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