Choose the best song from 2005 from this list of 50 songs

some of these would make terrible singles btw... either too offbeat, too unmemorable or too low key but I guess they rocked my world 11 years ago. I'm so old.

Here's the full list:

!!! - Take Ecstasy With Me
Acid House Kings - This Heart is a Stone
Ada - Cool My Fire
Amadou & Mariam - Coulibaly
Amber - 1 thing
Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes
Animal Collective - The Purple Bottle
Antony & the Johnsons - Bird Gerhl
Architecture in Helsinki - Do the Whirlwind
Au Revoir Simone - Through the Backyards of our Neighbors
Beck - Broken Drum
Bloc Party - Little Thoughts
Boards of Canada - Peacock Tail
Broadcast - Black Cat
Broken Social Scene - Superconnected
Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - The Librarian (feat. David Sylvian)
Camille - Ta doleur
Caribou - Bees
Cat Power - The Greatest
Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah - Over and Over Again (Lost and Found)
Clientele - Since K Got Over Me
Cocorosie - Beautiful Boyz
CSS - Music Is My Hot Hot Sex
Daft Punk - Technologic
Death Cab for Cutie - Title and Registration
Deer hoof - Spiral Golden Town
Dengue Fever - Tip My Canoe
Depeche Mode - John the Revelator
Devendra Barnhart - Hey Mama Wolf
Digitalism - Zdarlight
Doves - Snowden
Edan - Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme
Electrelane - Bells
Elektrochemie - Pleasure Seeker
Ellen Allien - Your Body Is My Body
Emilíana Torrini - Sunny Road
Espers - Afraid
Fat Freddy’s Drop - Flashback
Fiery Furnaces - The Garfield E
Final Fantasy - This Is the Dream of Win & Regine
Four Tet - Sun Drums and Soil
Fujiya & Miyagi - Collarbone
Gang Gang Dance - Glory in Itself / Egyptian
Goldfrapp - Ooh La La
Gorillaz - El Mañana
Hard Fi - Hard to Beat
Herman Dune - This Will Never Happen
Holopaw - Holiday
Husky Rescue - Summertime Cowboy
Idaho - Live Today Again
Iron and Wine - The Trapeze Swinger
Isolée - Schrapnell
Jackson and his computer band - Arpeggio
Jamie Lidell - Multiply
Jens Lekman - I Saw Her in the Anti-War Demonstration
Junior Senior - Can I Get Get Get
Kingsbury Manx - Harness & Wheel
KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
Laura Veirs - Fire Snakes
LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
Le Volume Courbe - Ain’t Got No… I Got Life
Liars - It Fit When I Was a Kid
Lindstrøm - I Feel Space
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - Boney M Down
Love Is All - Felt Tip Hip Kids
M.I.A. - Pull Up the People
m83 - teen angst
Masha Qrella - Destination Vertical
Matias Aguayo — De Papel
My Morning Jacket - Wordless Chorus
Of Montreal - Wraith Pinned to the Mist
Okkervil River - For Real
One Self - Blue Bird
Paavoharju - valo
Paul Kalkbrenner - Gebrunn Gebrunn
Quantic & Nickodemus - Mi Swing Es Tropical
Raisin Murphy - Sinking Feeling
Richard Hawley - The Ocean
Rosebuds - 4-track love song
Sambassadeur - Between the Lines
Scout Niblett - Kidnapped by Neptune (2005)
Serena Maneesh - Sapphire Eyes High
Sharon Jones - How Long Do I Have to Wait for You?
Six Organs of Admittance - Words for Two
Soulwax - E Talking
Spoon - I Turn My Camera On
St. Etienne - Milk Bottle Symphony
Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp…
Tape - Sand Dunes
The Books - Be Good To Them Always
The Go! Team - Bottle Rocket
The Kills - The Good Ones
Tom Vek - I Ain't Saying My Goodbyes
Vashti Bunyan - Here Before
Vic Chesnutt - Forthright
Vitalic - Poney pt. 1
Voxtrot - The Start of Something
Whitey - Can’t Go Out Can’t Stay In
Wilderness - End of Freedom

voted junior senior
that album was so good

I see you were a devoted Pitchfork reader :)

Stylus reader actually!

Also a site called almostcool. My top 10 albums list it's more apparent a Stylus/almostcool influence rather than p4k... only Anco and Sufjan (and Devendra?) feel like they made it into their list (don't actually know what it was and lazy to search it)

Books, Paavoharju, Andrew Bird, AnCo, Colleen, Sufjan, Marsen Jules, Idaho, Isolee, Devendra

Weird that I had that Marsen Jules and Idaho albums in there... I think I haven't listened to them again since 2005 actually. Nowadays my list would be something like:

Books
Paavoharju
MIA
Colleen
Boris
Alva Noto + Sakamoto
Basinski
Isolee
Vitalic
Devendra

I still like all the albums in that top 10 from back then tho...

If the Jens Lekman comp counts then that one instead of Devendra. I've been in a love hate relationship with him for more than 10 years but whew that comp! when the timing is right it sounds like one of the best albums of the 00s for me.

I'm also too lazy to look it up, but I'm pretty certain that at least 80% of the artists on your full list were covered by Pitchfork. Maybe not in their end-of-the-year list, but certainly in the album reviews. That's how I got to hear most of these albums. I think I discovered Stylus later on, maybe a year before they closed down.

listened to the edan album again lately, still good

Lots of good songs here, voted for Wordless Chorus over Fujiya & Miyagi, Isolee, Andrew Bird and The Clientele

I can only be positive that I've heard 4 of these songs

not heard many of these before. That's a good Devendra pick, and the Fat Freddy's Drop track is their best song as far as I know (even though they're a boring band).

I loved and used to listen to the Digitalism and Vitalic tracks all the time back in the day but have no recollection of what they even sound like now. But thanks for the reminder.

Felt Tip 4EVA!!!

I was going to give that Wilderness my vote (I still love that album and it never went stale for me) BUT The Clientele is on the list and I can't lie.

I love the original album version of Bottle Rocket, but if this is 2005, then it's probably the remixed version with Ninja on the vocals which is not nearly as good.

What's up with the two different versions of bottle rocket btw? Is it a legal issue of sorts?

Broadcast. I'm not much arsed about anything else here.

Legal issues due to sample clearances and possibly some changes as a result of reissuing the album on a major label, Columbia, for North American audiences. There's definitely some changes in the mix that I don't think have to with replacing samples. I was kind of obsessed with the Go! Team at the time, so I took notice of these things.

Speaking of different versions, Jamie Lidell's "Multiply (In a Minor Key)" probably would've taken my vote--far superior to the album version.

voted junior senior
that album was so good

― nxd,

It's one of the most underrated albums of all time.

Yes. That album is one of my favorites of the 2000s.

I like the first album fine but that was a massive step up. I was so disappointed how little reaction it got. There's at least five songs on there that should have been as big as Move Your Feet.

It's been years since I heard that Le Volume Courbe record... I'm really getting into it again... I was thinking it sounds like some sort of Cocorosie and Hope Sandoval hybrid, and turns out Hope herself features in two songs... no idea if I already knew that but I completely forgot about it.

the answer is definitely "poney pt 1". i wish he had quit after that EP, tbh.

runner up: broadcast. great album

i like the ada ok too but it's prob my least favorite on blondie. another great album.

poney's from like 2000 or something in any case

ahhh "boney m down" is great too. downtempo tropical disco.. the live (non-sampled) drums and the overall sound really set it apart from yer average cocktail lounge electronica stuff that clogs up today's bargain bins.

I still really love that first Wilderness record - although that particular track probably wouldn't be in my top 5 off it! Fly Further to See still makes me damn near levitate.

Agreed, though End of Freedom always felt the most powerful.

Since K Got Over Me.

ahhh "boney m down" is great too. downtempo tropical disco.. the live (non-sampled) drums and the overall sound really set it apart from yer average cocktail lounge electronica stuff that clogs up today's bargain bins.

― brimstead

That whole album is great, why didn't I put it in my top 10 albums list upthread? I swear it was there... I think that was the actual album in there and not Devendra now that I think about it... I even bought it on vinyl and I only spend that amount of money on albums I love. Anyhoo... it's a very rewarding if you're patient or maybe high? I've never listened to it on drugs tbh... at any rate you have to be relaxed while listening to it. They do this trick almost in every track were they settle for a gorgeous loop with little variation and then they add layers of arrangements that change the whole mood of the track and sends it to outer space. I love their work as separate entities but I think this is the most concise album they've done together or apart.

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Perfect top two.

I really liked that Fiery Furnaces grandma album at the time. I should listen to it again.

missed this, add a vote to of Montreal.