top ten, sort of

having been inspired by hilary's top ten, which was inspired by bucket's top ten, i'm going to attempt to post my top ten albums of 2005. except that i don't really remember when all these things were released so it's actually going to be the "10 best albums i bought in 2005." and then i got busy choosing albums and discovered that there were actually 18 albums that deserved mention, so i present to you (drum roll, please):

the receptionist's top eighteen albums of 2005 or 2004 or whenever they were released but i bought them sometime possibly in 2005:

18. Missy Elliot, The Cookbook
17. Le Tigre, This Island
16. Jill Scott, Beautifully Human
15. Ben Folds, Songs for Silverman
14. Tracy + The Plastics, Culture for Pigeon
13. k.d. lang, Hymns of the 49th Parallel
12. Nikka Costa, Can'tneverdidnothin'
11. Morrissey, You Are the Quarry
10. Ani DiFranco, Knuckle Down
9. Bjork, Medulla
8. Sufjan Stevens, C'mon Feel the Illinoise
7. Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine
6. Madonna, Confessions on a Dancefloor
5. Nine Inch Nails, With Teeth
4. PJ Harvey, Uh Huh Her
3. Beck, Guero
2. Sleater-Kinney, The Woods
1. Andrew Bird and The Mysterious Production of Eggs

woof that was hard to do. so many of those cd's are so good. if you don't own numbers 1-9, do yourself a favor. go buy them.