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Transcribed from the hard copy - what a pain in the ass they are to not broadcast this digitally. Anyway, some great stuff. I'd have to say 2005 was a VERY exciting year in music.

1 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2 Arcade Fire - Funeral
3 Franz Ferdinand - You Can Have It So Much Better
4 Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
5 Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
6 The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
7 Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
8 Kanye West - Late Registration
9 Babyshambles - Down In Albion
10 Gorillaz - Demon Days
11 The Cribs - The New Fellas
12 Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
13 The Rakes - Capture/Release
14 Dungen - Ta Det Lungt
15 Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
16 British Sea Power - Open Season
17 The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
18 Art Brut - Bang, Bang Rock 'n' Roll
19 Coldplay - X&Y
20 Editors - The Back Room
21 LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
22 Raveonettes - Pretty In Black
23 Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV
24 Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth
25 MIA - Arular
26 Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
27 Kate Bush - Aerial
28 Absentee - Donkey Stock
29 Madonna - Confessions on A Dance Floor
30 Doves - Some Cities
31 Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
32 Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
33 We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor
34 Rufus Wainwright - Want Two
35 Elbow - Leaders Of The Free World
36 The Bravery - The Bravery
37 Circulus - Lick On The Tip Of An Envelope
38 Autolux - Future Perfect
39 Vitalic - OK Cowboy
40 The Brakes - The Brakes
41 Nine Black Alps - Everything Is
42 Sigur Ros - Takk
43 The Engineers- The Engineers
44 Field Music - Field Music
45 Shout Out Louds- Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
46 The Duke Spirit- Cuts Across The Land
47 Sleater-Kinney- The Woods
48 Ladytron - The Witching Hour
49 Dead Meadow - Feathers
50 Test Icicles - For Screening Purposes Only

Is this in order of "goodness"?
And they left out the best album of the year, IMHO, St Etienne, Tales From Turnpike House (to be released in the USA Jan 2006).

NME has gone digital my friend. You can also get a couple of issues for free digitally just to test it out. I've tried it and it's very nice although I think I still want the actual paper so i can read in the train.

Martin

Here's the OMM Top 100 albums of 2005. Not a very good list IMHO, but there's little blirbs about each one that might make it informative for anyone looking for some fresh fruit amonst rotten apples:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/stor ... 18,00.html

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>Here's the OMM Top 100 albums of 2005. Not a very good list IMHO, but there's little blirbs about each one that might make it informative for anyone looking for some fresh fruit amonst rotten apples:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/stor ... 18,00.html
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e.g.

#50 St Etienne-Tales From Turnpike House
#32 Goldfrapp-Supernature