{"id":167,"date":"2006-01-13T12:33:48","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T19:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2006\/top-songs-of-2005-part-3\/"},"modified":"2006-01-13T12:33:48","modified_gmt":"2006-01-13T19:33:48","slug":"top-songs-of-2005-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2006\/top-songs-of-2005-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Songs of 2005: Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(I thought up two more ways to analyze my music-listening habbits (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\">iTunes<\/a> [my iPod may tell a totally different story&#8230;]. Enjoy!)<\/i><\/p>\n<h3>Five-Star Songs Discovered in 2005<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Try Again&#8221; by Aaliyah from <i>Romeo Must Die<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Until the End of the World&#8221; by Apoptygma Berzerk from <i>Harmonizer<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Woodlands National Anthem&#8221; by the Arcade Fire from the <i>Arcade Fire<\/i> EP<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Electricity&#8221; (Dr. Rockit&#8217;s Dirty Kiss) by The Avalanches from the <i>&#8220;Electricity&#8221;<\/i> single<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You Were the Last High&#8221; by the Dandy Warhols from <i>Welcome to the Monkey House<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Happy Together&#8221; by Danny Chung from the <i>Happy Together<\/i> soundtrack<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Soul Auctioneer&#8221; by Death in Vegas from <i>The Contino Sessions<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Waltz #2 (Xo)&#8221; by Elliott Smith from <i>XO<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Conductor&#8221; (Thin White Duke remix) by The Faint from <i>Danse Macabre Remixes<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Insomnia&#8221; (Monster mix) by Faithless from the <i>&#8220;Insomnia&#8221;<\/i> single<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Get Get&#8221; by Fiona Apple from <i>When the Pawn&#8230;<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Can&#8217;t Get You Out Of My Head&#8221; (KEXP version) by the Flaming Lips from the <i>&#8220;Fight Test&#8221;<\/i><i> EP<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Buggin'&#8221; by the Flaming Lips from <i>The Soft Bulletin<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Do You Realize??&#8221; by the Flaming Lips from <i>Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;All We Have Is Now&#8221; by the Flaming Lips from <i>Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Auf Achse&#8221; by Franz Ferdinand from <i>Franz Ferdinand<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Michael&#8221; by Franz Ferdinand from <i>Franz Ferdinand<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Strict Machine&#8221; by Goldfrapp from <i>Black Cherry<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Chartsengrafs&#8221; by Grandaddy from <i>The Sophtware Slump<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Summer Here Kids&#8221; by Grandaddy from <i>Under the Western Freeway<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Shake the Disease&#8221; (cover of the Depeche Mode song) by Hooverphonic from <i>For the Masses<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Little Kids&#8221; (Ladytron Fruits of the Forest remix) by Kings of Convenience from <i>Versus<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Deceptacon&#8221; by Le Tigre from <i>Le Tigre<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Phanta&#8221; by Le Tigre from <i>Le Tigre<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Much Finer&#8221; (The Flaxdatass mix) by Le Tigre from <i>Remix<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Violet Tree&#8221; by M83 from <i>M83<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Personal Jesus&#8221; (cover of the Depeche Mode song) by Marilyn Manson from <i>Lest We Forget<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Mogwai Fear Satan&#8221; by Mogwai from <i>Young Team<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;She Wants to Move&#8221; (DFA remix) by N*E*R*D* from the <i>&#8220;She Wants to Move&#8221;<\/i> single<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Waiting for the Night&#8221; (cover of the Depeche Mode song) by Rabbit in the Moon from <i>For the Masses<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I Need Your Love&#8221; by the Rapture from <i>Echoes<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Wild Horses&#8221; by the Rolling Stones from <i>Sticky Fingers<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Polonaise&#8221; by Shigeru Umebayash from the <i>2046<\/i> soundtrack<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<i>2046<\/i> Main Theme (with percussion, Train remix) by Shigeru Umebayash from the <i>2046<\/i> soundtrack<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;In a State&#8221; (DFA remix) by UNKLE from <i>Inside Out<\/i><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Hash Pipe&#8221; by Weezer from <i>Weezer<\/i> a.k.a. <i>The Green Album<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Most-Played Songs in 2005<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Love is Blue&#8221; by Paul Mauriat (34 times &#8212; due to a night of drunken depression and having the song on repeat&#8230; I discovered this song from an episode of <i>Millennium<\/i> called &#8220;A Room With No View&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;DARE&#8221; by Gorillaz (27 times)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;O Green World&#8221; by Gorillaz (25 times)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Destroy Everything You Touch&#8221; by Ladytron (25 times)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Can&#8217;t Get You Out Of My Head&#8221; (KEXP version) by the Flaming Lips (24 times)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;All We Have Is Now&#8221; by the Flaming Lips (24 times)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Feel Good Inc.&#8221; by Gorillaz (23 times)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;All Alone&#8221; by Gorillaz (23 times)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Talk&#8221; by Coldplay (21 times)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Last Living Souls&#8221; by Gorillaz (21 times)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;El Manana&#8221; by Gorillaz (21 times)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Every Planet We Reach Is Dead&#8221; by Gorillaz (21 times)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Demon Days&#8221; by Gorillaz (21 times)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Happy Together&#8221; by Danny Chung (20 times)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Dirty Harry&#8221; by Gorillaz (20 times)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Get Lost In Heaven&#8221; by Gorillaz (20 times)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Chartsengrafs&#8221; by Grandaddy (20 times)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Hallelujah&#8221; by Rufus Wainwright (20 times &#8212; due to a friend who liked listening to this song wayyyy too much)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Buggin'&#8221; by The Flaming Lips (19 times)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Happy Landfill&#8221; by Gorillaz (19 times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; I must say that the most-played list is pretty lame. Obviously I played <i>Demon Days<\/i> on repeat about 20 times or so, and that fact is reflected in the list. Of note, I think, is &#8220;Destroy Everything You Touch,&#8221; which came out in November and managed to get so high in my list within less than two months. <i>Demon Days<\/i> came out in May and had some time to work it&#8217;s way up to the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I thought up two more ways to analyze my music-listening habbits (via iTunes [my iPod may tell a totally different story&#8230;]. Enjoy!) Five-Star Songs Discovered in 2005 &#8220;Try Again&#8221; by Aaliyah from Romeo Must Die &#8220;Until the End of the World&#8221; by Apoptygma Berzerk from Harmonizer &#8220;The Woodlands National Anthem&#8221; by the Arcade Fire from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2006\/top-songs-of-2005-part-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Top Songs of 2005: Part 3<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}