Favorite music - the 2005 edition

As we approach the end of yet another year, it's time for me to pull together a list of my favorite music. 2005 wasn't a bad year, even for mainstream music. Here are my picks from 2005.

1. "Warnings/Promises" - Idlewild
2. "Birds Make Good Neighbors" - the Rosebuds
3. "The Magic Numbers" - the Magic Numbers
4. "Lovekraft" - Super Furry Animals
5. "Paper Tigers" - Caesars
6. "Employment" - Kaiser Chiefs
7. "Spelled in Bones" - Fruitbats
8. "Illinois" - Sufjan Stevens
9. "The Best Little Secrets Are Kept" - Louis XIV
10. "The Alternative to Love" - Brendan Benson
11. "Urgency" - the Pale Pacific
12. "Psychology" - Discover America
13. "Guero" - Beck
14. "Blinking Lights and Other Revelations" - Eels
15. "Why Should the Fire Die" - Nickel Creek
16. "You Could Have It So Much Better" - Franz Ferdinand
17. "Haughty Melodic" - Mike Doughty
18. "Gimme Fiction" - Spoon
19. "Aha Shake Heartbreaker" - Kings of Leon
20. "Get Behind Me, Satan" - the White Stripes
21. "Silent Alarm" - Bloc Party
22. "Oh No" - OK Go
23. "Out of Exile" - Audioslave
24. "Back to Me" - Kathleen Edwards
25. "Gone Ain't Gone" - Tim Fite
26. "The Bravery" - the Bravery
27. "Elevator" - Hot Hot Heat
28. "Stars of CCTV" - Hard Fi
29. "Howl Howl, Gaff Gaff" - Shout Out Louds
30. "Open Season" - British Sea Power

Best reissues: the Eurythmics back catalog with bonus cuts
Absolutely worst "song": "My Humps" by the Black Eyed Peas