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The Best Music of 2005
Here is a selection of the best albums and songs from 2005. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.
For a list of the top artists who made their debut recording in 2005, check out this list.
Albums (?) | Wikipedia | |
30 Seconds to Mars | A Beautiful Lie | ☆ |
50 Cent | The Massacre | ☆ |
Animal Collective | Feels | ☆ |
Antony and The Johnsons | I Am a Bird Now | ☆ |
Beck | Guero | ☆ |
Bloc Party | Silent Alarm | ☆ |
Bright Eyes | I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | ☆ |
Carrie Underwood | Some Hearts | ☆ |
Coheed and Cambria | Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of | ☆ |
Coldplay | X&Y | ☆ |
Common | Be | ☆ |
Dave Matthews Band | Stand Up | ☆ |
Death Cab For Cutie | Plans | ☆ |
Depeche Mode | Playing the Angel | ☆ |
Dream Theater | Octavarium | ☆ |
Dropkick Murphys | The Warrior's Code | ☆ |
Fall Out Boy | From Under the Cork Tree | ☆ |
Feist | Let It Die | ☆ |
Fiona Apple | Extraordinary Machine | ☆ |
Foo Fighters | In Your Honor | ☆ |
Franz Ferdinand | You Could Have It So Much Better | ☆ |
Garbage | Bleed Like Me | ☆ |
George Strait | Somewhere Down In Texas | ☆ |
Gorillaz | Demon Days | ☆ |
Judas Priest | Angel of Retribution | ☆ |
Kanye West | Late Registration | ☆ |
LCD Soundsystem | LCD Soundsystem | ☆ |
Lil Wayne | Tha Carter II | ☆ |
M.I.A. | Arular | ☆ |
Madonna | Confessions On A Dance Floor | ☆ |
Mariah Carey | The Emancipation of Mimi | ☆ |
Mary J. Blige | The Breakthrough | ☆ |
Miranda Lambert | Kerosene | ☆ |
My Morning Jacket | Z | ☆ |
Nine Inch Nails | With Teeth | ☆ |
OK Go | Oh No | ☆ |
Panic! at the Disco | A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | ☆ |
Porcupine Tree | Deadwing | ☆ |
Queens of the Stone Age | Lullabies to Paralyze | ☆ |
Robyn | Robyn | ☆ |
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals | Cold Roses | ☆ |
Shakira | Oral Fixation, Vol. 2 | ☆ |
Sigur Ros | Takk | ☆ |
Sleater-Kinney | The Woods | ☆ |
Spoon | Gimme Fiction | ☆ |
Sufjan Stevens | Illinois | ☆ |
System Of A Down | Mesmerize | ☆ |
System of a Down | Hypnotize | ☆ |
The Chemical Brothers | Push the Button | ☆ |
The Decemberists | Picaresque | ☆ |
The Mars Volta | Frances the Mute | ☆ |
The White Stripes | Get Behind Me Satan | ☆ |
Wolfmother | Wolfmother | ☆ |
Songs (?) | Wikipedia | |
30 Seconds to Mars | The Kill (Bury Me) | ☆ |
Amerie | 1 Thing | ☆ |
Animal Collective | Grass | ☆ |
Arctic Monkeys | I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor | ☆ |
Beck | E-Pro | ☆ |
Black Eyed Peas | My Humps | ☆ |
Bloc Party | Banquet | ☆ |
Bright Eyes | First Day of My Life | ☆ |
Carrie Underwood | Before He Cheats | ☆ |
Carrie Underwood | Jesus, Take the Wheel | ☆ |
Cascada | Everytime We Touch | ☆ |
Coheed And Cambria | Welcome Home | ☆ |
Coheed and Cambria | The Suffering | ☆ |
Coldplay | Speed of Sound | ☆ |
Coldplay | Fix You | ☆ |
Daft Punk | Technologic | ☆ |
Daniel Powter | Bad Day | ☆ |
Death Cab for Cutie | I Will Follow You Into The Dark | ☆ |
Death Cab For Cutie | Soul Meets Body | ☆ |
Depeche Mode | Precious | ☆ |
Dropkick Murphys | I'm Shipping Up To Boston | ☆ |
Fall Out Boy | Sugar, We're Goin' Down | ☆ |
Fall Out Boy | Dance, Dance | ☆ |
Foo Fighters | Best of You | ☆ |
Franz Ferdinand | Do You Want To | ☆ |
Garbage | Bleed Like Me | ☆ |
Girls Aloud | Biology | ☆ |
Goldfrapp | Ooh La La | ☆ |
Gorillaz | DARE | ☆ |
Gorillaz feat. De La Soul | Feel Good Inc. | ☆ |
Jace Everett | Bad Things (Theme from True Blood) | ☆ |
Jay Ferguson and The Scrantones | The Office Theme | ☆ |
Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx | Gold Digger | ☆ |
Kanye West feat. Lupe Fiasco | Touch The Sky | ☆ |
KT Tunstall | Suddenly I See | ☆ |
LCD Soundsystem | Daft Punk Is Playing At My House | ☆ |
LCD Soundsystem | Disco Infiltrator | ☆ |
Los Lonely Boys | Diamonds | ☆ |
Madonna | Hung Up | ☆ |
Mariah Carey | We Belong Together | ☆ |
Mariah Carey | Don't Forget About Us | ☆ |
Mary J. Blige | Be Without You | ☆ |
Miranda Lambert | Kerosene | ☆ |
My Chemical Romance | The Ghost Of You | ☆ |
New Order | Jetstream | ☆ |
Nickelback | Photograph | ☆ |
Nine Inch Nails | The Hand That Feeds | ☆ |
Nine Inch Nails | Every Day Is Exactly the Same | ☆ |
Panic! At the Disco | I Write Sins Not Tragedies | ☆ |
Queens of the Stone Age | Little Sister | ☆ |
Rihanna | Pon de Replay | ☆ |
Rob Thomas | Lonely No More | ☆ |
Robyn | Be Mine! | ☆ |
Sleater-Kinney | Modern Girl | ☆ |
Spoon | I Turn My Camera On | ☆ |
Sufjan Stevens | Chicago | ☆ |
Sufjan Stevens | John Wayne Gacy, Jr. | ☆ |
Sufjan Stevens | Come On! Feel the Illinoise! | ☆ |
Sufjan Stevens | Jacksonville | ☆ |
System of a Down | B.Y.O.B. | ☆ |
The All-American Rejects | Move Along | ☆ |
The All-American Rejects | Dirty Little Secret | ☆ |
The Bravery | An Honest Mistake | ☆ |
The Decemberists | Mariner's Revenge Song | ☆ |
The Fray | How to Save a Life | ☆ |
The Fray | Over My Head (Cable Car) | ☆ |
The Pussycat Dolls (featuring Busta Rhymes) | Don't Cha | ☆ |
The White Stripes | Blue Orchid | ☆ |
The White Stripes | My Doorbell | ☆ |
Weezer | Beverly Hills | ☆ |
Weezer | Perfect Situation | ☆ |
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