BRIAN'S TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2005

Here's what you've been waiting for. A little different from what I put on the Sound Opinions board, but mostly the same.

01 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
02 Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
03 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
04 The Decemberists - Picaresque
05 Spoon - Gimmie Fiction
06 Kanye West - Late Registration
07 Junior Senior - Hey Hey My My Yo Yo
08 Seu Jorge - Cru
09 Ninja High School - Young Adults Against Suicide
10 Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
11 The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
12 Blackalicious - The Craft
13 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - s/t
14 Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better With Franz Ferdinand
15 Animal Collective - Feels
16 Half-Handed Cloud - Thy Is A Word & Feet Need Lamps
17 The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
18 Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
19 The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
20 Fannypack - See You Next Tuesday
21 Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
22 Pit Er Pat - Shakey
23 Broken Social Scene - s/t
24 Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
25 Gorillaz - Demon Days
26 Isolée - Wearemonster
27 Sam Prekop - Who's Your New Professor
28 The Russian Futurists - Our Thickness
29 Tom Vek - We Have Sound
30 The Most Serene Republic - Underwater Cinematographer
31 Common - Be
32 Xiu Xiu - La Forêt
33 Tim Fite - Gone Ain't Gone
34 Deerhoof - The Runners Four
35 DJ BC - Glassbreaks
36 Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock And Roll
37 Sigur Rós - Takk
38 Blood on the Walls - s/t
39 The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
40 The Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart
41 LCD Soundsystem - s/t
42 Out Hud - Let Us Never Speak of It Again
43 Dungen - Ta det Lugnt
44 Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
45 Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
46 Missy Elliot - The Cookbook
47 M.I.A. - Arular
48 Doves - Some Cities
49 The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
50 Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning