It's 2005 this time, the year Kanye West and Gorillaz both dropped their second albums. Coldplay issued their third, while John Prine checked in with his first new album in six years. In the indie-rock world, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah set the blogosphere on fire, and Spoon released one of the year's best. Hurricane Katrina slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing 1800 and leaving 80 percent of New Orleans submerged. Your favorite song might have been your ringtone on your cellphone -- if you owned one.

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