Hello all. Here's your Top 50 albums of 2005 calculated from votes cast in that thread I started back in December. Sorry it's been so long coming, I've had internet connection issues. Hope it's still of some interest:

1 Funeral - Arcade Fire
2 Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
3 Alligator - The National
4 Wind in the Wires - Patrick Wolf
5 Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
6 Feels - Animal Collective
7 I'm Wide Awake It's Morning - Bright Eyes
8 In Case We Die - Architecture In Helsinki
9 Picaresque - The Decemberists
10 Saul Williams - Saul Williams
11 Z - My Morning Jacket
12 Thunder Lightning Strike - The Go! Team
13 Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs
14 Bang Bang Rock & Roll - Art Brut
15 Twin Cinema - The New Pornographers
16 I Am a Bird Now - Antony and the Johnsons
17 Open Season - British Sea Power
18 Has a Good Home - Final Fantasy
19 One Time For All Time - 65daysofstatic
20 Arular - MIA
=21 Frances the Mute - The Mars Volta
We Have Sound - Tom Vek
23 Elevator - Hot Hot Heat
24 Team Ping Pong - Bearsuit
=25 A Certain Trigger - Maximo Park
The Milk of Human Kindness - Caribou
=27 Leaders of the Free World - Elbow
Takk - Sigur Ros
29 Apologies to Queen Mary - Wolf Parade
=30 Into the Woods - Malcolm Middleton
Plans - Death Cab For Cutie
The Campfire Headphase - Boards of Canada
Welcome Home Loser - Broken Family Band
Worlds Apart - And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
=35 Everyone Into Position - Oceansize
Multiply - Jamie Lidell
Witching Hour - Ladytron
=38 Blinking Lights and Other Revelations - Eels
Guero - Beck
Mew and the Glass Handed Kites
Tender Buttons - Broadcast
The Great Destroyer - Low
The Runners Four - Deerhoof
44 Digital Ash in a Digital Urn - Bright Eyes
=45 Capture/Release - Rakes
You Could Have It So Much Better - Franz Ferdinand
You're a Woman I'm a Machine - Death From Above 1979
48 Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
49 Give Blood - Brakes
50 Demon - Envelopes

Just to remind you, I asked people to list their top 50 albums of 2005. If they put them in order, #1 scored 5 points, #2 scored 4 points and so on. If they just listed 5 albums they scored 3 points each. Funeral won by and embarrassing margin (169 points to Sufjan's 65). It really does seem to have won the affection of dicerning music lovers every more than any record I can remember (except me of course, I must have been born without the part of the brain that allows people to appreciate it).

Congratulations to former England fast bowler and sometime DiS forummer devonmalcolm who through many hours of complex calculations I proved to have the most 'typical' DiS music taste of 2005.

Also well done to mug-mug-mug, lyle and Placid_Casual who all chose albums that didn't feature in the Top 50. It's good to be different.