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69 - 09/01/2006 José González - Heartbeats Chart Run: 01-03-04-05-05-05-07-13-15-23-23-17-21-23-27-30-35-35-34-39 (20 weeks) We kick the year off with a cover, of The Knife's 2003 single Heartbeats. Popularised by being the soundtrack to Sony's 'Bouncy Balls' TV advert, it proved it was still a source of creating hits, as Heartbeats hit the UK top 10 and didn't leave the chart until September, although the majority of this was in the lower reaches of the top 75. For me, it was a great discovery - I'd not long become aware of The Knife but at that stage hadn't fully got into them, so like most people didn't particularly see this as a 'cover', but that it was simply a beautiful song with a great vocal. Within the next year or so, I'd purchased the CDs of The Knife's Deep Cuts and Silent Shout, and José González' album Veneer. Veneer was ok but not something I've given much attention to since 2006. We kick off the year in the most perfect way, with a bona fide 10/10. It's hard to think of many, if any, other songs where the original and a cover version are both so perfect, but also so different. Combine the two and Heartbeats will have been one of my most listened to songs of the previous 20 years, the Jose version is just absolutely gorgeous. 2026 Rating: 10/10 Songs kept from #1: Richard Ashcroft - Break The Night With Colour I have very little memory of the Ashcroft song, and he's not someone who's music I particularly enjoy listening to - call it a beneficiary of early year release scheduling where there still wasn't much coming out. The Kooks - You Don't Love Me is the other song from this weeks releases that I might still listen to, but it isn't one of their best.

On to 2006 then... After 2005 saw me find music from a much bigger range of sources, particularly moving to online, 2006 took that to a new level. After the end of the CoolClarity forum, I was part of its successors (BuzzJack & CHC Music) as well as spending more time on its similar, more 'competitor' sites (Haven & Moopy), whilst radio listening moved more away from Radio 1, the Zane Lowe show was still a huge influence but in the daytime I was far more likely to put on the likes of XFM or 6 Music, and as a result the stuff that made my chart was even more indie focussed. In 2005, the majority of songs at and near the top of my chart could be found somewhere within the UK chart, whilst 2006 there is a bit more niche stuff that made it that was getting nowhere near the UK top 40. That being said, there are still 3 UK number one singles which I shared so it certainly wasn't a full departure, and whilst I still went by the UK release schedule for when things charted, there were more songs that climbed to their peak than in previous years and by the end of the year it was pretty much impossible to continue with it it. But despite all the new sources for music and different genres and styles being discovered, we kick off the year with a song that was popularised in a classic way, soundtracking an advert...

Thanks Jim - good to see some love for Jesus of Suburbia! 2006 hopefully beginning later this week

01 (02) Radio Free Alice - Rule 31 (01) (05) (1 week) 02 (01) Olivia Dean - Baby Steps (01) (06) (2 weeks) 03 (06) The Twilight Sad - Waiting For The Phone Call (03) (07) 04 (09) Gorillaz feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar - Orange County (04) (05) 05 (11) Daughter - Not Enough (05) (05) 06 (03) Gorillaz feat. Omar Souleyman & Yaslin Bay - Damascus (02) (09) 07 (04) Tourist feat. Real Lies - Love In Silence (01) (10) (3 weeks) 08 (15) Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (08) (03) 09 (07) Howling Bells - Melbourne (07) (06) 10 (13) Robyn - Talk To Me (10) (05) 11 (05) Emma Pollock - Black Magnetic (02) (10) 12 (16) Harry Styles - Aperture (12) (04) 13 (18) SAULT - Chapter 1 (13) (04) 14 (08) Hercules & Love Affair feat. Hips & Lips - Body and Soul (08) (06) 15 (25) pôt-pot - 22° Halo (15) (03) 16 (24) Tom Misch - Sisters With Me (16) (03) 17 (20) TVAM - The Words (17) (03) 18 (12) Holybones - These Are The Rooms (01) (12) (2 weeks) 19 (22) Arlo Parks - 2SIDED (19) (04) 20 (28) James Blake - Death of Love (20) (02) 21 (10) Night Tapes - Swordsman (06) (08) 22 (**) Fred Again.. & Jamie T - Lights Burn Dimmer (22) (01) 23 (14) Oklou - Dance 2 (05) (07) 24 (32) Paris Paloma - Good Girl (24) (02) 25 (27) Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody (25) (04) 26 (38) Anna Prior - Silence (26) (02) 27 (34) Apparat - Hum of Maybe (27) (02) 28 (17) Matt Berninger - Blue Monday (14) (05) 29 (44) PVA - Okay (29) (01) 30 (19) Sudan Archives - A Bug's Life (05) (09) 31 (21) Sophia Stel - All My Friends Are Models (20) (06) 32 (29) Joji - Last of a Dying Breed (29) (03) 33 (**) Dapnhi - Hang (33) (01) 34 (23) Daniel Avery feat. Ellie Rowsell - Haze (01) (16) (4 weeks) 35 (26) White Lies - Juice (02) (15) 36 (48) Metric - Victim of Luck (36) (01) 37 (30) FAUZIA - The Way (15) (07) 38 (31) Anna von Hausswolff - Struggle With The Beast (24) (06) 39 (35) Jenny on Holiday - Good Intentions (06) (13) 40 (33) PVA - Send (11) (08)

01 (01) Olivia Dean - Baby Steps (01) (05) (2 weeks) 02 (05) Radio Free Alice - Rule 31 (02) (04) 03 (02) Gorillaz feat. Omar Souleyman & Yaslin Bay - Damascus (02) (08) 04 (03) Tourist feat. Real Lies - Love In Silence (01) (09) (3 weeks) 05 (04) Emma Pollock - Black Magnetic (02) (09) 06 (10) The Twilight Sad - Waiting For The Phone Call (06) (06) 07 (11) Howling Bells - Melbourne (07) (05) 08 (09) Hercules & Love Affair feat. Hips & Lips - Body and Soul (08) (05) 09 (13) Gorillaz feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar - Orange County (09) (04) 10 (06) Night Tapes - Swordsman (06) (07) 11 (17) Daughter - Not Enough (11) (04) 12 (08) Holybones - These Are The Rooms (01) (11) (2 weeks) 13 (16) Robyn - Talk To Me (13) (04) 14 (07) Oklou - Dance 2 (05) (06) 15 (26) Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (15) (02) 16 (21) Harry Styles - Aperture (16) (03) 17 (14) Matt Berninger - Blue Monday (14) (04) 18 (23) SAULT - Chapter 1 (18) (03) 19 (12) Sudan Archives - A Bug's Life (05) (08) 20 (31) TVAM - The Words (20) (02) 21 (20) Sophia Stel - All My Friends Are Models (20) (05) 22 (27) Arlo Parks - 2SIDED (22) (03) 23 (15) Daniel Avery feat. Ellie Rowsell - Haze (01) (15) (4 weeks) 24 (35) Tom Misch - Sisters With Me (24) (02) 25 (38) pôt-pot - 22° Halo (25) (02) 26 (18) White Lies - Juice (02) (14) 27 (30) Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody (27) (03) 28 (44) James Blake - Death of Love (28) (01) 29 (32) Joji - Last of a Dying Breed (29) (02) 30 (19) FAUZIA - The Way (15) (06) 31 (25) Anna von Hausswolff - Struggle With The Beast (24) (05) 32 (43) Paris Paloma - Good Girl (32) (01) 33 (22) PVA - Send (11) (07) 34 (47) Apparat - Hum of Maybe (34) (01) 35 (28) Jenny on Holiday - Good Intentions (06) (12) 36 (24) Boko Yout - Gusto (02) (11) 37 (34) The Maccabess - Koya (01) (17) (3 weeks) 38 (**) Anna Prior - Silence (38) (01) 39 (29) Clark - Janus Model (07) (10) 40 (37) Ethel Cain - Dust Bowl (04) (14)

Fix You is certainly a worthy choice of favourite Coldplay song! Can see why you'd think that about X&Y - on its own it's absolutely fine as an album, but just not the one of theirs I go back to. I'd rank Viva La Vida, A Rush of Blood, Parachutes, X&Y, Mylo Xyloto. I haven't paid enough attention to full albums after that.

2005 Review There were a number of contributing factors, but it's fair to say that 2005 was my favourite year of music to that point. The list of songs I've discussed is so much better than the lists of 2003 & 2004 (average ratings /10 of 7.3, 7.9 & 8.4 so far), but it wasn't just a case of the highs being higher, the other songs mentioned as runners-up and charting are considerably better too. 2005 was the first full year where I was discovering music in any volume outside of previous main sources of the top 40, Radio 1 daytime playlist and what friends at school were into. Whilst the internet had become a big thing for me in 2002-4 for music, that was largely just using the likes of WinMX and Limewire to download songs that were popular, 2005 was the first time where I would've used it to properly discover music through forums and the likes of MySpace. Properly listening to Zane Lowe's show in the evenings opened up a whole new world of artists and genres, and put simply the charts reflected what I enjoyed listening to most more than any other period had, and probably has since. The amount of British indie music in the top 40 was phenomenal, and at this point we hadn't reached the 'landfill' phase, even the lesser known, less successful, poorer stuff of 2005 was better than some of what ended up coming. Probably helped by being a bit older and having my first small income (plus EMA!) it was comfortably the most music I'd purchased as well, at least 2-3 of albums each month and then a long list at gift-receiving times too. The albums released by Arcade Fire, Maximo Park, Nine Inch Nails, Editors, Bloc Party, The Go! Team, Gorillaz, We Are Scientists, Sufjan Stevens, Elbow and Death Cab for Cutie are all ones I still love listening to today. The amount of music I've been able to find and discover has risen pretty much every year, there may end up being years where my #1 singles are ones I rank higher, or have stood the test of time better, but not where they will also be as in sync with what the UK (or indeed any country) was charting. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) The Futureheads - Hounds of Love Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure Stereophonics - Dakota Royksopp - What Else Is There? Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. The White Stripes - Blue Orchid Maximo Park - Going Missing Doves - Black and White Town The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize Arcade Fire - Wake Up The Killers - Somebody Told Me Scissor Sisters - Filthy/Gorgeous Gorillaz - DARE The Futureheads - Area Stereophonics - Superman The Chemical Brothers feat. Tim Burgess - The Boxer Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Ain't No Easy Way The Magic Numbers - Forever Lost Oasis - The Importance of Being Idle Coldplay - Talk Feeder - Feeling a Moment Louis XIV - Finding Out True Love Is Blind

68 - 26/12/2005 Coldplay - Talk Chart Run: 02-01-01-03-07-06-09-13-16-19-32 (11 weeks) We come to the end of a third calendar year, and for the final week of 2005 and first of 2006 is Coldplay, getting their second number one with Talk, meaning each single from X&Y charted one position higher than the previous one. It was always one of my favourite tracks on X&Y and was a worthy third single release, it felt interesting and upbeat for a Coldplay song, certainly having more 80s synth influences than you'd typically find in their work, and it was great to hear them move in a different direction. However, as was often the case with this time of the year, there's an element of taking advantage of a lack of competition to hit the top, as after the Christmas chart week there would often be a 2-3 week lull before releases picked up again. Talk was one of three entries in the week it was released, with just three more following in the two weeks after where it reigned at the top. Talk isn't something I revisit particularly often now, perfectly fine and enjoyable but not towards the top of my favourites of theirs. 2026 Rating: 7/10 What Else Is There? was #2 for the two weeks this was at the top, a couple of top 10 entries came from Louis XIV's follow-up to their #1 with Pledge of Allegiance, and Editors re-issue of Munich, which I didn't chart as highly as I did the first time around, but was worthy of another good run as I'd begun to enjoy it, and them, more following me buying their excellent debut album The Back Room.

67 - 05/12/2005 Röyksopp 'What Else Is There?' Chart Run: 01-01-01-02-02-04-04-05-07-06-07-09-14-20-20-17-18-17-20-24-26-32-39-35-38 (25 weeks) For December 2005, the Christmas number one single is one which is essentially two separate songs and entries. What Else Is There? was the third single from Röyksopp's album The Understanding, and became what was their final UK top 40 single, but it was largely promoted in the UK with the Thin White Duke / Jacques Lu Cont remix, and it was certainly a remix which turned the song into something completely different. The remix was what I was mainly listening to at its time of release, mainly the full 8:30 version rather than the radio edit of it and helped it enter at #1, reaching where previous big singles Eple and Only This Moment couldn't quite manage. The remix turned it into a much bigger dance anthem and was something I loved at the time, really taken to the repetition of the chorus lyrics. Over time, I begun to get more familiar with the original, and it definitely helped extend its chart run - a week shy of half a year in the chart, and 12 weeks in the top 10. The original is stunningly beautiful with the vocal provided by Karin Dreijer (AKA Fever Ray) of The Knife, a band who will be mentioned again in this thread very soon. To 2026, if I were to listen to the remix I'd go for the radio edit now, the full version feels like it drags a bit over 8 and a half minutes, whereas it remains a bit of a banger when more compact. However, the original would be what I'd listen to most and what I've continued to love more, it's incredibly atmospheric and I still adore Karin's vocal. Röyksopp have released some exceptional singles, and this is definitely one of them. 2026 Rating: 10/10 (Remix: 8/10) Songs kept from #1: Guillemots - Trains To Brazil, The Subways - No Goodbyes, ? - ? Three different songs would enter at #2 behind What Else Is There? Two of the indie bands of the time who'd reached the lower reaches of the UK top 40 a couple of times but didn't have huge success in Guillemots and The Subways, and then one which would switch places on the last chart of the year. Guillemots had a great run of singles and I loved them very much for a brief period, and The Subways are still a fine occasional listen, but No Goodbyes isn't the track of theirs that's worthy of being their most successful. Of other new entries in these weeks, The Strokes provide my favourite of them with Juice Box (#4), whilst the big UK hit at the time Nizlopi - JCB (#5) was something I admired briefly but haven't really listened to at all in the intervening 20 years, and Fairytale of New York hit #3 after it was re-released.

66 - 28/11/2005 The Futureheads - Area Chart Run: 01-03-04-04-03-04-05-10-14-14-18-18-26-31-37 (15 weeks) Following the relative success of their debut album, The Futureheads got a second UK top 20 hit with a standalone single released in the runup to Christmas 2005 in Area, not featured on any of their albums. And like their other top 20 hit, it hit #1 in my own chart. They had been a favourite of mine throughout the year and a new single was always likely something I enjoyed - it was nothing new or different for them, very much 'more of the same' but their sound was still incredibly unique as far as mid-00s indie bands went. Area certainly ranks towards the top of The Futureheads discography. They're still a band I enjoy listening to every now and again, and their earlier stuff tends to be what I go to most. 2026 Rating: 8/10 Apply Some Pressure climbed back up to the runners-up spot for this week. Oasis had the highest charting other entry with Let There Be Love, reaching #5 - a good effort but some way below the ballad singles from their previous album.

65 - 14/11/2005 Arcade Fire - Wake Up Chart Run: 01-01-03-09-14-19-21-23-27-32-33-32-36-37 (14 weeks) Just three number one songs between two from the same act equals The Killers from summer of 2004, as Arcade Fire soon followed up the success of Rebellion (Lies) with the next single, Wake Up. In the previous couple of months I'd listened to Funeral a hell of a lot, and loved everything on it to some extent. There were only maybe a couple of songs that they could have chosen as the next single that wouldn't have made the top spot, but Wake Up was certainly a worthy choice, another great example of the contrast between Win and Regine's vocals, and typical of their excellent use of so many different instruments. I'd probably rank it somewhere in the middle of the 10 songs on Funeral, it's still excellent and a song I've listened to a lot, but not right towards the top of their discography - maybe just about making it if I created a 15ish song 'Best of Arcade Fire' playlist. 2025 Rating: 8/10 Songs kept from #1: Stereophonics - Rewind A week ahead of Apply Some Pressure before Stereophonics came close to making it a trio of number ones for the year with Rewind, a song more similar to their last couple of albums than the previous singles from this one. Gorillaz - Dirty Harry (#6) and Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia (#15) the highlights of other entries from this fortnight, the latter definitely feels under-charted but it was over a year old at this point.

01 (01) Tourist feat. Real Lies - Love In Silence (01) (06) (2 weeks) 02 (03) Emma Pollock - Black Magnetic (02) (06) 03 (04) Gorillaz feat. Omar Souleyman & Yaslin Bay - Damascus (03) (05) 04 (02) Holybones - These Are The Rooms (01) (08) (2 weeks) 05 (09) Sudan Archives - A Bug's Life (05) (05) 06 (14) Night Tapes - Swordsman (06) (04) 07 (17) Oklou - Dance 2 (07) (03) 08 (05) Boko Yout - Gusto (02) (08) 09 (06) Daniel Avery feat. Ellie Rowsell - Haze (01) (12) (4 weeks) 10 (07) White Lies - Juice (02) (11) 11 (11) PVA - Send (11) (04) 12 (08) Clark - Janus Model (07) (07) 13 (10) Jenny on Holiday - Good Intentions (06) (09) 14 (26) Hercules & Love Affair feat. Hips & Lips - Body and Soul (14) (02) 15 (19) Ladytron - Caught In The Blink of An Eye (15) (03) 16 (12) Dry Cleaning - Cruise Ship Designer (12) (07) 17 (23) FAUZIA - The Way (17) (03) 18 (29) The Twilight Sad - Waiting For The Phone Call (18) (03) 19 (13) Rose Gray - April (Daniel Avery Remix) (12) (07) 20 (15) The Maccabess - Koya (01) (14) (3 weeks) 21 (22) St. Lucia - Into The Sky (21) (04) 22 (30) Olivia Dean - Baby Steps (22) (02) 23 (16) Jean Dawson - Prize Fighter (04) (09) 24 (36) Howling Bells - Melbourne (24) (02) 25 (**) Matt Berninger - Blue Monday (25) (01) 26 (18) Ethel Cain - Dust Bowl (04) (11) 27 (32) Sophia Stel - All My Friends Are Models (27) (02) 28 (39) Anna von Hausswolff - Struggle With The Beast (28) (02) 29 (**) Radio Free Alice - Rule 31 (29) (01) 30 (21) Deadletter - To The Brim (11) (09) 31 (20) Getdown Services - I Want To Eat It (17) (06) 32 (45) Robyn - Talk To Me (32) (01) 33 (24) Yonaka - Hit Me When I'm Sore (24) (05) 34 (28) Elder Island - Ordinary Love (22) (07) 35 (**) Gorillaz feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar - Orange County (35) (01) 36 (27) The Orielles - Three Halves (07) (10) 37 (25) Hatchie - Sage (13) (08) 38 (**) Daughter - Not Enough (38) (01) 39 (31) Trudge feat. CAIVA - Shades of Hesitation (31) (04) 40 (34) Mount Palomar feat. Pip Blom - Little Fractures (11) (09)

+20 Wolf Alice - Bloom Baby Bloom 19 Ethel Cain - F*ck Me Eyes 18 Tame Impala - Dracula 17 Gorillaz (feat. Omar Souleyman & Yasiin Bey) - Damascus 16 Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream 15 Tame Impala - End Of Summer 14 Ethel Cain - Nettles 13 Wolf Alice - The Sofa 12 Ethel Cain - Amber Waves 11 Fontaines D.C. - It's Amazing To Be Young 10 Lorde - What Was That 9 Oklou - blade bird 8 Pulp - Got to Have Love 7 Sleep Token - Emergence 6 Sam Fender (feat. Elton John) - Talk to You 5 ROSALÍA (feat. Björk & Yves Tumor) - Berghain 4 Linkin Park - Up From The Bottom 3 ROSALÍA (feat. Yahritza Y Su Esencia) - La Perla 2 Lana Del Rey - Henry, come on 1 Bryan Adams & Friends - California Christmas

64 - 31/10/2005 Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure Chart Run: 02-01-01-02-03-02-05-11-15-16-17-21-26-29-29-25-28-33 (18 weeks) After a fortnight of one of the biggest acts and songs of the year being at the top, it's a fortnight for another one of them (well for me, at least!) as Maximo Park get their second number one with the best known single from their debut album, Apply Some Pressure. It was originally released in February and had also entered at #2 for me behind Dakota, it was something I really enjoyed but hadn't yet reached the levels of obsession I would do - it had a solid run for a decent sized hit, but at the time wasn't ever going to challenge the Phonics. But over the course of the year I'd begin to love it (and them) so much more, a re-release put it just three places higher in the UK (#17 after #20 in its original release) and again entered my own chart at #2 behind the Arctic Monkeys forcefield, but it would go on to get a deserved fortnight at the top. With two releases and an album I played continuously, this will without a doubt have been my most played song of the year. Apply Some Pressure is a song which completely typified the mid noughties British indie scene for me - it's nothing groundbreaking but a great, singable, danceable 3 minutes of fun. It's still a top favourite from this era, and of what you'd describe as the 'second tier' of indie bands in terms of commercial success, no one else came close to having as good a duo of signature hits as Maximo Park - the other half to come in ~18 months. 2026 Rating: 10/10 The top 4 were the same in both weeks, with Arctic Monkeys dropping a place and Rebellion (Lies) still sticking around at #4. Goldfrapp were the most significant entry within this fortnight, with Number One between them at #3. There was a top 10 debut for The Feeling with the initial release of Fill My Little World, four months before they'd enter the UK chart for the first time.

Thanks for commenting and reading Jade, I had been meaning to respond earlier! Glad to see you have enjoyed so much of it <3

That's ok, glad you are reading even if not commenting - I know its hard to keep up with so many threads, I've got way behind on the #1 ranks! A good choice of favourites.

Right, time to actually respond to some of the comments in here... Thanks Jim - great to see so many you enjoy. Funeral is such an incredible album, a lot of truly great songs, Tunnels is definitely a worthy choice!

63 - 17/10/2005 Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor Chart Run: 01-01-02-02-03-05-08-08-09-10-08-10-14-19-28-24-29-33-39 (19 weeks) A song which most could have predicted to appear in this list now, with Arctic Monkeys debut I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor making it a third number one of the year shared with the UK chart. September 2005 signalled the start of my A-Levels, and the Monkeys were big business in the sixth form common room - the likes of Fake Tales of San Francisco, Scummy Man, and early versions of Riot Van and Cigarette Smoke were all over the common room stereo. If I'd done this chart based on what I liked and was listening to at the time, then I'm sure Fake Tales would've been a top 5 hit, and this wouldn't have been their debut entry, but sticking to the release schedule meant that it was. A simple song, and watching the video you remember just how young and kind of awkward they were at the time. I remember there being significant hype about this, and that on BuzzJack's predecessor forum CoolClarity was a long voice in bigging up just how big this could be. At the time it had very little exposure in the traditional places for promotion, so a top 10 was the most a lot of people could imagine, rather than cruising to the top. It was another single I bought first week on CD, was routing for it to go to the top, it's probably as delighted as I've ever been at a song going to #1. I was always going to be one of the half a million that bought their debut album in release week, and played it to death, although we did know so much of it beforehand and a couple of tracks weren't as good as some of their original demo recordings. It's still a classic, I've listened to it loads over the years, but it's not right amongst their very best, not typically what I'd put on if I wanted to listen to some Monkeys. 2026 Rating: 9/10 It was a quiet couple of weeks for releases, it was the only song that reached my top 20 from its release week. There was an entry at #2 in its second week, but the two songs would swap places the following week...

There was another Help (A Day in the Life) from War Child in 2005-6ish which I really enjoyed, some great songs on there from some of the acts of the time - Bloc Party, Manics, Hard-Fi, and a couple of high profile covers I remember (Kaisers - Heard It Through The Grapevine). Would look forward to this, a lot of good acts on there.

01 (02) Tourist feat. Real Lies - Love In Silence (01) (05) 02 (01) Holybones - These Are The Rooms (01) (07) (2 weeks) 03 (04) Emma Pollock - Black Magnetic (03) (05) 04 (08) Gorillaz feat. Omar Souleyman & Yaslin Bay - Damascus (04) (04) 05 (03) Boko Yout - Gusto (02) (07) 06 (05) Daniel Avery feat. Ellie Rowsell - Haze (01) (11) (4 weeks) 07 (06) White Lies - Juice (02) (10) 08 (07) Clark - Janus Model (07) (06) 09 (15) Sudan Archives - A Bug's Life (09) (04) 10 (09) Jenny on Holiday - Good Intentions (06) (08) 11 (19) PVA - Send (11) (03) 12 (13) Dry Cleaning - Cruise Ship Designer (12) (06) 13 (12) Rose Gray - April (Daniel Avery Remix) (12) (06) 14 (21) Night Tapes - Swordsman (14) (03) 15 (11) The Maccabess - Koya (01) (13) (3 weeks) 16 (10) Jean Dawson - Prize Fighter (04) (08) 17 (29) Oklou - Dance 2 (17) (02) 18 (14) Ethel Cain - Dust Bowl (04) (10) 19 (25) Ladytron - Caught In The Blink of An Eye (19) (02) 20 (17) Getdown Services - I Want To Eat It (17) (05) 21 (16) Deadletter - To The Brim (11) (08) 22 (26) St. Lucia - Into The Sky (22) (03) 23 (32) FAUZIA - The Way (23) (02) 24 (24) Yonaka - Hit Me When I'm Sore (24) (04) 25 (18) Hatchie - Sage (13) (07) 26 (**) Hercules & Love Affair feat. Hips & Lips - Body and Soul (26) (01) 27 (20) The Orielles - Three Halves (07) (09) 28 (27) Elder Island - Ordinary Love (22) (06) 29 (36) The Twilight Sad - Waiting For The Phone Call (29) (02) 30 (42) Olivia Dean - Baby Steps (30) (01) 31 (31) Trudge feat. CAIVA - Shades of Hesitation (31) (03) 32 (41) Sophia Stel - All My Friends Are Models (32) (01) 33 (23) Confidence Man - 17 (23) (05) 34 (22) Mount Palomar feat. Pip Blom - Little Fractures (11) (08) 35 (28) G. Jones & Eprom - By Your Side (25) (05) 36 (**) Howling Bells - Melbourne (36) (01) 37 (33) Fold feat. George FitzGerald - Milk (24) (09) 38 (30) Tame Impala - Dracula (03) (15) 39 (44) Anna von Hausswolff - Struggle With The Beast (39) (01) 40 (34) The Cribs - A Point Too Hard to Make (08) (10)

They were the 5 drivers I rated below a 5/10, so a great start. Horrible to watch Hamilton at times, just sadness really.

62 - 10/10/2005 Louis XIV - Finding Out True Love Is Blind Chart Run: 01-02-04-05-06-07-10-13-16-19-23-25-24-28-33-38-37 (17 weeks) Quite possibly the least known song and act to appear so far, this is very much a Zane Lowe Radio 1 show influenced entry, as he played them a lot during 2005, this being released initially earlier in the year and re-released, going higher in my own chart and reaching the UK singles chart at #57. Hailing from San Diego, they only released a couple of albums, and were known for their lyrics being somewhat sexualised and criticised for being condescending towards women, which Finding Out True Love is Blind fits the description. This feels very much of its time, it's fine and I have enjoyed listening to it again, but they aren't a band I've listened to much, and this is certainly the only song of theirs I'm ever likely to now. 2026 Rating: 6/10 Rebellion (Lies) fell to the runners-up spot, but there were three new entries in the top 4, the other two songs being ones I rank much more highly now - Feeder with Shatter - up there with their best songs and one of a few of theirs I still love (and as with their popular hit Just a Day, originally a B-side and fan popularity got it an official single release), and Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body - their first of many entries of theirs, a great song from their Plans album but #4 does feel about right.

61 - 05/09/2005 Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) Chart Run: 01-01-01-01-01-02-03-03-04-04-06-07-10-11-13-14-12-16-19-23-25-25-24-26-30-36-38-37-38 (29 weeks) After The Golden Path and Mr Brightside, here comes the third of just four songs to spend more than half a year in my personal chart, Arcade Fire spanning 29 weeks from the beginning of September 2005 until well into the next year. Rebellion (Lies) was their 4th hit, the previous three all coming within the 6 months prior to this, but they were all tracks I heard a bit, but not that often and not enough to have dug out and listened to on their own - Laika (#25), Power Out (#32), Cold Wind (#36) were not that different to their performance on the UK singles chart. Just after I'd got my GCSE results I remember buying three albums together, of largely smaller acts who's songs I'd enjoyed hearing and seemed to have got impressive acclaim online - The Go! Team's Thunder, Lightning, Strike, Everything Is by Nine Black Alps and Funeral by Arcade Fire. All three were very different, but I absolutely loved all three. Arcade Fire's next single Rebellion (Lies) was just around the corner, and was my instant favourite on the album, the way its intro builds up, the interesting array of different instruments they'd been praised so much for, the contrast of Win's male lead vocal and Regine's female backing vocal, the sing-a-long catchy nature of the anthemic chorus which wasn't present on a lot of Funeral, it was easy to see why and how it, and they, had received so much praise. In a year which had already contained a few incredible hits, this was another to add to the list and was a sure-thing for an end of year top 5, ending up being ranked as runner-up to Hounds of Love. It's safe to say that it's a song which has remained one of my all time favourites over the last 20 years, always great to listen to and always makes me happy, still sounding as utterly fabulous as it always did. To provide some context into my listening of it, since I first discovered and set up a last.fm account at the end of 2007 I've always been very regimented in making sure whatever means of listening to music has been set up to scrobble what I've been listening to, now well past half a million scrobbles of nearly 50,000 different tracks. The entire top 100 of all time is almost entirely made up of songs released (or discovered, at least) during that period, the only exception being Rebellion (Lies) sitting comfortably in the top 50, and despite Arcade Fire going on to become one of my all time favourite acts, is comfortably #1 ranked amongst their tracks despite the majority of its plays coming from before I'd set the account up. 2026 Rating: 10/10 Songs kept from #1: Coldplay - Fix You, Kanye West & Jamie Foxx - Gold Digger, The Go! Team - Bottle Rocket, The Prodigy - Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix) A busy few weeks for songs which didn't quite make it, as the #2 changed hands each week, with Dare getting a week there too. Coldplay charted higher and for much longer than Speed of Sound but couldn't quite reach the summit, Kanye got his biggest hit yet, The Go! Team's funkiness was always going to chart high given how much I loved the album, and then The Prodigy released some remixes ahead of their super-popular Greatest Hits compilation, and I've always felt the Pendulum remix too Voodoo People to a higher level than the original. It was a good time for Pendulum as Slam was also a top 3 hit during this period, that joining Imogen Heap's Hide and Seek as the main other highlights from this time.

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60 - 29/08/2005 Gorillaz - Dare Chart Run: 01-03-02-04-07-09-12-11-13-13-14-17-19-24-29-32-33-35-37 (19 weeks) And now for a third consecutive song to spend just the one week at the top, and a second consecutive chart topper for Gorillaz, as Dare followed Feel Good Inc. to the top and cemented them as one of the biggest acts in the country as for the second week in a row the top of my chart mirrored that of the UK, which would happen once more in the final four months of the year. Featuring Shaun Ryder of Happy Mondays on the song, Dare seemed to have a lot of hype at the time and was an immediate highlight from the Demon Days album, it was a big highlight of the year for me at the time and it had considerable longevity in my chart over the autumn. Not as good as their other big hit, but one I still love and have listened to a lot in the intervening 20 years. 2026 Rating: 8/10 Songs kept from #1: The Bravery - Unconditional Reaching a place higher than An Honest Mistake had done early in the year, The Bravery were definitely one of the short lived sounds of 2005, with a fantastic half of an album. There had started to be more releases I liked again as summer came to a close, with six reaching the top 10 on this week, KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See and Elbow - Forget Myself being the pick of them.