Music Critics' Year-End Top Ten Lists

[Codreanu]

Under The Radar
1. Broken Social Scene by Broken Social Scene
2. Some Cities by Doves
3. Love Kraft by Super Furry Animals
4. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
5. Descended Like Vultures by Rogue Wave
6. Demon Days by Gorillaz
7. Cole's Corner by Richard Hawley
8. Live It Out by Metric
9. Arular by M.I.A.
10. Plans by Death Cab For Cutie

Tiny Mix Tapes
1. Feels by Animal Collective
2. The Runners Four by Deerhoof
3. I Am A Bird Now by Antony & The Johnsons
4. God's Money by Gang Gang Dance
5. Akron/Family by Akron/Family
6. Hypermagic Mountain by Lightning Bolt
7. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
8. La Foret by Xiu Xiu
9. The Woods by Sleater-Kinney
10. Apologies To The Queen Mary by Wolf Parade

1. Funeral by Arcade Fire
2. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
3. No Direction Home: The Soundtrack by Bob Dylan
4. Black Mountain by Black Mountain
5. Alligator by The National
6. A Bigger Bang by The Rolling Stones
7. LCD Soundsystem by LCD Soundsystem
8. Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes
9. You Could Have It So Much Better by Franz Ferdinand
10. Want Two by Rufus Wainwright

Stylus
1. Arular by M.I.A.
2. Silent Alarm by Bloc Party
3. The Sunset Tree by Mountain Goats
4. Robyn by Robyn
5. Separation Sunday by The Hold Steady
6. Late Registration by Kanye West
7. Feels by Animal Collective
8. I Am A Bird Now by Antony & The Johnsons
9. Multiply by Jamie Lidell
10. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens

Spin
1. Late Registration by Kanye West
2. Arular by M.I.A.
3. You Could Have It So Much Better by Franz Ferdinand
4. Demon Days by Gorillaz
5. LCD Soundsystem by LCD Soundsystem
6. Silent Alarm by Bloc Party
7. Twin Cinema by The New Pornographers
8. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
9. Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple
10. Separation Sunday by The Hold Steady

Q
1. X&Y by Coldplay
2. Demon Days by Gorillaz
3. Employment by Kaiser Chiefs
4. Don't Believe The Truth by Oasis
5. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes
6. Back To Bedlam by James Blunt
7. You Could Have It So Much Better by Franz Ferdinand
8. Funeral by Arcade Fire
9. Eye To The Telescope by KT Tunstall
10. Stars Of CCTV by Hard-Fi

Rolling Stone
1. Late Registration by Kanye West
2. A Bigger Bang by The Rolling Stones
3. Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes
4. Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple
5. Devils & Dust by Bruce Springsteen
6. Z by My Morning Jacket
7. Guero by Beck
8. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes
9. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
10. The Massacre by 50 Cent

Prefix
1. The Mysterious Production Of Eggs by Andrew Bird
2. Grandmasters by DJ Muggs vs. GZA
3. Black Sheep Boy by Okkervil River
4. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
5. The B.Coming by Beanie Sigel
6. Twin Cinema by The New Pornographers
7. Feels by Animal Collective
8. Apologies To The Queen Mary by Wolf Parade
9. The Runners Four by Deerhoof
10. Lost And Safe by The Books

Top 50:
http://www.prefixmag.com/features/B/The-Best-Albums-of-2005/275

Pop Matters
1. Twin Cinema by The New Pornographers
2. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
3. I Am A Bird Now by Antony & The Johnsons
4. Arular by M.I.A.
5. Gimme Fiction by Spoon
6. The Mysterious Production Of Eggs by Andrew Bird
7. Separation Sunday by The Hold Steady
8. The Woods by Sleater-Kinney
9. Black Sheep Boy by Okkervil River
10. Picaresque by The Decemberists

Playlouder
1. Funeral by Arcade Fire
2. I Am A Bird Now by Antony & The Johnsons
3. Bang Bang Rock & Roll by Art Brut
4. Wind In The Wires by Patrick Wolf
5. You Could Have It So Much Better by Franz Ferdinand
6. Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes
7. Arular by M.I.A.
8. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
9. Demon Days by Gorillaz
10. A Lick On The Tip Of An Envelope Yet To Be Sent by Circulus

Pitchfork
1. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
2. Late Registration by Kanye West
3. Bang Bang Rock & Roll by Art Brut
4. Arular by M.I.A.
5. I Am A Bird Now by Antony & The Johnsons
6. The Runners Four by Deerhoof
7. Feels by Animal Collective
8. LCD Soundsystem by LCD Soundsystem
9. Purple Haze by Cam'ron
10. Apologies To The Queen Mary by Wolf Parade

Top 50:
http://www.prefixmag.com/features/B/The-Best-Albums-of-2005/275

NME
1. Silent Alarm by Bloc Party
2. Funeral by Arcade Fire
3. You Could Have It So Much Better by Franz Ferdinand
4. I Am A Bird Now by Antony & The Johnsons
5. Employment by Kaiser Chiefs
6. Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes
7. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
8. Late Registration by Kanye West
9. Down In Albion by Babyshambles
10. Demon Days by Gorillaz

Mojo
1. I Am A Bird Now by Antony & The Johnsons
2. Funeral by Arcade Fire
3. Aerial by Kate Bush
4. Devils & Dust by Bruce Springsteen
5. Z by My Morning Jacket
6. Chavez Ravine by Ry Cooder
7. The Magic Numbers by The Magic Numbers
8. Into The Woods by Malcolm Middleton
9. Dimanche a Bamako by Amadou & Mariam
10. Cole's Corner by Richard Hawley

Magnet
1. The Woods by Sleater-Kinney
2. Twin Cinema by The New Pornographers
3. Worlds Apart by ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
4. Set Yourself On Fire by Stars
5. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
6. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes
7. Howl by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
8. Transistor Radio by M. Ward
9. Lullabies To Paralyze by Queens Of The Stone Age
10. Alligator by The National

Filter
1. Takk... by Sigur Ros
2. Z by My Morning Jacket
3. Howl by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
4. Employment by Kaiser Chiefs
5. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
6. The Mouse And The Mask by DangerDoom
7. Worlds Apart by ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
8. Howl Howl Gaff Gaff by Shout Out Louds
9. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes
10. Lullabies To Paralyze by Queens Of The Stone Age

E!
1. Plans by Death Cab For Cutie
2. Arular by M.I.A.
3. Guero by Beck
4. 12 Songs by Neil Diamond
5. Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes
6. Late Registration by Kanye West
7. Z by My Morning Jacket
8. Demon Days by Gorillaz
9. Year Of Meteors by Laura Veirs
10. X&Y by Coldplay

Cokemachineglow
1. Apologies To The Queen Mary by Wolf Parade
2. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
3. The Woods by Sleater-Kinney
4. Beauty And The Beat by Edan
5. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
6. The Mysterious Production Of Eggs by Andrew Bird
7. Gimme Fiction by Spoon
8. Grandmasters by DJ Muggs vs. GZA
9. Twin Cinema by The New Pornographers
10. Akron/Family by Akron/Family

Blender
1. Arular by M.I.A.
2. Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple
3. Late Registration by Kanye West
4. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes
5. Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes
6. You Could Have It So Much Better by Franz Ferdinand
7. Bang Bang Rock & Roll by Art Brut
8. X&Y by Coldplay
9. Frances The Mute by The Mars Volta
10. Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 by Young Jeezy

Amazon.com Editors' Picks
1. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
2. Arular by M.I.A.
3. Twin Cinema by The New Pornographers
4. Z by My Morning Jacket
5. Dimanche a Bamako by Amadou & Mariam
6. Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall [Live]
7. I Am A Bird Now by Antony & The Johnsons
8. No Direction Home: The Soundtrack by Bob Dylan
9. Guero by Beck
10. Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple

 

[dallow_bg]

Looks a lot like the lists made by my co-workers at the record store.

 

[thaxter tewksbury]

> Looks a lot like the lists made by my co-workers at the record store.
Nice for Coltrane to finally get some props.

 

[dallow_bg]

I had the Coltrane/Monk concert on my list, as well as the Complete Village Vanguard sessions from Bill Evans.

 

[Ageless Beauty]

not enough Broken Social Scene!

And didnt the Arcade Fire album come out in 2004?!?

 

[Whatevs]

Re: not enough Broken Social Scene!

> And didnt the Arcade Fire album come out in 2004?!?

not in the UK

 

[mouthful-of-pie]

Thank you for putting that together. Much appreciated. Also thanks for the Casiotone For The Painfully Alone stuff you posted recently. I had never heard of it. True art.