The Year That Was: 2005 (Complete List)

Thanks, 2005!

100 >> New Buffalo | "Recovery" | Last Beautiful Day
99 >> The Darkness | "Is It Just Me?" | One Way Ticket to Hell…And Back
98 >> Sambassadeur | "Between the Lines" | Sambassadeur
97 >> Aqueduct | "The Suggestion Box" | I Sold Gold
96 >> Bloc Party |"Banquet" | Silent Alarm
95 >> The Mountain Goats | "Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod" | The Sunset Tree
94 >> Imogen Heap | "Headlock" | Speak for Yourself
93 >> Franz Ferdinand | "Eleanor Put Your Boots On" |You Could Have It So Much Better
92 >> John Vanderslice | "Trance Manual" | Pixel Revolt
91 >> The Bravery | "An Honest Mistake" | The Bravery
90 >> Paul McCartney | "Anyway" | Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
89 >> The Spinto Band | "Did I Tell You" | Nice and Nicely Done
88 >> Andrew Bird | "A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left" | Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
87 >> Of Montreal | "The Party's Crashing Us" | The Sunlandic Twins
86 >> Super Furry Animals | "The Horn" | Love Kraft
85 >> The Decemberists | "Engine Driver" | Picaresque
84 >> The Coral Sea | "Look at Her Face" | Volcano and Heart
83 >> The Spectacular Fantastic | "Darkest Hour" | Goes Underground
82 >> Goldrush | "Wait for the Wheels" | Ozona
81 >> Voxtrot | "The Start of Something" | Voxtrot
80 >> Wolf Parade | "I'll Believe in Anything" | Apologies to the Queen Mary
79 >> Jeff Hanson | "This Time It Will" | Jeff Hanson
78 >> Bright Eyes | "Gold Mine Gutted" | Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
77 >> Jose Gonzalez | "Heartbeats" | Veneer
76 >> Low | "California" | The Great Destroyer
75 >> Eels | "Trouble With Dreams" | Blinking Lights (and Other Revelations)
74 >> Fiona Apple | "Oh Well" | Extraordinary Machine
73 >> Get Him Eat Him | "Mumble Mumble" | Geography Cones
72 >> Harvey Danger | "Little Round Mirrors" | Little by Little…
71 >> Kaiser Chiefs | "I Predict a Riot" | Employment
70 >> Ben Folds | "Late" | Songs for Silverman
69 >> Moonbabies | "War on Sound" | War on Sound
68 >> The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers | "Concerning Lessons Learned from the Aliens" | The Mother of Love Emulates the Shapes of Cynthia
67 >> Shout Out Louds | "The Comeback" | Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
66 >> Paul McCartney | "At the Mercy" | Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
65 >> Okkervil River | "Black" | Black Sheep Boy
64 >> Southeast Engine | "I Try Not to Lie" | Coming to Terms With Gravity
63 >> Doves | "Walk on Fire" | Some Cities
62 >> Kathleen Edwards | "Summerlong" | Back to Me
61 >> Coldplay | "Fix You" | X&Y
60 >> Kanye West (featuring Jamie Foxx) | "Gold Digger" | Late Registration
59 >> Sigur Rós | "Hoppípolla" | Takk…
58 >> The Mendoza Line | "Catch a Collapsing Star" | Full of Light and Full of Fire
57 >> Immaculate Machine | "No Way Out" | Ones and Zeros
56 >> M. Ward | "Radio Campaign" | Transistor Radio
55 >> Norivello | "The Hypothesist" | Aim Right for the Holes in Their Lives
54 >> Bloc Party | "Like Eating Glass" | Silent Alarm
53 >> The National | "Mr. November" | Alligator
52 >> Death Cab for Cutie | "Different Names for the Same Thing" | Plans
51 >> Devin Davis | "Turtle and the Flightless Bird" | Lonely People of the World, Unite!
50 >> Franz Ferdinand | "Walk Away" | You Could Have It So Much Better
49 >> My Morning Jacket | "Knot Comes Loose" | Z
48 >> The New Pornographers | "The Bleeding Heart Show" | Twin Cinema
47 >> Iron and Wine | "Woman King" | Woman King
46 >> Kelly Clarkson | "Since U Been Gone" | Breakaway
45 >> Beck | "Rental Car" | Guero
44 >> Of Monteal | "So Begins Our Alabee" | The Sunlandic Twins
43 >> Bright Eyes | "Old Soul Song (For the New World Order)" | I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
42 >> Okkervil River | "For Real" | Black Sheep Boy
41 >> Calexico & Iron and Wine | "Sixteen, Maybe Less" | In the Reins
40 >> Happy Bullets | The Vice and Virtue Ministry | The Vice and Virtue Ministry
39 >> Spoon | "The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine" | Gimme Fiction
38 >> Stars | "Ageless Beauty" | Set Yourself on Fire
37 >> The Mountain Goats | "This Year" | The Sunset Tree
36 >> The Deathray Davies | "Plan to Stay Awake" | The Kick and the Snare
35 >> Page France | "Chariot" | Hello, Dear Wind
34 >> Natasha Bedingfield | "These Words" | Unwritten
33 >> Paul Duncan | "Oil in the Fields" | Be Careful What You Call Home
32 >> Kings of Leon | The Bucket | Aha Shake Heartbreak
31 >> The Boy Least Likely To | "Be Gentle With Me" | The Best Party Ever
30 >> The Cloud Room | "Hey Now Now" | The Cloud Room
29 >> Kate Miller-Heidke | "Space They Cannot Touch" | Telegram
28 >> Southeast Engine | "Coming to Terms With Gravity" | Coming to Terms With Gravity
27 >> The Hold Steady | "Your Little Hoodrat Friend" | Separation Sunday
26 >> Sufjan Stevens | "Casimir Pulaski Day" | Illinois
25 >> The Decemberists | "The Infanta" | Picaresque
24 >> The New Pornographers | "Sing Me Spanish Techno" | Twin Cinema
23 >> Rogue Wave | "Salesman at the Day of the Parade" | Descended Like Vultures
22 >> Kathleen Edwards | "What Are You Waiting For?" | Back to Me
21 >> Iron and Wine | "Freedom Hangs Like Heaven" | Woman King
20 >> Fiona Apple | "Tymps (The Sick in the Head Song)" | Extraordinary Machine
19 >> Death Cab for Cutie | "Marching Bands of Manhattan" | Plans
18 >> Eels | "In the Yard, Behind the Church" | Blinking Lights (and Other Revelations)
17 >> Franz Ferdinand | "The Fallen" | You Could Have It So Much Better
16 >> Martha Wainwright | "Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole" | Martha Wainwright
15 >> Nada Surf | "Armies Walk" | The Weight Is a Gift
14 >> Devin Davis | "Cannons at the Courthouse" | Lonely People of the World, Unite!
13 >> Ryan Adams & the Cardinals | "If I Am a Stranger" | Cold Roses
12 >> Coldplay | "Til Kingdom Come" | X&Y
11 >> Calexico & Iron and Wine | "A History of Lovers" | In the Reins
10 >> Andrew Bird | "Fake Palindromes" | Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
09 >> …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead | "Worlds Apart" | Worlds Apart
08 >> Sufjan Stevens | "Chicago" | Illinois
07 >> Stars | "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" | Set Yourself on Fire
06 >> Eels | "Things the Grandchildren Should Know" | Blinking Lights (and Other Revelations)
05 >> The Decemberists | "We Both Go Down Together" | Picaresque
04 >> The Mountain Goats | "Broom People" | The Sunset Tree
03 >> The New Pornographers | "Use It" | Twin Cinema
02 >> Sufjan Stevens | "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!" | Illinois
01 >> Devin Davis | "Giant Spiders" / "The Choir Invisible" | Lonely People of the World, Unite!