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top 20 albums of 2005: REDUX

In parenthesis on the REDUX list is the position that the album was in my last year's list.

LAST YEAR'S LIST, DECEMBER 31, 2005

1. Animal Collective - Feels
2. Gang Gang Dance - God’s Money
3. Deerhoof - The Runners Four
4. Edan - Beauty and the Beat
5. Sunn0))) - Black One
6. Earth - Hex; or Printing in the Infernal Method
7. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
8. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
9. Black Dice - Broken Ear Record
10. Jackie-o mf - Flags of the Sacred Harp
11. No-Neck Blues Band - Qvaris
12. M.I.A. - Arular
13. Gorillaz - Demon Days
14. Excepter - Throne
15. Blood on the Wall - Awesomer
16. Broken Social Scene - s/t
17. Ex-Models - Chrome Panthers
18. White Stripes - Get Behind me Satan
19. Vitalic - OK Cowboy
20. Isolee - We Are Monster

TOP ALBUMS OF 2005: REDUX, NOV. 20, 2006


1. Animal Collective - Feels (1)
2. Black Dice - Broken Ear Record (9)
3. Sunn0))) - Black One (5)
4. Jackie O Mf. - Flags of the Sacred Harp (10)
5. Gang Gang Dance - God's Money (2)
6. Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain (not in last year's list)
7. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (not in last year's list)
8. Earth - Hex; or printing in the infernal method (6)
9. Edan - Beauty and the Beat (4)
10. The Hold Steady - Seperation Sunday (8)
11. Deerhoof - The Runners Four (3)
12. Gorillaz - Demon Days (13)
13. No-Neck Blues Band - Qvaris (11)
14. MIA - Arular (12)
15. Blood on the Wall - Awesomer (15)
16. Excepter - Throne (14)
17. Ex-Models - Chrome Panthers (17)
18. White Stripes - Get Behind me Satan (18)
19. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow (not in last year's list)
20. Excepter - Self-Destruction (not in last year's list)

Four albums were left off the list last year that are now in: Lightning Bolt and Sleater-Kinney both are very deserving of their new top 10 spots, and the Devendra Banhart and Excepter albums both have withstood the test of time better than some others.Because four new albums made the list, four albums had to be taken off the list; Sufjan, Vitalic, Isolee, and Broken Social Scene.