radiozero's "favorite rock singles of 2005" show up for download now

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Okay, so it's over a month since I did the original broadcast of this show, but sometimes it takes this long to get my act together. Also, I think this list is unique enough to have waited for, and I doubt anyone is sick of these songs yet. I'm still not. But then I live in Vancouver where this music is not readily available whatsoever.

This is by no means the definitive list of the absolute best rock songs of the year. In fact this list is completely subjective in relation to what I personally own on vinyl. So this is more like the "best collection of rock singles that I mail-ordered from british record stores this past year."

Furthermore, It seems as though by objectively reviewing my selections here that I am somewhat like Eddie Argos' (Art Brut) "little brother" in that a good portion of these songs are b-sides of 7 inch singles.

Furthermore to this it seems that by objectively reviewing my objective review of my selections that what I really mean by associating my character with Argos' Little Brother is that only the two Cribs tracks are b-sides - and none of them are bootlegs. No wonder my parents don't worry about me.


Here's the playlist:


Artist, Title, Song, Format,

hard-fi, tied up too tight, tied up too tight, LP,
moneybrother, to die alone, they're building walls around us, LP,
das pop, the human thing, you, LP,
die tueren, unterwegs mit mother earth, drinnen ist wie draussen, CD,
tocotronic, gegen den strich, gegen den strich, LP,
mystery jets, you can't fool me dennis, you can't fool me dennis, 7",
the futureheads, hounds of love, hounds of love, 7",
jenny wilson, love and youth, let my shoes lead me forward, CD,
new young pony club, get go/jerk me, the get go, 7",
ton vek, nothing but green lights, nothing but green lights, LP,
hard-fi, hard to beat, hard to beat, 7",
art brut, bang bang rock and roll, my little brother, LP,
maxi geil and playcolt, picture disc, making love in the sunshine, LP,
the rakes, work work work pub club sleep, work work work pub club sleep, 7",
the cribs, hey scenesters (green), you're gonna lose us, 7",
twin freaks, twin freaks, rinse the raindrops, LP,
duchess says, budgie laboratories, in serial, LP,
harald sack ziegler, punkt, bungalow, CD, (thanks to fluxblog for this one)
pink grease, peaches, peaches, 7"
the cribs, hey scenesters (pink), north of england, 7",



Also, my show has been pre-empted by live sports coverage and specialty programming for Black History Month these past two weeks so I won't be producing a live broadcast until march 3. I will be in the meantime putting up radiozero's favorite punk-disco-beat / campy-french-house tracks of 2005 in the next couple of days, I promise. I just have to re-record the mix at home. So check in for that, or just subscribe to my new podcast in iTunes and it will just show up for you magically.