Artist	Song
Interpol	Evil
from Antics (2004)
Theory of a Deadman	No Surprise
from Gasoline (2007)
Kasabian	Club Foot
from Kasabian (2008)
Oasis	Lyla
from Don't Believe the Truth (2008)
Trapt	Stand Up
from Someone In Control (2005)
Dark New Day	Brother
from Twelve Year Silence (2005)
No Address	When I'm Gone (Sadie)
from Time Doesn't Notice (2005)
Jimmy Eat World	Work
from Futures (2004)
Mudvayne	Forget To Remember
from Mudvayne - Lost and Found (2003)
Rise Against	Swing Life Away
from Siren Song of the Counter Culture (2004)
The Offspring	Can't Repeat
from The Offspring: Greatest Hits (2005)
Disturbed	Guarded
from Ten Thousand Fists (2005)
Mötley Crüe	If I Die Tomorrow
from Mötley Crüe: The Greatest Hits (Deluxe Version) (2009)
Switchfoot	Stars
from Nothing Is Sound (2005)
Crossfade	Colors
from Crossfade (2004)
Green Day	Jesus of Suburbia
from American Idiot (2004)
The Used	All That I've Got
from In Love and Death (2005)
Coheed and Cambria	The Suffering
from Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1 - From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005)
Kings of Leon	The Bucket
from Aha Shake Heartbreak (2005)
Taproot	Calling
from Blue-Sky Research (2005)
Unwritten Law	Save Me
from Here's to the Mourning (2005)
The Exies	Ugly
from Head for the Door (2004)
Sevendust	Ugly
from Next (2007)
Scott Stapp	The Great Divide
from The Great Divide (2005)
Default	Count on Me
from One Thing Remains (2005)
Interpol	Evil
from Antics (2004)
Theory of a Deadman	No Surprise
from Gasoline (2007)
Kasabian	Club Foot
from Kasabian (2008)
Oasis	Lyla
from Don't Believe the Truth (2008)
Trapt	Stand Up
from Someone In Control (2005)
Dark New Day	Brother
from Twelve Year Silence (2005)
No Address	When I'm Gone (Sadie)
from Time Doesn't Notice (2005)
Jimmy Eat World	Work
from Futures (2004)
Mudvayne	Forget To Remember
from Mudvayne - Lost and Found (2003)
Rise Against	Swing Life Away
from Siren Song of the Counter Culture (2004)
The Offspring	Can't Repeat
from The Offspring: Greatest Hits (2005)
Disturbed	Guarded
from Ten Thousand Fists (2005)
Mötley Crüe	If I Die Tomorrow
from Mötley Crüe: The Greatest Hits (Deluxe Version) (2009)
Switchfoot	Stars
from Nothing Is Sound (2005)
Crossfade	Colors
from Crossfade (2004)
Green Day	Jesus of Suburbia
from American Idiot (2004)
The Used	All That I've Got
from In Love and Death (2005)
Coheed and Cambria	The Suffering
from Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1 - From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005)
Kings of Leon	The Bucket
from Aha Shake Heartbreak (2005)
Taproot	Calling
from Blue-Sky Research (2005)
Unwritten Law	Save Me
from Here's to the Mourning (2005)
The Exies	Ugly
from Head for the Door (2004)
Sevendust	Ugly
from Next (2007)
Scott Stapp	The Great Divide
from The Great Divide (2005)
Default	Count on Me
from One Thing Remains (2005)

Comment:

Before you get confused, the Exies and Sevendust didn’t finish 2005 off with two versions of the same track. They just translated the same song title (“Ugly”) differently, with the former dragging us, kicking and smiling, through peaks and valleys and the latter breaking out actual battering rams. They weren’t the only ones blasting our blind spot in 2005 either: Green Day’s “Jesus of Suburbia” single is as epic as pop-punk gets without tearing its tabs from Pete Townshend, “If I Die Tomorrow” is Mötley Crüe with their guard down and guitars up, and “Lyla” is a reminder that Britpop is still going strong a decade after its Stateside invasion.

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