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”

Monday, November 14, 2011

New Music Monday

Here are three songs to add to your iPod, iPhone, cell phone, or whatever the hell you listen to music to.

The Kills "Baby Says"



Nero "Promises"



Charlie Simpson "Parachutes"