Every year, I spend my DJ night closest to New Year's counting down my top 100 songs of the year. The only rule is one song per artist. Here's this year's list:

1. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth
2. Bloc Party – This Modern Love
3. Sigur Ros – Glosili
4. Bright Eyes – Arc Of Time (Time Code)
5. Stars – Ageless Beauty
6. Of Montreal – Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games
7. Wolf Parade – Shine A Light
8. Ladytron – Beauty 2
9. Maximo Park – Going Missing
10. LCD Soundsystem – Give It Up
11. Imogen Heap – Hide And Seek
12. Cloud Cult – Happy Hippo
13. The Sun – Must Be You
14. Shout Out Louds – Very Loud
15. Silversun Pickups – Kissing Families
16. Beck – Broken Drum
17. Broadcast – Goodbye Girls
18. Sufjan Stevens – Decatur
19. Iron & Wine and Calexico – History Of Lovers
20. New Pornographers – The Bleeding Heart Show
21. Oranges Band – Ride The Nuclear Wave
22. The Evens – Around The Corner
23. M.I.A – Sunshowers
24. Antony & The Johnsons – Paddy’s Gone
25. My Morning Jacket – Gideon
26. Brendan Benson – I Feel Like Myself Again
27. Youth Group – Shadowland
28. Rosebuds – The Lovers’ Rights
29. Go! Team – Ladyflash
30. Russian Futurists – Hurtin’ 4 Certain
31. Out Hud – It’s For You
32. Sun Kil Moon – Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes
33. Depeche Mode – Precious
34. New York Rifles – Tell Me
35. Rakes – Terror!
36. Cat Power – The Greatest
37. Brazilian Girls – Sirenes De La Fete
38. 13 & God – Men Of Station
39. Teenage Fanclub – It’s All In My Mind
40. Editors – Blood
41. Kings Of Leon – The Bucket
42. Josh Rouse – Winter In The Hamptons
43. eels – Hey Man (Now You’re Really Living)
44. Bats – Bells
45. Idlewild – I Understand It
46. Hot Hot Heat – Middle Of Nowhere
47. Spoon – I Turn My Camera On
48. Decemberists – 16 Military Wives
49. 22-20’s – Friends
50. American Analog Set – Born On The Cusp
51. Gorillaz – Kids With Guns
52. Legends – Today
53. Math & Physics Club – Weekends Away
54. Deathray Davies – The Fall Fashions
55. The Juan Maclean – Shining Skinned Friend
56. Jens Lekman – Black Cab
57. Tom Vek – I Ain’t Saying My Goodbyes
58. M. Ward – Hi-Fi
59. The Kills – Love Is A Deserter
60. The Bravery – No Brakes
61. Thievery Corporation feat. Perry Farrell – Revolution Solution
62. Low – Monkey
63. Moby – Slipping Away
64. Crooked Fingers – Call To Love
65. Styrofoam – Anything
66. New Order – Krafty
67. Andrew Bird – Fake Palindromes
68. Stephen Malkmus – Mama
69. Sons & Daughters – Taste The Last Girl
70. Acid House Kings – Do What You Wanna Do
71. Rogue Wave – Publish My Love
72. Broken Social Scene – Major Label Debut (fast)
73. Sleater-Kinney – Modern Girl
74. Sinead O’Connor - Vampire
75. Architecture In Helsinki – It’s 5
76. Nic Armstrong & The Thieves – Broken Mouth Blues
77. BRMC – Shuffle Your Feet
78. Magic Numbers – Love Me Like You
79. Constantines – Soon Enough
80. Nada Surf – Your Legs Grow
81. Go-Betweens – Here Comes A City
82. Ryan Adams – Beautiful Sorta
83. Paul Weller – From The Floorboards Up
84. You Say Party! We Say Die! – Cold Hands! Hot Bodies!
85. Doves – Some Cities
86. Dandy Warhols – All The Money Or The Simple Life
87. !!! – Take Ecstacy With Me
88. Stellastarr* – Sweet Troubled Soul
89. Warlocks – It’s Just Like Surgery
90. Frank Black – I Burn Today
91. The Cloud Room – Hey Now Now
92. Ponys – Glass Conversation
93. Fischerspooner – A Kick In The Teeth
94. Kaiser Chiefs – I Predict A Riot
95. Ben Lee – Catch My Disease
96. Trembling Blue Stars – Helen Reddy
97. Envelopes – Sister In Love
98. Black Angels – Black Grease
99. Low Barlow – Holding Back The Year
100. Emilana Torrini – Today Has Been Okay

Nice list. one semi off topic question...

I see alot of people make all sort of lists and such, and for some reason, there is always a rule of: one song per artist, or one album per artist allowed.

Do you do this just to be able to give a wider and more diverse look at your favorites of the year?

I dunno.

I feel if I was making a list....And two, three or even four songs, I considered to be in my Top 100, I'd have to include them, otherwise the list wasnt truly honest to myself...

just a random thought from your uncle dov.

The Ryan Adams choice surprised me, I woulda figured something along the lines of "Let It Ride" or "The Hardest Part"

That's pretty much it. I play the songs back to back so I like to spread the love, as it were.

Ageless Beauty - always forget about that one. Great song.

fair enough..

but looking back at your list... do you have other songs from artists that made the list that you would include in there, if you didnt impose that rule for this list?


Thinking of mine, all 8 Black Mountain songs from their CD would make mine. My top 100 list might have only different 30 artists on it.

for my top 100 i don't place this restriction -- seems artificial and definitely inaccurate. however, my rules for eligibility on my top # list are artificial too, but who can really keep track of one's favorite songs from a pool of ALL songs of ALL new albums on a weekly basis?

for my retrospective disc, i place this restriction -- 1 song per artist. i put 3 playlists together, top 21 songs of the year, top 21 albums airplay of the year (represented by 1 song per album) and a retrospective 16 (1 song per month, then 1 per quarter).

Plus:
Super Furry Animals - Ohio Heat
Death Cab For Cutie - Soul Meets Body
Fruit Bats - The Earthquake Of '73
Son Volt - Atmosphere

Definitely my favorite on that album. It'll be on my year-end mix which will be rather weak this year but still, this is a great song.

Nice list.

I do two sorta Best Of... comps for the year that I spread around to people I know who, while they like music, dont necessarily spend 22 hours a day online discussing it.

I try to limit it to one song by an artist but I'm making an exception for artists with multiple releases: In this case, Ryan Adams and Bright Eyes get a song on each album.

Edit: and oh yeah dan: I dig your list. I'm currently gigless so I won't be able to do the same until sometime in January.

nice list. i'm going to try to do a top 100 songs of 05 list, but i can barely even get my top 20 albums together...

The crimea- lottery winners on acid.

Sweet sweet song.

http://s65.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2ZIUF0S18ZTLS0MQF4JZZW69SS

I'm working on my Best of 2005 mix right now. Around 22 tracks. A lot of the same artists, different songs though.

Well, considering that list consists of 100 artists and mine is only 22, I expected many of the same artists, but it appears of those the same, I picked a different song every time.

I wish I had time to listen to 100 different bands in a year. I'm stretching to make a top 25 albums. I don't think I've ever made a list, other than maybe a top 10 of the year.

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These are all wonderful choices for Top 100 songs of the year. I'll have to work on my own kinda list like that. Several of these would definately make it though.

2. Bloc Party – This Modern Love
9. Maximo Park – Going Missing
10. LCD Soundsystem – Give It Up
13. The Sun – Must Be You
20. New Pornographers – The Bleeding Heart Show
25. My Morning Jacket – Gideon
26. Brendan Benson – I Feel Like Myself Again
27. Youth Group – Shadowland
32. Sun Kil Moon – Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes
42. Josh Rouse – Winter In The Hamptons
45. Idlewild – I Understand It
46. Hot Hot Heat – Middle Of Nowhere
47. Spoon – I Turn My Camera On
48. Decemberists – 16 Military Wives
64. Crooked Fingers – Call To Love
66. New Order – Krafty
67. Andrew Bird – Fake Palindromes
68. Stephen Malkmus – Mama
73. Sleater-Kinney – Modern Girl
76. Nic Armstrong & The Thieves – Broken Mouth Blues
77. BRMC – Shuffle Your Feet
78. Magic Numbers – Love Me Like You
82. Ryan Adams – Beautiful Sorta
83. Paul Weller – From The Floorboards Up
85. Doves – Some Cities
86. Dandy Warhols – All The Money Or The Simple Life
90. Frank Black – I Burn Today
95. Ben Lee – Catch My Disease
99. Low Barlow – Holding Back The Year

This is a good choice too, but I still like Reunion better off that album
5. Stars – Ageless Beauty

I usually make a top 50 songs of the year list and it's usually only one song per artist. I should expand it to 100.

Oh no, wait! The Cloud Room's 'Hey Now Now'. There was no other song on the album as good as that, but dammit, that one's good.

These are all solid picks, though I prefer "Big Boat" over "Hi-Fi." Good call on "Beautiful Sorta."

my top two as well

I'll add:

Steve Spacek - Dollar
Nine Inch Nails - The Hand that Feeds
Common - Love Is
Cage - Shoot Frank
50 Cent - Disco Inferno
Gorillaz - Feel Good, Inc.
Kanye West - Addiction
Dwele - Keep On
Jennifer Lopez - Get Right
Beanie Sigel - Bread & Butter
Xzibit - What You Can't C
Bow Wow - Let Me Hold You

Funny. Do you impressions as well?