2005: Top 30 Singles of the Year

Submitted by AAA on Wed, 01/19/2005 - 03:07
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  1. The Mountain Goats - "This Year"
  2. The Futureheads - "Hounds of Love"
  3. Kelly Clarkson - "Since U Been Gone"
  4. Antony and the Johnsons - "Hope There's Someone"
  5. Kanye West - "Gold Digger"
  6. Architecture in Helsinki - "Do the Whirlwind"
  7. Gorillaz [ft. DeLa Soul] - "Feel Good Inc."
  8. Stars - "Ageless Beauty"
  9. Animal Collective - "Grass"
  10. Spoon - "I Turn My Camera On"
  12. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - "Over and Over Again (Lost & Found)"
  13. Art Brut - "Emily Kane"
  14. Andrew Bird - "A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left"
  15. The Arcade Fire - "Rebellion (Lies)"
  16. Bjork - "The Triumph of a Heart"
  17. Devendra Banhart - "When They Come"
  18. The Decemberists - "16 Military Wives"
  19. The White Stripes - "My Doorbell"
  20. My Morning Jacket - "Off the Record"
  21. Amerie - "1 Thing"
  23. LCD Soundsystem - "Tribulations"
  24. Okkervil River - "For Real"
  25. The Killers - "Mr. Brightside"
  26. Annie - "Me Plus One"
  27. Feist - "Inside & Out"
  28. The Game [ft. 50 Cent] - "Hate it or Love it"
  29. The Books - "Be Good to Them Always"
  30. M83 - "Don't Save Us From the Flames"
  31. M.I.A. - "Pull Up the People"
  32. Bright Eyes - "First Day of My Life"
lukeprog01/21/2005

This has no relation to your list, but I felt like asking you: What do you think of the Pitchfork Media track review I've copy/pasted below? I think it's impossibly dense and endlessly amusing, but it doesn't really tell you much about the track. Still, I get a real kick out of Pitchfork's stuff like this:

Muse: "Hysteria (I Want It Now)"
genre: pomp-rock

Oh, sure, turn everything up to 11. You wanna bang your head to some quadrophonic super-Goth big muff monster mashing? By all means-- once that nasty fuzz bass gets done with its hot licks, you can snap your neck to this song's "Closer" goose-step until you see Edgar Allen Poe making time with Lydia from Beetlejuice and a bottle of absinthe forevermore. And, believe it or not, for all its squealing and pummeling, "Hysteria" is a love song, just like Mr. Reznor's catchy little ditty. (Yes, that's what the "it" is.) Of course, it's the kind of love that leads one to twitch and flinch like a 10-year-old on a post-Halloween sugar buzz, but that's the way love goes when you sing like Thom Yorke, preen like Freddie Mercury, dream of Leni Riefenstahl, and write songs like you wanted The Bends to be followed dutifully by 100% Oxygen and Hyperbaric Chamber. Though maybe Hyperbolic Chamber is a more fitting album title pun to gag on while you're catching your breath. [David Raposa] [three stars]

lukeprog03/16/2005

Clarkson at #2? Well, you're not alone.

AAA03/16/2005

I actually found the Ted Leo cover he's talking about, and it just proves that it's not a badly-written song at all.

It's also one of the only immediately grabbing pop songs in recent months...who'da thunk it would be Ms. First American Idol?

JohnnyW04/12/2005

I agree with you on "Since U Been Gone." At first, I didn't want to admit to myself how much I liked it, but anytime I'm in a store or in my car and the beats start in, I'm feeling pretty good.

Of course seeing a local sorority girl mouthing the lyrics in a local restaurant like they had personal meaning to her made me reconsider liking the song. Then I decided it wasn't Ms. Clarkson's fault...

Johnny Waco

lukeprog04/14/2005

Heard the Ted Leo cover and thought it sucked. The original is better, but still not that good. I guess if you compare it to most MTV starlet non-songwriters' music, it's decent.

Critico03/19/2005

I don't like Rich girl, i believe is the worst song on an underrated album.

AAA03/19/2005

I really liked it the first time I heard it, and so I put it on the list...but I'm having trouble stomaching it now.

dayfornight04/10/2005

I'd add any of the first three tracks off The Bravery album.

AAA04/12/2005

Gotta say, not a big fan of The Bravery. It has nothing to do with the recent mini-scandal over the fact that they're a completely manufactured band (though it does cast doubts on their musical ability), but I just find their album to be kinda...boring.

dayfornight04/12/2005

I'm not hip to many of the facts in the new music world. What scandal are you referring to?

dayfornight04/12/2005

Oh, this mini-scandal. I had no idea. Though, frankly, I like The Bravery album better than Hot Fuss, anyways. Just my two cents, though, and that's about all my opinion is worth.

Critico04/14/2005

The new Nine Inch Nails song really sucks, it sounds like any typical nu metal band out there, in fact i thought it was a Lost Prophets singless when i first heard it.

AAA05/01/2005

I'm not much of a N.I.N.-er either.

Critico06/04/2005

I really like the new Fatboy Slim, and the new Gorillaz.

AAA06/05/2005

I haven't heard the new Fatboy Slim, but I like the new Gorillaz single.

marygabucan06/18/2005

Am I the only person who can't get into Bright eyes?

phiveoff06/22/2005

Good list. Okkervil River's Black is by far the best song of the year.

JBones08/24/2005

Really good list. What do you think of Okkervil River's other single For Real?

M.Sturm11/30/2005

Is there a good way to find out which songs were actually released as singles this year? Since, obviously, some songs that were singles this year were off albums from last year. I can't keep track of this type of thing otherwise?

darktremor12/05/2005

For the best singles of the electronic world this year, I'd say...

Ada - The Red Shoes
Coburn - We Interrupt This Program
Morane - Living on a Traffic Island
Andrew Kraml - Safari (James Holden mix)
Roman Flugel - Geht's Nocht
The MFA - The Difference it Makes [it'd been floating around more than 13 months at the beginning of 2005, but it finally got released as a single this year (it was a super-popular dubplate for the longest time, it suffered the same fate as James Holden's now-classic Nothing) ]
Rex the Dog - I look into Mid-air
Baxendale - I Built this City (Michael Mayer mix)
Joel Armstrong - Serenity
James Holden - The Wheel

Merlin12/19/2005

Coburn, definitely. Touche.