2005Rateyourmusic Charts:
Songs:
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/single/2005/Albums:
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2005/Billboard:
Singles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2005Albums:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_200_number-one_albums_of_20052005 was a fantastic year for music, especially for Modern Progressive Art Rock. Several bands/artists released albums that were very ambitious, at times Concept albums. But with those, many of them included a plethora of songs that I highly enjoy and love going back to.
That is why 2005 not only is 1 of my favorite years in the 2000's for music, but overall. I find it includes many releases that I enjoy most in the artist's catalog.
This is a list of my favorite songs, splitting hairs/vaguely ranked. Although having spent a good portion of time over the last 2 weeks thinking about it, revisiting many of these, it's something I keep adding new tracks to
the 2005 Songs of the Year Playlist on Spotify, that's it's more of a WORK IN PROGRESS, rather than fully definitive of course,
And many of these songs give me a ton of NOSTALGIA; per I sometimes feel like I'm back in 2005, or just long to when hearing them.
1 Coheed and Cambria - The Willing Well
2 Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
3 Mew - The Zookeeper's Boy
4 The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini
5 Oceansize - Ornament/The Last Wrongs
6 The Mars Volta - Cygnus...Vismud Cygnus
7 Shadow Gallery - Floydian Memories
8 Imogen Heap - The Moment I Said It
9 Neverending White Lights - Our Final Hymn
10 Dream Theater - Octavarium
11 The Receiving End of Sirens - This Armistice
12 Neverending White Lights - The Grace
13 Oceansize - The Charm Offensive
14 Between the Buried and Me - Selkies
15 Mew - Apocalypso
16 Opeth - The Grand Conjuration
15 Karnivool - C.O.T.E.
16 Pure Reason Revolution - Arrival/The Intention Craft
17 Subterranean Masquerade - Six Strings to Cover Fear
18 dredg - Hungover on a Tuesday
19 The Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez
20 dredg - Bug Eyes
21 Karnivool - Themata
22 Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home
23 Oceansize - Heaven Alive
24 Porcupine Tree - Lazarus
25 Klimt 1918 - They Were Wed By the Sea
26 sElf - Summersound
27 dredg - Jamais Vu
28 Bend Sinister - Truth or Truth
29 dredg - Uplifting News
30 Porcupine Tree - The Start of Something Beautiful
31 dredg - Ode to the Sun
32 Time of Orchids - All We Ever Wish
33 System of a Down - Old School Hollywood
34 Mew - Louise Louisa
35 Kaddisfly - Horses Galloping on Sail Boats
36 Klimt 1918 - Lomo
37 Paulson - I Knew You When
38 Imogen Heap - Headlock
39 Mew - Why Are You Looking Grave?
40 Oceansize - Music for a Nurse
40 Porcupine Tree - Mellotron Scratch
41 Coheed and Cambria - Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial)
42 The Receiving End of Sirens - Venona
43 dredg - Sang Real
44 The Receiving End of Sirens - Epilogue
45 dredg - Not That Simple
46 Between the Buried and Me - Backwards Marathon
47 Bend Sinister - Hell or Shelter
48 Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
49 Bend Sinister - Through the Broken City
50 Pure Reason Revolution - The Bright Ambassadors of Morning
51 Greg Herriges - Thirteen/It Plays Me
52 Shaman - Reason
53 Time of Orchids - Swarm of Hope
54 God is an Astronaut - When Everything Dies
55 Sufjan Stevens - They Are Night Zombies!!
56 The New Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish Techno
57 Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up: Opening & Part One
58 The Receiving End of Sirens - The Evidence
59 Margot & the Nuclear So & So's - Skeleton Key
60 Porcupine Tree - Halo
61 Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Feel the Illinoise!
62 Imogen Heap - Clear the Area
63 Mew - Saviours of Jazz Ballet
64 Josh Rouse - Winter in the Hamptons
65 God is an Astronaut - All Is Violent, All Is Bright
66 The Decemberists - The Infanta
67 Opeth - The Ghost of Perdition
68 The Receiving End of Sirens - Planning a Prison Break
69 Kaddisfly - Osmosic in C
70 Oceansize - You Can't Keep a Bad Man Down
71 Gojira - Flying Whales
72 Klimt 1918 - Snow of '85
73 Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
74 Opeth - The Baying of the Hounds
75 The Decemberists - The Mariner's Revenge Song
76 Vedera - The Falling Kind
77 King's X - Fly
78 Coheed and Cambria - Mother May I
79 Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko
80 Oceansize - A Homage to a Shame
81 Porcupine Tree - Open Car
82 Shadow Gallery - Rain
83 Kaddisfly - Crimson Solitude
84 dredg - Catch Without Arms
85 Bloc Party - Helicopter
86 Mew - Chinaberry Tree
87 The Receiving End of Sirens - The Rival Cycle
88 Mew - Special
89 Shadow Gallery - The Andromeda Strain
90 Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
91 Dream Theater - These Walls
92 The Ebb & Flow - Sonorous
93 Subterranean Masquerade - Awake
94 Imogen Heap - Goodnight and Go
95 Bend Sinister - Tough Love
96 Oceansize - New Pin
97 Bloc Party - Banquet
98 Imogen Heap - Have You Got It In You?
99 Sufjan Stevens - The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders
100 Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
101 King's X - Freedom
102 Matisyahu - King Without a Crown
103 dredg - Zebraskin
104 Facing New York - Styrofoam Walls
105 King's X - Honesty
106 Carpark North - Human
107 System of a Down - Question!
108 Oceansize - Meredith
109 sElf - Now
110 Burst - Flight's End
111 People for Audio - To New Beginnings
112 Coheed and Cambria - The Suffering
113 dredg - The Tanbark is Hot Lava
114 The Pineapple Thief - The World I Always Dreamed Of
115 The Decemberists - The Sporting Life
116 The Receiving End of Sirens - ...Then I Defy You, Stars
117 Nicole Atkins - Neptune City
118 Burst - Sever
119 System of a Down - B.Y.O.B.
120 Cloud Cult - Transistor Radio
121 Kiss Kiss - Says My Doctor
122 Editors - Blood
123 Margot & the Nuclear So & So's - A Sea Chanty
124 Gospel - Congratulations...You've Hit Rock Bottom!
125 Imogen Heap - The Walk
126 Neverending White Lights - This Longing
127 King's X - Alone
128 The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
129 Shaman - More
130 Josh Rouse - Street Lights
131 Sufjan Stevens - Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
132 Kiss Kiss - College Film
133 Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
134 Ivy - Thinking About You
135 Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
136 Depeche Mode - Precious
137 Margot & the Nuclear So & So's - Paper Kitten Nightmare
138 Subterranean Masquerade - No Place Like Home
139 The New Pornographers - The Bleeding Heart Show
140 Dark Tranquillity - Lost to Apathy
141 People For Audio - And This Will Be Our Homecoming
142 King's X - Mud
143 The Decemberists - The Engine Driver
144 World Leader Pretend - Bang Theory
145 Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country
146 Dream Theater - Panic Attack
147 Wolf Parade - Shine a Light
148 Sigur Ros - Hoppípolla
149 Paulson - Calling on You
150 Dark Tranquiillity - The New Build
151 Presto Ballet - Peace Among the Ruins
152 Greg Herriges - Stella
153 Kaddisfly - Calm of Calamity
154 Kaddisfly - New Moon Over Swift Water
155 Imogen Heap - Loose Ends
156 sElf - Brooklyn
157 Editors - Munich
158 Doves - Black & White Town
159 Debashish Bhattacharya - Nata Raaj
160 Kaura - The Falling