Best songs of 2005

[shin]

50. Dangerdoom - ATHF
49. Local H - Toxic
48. David Gray - Disappearing World
47. Martina Topley-Bird - Sandpaper Kisses
46. Longwave - There's a Fire
45. Roots Manuva - Mind to Motion
44. Sigur Ros - Gong
43. Soilwork - Stabbing the Drama
42. The Mars Volta - The Widow
41. NIN - Right Where It Belongs
40. In Flames - Come Clarity
39. Daft Punk - Human After All
38. Gorillaz - Dare
37. Audioslave - The Worm
36. Blackalicious - Supreme People
35. Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You into the Dark
34. Corrosion of Conformity - It is That way
33. Beck - Clap Hands
32. The Darkness - One Way Ticket
31. Stereophonics - Devil
30. Low - Monkey
29. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - Let the Cool Goddess Rust Away
28. Sevendust - Hero
27. Garbage - Bad Boyfriend
26. System of a Down - Old School Hollywood
25. Billy Corgan - Mina Loy (MOH)
24. Retribution Gospel Choir - Body Electric (live)
23. Atmosphere - Watch Out
22. Sun Kil Moon - Never Ending Math Equasion
21. Jose Gonzalez - Love Will Tear Us Apart
20. Wolf Parade - Shine a Light
19. Saosin - Bury Your Head
18. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Devil's Waitin'
17. Doves - Snowden
16. Dredg - Bug Eyes
15. 30 Seconds to Mars - From Yesterday
14. Idlewild - Love Will Steal Us from Loneliness
13. Porcupine Tree - Half Light
12. Bloc Party - Helicopter
11. Iron & Wine - Jezebel
10. Alison Krauss & Union Station - Gravity
09. The Killers - Glamorous Indie Rock n Roll
08. Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats
07. Coldplay - Fix You
06. Spoon - the Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
05. Feeder - Shatter
04. Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
03. Iron & Wine/Calexico - Dead Man's Will
02. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Weight of the World
01. The Cardigans - I Need Some Fine Wine and You, You Need to Be Nicer

I tried to keep it as one song per artist unless there were tracks that just couldn't be overlooked. Dangerdoom and David Gray wouldn't have made it otherwise.

[Weeping_Guitar]

hmmm...

Favorites from the records I've got from this year:
"Long Time Comin'" by Bruce Springsteen
"The Bleeding Heart Show" by The New Pornographers
"The Denial Twist" by The White Stripes
"Sleepwalkin'" by The Raveonettes
"Rough Justice" by the Rolling Stones
"E-Pro" by Beck
"Talk" by Coldplay
"Shelter of Your Arms" by The Greenhornes
"Walk Away" by Franz Ferdinand

Tracks I like from albums I've yet to get:
"Where Soul Meets Body" by Death Cab For Cutie
"Glosoli" by Sigur Ros [will pick up next week]
"Doesnt' Remind Me" by Audioslave
"Freedom Hangs Like Heaven" by Iron & Wine

[pattentank24]

Rather than list the songs

Here's my 3 Mixes for 2005 into the vault with these


The Rock of 05

1. Editors- Bullets
2. Amusement Parks On Fire- Venus In Cancer
3. Trail Of The Dead- Let It Dive
4. Wolf Parade- I'll Believe In Anything
5. Hold Steady- Banging Camp
6. Sleater-Kinney- Entertain
7. System Of A Down- B.Y.O.B
8. My Morning Jacket- Anytime
9. Franz Ferdinand- The Fallen
10 Arcade Fire- No Cars Go (Live)
11 Magic Numbers- She Don't Love Me Like You
12 Queens Of The Stone Age- Little Sister
13 Bloc Party- Pioneers
14 Sufjan Stevens- Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
15 New Pornographers- The Bleeding Show
16 NIN- Love Is Not Enough
17 Oasis- The Meaning Of Soul
18 Rolling Stones- Infamy
19 The National- Mr. Novemeber
20 The Strokes- JuiceBox

The Soul Of 05

1 Antony/Johnsons- Hope There's Someone
2 Death Cab For Cutie- What Sarah Said
3 Coldplay- Fix You
4 Ryan Adams- The Hardest Part
5 Andrew Bird- Sovoy
6 Sigur Ros- Glosoli
7 Idlewild- Not Just Sometimes But Always
8 Feist- Leisure Suite
9 The Decemberists- Engine Driver
10 The Dears- Lost In The Plot
11 Super Furry Animals- Walk You Home
12 Fiona Apple- Parting Ways
13 Bloc Party- Blue Light (Engineers Remix)
14 Hope of States- Fall To Pieces
15 The Kills- Rodeotown
16 Broken Social Scene- Hotel
17 Stars- One More Night
18 White Stripes- I'm Lonely But I Ain't That Lonely Yet

The Party of 05

1 Garbage- Bad Boyfriend
2 Gorillaz- Feel Good Inc.
3 Bloc Party- Banquet(Phones Disco Remix)
4 Kasbian vs The Music- Breaking My Bloody Processed Beats
5 Kelly Clarkston- Since You Been Gone(Jason Nevins Remix)
6 Kanye West- Goldigger
7 !!!- Take Ecstasy With Me
8 The Killers- Mr. Brightside(Thin White Duke Remix)
9 50 Cent/Mobb Deep- Outta Control (Remix)
10 Goldfrapp- #1
11 NIN- The Hand That Feeds(DFA Remix)
12 Annie- Heartbeat
13 Arctic Monkeys- You Look Good On The Dancefloor
14 M.I.A.- $10
15 LCD Soundsystem- Tribulations
16 Common- Go

Definte it was a Good Year!

[luke]

This is a HARD fucking list to make. This is especially hard because most of what I listened to this year, I stole, so most of my favorite songs are called "Track #6" and the like. I'm not even sure where to start, but here goes:

20. Bad Boyfriend- Garbage
19. Off the Record- My Morning Jacket
18. Sorry- Madonna
17. Lover Don't You Lie- Tricky Woo
16. Red, Red, Red- Fiona Apple
15. I Need Some Fine Wine, and You Need to be Nicer- The Cardigans
14. Razz- Kings of Leon
13. The Widow- The Mars Volta
12. Moving to LA- Art Brut
11. Right Where It Belongs- Nine Inch Nails
10. Swimmer- Broken Social Scene
9. Live It Out- Metric
8. Juicebox- The Strokes
7. Knockers- The Darkness
6. Helicoptor- Bloc Party
5. Toxic- Local H
4. The Fallen- Franz Ferdinand
3. Modern World- Wolf Parade
2. Gaining Ground, Losing Sight- Novillero
1. Radio/Video- SoaD

[riley]

30. Content Was Always My Favorite Colour - Most Serene Republic
29. Processed Beats - Kasabian
28. Over and Over Again (Lost & Found) - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
27. The Wives Of Artie Shaw - Kinski
26. Looking For Astronauts - The National
25. Just Stand Back - Low
24. Refugees - The Tears
23. Real People - Common
22. Precious - Depeche Mode
21. Kennedy Killed The Hat - Buck 65
20. Radio/Video - System Of A Down
19. Dinner Lady Arms - The Darkness
18. Nerves Normal, Breath Normal - Wintersleep
17. Salesman At The Day Of The Parade - Rogue Wave
16. Middle Of Nowhere - Hot Hot Heat
15. Mama - Stephen Malkmus
14. Clinically Dead - Chad Vangaalen
13. The Fix - Minus The Bear
12. Blood - Editors
11. Feel Good Inc - Gorillaz
10. All Because Of You Days - Echo & The Bunnymen
9. The Lost You - Hood
8. Shine A Light - Wolf Parade
7. Off The Record - My Morning Jacket
6. The Hypothesist - Novillero
5. Sing Me Spanish Techno - New Pornographers
4. I Summon You - Spoon
3. Hotel - Broken Social Scene
2. Spit It Out - Brendan Benson
1. This Modern Love - Bloc Party

[skvorisdeadsorta]

My list:
1. Lee Ann Womack-Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago
2. M83-Don't Save Us From The Flames
3. Spoon-I Turn My Camera On
4. Goldfrapp-Ohh la la
5. Animal Collective-Grass
6. Helen Love-Debbie Loves Joey
7. MIA-Sunshowers
8. Amerie-1 Thing
9. The Game feat 50 Cent-Hate It or Love It
10. The Futureheads-Hounds of Love
11. Snoop Dogg feat Justin Timberlake-Signs
12. The Killers-Mr. Brightside
13. Madonna-Hung Up
14, Kanye West-Golddigger
15. Rachel Stevens-Negotiate With Love
15. Antony and the Johnsons-Hope There's Someone
16. Girls Aloud-Biology
17. Feist-Inside and Out
18. Gorillaz-Feel Good, Inc.
19. Richard Hawley-The Ocean
20. Sugababes-Push the Button

[JesusLooksLikeMe]

Hard to trim this to 15 but that was my target.

Hard To Beat - Hard Fi
This Modern Love - Bloc Party
The Fallen - Franz Ferdinand
From the Ritz to the Rubble - Arctic Monkeys
Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz
Gong - Sigur Ros
Soldier Side - SoaD
Radio/Video - SoaD
Camera - The Editors
She - Fields of the Nephilim
Modern World - Wolf Parade
Juicebox - The Strokes
Love Steals Us From Loneliness (Acoustic) - Idlewild
Fix You/Talk - Coldplay
God Bless Our Dead Marines - A Silver Mt Zion

[I've allowed SoaD 2 entries as they released two albums. Still torn on which Coldplay to choose]

[RocDoc]

Lee Ann Womack? From skvor?

As overly slickified (and sentimental) as she gets, the woman is simply a wonderful singer who knows how to craft all the little bits into a well-done song....and very much an intelligent and aware woman, from the interviews with her that I've read.

[fredrum]

songs i loved in 05-in no particular order
nin-right where it belongs
qotsa-i never came
local h-president forever (live version from alive 05, kicks the studio versions ass)
lucero-noon as dark as midnight

[primixed]

Songs I loved from the albums I heard in no particular order:

. I've Got My Own Hell To Raise - Bettye Lavette (cover of "sleep to dream" by fiona apple)
. Radio/Video - System of a Down
. My Mathematical Mind - Spoon
. She Bop (Acoustic) - Cyndi Lauper (is this 2005?)
. Red Red Red - Fiona Apple
. Amazon - MIA
. I See You, You See Me - The Magic Numbers
. Crooked Crown - Bonnie Raitt
. Danko/Manuel - Drive By Truckers
. Engine Driver - The Decemberists

this list is looking rather arbitrary...

[shin]

What's with the love of Radio/Video? It's not even in the top 5 on Mezmerize.

[riley]

Shin you may want to delete that post, clearly it appears to be broke.

"Radio/Video" is perfect.

[skvorisdeadsorta]

Well hell yes I dig on Lee Ann Womack! That record is fantastic! Plus she's a West Texas girl that did a really great country record. I think I'm starting to like "I May Hate Myself In The Morning" a little bit more than "2 Husbands" here lately though. Skvor is from Texas and Skvor loves his country! Why I am referring to myself in third person is beyond me, but whatver.

[luke]

Radio/Video = Best Mr. Bungle song that never was.

My favorite SoaD tune ever, I think.

[shin]

Weirdos.