END OF THE YEAR LISTS!
So this year has been amazing. I'm not really into telling my whole life on an online diary, so if you were there and shared the great times, don't forget there will be even more to come. Otherwise, I'm a huge nerd and did a top albums list again this year like I always did. Some honorable mentions include: Stellastarr* - Harmonies of the Haunted, Hot Hot Heat - Elevator, CocoRosie - Noah's Ark, The Clientele - Strange Geometry, Sleater-Kinney - The Woods, Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, Xiu Xiu - La Foret, Fiery Furnaces - EP, Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain, Low - The Great Destroyer and whatever else was good but I forgot.
My Top 30 Albums of 2005
 30) Akron/Family – Akron/Family (Young God)
 29) Iron & Wine and Calexico – In the Reins (Overcoat)
 28) Deerhoof – The Runners Four (Kill Rock Stars)
 27) M. Ward – Transistor Radio (Merge)
 26) Ex Models - Chrome Panthers (Troubleman Unlimited)
 25) Serena Maneesh – Serena Maneesh (Honeymilk)
 24) Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeney – Superwolf (Drag City)
 23) The Books – Lost & Safe (Tomlab)
 22) Wilderness – Wilderness (Jagjaguwar)
 21) Spoon – Gimme Fiction (Merge)
 20) Feist – Let it Die (Interscope)
 19) Danger Doom – The Mouse and the Mask (Epitaph/Ada)
 18) Devendra Banhart – Cripple Crow (XL)
 17) Ladytron – Witching Hour (Rykodisc)
 16) Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have It So Much Better (Domino)
 15) M83 – Before the Dawn Heals Us (Gooom/Mute)
 14) Neon Blonde – Chandeliers in the Savannah (Dim Mak)
 13) Antony & the Johnsons – I Am A Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
 12) The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday (Frenchkiss)
 11) New Pornographers – Twin Cinema (Matador)
 10) Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire – Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs (Righteous Babe)
 9) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Self-Released)
 8) Animal Collective – Feels (Fat Cat)
 7) Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar)
 6) Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene (Arts & Crafts)
 5) Sigur Ros – Takk (Geffen)
 4) Architecture in Helsinki – In Case We Die (Bar/None)
 3) Sufjan Stevens – Come On Feel the Illinoise (Asthmatic Kitty)
 2) My Morning Jacket – Z (ATO)
 1) The Decemberists - Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
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