• Music
  • 10 Jan 06
The Soundtrack of our lives 2005
The Soundtrack of our lives 2005
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Annual article: The critics' personal highlights of 2005.

  • Peter Murphy
    The Electric Picnic showed all-comers what a proper music festival should be about.
  • Kim Porcelli
    If you looked hard enough, there was no shortage of things to fall in love with, especially the Electric Picnic.
  • Stuart Clark
    He waited for several years, but Stuart Clark lived to see music get good again. And England beat one of their myriad old enemies.
  • John Walshe
    A prog-rock revival, a genuinely great music festival, and the small matter of the Champions’ League...
  • Niall Crumlish
    Arcade Fire’s astonishing Funeral defined, illuminated and soundtracked the whole year.
  • Ed Power
    Rufus Wainwright released the best album of the year – so why didn’t you buy it?
  • Tanya Sweeney
    As you’ll all privately admit to yourselves, the Pussycat Dolls’ single towered over all else in 2005.
  • Shilpa Ganatra
    Bob Mould resurrected Husker Du and Sugar tracks. Shilpa Ganatra can die happy.
  • Colin Carberry
    On May 25th, the world changed completely. It’s true: Liverpool won the Champions League.
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