Artist	Song
Fall Out Boy	Sugar, We're Goin' Down
Johnny Cash	Flesh and Blood
The Ramones	Oh Oh I Love Her So
Morningwood	Nth Degree
The Ramones	Slug (demo)
Spiritualized	Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space
Irving	Did I Ever Tell You I'm in Love with Your Girlfriend
Liz Phair	Hot White Cum
Tilly and the Wall	Fell Down the Stairs
Hanson	A Minute Without You
Tullycraft	Every Little Thing
Liz Phair	Count on My Love
New Order	Age of Consent
Shock Treatment	Bitchin' in the Kitchen
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	Deanna
The Rolling Stones	Oh No, Not You Again
Ash	Girls from Mars
Bishop Allen	Things are What You Make of Them
Cake	Strangers in the Night
The Misfits	This Magic Moment
My Morning Jacket	Off the Record
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical	Listen to Jesus, Jimmy
The Lucksmiths	Adolescent Song of Mindless Devotion
Madonna	Hung Up
Amy Rigby	Dancing with Joey Ramone
Jens Lekman	Julie
Magnetic Fields	I Don't Want to Get Over You
Voltaire	The Vampire Club
The Darkness	Hazel Eyes
Jackson Browne	Doctor My Eyes

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October-December 2005, a time capsule of highlights in my music explorings. See my other two volumes for more in-depth comments, or not. I couldn't have asked for a better year full of better music. Here's hoping 2006 will carry on my ever-growing joy of music listening. There's actually a whole lot more good music from 2005 that I omitted in order to show off the very best material, including Madness, Apples in Stereo, McFly, (more) Bright Eyes, Styx, (more) Erasure, Ben Kweller, (more) Tegan and Sara, (more) They Might Be Giants, (more) Dropkick Murphys, Frank Sinatra, (more) Ben Folds, (way more) Of Montreal, Cake, John Williams, Cocteau Twins, The Cure, Lullaby for the Working Class, Jimmy Eat World (against all odds), (more) Iron and Wine, Dexter Freebish, That Dog, Van Morrison, Le Tigre, Ray Charles, Momus, The Rentals, (more) The Raveonettes, (more) Fountains of Wayne, (more) Beck, Atrixo, The Reunion Show, a bunch of Beulah, Save Ferris, (more) Altan, (more) Social D, (much more) The Pogues, Nicolas Cage (!), ABBA, Middle of the Road, Roman Holliday, (more) The Stars, Mini-Pops, United State of Electronica, (more) Rufus Wainwright, Garbage, Herman's Hermits, Big Country, Wilco, (more) The Eels, Jerry Lee Lewis, (more) Hanson, Skye Sweetnam, The Futureheads, MC Honky, Dan Bern, James, (more) Neutral Milk Hotel, (more) The Caesars, Death from Above 1979, The Decemberists, American Hi-Fi, (more) Rockpile, (more) Mountain Goats, (more) Reel Big Fish, New York Dolls, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Gwen Stefani, The Damned, Potshot, The Primitives, MxPx, Simon and Garfunkel, Brian Eno, (more) The Ramones, The 6ths, (more) Bon Jovi, (more) Def Leppard, Poison, White Lion, The Rosebuds, (more) The Wallflowers, a lot of O.A.R. that I'm regretting leaving out, ABBA, Plastic Bertrand, (more) The Star Spangles, (more) Exploding Hearts, (more) White Stripes, (more) Ash, Cloud Room, Relient K, System of a Down, The Wrens, Billy Bragg, The Click Five (sorry), Berlin, Big Audio Dynamite, Elton John, Okkervil River, Old Crow Medicine Show, Hidden Cameras, Showaddywaddy, (more) Future Bible Heroes, Aqueduct, Clem Snide, Sufjan Stevens, (more) Ben Lee, (more) Paul Westerberg, (much, much more) New Pornographers, (more) Wheatus, Flogging Molly, (more) Rilo Kiley, The Push Stars, Phantom Planet, (more) Ladybug Transistor, George Harrison, (more) Rick Springfield, Flamin' Groovies, Sleater-Kinney, (more) Great Lake Swimmers, The Most Serene Republic, Eisley, Aquabats, The Move, Gwen Stefani, Matt Nathanson, All, (more) Unicorns, (more) Donots, (more) Rolling Stones, Langhorne Slim, Abandoned Pools, Freezepop, The Breakup Society, Squeeze, Asia, (more) Del McCoury Band, (more) The Darkness, (more) Hedwig, Limbeck, Mercury Rev, (more) The Sonics, Generation X, Franz Ferdinand, Elvis, The Eagles, (more) Runaways, JoBoxer, Tsunami Bomb, Waltham, The B-52s, Transvision Vamp, The Groovie Ghoulies, Secret Affair, Ben Gibbard, Fishbone, (more) Aneka, Mint Royale, Coheed and Cambria, Foo Fighters, The Real McKenzies, The Beach Boys, Green Day, The Warlocks, Kate Rusby, Kirsty MacColl, (more) Reel Big Fish, The Cribs, Face to Face, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rogue Wave, Stryper, Matisyahu, Portastic, (more) Tullycraft, Shane MacGowan, (more) New Order, (more) Lucksmiths, Everclear, (more) Misfits, Patrick Park, (a lot more) Queen, Against Me!, Vanessa Carlton, (more) Wannadies, Third Eye Blind, Arcade Fire, (more) My Morning Jacket, (more) Magnetic Fields, Dwight Yoakum, A.C. Newman, The Travoltas, T. Rex, Bowling for Soup, Junior Senior, KISS, Bruce Springsteen, Warren Zevon, Puffy Ami Yumi, Dallas Crane, The Small Faces, Julie London, (more) Voltaire, Adam Green, Patti Smith, Nickel Creek, (more) Dead or Alive, The Toy Dolls, Icicle Works, Latterman, Regurgitator, Elbow, Andrew Bird, and more Jackson Browne, among others. Sorry, just had to do that for myself. Anyway, cheers to 2005 :)

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