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Rolling
Stone's Top 50 Albums of 2005
   
Dec. 18 - Let's
face it, 2005 was not the best year for albums. Looking
at Rolling Stone's list of 2005's top albums confirms
it for me. With The Rolling Stones, Springsteen, Van Morrison
and Thelonious Monk making the Top 20 it was a year that
looked backwards. To that end, many of the year's biggest
sounds actually came from 2004 — Eminem, U2, Gwen
Stefani to name a few. And then albums that could have
redeemed the year like the new Outkast and Pharrell's solo
debut have been pushed into to 2006. On the bright side,
there was Kanye, the Gorillaz and 50 Cent and new artists
M.I.A., LCD Soundsystem, Paul Wall and The Kaiser Chiefs
who are all represented on the list.
1. Kanye
West, Late Registration
2. The
Rolling Stones, A Bigger
Bang
3. White
Stripes, Get Behind Me
Satan
4. Fiona
Apple, Extraordinary Machine
5. Bruce
Springsteen, Devils and
Dust
6. My
Morning Jacket, Z
7. Beck,
Guero
8. Bright
Eyes, I'm Wide Awake, It's
Morning
9. Sufjan
Stevens, Illinois
10. 50
Cent, The Massacre
11. M.I.A.,
Arular
12. Sleater-Kinney, The
Woods
13. Various
Artists, Run the Road
14. Thelonious
Monk Quartet With John Coltrane, At
Carnegie Hall
15. Gorillaz,
Demon Days
16. John
Legend, Get Lifted
17. Van
Morrison, Magic Time
18. Kings
of Leon, Aha Shake Heartbreak
19. The
Magic Numbers, The Magic
Numbers
20. System
of a Down, Mezmerize/Hypnotize
21. Common,
Be
22. Madonna, Confessions
on a Dance Floor
23. Paul
McCartney, Chaos and Creation
in the Backyard
24. The
Mars Volta, Frances the
Mute
25. Young
Jeezy, Let's Get It:
Thug Motivation 101 |
26. Queens
of the Stone Age, Lullabies to Paralyze
27. Stevie
Wonder, A Time to Love
28. The
Hold Steady, Separation
Sunday
29. Franz
Ferdinand, You Could Have
It So Much Better
30. Foo
Fighters, In Your Honor
31. Amadou
and Mariam, Dimanche
a Bamako
32. The
Go! Team, Thunder, Lightening,
Strike
33. Antony
and the Johnsons, I Am
a Bird Now
34. Paul
Wall, The Peoples Champ
35. LCD
Soundsystem, LCD Soundsystem
36. The
Perceptionists, Black Dialogue
37. Missy
Elliott, The Cookbook
38. Dungen,
Ta Det Lugnt
39. Annie, Anniemal
40. Neil
Young, Prairie Wind
41. Keyshia
Cole, The Way It Is
42. Living
Things, Ahead of the
Lions
43. Mariah
Carey, The Emancipation of
Mimi
44. Daddy
Yankee, Barrio Fino
45. The
Rough Guide to the Music of
the Sahara
46. The
Willowz, Talk In Circles
47. Wide
Right, Sleeping on the
Couch
48. Kaiser
Chiefs, Employment
49. Damian
Marley, Welcome to Jamrock
50. Stars, Set
Yourself on Fire |
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