THE ATTAGAG: December 2011

Saturday, December 31, 2011

BEST SONGS OF 2011

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

FLASHBACK: Best Songs of 2010

Best Songs of 2010

1-Arcade Fire “We Used To Wait” The Suburbs
2-Metric “Gold Guns Girls” Fantasies
3-Vampire Weekend “Cousins” Contra
4-Mumford and Sons “Little Lion Man” Sigh No More
5-New Young Pony Club “Lost a Girl” The Optimist
6-Plastic Operator “Parasols [Easy D Remix]” Parasols Remixes
7-Sophie Ellis-Bextor “Bittersweet” Straight from the Heart
8-Neon Trees “Animal” Habits
9-Kings of Leon “Radioactive” Come Around Sundown
10-The Black Keys “Tighten Up” Brothers
11-Black Eyed Peas “Rock That Body” The E.N.D.
12-Florence + The Machine “Dog Days Are Over” Lungs
13-La Roux “Bulletproof” La Roux
14-Eminen featuring Rihanna “Love The Way You Lie” Recovery
15-Ok Go “White Knuckles” Of the Blue Colour of the Sky
16-Switchfoot “The Sound” Hello Hurricane
17-B.o.B. featuring Bruno Mars “Nothin’ on You” B.o.B. Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray
18-Lady Antebellum “Need You Now” Need You Now
19-Lady Gaga featuring Beyonce “Telephone” The Fame Monster
20-The XX “Crystalised” The XX
21-B.o.B. featuring Hayley Williams “Airplanes” B.o.B. Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray
22-Delphic “Doubt” Delphic
23-Katy Perry “Teenage Dream” Teenage Dream
24-Cee Lo Green “Fuck You” The Lady Killer
25-New Young Pony Club “We Want To” The Optimist
26-The Raveonettes “I Wanna Be Adored” 50 Years of Dr. Martens
27-Silversun Pickups “Substitution” Swoon
28-Arcade Fire “The Suburbs” The Suburbs
29-Chemical Brothers “Swoon” Further
30-Far East Movement “Like a G6” Free Wired
31-Shakira “Waka Waka [This Time for Africa]” Waka Waka [This Time for Africa]-The Single
32-Kylie Minogue “All the Lovers” Aphrodite
33-David Guetta featuring Chris Willis, Fergie, and LMFAO “Gettin’ Over You” One More Love
34-Papa Roach “Kick in the Teeth” Time for Annihilation
35-Pink “Raise Your Glass” Greatest Hits…So Far!
36-Rihanna “Only Girl (In The World)” Loud
37-Daft Punk “Derezzed” Tron Legacy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
38-Paramore “The Only Exception” Brand New Eyes
39-Janus “Eyesore” Red Right Return
40-LCD Soundsystem “I Can Change” This Is Happening
41-Civil Twilight “Letters from the Sky” Civil Twilight
42-Of Montreal “Coquet Coquette” False Priest
43-Paper Tongues “Trinity” Paper Tongues
44-The Drums “Let’s Go Surfing” The Drums
45-Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros “40 Day Dream” Up from Below
46-Phantogram “When I’m Small” Eyelid Movies
47-Vampire Weekend “Holiday” Contra
48-Shakira “Loca” Sale el Sol
49-Edward Maya featuring Vika Jugulina “Stereo Love” Stereo Love
50-Kylie Minogue “Cupid Boy” Aphrodite
51-David Guetta featuring Rihanna “Who’s That Chick?” One More Love
52-Two Door Cinema Club “Undercover Martyn” Tourist History
53-The National “Bloodbuzz Ohio” High Violet
54-Royksopp “Happy Up Here [Boys Noize Remix]”
55-Yeasayer “Ambling Amp” Odd One
56-The Gay Blades “Try to Understand” Savages
57-Bruno Mars “Just the Way You Are” Doo-Wops and Hooligans
58-Anberlin “Impossible” Dark is the Way, Light is a Place
59-New Young Pony Club “Chaos” The Optimist
60-Gorillaz featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack “Stylo” Plastic Beach
61-Klaxons “Echoes” Surfing The Void
62-Sick Puppies “Maybe” Tri-Polar
63-Weezer “Memories” Hurley
64-The Heavy “How You Like Me Now” The House That Dirt Built
65-Ovi and Paula Seling “Playing With Fire” Playing With Fire
66-New Pornographers “My Shepherd” Together
67-Robyn “Indestructible” Body Talk
68-Motion City Soundtrack “Her Words Destroyed My Planet” My Dinosaur Life
69-Local Natives “Wide Eyes” Gorilla Manor
70-Afrojack featuring Eva Simmons “Take Over Control”
71-Linkin Park “Catalyst” A Thousand Suns
72-Foals “Blue Blood” Total Life Forever
73-Stone Sour “Say You’ll Haunt Me” Audio Secrecy
74-Arcade Fire “Ready to Start” The Suburbs
75-Silversun Pickups “The Royal We” Swoon
76-Jimmy Eat World “My Best Theory” Invented
77-Junior Caldera featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor “Can’t Fight This Feeling” Debut
78-Hockey “Too Fake” Hockey
79-Miniature Tigers “Bullfighter Jacket” Miniature Tigers
80-B.o.B. featuring Rivers Cuomo “Magic” B.o.B. Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray
81-Belle and Sebastian “I Want the World to Stop” Write About Love
82-Frightened Rabbits “Swim Until You Can’t See Land” The Winter of Mixed Drinks
83-Band of Horses “Laredo” Infinite Arms
84-Sleigh Bells “Tell ‘Em” Treats
85-Freemasons featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor “Heartbreak [Make Me A Dancer]” Freemasons Present Freemaison Volume One
86-Selena Gomez and The Scene “Naturally” Kiss & Tell
87-Florence + The Machine “You’ve Got the Love” Lungs
88-Deftones “Diamond Eyes” Diamond Eyes
89-The Gaslight Anthem “American Slang” American Slang
90-Weezer “Tripping Down the Freeway” Raditude
91-Paramore “Brick by Boring Brick” Brand New Eyes
92-Apocalyptica featuring Gavin Rossdale “End of Me” 7th Symphony
93-Goldfrapp “Alive” Head First
94-Duck Sauce “Barbra Streisand” Duck Sauce
95-TV Buddhas “Fun Girls” TV Buddhas
96-Taio Cruz featuring Ludacris “Break Your Heart”
97-Violent SoHo “Jesus Stole My Girlfriend”
98-The Whigs “Kill Me Caroline”
99-Chevelle “Letter from a Thief” Sci-Fi Crimes
100-Interpol “Barricade” Success
101-Little Big Town ‘Little White Church” Little White Church

FLASHBACK: Best Songs of 2009

Best Songs of 2009

There is a three-way tie for the number one spot. Therefore, there are 13 songs in the top ten and seventy-eight songs in this list, the largest list ever assembled. This is probably the best list I have ever assembled since I began doing this back in 2001.

1-Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling” The E.N.D.

My favorite sellouts of all time (“Sell outs? We sell out concerts!”). They may have sold out big time thanks to Target and many other endorsements but they can still big on catchy hits and bring an incredible energy with their music and performances. After Fergie released her solo album, the powerhouse regrouped and released The E.N.D. in the summer of 2009, and they became one of the few artists in history to simultaneously occupy the top two spots of Billboard’s Hot 100 throughout the summer (along with “Boom Boom Pow”). “I Gotta Feeling” is pure fun, it’s not selling you an agenda or trying to become deep and complex like many artists and their works, it works across all boundaries, just like their earlier stuff, like “Let’s Get It Started” and “Where is the Love?”. After a hell-bent year for many people, they found their escape through many ways, and one of the most popular was this song. Plus, it’s great to jump up and down and dance to at the clubs and at parties, or even in the car ride to and/or from the clubs and parties. Tonight’s gonna be a good night indeed.

1-Kings of Leon “Use Somebody” Only by the Night

This song works for many occasions, a romance ballad, an ode to great and energetic music, an anthem to the young and young at heart, a soundtrack staple, a song to rock out to at a concert with thousands of others on a hot summers night (like I did at Lollapalooza when they performed). After years of little fanfare in the States, the Followill brothers and cousin finally broke into the big time with this and other great hits off their Grammy-Award winning platinum bestseller, Only by the Night (2008). Kings of Leon is a fine example of the little rock band that could. And they did, thanks to their down-to-earth and casual attitudes, loads of whiskey, and many more loads of fans. All of that equals to their well-deserved staggering success.

1-Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Zero” It’s Blitz!

When Karen-O first belted out the song “Maps” back in 2003, you knew you were in for a treat. You were also in for something completely different than what was around in alternative at the time. “Rarely, if ever, had female sexuality and innermost emotions been broadcast with such explicit detail, and with such style and panache”, wrote Robin Murray in Clash Magazine. Karen-O, along with Nick Zinner and Brian Chase, brought depth and intensity into each song and performance, especially during their impressive performance at Lollapalooza in August. "The album proves that they can provide epic music with personal themes, that YYYs can expand without losing what made us fall for them in the first place." (Clash) The first single off their incredible third album, It’s Blitz!, provides the same awe, rawness, and frantic yet sexual pace they have provided music lovers for the better part of this decade. “Zero” is a surprisingly great dancefloor song, one that you can rock out at the club or start a mosh pit with at a concert. This is their best work to date, and possibly the first great rock song of the Obama and Twitter era.

2-Ladyhawke “Paris is Burning” Ladyhawke

This is probably the best song about chaos between boys and girls and screaming and getting wasted on wine in the City of Lights. Ladyhawke, aka Pip Brown, is a New Zealand musician who I wish had become a breakthrough success in the US, but not all wishes can come true. Nevertheless, she is a force to be reckon with. Her self-titled debut album, which has reached gold status in the UK, sounds much like a lost ‘80s soundtrack, except it hasn’t aged badly or become irrelevant or sound dated, unlike much music from that era, like Gary Numan (“Cars”) or Duran Duran (“Rio”). “Despite its blatant retro vibe, it still manages to sound fresh thanks to its clever production and Brown's fiery and vibrant vocals.” (Jon O’Brien, Allmusic.com)

3-Phoenix “1901” Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

The French have produced many great things: Moliere, wine, bread, The Eiffel Tower, many romantic stories and dreams, movies, Catherine Deneuve, and Cyrano de Bergerac—but pop music…not so much. (Raise your hand if you own a copy of any Oui Oui album. No takers?) But then comes along Phoenix, a French band that delivers a sense of irony and playfulness to their music. They made pop fun instead of a burden or something forced out of a musician from the record company. Thanks to a Cadillac ad and a Grammy nomination, they are finally gaining some mainstream exposure stateside.

4-Jay Z featuring Alicia Keys “Empire State of Mind” The Blueprint III

One of hip-hop’s talented MCs and one of the most talented singer/songwriters/pianists of our time team up for this new anthem for the Big Apple. After flirting with retirement, Jay Z returned with the concept album American Gangster (2007), which was good, but not as good as Hova’s great works, such as The Blueprint (2001). This ode to New York stands out among his classics and at age forty, he is much more talented, especially lyrically (“Don’t bite the apple, Eve, caught up in the in crowd/Now you’re in style and in the winter gets cold/En vogue with your skin out/the city of sin is a pity on a whim”), than MCs half his age.

5-The Decemberists “The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid” The Hazards of Love

One of seventeen tracks off their rock opera The Hazards of Love, The Decemberists proved that music can be a great tool for captivating storytelling. The Hazards of Love is a love story between a young woman and a shape-shifting beast and the forces that try to destroy their romance. They delivered a powerful and emotionally remarkable performance at this year’s Lollapalooza, which further deepened my admiration for a band that can rock out the accordion and Hammond organ, among other instruments not usually associated with rock music. This is a band that truly deserves the term rock gods.

6-The Kills “Tape Song” Midnight Boom

“Midnight Boom bleeds color, excitement, and emotion into VV and Hotel's music, transforming it into daring, dirty pop that is unrepentantly glamorous and tender, high-end and trashy, and it glitters like diamonds mixed with broken glass.” (Heather Phares, Allmusic.com)
I was too tired to write anything at this point (these were written out of order). I will say that this is a great sexy rock song. Especially the bass and the chorus.

7-Weezer “(If You Are Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To” Raditude

“In writing about love and desire --- about being an adolescent, or at least feeling like one --- Cuomo dials into a purity of feeling that adulthood slowly drains,” wrote Greg Kot when reviewing Weezer’s seventh album. After dealing with middle age and some less than thrilling songs (“Pork ‘n’ Beans” rings a bell?), Rivers Cuomo and Co. fondly look back at those wonder years. And what better song to kick off the nostalgia than this Motown-styled ditty about the trials of young love. “At first, the song seems to be a sophomoric and jokey make-out track hinging on the line, "So make a move 'cuz I ain't got all night." However, the song ends with the teen couple staring at each other as grown-ups in a troubled marriage with nothing left to say to fix their problems but, "make a move 'cuz I ain't got all night." (Matt Collar, Allmusic.com)

8-The Wombats “My Circuitboard City” My Circuitboard City

These Liverpool, UK natives have been a loud and impressive force in the British indie music scene ever since they released their first album, A Guide to Love, Loss, and Desperation (2007). “Looking for the lighter side of crushing disappointment”, wrote Jon Young when reviewing the album for Spin in the summer of 2008, “frontman Matthew Murphy fends off depression with wry quips, recounting how a "sleazy remark about her whorish dress" spoiled a promising encounter ("Backfire at the Disco") and confessing an unhealthy obsession with unattainable women, including a drunken dental hygienist ("Little Miss Pipedream").” “My Circuitboard City” is another great song to add to their collection of off-the-wall songs and absurdness.
Have a dance,
Have a drink,
Suppress it back ruin everything,
Have a dance,
Have a drink,
Suppress it back ruin everything tonight,
Lets ruin everything tonight.

9-Passion Pit “The Reeling” Manners

Passion Pit hails from Cambridge, Massachusetts, a place more known for its halls of academia than for electronic music. “The Reeling” is the first single off their debut album, Manners, which was celebrated with a release party that eventually became a concert on a boat course in New York. “A carefree night on the night and is visually enhanced with a unique paper-ripped effect”, described AOL.com when they premiered the stunning music video in April. “A pop record that exists in a world of its own”, wrote Mike Diver for Clash magazine. The same can be said for this promising act.

10-Lady Gaga “Bad Romance” The Fame Monster

She is undeniably the most outlandish and outstanding pop star that 2009 has produced. Her outfits and on-stage stunts, most notable the VMA performance of “Paparazzi” where her face is covered in blood, are out of this world. But her true talent, other than her sense of fashion, is her music crops, especially the lyrics she penned for The Fame (2008) and The Fame Monster (2009), the former earning her a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. The first artist to have four songs from a debut album go #1 on the Billboard charts, Gaga is a force to be reckoned with. She is a far cry from the pop stars we were spoon-fed at the beginning of this decade. And pop music has rarely been more entertaining because of it.

11-Metric “Help, I’m Alive” Fantasies
12-Black Eyed Peas “Boom Boom Pow! THE E.N.D.
13-Bloc Party “One Month Off” Intimacy
14-Kelly Clarkson “My Life Would Suck Without You” All I Ever Wanted
15-Beyonce “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” I Am…Sasha Fierce
16-Taylor Shift “You Belong With Me” Fearless
17-Shakira “She Wolf”/ “Loba” She Wolf
18-Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Heads Will Roll” It’s Blitz!
19-Arctic Monkeys “Crying Lightning” Humbug
20-The Cast of Glee “Don’t Stop Believin” Glee Soundtrack Volume 1
21-Lady Gaga “Poker Face” The Fame
22-Silversun Pickups “Panic Switch” Swoon
23-Foals “Cassius” Antidote
24-Ida Maria “I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked” Fortress ‘Round My Heart
25-The Gaslight Anthem “The ’59 Sound” The ’59 Sound
26-Grizzly Bear “Two Weeks” Veckatimest
27-Metric “Gimme Sympathy” Fantasies
28-Airborne Toxic Event “Sometime Around Midnight” Airborne Toxic Event
29-Mariah Carey “Obsessed” Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
30-TV on the Radio “Golden Age” Dear Science
31-Katy Perry “Waking Up in Vegas” One of the Boys
32-Peter Bjorn and John “It Don’t Move Me” Living Thing
33-Taylor Shift “Love Story” Fearless
34-Franz Ferdinand “No You Girls” Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
35-White Rabbits “The Plot” Fort Nightly
36-The Killers “Spaceman” Day & Age
37-Lady Gaga “Paparazzi” The Fame
38-Kid Cudi “Day ‘N’ Nite’ Man on the Moon
39-Pheonix “Lisztomania” Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
40-Black Eyed Peas “Meet Me Halfway” The E.N.D.
41-Matt and Kim “Daylight” Green Label Sound
42-Vampire Weekend “The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance” Vampire Weekend
43-Jay Z featuring Rihanna and Kanye West “Run This Town” The Blueprint III
44-Kings of Leon “Revelry” Only by the Night
45-U2 “Get On Your Boots” No Line on the Horizon
46-Death Cab for Cutie “Equinox” New Moon Soundtrack
47-Silversun Pickups “Substitution” Swoon
48-Cage the Elephant “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked”
49-Pitbull “I Know You Want Me”
50-Sick Puppies “You’re Going Down”
51-Pink “Please Don’t Leave Me” Funhouse
52-Foo Fighters “Wheels” Best of Foo Fighters
53-Ida Maria “Oh my God” Fortress ‘round My Heart
54-The Bravery “Slow Poison”
55-No Age “Teen Creeps” Nouns
56-Kings of Leon “Notion” Only by the Night
57-Blue October “Dirt Room”
58-Metronomy “A Thing For Me” Metronomy
59-Telekinesis “Coast of Carolina”
60-The Noisettes “Never Forget You”
61-3oh!3 “Don’t Trust Me”
62-Them Crooked Vultures “New Fang” Them Crooked Vultures
63-Karen O “All is Love” Where the Wild Things Are Soundtrack
64-Rihanna “Russian Roulette” Rated R
65-Tegan and Sara “Hell”
66-30 Seconds to Mars “Kings and Queens” This is War
67-The Pigeon Detectives “This is an Emergency” This is an Emergency
68-Maxwell “Pretty Things” Blacksummers Night…
69-Sonic Youth “What We Know” The Eternal
70-Eels “All the Beautiful Things” Hombre Lobo
71-Ke$ha “Tik Tok”
72-The Virgins “She’s Expensive” The Virgins
73-Tokyo Police Club “Citizens of Tomorrow” A Lesson in Crime
74-Fleet Foxes “Blue Ridge Mountain” Ragged Wood
75-Spinnerette “Baptized by Fire”

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

FLASHBACK: Best Songs of 2008

1-Hot Chip “One Pure Thought” Made in the Dark

2-Vampire Weekend “A-Punk” Vampire Weekend

3-The Killers “Shadowplay” Sawdust

4-Metro Station “Shake It” Metro Station

5-The Wombats “Kill the Director” A Guide to Love, Loss, and Desperation

6-Rihanna “Please Don’t Stop the Music” Good Girl Gone Bad

7-Kings of Leon “Sex on Fire” Only By the Night

8-Does It Offend You, Yeah? “Being Bad Feels Pretty Good” You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into

9- Goldfrapp “Happiness” Clowns

10- Kylie Minogue “Speakerphone” X

11- The Ting Tings “Shut Up and Let Me Go” We Started Nothing

12-Carrie Underwood “Ever, Ever After” Enchanted: Soundtrack from the Motion Picture

13-Sara Bareilles “Love Song” Little Voice

14-R.E.M. “Supernatural Superstitious” Accelerate

15-Weezer “Pork and Beans” Weezer (The Red Album)

16-Estelle featuring Kanye West “American Boy” Shine

17-Death Cab for Cutie “I Will Possess Your Heart” Narrow Stairs

18-We The Kings “Check Yes Juliet” We The Kings

19-Sam Sparro “Black and Gold” Black and Gold

20-MIA “Paper Planes” Kala

21-Muse “Starlight” Black Holes and Revelations

22-Cut Copy “Lights and Music” (Boyz Noise Remix) In Ghost Colours

23-Foo Fighters “Let It Die” Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace

24-Britney Spears “Piece of Me” Blackout

25-Does It Offend You, Yeah? “Epic Last Song” You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into

26-Beyonce “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” I Am…Sasha Fierce

27-Flogging Molly “Float” Float

28-Crystal Castles “Vanished” Crystal Castles

29-Ashes Divide “The Stone” Keep Telling Myself It’s Alright

30-T.I. featuring Rihanna “Live Your Life” Paper Trail

31-Rihanna “Disturbia” Good Girl Gone Bad

32-Pink “So What” Funhouse

33-Kylie Minogue “In My Arms” X

34- Jennifer Hudson “Spotlight” Jennifer Hudson

35-Adele “Chasing Pavements” 19

36-Duffy “Mercy” Rockferry

37-MGMT “Kids” Oracular Spectacular

38- Katy Perry “Hot ‘N’ Cold” One of the Boys

39-Does It Offend You, Yeah? “We Are Rockstars” You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into

40-Britney Spears “Womanizer” Circus

41-Radiohead “House of Cards” In Rainbows

42-Mystery Jets “Half in Love with Elizabeth” Twenty One

43-Carolina Liar “I’m not over” Coming to Terms

44-Lupe Fiasco “Superstar” The Cool

45-September “Cry for You” September

46-Danger “11h30” Danger

47-The Whigs “I Never Want to Go Home” Mission Control

48-LCD Soundsystem “Someone Great” Sound of Silver

49-The Last Shadow Puppets “The Age of the Understatement” The Age of the Understatement

50-Oasis “The Shock of the Lightning” Dig Out Your Soul

51-The Raconteurs “Salute Your Solution” Consolers of the Lonely

52-Paramore “Decode” Twilight: Soundtrack from the Motion Picture

53- Maroon 5 “Won’t Go Home Without You” It Won’t Be So Before Long

54-Foxboro Hottubs “Mother Mary” Stop Drop and Roll!

55-Bloc Party “Mercury” Single

56-CSS “Move” Donkey

57-Lil’ Wayne “Mr. Carter” Tha Carter III

58-The Heavy “Set Me Free” Great Vengeance and Furious Fire

59-One Day as a Lion “Wild International” One Day as a Lion

60-Thurston Moore “The Shape Is In a Trance” Trees Outside the Academy

61-Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Turn Into” Show Your Bones

62-Gnarls Barkley “Run” Run

63-The Ting Tings “Great DJ” We Started Nothing

64-Franz Ferdinand “Lucid Dreams” Lucid Dreams

65-Kenna “Say Goodbye to Love” Make Sure They See My Face

Monday, December 26, 2011

FLASHBACK: Best Songs of 2007

Best Songs of 2007

1-Red Hot Chili Peppers “Snow ((Hey Ho))”
2-Peter, Bjorn, and John “Young Folk”
3-Feist “1234”
4-Silversun Pickups “Lazy Eye”
5-Kanye West and Daft Punk “Stronger”
6- Interpol ‘The Heinrich Maneuver”
7-Flyleaf “All Around Me”
8-Gwen Stefani featuring Akon “The Sweet Escape”
9-The Cribs “Men’s Needs”
10-Foo Fighters “The Pretender”
11-New Young Pony Club “Ice Cream”
12-Metric “Grow Up (And Blow Away)”
13-Amy Winehouse “Rehab”
14-Rihanna featuring Jay Z “Umbrella”
15-The Shins “Phantom Limb”
16-Radiohead “Bodysnatchers”
17-Linkin Park “What I’ve Done”
18-The White Stripes “Icky Thump”
19-Plain White Ts “Hey There Delilah”
20-Arcade Fire “Black Mirror”
21-LCD Soundsystem “North American Scum”
22-Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova “Fallen Slowly”
23-Modest Mouse “Dashboard”
24-New Young Pony Club “Hiding on the Staircase”
25-Minus the Bear “Knights”
26-Garbage “Tell Me Where It Hurts”
27-We Are Pilots “New Disco”
28-Against Me! “Thrash Unreal”
29-Avril Lavigne “Girlfriend”
30-The Chemical Brothers “Do It Again”
31-Fall Out Boy “Thnks Fr Th Mmrs”
32-Incubus “Dig”
33-Linkin Park “Bleed It Out”
34-Los Campesinos “You! Me! Dancing!”
35-Kylie Minogue “2 Hearts”
36-Sonic Youth “I’m not there”
37-Nine Inch Nails “My Violent Heart”
38-Rilo Kiley “Silver Lining”
39-The White Stripes ‘You Don’t Know What Love Is”
40-Deftones “Mein”
41-Kings of Leon “On Call”
42-Arctic Monkeys “Brainstorm”
43-Rihanna and Sean Paul “Break It Off”
44-Fergie featuring Ludacris “Glamorous”
45-Nelly Furtado “Say It Right”
46-Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Cheated Hearts”
47-New Young Pony Club “Lucky”
48-Jimmy Eat World "Big Casino"
49-Muse “Supermassive Black Hole”
50-The Red Jump Suit Apparatus “Face Down”

Friday, December 23, 2011

FLASHBACK: Best Songs of 2006

Best Songs of 2006

1-Justin Timberlake “Sexyback”
2-Arctic Monkeys “I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor”
3-Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Gold Lion”
4-The Raconteurs “Steady As She Goes”
5-Gnarls Barkley “Crazy”
6-Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean “Hips Don’t Lie”
7-OK Go “Here It Goes Again”
8-Taking Back Sunday “MakeDamnSure”
9-The Killers “When We Were Young”
10-Red Hot Chili Peppers “Dani California”
11-KT Tunstall “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree”
12-Corrine Bailey Rae “Put Your Records On”
13-Snow Patrol “Chasing Cars”
14-Keane “Is It Any Wonder?”
15-Fall Out Boy “Dance, Dance”
16-Rihanna “SOS (Rescue Me)”
17-All American Rejects “Move Along”
18-Christina Aguilera “Ain’t No Other Man”
19-O.A.R. “Love and Memories”
20-Mary J. Blige “Be Without You”
21-The Fray “How to Save a Life”
22-Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland “Promiscuous”
23-The Strokes “Juicebox”
24-Weezer “Perfect Situation”
25-Hinder “Lips of an Angel”
26-Blue October “Hate Me”
27-Natasha Bedingfield “Unwritten”
28-Nelly Furtado “Maneater”
29-30 Seconds to Mars “The Kill”
30-Jack Johnson “Upside Down”
31-Gorillaz “Dare”
32-Justin Timberlake featuring T.I. “My Love”
33-Stone Sour “Through Glass”
34-Death Cab for Cutie “Crooked Teeth”
35-Nada Surf “Always Love”
36-Madonna “Hung Up”
37-Sean Jean “Temperature”
38-Franz Ferdinand “Your Diary”
39-Kelly Clarkson “Walk Away”
40-Scissors Sister “I Don’t Feel Like Dancing”
41-Foo Fighters “Cold Day in the Sun”
42-The Raveonettes “That Great Love Sound”
43-The Thermals “Here’s Your Future”
44-Arctic Monkeys “A Certain Romance”
45-Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Phenomena”
46-Hot Chip “Over and Over”
47-Chris Brown “Run It”
48-Cat Power “Lived in Bars”
49-The Black Keys “You’re the One”
50-Band of Horses “The Funeral”

Thursday, December 22, 2011

FLASHBACK: Best Songs of 2005

Best Songs of 2005

1-The Killers “Mr. Brightside”
2-Stereophonics “Dakota”
3-Gorillaz “Feel Good Inc”
4-Foo Fighters “Best of You”
5-Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx “Gold Digger”
6-Weezer "Beverly Hills"
7-Garbage “Bleed Like Me”
8-Motion City Soundtrack "Everything is Alright"
9-Mariah Carey “We Belong Together”
10-Shakira featuring Alejandro Sanz “La Tortura”
11-Coldplay “Speed of Sound”
12-Death Cab for Cutie “Soul Meets Body”
13-Franz Ferdinand “Do You Want To?”
14-Nine Inch Nails “The Hand That Feeds”
15-Green Day “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
16-Beck “E-Pro”
17-The Bravery “An Honest Mistake”
18-Fall Out Boy “Sugar, We’re Going Down”
19-Missy Elliott featuring Ciara “Lose Control”
20-Kelly Clarkson “Because of You”
21-The Mars Volta “The Widow”
22-The White Stripes “My Doorbell”
23-Rise Against “Swing Life Away”
24-Queens of the Stone Age “Little Sister”
25-Rihanna “Pon de Replay”
26-Dave Matthews Band “American Baby”
27-Fatboy Slim “Wonderful Night”
28-Foo Fighters “DOA”
29-My Chemical Romance “Helena”
30-Hot Hot Heat “Middle of Nowhere”
31-The White Stripes “Blue Orchid”
32-Nine Inch Nails “Only”
33-OK Go "A Million Ways"
34-Green Day “Wake Me Up When September Ends”
35-Louis XVI “Finding Out True Love is Blind”
36-Beastie Boys “Ch-Ch-Check It Out”
37-Interpol “Narc”
38-Papa Roach “Scars”
39-Gwen Stefani “Cool”
40-The Killers “All These Things That I Have Done”
41-Black Rebel Motorcycle Club “Ain’t No Easy Way”
42-Amerie “1 Thing”
43-Gavin DeGraw “I Don’t Want To”
44-Garbage “Why Do You Love Me?”
45-Jimmy Eat World “Work”
46-Depeche Mode “Precious”
47-Ciara featuring Missy Elliott “1, 2 Step”
48-Kelly Osbourne “One Word”
49-Eminem “Mockingbird”
50-Anna Nalick “Breathe (2am)”

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

FLASHBACK: Best Songs of 2004

Best Songs of 2004

1-Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out”
2-Jay-Z “99 Problems”
3-Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Maps”
4-Modest Mouse “Float On”
5-Usher featuring Lil’ Jon “Yeah”
6-Gwen Stefani “What You Waiting For”
7-The Killers “Somebody Told Me”
8-Green Day “American Idiot”
9-Twista featuring Kanye West and Jamie Foxx “Slow Jamz”
10-Taking Back Sunday “A Decade under the Influence”
11-Kayne West “All Falls Down”
12-Hoobastank “The Reason”
13-Maroon 5 “This Love”
14-Snoop Dogg “Drop It Like It’s Hot”
15-Alicia Keys “If I Ain’t Got You”
16-Yellowcard “Ocean Avenue”
17-Black Eyed Peas “Let’s Get It Started”
18-Kelly Clarkson “Breakaway”
19-blink-182 “I Miss You”
20-Sugarcult “Memory”
21-Avril Lavigne “My Happy Ending”
22-Switchfoot “Meant to Live”
23-Bowling for Soup “1985”
24-JoJo “Leave (Get Out)”
25-Ashlee Simpson “Pieces of Me”
26-U2 “Vertigo”
27-Nina Sky “Move Ya Body”
28-Dashboard Confessional “Vindicated”
29-Eminen “Mosh”
30-Twista featuring Kanye West “Celebrity Overnight”
31-Kelly Clarkson “Since You’ve Been Gone”
32-Interpol “Slow Hands”
33-Liz Phair “Extraordinary”
34-My Chemical Romance “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)”
35-Britney Spears “Toxic”
36-Linkin Park “Breaking the Habit”
37-Usher and Alicia Keys “My Boo”
38-Modest Mouse “Ocean Breathes Salty”
39-Nelly featuring Tim McGraw “Over and Over”
40-Christina Milian “Dip It Low”
41-Ciara featuring Petey Pablo “Goodies”
42-Evanescence “My Immortal”
43-Sean Paul “I’m Still in Love with You”
44-Eamon “(Fuck You) I Don’t Want You Back”
45-Los Lonely Boys “Heaven”
46-Kylie Minogue “Slow”
47-Beyonce “Me, Myself, and I”
48-Sarah McLachlan “Fallen”
49-Seether featuring Amy Lee “Broken”
50-Counting Crows “Accidentally in Love”

FLASHBACK: Best Songs of 2003

Best Songs of 2003

1-Black Eyed Peas featuring Justin Timberlake “Where Is The Love?”
2-OutKast “Hey Ya”
3-Johnny Cash “Hurt”
4-Thalia “A Quien le Importa”
5-Liz Phair “Why Can’t I?”
6-The White Stripes “Seven Nation Army”
7-No Doubt “It’s My Life”
8-Beyonce featuring Jay-Z “Crazy in Love”
9-The Ataris “In This Diary”
10-Aaliyah “Miss You”
11-50 Cent “In Da Club”
12-Avril Lavigne “I’m With You”
13-Evanscence “Bring Me to Life”
14-Justin Timberlake “Rock Your Body”
15-Baby Bash featuring Frankie J “Suga Suga”
16-R. Kelly “Ignition (Remix)”
17-Jason Mraz “The Remedy (I Won’t Worry)”
18-Audioslave “Like a Stone”
19-Jet “Are You Gonna Be My Girl?”
20-Fountains of Wayne “Stacy’s Mom”
21-Red Hot Chili Peppers "Can't Stop"
22-Busta Rhymes featuring Mariah Carey “I Know What You Want”
23-Simple Plan “Perfect”
24-Hot Hot Heat “Bandages”
25-Michelle Branch “Are You Happy Now?”
26-Radiohead “There There”
27- Interpol “PDA”
28-Beyonce featuring Sean Paul “Baby Boy”
29-Sean Paul “Get Busy”
30-Foo Fighters “Times Like These”
31-Mya “My Love is Like Whoa”
32-All-American Rejects “Swing, Swing”
33-Chingy “Right Thurrr”
34-Missy Elliott featuring Ludacris “Gossip Folks”
35-Trapt “Headstrong”
36-OK Go "Get Over It"
37-Staind “So Far Away”
38-Santana featuring Michelle Branch “The Game of Love”
39-Junior Senior “Move Your Feet”
40-Stacie Orrico “There’s Got to Be More to Life”
41-Pink “Trouble”
42-Maroon 5 “Harder to Breathe”
43-Linkin Park “Faint”
44-50 Cent “P.I.M.P.”
45-Lumidee “Never Leave You (Uh Ooh!)”
46-Lil’ Jon “Get Low”
47-Christina Aguilera “Fighter”
48-Justin Timberlake “Cry Me a River”
49-The Postal Service “Such Great Heights”
50-Jennifer Lopez featuring LL Cool J “All I Have”

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

FLASHBACK: Best Songs of 2002

Best Songs of 2002

1-Avril Lavigne “Complicated”
2-Eminem “Without Me”
3-Kylie Minogue “Can’t Get You Out of the My Head”
4-No Doubt “Hella Good”
5-The White Stripes “Fell in Love with a Girl”
6-Justin Timberlake “Like I Love You”
7-Busta Rhymes featuring P. Diddy and Pharrell “Pass the Courvoisier, Part 2”
8-Jimmy Eat World “The Middle”
9- Nelly “Hot in Herre”
10-Shakira “Underneath Your Clothes”
11-Pink “Just Like a Pill”
12-Dirty Vegas “Days Go By”
13-Jennifer Lopez featuring Ja Rule “Ain’t It Funny?”
14-Sophie Ellis-Bextor “Murder on the Dancefloor”
15-Red Hot Chili Peppers “By The Way”
16-Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland “Dilemma”
17-Missy Elliott “Work It”
18-Paulina Rubio “Don’t Say Goodbye”/”Si Tu Te Vas”
19-Norah Jones “Don’t Know Why”
20-Ashanti “Foolish”
21-Christina Aguilera featuring Redman “Dirrty”
22-The White Stripes “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground”
23-Garbage “Cherry Lips”
24-Angie Martinez featuring Lil’ Mo “If I Could Go”
25-Jay-Z featuring Beyonce “Bonnie and Clyde ‘03”
26-Coldplay “In My Place”
27-Elvis Presley vs. JXL “A Little Less Conversation”
28-DJ Sammy “Heaven”
29-Brandy “What About Us?”
30-Eve featuring Alicia Keys “Gangsta Lovin’”
31-Puddle of Mudd “Blurry”
32-Fat Joe featuring Ashanti “What’s Luv?”
33-Jimmy Eat World “Sweetness”
34-Vanessa Carlton “A Thousand Miles”
35-Eminem “Cleanin’ Out My Closet”
36-Shakira “Objection (Tango)”
37-Aaliyah “More Than a Woman”
38-Chemical Brothers "Star Guitar"
39-No Doubt featuring Lady Saw “Underneath It All”
40-Sophie Ellis-Bextor “Get Over You”
41-P.O.D. “Youth of the Nation”
42-Kylie Minogue “Love at First Sight”
43-Dave Matthews Band “Where Are You Going”
44-Ja Rule featuring Ashanti “Always on Time”
45-lio “Rapture”
46-Moby “We Are All Made of Stars”
47-Tweet featuring Missy Elliott “Oops! (Oh My)”
48-Alanis Morissette “Hands Clean”
49-Britney Spears “Overprotected”
50-The Calling “Whenever You Will Go”

Monday, December 19, 2011

FLASHBACK: Best Songs of 2001

Here is a look back at some of the Best Songs of the Year, which began a decade ago. My music tastes have changed over the years. The Best of 2011 will be posted shortly before New Year's Eve.

Best Songs of 2001

1-Jennifer Lopez featuring Ja Rule “I’m Real”
2-Fatboy Slim “Weapon of Choice”
3-Jay-Z “Izzo”
4-Alicia Keys “Fallin’”
5-Missy Elliott “Get Ur Freak On”
6-Shakira “Whenever, Wherever”
7-Christina Aguilera, Mya, Lil’Kim, and Pink “Lady Marmalade”
8-Eve featuring Gwen Stefani “Let Me Blow Your Mind”
9-Travis “Sing”
10-Mary J. Blige “Family Affair”
11-Destiny’s Child “Survivor”
12-Lifehouse “Hanging by a Moment”
13-Linkin Park “In the End”
14-Staind “It’s Been Awhile”
15-N*Sync “Pop”
16-Janet Jackson “All for You”
17-Daft Punk “One More Time”
18-Aaliyah “Rock the Boat”
19-Nelly “Ride wit Me”
20-No Doubt “Hey Baby”
21-The Wiseguys “Start the Commotion”
22-Nelly Furtado “Turn Off the Light”
23-U2 “Walk On”
24-blink-182 “The Rock Show”
25-Gorillaz “Clint Eastwood”
26-Aerosmith “Jaded”
27-Destiny’s Child “Bootylicious”
28-Sum 41 “Fat Lip”
29-Pink “Get the Party Started”
30-Usher “U Remind Me”
31-P.O.D. “Alive”
32-American Hi-Fi “Flavor of the Week”
33-Britney Spears "I'm A Slave 4 U"
34-City High “What Would You Do?”
35-Cake “Short Skirt, Long Jacket”
36-Blu Cantrell “Hit ‘Em Up Style”
37-Nickelback “How You Remind Me”
38-Michelle Branch “Everywhere”
39-Craig David “Fill Me In”
40-Aaliyah featuring Timbaland “We Need a Resolution”
41-Incubus “Wish You Were Here”
42-Crazy Town “Butterfly”
43-Ludacris “Rollout”
44-Linkin Park “Crawling”
45-Dave Matthews Band “I Did It”
46-Ginuwine “Differences”
47-Garbage “Breaking Up the Girl”
48-Toya “I Do!”
49-Joe featuring Mystikal “Stutter”
50-Jagged Edge “Promise”