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Spin Top 40 Albums of 2005

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

Re: Spin Top 40 Albums of 2005

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!

Re: Spin Top 40 Albums of 2005

Bit of an odd list, I agree the Franz album is nothing special.

Re: Spin Top 40 Albums of 2005

I see The Go! Team album is in there...

Don't you just love it when lists include albums that where released the previous year and are only just getting popular attention?

Re: Spin Top 40 Albums of 2005

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.

Re: Spin Top 40 Albums of 2005

Has anyone seen the magazine?

Re: Spin Top 40 Albums of 2005

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!!!!!!!

Re: Spin Top 40 Albums of 2005

Henrik, Metacritic has the top ten on this list on its 2005 page as SPIN's top ten, so I assume this is their top 40 as it appears in the magazine.