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So You Want To Be En-Entertained?
Yes, it’s been awful, hasn’t it? Twelve long months of waiting and waiting, paralyzed with indecision, wanting desperately to purchase new music, but clueless as to where to start. “Why, oh why, won’t Aaron tell us what to buy?” You wailed. “This site helped out so much last year. We’re lost without his guidance!”
Relax. Your wait is over.
For purposes of weeding down the list, I limited myself to albums consisting of new material. This meant no live albums, “best of” comps, or remastered reissues of classics, which disqualified otherwise enjoyable discs by Wilco, The Beta Band, Gomez, and The Stooges.
And now, without further ado, the Top 30 of 2005:
30. Neil Young – Prairie Wind
29. Meshuggah – Catch Thirty Three
28. Blackalicious – The Craft
27. Sage Francis – A Healthy Distrust
26. Fantômas – Suspended Animation
25. The Eels – Bright Lights and Other Revelations
24. Gorillaz – Demon Days
23. Mike Patton/X-Ecutioners – General Patton vs. the X-Ecutioners
22. Sigur Ros – Takk…
21. Son Volt – Okemah and the Melody of Riot
20. Jello Biafra & The Melvins – Sieg Howdy!
19. North Mississippi Allstars – Electric Blue Watermelon
18. My Morning Jacket – Z
17. Porcupine Tree – Deadwing
16. Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
15. The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute
14. Black Mountain – Black Mountain
13. Oceansize – Everyone Into Position
12. Dropkick Murphys – The Warrior’s Code
11. Dungen – Ta Det Lugnt
10. Edan – Beauty and the Beat
9. Dälek – Absence
8. DangerDoom – The Mouse and the Mask
7. The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
6. Opeth – Ghost Reveries
5. System of a Down – Mezmerize / Hypnotize
4. Clutch – Robot Hive:Exodus
3. Queens of the Stone Age – Lullabies to Paralyze
2. High On Fire – Blessed Black Wings
1. Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
