year end list: favorite songs
Here we go: those who know me know that I'm slightly insane when it comes to compiling, ranking, and saving music. Here then, is the product of hours of unnecesary sorting: my favorite songs of 2005!
My normal rules follow - these are songs that I've experienced this year - meaning that it was the first time I heard (or cared) about them, not that it came out in the calendar year. So yeah, some of these are a bit long in the tooth, but bear with me.
Here are the top 25, with my top 5 bolded, click the cut to view the full list in all its majesty!
Arcade Fire - Haiti
Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
Citizen Cope - Bullet and a Target
Colplay - Fix You
Coldplay - Talk
Communique - Perfect Weapon
Dar Williams - As Cool as I Am
Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body
Decemberists - 16 Military Wives
Eisley - Marvelous Things
Elephone - Haunted Valley Swimming Pool
Gorillaz - Feel Good, Inc.
Kanye West & Jamie Foxx - Gold Digger
Jimmy Eat World - Secret Crush
Jon Brion - Knock Yourself Out
Mars Volta - the Widow
My Chemical Romance - Helena
Nada Surf - Treading Water
Pavement - Two States
Secret Machines - Sad and Lonely
Sia - Breathe Me
Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla
Tegan & Sara - Walking with a Ghost
White Stripes - My Doorbell
Youth Group - Shadowland
TOP 101
311 - Don’t Tread on Me
Alanis Morissette - Knees of My Bees
Alkaline Trio - Time to Waste
Aquabats - Chemical Bomb
Arcade Fire - Cold Wind
Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
Arcade Fire - Haiti
At the Drive-in - Invalid Litter Department
Audioslave - Be Yourself
Audioslave - Doesn’t Remind Me
Beck - Girl
Beck - Hell Yes
Black-Eyed Peas - My Humps
Blonde Redhead - in Particular (tip of the hat: Dad)
Citizen Cope - Bullet and a Target
Coldplay - Fix You
Coldplay - Speed of Sound
Coldplay - Talk
Communique - Perfect Weapon (tip of the hat: Dan)
Coral - in the Morning (tip of the hat: "Scrubs")
Daddy Yankee - Gasolina
Damnwells - I Will Keep the Bad Things From You (tip of the hat: Nadia)
Dar Williams - As Cool as I Am (tip of the hat: Sara)
Dave Matthews Band - Dreamgirl
Dead Milkmen - If You Love Someone then Set Them on Fire (tip of the hat: Davey)
Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body
Decemberists - 16 Military Wives
Eisley - Marvelous Things
Elephone - Haunted Valley Swimming Pool (tip of the hat: Jonathan)
Foo Fighters - D.O.A.
the Fray - Over My Head
Gogol Bordello - Bulla Bulla
Gorillaz - Feel Good, Inc.
Groove Armada - Hands of Time
Grandaddy - Nature Anthem
Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia
Hawthorne Heights - Niki FM
Hum - Stars (tip of the hat: Ryan)
INXS - Don’t Change
Jack’s Mannequin - Mixed Tape
Jimmy Eat World - Secret Crush
Joe Cocker - High Time We Went (tip of the hat: Dad)
Jon Brion - Knock Yourself Out
Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a Riot
Kanye West & Jamie Foxx - Gold Digger
Lady Sovereign featuring Ordinary Boys - 9 to 5
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
Lou Reed - Wait
Low - Step
Madonna - Hung Up
Mamas & the Papas - Dream a Little Dream
Mamas & the Papas - Make Your Own Kind of Music (tip of the hat: "Lost")
Mars Volta - the Widow
Mary Prankster - World is Full of Bastards (tip of the hat: Nadia)
Massive Attack - Protection
Metric - Monster Hospital
Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart - Old Habits Die Hard
Mike Doughty - Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well
Morningwood - Nth Degree
My Chemical Romance - Helena
My Chemical Romance - Ghost of You
My Morning Jacket - One Big Holiday
Nada Surf - Always Love
Nada Surf - Treading Water
Neil Young - He was the King
Neutral Milk Hotel - in the Aeroplane Over the Sea (tip of the hat: Jenna, I think)
nine inch nails - Hand that Feeds
OAR - Right on Time
Oasis - Don’t Look Back in Anger
Pavement - Two States
Pixies - U-Mass (tip of the hat: Nadia)
Polaroid - So Damn Beautiful
Presidents of the United States of America - Kitty
Replacements - Favorite Thing
Rilo Kiley - Jenny, You’re Barely Alive
Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes
Rob Thomas - This is How a Heart Breaks
Secret Machines - Sad and Lonely
Shakira - la Tortura
She Wants Revenge - I Want to Tear You Apart
Shins - Caring is Creepy
Sia - Breathe Me
Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla
Snow Patrol - Chocolate
Spinto Band - Oh Mandi!
Stereophonics - Dakota
Strata - Never There
Switchfoot - Stars
Tegan & Sara - Walking with a Ghost
Tom Vek - You Set the Fire in Me C.C.
Transplants - Gangsters and Thugs
U2 - Original of the Species
the Used & My Chemical Romance - Under Pressure
Unicorns - Sea Ghost
Whale - Hobo Humping Slobo Babe
White Stripes - My Doorbell
the Who - the Substitute
Wyclef Jean - a Million Voices
Youth Group - Shadowland
Yuri Gonzaga - Te Amo, Te Amo (tip of the hat: Chelle)
Andy Samberg & Chris Parnell - Lazy Sunday (the Chronic(what)cles of Narnia rap from SNL)
{edit: fixed misspelling}
My normal rules follow - these are songs that I've experienced this year - meaning that it was the first time I heard (or cared) about them, not that it came out in the calendar year. So yeah, some of these are a bit long in the tooth, but bear with me.
Here are the top 25, with my top 5 bolded, click the cut to view the full list in all its majesty!
Arcade Fire - Haiti
Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
Citizen Cope - Bullet and a Target
Colplay - Fix You
Coldplay - Talk
Communique - Perfect Weapon
Dar Williams - As Cool as I Am
Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body
Decemberists - 16 Military Wives
Eisley - Marvelous Things
Elephone - Haunted Valley Swimming Pool
Gorillaz - Feel Good, Inc.
Kanye West & Jamie Foxx - Gold Digger
Jimmy Eat World - Secret Crush
Jon Brion - Knock Yourself Out
Mars Volta - the Widow
My Chemical Romance - Helena
Nada Surf - Treading Water
Pavement - Two States
Secret Machines - Sad and Lonely
Sia - Breathe Me
Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla
Tegan & Sara - Walking with a Ghost
White Stripes - My Doorbell
Youth Group - Shadowland
TOP 101
311 - Don’t Tread on Me
Alanis Morissette - Knees of My Bees
Alkaline Trio - Time to Waste
Aquabats - Chemical Bomb
Arcade Fire - Cold Wind
Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
Arcade Fire - Haiti
At the Drive-in - Invalid Litter Department
Audioslave - Be Yourself
Audioslave - Doesn’t Remind Me
Beck - Girl
Beck - Hell Yes
Black-Eyed Peas - My Humps
Blonde Redhead - in Particular (tip of the hat: Dad)
Citizen Cope - Bullet and a Target
Coldplay - Fix You
Coldplay - Speed of Sound
Coldplay - Talk
Communique - Perfect Weapon (tip of the hat: Dan)
Coral - in the Morning (tip of the hat: "Scrubs")
Daddy Yankee - Gasolina
Damnwells - I Will Keep the Bad Things From You (tip of the hat: Nadia)
Dar Williams - As Cool as I Am (tip of the hat: Sara)
Dave Matthews Band - Dreamgirl
Dead Milkmen - If You Love Someone then Set Them on Fire (tip of the hat: Davey)
Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body
Decemberists - 16 Military Wives
Eisley - Marvelous Things
Elephone - Haunted Valley Swimming Pool (tip of the hat: Jonathan)
Foo Fighters - D.O.A.
the Fray - Over My Head
Gogol Bordello - Bulla Bulla
Gorillaz - Feel Good, Inc.
Groove Armada - Hands of Time
Grandaddy - Nature Anthem
Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia
Hawthorne Heights - Niki FM
Hum - Stars (tip of the hat: Ryan)
INXS - Don’t Change
Jack’s Mannequin - Mixed Tape
Jimmy Eat World - Secret Crush
Joe Cocker - High Time We Went (tip of the hat: Dad)
Jon Brion - Knock Yourself Out
Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a Riot
Kanye West & Jamie Foxx - Gold Digger
Lady Sovereign featuring Ordinary Boys - 9 to 5
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
Lou Reed - Wait
Low - Step
Madonna - Hung Up
Mamas & the Papas - Dream a Little Dream
Mamas & the Papas - Make Your Own Kind of Music (tip of the hat: "Lost")
Mars Volta - the Widow
Mary Prankster - World is Full of Bastards (tip of the hat: Nadia)
Massive Attack - Protection
Metric - Monster Hospital
Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart - Old Habits Die Hard
Mike Doughty - Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well
Morningwood - Nth Degree
My Chemical Romance - Helena
My Chemical Romance - Ghost of You
My Morning Jacket - One Big Holiday
Nada Surf - Always Love
Nada Surf - Treading Water
Neil Young - He was the King
Neutral Milk Hotel - in the Aeroplane Over the Sea (tip of the hat: Jenna, I think)
nine inch nails - Hand that Feeds
OAR - Right on Time
Oasis - Don’t Look Back in Anger
Pavement - Two States
Pixies - U-Mass (tip of the hat: Nadia)
Polaroid - So Damn Beautiful
Presidents of the United States of America - Kitty
Replacements - Favorite Thing
Rilo Kiley - Jenny, You’re Barely Alive
Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes
Rob Thomas - This is How a Heart Breaks
Secret Machines - Sad and Lonely
Shakira - la Tortura
She Wants Revenge - I Want to Tear You Apart
Shins - Caring is Creepy
Sia - Breathe Me
Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla
Snow Patrol - Chocolate
Spinto Band - Oh Mandi!
Stereophonics - Dakota
Strata - Never There
Switchfoot - Stars
Tegan & Sara - Walking with a Ghost
Tom Vek - You Set the Fire in Me C.C.
Transplants - Gangsters and Thugs
U2 - Original of the Species
the Used & My Chemical Romance - Under Pressure
Unicorns - Sea Ghost
Whale - Hobo Humping Slobo Babe
White Stripes - My Doorbell
the Who - the Substitute
Wyclef Jean - a Million Voices
Youth Group - Shadowland
Yuri Gonzaga - Te Amo, Te Amo (tip of the hat: Chelle)
Andy Samberg & Chris Parnell - Lazy Sunday (the Chronic(what)cles of Narnia rap from SNL)
{edit: fixed misspelling}