Best of 2005 – The nominees
I still don’t know if I will make a Best Of 2005 list or even decide on my album of the year, but thought it would be a good start to make up the list of nominees. Basically it’s all of the albums in my iTunes library, dated 2005. Some albums that I really only discovered in 2005 but which were from 2004 or before are therefore excluded. Here’s the list:
| Artist | Album |
| Ambulance LTD | LP |
| Art Brut | Bang Bang Rock & Roll |
| Audioslave | Out of Exile |
| Babyshambles | Down in Albion |
| Ben Lee | Awake Is the New Sleep |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | Howl |
| Bloc Party | Silent Alarm |
| Bob Mould | Body of Song |
| Brakes | Give Blood |
| Bright Eyes | Digital Ash in a Digital Urn |
| Bright Eyes | I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning |
| Clem Snide | End of Love |
| dEUS | Pocket Revolution |
| Editors | The Back Room |
| Eels | Blinking Lights and Other Revelations |
| Foo Fighters | In Your Honor |
| Frank Black | Honeycomb |
| Franz Ferdinand | You Could Have It So Much Better |
| Hal | Hal |
| Hot Hot Heat | Elevator |
| Hushpuppies | The Trap |
| I Am Kloot | Gods and Monsters |
| Juliana Hatfield | Made in China |
| Kaiser Chiefs | Employment |
| LCD Soundsystem | LCD Soundsystem |
| Little Barrie | We Are Little Barrie |
| Maxïmo Park | A Certain Trigger |
| Neil Young | Prairie Wind |
| Nine Inch Nails | With Teeth |
| Oasis | Don’t Believe the Truth |
| Paul Weller | As Is Now |
| Queens of the Stone Age | Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Ryan Adams & The Cardinals | Jacksonville City Nights |
| Ryan Adams & The Cardinals | Cold Roses |
| Stephen Malkmus | Face the Truth |
| Stereo Total | Do the Bambi |
| Subways | Young For Eternity |
| Teenage Fanclub | Man-Made |
| The Dandy Warhols | Odditorium or Warlords of Mars |
| The Dead 60s | The Dead 60s |
| The Evens | The Evens |
| The Killers | Hot Fuss |
| The Kills | No Wow |
| The Magic Numbers | The Magic Numbers |
| The Others | The Others |
| The Rakes | Capture/Release |
| The Rolling Stones | A Bigger Bang |
| The Warlocks | Surgery |
| The White Stripes | Get Behind Me Satan |
| Tocotronic | Pure Vernunft darf niemals siegen |
| Tokyo Sex Destruction | 5th Avenue South |
| Turbonegro | Party Animals |
| Weezer | Make Believe |
| Wilco | Kicking Television: Live in Chicago |