best music of 2005

[ob_gyn_kenobi]

here, finally, is my top tep list of best albums of 2005. it is in no particular order because i had a hard time trying to choose exactly which were my favorite favorites. anyways, i also included some other albums that barely missed the list and some great albums from other years. sooooooo, write all these down and go and get them and love them as much as i do.

Best Of 2005:

A Northern Chorus - Bitter Hands Resign
Salim Nourallah - Beautiful Noise
Flotation Toy Warning - Bluffers Guide to the Flight Deck
Shining - In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster
Wilderness - Wilderness
Boris - Akuma No Uta
Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers
Craig Wedren - Lapland
Larsen - Play
Major Stars - 4

Honorable mentions:

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Castanets - First Lights Freeze
The Clientele - Strange Geometry
Marissa Nadler - The Saga of Mayflower May
Angels of Light + Akron/Family - Akron/Family + Angels of Light
Akron/Family - Tour LP
Kristofer Astroem and Hidden Truck - So Much For Staying Alive

Best albums I heard that aren’t from 2005:

Two Gallants - What the Toll Tells (2006)
Two Gallants - The Throes (2004)
Plastic Constellations - Crusades (2006)
Fembots - The City (2006)
Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run the Game (1965)
Raising The Fawn - The North Sea (2004)
Windsor for the Derby - We Fight Till Death (2004) and The Emotional Rescue (2002)
Three More Shallows - More Deep Cuts (2004)
Unwed Sailor - The Marionette and the Music Box (2003)
The Deadly Snakes - Ode to Joy (2003)
The Dead Science - Submariner (2003)
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (1991)