Best Albums of 2005 - Rated by Users


Album ratings averaged across users. Ranking does not represent staff consensus.
 

01
Howard Shore
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Complete Recording

Rating: 4.59
40 votes
02
Gospel
The Moon Is a Dead World

Rating: 4.4
762 votes
03
Kent
Du & Jag Doden

Rating: 4.35
41 votes
04
Moonsorrow
Verisakeet

Rating: 4.34
207 votes
05
Rapture
Silent Stage

Rating: 4.32
28 votes
06
Kow Otani
Shadow of the Colossus: Roar of the Earth

Rating: 4.31
40 votes
07
Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains
Love Songs For The Apocalypse

Rating: 4.31
104 votes
08
Kataxu
Hunger of Elements

Rating: 4.31
62 votes
09
Voxtrot
Raised By Wolves

Rating: 4.28
25 votes
10
The National
Alligator

Rating: 4.27
998 votes
11
Kamelot
The Black Halo

Rating: 4.27
638 votes
12
Laura
Mapping Your Dreams

Rating: 4.27
32 votes
13
port-royal
Flares

Rating: 4.26
21 votes
14
Taake
Hordalands Doedskvad

Rating: 4.26
100 votes
15
Crashdiet
Rest In Sleaze

Rating: 4.25
28 votes
16
Sufjan Stevens
Illinois

Rating: 4.24
1227 votes
17
Tally Hall
Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum

Rating: 4.23
30 votes
18
The Red Paintings
Walls

Rating: 4.23
80 votes
19
Opeth
Ghost Reveries

Rating: 4.22
2879 votes
20
Left For Dead
Splitting Heads

Rating: 4.22
23 votes
21
Marcus Miller
Silver Rain

Rating: 4.22
23 votes
22
Nujabes
Modal Soul

Rating: 4.22
282 votes
23
Patrick Wolf
Wind in the Wires

Rating: 4.21
75 votes
24
Primordial
The Gathering Wilderness

Rating: 4.2
155 votes
25
Venetian Snares
Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett

Rating: 4.2
286 votes
26
Rotten Sound
Exit

Rating: 4.2
137 votes
27
Emptyself
Emptyself

Rating: 4.19
26 votes
28
The Suicide File
Some Mistakes You Never Stop Paying For

Rating: 4.19
60 votes
29
Choke
Slow Fade Or: How I Learned To Question Infinity

Rating: 4.19
21 votes
30
Okkervil River
Black Sheep Boy Appendix

Rating: 4.19
21 votes
31
Poets of the Fall
Signs of Life

Rating: 4.19
79 votes
32
Sieges Even
The Art Of Navigating By The Stars

Rating: 4.19
56 votes
33
John Williams
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Rating: 4.18
38 votes
34
Corrupted
El Mundo Frio

Rating: 4.18
71 votes
35
Ceremony
Ruined

Rating: 4.18
100 votes
36
Shpongle
Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost

Rating: 4.18
259 votes
37
Sleater-Kinney
The Woods

Rating: 4.18
92 votes
38
Latterman
No Matter Where We Go...!

Rating: 4.18
112 votes
39
Deathspell Omega
Kenose

Rating: 4.18
130 votes
40
One Be Lo
S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M.

Rating: 4.18
34 votes
41
Redemption
The Fullness of Time

Rating: 4.18
54 votes
42
Evoken
Antithesis of Light

Rating: 4.17
87 votes
43
Jaga Jazzist
What We Must

Rating: 4.17
357 votes
44
Murcof
Remembranza

Rating: 4.17
21 votes
45
Secede
Tryshasla

Rating: 4.16
34 votes
46
Edan
Beauty and the Beat

Rating: 4.16
59 votes
47
Hieronymus Bosch
Artificial Emotions

Rating: 4.16
25 votes
48
Nevermore
This Godless Endeavor

Rating: 4.16
597 votes
49
Mournful Congregation
The Monad of Creation

Rating: 4.16
38 votes
50
Eleventh He Reaches London
The Good Fight For Harmony

Rating: 4.16
73 votes
51
Thrice
Vheissu

Rating: 4.15
2445 votes
52
Yndi Halda
Enjoy Eternal Bliss EP

Rating: 4.15
82 votes
53
The Mountain Goats
The Sunset Tree

Rating: 4.15
284 votes
54
Sigur Ros
Takk...

Rating: 4.15
1535 votes
55
!T.O.O.H.!
Rád a Trest

Rating: 4.14
35 votes
56
Neal Morse
?

Rating: 4.14
21 votes
57
Porcupine Tree
Deadwing

Rating: 4.14
1723 votes
58
Ruiner
What Could Possibly Go Right...

Rating: 4.14
29 votes
59
Manegarm
Vredens Tid

Rating: 4.14
22 votes
60
Ataraxie
Slow Transcending Agony

Rating: 4.14
74 votes
61
Overmars
Affliction, Endocrine...Vertigo

Rating: 4.13
27 votes
62
The Red Paintings
Your Tears Are Warning Signs

Rating: 4.13
27 votes
63
The Evpatoria Report
Golevka

Rating: 4.13
109 votes
64
Bright Eyes
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

Rating: 4.13
952 votes
65
Protest the Hero
Kezia

Rating: 4.13
2361 votes
66
Cyne
Evolution Fight

Rating: 4.13
68 votes
67
Funeral Diner
The Underdark

Rating: 4.12
338 votes
68
Strapping Young Lad
Alien

Rating: 4.12
674 votes
69
John Frusciante
Curtains

Rating: 4.12
287 votes
70
Okkervil River
Black Sheep Boy

Rating: 4.12
227 votes
71
Solar Fields
Leaving Home

Rating: 4.12
21 votes
72
The Mars Volta
Frances the Mute

Rating: 4.11
2714 votes
73
Masterplan
Aeronautics

Rating: 4.11
56 votes
74
Sed Non Satiata
Le Ciel De Notre Enfance

Rating: 4.11
208 votes
75
Tera Melos
Tera Melos

Rating: 4.1
370 votes
76
Coil
The Ape of Naples

Rating: 4.1
93 votes
77
Hammock
Stranded Under Endless Sky

Rating: 4.1
30 votes
78
The Hold Steady
Separation Sunday

Rating: 4.1
143 votes
79
Dead Congregation
Purifying Consecrated Ground

Rating: 4.1
31 votes
80
Omar S
Just Ask the Lonely

Rating: 4.1
26 votes
81
Bolt Thrower
Those Once Loyal

Rating: 4.1
251 votes
82
Nobuo Uematsu
FFVII: Advent Children OST

Rating: 4.09
58 votes
83
Galneryus
Advance To The Fall

Rating: 4.09
38 votes
84
Macklemore
The Language of My World

Rating: 4.09
71 votes
85
Toby Driver
In the L..L..Library Loft

Rating: 4.09
100 votes
86
Wolf Parade
Apologies to the Queen Mary

Rating: 4.08
341 votes
87
Riverside
Second Life Syndrome

Rating: 4.08
350 votes
88
Akercocke
Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go...

Rating: 4.08
182 votes
89
Bernard Fanning
Tea & Sympathy

Rating: 4.07
21 votes
90
Mae
The Everglow

Rating: 4.07
348 votes
91
Little Brother
The Minstrel Show

Rating: 4.07
50 votes
92
Between the Buried and Me
Alaska

Rating: 4.07
2779 votes
93
Thunderstone
Tools of Destruction

Rating: 4.07
22 votes
94
Iron Lung
Cold Storage

Rating: 4.07
22 votes
95
Cursed
II

Rating: 4.07
246 votes
96
Siege
Drop Dead

Rating: 4.07
45 votes
97
Dark Tranquillity
Character

Rating: 4.07
845 votes
98
Paint It Black
Paradise

Rating: 4.06
63 votes
99
The Mayan Factor
44

Rating: 4.06
88 votes
100
Z-Ro
Let the Truth Be Told

Rating: 4.06
25 votes
101
Jack's Mannequin
Everything In Transit

Rating: 4.06
382 votes
102
Kiuas
The Spirit of Ukko

Rating: 4.05
28 votes
103
Shining (SWE)
IV - The Eerie Cold

Rating: 4.05
82 votes
104
Cog
The New Normal

Rating: 4.05
156 votes
105
Infidel?/Castro!
Bioentropic Damage Fractal

Rating: 4.05
21 votes
106
Clutch
Robot Hive/Exodus

Rating: 4.05
264 votes
107
Animal Collective
Feels

Rating: 4.05
1042 votes
108
Why?
Elephant Eyelash

Rating: 4.04
94 votes
109
Nadja
Bodycage

Rating: 4.04
25 votes
110
Fields of the Nephilim
Mourning Sun

Rating: 4.04
25 votes
111
Antestor
The Forsaken

Rating: 4.04
52 votes
112
Bomb the Music Industry!
Album Minus Band

Rating: 4.04
306 votes
113
Slightly Stoopid
Closer To The Sun

Rating: 4.03
132 votes
114
The Fall Of Boss Koala
Reference Points

Rating: 4.03
59 votes
115
YOB
The Unreal Never Lived

Rating: 4.03
47 votes
116
Mew
And the Glass Handed Kites

Rating: 4.03
382 votes
117
Pelican
The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon...

Rating: 4.03
693 votes
118
The Receiving End of Sirens
Between the Heart and the Synapse

Rating: 4.03
536 votes
119
Buried Inside
Chronoclast

Rating: 4.03
85 votes
120
Wintersleep
Untitled

Rating: 4.03
77 votes
121
toe
The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety

Rating: 4.03
80 votes
122
John Petrucci
Suspended Animation

Rating: 4.02
185 votes
123
Coheed and Cambria
From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

Rating: 4.02
2358 votes
124
Jens Lekman
Oh You're So Silent Jens

Rating: 4.02
27 votes
125
My Morning Jacket
Z

Rating: 4.02
331 votes
126
Darkspace
Dark Space II

Rating: 4.02
59 votes
127
Gojira
From Mars To Sirius

Rating: 4.02
1020 votes
128
Mischief Brew
Smash the Windows

Rating: 4.02
32 votes
129
Paul Baribeau
Paul Baribeau

Rating: 4.01
68 votes
130
Boards of Canada
The Campfire Headphase

Rating: 4.01
462 votes
131
God Is An Astronaut
All Is Violent, All Is Bright

Rating: 4.01
597 votes
132
Burst
Origo

Rating: 4.01
241 votes
133
Hypocrisy
Virus

Rating: 4.01
324 votes
134
Bomb the Music Industry!
To Leave Or Die In Long Island

Rating: 4.01
265 votes
135
Nile
Annihilation of the Wicked

Rating: 4.01
781 votes
136
The Samuel Jackson Five
Easily Misunderstood

Rating: 4.01
65 votes
137
Boris
Pink

Rating: 4.01
455 votes
138
Propagandhi
Potemkin City Limits

Rating: 4
274 votes
139
Arsis
A Diamond for Disease

Rating: 4
305 votes
140
Hammock
Kenotic

Rating: 4
128 votes
141
Dirty Projectors
The Getty Address

Rating: 4
21 votes
142
Sound Tribe Sector 9
Artifact

Rating: 4
27 votes
143
Kaizers Orchestra
Maestro

Rating: 4
28 votes
144
Transistor Transistor
Erase All Name and Likeness

Rating: 4
32 votes
145
Beecher
This Elegy, His Autopsy

Rating: 4
34 votes
146
In Pieces
Lions Write History

Rating: 4
91 votes
147
The Fall of Troy
Doppelganger

Rating: 4
1735 votes
148
A Wilhelm Scream
Ruiner

Rating: 4
302 votes
149
Quo Vadis
Defiant Imagination

Rating: 4
238 votes
150
Reuben
Very Fast Very Dangerous

Rating: 3.99
76 votes
151
Equilibrium
Turis Fratyr

Rating: 3.99
139 votes
152
Oceansize
Everyone Into Position

Rating: 3.99
340 votes
153
This Is Your Captain Speaking
Storyboard

Rating: 3.99
42 votes
154
Truckfighters
Gravity X

Rating: 3.99
36 votes
155
Subterranean Masquerade
Suspended Animation Dreams

Rating: 3.98
32 votes
156
Quasimoto
The Further Adventures of Lord Quas

Rating: 3.98
125 votes
157
Andrew Bird
The Mysterious Production Of Eggs

Rating: 3.98
274 votes
158
Shihad
Love Is The New Hate

Rating: 3.98
25 votes
159
The Flashbulb
Kirlian Selections

Rating: 3.98
99 votes
160
Trophy Scars
Goodnight Alchemy

Rating: 3.98
157 votes
161
Hate
Anaclasis: A Haunting Gospel Of Malice & Hatred

Rating: 3.98
22 votes
162
World's End Girlfriend
The Lie Lay Land

Rating: 3.97
77 votes
163
Iron & Wine
Woman King

Rating: 3.97
173 votes
164
The Sound of Animals Fighting
Tiger and the Duke

Rating: 3.97
493 votes
165
Million Dead
Harmony No Harmony

Rating: 3.97
94 votes
166
Hardcore Superstar
Hardcore Superstar

Rating: 3.97
30 votes
167
Days Away
Mapping An Invisible World

Rating: 3.97
59 votes
168
Eels
Blinking Lights & Other Revelations

Rating: 3.97
102 votes
169
Draconian
Arcane Rain Fell

Rating: 3.97
100 votes
170
Xavier Rudd
Food In The Belly

Rating: 3.96
27 votes
171
Cage [Hip-Hop]
Hell's Winter

Rating: 3.96
94 votes
172
Pagan's Mind
Enigmatic: Calling

Rating: 3.96
36 votes
173
DIR EN GREY
Clever Sleazoid

Rating: 3.96
23 votes
174
Bayside
Bayside

Rating: 3.96
331 votes
175
Dozer
Through The Eyes Of Heathens

Rating: 3.96
34 votes
176
Sinch
Clearing the Channel

Rating: 3.95
30 votes
177
Om
Variations on a Theme

Rating: 3.95
101 votes
178
Spiritual Beggars
Demons

Rating: 3.94
36 votes
179
Meshuggah
Catch Thirtythree

Rating: 3.94
1101 votes
180
Street Dogs
Back To The World

Rating: 3.94
25 votes
181
Sean Price
Monkey Barz

Rating: 3.94
25 votes
182
Ling Tosite Sigure
#4

Rating: 3.94
25 votes
183
E.S. Posthumus
Unearthed

Rating: 3.94
25 votes
184
Smog
A River Ain't Too Much Too Love

Rating: 3.94
24 votes
185
Antony and the Johnsons
I Am A Bird Now

Rating: 3.94
140 votes
186
Amenra
Mass III

Rating: 3.94
62 votes
187
Paul McCartney
Chaos and Creation in the Backyard

Rating: 3.94
77 votes
188
DJ Muggs Vs GZA
Grandmasters

Rating: 3.93
46 votes
189
Look What I Did
Minuteman For The Moment

Rating: 3.93
46 votes
190
Fightstar
They Liked You Better When You Were Dead

Rating: 3.93
112 votes
191
Thee Silver Mount Zion
Horses in the Sky

Rating: 3.93
134 votes
192
Necrophobic
Hrimthursum

Rating: 3.93
37 votes
193
The Jonbenet
The Plot Thickens

Rating: 3.93
95 votes
194
October Falls
Marras

Rating: 3.93
50 votes
195
Dead Meadow
Feathers

Rating: 3.93
71 votes
196
Lucero
Nobody's Darlings

Rating: 3.93
21 votes
197
Five Minute Ride
The World Needs Convincing of All That It’s Missin

Rating: 3.93
21 votes
198
Gatsbys American Dream
Volcano

Rating: 3.93
186 votes
199
The New Pornographers
Twin Cinema

Rating: 3.93
201 votes
200
Common
Be

Rating: 3.93
415 votes



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