*Because I was too busy listening to Bollywood soundtracks,
Serbian turbofolk and faceless techno wank.
On the other hand, once I'm actually in Belgrade, all
this alterna college-circuit stuff will become all
exotic, and I'll bend heaven and earth to get it,
I may even resort to paying for iTunes. No...
wait... what am I saying.
The 97 Best Of 2005
Welcome to our definitive listing of the top 97 Modern Rock and Alternative albums of 2005 – the 22nd Annual 97 Best. Make's a great shopping list. Go ahead, click on some of those "Buy" buttons and get yourself a little treat. We won't stop ya.
Artist Album
1 Bloc Party Silent Alarm
2 Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better
3 Sufjan Stevens Illinois
4 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
5 LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem
6 Beck Guero
7 Wolf Parade Apologies To The Queen Mary
8 The National Alligator
9 Gorillaz Demon Days
10 Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene
11 Spoon Gimme Fiction
12 Heartless Bastards Stairs And Elevators
13 Maximo Park A Certain Trigger
14 The Decemberists Picaresque
15 The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan
16 M.I.A. Arular
17 The New Pornographers Twin Cinema
18 Sleater-Kinney The Woods
19 The Cloud Room The Cloud Room
20 The Magic Numbers The Magic Numbers
21 Death Cab For Cutie Plans
22 Elbow Leaders Of The Free World
23 The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike
24 Benzos Morning Stanzas
25 Doves Some Cities
26 Art Brut Bang Bang Rock & Roll
27 Rogue Wave Descended Like Vultures
28 Feist Let It Die
29 M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us
30 Tom Vek We Have Sound
31 Editors The Back Room
32 The Hold Steady Separation Sunday
33 Constantines Tournament Of Hearts
34 Sigur Ros Takk
35 Brendan Benson The Alternative To Love
36 The Kills No Wow
37 Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
38 Bright Eyes Digital Ash In A Digital Urn
39 Low The Great Destroyer
40 Brazilian Girls Brazilian Girls
41 The Greenhornes East Grand Blues EP
42 Dangerdoom The Mouse And The Mask
43 Of Montreal The Sunlandic Twins
44 Kate Bush Aerial
45 New Order Waiting For The Sirens' Call
46 The Fiery Furnaces EP
47 Calla Collisions
48 Giant Drag Hearts And Unicorns
49 The Bees Free The Bees
50 Sons And Daughters The Repulsion Box
51 Idlewild Warnings/Promises
52 The Spinto Band Nice And Nicely Done
53 The High Dials War Of The Wakening Phantoms
54 Kimone The Mill
55 dios (malos) dios (malos)
56 My Morning Jacket Z
57 Paul Weller As Is Now
58 Common Be
59 Mobius Band The Loving Sounds Of Static
60 Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine
61 Lab Partners Wicked Branches
62 Lucero Nobody's Darlings
63 Ladytron The Witching Hour
64 The Golden Republic The Golden Republic
65 Shout Out Louds Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
66 The Purrs The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of
67 Stellastarr* Harmonies For The Haunted
68 Depeche Mode Playing The Angel
69 Youth Group Skeleton Jar
70 Crystal Skulls Blocked Numbers
71 Engineers Engineers
72 The Wedding Present Take Fountain
73 Crooked Fingers Dignity And Shame
74 Coldplay X & Y
75 The Raveonettes Pretty In Black
76 The American Analog Set Set Free
77 Kaiser Chiefs Employment
78 Architecture In Helsinki In Case We Die
79 The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree
80 Stephen Malkmus Face The Truth
81 Wussy Funeral Dress
82 Lou Barlow Emoh
83 Nouvelle Vague Nouvelle Vague
84 Sam Champion Slow Rewind
85 Dungen Ta Det Lungt
86 Mike Doughty Haughty Melodic
87 The Cribs The New Fellas
88 World Leader Pretend Punches
89 The Cardigans Super Extra Gravity
90 Ben Lee Awake Is The New Sleep
91 The Morning After Girls Prelude: EP's 1 & 2
92 De Novo Dahl Cats & Kittens
93 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Howl
94 Brakes Give Blood
95 The Juan Maclean Less Than Human
96 Silversun Pickups Pikul EP
97 The Rosebuds Birds Make Good Neighbors
