10 albums I listened to quite often (released in 2005 and in no particular order)

1. Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
2. Derek Bailey - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
3. Marc Ribot - Spiritual Unity
4. Susumu Yokota & Rothko: Distant Sounds of Summer
5. Bill Frisell - Richter 858
6. Fionna Apple - Extraordinary Machine
7. Chad VanGaalen - Infiniheart
8. Fourtet - Everything is Ecstatic
9. M.I.A. - Arular
10. The Books - Lost and Safe

10 important music people who died in 2005, that will be missed hardcore

1. Derek Bailey
2. Chris Whitley
3. Long John Baldry
4. Vassar Clements
5. Bob Moog
6. Hunter S. Thompson
7. Link Wray
8. Jimmy Smith
9. Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
10. R.L. Burnside