2005

[popreactor]

These are my favourite songs of the year 2005. I hope there’s more good music to come in the next year.

1. Ladytron- Destroy Everything You Touch
2. British Sea Power- Please Stand Up
3. Maximo Park –Apply Some Pressure
4. Franz Ferdinand- Walk Away
5. The Rakes- Retreat
6. Gorillaz- Dirty Harry
7. Arcade Fire- Rebellion
8. Interpol –Slow Hands
9. Kaiser Chiefs- Oh My God
10. Royksopp- 49%
11. Editors- Munich
12. Manic Street Preachers- Empty Souls
13. Goldfrapp- Oh la la la
14. Gorillaz- Feel Good Inc
15. 22-20’s- Shoot Your Gun
16. Tahiti 80 –Big Day
17. Bright Eyes- This is The First day Of My Life
18. Bloc Party –Two More Days
19. Bravery –Honest Mistake
20. LCD Soundsystem- Daft Punk Is Playing In My House

[Frau_Blucher]

Oh damn what a great topic! And what great choices too popreactor. I couldn't limit to 20. Here's 30 with some reordering to likely follow. And I know some of it looks like its self-serving to my particular tastes in a couple of bands, but my acid test was "do I like this song more than the one below it?" And the answer was yes for all these BSP and New Order tracks...

1 - British Sea Power - True Adventures - Open Season
2 - New Order - Turn - Waiting For The Sirens' Call
3 - British Sea Power - Like A Honeycomb - Open Season
4 - New Order - Krafty - Waiting For The Sirens' Call
5 - British Sea Power - It Ended On An Oily Stage - Open Season
6 - Echo & The Bunnymen - All Because Of You Days - Siberia
7 - Goldfrapp - Koko - Supernature
8 - Echo & The Bunnymen - What If We Are - Siberia
9 - British Sea Power - North Hanging Rock - Open Season
10 - Goldfrapp - Number 1 - Supernature
11 - Goldfrapp - Ooh La La - Supernature
12 - New Order - Hey Now What You Doing - Waiting For The Sirens' Call
13 - Iron and Wine with Calexico - History of Lovers - In the Reins
14 - Brakes - All Nite Disco Party - Give Blood
15 - British Sea Power - Please Stand Up - Open Season
16 - Depeche Mode - Precious - Playing The Angel
17 - Garbage - Run Baby Run - Bleed Like Me
18 - Ladytron - Sugar - Witching Hour
19 - Franz Ferdinand - Eleanor Put Your Boots On - You Could Have It So Much Better With Franz Ferdinand
20 - Simple Minds - Home - Black And White 050505
21 - Billy Corgan - A100 - The Future Embrace
22 - Editors - All Sparks - The Back Room
23 - Fischerspooner - Cloud - Odyssey
24 - LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House - LCD Soundsystem
25 - Heaven 17 - Don't Fear The Reaper - Before After
26 - The Bravery - An Honest Mistake
27 - Bloc Party - Blue Light - Silent Alarm
28 - Brakes - You're So Pretty - Give Blood
29 - Beck - Girl - Guero
30 - A-Ha - Birthright - Analogue

[Spit]

To Blir, Who is this British Sea Power band you like so much [?] Who would you say they sound like [?]

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Tom D.[/i]
<br>To Blir, Who is this British Sea Power band you like so much [?] Who would you say they sound like [?]
[/quote]
It's pretty goddamn annoying, isn't it?! [:I] I'll email ya to not detract from this blistering hot thread.

[schwenko]

1. Number 1 (natch!)-Goldfrapp
2. A Good Thing-St Etienne
3. Kurafutei (Japanese version of Krafty)-New Order
4. Precious-Depeche Mode
5. Fly Me Away-Goldfrapp
6. Slide In-Goldfrapp
7. Magic Fantastic- Dragonette
8. I Get Around- Dragonette
9. Serotonin- Nine Horses
10. Stars Above Us-St Etienne
11. a film of flowers-Tom Verlaine
12. King of the Mountain-Kate Bush
13. Milk Bottle symphony-St Etienne
14. Missing Persons Bureau-St Etienne
15. Lightning Strikes Twice-St Etienne

[whistledog]

just a few I really enjoyed:

Empty Souls - Manic Street Preachers
You and Me - Uniting Nations
Love on My Mind - Freemasons
When the Dawn Breaks - Narcotic Thrust

[Panorama]

These are single songs for 2005 that I like/love:

World Leader Pretend - The Masses
Tracy Bonham - Something Beautiful
Wolf Parade - Shine a Light
Thirteen Senses - Into The Fire
Shout Out Louds - The Comeback
The Rosebuds - Boxcar
The Rocky Fortune - Drop Me in the Well
Ringside - Raining Nextdoor
Ringside - Tired of Being Sorry
Ringside - Struggle
The Pierces - A Way To Us
Pernice Brothers - There Goes the Sun
Paul Anka - Smells like Teen Spirit
Page France - Chariot
The New Pornographers - Falling Through Your Clothes
Morningwood - Nth Degree
Morningwood - Jetsetter
Moonbabies - War On Sound
Matt Pond PA - Halloween
Marjorie Fair - How Can You Laugh?
Maria Taylor - Song Beneath the Song
The Magic Numbers - Forever Lost
Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot
Kaiser Chiefs - Modern Way
José González - Heartbeats
Jim Noir - MP My Patch
Jim Noir - Computer Song
Jim Noir - I Me You I'm Yours
INXS - Pretty Vegas
Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
Ides Of Space - I Promise Not To Notice If You Promise To Pretend
Goldspot - Cusp
Goldspot - Rewind
Goldfrapp - Number 1
Goldfrapp - Ooh La La
The Go-Betweens - Here Comes A City
Gemma Hayes - Nothing Can
Garbage - Bleed Like Me
Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To
Fisher - Beautiful Life
Depeche Mode - Precious
Death Cab For Cutie - Soul Meets Body
Cricket Rumor Mill - Climbing in the Big Tree
Coldplay - Speed Of Sound
The Clientele - Since K Got Over Me
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth
Cat Power - The Greatest
Caesars - Jerk it out
Bloc Party - Pioneers
Beck - Girl
Bears - Walk Away
Arcade Fire - Cold Wind
Aqualung - Brighter Than Sunshine
Anneli Drecker - You Don't Have To Change
The All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret

...and for 2006
Stone Jack Jones - Evermore
Stone Jack Jones - Smile

Edit: added
Merrick - Infinity (2001) - great song, and available on itunes

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[MikeP]

Some good ones in my book from '05:

Kaiser Chiefs - "I Predict a Riot", "You Can Have It All", "Oh My God"
My Morning Jacket - "It Beats 4 U"
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - "Let It Dive"
Feist - "Mushaboom"
Kasabian - "Ovary Stripe", "Processed Beats"
Morcheeba - "Wonders Never Cease"
Goldfrapp - "Number One", "Fly Me Away"
Beck - "Girl", "Scarecrow", "Broken Drum"
LCD Soundsystem - "Losing My Edge", "Tribulations"
The Morning After Girls - "Hidden Spaces"
I Am Kloot - "From Your Favourite Sky"
The Decemberists - "We Both Go Down Together"
Coldplay - "White Shadows"
Aqualung - "Strange & Beautiful (I'll Put a Spell on You)"
Royksopp - "What Else Is There?", "Follow My Ruin"
The New Pornographers - "Bones of an Idol"
The Soundtrack of Our Lives - "Sister Surround"
Teenage Fanclub - "It's All in My Mind"
Manic Street Preachers - "To Repel Ghosts"
Stereophonics - "Dakota"
Depeche Mode - "Precious"
New Order - "Guilt Is a Useless Emotion"
Magnet - "Where Happiness Lives"
Low - "Broadway (So Many People)"
Ladytron - "Destroy Everything You Touch", "Sugar"
Bloc Party - "Eating Glass", "This Modern Love"
The Bravery - "No Brakes"

[Mathman]

these are a few of mine that were new to me this year -

Cold Hands (Warm Heart)- Brendan Benson
Two More Years – Bloc Party
On Your Last Night in Town – Black Tie Dynasty
Aerial – Kate Bush
Soul Meets Body - Death Cab
Black and White Town - Doves
Munich – Editors
Apart – Elkland
Eleanor Put Your Boots On – Franz Ferdinand
Goodnight, Goodnight – Hot Hot Heat
I Predict a Riot – Kaiser Chiefs
International Dateline – Ladyton
Prepare for the Fight – Lovemakers
Apply Some Pressure – Maximo Park
Content Was My Favorite Colour – The Most Serene Republic
Soft Revolution – Stars
The Avalanche – Sujfan Stevens
Juicebox – Strokes
Change Your Mind – We Are Telephone
This Heart’s On Fire – Wolf Parade

[djcraig]

Wow- some great lists and lots of new stuff for me to research!

Here's some faves:
[b]
Jenny Was a Friend of Mine- The Killers<br>
Dance With Me- The Sounds<br>
An Honest Mistake- The Bravery<br>
Combat Baby- Metric<br>
Everything Is Alright- Motion City Soundtrack<br>
We Are Lost- The Like<br>
2 Fragen- Klee<br>
Finding Out True Love Is Blind- Louis XIV<br>
Destroy Everything You Touch- Ladytron<br>
Gay Bar- Electric Six<br>
Walking With a Ghost- Tegan and Sara<br>
Falling Apart- The Lovemakers<br>
Soul Meets Body- Death Cab For Cutie<br>
Song Seven- Interpol<br>
Can't Stand Me Now- The Libertines<br>
The Statue- The Go-Betweens<br>
7/4 (Shoreline)- Broken Social Scene<br>
Teen Angst- M83<br>
Fade- Seven Color Sky<br>

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[Horrorgrrl]

Aberdeen City - "Sixty Lives"
Antony & The Johnson's - "Hope There's Someone"
Bell Hollow - "Getting On In Years"
Billy Corgan - "DIA"
The Caesars - "It's Not The Fall That Hurts"
Calla - "It Dawned On Me"
Calla - "Initiate"
Depeche Mode - "Precious"
Echo & The Bunnymen - "Parthenon Drive"
Editors - "Lights"
Eisley - "Telescope Eyes"
Fischerspooner - "Just Let Go" (The Thin White Duke Mix)
Goldfrapp - "You Never Know"
H.I.M. - "Rip Out The Wings Of A Butterfly"
Ladytron - "International Dateline"
M83 - "Don't Save Us From The Flames"
Moby - "Where You End"
Morningwood - "Jetsettermusicletter"
Morningwood - "Nth Degree"
Morningwood - "New York Girls"
New Order - "Dracula's Castle"
Pitty Sing - "Blow The Place"
Seven Color Sky - "Fade"
She Wants Revenge - "These Things"
She Wants Revenge - "Out Of Control"
She Wants Revenge - "Sister"
She Wants Revenge - "Tear You Apart"
Sigur Ros - "Saeglopur"
Simple Minds - "Home"
Stars - "Ageless Beauty"
Stellastarr - "Lost In Time"
Stellastarr - "Sweet Troubled Soul"
The Bravery - "Tyrant"
The Like - "What I Say And What I Mean"
The Lovemakers vs. Trans-X - "Lovemakers On Video"
The Sun - "Lost At Home"
The Mountain Goats - "This Year"

Tess[8D]



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