Top 50 of 2005
Previous: Top 50 of 2004
I felt I couldn’t get as excited by new music this year as I was in 2004. Last year’s favourites went missing somewhere: Scissor Sisters were holding back on new music and instead went on tour and did a few collaborations; Franz Ferdinand lost some of the infectious immediacy in their hooks in their latest material; and groups like Girls Aloud and The Darkness made such a late entrance their new stuff now has to be delayed to the 2006 list.
At the end of the day, the top song is there not because it was anything amazing and exciting like Franz Ferdinand was last year but because I listened to it an awful lot.
Instead, 2005 for me was a backward looking year, full of mash-ups, remakes and Madonna. Mariah Carey made her so-called Comeback-of-the-Year though I found myself more interested than expected thanks to an extra cheesy mash-up. I was listening to a lot of mash-ups, perhaps too many, I could have searched out for more original material. But the rock hooks that I started to like in 2004 were there, they were just mashed up with some groovy vocals. Is that really a bad thing?
The following list is an attempt to represent the music that I was listening to in 2005. Gone are the days of weekly charts and point systems that may have been more accurate, there are tracks on the list like Inaya Day’s Nasty Girl that may have been higher up the list but have now lost a lot of their allure for me to place them there now. To deal with the sheer number of mash-ups I was listening to, I decided to only include those that used at least one track that was new for me in 2005. Songs can only occur once in the list, preventing a song, it’s remix and it’s mash-up from being on the list.
So here it is…
1. Missy Elliott ft Ciara & Fat Man Scoop – Lose Control
2. Goldfrapp – Ooh La La
3. Sugababes – Push The Button
4. Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc
5. Madonna – Hung Up
6. Mylo vs Miami Sound Machine – Doctor Pressure
7. Mariah Carey vs Cyndi Lauper – We Belong Together Time After Time (Arty Fufkin Mashup)
8. Gorillaz – Dare
9. Gwen Stefani – Hollaback Girl
10. Kelly Clarkson vs Depeche Mode vs Rex The Dog – Since U Been Gone (DJ Earworm Mashup)
11. Robbie Williams – Trippin’
12. Gwen Stefani – Cool
13. Rogue Traders – Voodoo Child
14. New Order – Jetstream (Richard X Remix)
15. The Prodigy – Girls (idiotech Remix)
16. Kylie Minogue – Giving You Up (Riton Re-Rub Dub)
17. Mylo – In My Arms (Sharam Jey Remix)
18. Lisa Stansfied vs Soul Central – Hold On To Life (Jhuny Mash)
19. Dean Gray – Boulevard of Broken Songs (Dance Mix)
20. Rihanna – Pon De Replay
21. The Prodigy – Out Of Space (Audio Bullys Remix)
22. Black Eyed Peas – My Humps
23. Ciara ft Missy Elliott – 1 2 Step
24. MIA – 10 Dollar
25. Gorillaz – Dirty Harry (Jon Carter Remix)
26. The Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up (Sub Focus Remix)
27. Shakedown vs Taylor Dayne – Shakedown My Heart (DJ Matt Hite 4 Minute Man Mix)
28. Mariah Carey – It’s Like That (McSleazy Remix)
29. Madonna – Future Lovers
30. Inaya Day – Nasty Girl
31. MIA vs Nintendo – Superlangalang! (cry.on.my.console Mashup)
32. MIA – Bucky Done Gun
33. The Pussycat Dolls ft Busta Rhymes – Don’t Cha
34. Destiny’s Child ft TI & Lil’ Wayne – Soldier
35. Black Eyed Peas – Don’t Lie
36. Franz Ferdinand – Do You Want To
37. Bodyrockers – I Like The Way You Move
38. Kaiser Chiefs vs Amerie – One Less Thing (Cheekyboy Mashup)
39. Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
40. Rachel Stevens – I Said Never Again
41. MIA – Sunshowers
42. Mylo – Destroy Rock & Roll (Tom Neville Remix)
43. Goldfrapp – Number 1
44. Sarah Vaughan – Fever (Adam Freeland Remix)
45. The Prodigy – Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix)
46. Basement Jaxx – Oh My Gosh
47. Robbie Williams – Advertising Space
48. Cabin Crew – Star 2 Fall
49. Destiny’s Child – Cater 2 U
50. Roisin Murphy – Leaving The City
