THE LIST 2005: The Short Version

Here, as a recap, or for you busy bees who don’t have the time to trawl through all this nonsense, is the short version.

The Top 20 Albums Of The Year

01. Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
02. Oceansize: Everyone Into Position
03. Arcade Fire: Funeral
04. Open Hand: You And Me
05. Queens Of The Stone Age: Lullabies To Paralyze
06. The Hotel Alexis: The Shining Example Is Lying On The Floor
07. System Of A Down: Mezmerize
08. Death From Above 1979: You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine
09. Nine Black Alps: Everything Is
10. System Of A Down: Hypnotize
11. Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better
12. Bright Eyes: I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
13. Porcupine Tree: Deadwing
14. The White Stripes: Get Behind Me, Satan
15. Do Me Bad Things: Yes!
16. Engineers: Engineers
17. Frantic Bleep: The Sense Apparatus
18. Babyshambles: Down In Albion
19. Foo Fighters: In Your Honour
20. Mercury Rev: The Secret Migration


The ‘Close But No Cigar’ Awards

Those great albums of 2005 that weren’t quite great enough

The Dandy Warhols: Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars
Kaiser Chiefs: Employment
Cave In: Perfect Pitch Black
Sufjan Stevens: (Come On Fell The) Illinoise

The ‘What Happened There Then?’ Awards

Those albums of 2005 I bought and then wished I hadn’t

Bright Eyes: Digital Ash In A Digital Urn
Jamiroquai: Dynamite
Coldplay: X&Y
Mars Volta: Frances The Mute

The Ineligibles
The great albums I bought in 2005 that for one reason or another couldn’t be included on the list

Jeff Buckley: Grace
Monotonic: Electralux
The Prodigy: Their Law (The Singles: 1990-2005)
Seafood: When Do We Start Fighting…
Amplifier: The Astronaut Dismantles HAL

Gigs Of The Year

01. Arcade Fire @ Leeds Festival, 28/08/05
02. Mastodon @ Nottingham Rock City, 06/12/05

03. Oceansize @ Nottingham Rock City (Basement), 22/09/05


Films Of The Year

01. Sin City
02. Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith
03. Detroit: Ruin Of A City