Observer - Albums of the year 2005

1	Antony & the Johnsons	I am a bird now	2005
2	Gorillaz	Demon days	2005
3	Sufjan Stevens	Illinoise	2005
4	Ry Cooder	Chávez Ravine	2005
5	White stripes	Get behind me Satan	2005
6	Franz Ferdinand	You could have it so much better	2005
7	Kanye West	Late registration	2005
8	Rufus Wainwright	Want two	2004
9	Camille	Le fil	2005
10	Arcade fire	Funeral	2004
11	Amadou et Mariam	Dimanche à Bamako	2004
12	Polar bear	Held on the tip of fingers	2005
13	Roots Manuva	Awfully deep	2005
14	LCD soundsystem	LCD soundsystem	2004
15	Bruce Springsteen	Devils & dust	2005
16	Oasis	Don't believe the truth	2005
17	Paul McCartney	Chaos and creation in the backyard	2005
18	Coldplay	X&Y	2005
19	Roll deep	In at the deep end	2005
20	System of a Down	Hypnotize	2005
21	Game	The documentary	2004
22	Devendra Banhart	Cripple crow	2005
23	Sugababes	Taller in more ways	2005
24	Manu Katché	Neighbourhood	2006
25	Common	Be	2005
26	Madonna	Confessions on a dancefloor	2005
27	Kate Bush	Aerial	2005
28	Daby Balde	Introducing	2005
29	Damian Marley	Welcome to jamrock	2005
30	Richard Hawley	Coles corner	2005
31	Arild Andersen group	Electra	2005
32	Goldfrapp	Supernature	2005
33	David Gray	Life in slow motion	2005
34	Konono no. 1	Congotronics	2005
35	Girls aloud	Chemistry	2005
36	Ariel Pink	Haunted graffiti 5 : House arrest	2005
37	Robbie Williams	Intensive care	2005
38	Babyshambles	Down in Albion	2005
39	Andreas Scholl	Arias for Senesino	2005
40	Robert Plant	Mighty rearranger	2005
41	Ali Farka Touré & Toussaint Diabaté	In the heart of the moon	2005
42	Four Tet	Everything ecstatic	2005
43	Dangerdoom	The mouse and the mask	2005
44	Malcolm Middleton	Into the woods	2005
45	Magic numbers	The Magic numbers	2005
46	Bright eyes	I'm wide awake it's morning	2005
47	Turbonegro	Party animals	2005
48	Madeleine Peyroux	Dreamland	1997
49	Chemical brothers	Push the button	2004
50	Saint Etienne	Tales from Turnpike house	2005
51	Kronos quartet and Asha Bhosle	You've stolen my heart	2005
52	Sigur Rós	Takk ...	2005
53	Vitalic	OK cowboy	2005
54	Animal collective	Feels	2005
55	Bloc party	Silent alarm	2005
56	John Legend	Get lifted	2004
57	Smog	A river ain't too much in love	2005
58	Solveig Slettahjell	Pixiedust	2005
59	Beck	Guero	2005
60	Pat Metheny	The way up	2004
61	Les Georges Leningrad	Sur les traces	2005
62	Kaiser chiefs	Employment	2005
63	Tom Russell	Hotwalker	2005
64	Jack Johnson	In between dreams	2005
65	Salif Keita	M'Bemba	2005
66	Rachel Stevens	Come and get it	2005
67	Whitey	The light at the end	2005
68	Joe Zawinul	Vienna nights	2005
69	Elbow	Leaders of the free world	2005
70	Queens of the Stone age	Lullabies to paralyze	2005
71	Seu Jorge	Cru	2005
72	Ryan Adams & the Cardinals	Jacksonville city nights	2005
73	Martha Wainwright	Martha Wainwright	2005
74	Editors	The back room	2005
75	My morning jacket	Z	2005
76	King Creosote	KC rules OK/Chorlton and the Wh'earlies	2005
77	Darkness	One way ticket to hell ... and back	2005
78	50 Cent	The massacre	2005
79	Tatu	Dangerous and moving	2005
80	Paolo Conte	Elegia	2005
81	Orishas	El kilo	2005
82	Brian Eno	Another day on Earth	2005
83	Alasdair Roberts	No Earthly man	2005
84	Richard Thompson	Front parlour ballads	2005
85	Acoustic ladyland	Last chance disco	2005
86	Charlotte Church	Tissues and issues	2005
87	Vashti Bunyan	Lookaftering	2005
88	Neil Young	Prairie wind	2005
89	Wayne Shorter band	Beyond the sound barrier	2005
90	Goldie lookin chain	Safe as fuck	2005
91	CocoRosie	Noah's ark	2005
92	KT Tunstall	Eye to the telescope	2005
93	Missy Elliott	The cookbook	2005
94	Lightning bolt	Hypermagic mountain	2005
95	Echo & the Bunnymen	Siberia	2005
96	Hard-fi	Stars of CCTV	2005
97	Circulus	A lick on the tip of an envelope yet to be sent	2005
98	M.I.A.	Arular	2005
99	British sea power	Open season	2005
100	Rolling stones	A bigger bang	2005