Critics' & Artist' Choices from Billboard (12/29)
再看看由音樂評論和從業者挑選的名單，顯然又有另一番見解。

Best Of 2005 from Time (12/27)
Time首要讚好的Kanye West，就是在Billboard全年排行榜上佔第六名的歌手。酷媽個人比較欣賞被第二看好的Gorillaz，這個英國樂團風格非常特別，能在美國歌壇站上全年排行第十二名，未來大有發展。請聽下面這首他們唱的Feel Good Inc.

Top 10 Revisited from BBC (12/31)
40 Best Albums from Spin (12/31)

Best Metal Releases from BW&BK (12/31)
金屬樂有很多種，推介大家參閱Theatre of Tragedy悲悵劇院，或許能改變有些人對Metal的成見。下面這首是Opeth樂團演唱的Death Whispered A Lullaby.

Gems Of 2005 from Washington Post (12/30)
Top 10 Remixes from Stylus (12/30)
Best And Worst Music from Entertainment Weekly (12/28)
Albums Of The Year from USA Today (12/27)
Top 50 Records from Rolling Stone (12/21)
Hip-Hop 2005 from Rolling Stone (12/21)
Best Jazz from New York Times (12/21)
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall [LIVE]是名單首選，各位可到Amazon.com去試聽，酷媽這裡提供一首John Contrane and Johnny Hartman的My One and Only Love請大家欣賞。

Most Notable Classical CDs from New York Times (12/18)
紐約時報推薦的古典音樂CD名單很長，茲列舉前十名以供參考，想查看全部名單的朋友請自行點閱。
Grieg: 'Peer Gynt'
Estonian National Symphony, conducted by Paavo Jarvi (Virgin Classics).

Beethoven: Cello Sonatas
Pieter Wispelwey, cellist; Dejan Lazic, pianist (Channel Classics; two CD's).

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2
Leif Ove Andsnes, pianist; Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Antonio Pappano
(EMI Classics).
酷媽這裡提供的是Vladimir Ashkenazy和倫敦交響樂團合奏的Rachmaninoff:
Piano Concertos No.2 in C minor, op.18 (Adagio sostenuto / 11:53)

Schubert:
'Die Schöne Müllerin'
Lan Bostridge, tenor; Mitsuko Uchida, pianist (EMI Classics).

Spratlan: 'When Crows Gather,' Other Works Sequitur (Albany).

Bernard
Holland
Weber: 'Oberon'
Steve Davislim, tenor; Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et
Romantique, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner (Philips; two CD's).

Boulez: 'Le Marteau Sans Maître,' 'Dérive I and II'
Hilary Summers, mezzo-soprano; Ensemble Intercontemporain, conducted by Pierre
Boulez (Deutsche Grammophon).

Dvorak: Tone Poems
Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Simon Rattle (EMI Classics; two CD's).

Mozart: Piano Works
Richard Goode, pianist (Nonesuch).

Ravel: 'Gaspard de la Nuit'; Carter: 'Night Fantasies'
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, pianist (Warner Classics).

下面介紹Amazon的推薦是因為可以讓人試聽音樂。
Best Of 2005 -- Classical Editor's Picks from Amazon.com
Best Of 2005 -- Editor's Picks from Amazon.com