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Best Singles of 2005


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I can't think of any impending single release to get excited about so now it's time to list the best of the year:

1. Mew - Special

2. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)

3. Billy Corgan - Walking Shade

4. Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds

5. Bloc Party - Two More Years

6. Sons and Daughters - Dance Me In

7. Rilo Kiley - Portions For Foxes

8. Editors - Munich

9. Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure

10. Franz Ferdinand - Walk Away

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1. I Am Kloot - Over My Shoulder

2. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Is This Love

3. Circle Triangle Square - Testicicles

that's all i could think off from the top of my head, but i am kloot, a definite favourtie

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1. Rilo Kiley - Portions For Foxes

2. Kings of Leon - Four Kicks

3. Goldfrapp - Number One

4. Sugababes - Push the Button

5. The Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)

6. Be Your Own Pet - Damn, Damn Leash

7. The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes

I think I've run out, but I've probably missed some...was Glosoli by Sigur Ros released as a single?

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1. Rilo Kiley - Portions For Foxes

2. Kings of Leon - Four Kicks

3. Goldfrapp - Number One

4. Sugababes - Push the Button

5. The Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)

6. Be Your Own Pet - Damn' date=' Damn Leash

7. The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes

I think I've run out, but I've probably missed some...was Glosoli by Sigur Ros released as a single?[/quote']

It was. Was Portions For Foxes actually a single?? Cos if it was I might have some editing to do.

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It was. Was Portions For Foxes actually a single?? Cos if it was I might have some editing to do.

I'll stick Glosoli somewhere in the top 5 then.

Yeh' date=' Portions for Foxes came out around March time, it did manage to get a bit of airplay on Northsound 2 if I remember right (among other stations obviously), but it didn't do anywhere near as well as it should have. There was a brilliant video for it aswell with the band playing at some kind of Taxidermy competition that you can watch on the UK sitehttp://www.rilokiley.co.uk

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I can't think of any impending single release to get excited about so now it's time to list the best of the year:

1. Mew - Special

2. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)

3. Billy Corgan - Walking Shade

4. Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds

5. Bloc Party - Two More Years

6. Sons and Daughters - Dance Me In

7. Editors - Munich

8. Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure

9. Franz Ferdinand - Walk Away

10. Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood 3# (Powerout)

I'll go with all of those....

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  • 4 weeks later...

Well, there's been plenty of good 'uns. Here's a few that I have bought, or enjoyed in various circumstances:

Interpol - Evil

Interpol - C'mere

Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)

Nine Inch Nails - Only

The Departure - Lump In My Throat

Editors - Munich

Editors - Blood

Sons and Daughters - Dance Me In

Drive-By Argument - Sex Lines Are Expensive Comedy

Idlewild - I Understand It

Maximo Park - Going Missing

Death From Above 1979 - Blood On Our Hands

Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights

British Sea Power - It Ended On An Oily Stage

Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To

The Strokes - Juicebox

Hot Hot Heat - Middle of Nowhere

Queens of the Stone Age - Little Sister

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The Departure - Lump In My Throat

Maximo Park - Going Missing

For those, read: All Mapped Out, and Apply Some Pressure. Infact...

1, Apply Some Pressure - Maximo Park

2, Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand

3, Nobody Move, Nobody Gets Hurt - We Are Scientists

4, Bottle Rocket - The Go! Team

5, Trippin' - Robbie Williams

6, Munich - Editors

7, Shiver - Natalie Imbruglia

8, Destroy Everything You Touch - Ladytron

9, Galang - MIA

10, All Mapped Out - The Departure

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System of a Down - B.Y.O.B.

Billy Corgan - Walking Shade

Depeche Mode- Precious

Nine Inch Nails- Only

Rammstein- Benzin

American Head Charge- Loyalty

The Bloodhound Gang- Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo

Daft Punk- Robot Rock

Eels- The Trouble With Dreams

Garbage- Run Baby Run

H.I.M.- Rip Out The Wings Of A Butterfly

Soulfly- Craved Inside

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1. The Kooks - Eddie's Gun

2. The Paddingtons - 50 To A

3. We Are Scientists - The Great Escape

4. British Sea Power - It Ended On An Oily Stage

5. Interpol - C'mere

6. Adam Green - Carolina

7. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)

8. The Rakes - Retreat

9. Littl'ans feat. Pete Doherty - Their Way

10. The Kills - Love Is A Deserter

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In no particular order -

The Rakes - 22 Grand Job

be your own PET - Fire Department

Test Icicles - Circle, Triangle, Square

The Strokes - Juicebox

Art Brut - Emily Kane

We Are Scientists - Nobody Moves, Nobody Gets Hurt

Head Automatica - Beating Heart Baby

Blood Brothers - Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck

iForward, Russia! - Thirteen/Fourteen

Death From Above - Blood On Our Hands

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