As integral to the festive season as carols and mince pies, the Best of Year list is a godsend for geeks like me, making an otherwise derisory activity (almost) socially acceptable for a few short weeks.
After much deliberation and a couple of near fist fights, I have arrived at my Top 25 Albums of 2005 (listed below). The only criteria is that they must have been released in the UK in 2005 and Greatest Hits and re-releases aren't eligible. I'm obviously banking on no gems coming out in the last few weeks of the year although, aside from Ryan Adams' third (and reportedly best) album of 2005, the release schedule is looking pretty uninspiring for the rest of December.
Of course, the beauty of blogging is that I can reorder my list next week when I realise that Girls Aloud's Chemistry is the true musical masterpiece of 2005...
My Top 25 Albums of 2005
1
Songs For Silverman
Ben Folds
2
Leaders Of The Free World
Elbow
3
The Secret Migration
Mercury Rev
4
Funeral
The Arcade Fire
5
Blinking Lights And Other Revelations
Eels
6
Z
My Morning Jacket
7
Disappear Here
Silver Sun
8
X&Y
Coldplay
9
The Magic Numbers
The Magic Numbers
10
Hal
Hal
11
Back To Bedlam
James Blunt
12
Guero
Beck
13
Supernature
Goldfrapp
14
Kasier Chiefs
Employment
15
The Alternative To Love
Brendan Benson
16
(Come On Feel The) Illinoise
Sufjan Stevens
17
Silent Alarm
Bloc Party
18
The Back Room
Editors
19
Get Behind Me Satan
White Stripes
20
You Could Have It So Much Better
Franz Ferdinand
21
Eye To The Telescope
KT Tunstall
22
In Between Dreams
Jack Johnson
23
Extraordinary Machine
Fiona Apple
24
Horse Fabulous
The Stands
25
Want Two
Rufus Wainwright
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