Obligatory end of year music post

I don't do a lot of top ten posts, or top twenty, or whatever. I can do lists like that when I'm dealing with quantifiable things, e.g., money made (for movies), albums sold (for music). It gets harder when the list is based on something arbitrary and unquantifiable, like enjoyment, or perceived worth. Part of that is because my tastes are very much a varying thing. One album I'll listen to compulsively thirty times in one month I might not play again until two months later.

With that out of the way, here is a list of albums I have enjoyed that came out in 2005, in alphabetical order. Albums that I particularly recommend are asterisked.

• Beck - Guero
• * The Decemberists - Picaresque
• Ehren Starks - Lines Build Walls
• * Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
• Gorillaz - Demon Days
• Harvey Danger - Little By Little
• Iron & Wine - Woman King - EP
• LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
• Moby - Hotel
• * The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
• * OK Go - Oh No
• Robbers On High Street - Tree City
• * Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
• * Victor Wooten - Soul Circus
• * The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

These are all albums that I have listened to many times and have enjoyed. However there is one album which is my total favorite.

My favorite album of 2005: Sufjan Steven's Illinois. It is fantastic on many different levels.