2005 Village Voice Jazz & Pop critic's poll

“The poll combines ballots from 795 critics, who divided 100 points among 10 2005 albums. (Every individual ballot is available online.) Maximum per album: 30. Minimum: 5. Points determined placement, with total mentions (included in parentheses) used for tiebreaking.”

1 West, Kanye Late Registration
2 M.I.A. Arular
3 Stevens, Sufjan Illinois
4 Sleater-Kinney The Woods
5 Apple, Fiona Extraordinary Machine
6 White Stripes, The Get Behind Me Satan
7 Antony and the Johnsons I Am a Bird Now
8 Hold Steady, The Separation Sunday
9 New Pornographers, The Twin Cinema
10 My Morning Jacket Z
11 LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem
12 Monk Quartet, Thelonious with Coltrane, John Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
13 Amadou & Mariam Dimanche a Bamako
14 Spoon Gimme Fiction
15 Common Be
16 Bright Eyes I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
17 Beck Guero
18 Bloc Party Silent Alarm
19 Go! Team, The Thunder, Lightning, Strike
20 LaVette, Bettye I’ve Got My Own Hell to Raise