Top 5 CDs of 2005
1. Get Behind Me Satan, The White Stripes. Jack and Meg are the best, hands down! Michelle doesn't like them, but I like them enough for the two of us! Choice cut: Red Rain
2. Mesmerize/Hypnotize, System of a Down. SoaD's frenetic nonsense invective is the musical equivalent of one of those wild-eyed speed freaks that you meet downtown who constantly mumble and mutter and occasionally yell their delusional paranoid theories to whoever is in the vicinity. And not the harmless kind, either. Michelle likes them! Choice cut: Holy Mountains.
3. Guero, Beck. Beck at his best! He starts it all with a Beasties beat on E-Pro and ends it with some kind of Swedish yodelling girl, and in between nothing but great tunes. Choice Cut: Farewell Ride
4. Superbeautifulmonster, Bif Naked. Born in India, raised by missionaries, resides in Vancouver, but in reality the incarnation of some sort of Hindu goddess of rock and roll. Choice cut: That's Life (with me)
5. Demon Days, Gorillaz. This CD, as well as Bif and Beck, were the soundtrack to my honeymoon, as Michelle and I drove Seamus (our rented Chrysler 300) around the Maritime provinces dreaming of robots, puffins, whales and lighthouses. Choice cut: Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head

Honorable mention to KoRn's See You on the Other Side. Great album, just too new to have really wrapped itself into my 2005.