Disclosure: I saw this list on rateyourmusic's forum, so I can't attest to its validity, but this is what was posted:
1. Kanye West - Late Regristration
2. MIA - Arular
3. Franz Ferdinand - YCHISMB
4. Gorillaz - Demon Days
5. LCD Soundsystem - s/t
6. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
7. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
8. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
9. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
10. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
11. Beck - Guero
12. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
13. My Morning Jacket - Z
14. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
15. Slim Thug - Already Platinum
16. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
17. Common - Be
18. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
19. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
20. System Of A Down - Hypnotize
21. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake Its Morning
22. VA - Run The Road
23. The Darkness - One Way Ticket to Hell & Back
24. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
25. Dangerdoom - The Mouse & The Mask
26. Dungen - Ta Det Lungt
27. Damian Marley - Welcome To Jamrock
28. Antony & The Johnsons - I am a Bird Now
29. NIN - With Teeth
30. The Decemberists - Picaresque
31. Living Things - Ahead of the Lions
32. Caps & Jones - Moving In Stereo
33. Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche & Bamako
34. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t
35. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
36. Animal Collective - Feels
37. Young Jeezy - Lets Get It
38. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock n Roll
39. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
40. Against Me! - Searching for a former Clarity
The Bloc Party and Franz were pretty average if you ask me. Nobody liked the new Sigur Ros. This was like the only album they put out that I actually liked. Go figure!
Well, in fairness, The Go! Team album wasn't released in the U.S. until this year, so at least it has some legitimate claim to be on a 2005 list in an American magazine. Not like 2002, when SPIN named WHITE BLOOD CELLS album of the year even though it clearly came out in 2001.
I remember them putting White Stripes at around #38 or something ridiculiously low like that and they used they reissue of that album to their advantage and placed it at #1. Fools!!!!!!!