100 Greatest Albums of 2005

  1. Late Registration - Kanye West
  2. The Emancipation Of Mimi - Mariah Carey
  3. X&Y - Coldplay
  4. Demon Days - Gorillaz
  5. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
  6. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
  7. Mezmerize - System of a Down
  8. Extraordinary Machine - Fiona Apple
  9. Arular - M.I.A.
10. Be - Common
11. The Breakthrough - Mary J. Blige
12. Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes
13. From Under the Cork Tree - Fall Out Boy
14. In Your Honour - Foo Fighters
15. Frances the Mute - The Mars Volta
16. Hypnotize - System of a Down
17. Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
18. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
19. City of Evil - Avenged Sevenfold
20. Guero - Beck
21. The Woods - Sleater-Kinney
22. I Am a Bird Now - Antony and the Johnsons
23. The Minstrel Show - Little Brother
24. With Teeth - Nine Inch Nails
25. Picaresque - The Decemberists
26. Aerial - Kate Bush
27. Gimme Fiction - Spoon
28. The Cookbook - Missy Elliott
29. Apologies to the Queen Mary - Wolf Parade
30. A Piece of Strange - CunninLynguists
31. The Sunset Tree - The Mountain Goats
32. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
33. Separation Sunday - The Hold Steady
34. Robyn - Robyn
35. Feels - Animal Collective
36. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes
37. Lullabies to Paralyze - Queens of the Stone Age
38. Twin Cinema - The New Pornographers
39. Z - My Morning Jacket
40. Takk... - Sigur Ros
41. Mighty ReArranger - Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation
42. Bang Bang Rock & Roll - Art Brut
43. Devil & Dust - Bruce Springsteen
44. The Great Destroyer - Low
45. Plans - Death Cab for Cutie
46. How to Save a Life - The Fray
47. Bleed Like Me - Garbage
48. Chaos and Creation in the Backyard - Paul McCartney
49. The Beekeeper - Tori Amos
50. Black Sheep Boy - Okkervil River
51. Confessions on a Dance Floor - Madonna
52. You Could Have It So Much Better - Franz Ferdinand
53. Employment - Kaiser Chiefs
54. Some Cities - Doves
55. A Time to Love - Stevie Wonder
56. Playing the Angel - Depeche Mode
57. Tender Buttons - Broadcast
58. Searching for a Former Clarity - Against Me!
59. Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs - Andrew Bird
60. Alligator - The National
61. And the Glass Handed Kites - Mew
62. Oh No - OK Go
63. The Documentary - The Game
64. Dark Light - HiM
65. Touch - Amerie
66. Live it Out - Metric
67. Transistor Radio - M. Ward
68. A Fever You Can't Sweat Out - Panic! at the Disco
69. Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness - Coheed & Cambria
70. Out of Exile - Audioslave
71. In Between Dreams - Jack Johnson
72. Taller in More Ways - Sugababes
73. A Beautiful Lie - 30 Seconds to Mars
74. Stars of CCTV - Hard-Fi
75. Move Along - The All-American Rejects
76. Make Believe - Weezer
77. Black Dialogue - The Perceptionists
78. The Loneliest Punk - Fatlip
79. Fall Heads Roll - The Fall
80. The Rising Tied - Fort Minor
81. Welcome to Jamrock - Damien Marley
82. Everything in Transit - Jack's Mannequin
83. The Warrior's Code - Dropkick Murphys
84. Cansei de Ser Sexy - CSS
85. The Sunlandic Twins - of Montreal
86. Ruby Blue - Róisín Murphy
87. The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
88. Don't Believe the Truth - Oasis
89. Front Parlour Ballads - Richard Thompson
90. Songs for Silverman - Ben Folds
91. Oceans Apart - The Go-Betweens
92. The Back Room - Editors
93. A Certain Trigger - Maximo Park
94. Digital Ash in a Digital Urn - Bright Eyes
95. The Alternative to Love - Brendan Benson
96. What the Game's Been Missing! - Juelz Santana
97. Chemistry - Girls Aloud
98. Mafia - Black Label Society
99. The Massacre - 50 Cent
100. A Healthy Distrust - Sage Francis