THE TOP 100 SONGS OF 2005 1. Fistful Of Love - ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS I Am A Bird Now (Secretly Canadian) 2. 1 Thing - AMERIE Touch (Richcraft/Sony Urban Music/Columbia) 3. Black And White Town - DOVES Some Cities (Heavenly/EMI UK/Capitol) 4. An Honest Mistake - THE BRAVERY The Bravery (Island) 5. Single Again - THE FIERY FURNACES The Fiery Furnaces EP (Rough Trade UK '04) 6. O' Sailor - FIONA APPLE Extraordinary Machine (Epic/Clean Slate) 7. Dance Me In - SONS AND DAUGHTERS The Repulsion Box (Domino) 8. Very Loud - SHOUT OUT LOUDS Howl Howl Gaff Gaff (Bud Fox Sweden '04/Capitol) 9. Hate It Or Love It - THE GAME FEATURING 50 CENT The Documentary (Aftermath/G-Unit/Interscope) 10. The Coast Is Always Changing - MAXIMO PARK A Certain Trigger (Warp) 11. George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People - THE LEGENDARY K.O. (No Label) 12. Siriustar - DEERHOOF The Runners Four (Kill Rock Stars) 13. Senegal Fast Food - AMADOU & MARIAM Dimanche A Bamako (Nonesuch) 14. Born To A Family - THE GO-BETWEENS Oceans Apart (Yep Roc) 15. Formed A Band - ART BRUT Bang Bang Rock & Roll (Banana Recordings/Fierce Panda UK import) 16. It Dawned On Me - CALLA Collisions (Beggars Banquet) 17. The Dark Don't Hide It - MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO What Comes After The Blues (Secretly Canadian) 18. Pi - KATE BUSH Aerial (Columbia) 19. Fuck Forever - BABYSHAMBLES Down In Albion (Rough Trade UK import) 20. The Beast And Dragon, Adored - SPOON Gimme Fiction (Merge) 21. Your Ex-Lover Is Dead - STARS Set Yourself On Fire (Arts & Crafts Canada '04) 22. Oh Well - FIONA APPLE Extraordinary Machine (Epic/Clean Slate) 23. Emily Kane - ART BRUT Bang Bang Rock & Roll (Banana Recordings/Fierce Panda UK import) 24. How Can I Love You If You Won't Lie Down - SILVER JEWS Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City) 25. In This Home On Ice - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (clapyourhandssayyeah.com) 26. Post-Paint Boy - STEPHEN MALKMUS Face The Truth (Matador) 27. Welcome To Jamrock - DAMIAN "JR. GONG" MARLEY Welcome To Jamrock (Tuff Gong) 28. 16 Military Wives - THE DECEMBERISTS Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars) 29. The Fallen - FRANZ FERDINAND You Could Have It So Much Better (Domino) 30. California - LOW The Great Destroyer (Sub Pop) 31. Days I Forgot To Write Down - COMET GAIN City Fallen Leaves (Kill Rock Stars) 32. Cha Ching (Cheque 1, 2 Remix) - LADY SOVEREIGN Run The Road (679 UK/Vice/Atlantic) and Vertically Challenged (Chocolate Industries) 33. Back Water Blues - IRMA THOMAS Our New Orleans 2005 (Nonesuch) 34. Hope There's Someone - ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS I Am A Bird Now (Secretly Canadian) 35. Camions Sauvages - AMADOU & MARIAM Dimanche A Bamako (Nonesuch) 36. Another Imperial Day - NEW MODEL ARMY Carnival (Attack Attack) 37. Pull Up The People - M.I.A. Arular (XL) 38. (I Can't Seem To) Make You Mine - THE CLIENTELE Strange Geometry (Merge) 39. Countrier Than Thou - ROBBIE FULKS Georgia Hard (Yep Roc) 40. My Doorbell - THE WHITE STRIPES Get Behind Me Satan (Third Man/V2) 41. The Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts - SUFJAN STEVENS Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty) 42. Airborne - WUSSY Funeral Dress (Shake It) 43. Loneliness Shines - MALCOLM MIDDLETON Into The Woods (Chemikal Underground) 44. Rough Justice - THE ROLLING STONES A Bigger Bang (Virgin) 45. Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix) - KANYE WEST FEATURING JAY-Z Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella) 46. Easy/Lucky /Free - BRIGHT EYES Digital Ash In A Digital Urn (Saddle Creek) 47. I Want A Warning - IDLEWILD Warnings/Promises (Parlophone/EMI UK/Capitol) 48. Ladyflash - THE GO! TEAM Thunder, Lightning, Strike (Memphis Industries UK '04/Columbia) 49. In Amber - LOVE AS LAUGHTER Laughter's Fifth (Sub Pop) 50. The Fox - SLEATER-KINNEY The Woods (Sub Pop) 51. Peacocks In The Video Rain - JOHN VANDERSLICE Pixel Revolt (Barsuk) 52. It Ended On An Oily Stage - BRITISH SEA POWER Open Season (Rough Trade) 53. I Predict A Riot - KAISER CHIEFS Employment (B-Unique UK '04/Universal) 54. Darlinghurst Nights - THE GO-BETWEENS Oceans Apart (Yep Roc) 55. Between Us - ASWEFALL Bleed (Kill The DJ France import) 56. Retreat - THE RAKES Retreat (Dim Mak) 57. Black Cab - JENS LEKMAN Oh You're So Silent Jens (Service Sweden '03/Secretly Canadian) 58. The Mask - DANGER DOOM FEATURING GHOSTFACE The Mouse And The Mask (Epitaph) 59. Publish My Love - ROGUE WAVE Descended Like Vultures (Sub Pop) 60. The Bones Of An Idol - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Twin Cinema (Matador) 61. The Music Next Door - THE LUCKSMITHS Warmer Corners (Candle Australia/Matinee) 62. Are You Sincere - BOBBY BARE The Moon Was Blue (Dualtone) 63. Middle Of Nowhere - HOT HOT HEAT Elevator (Sire) 64. I'm From Further North Than You - THE WEDDING PRESENT Take Fountain (Scopitones UK/Manifesto) 65. No Wonder - NEIL YOUNG Prairie Wind (Reprise) 66. There Goes The Sun - PERNICE BROTHERS Discover A Lovelier You (Ashmont) 67. P's And Q's - KANO Run The Road (679 UK/Vice/Atlantic) 68. Song Beneath The Song - MARIA TAYLOR 11:11 (Saddle Creek) 69. What Do You Mean? - VIC CHESNUTT Ghetto Bells (New West) 70. Like Eating Glass - BLOC PARTY Silent Alarm (Vice/Dim Mak/Atlantic) 71. Your Little Hoodrat Friend - THE HOLD STEADY Separation Sunday (Frenchkiss) 72. Subtraction - CASS MCCOMBS PREfection (Monitor) 73. Chasing Strange - CHOCOLATE GENIUS INC Black Yankee Rock (Commotion) 74. Give Me Every Little Thing - THE JUAN MACLEAN Less Than Human (DFA/Astralwerks) 75. Career Finders - THE PERCEPTIONISTS FEAT. HUMPTY HUMP AKA SHOCK G Black Dialogue (Definitive Jux) 76. Come Save Us - THE WARLOCKS Surgery (Mute) 77. I Feel Like The Mother Of The World - SMOG A River Ain't Too Much To Love (Drag City) 78. Zoom! - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Lovekraft (Sony UK/Beggars Group/XL) 79. Off The Record - MY MORNING JACKET Z (ATO/RCA) 80. Immigrant Punk - GOGOL BORDELLO Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike (Side One Dummy) 81. Hoist Anchor - HANNE HUKKELBERG Little Things (Propeller Norway '04/Leaf) 82. Shot Down - NINE BLACK ALPS Nine Black Alps (Tiny Evil) 83. Call To Love - CROOKED FINGERS Dignity And Shame (Merge) 84. Today - THE PONYS Celebration Castle (In The Red) 85. Jezebel - IRON & WINE Woman King (Sub Pop) 86. Fireman - LIL' WAYNE Tha Carter II (Cash Money) 87. Soul Meets Body - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Plans (Barsuk/Atlantic) 88. My Pet Rat St Michael - MARK EITZEL Candy Ass (Cooking Vinyl) 89. Paralyzed - BOB MOULD Body Of Song (Yep Roc) 90. What About Us? - THE FALL Fall Heads Roll (Narnack) 91. No Satisfaction - BLACK MOUNTAIN Black Mountain (Jagjaguwar) 92. America's Boy - BROADCAST Tender Buttons (Warp) 93. Casa Nova - MIA DOI TODD Manzanita (Plug Research) 94. Woman - JOHN CALE Black Acetate (Astralwerks) 95. Us - REGINA SPEKTOR Soviet Kitsch (Shoplifter/Sire '04) 96. L' Via L' Viaquez - THE MARS VOLTA Francis The Mute (GSL/Strummer/Universal) 97. You Are A Runner And I Am My Father's Son - WOLF PARADE Apologies To The Queen Mary (Sub Pop) 98. Death Train - A FRAMES Black Forest (Sub Pop) 99. Mr. November - THE NATIONAL Alligator (Beggars Banquet) 100. Cripples Crown - THE CORAL The Invisible Invasion (Deltasonic UK/Columbia) The Top 10 EPs Of 2005 1. THE FIERY FURNACES - The Fiery Furnaces EP (Rough Trade) 2. THE RAKES - Retreat (Dim Mak) 3. MAXIMO PARK - Apply Some Pressure (Warp) 4. IRON & WINE - Woman King (Sub Pop) 5. GOGEL BORDELLO - East Infection (Rubric) 6. NINE BLACK ALPS - Nine Black Alps (Tiny Evil) 7. THE GREENHORNES - East Grande Blues (V2) 8. GRANDADDY - Excerpts From The Diary Of Tod Zilla (V2) 9. LADY SOVEREIGN - Vertically Challenged (Chocolate Industries) 10. BLACK MOUNTAIN - Druganaut (Jagjaguwar) ~~ David Rawson ~~