The Top Albums from 2005

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	105	Sufjan Stevens	Illinois		Listen
2	157	M.I.A.	Arular		Listen
3	170	Antony and The Johnsons	I Am a Bird Now		Listen
4	339	Kanye West	Late Registration		Listen
5	360	Bloc Party	Silent Alarm		Listen
6	404	LCD Soundsystem	LCD Soundsystem		Listen
7	564	Bright Eyes	I'm Wide Awake It's Morning		Listen
8	575	Franz Ferdinand	You Could Have It So Much Better		Listen
9	638	Gorillaz	Demon Days		Listen
10	644	My Morning Jacket	Z		Listen
11	653	Sleater-Kinney	The Woods		Listen
12	709	The White Stripes	Get Behind Me Satan		Listen
13	732	The New Pornographers	Twin Cinema		Listen
14	872	Common	Be		Listen
15	886	Animal Collective	Feels
16	970	Wolf Parade	Apologies to the Queen Mary		Listen
17	972	Art Brut	Bang Bang Rock and Roll
18	1064	Clap Your Hands Say Yeah	Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
19	1115	Sigur Ros	Takk		Listen
20	1166	Spoon	Gimme Fiction		Listen
21	1200	Maximo Park	A Certain Trigger		Listen
22	1258	The Magic Numbers	The Magic Numbers		Listen
23	1315	The Decemberists	Picaresque		Listen
24	1326	System of a Down	Mezmerize		Listen
25	1355	Kate Bush	Aerial		Listen
26	1452	Devendra Banhart	Cripple Crow		Listen
27	1471	Isolee	We Are Monster
28	1543	Fiona Apple	Extraordinary Machine		Listen
29	1558	Kaiser Chiefs	Employment		Listen
30	1632	Andrew Bird	Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs		Listen
31	1671	Amadou & Mariam	Dimanche a Bamako		Listen
32	1678	Richard Hawley	Coles Corner		Listen
33	1763	The Mars Volta	Frances the Mute		Listen
34	1797	Broken Social Scene	Broken Social Scene		Listen
35	1849	The Hold Steady	Separation Sunday		Listen
36	1906	Beck	Guero		Listen
37	1913	Ry Cooder	Chavez Ravine		Listen
38	1972	Bruce Springsteen	Devils & Dust		Listen
39	1992	Eels	Blinking Lights and Other Revelations		Listen
40	2054	Vashti Bunyan	Lookaftering		Listen
41	2057	The National	Alligator
42	2087	Okkervil River	Black Sheep Boy		Listen
43	2195	DangerDoom	The Mouse and the Mask		Listen
44	2218	Jamie Lidell	Multiply		Listen
45	2265	Coldplay	X & Y		Listen
46	2449	Death Cab for Cutie	Plans		Listen
47	2455	Lightning Bolt	Hypermagic Mountain
48	2488	Queens of the Stone Age	Lullabies to Paralyze		Listen
49	2495	Low	The Great Destroyer		Listen
50	2506	The Go-Betweens	Oceans Apart		Listen
51	2545	Edan	Beauty and the Beat		Listen
52	2792	Tocotronic	Pure vernunft darf niemals siegen
53	2879	Architecture in Helsinki	In Case We Die		Listen
54	2938	Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane	Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		The Mountain Goats	The Sunset Tree		Listen
		Vitalic	OK Cowboy		Listen
		Depeche Mode	Playing the Angel		Listen
		Stars	Set Yourself on Fire		Listen
		Boards of Canada	The Campfire Headphase		Listen
		Josh Rouse	Nashville		Listen
		Paul McCartney	Chaos and Creation in the Backyard		Listen
		The Books	Lost and Safe
		Editors	The Back Room		Listen
		Patrick Wolf	Wind in the Wires
		Nine Inch Nails	With Teeth		Listen
		Deerhoof	The Runners Four		Listen
		…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead	Worlds Apart		Listen
		Neil Young	Prairie Wind		Listen
		Madonna	Confessions on a Dancefloor		Listen
		Babyshambles	Down in Albion