12/23/2005
My best of 2005 and special. Had to leave a couple things out due to time constraints, but still did what I needed to. 2005 wasn't so bad when it comes to the rock.
N=new release R=requested C=compilation release
| Artist | Song Title | Album | Record Label | NRC |
| The Soviettes | Multiply and Divide | LP III | Fat Wreck Chords | |
| Brainerd | Jesus | Animal Mother | Ill Party | |
| Public Enemy | MLKVFKWR | New Whirl Odor | Slamjamz | N |
| The Hellacopters | Everything is on TV | Rock and Roll is Dead | Abacus | |
| Toys That Kill | Don't Take My Clone | 7" | Dirtnap | |
| 50 Foot Wave | Long Painting | Golden Ocean | BMG | |
| Turbonegro | Wasted Again | Party Animals | Abacus | |
| Kanye West | Diamonds Are Forever ft. Jay-Z | Late Registration | Roc A Fella | |
| Screaming Cyn Cyn and the Pons | Sticker Book | Babysit | self released | |
| Below the Sound | A Cog...Not a Machine | Three | Crustacean | N |
| Bible of the Devil | Guns, Germs and Steel | Brutality Majesty Eternity | Scarey | N |
| Pilot Scott Tracy | Any City | Any City | Alternative Tentacles | |
| Clit 45 | Over My Head | Self Hate Crimes | BYO | |
| Charming Snakes | Ammunition | Ammunition | Dirtnap | |
| Presence | Channel | Recreation Bait | Praxis | |
| Attack Formation | Pearl Snaps | Somebody as Anybody | Australian Cattle God | |
| Solid Gold | Snake Charmer | Out of Your Mind | Sector Five | |
| God-Des | This is the Life | Awesome EP | self released | N |
| New Recruits | The Cows in Black Pitch Fields | Attila Sex Shock | Cancer | |
| Vanishing Kids | Sleeping Beats | The Selfish Mirror | Failed Experiment | |
| The Crest | L-Asorbic Acid | The Skeptic | Uprising | |
| The Cummies | Poison IV | Suicide Tools | Sector Five | |
| Talib Kweli | Ms. Hill | Right About Now | Koch | N |
| The Silver Jews | Punks in the Beerlight | Tanglewood Numbers | Drag City | N |
| Throw Rag | Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down ft. Lemmy | 13 Ft. High and Rising | BYO | |
| Horror Pops | Bring It On | Bring It On | Hellcat | |
| Clorox Girls | This Dimension | This Dimension | Smart Guy | N |
| High On Fire | Silver Back | Blessed Black Wings | Relapse | |
| Common | The Food ft. Kanye West | Be | Geffen | |
| The Epoxies | Synthesized | Stop the Future | Fat Wreck Chords | |
| My Morning Jacket | What a Wonderful Man | Z | RCA | N |
| Pelican | Aurora Borealis | The Fire in Our Throats Beckon the Thaw | Hydra Head | |
| The (International) Noise Conspiracy | Lets Make History Now | Armed Love | American/Epitaph | |
| Giraffes | Wage Earner | s/t | Razor & Tie | |
| Naked Aggression | Machine Gun Etiquette | Heard It All Before | SOS | N |
| Blacklicious | The Craft | The Craft | Quaanum/Epitaph | N |
| Drunk Horse | Priestmaker | In Tongues | Tee Pee | |
| Propogandhi | Impending Half Head | Potemkin City Limits | Fat Wreck Chords | N |
| Prefuse 73 | Morale Crusader ft. Beans | Surrounded by Silence | Warp | |
| SevenOneFive | No Time | We Don't Feel Like This For Free | Crustacean | |
| Killdozer | A Mother's Road | The Last Waltz | Crustacean | |
| Hat Party | Icicles | Agents and Thieves | Sector Five | |
| Crooked Fingers | Andaluca | Dignity and Shame | Merge | |
| Slug and Murs | Early Morning Tony | Felt 2 | Rhymesayers | |
| Unsane | D Train | Blood Run | Relapse | |
| The Catch | After Party | Get Cool | Made in Mexico | |
| The Hold Steady | Your Little Hoodrat Friend | Separation Sunday | French Kiss | |
| Against Me | Unprotected Sex with Multiple Partners | Searching For a Former Clarity | Fat Wreck Chords | N |
| DJ Spooky and Dave Lombardo | Assisted Suicide ft. Dalek | Drums of Death | Ipecac | |
| Electric Eel Shock | Nothing | Go USA! | Gearhead | |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead | Worlds Apart | Worlds Apart | Interscope | |
| Guitar Wolf | Rock and Roll Etiquette | Golden Black | Narnack | N |
N=new release R=requested C=compilation release