'Tis the season for lists, so here are a few other sites with good top CD lists to help you populate that last-minute Christmas wish list.

Caffeine Headache's long list of the best albums of 2005 seems to include every album actually released in 2005. He includes the obvious and not so obvious, with plenty of links to online samples.

Frank at Chromewaves has perhaps the most elaborate top 10, complete with original artwork.

Said the Gramophone has a lengthy list of top tracks and albums for the year.

The fellas at Sound Opinions weigh in with lists that are surprisingly mainstream.

Glide has a good list that reminded me of that Hold Steady disc (why is that not on more lists? For me, it was a matter of not withstanding repeat listens. One you get the lyrical/vocal shtick, the rather pedestrian bar band stomp doesn't hold interest.) and has a surprising amount of crossover with my own list.

David at Largehearted Boy weighed in a couple of weeks back with another list that has a lot of overlap with mine, though I just can't see the appeal of CocoRosie (who make Devendra Banhart sound like Sinatra), and I admire Antony much more than I actually want to listen to him.

There are plenty more out there; visit Largehearted Boy and Chromewaves for more complete round-ups.