Best Albums of 2005

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31.

Apologies To The Queen Mary 

 Wolf Parade

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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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Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

245 charts

Rank Score:

1,101

Rank in 2005:

31

Rank in 2000s:

248

Overall Rank:

1,562

Average Rating:

 79 (241 votes)

Comments:

11

32.

With Teeth 

 Nine Inch Nails

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"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...""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 disinterested before you get into it. The Downward Spiral is certainly the best of his albums, but the intros are almost Pink Floydian in how long and ridiculous they are. Pretty Hate Machine is much more accessible but has a dated quality; some of the effects sound a bit token and cliché and don’t really fit with what the band moved onto later.\r\nWith Teeth however is a straight forward, rocking, down and dirty album of squeaks, screams and awesome, awesome drumming. NIN perfected big echoy drums years ago, but Dave Grohl shows up to contribute his talents and the results are fantastic. “The Collector” has a powerful drum intro while “Y’know What You Are?” has some pounding thrash beats powering it forward.\r\n“Only” is as close as NIN ever got to a pop song, with a catchy beat and a beast of a hook; “There is no you there is only me!”. “The Hand That Feeds” is a good place to start too. “Right Where It Belongs” is a hauntingly slow paced moment of quite in the barrage of all mighty noise.\r\nOverall the album is a quite clear about recovering from an addiction but this being NIN this is twisted into a “is everything what it appears to be?” Matrix-esque muddle. It’s not going to shatter your brain cells or anything but it will stay in the back of your mind for quite some time.\r\nWith Teeth is a hell of an album and if you like it I strongly recommend digging up his/their other stuff as the quality is pretty consistent. Today Trent is winning Oscars for some stellar soundtracks, check out this collab with Karen O for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, it’s pretty damn awesome.\r\nMore recommendations at http://captainspacker.blogspot.com/"  [+]  Reply

- Captain Spacker | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

184 charts

Rank Score:

1,095

Rank in 2005:

32

Rank in 2000s:

250

Overall Rank:

1,569

Average Rating:

 74 (341 votes)

Comments:

15

33.

A Fever You Can't Sweat Out 

 Panic! At The Disco

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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...""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 do. So there."  [+]  Reply

- HoldenM | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +10 votes (10 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

157 charts

Rank Score:

1,084

Rank in 2005:

33

Rank in 2000s:

256

Overall Rank:

1,587

Average Rating:

 66 (273 votes)

Comments:

20

34.

From Under The Cork Tree 

 Fall Out Boy

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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 ...""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 World," "Champagne for Real Friends, Real Pain for Your Sham Friends," "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More 'Touch Me,'" and "XO" are all among Fall Out Boy's best songs. "  [+]  Reply

- HoldenM | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (8 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

140 charts

Rank Score:

1,041

Rank in 2005:

34

Rank in 2000s:

264

Overall Rank:

1,644

Average Rating:

 68 (229 votes)

Comments:

11

35.

Twin Cinema 

 The New Pornographers

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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...""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 kindness / and im shit faced, just laid to waste" and "you had to send a wrecking crew after me / i cant walk right". (i love hearing neko talk dirty -- "use it tonight", indeed.) Playful piano and drumwork too. That's followed by "the bleeding heart show", sort-of-cryptic lyrics for the porn. "I leapt across three or four beds into your arms / Where I had hidden myself somewhere in your charm / Our golden handshake has been smashed into this shape. / It's taken magic to a primitive new place / Watch 'em run, although it's the minimum, heroic ", in a song (with fine backing neko vox) that builds to a bleeding heart climax with A.C. ("we have arrived") and neko ("too late to play the bleeding heart show") dueling above the "hey la"'s. "sing me spanish techno" might be my favorite though, and it's killer-seductive chorus (with neko!), "Traveling at godspeed over the hills and trails / I have refused my call pushin' my lazy sails / Into the blue flame I want to crash here right now / The hourglass spills its sand if only to punish you" plus second chorus "listening too long to one song / sing me spanish techno". haha. "star bodies" is another neko vs. A.C. vocal duel, which neko wins at one of the choruses singing "for you there's not any warning / and love is 5 in the morning " besting A.C.'s introducing "there's a shake with the shock / and a gift off with them / they carry the dust of the failing wisdom " and following side-chorus-chorus "now take me to where your sister lives " (?). As i've said before, you need to hear this for yourself to know how completely catchy these songs are. (And if you don't, neko won't have sex with you.) Elsewhere, opener "twin cinemas" offers fuzzed-out guitar around the bridge and stop-start verses. Neko takes lead (mrrrrrOWWW) on "the bones of an idol" AND "these are the fables" ("You hear the voice rise / In one wave /And crash on your doorstep / Making the circle here perfect, complete"). "jackie, dressed in cobras" is bejar at his most playful. "stacked crooked" turns into a rousing closer. If you listen close, you'll notice the tempos aren't as energetic as the first two albums."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

226 charts

Rank Score:

1,038

Rank in 2005:

35

Rank in 2000s:

265

Overall Rank:

1,655

Average Rating:

 79 (231 votes)

Comments:

9

36.

The Back Room 

 Editors

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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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Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

201 charts

Rank Score:

1,000

Rank in 2005:

36

Rank in 2000s:

272

Overall Rank:

1,709

Average Rating:

 74 (251 votes)

Comments:

7

37.

Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production Of Eggs 

 Andrew Bird

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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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Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

196 charts

Rank Score:

996

Rank in 2005:

37

Rank in 2000s:

273

Overall Rank:

1,716

Average Rating:

 79 (208 votes)

Comments:

10

38.

You Could Have It So Much Better 

 Franz Ferdinand

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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...""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", "Eleanor Put Your Boots On"), and the order of the songs are very good, the album is building up itself. My favourite is the "Walk away" also the song and the clip. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

270 charts

Rank Score:

994

Rank in 2005:

38

Rank in 2000s:

274

Overall Rank:

1,718

Average Rating:

 74 (440 votes)

Comments:

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39.

The Campfire Headphase 

 Boards Of Canada

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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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Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

167 charts

Rank Score:

990

Rank in 2005:

39

Rank in 2000s:

275

Overall Rank:

1,727

Average Rating:

 79 (223 votes)

Comments:

4

40.

Chaos And Creation In The Backyard 

 Paul McCartney

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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...""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 thought out and focused. Opener, fine line, is okay, but it actually one of the less interesting tracks here, in fact to me it sounds like the theme tune to only fool's and horses. How kind of you, is a better example of the album, and like, at the mercy, and, riding to vanity fair, is not predictable. The strongest songs though are the blackbird-like, Jenny Wren, the rubber soul-is, friends to go, the excellent, too much rain, and the beautiful, a certain softness. The rest is fine, like, follow me, and, the slightly tongue in cheek, English tea(very twee, very me). A very good album then, definitely one of McCartney's top six or seven. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2005

Appears in:

178 charts

Rank Score:

972

Rank in 2005:

40

Rank in 2000s:

281

Overall Rank:

1,759

Average Rating:

 78 (223 votes)

Comments:

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Best Albums of 2005 composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Artist	Albums	%
Various Artists	7	1%
Bright Eyes	3	0%
Okkervil River	2	0%
Boris	2	0%
Kashmir	2	0%
The Rolling Stones	2	0%
The Go-Betweens	2	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	448	45%
	184	18%
	50	5%
	31	3%
	28	3%
	26	3%
	25	3%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	938	94%
Yes	62	6%

Live?	Albums	%
No	978	98%
Yes	22	2%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	990	99%
Yes	10	1%