People talk a lot about "bad years for music" but as far as we're concerned, they don't exist. There's always something great coming out—be it major league or totally under the radar. Anybody that tells you different is bitter or, worse, they're not looking hard enough. So, in honor of 2005 going to Doggie Heaven, here are the Portland music world's favorite records of 2005.

Chad Crouch
Owner of Hush Records and singer in Toothfairy

1. v/a - Mile
2. v/a - Bro Zone
3. M Ward - Transistor Radio
4. Kind Of Like Spitting - In The Red
5. Graves - To Sur With Love
6. The Decemberists - Picaresque
7. Norfolk and Western - If You Were Born Overseas
8. Yacht - Mega
9. The Village Green - s/t
10. Super XX Man - Vol VIIII

Steve Schroeder
Owner of States Rights Records

1. Landing - Brocade
2. Kevin Blechdom - Eat My Heart Out
3. Dirty Projectors - The Getty Address
4. Jamie Lidell - Multiply
5. Thanksgiving - Cave Days and Moments
6. System of a Down - Mezmerize
7. YACHT - Mega
8. The Kallikak Family - May 23rd 2007
9. Clipse - We Got It 4 Cheap Vol. 2
10. Lucky Dragons - Nortenas

Jeff Banana
Owner of Kingbanana

1. The Red Chord - Clients
2. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
3. Between The Buried And Me - Alaska
4. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
5. Coldplay - X&Y
6. Pelican -  The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
7. Origin - Echoes Of Decimation
8. Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
9. Cephalic Carnage - Anomalies
10. Bo Bice - The Real Thing

Kevin and Anita Robinson
From Viva Voce

1. Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
2. Deerhoof - The Runners Four
3. Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
4. Blackalicous - The Craft
5. Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill
6. Radar Bros. - The Fallen Leaf Pages
7. Black Mountain – s/t
8. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
9. Led Zeppelin - III
10. Motörhead - Ace of Spades (reissue)

Danny Seim
From Menomena

1. The National - Alligator
2. Deerhoof - The Runners Four
3. The Joggers - With a Cape and a Cane
4. System of a Down - Mezmerize
5. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
6. Foghorn Stringband - Weiser Sunrise
7. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
8. The Standard - Albatross
9. Animal Collective - Feels
10. 31 Knots - Talk Like Blood

E*Rock
Multi-media artist

1. Matias Aguayo - Are You Really Lost?
2. Bobby Birdman - Giraffes & Jackals 10
3. LCD Soundsystem – s/t
4. Kemialliset Yståavåat - Alkuhåarka
5. Indian Jewelry - Health & Wellbeing
6. Vitalic - Ok Cowboy
7. Rod Lee - The Official v5
8. YACHT - Mega
9. Who Made Who – s/t
10. BARR - Beyond Reinforced Jewel Case

Dave Allen
From Gang of Four

1. Bright Eyes – I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
2. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Jacksonville City Nights
3. Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We are Having
4. Calexico/Iron & Wine - In The Reins
5. Damon Jr Gong Marley - Welcome to Jamrock
6. My Morning Jacket - Z
7. Menomena - Under An Hour
8. Brad Meldhau Trio - Day is Done
9. Beck - Guerolito
10. Kanye West - Late Registration

Point Juncture, WA
Group List

1 Deerhoof - The Runners Four
2. Stereolab - Oscillons from the Anti-Sun
3. Nick Jaina - The Bluff of All Time
4. Sam Prekop - Who's Your New Professor?
5. The Joggers – With A Cape And a Cane
6. Mt. Eerie - 11 Song of Mt. Eerie
7. 31 Knots - The Curse of The Longest Day EP
8. Junior Private Detective - Erase
9. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
10. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

Greg Glover
DJ of 9/47FM Alternative Mornings and The Bottom Forty and Owner of Arena Rock Recordings

1. Oasis – Don't Believe The Truth
2. Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
3. Swords - Metropolis
4. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
5. A Band Of Bees - Free The Bees
6. Son Volt - Okemah And The Melody Of Riot
7. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
8. B.R.M.C. - Howl
9. British Sea Power - Open Season
10. Calla - Collisions

Bret Vogel
From Crosstide

1. REM – Warner re-issues
2. Dolour - A Matter of Time
3. The Velvet Teen - Elysium (on vinyl)
4. Jens Leckman – You're So Silent, Jens
5. Crosstide - Life as a Spectator
6. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
7. Longview - Mercury
8. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
9. Elbow - Leaders of the Free World
10. Wilco - Kicking Television

The Standard
Group List

1. Jose Gonzalez - Veneer
2. Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now
3. Iron & Wine/Calexico - In The Reins
4. Boards Of Canada - Campfire Headphase
5. Eyvind Kang - Virginal Coordinats
6. Brian McBride - When The Detail Lost Its Freedom
7. Why? - Elephant Eyelash
8. 31 Knots - Talk Like Blood
9. The Kingsbury Manx - The Fast Rise And Fall Of The South
10. Menomena - Under An Hour

Corey Ficken
From Swords

1. Sigur ros - Takk
2. REM - Green (reissue)
3. Low - The Great Destroyer
4. Spoon - GimmeFiction
5. The Joggers - With a Cape and a Cane
6. My Morning Jacket - Z
7. Animal Collective - Feels
8. Brian Eno - Early Works (reissue)
9. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
10. Hot Snakes - Peel Sessions

Rob Jones
Owner of Jealous Butcher Records

1. Elliott Smith - Unreleased: From A Basement on a Hill II
2. Decemberists - Picaresque
3. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
4. Casey Denial - Wind-up Canary
5. M. Ward - Transistor Radio
6. Thelonius Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall – s/t
7. Wilco - Kicking Television
8. Sam Prekop – Who's Your New Professor
9. Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities
10. The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys (reissue)

Nicole Warren
Booking promotions, Doug Fir Lounge

1. Kayne West - Late Registration
2. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
3. Cocorosie - La Maison du Mon Reve
4. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
5. Two Gallants - The Throes
6. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
7. American Analog Set - Set Free
8. Caribou - Milk of Human Kindness
9. Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic
10. Giant Drag - Hearts and Unicorns

Alex James
From Dolorean

1. Tenlons Fort - The Golden Handshake
2. Jose Gonzalez - Veneer
3. Smog - A River Ain't Too Much to Love
4. Bill Fay - Time of the Last Persecution
5. Dinosaur Jr. – You're Living All Over Me
6. Holy Sons - My Only Warm Coals
7. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
8. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
9. Neil Young - Prairie Wind
10. Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney – Superwolf

Kevin French
booking agent at Big Shot Touring

1. The Decemberists - Picaresque
2. Fruit Bats - Spelled in Bones
3. M Ward - Transistor Radio
4. Mazarin – We're Already There
5. The National - Alligator
6. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
7. Richard Swift - The Novelist
8. Sound Team - Work EP
9. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
10. Wilco - Kicking Television

Wet Confetti
Group List

1. Dungen – Ta Det Lugnt
2. Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko - 28
3. 31 knots - Talk Like Blood
4. The Planet The - You Absorb My Vision
5. Ris Paul Ric - Purple Blaze
6. Joggers - With a Cape and a Cane
7. Hood - Outside Closer
8. Pit Er Pat - Shaky
9. Jen Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
10. Minus Story - No Rest for Ghosts

Jamie Cooley
Asst. Program Director/ Music Director of 94/7FM

1. Athlete - Tourist
2. Caves - Demography EP
3. Crosstide - Life As A Spectator
4. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
5. She Wants Revenge - She Wants Revenge
6. Rouge Wave - Descend Like Vultures
7. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
8. The Bravery - The Bravery
9. Coldplay - X&Y
10. Editors - The Back Room