Top Albums of 2005

Here is the 2005 list, the last yearly list I will do, as I'll rock longer time periods from here on back...

1. Wolf Parade – Apologies To The Queen Mary
2. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – s/t
3. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
4. The National – Alligator
5. Black Mountain – s/t
6. Silver Jews – Tanglewood Numbers
7. Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise
8. Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy
9. Busdriver – Fear Of A Black Tangent
10. Nacao Zumbi – Futura
11. Wolfmother – s/t
12. Editors – The Back Room
13. Death Cab For Cutie – Plans
14. Demon Hunter – The Triptych
15. Common – Be
16. Luke Doucet – Broken & Other Rogue States
17. Dropkick Murphys – The Warrior’s Code
18. Elliott Brood – Ambassador
19. Mae – The Everglow
20. My Morning Jacket – Z
21. Spoon – Gimmie Fiction
22. The Mountain Goats – The Sunset Tree
23. The Clientele – Strange Geometry
24. The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
25. Deerhoof – The Runners Four
26. Art Brut – Bang Bang Rock & Roll
27. LCD Soundsystem – s/t
28. Vitalic – OK Cowboy
29. The Decemberists – Picaresque
30. Jack Johnson – In Between Dreams

Top Albums of 2006

I haven't had any time lately (and probably shouldn't be doing this now, but hey I need a break ;D) to make any more lists, but here are my favourite albums of 2006, a fairly weak year I thought, 2005 & 2007 are both much better, this is my top 40.

1. Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
2. CunninLynguists - A Piece Of Strange
3. Tapes n' Tapes - The Loon
4. The Twilight Singers - Powder Burns
5. Chad VanGaalen - Skelliconnection
6. The Living End - State Of Emergency
7. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
8. Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage
9. Devastations - Coal
10. Sparta - Threes
11. Embrace - This New Day
12. MSTRKRFT - The Looks
13. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
14. Robert Pollard - From A Compound Eye

15. (+44) - When Your Heart Stops Beating

16. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liqour
17. Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things
18. M. Ward - Post-War
19. The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
20. The Church - Uninvited, Like The Clouds
21. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
22. Mute Math - s/t
23. The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
24. Grandaddy - Just Like The Fambly Cat
25. Barenaked Ladies - ...Are Me
26. Idle Sons - Sixteen Seasons
27. Sam Roberts - Chemical City
28. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
29. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
30. Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther
31. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
32. Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails, Red Wine
33. Evermore - Real Life
34. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
35. The Futureheads - News & Tributes
36. Annuals - Be He Me
37. Neil Young - Prairie Wind
38. All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals
39. The Panda Band - This Vital Chapter
40. Liars - Drums Not Dead

Top Albums of 2007

Here is a list of my favourite albums of the past year, I did a top 30, because after that all the other albums I heard were pretty much average, feel free to recommend any albums you have heard that you think I should check out and consider...

1. The National – Boxer
2. Menomena – Friend And Foe
3. Handsome Furs – Plague Park
4. Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha
5. Explosions In The Sky – All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
6. Radiohead – In Rainbows
7. Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City
8. Santa Dads – Anima Mundi
9. Busdriver – Roadkillovercoat
10. Defiance, Ohio – The Great Depression
11. Blitzen Trapper – Wild Mountain Nation
12. The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
13. Burial – Untrue
14. A Place To Bury Strangers – s/t
15. Future Of The Left – Curses
16. Cloud Cult - The Meaning of 8
17. John Butler Trio – Grand National
18. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Baby 81
19. The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
20. Megadeth – United Abominations
21. The One AM Radio – This Too Will Pass
22. Interpol – Our Love To Admire
23. Les Savy Fav – Lets Stay Friends
24. Iron & Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog
25. Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
26. Okkervil River – The Stage Names
27. Patrick Wolf – The Magic Position
28. The Earlies – The Enemy Chorus
29. The Besnard Lakes - …Are The Dark Horse
30. Wilco – Sky Blue Sky