Ken’s Best Of Lists
Best of 2001
Moment In The Sun - Clem Snide
Fitted Shirt - Spoon
Island In The Sun - Weezer
Jenny & The Ess-Dog - Stephen Malkmus
I’m Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman - The White Stripes
Digital Love - Daft Punk
It’s Not Up To You - Bjork
Ask Me How I Am - Snow Patrol
Strange Condition - Pete Yorn
These Wooden Ideas - Idlewild
Happiness - Built To Spill
Imitation Of Life - R.E.M.
Rockin’ The Suburbs - Ben Folds
Gold Day - Sparklehorse
Best of 2002
Guess I’m Doing Fine - Beck
Say Yes If You Love Me - Acid House Kings
You Were Right - Badly Drawn Boy
Make You Feel That Way - Blackalicious
PDA - Interpol
Riding On The Subway - Jesse Malin
Nothing Gives Me Pleasure - Josh Rouse
Cry On Demand - Ryan Adams
Indian Summer - Pedro The Lion
The Way We Get By - Spoon
Kamera - Wilco
Overdue - The Get Up Kids
Things Are Getting Better – N.E.R.D.
Hate To Say I Told You So - The Hives
No One Knows - Queens Of The Stone Age
Get Free - The Vines
Keep Fishin’ - Weezer
Best of 2003
Now It’s On - Grandaddy
From Blown Speakers - New Pornographers
If She Wants Me - Belle & Sebastian
Don’t Steal Our Sun - The Thrills
Sheets - Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
The Truth - Lee
One Man’s Problem - The Jayhawks
Dancefloors - My Morning Jacket
12:51 - The Strokes
So Says I - The Shins
Carry Me Ohio - Sun Kil Moon
Inside of Love - Nada Surf
Love Vibration - Josh Rouse
Hackensack - Fountains Of Wayne
The New Year - Death Cab For Cutie
Myxomatosis - Radiohead
Ball And Biscuit - The White Stripes
Cold Light - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Light & Day / Reach For The Sun - Polyphonic Spree
Best of 2004
Evil - Interpol
Float On - Modest Mouse
Me and Mia - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Ashes - Embrace
Irish Blood, English Heart - Morrissey
Theologians - Wilco
Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
Run - Snow Patrol
Naked As We Came - Iron & Wine
I Don’t Believe You - The Magnetic Fields
Coast to Coast - Elliott Smith
Favorite - Neko Case
These Words - Natasha Bedingfield
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
Time Is Running Out - Muse
Fit but You Know It - The Streets
You Knows I Loves You - Goldie Lookin Chain
Best of 2005
Club Foot - Kasabian
Oh My God - Kaiser Chiefs
Smile Like You Mean It - The Killers
In the Morning - The Coral
An Honest Mistake - The Bravery
Dakota - Stereophonics
Banquet - Bloc Party
Somewhere Else - Razorlight
Feels Just Like It Should - Jamiroquai
Welcome to Jamrock - Damian “Junior Gong” Marley
I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
Hard to Beat - Hard-FI
1 Thing - Amerie
Good Luck - Basement Jaxx
Albion - Babyshambles
Ooh La La - Goldfrapp
Off the Record - My Morning Jacket
At the Hop - Devendra Banhart
Heartbeats - José González
Best of 2006
Stuck Between Stations - The Hold Steady
Souvenirs - Still, Small Voice & The Joyful Noise
Roscoe - Midlake
Rivalry - Figurines
Munich - Editors
Conventional Wisdom - Built To Spill
The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power) - The Flaming Lips
Laugh/Love/Fuck - The Coup
Hips Don’t Lie - Shakira Featuring Wyclef Jean
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
The Blues Are Still Blue - Belle & Sebastian
Naive - The Kooks
Last Request - Paolo Nutini
You Are What You Love - Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins
Hate Then Love - The Dears
Let’s Get Out of This Country - Camera Obscura
That Teenage Feeling - Neko Case
Walk In the Park - Oh No! Oh My!
El Otro Lado - Josh Rouse
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Flathead - The Fratellis