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The Best of the Rest

The titles that rocked our world in 2005.

By Philadelphia Weekly Editorial Staff

Add Comment | Comments: 0 | Posted Dec. 28, 2005

4) My Morning Jacket Z (ATO/RCA)

5) Bruce Springsteen Devils & Dust (Sony)

6) Marah If You Didn't Laugh ... You'd Cry (Yep Roc)

7) Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Saddle Creek)

8) Laura Veirs Year of Meteors (Nonesuch)

9) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)

10) Neil Young Prairie Wind (Reprise)

Brian McManus

1) R. Kelly TP. 3 Reloaded (Jive)

2) C-Rayz Walz Year of the Beast (Definitive Jux)

3) M83 Before the Dawn Heals Us (Mute)

4) Various Artists Dreddy Krueger Presents ... Think Differently Music: Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture (Babygrande)

5) Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain (Load)

The older I get, the more I realize I should've stayed in nursing school. Thank you, music, for underwhelming me. Even your brightest artists are a bad Pet Sounds rehash. Most of this stuff would fit cozily on adult contemporary playlists so wretched, my mom is like, "Wow, music is making headway!"

Craig D. Lindsey

1) Platinum Pied Pipers Triple P (Ubiquity)

2) J. Rawls The Essence of Soul Vol. 1 (P-Vine)

3) Dwele Some Kinda ... (Virgin)