May 25, 2005

Favorite Songs of 2005

Every few months or so, I make a CD of all the songs that I’ve played over and over – it’s a good way to remember what songs made my heart stop, my breath catch and which inspired me to bounce wildly in the driver’s seat and sing off-key too loudly. I heart music, and these are the songs this year that inspired all those things in me. Since I started it in about April, it will only be representative of my favorite songs of the second half of 2005 and whatever I can remember of the first half. These aren’t necessarily new songs; some are, some aren’t. They’re what I just can’t get enough of this year, whether I’ve loved them before or not.

(Updated when I feel like it.)

• Nada Surf, “If You Leave”
• Kasabian, “Processed Beats”
• Deltron 3030, “3030″
• Kasabian, “Reason is Treason”
• Deltron 3030, “Things You Can Do”
• Death Cab for Cutie, “A Lack of Color”
• A Tribe Called Quest, “Vivrant Thing”
• The Arcade Fire “Neighborhood #3″
• The Arcade Fire, “Crown of Love”
• Beck, “Earthquake Fire”
• Beck, “Black Tambourine”
• Beck, “Hell Yes”
• Beck, “Go It Alone”
• Beck, “Farewell Ride”
• Beck, “Emergency Exit”
• Ben Lee, “Apple Candy”
• Ben Lee, “Ache for You”
• Ben Lee, “We’re All In This Together”
• Killers, “Mr. Brightside”
• Killers, “Somebody Told Me”
• Killers, “Andy, You’re a Star”
• Killers, “Believe Me Natalie”
• Snow Patrol, “Run”
• Modest Mouse, “Float On”
• The Postal Service, “Such Great Heights”
• The Postal Service, “There’s Never Enough Time”
• The Shins, “New Slang” (this was a 2004 favorite, but it’s my blog. It stays.)
• The Shins, “Caring is Creepy” (*ahem* see above)
• The Shins, “Know Your Onion!”
• The Shins, “Pressed in a Book”
• The Shins, “Mine’s Not a High Horse”
• The Velvet Underground, “Venus in Furs” (thank you, Boyfriendhew)
• Decemberists, “We Both Go Down Together”
• Beck, “Girl”
• Spoon, “I Turn My Camera On”
• Tegan & Sara, “Walking With a Ghost”
• Tegan & Sara, “Where Does the Good Go”
• Anna Nalick, “Breathe (2 AM)”
• Anna Nalick, “Forever Love (Digame)”
• Dr. Octagon, “Earth People”
• Tegan & Sara, “I Can’t Take it”
• Spoon, “Beast and Dragon, Adored”
• Bright Eyes, “We Are Nowhere and It’s Now”
• Bright Eyes, “First Day of My Life”
• Bright Eyes, “Land Locked Blues”
• Coldplay, “Square One”
• Coldplay, “What If”
• Coldplay, “Talk”
• Coldplay, “X&Y”
• Coldplay, “Swallowed in the Sea”
• Coldplay, [Hidden Track]
• Keane, “Sunshine”
• White Stripes, “My Doorbell”
• White Stripes, “Blue Orchid”
• Snow Patrol, “How to be Dead”
• Gorillaz, “Feel Good Inc.”
• Jem, “Maybe I’m Amazed”
• Nathaniel Merriweather/Jennifer Charles/Dan the Automator “To Catch a Thief”
• Jem, “Come on Closer”
• Death Cab For Cutie, “Soul Meets Body”
• Death Cab For Cutie, “Someday you Will Be Loved”
• Death Cab For Cutie, “What Sarah Said”
• Interpol, “Specialist”
• Patrick Park, “Something Pretty”
• The New Pornographers, “Twin Cinema”
• Interpol, “Next Exit”
• Interpol “Slow Hands”
• Doves, “Walk in Fire”
• Doves, “The Storm”
• Doves, “Black and White Town”
• The Like, “June Bloom”
• M. Ward, “Let’s Dance”
• Rufus Wainwright, “Agnus Dei”
• Rufus Wainwright, “Gay Messiah”
• Rufus Wainwright, “Dinner at Eight”
• Rufus Wainwright, “I Don’t Know What It Is”
• Rufus Wainwright, “Oh, What a World”
• Interpol, “Untitled”
• Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, “Magnolia Mountain”
• Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, “How to Keep Love Alive”

I didn’t finish this list. This is only up to October or November, at the lastest. I’m a slacker. Moo.

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