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The Best of 2005

The year was 2005. It found us talking about George W. Bush not liking black people, how the Republicans did a great job at cleaning up the White House, rampant cronyism by Bush, the end of women's reproductive rights with the shift of the Supreme Court, and saw a normal grieving mother help make a war even more unpopular. This year was trully unique and one for the history books. But what did we do to distract ourselves? We listened to music and watched movies. Below we've compiled some of our favorites in a variety of categories.

Best 10 Music Releases

Mars Volta - Frances the Mute (Read our Review)

Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites (Read our Review)

Sigur Ros - Takk... (Read our Review)

Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers (Read our Review)

Team Sleep - Team Sleep (Read our Review)

Imogen Heap — Speak For Yourself (Read our Review)

Coldplay - X & Y (Read our Review)

Warsaw Village Band - Uprooting (Read our Review)

Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (Read our Review)

Best 10 Metal/Heavy Music Releases

Funeral Diner - The Underdark (Read our Review)

Between the Buried and Me - Alaska (Read our Review)

Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin (Read our Review)

Infidel? / Castro! - Bioentropic Damage Fractal (Read our Review)

killwhitneydead - So Pretty So Plastic (Read our Review)

Asguard - Wikka (Read our Review)

The Mass - Perfect Picture of Wisdom and Boldness (Read our Review)

Blacklisted - We're Unstoppable (Read our Review)

Earth - Hex; Or Printing In the Infernal Method (Read our Review)

Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy (Read our Review)

Best 10 Indie Rock Releases

Bear vs. Shark - Terrorhawk (Read our Review)

The Ike Reilly Assassination - Junkie Faithful (Read our Review)

Time of Orchids - Sarcast While (Read our Review)

Circa Survive - Juturna (Read our Review)

Beltline - Welcome, Nostalgia (Read our Review)

Aroah - En El Patio Interior (Read our Review)

Nightmare of You - Nightmare of You (Read our Review)

Renee Heartfelt - Death of the Ghost (Read our Review)

Desert City Soundtrack - Perfect Addiction (Read our Review)

The Junior Varsity - Wide Eyed (Read our Review)

Best 10 Electronic Releases

Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth (Read our Review)

Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (Read our Review)

Edward Ka-Spel - A Long Red Ladder to the Moon (Read our Review)

Funkervogt - Navigator (Read our Review)

Conjure One - Extraordinary Ways (Read our Review)

Giles - Giles (Read our Review)

Nurse With Wound & Jim O'Rourke Angry Eelectric Finger Part 1: Tape Monkey Mooch (Read our Review)

Newagehillbilly — IV: White Walls (Read our Review)

La STPO - Le Combat Occulte (Read our Review)

Beatropolis — Drop (Read our Review)

Best Re-Issue

Converge - Petitioning the Empty Sky [Re-Issue] (Read our Review)

Best Comedy Release

Dane Cook - Retailation CD/DVD (Read our Review)

Best 10 Movies

The 40 Year Old Virgin (Read our Review)

Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (Read our Review)

Nothing (Read our Review)

Old Boy (Read our Review)

Crash (Read our Review)

Sin City (Read our Review)

March of the Penguins (Read our Review)

The Devil's Rejects (Read our Review)

Kung Fu Hustle (Read our Review)

Danny Deckchair (Read our Review)