Here we go, we'll star with the best music of the year:

TOP 10 BEST ALBUMS OF 2005

1. The Decemberists – Picaresque

2. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois

3. Idlewild – Warnings/Promises

4. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, Its Morning

5. Eels – Blinking Lights and Other Revelations

6. Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy

7. Ben Folds – Songs for Silverman

8. Josh Rouse – Nashville

9. Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have It So Much Better

10. Son Volt – Okemah and the Melody of Riot

BEST OF THE REST (listed alphabetically)

Ryan Adams – Cold Roses / Beck – Guero / Brendan Benson – The Alternative to Love / Bright Eyes – Digital Ash in the Digital Urn / Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah – self-titled / Coldplay – X&Y / Eisley – Room Noises / Fruit Bats – Spelled in Bones / Great Lake Swimmers – self-titled / Great Lake Swimmers – Bodies and Minds / Ed Harcourt – Strangers / Headphones – self-titled / Jars of Clay – Redemption Songs / Damien Jurado – On My Way to Absence / Kaiser Chiefs – Employeement / Magnolia Electric Company – What Comes After the Blues / Matt Pond PA – Several Arrows Later / The Novaks – self-titled / Of Montreal – The Sunlandic Twins / Oranger – New Comes and Goes / The Perishers – Let There Be Morning / The Pernice Brothers – Discover a Lovelier You / The White Stripes – Get Behind Me, Satan