Best of 2005: NME's Singles of the Year

While you can argue about NME's obvious, safe choices (though controversial, for other reasons) for Albums of the year, it's harder to dispute their Top 50 Tracks of 2005. (It's not singles anymore, I guess, but that's what this is obviously -- Songs Officially Released in the UK in 2005 -- otherwise it might include all sorts of other stuff and probably not The Arcade Fire.) Many of these will appear on my list, whenever I get around to it, though Clor's "Love + Pain" will be much higher on the chart. And I certainly wouldn't have THREE songs by the Rakes, but maybe one. And yes I know #50 is missing. Will fill that in when someone tells me what it is.

 

1. "Hounds Of Love" - The Futureheads
2. "Rebellion (Lies)" - The Arcade Fire
3. "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" - The Arctic Monkeys
4. "Gold Digger" - Kanye West
5. "My Doorbell" - The White Stripes
6. "Fuck Forever" - Babyshambles
7. "Hope There's Someone" - Antony & The Johnsons
8. "Somewhere" - Else Razorlight
9. "Do You Want To" - Franz Ferdinand
10. "Juicebox" - The Strokes
11. "Fake Tales Of San Francisco" - The Arctic Monkeys
12. "Hard To Beat" - Hard-Fi
13. "Banquet" - Bloc Party
14. "Neighbourhood #2 (Lakia)" - The Arcade Fire
15. "La Ritournelle" - Sebastien Teller
16. "DARE" - Gorillaz
17. "Daft Punk Is Playing My House" - LCD Soundsystem
18. "I Predict A Riot" - The Kaiser Chiefs
19. "Please Stand Up" - British Sea Power
20. "1 Thing" - Amerie
21. "Blue Orchid" - The White Stripes
22. "Oxygen" - Willy Mason
23. "First Day Of My Life" - Bright Eyes
24. "Work, Work, Work (Pub, Club, Sleep)" - The Rakes
25. "Bored and Somewhat Detatched" - Snow White
26. "Apply Some Pressure" - Maximo Park
27. "22 Grand Job" - The Rakes
28. "Munich" - Editors
29. "Off The Record" - My Morning Jacket
30. "Forever Lost" - The Magic Numbers
31. "Lyla" - Oasis
32. "Hey Scenesters!" - The Cribs
33. "My Dead Wife" - Absentee
34. "California" - Low
35. "Pull Out" - Death From Above 1979
36. "Hey Man (Now We're Really Living)" - The Eels
37. "Strasbourg" - The Rakes
38. "Love and Pain" - Clor
39. "Hung Up" - Madonna
40. "My Friend Dario" - Vitallic
41. "Zoo Time" - Mystery Jets
42. "Feel Good Inc." - Gorillaz
43. "It's Not The Only Way To Feel Happy" - Field Music
44. "Love In A Trashcan" - The Raevonettes
45. "Lose Control" - Missy Elliot
46. "Freakin' Out" - Graham Coxon
47. "Oh My God!" - Kasier Chiefs
48. "The Great Escape" - We Are Scientists
49. "Lucky 6" - Lupen Crook