60 Albums 2005

It is very unusual for me to have three live albums listed within the top 10 of  an annual list of 60 albums. While there are a lot of good albums on this list that got a lot of play from me I have to admit that it was not one of the better years.

Looking back on this list I think I may need to rearrange the rankings as from today's perspective there are some albums in the lower level that I've probably played more in recent years.

1. Wilco - Kicking Television: Live in Chicago
2. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
3. M. Ward - Transistor Radio
4. Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine
5. My Morning Jacket - Z
6. Cream - Royal Albert Hall: London 2005
7. The Kills - No Wow
8. Lucinda Williams - Live at the Fillmore
9. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
10. The Raveonettes - Pretty In Black
11. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Naturally
12. Chris Whitley - Soft Dangerous Shores
13. Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - Exploration
14. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
15. Black Mountain - Black Mountain
16. The Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart
17. Eels - Bright Lights and Other Revelations
18. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
19. The National - Alligator
20. Great Lake Swimmers - Bodies and Minds
21. Jim Noir - Tower of Love
22. Akron/Family - Akron/Family
23. Bettye Lavette - I've Got My Own Hell To Raise
24. Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust
25. Kate Bush - Aerial
26. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
27. Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche a Bamako
28. Espers - The Weed Tree
29. Frank Black - Honeycomb
30. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
31. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
32. The Kingsbury Manx - The Fast Rise and Fall of the South
33. Sigur Ros - Takk...
34. John Hiatt - Master of Disaster
35. Doves - Some Cities
36. Tunng - Mother's Daughter and Other Songs
37. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
38. Neil Young - Prairie Wind
39. Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
40. Kathleen Edwards - Back To Me
41. Richard Thompson - Front Parlour Ballads
42. Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower
43. The Decemberists - Picaresque
44. Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration
45. The Warlocks - Surgery
46. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
47. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
48. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Delirium Tremolos
49. Crooked Fingers - Dignity and Shame
50. Wussy - Funeral Dress
51. Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now
52. Cloud Cult - Advice From The Happy Hippopotamus
53. Gang of Four - Return The Gift
54. Animal Collective - Feels
55. Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift
56. The Black Watch - The Hypnotizing Sea
57. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
58. Seu Jorge - The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
59. Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
60. Amos Lee - Amos Lee