The Best Albums of 2005
This page last updated on December 15, 2005.
The Top Albums of 2005
1) Neil Young - Prairie Wind
2) The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
3) Cowboy Junkies - Early 21st Century Blues
4) Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
5) Beck - Guero
6) Robert Plant - Mighty Rearranger
7) Van Morrison - Magic Time
8) John Doe - Forever Hasn't Happened Yet
9) Rodney Crowell - The Outsider
10) Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses
Significant Box Sets, Reissues, Live Albums, and other Specialty Packages
1) Grateful Dead - Fillmore West 1969
2) Miles Davis - The Cellar Door Sessions 1970
3) Bob Dylan - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7
4) Grateful Dead - The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack
5) Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks, Volume 34
6) Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks, Volume 36
7) Grateful Dead - Truckin' Up to Buffalo
8) Janis Joplin - Pearl: Legacy Edition
9) Donovan - Try for the Sun: The Journey of Donovan
10) Peter Gabriel - Play: The Videos
Notable Enhanced Audio Releases
With the advent of DVD-Audio, SACD, and DualDisc technology, music
making — both past and present — has taken on a whole new dimension.
Classic efforts are being re-mixed and newer outings are being recorded
from an entirely different perspective. These are some of the most notable
reissues and releases of 2005.
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty [DVD-Audio]
R.E.M. - Green [DVD-Audio]
R.E.M. - Out of Time [DVD-Audio]
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi [DVD-Audio]
Nina Simone - The Soul of Nina Simone [DualDisc]
Bill Withers - Just As I Am [DualDisc]
The Best of the Rest
These releases may not be the cream of the crop for 2005, but each
is remarkable in its own right — be they intriguing debuts,
welcome returns, fond farewells, brilliant tributes, stunning leaps
forward, or just good efforts from consistently creative artists.
The Blue Van - The Art of Rolling
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Solomon Burke - Make Do with What You Got
Ray Charles - The Dick Cavett Show: Ray Charles Collection
Johnny Cash - The Complete Sun Recordings: 1955-1958
Johnny Cash - The Legend of Johnny Cash
Chicago - Chicago IV: At Carnegie Hall, Volumes I, II, III, and IV
Eric Clapton - Back Home
Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight: Legacy Edition
Del McCoury Band - The Company We Keep
Dexter Gordon Quartet - Manhattan Symphonie
Francis Dunnery - The Gulley Flats Boys
Eagles - Farewell I Tour: Live from Melbourne
Jerry Garcia - Garcia Plays Dylan
Jerry Garcia - The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 1: Legion of Mary
Eliza Gilkyson - Paradise Hotel
Jose Gonzalez - Veneer
Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks. Volume 35
David Gray - Life in Slow Motion
Chris Hillman - The Other Side
Jerry Garcia Band - Pure Jerry, Volume 5: Merriweather Post Pavilion, September 1-2, 1989
Jerry Garcia Band - Pure Jerry, Volume 6: Warner Theatre - March 18, 1978
Jerry Garcia Band - Live at Shoreline
Robert Earl Keen - What I Really Mean
Amos Lee - Amos Lee
Phil Lesh - Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead
The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible: 10th Anniversary Edition
James McMurtry - Childish Things
Morrissey - Live at Earls Court
My Morning Jacket - Z
Nickel Creek - Why Should the Fire Die?
Brad Paisley - Time Well Wasted
Graham Parker - Songs of No Consequence
Phish - New Year's Eve 1995: Live at Madison Square Garden
John Prine - Fair & Square
Public Enemy - Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits
Bonnie Raitt - Souls Alike
Jon Randall - Walking among the Living
The Robert Cray Band - Twenty
Marty Stuart - Souls' Chapel
Alexis P. Suter - Shuga Fix
Otis Taylor - Below the Fold
Various Artists - For a Decade of Sin: 11 Years of Bloodshot Records
Various Artists - I Believe to My Soul
Various Artists - Jamie Oldaker's Mad Dogs & Okies
Various Artists - The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons
Waco Brothers - Freedom and Weep
The Wallflowers - Rebel, Sweetheart
The Who - Tommy and Quadrophenia Live with Special Guests
Dar Williams - My Better Self
Brian Wilson - Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE [DVD]
Winterpills - Winterpills
Adrienne Young & Little Sadie - The Art of Virtue
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