s easy to get lost or disintereste..." [+] Reply
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Captain Spacker | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"This is a refreshing album. Songs like "Modern World", "Dear Sons And Daughters Of Hungry Ghosts" and "I'll Believe Anything" are memorable and very catchy." Reply
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CanadianGuy | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"This is a sentimental favorite for sure, but there are a ton of great ideas here. It's a thought-out, well made pop album. There are the theatrics for which Panic! have become so famous. The songwriting isn't groundbreaking, but they shake it up (and we listen.) I have to love this album, and I d..." [+] Reply
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HoldenM | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +10 votes (10 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"In my top 100 above all sorts of classics, blah blah blah. These songs, for the most part, are catchy as chlamydia, and even well written most of the time. There are most certainly better albums out there, but this is as sentimental a favorite as it gets for me. "Of All the Gin Joints in All the ..." [+] Reply
- HoldenM | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (8 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"another ultra-catchy album where most songs have choruses to spare. I'll go over the highlights, "use it", "the bleeding heart show", "sing me spanish techno" and "star bodies", first. "use it" musically feels in perpetual, hip flux, offering "heads down thumbs up / two sips from the cup of human..." [+] Reply
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paladisiac | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"Pretty consistent album. I think it lacks a killer track, but it's nice to listen from start to finish. If you like Interpol you have to check it out Best tracks: Lights, Munich, All Sparks, Blood, Bullets" Reply
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"This was one of my favorite albums when I was in high school. I played violin and loved indie rock and this album convinced me I didn't have to play guitar to be cool (I mean, I was wrong, but at least it got me through high school)." Reply
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"I think this is the best album from them, almost every song is perfect, from "Walk Away" the album is getting better and better, there are many fast tracks ("Evil And A Heathen", "You are the reason..", "Well that was easy", "What You Mean"), some really great melodic songs ("Fade Together", "Ele..." [+] Reply
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balintov | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"If you come to love boards of canada, you'll not be concerned with individual tracks... but love what it is that they do, whatever they do! I want to live in a world created by BOC!!!" Reply
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badfaith | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"This is one of Paul McCartney's most interesting albums. Chaos and creation, is predominantly acoustic in sound, and is much more challenging in structure than most McCartney records, maybe only his self titled albums from 1970 and 1980 compare. Having said that, the songs here are much more thou..." [+] Reply
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 4 of 100
Best Albums of 2005 composition
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| Various Artists | 7 | 1% | |
| Bright Eyes | 3 | 0% | |
| Beck | 2 | 0% | |
| Ryan Adams & The Cardinals | 2 | 0% | |
| System Of A Down | 2 | 0% | |
| Richard Thompson | 2 | 0% | |
| The Sugarplastic | 2 | 0% | |
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448 | 45% | |
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184 | 18% | |
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50 | 5% | |
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31 | 3% | |
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28 | 3% | |
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26 | 3% | |
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25 | 3% | |
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| Best Artists of the 2000s | |
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| 1. Radiohead | |
| 2. Arcade Fire | |
| 3. The Strokes | |
| 4. Coldplay | |
| 5. Sufjan Stevens | |
| 6. Muse | |
| 7. Arctic Monkeys | |
| 8. The White Stripes | |
| 9. Wilco | |
| 10. Animal Collective |
