Rolling Stone lists its top 50 records of 2005. Here’s their top 10:
1. Kanye West, Late Registration
2. The Rolling Stones, A Bigger Bang
3. White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan
4. Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine
5. Bruce Springsteen, Devils and Dust
6. My Morning Jacket, Z
7. Beck, Guero
8. Bright Eyes, I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
9. Sufjan Stevens, Illinois
10. 50 Cent, The Massacre
I’m with them on Guero. And the Sufjan Stevens CD is out there, but it is amazing.
But I don’t get the hoo-ha over My Morning Jacket. I tried really hard to dig them, I just can’t. I think they’re really average. Same with Bright Eyes.