The Best Singles of 2005

Top 50

1. Neighborhood # 2 (Laika) - ARCADE FIRE
2. Here Comes A City - THE GO-BETWEENS
3. The Good Ones - THE KILLS
4. Juicebox - THE STROKES
5. Sister Jack - SPOON
6. Soul Meets Body - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
7. Daft Punk Is Playing At My House - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
8. Ageless Beauty - STARS
9. Love In A Trashcan - THE RAVEONETTES
10. Portions For Foxes - RILO KILEY
11. Love Is An Unfamiliar Name - THE DUKE SPIRIT
12. Hey Scenesters! - THE CRIBS
13. I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor - ARCTIC MONKEYS
14. Little Sister - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
15. Blue Orchid - THE WHITE STRIPES
16. Jumpers - SLEATER-KINNEY
17. C’mere - INTERPOL
18. Munich - EDITORS
19. Two More Years - BLOC PARTY
20. Walk Away - FRANZ FERDINAND
21. I Feel Just Like A Child - DEVENDRA BANHART
22. California - LOW
23. Black And White Town - DOVES
24. Get Ready For Love - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
25. I Can Hear The Grass Grow / Clasp Hands - THE FALL
26. Blood On Our Hands - DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979
27. Apply Some Pressure - MAXIMO PARK
28. Goodnight Goodnight - HOT HOT HEAT
29. Tied Up Too Tight - HARD-FI
30. Just Let Go - FISCHERSPOONER
31. Sugar - LADYTRON
32. I Need Some Fine Wine And You, You Need To Be Nicer - THE CARDIGANS
33. 16 Military Wives - THE DECEMBERISTS
34. Galaxies - LAURA VEIRS
35. First Day Of My Life - BRIGHT EYES
36. Hope There’s Someone - ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS
37. Forever Lost - THE MAGIC NUMBERS
38. Oh My God - KAISER CHIEFS
39. Work, Work, Work (Pub, Club, Sleep) - THE RAKES
40. An Honest Mistake - THE BRAVERY
41. Hey Man (Now You’re Really Living) - EELS
42. Don't Save Us From The Flames - M83
43. Krafty - NEW ORDER
44. Diamonds From Sierra Leone - KANYE WEST
45. Bucky Done Gun - M.I.A.
46. One Life To Leave - OUT HUD
47. The Great Escape - WE ARE SCIENTISTS
48. Spit It Out - BRENDAN BENSON
49. Ain’t No Easy Way - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
50. Across Yer Ocean - MERCURY REV

The Best Singles of 2004

Top 50

1. Float On - MODEST MOUSE
2. The Rat - THE WALKMEN
3. Staring At The Sun - TV ON THE RADIO
4. Take Me Out - FRANZ FERDINAND
5. Slow Hands - INTERPOL
6. C’mon C’mon - THE VON BONDIES
7. Theme From Sparta FC #2 - THE FALL
8. Mono - COURTNEY LOVE
9. Somebody Told Me - THE KILLERS
10. Lost In The Plot - THE DEARS
11. Equus - BLONDE REDHEAD
12. An Open Letter To NYC - BEASTIE BOYS
13. Irish Blood, English Heart - MORRISSEY
14. Nature Boy - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
15. Reptilia - THE STROKES
16. Mister Mental - THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER
17. Johnny Cash - SONS AND DAUGHTERS
18. Single Again - THE FIERY FURNACES
19. The Letter - PJ HARVEY
20. Beat Your Heart Out - THE DISTILLERS
21. American Idiot - GREEN DAY
22. Good Reason - SEAFOOD
23. You Can’t Hurry Love - THE CONCRETES
24. This Deed - ELECTRELANE
25. Meantime - THE FUTUREHEADS
26. She’s Hearing Voices - BLOC PARTY
27. Hello? Is This Thing On? - !!!
28. Absolute Affirmation - RADIO 4
29. Ladyflash - THE GO TEAM
30. Come To This - THE SLEEPY JACKSON
31. Everybody Come Down - THE DELGADOS
32. Big Time - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES
33. Two-Timing Touch And Broken Bones - THE HIVES
34. Ride - THE VINES
35. I Disappear - THE FAINT
36. Stand Up Tall - DIZZEE RASCAL
37. Jesus Walks - KANYE WEST
38. I Don't Care - THE ROOTS
39. Rocket Ride - FELIX DA HOUSECAT
40. Professional Distortion - MISS KITTIN
41. Followed The Waves - AUF DER MAUR
42. We Fenced Other Gardens With The Bones Of Our Own - LIARS
43. Hit The City - MARK LANEGAN BAND
44. Why Don't You Do It For Me? - 22-20s
45. This Mystic Decade - HOT SNAKES
46. TKO - LE TIGRE
47. Hot Gossip - BLUES EXPLOSION
48. Morning Wonder - THE EARLIES
49. Bam Thwok - PIXIES
50. Can’t Stand Me Now - THE LIBERTINES

The Best Singles of 2003

Top 50

1. Such Great Heights - THE POSTAL SERVICE
2. She Kissed Me (It Felt Like A Hit) - SPIRITUALIZED
3. Drain The Blood - THE DISTILLERS
4. Crawl Home - DESERT SESSIONS
5. This Is Our Emergency - PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES
6. He War - CAT POWER
7. Say Hello To The Angles - INTERPOL
8. Seven Nation Army - THE WHITE STRIPES
9. Maps - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
10. Stop - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
11. First It Giveth - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
12. The Seed 2.0 - THE ROOTS (ft. CODY CHESNUTT)
13. Darts Of Pleasure - FRANZ FERDINAND
14. 12:51 - THE STROKES
15. My Kind Of Soldier - GUIDED BY VOICES
16. Bandages - HOT HOT HEAT
17. Fight Test EP - THE FLAMING LIPS
18. Dark Wave - STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS
19. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS
20. Just Because - JANE’S ADDICTION
21. Way Out West - VERBENA
22. Molly’s Chambers - KINGS OF LEON
23. Kick It - PEACHES (ft. IGGY POP)
24. Hey Ya! - OUTKAST
25. Bad Day - R.E.M.
26. You Were The Last High - THE DANDY WARHOLS
27. (We Wish) You A Protein Christmas - THE FALL
28. Heartbreak Stroll - THE RAVONETTES
29. Bring It On - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
30. Pendulum EP - BROADCAST
31. Out Of Time - BLUR
32. Pass It On - THE CORAL
33. Now It’s On - GRANDADDY
34. We Drink On The Job - EARLIMART
35. Stop My Head - EVAN DANDO
36. Jenny - STELLASTAR*
37. Arctic Snow - BURNING BRIDES
38. Low - FOO FIGHTERS
39. The Bitter End - PLACEBO
40. There There - RADIOHEAD
41. The Shy Retirer - ARAB STRAP
42. Good Dancers - THE SLEEPY JACKSON
43. Mission Bells - THE AISLERS SET
44. Cause = Time - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
45. Bigger Cages, Longer Chains EP - THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY
46. Saturday Morning - EELS
47. Are You Gonna Be My Girl - JET
48. Take It Off - THE DONNAS
49. EZ Pass - HAR MAR SUPERSTAR
50. In Da Club - 50 CENT

The Best Singles of 2002

Top 50

1. Hands Around My Throat - DEATH IN VEGAS
2. Miss Lucifer - PRIMAL SCREAM
3. Losing My Edge - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
4. PDA - INTERPOL
5. Everywhere With Helicopter - GUIDED BY VOICES
6. Black Rooster EP - THE KILLS
7. Fell In Love With A Girl - THE WHITE STRIPES
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
9. Emerge - FISCHERSPOONER
10. Speakers Push The Air - PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES
11. Relative Ways - AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
12. No One Knows - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
13. Sister Surround - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES
14. Love Burns - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
15. Do You Realize?? - THE FLAMING LIPS
16. You Know You’re Right - NIRVANA
17. Someday - THE STROKES
18. Get Free - THE VINES
19. Hate To Say I Told You So - THE HIVES
20. Morning Has Broken - THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER
21. Walking With Thee - CLINIC
22. House Of Jealous Lovers - THE RAPTURE
23. Dance To the Underground - RADIO 4
24. Ghetto Mom - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
25. Come On - THE D4
26. Jonathon Fisk - SPOON
27. Used For Glue - RIVAL SCHOOLS
28. All My Life - FOO FIGHTERS
29. You Held The World In Your Arms - IDLEWILD
30. Let's Push Things Forward - THE STREETS
31. I Against I - MASSIVE ATTACK & MOS DEF
32. Huffer - THE BREEDERS
33. Attack Of The Ghost Riders - THE RAVEONETTES
34. We Laugh Indoors - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
35. Ears Ring EP - RAINER MARIA
36. Fins To Make Us More Fish-Like EP - LIARS
37. Jailhouse - THE BEATINGS
38. Rudd - IKARA COLT
39. Fire On The Moon - THE BELLRAYS
40. Troubled Mind - WILD BILLY CHILDISH & THE BUFF MEDWAYS
41. I.O.U. Love - SIX BY SEVEN
42. Seventeen - LADYTRON
43. I Want To Be The President - ELECTRELANE
44. Lessons Learned From Rocky I To Rocky III - CORNERSHOP
45. You Were Right - BADLY DRAWN BOY
46. Coming In From the Cold - THE DELGADOS
47. Canada - LOW
48. Do It All Over Again - SPIRITUALIZED
49. What A Waster - THE LIBERTINES
50. Grace - SUPERGRASS

 

The Best Singles of 2001

Top 50

1. Glad girls - GUIDED BY VOICES
2. Whatever happened to my rock 'n' roll (punk song) - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
3. Hard to explain - THE STROKES
4. Hotel Yorba - WHITE STRIPES
5. Street gang - A.R.E. WEAPONS
6. Who's got the crack - THE MOLDY PEACHES
7. Souljacker pt.1 - EELS
8. Piano fire - SPARKLEHORSE
9. Capitalism stole my virginity - THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY
10. Discretion grove - STEPHEN MALKMUS
11. Love detective - ARAB STRAP
12. As I sat sadly by her side - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
13. Last nite - THE STROKES
14. Splinter - SEAFOOD
15. Imitation of life - R.E.M.
16. Crystal - NEW ORDER
17. Clint Eastwood - GORILLAZ
18. Nite and fog - MERCURY REV
19. Out of sight - SPIRITUALIZED
20. Hashpipe - WEEZER
21. Song yet to be sung - PERRY FARRELL
22. Uzi - WU-TANG CLAN
23. Androgyny - GARBAGE
24. Grace / Beefheart - RUBY
25. The way that I found you - LADYTRON
26. Bang bang you're dead - EXPERIMENTAL POP BAND
27. Any day now - ELBOW
28. A place called home - P.J. HARVEY
29. Everything hits at once - SPOON
30. New York, New York - RYAN ADAMS
31. 7:30 - PERNICE BROTHERS
32. Proclaim your joy - MARK EITZEL
33. 15 feet of pure white snow - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
34. Your dirty answer - KRISTIN HERSH
35. Jo Jo's jacket - STEPHEN MALKMUS
36. Sink Venice - IKARA COLT
37. Furniture - FUGAZI
38. Invalid litter department - AT THE DRIVE-IN
39. Strange / Instrumental #2 - BUILT TO SPILL
40. The crystal frontier - CALEXICO
41. Tennessee - SILVER JEWS
42. These are the days - LIFT TO EXPERIENCE
43. Falling Away - PRESTON SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY
44. Captain Easychord - STEREOLAB
45. Pilot - THE NOTWIST
46. Witness (1 hope) - ROOTS MANUVA
47. Lapdance - N.E.R.D.
48. My red hot car - SQUAREPUSHER
49. Hot, hotter, hottest - ZITA SWOON
50. Johnny Appleseed - JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS