My Best Of 2005

So I wrote this a while ago but didn’t even think to post it here. So… here it is:

Best New Releases

1. mewithoutYou – Catch For Us The Foxes (So it actually came out in 2004, but it’s just that good.)
2. Norma Jean – O God, The Aftermath
3. Coldplay – X&Y
4. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
5. The Agony Scene – The Darkest Red
6. Copeland – In Motion
7. As I Lay Dying – Shadows Are Security
8. The Mars Volta – Frances The Mute
9. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
10. Ben Folds – Songs For Silverman

Best New Discoveries

1. Mute Math
2. Bloc Party
3. As Cities Burn
4. Classic Case
5. The Stiletto Formal
6. Eels
7. Denison Witmer
8. The Go! Team
9. The Locust
10. The Receiving End Of Sirens

Best Live Show

1. Nickel Creek
2. The Dillinger Escape Plan
3. Blesk
4. As I Lay Dying
5. He Is Legend
6. Haste The Day
7. Scary Kids Scaring Kids
8. Project 86
9. The Agony Scene
10. Killswitch Engage

Best Albums To Dance To

1. Daft Punk – Discovery
2. The Faint – Danse Macabre
3. Jay-Z – The Black Album
4. The Faint – Wet From Birth
5. Kanye West – College Dropout
6. Notorious B.I.G. – Duets: The Final Chapter
7. Junior Senior – D-D-Don’t Don’t Stop The Beat
8. Panic! At The Disco – A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out

Best Albums To Headbang To

1. The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza – Self Titled
2. Unearth – The Oncoming Storm
3. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Calculating Infinity
4. Norma Jean – O God, The Aftermath
5. The Agony Scene – The Darkest Red
6. Becoming The Archetype – Terminate Damnation
7. Bleeding Through – This Is Love, This Is Murderous
8. Still Remains – Of Love And Lunacy
9. Extol – Undeceived
10. Project 86 – …And The Rest Will Follow

Best Indie Snob Fodder

1. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Self Titled
2. The Arcade Fire – Funeral
3. Andrew Bird – And The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
4. The Mars Volta – Frances The Mute
5. Eels – Blinking Lights And Other Revelations
6. Denison Witmer – Are You A Dreamer?
7. Error – Self Titled
8. Nick Drake – Pink Moon
9. Sacha Sacket – Shadowed
10. Saul Williams – Self Titled

Best Music To Fall Asleep To

1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
2. Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
3. Explosions In The Sky – The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
4. Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans
5. Nickel Creek – Self Titled
6. Garden State Soundtrack
7. Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days
8. Alison Krauss + Union Station – Live
9. Zero 7 – Simple Things
10. Opeth – Damnation