Oh the taste of your poison paradise -- The 2005 Music Finale

Best B-sides/Outtakes Collection: Out-of-State Plates – Fountains of Wayne

Best Cover Song: “Toxic” – Nickel Creek

Best Music Documentary: The Fearless Freaks / No Direction Home (tie)

Best Quote About R.E.M. In an Article Not About R.E.M.: "These bands are filling the void from R.E.M.," opines Spin executive editor Doug Brod. "R.E.M. still make records, but they're not good ones."

Best Release in a Continuing Series of Old Dylan Songs: No Direction Home: The Bootleg Series, Volume 7

Funniest Music-Related Top Ten: Top Ten People Who Should’ve Been Drafted Into the Wu-Tang Clan

Funniest Promise from a Musician: Chris Martin says Coldplay’s lyrics will get better

Most Disappointing Album: Here Come the Choppers – Loudon Wainwright, III (I guess there can only be so many good albums from a Wainwright in one calendar year.)

Music-Related McSweeney's Lists from 2005:

Bruce Springsteen Songs, If the Title More Accurately Reflected the Subject Matter

Discarded Titles for Toni Braxton's 1996 Hit "Unbreak My Heart"

Implausable Claims Made by Vanilla Ice in His 1990 No. 1 Hit "Ice Ice Baby"

Kanye West's Lyric "The Way School Need Teachers / The Way Kathie Lee Needed Regis / That's the Way I Need Jesus," Adapted for Other Religions

Leonard Cohen's Seven Immutable Laws of Business

New Radiohead Material to be Debuted at a Benefit Show to Protest Privatization of the Postal Sector

Song Titles, Before Editing For Language Efficiency and Clarity

Things This City Was Built On, Besides Rock 'N' Roll

What I Like About You