Issue came out in Feb. was "late":

1. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
2. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
3. My Morning Jacket – Z
4. Kanye West – Late Registration
5. Clap your Hands Say Yeah – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
6. Mugison – Mugimama! Is This Monkey
7. Andrew Bird – The Mysterious Production of Eggs
8. Sigur Ros – Takk
9. Eisley – Room Noises
10. Beck – Guero
11. Spoon – Gimme Fiction
12. Modern Skirts – Catalogue of Gernerous Men
13. Apollo Sunshine – Apollo Sunshine
14. Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
15. Danger Doom – The Mouse and the Mask
16. M. Ward – Transistor Radio
17. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals – Jacksonville City Nights
18. Low – The Great Destroyer
19. Common – Be
20. Aimee Mann – The Forgotten Arm
21. Amos Lee – Amos Lee
22. Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine
23. Dungen – Ta Det Lungt
24. Annie – Anniemal
25. Copeland – In Motion
26. Antony and the Johnsons – I Am a Bird
27. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
28. Neil young –Prairie Wind
29. John Legend – Get Lifted
30. Kathleen Edwards – Back to Me
31. Brandi Carlile – Brandi Carlile
32. Amadou and Mariam – Dimanche
33. The Go! Team – Thunder
34. The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
35. Husky Rescue – Country Falls
36. Emiliana Torrini – Fisherman’s Woman
37. Collin Herring – The Other Side of Kindness
38. Nickel Creek – Why Should the Fire Die?
39. Over the Rhine – Drunkard’s Prayer
40. Coldplay – X&Y
41. The Decemberists – Picaresque
42. Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary
43. Mary Gauthier – Mercy Now
44. Caitlin Cary and Thad Cockrell – Begonia
45. Page France – Hello, Dear Wind
46. Son Volt – Okemah and Melody of Riot
47. Aqualung – Strange and Beautiful
48. Van Morrison – Magic Time
49. Ed Harcourt – Strangers
50. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – Naturally

Hmmm... there's something depressing about this list.

yeah its boring like most the others

This is so last year.

i just subscribed to it, not a good sign.

pop sensibility.

Kanye West is such shit. Why is everyone obligated to put him on their list?

I hate the 'expected' s's's's.. those few albums that you MUST have on your list to give it the cred. crud. It's dumb. Kills me.

My guess is they only heard 50 albums last year.

I like Paste magazine. But not a suprising list at all.

Funny.

[quote="shiv"][quote="barneyhazelwood"]Issue came out in Feb. was "late":

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i just subscribed to it, not a good sign.[/quote]

Sorry if I misled you. It was a Feb/ March issue, with the previous issue, Dec/Jan, naturally coming out too early to list the best of 2005. All the issues I have received have been early or right on time (so far), MUCH better than CMJ had been.

I stopped reading at #1.

i don't know if it's wise to give a man a beer at 11:30am who has been out all night drinking.

2005 rip

oh good. hope i get mine soon.