All I Want For Christmas Is... The Best Albums of 2005
by Little Saint Nick | 00.00.0000

So it's that time of year again, busting out the mistletoe, dreaming of the newest edition iPOD, and taking just a moment to reflect on all the music that was in the year gone by.

We hear a lot of it. We wax lyrical, we indulge in lengthy discourse and discussion on a daily basis about the merits of this and the disappointments of that. And come December the challenge arises for us to step up to the plate and narrow it down to the best of the bunch. Our "top ten favorite albums of 2005".

Of course, we're really thorough in our retrospection (not to mention really busy duking it out between each other as to which album is going on to who's list and who discovered it first!) so we're starting off this month-long onslaught of Top 10 lists with those of our favorite artists.

We'll add 2-3 new lists each day so be sure to check back.

And, well... we're not one to pat ourselves on the back, but frankly this year we deserve a deep tissue massage. Check out Filter's very own Top 10 of 2005 right here.

Day One:
Jason Lytle/Grandaddy
Shirley Manson/Garbage
Ricky Wilson/Kaiser Chiefs

Day Two:
Guillermo Scott Herren/Prefuse 73
Darren Seltmann/Avalanches

Day Three:
Yoni Wolf/WHY?
Blake Sennet/Rilo Kiley

Day Four:
The Crystal Method
Nick Harmer/Death Cab For Cutie

Day Five:
Adam Olenius/Shout Out Louds
Dave Doughman/Swearing At Motorists

Day Six:
Blake Miller/The Moving Units
Leslie Feist/Feist, Broken Social Scene

Day Seven:
Christopher Fudurich/Producer (Nada Surf, Ozma)
Alexandre Ortiz/We Are Wolves

Day Eight:
Roddy Woomble/Idlewild
The Go! Team

Day Nine:
Beck Hansen
Adam "Doseone" Drucker/cLOUDDEAD, Subtle

Day Ten:
Clearlake
Finn Cohen/The Nein

Day Eleven:
The Like
Odd Nosdam/cLOUDDEAD

Day Twelve:
Shock G/Digital Underground
Josh Ritter
Butch Vig/Garbage

Day Thirteen:
Tegan & Sara
Tim Burgess/Charlatans

Day Fourteen:
Filter Staff Picks
Stephen Pedersen/Criteria
Andrew Broder/Fog

Day Fifteen:
Jason Reece/...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
David Pajo/Slint, Tortoise, etc

Day Sixteen:
Gilles Peterson/BBC Radio 1
Annie Hardy/Giant Drag
Matt Tong/Bloc Party

Day Seventeen:
James McNew/Yo La Tengo
Markus Acher/Notwist

Day Eighteen:
James Murphy/LCD Soundsystem
Supergrass
Bonnie "Prince" BIlly

Day Nineteen:
Bob Mould
Elbow

Day Twenty:
Melissa Auf Der Mar
The Redwalls

Day Twenty One:
DJ Annie
James F!@$%^ Friedman

Day Twenty Two:
Britt Daniels/Spoon

Day Twenty Three:
Nate Mendel/Foo Fighters
My Morning Jacket
Liz Phair

Day Twenty Four:
Ben Gibbard/Death Cab For Cutie
Yan & Noble/British Sea Power
Phil Elverum/Mt. Eerie
The Gorillaz