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The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2005

The year-end countdown for 2005 from The Buzz in Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC ranks 99 songs, with “The Hand That Feeds” by Nine Inch Nails at number one. The list features 73 different artists; Green Day has the most entries with four songs.

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# Song ListsBest
1 The Hand That Feeds Nine Inch Nails 54 #1
2 Best of You Foo Fighters 75 #1
3 Boulevard of Broken Dreams Green Day 96 #1
4 Beverly Hills Weezer 56 #4
5 Feel Good Inc. Gorillaz 80 #1
6 E-Pro Beck 41 #2
7 Mr. Brightside The Killers 114 #1
8 Holiday Green Day 74 #2
9 Sitting, Waiting, Wishing Jack Johnson 28 #7
10 Speed of Sound Coldplay 45 #2
11 Little Sister Queens of the Stone Age 35 #2
12 Helena My Chemical Romance 32 #4
13 Be Yourself Audioslave 32 #4
14 Blue Orchid The White Stripes 35 #5
15 Don't Tread On Me Three Eleven 1 #15
16 B.Y.O.B. System of a Down 33 #1
17 Swing Life Away Rise Against 20 #4
18 Right Here Staind 19 #1
19 Sugar, We're Goin' Down Fall Out Boy 43 #4
20 Scars Papa Roach 29 #10
21 Girl Beck 36 #17
22 Only Nine Inch Nails 44 #5
23 Wake Me Up When September Ends Green Day 44 #2
24 DOA Foo Fighters 43 #9
25 Cold Crossfade 20 #8
26 All These Things That I've Done The Killers 50 #2
27 Doesn't Remind Me Audioslave 31 #4
28 Bullet and a Target Citizen Cope 22 #12
29 Jesus of Suburbia Green Day 35 #11
30 Stricken Disturbed 17 #3
31 An Honest Mistake The Bravery 34 #3
32 Photograph Nickelback 13 #9
33 My Doorbell The White Stripes 42 #7
34 Hypnotize System of a Down 28 #10
35 Good People Jack Johnson 23 #20
36 Soul Meets Body Death Cab for Cutie 64 #2
37 I'm Not Okay (I Promise) My Chemical Romance 36 #21
38 Remedy Seether 14 #3
39 All Because of You U2 27 #6
40 Bat Country Avenged Sevenfold 24 #13
41 American Baby Dave Matthews Band 7 #41
42 We Are All on Drugs Weezer 21 #28
43 The Clincher Chevelle 9 #15
44 Can't Repeat The Offspring 10 #30
45 Work Jimmy Eat World 28 #6
46 Question! System of a Down 13 #12
47 Smile Like You Mean It The Killers 29 #10
48 Juicebox The Strokes 32 #12
49 Fix You Coldplay 47 #13
50 Save Me Shinedown 16 #8
51 Save Me Unwritten Law 14 #23
52 Do You Want To Franz Ferdinand 34 #10
53 Gangstas And Drugs Transplants 1 #53
54 Your Time Has Come Audioslave 12 #44
55 Ohio is for Lovers Hawthorne Heights 8 #41
56 Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own U2 24 #17
57 Not Now blink-182 9 #32
58 Evil Interpol 31 #5
59 Pieces Sum 41 17 #1
60 The Widow The Mars Volta 28 #7
61 Stand Up Trapt 7 #18
62 Home Three Days Grace 12 #13
63 Stars Switchfoot 12 #34
64 Animals Nickelback 8 #22
65 The Ghost of You My Chemical Romance 14 #48
66 Middle of Nowhere Hot Hot Heat 22 #6
67 Attack 30 Seconds to Mars 8 #18
68 This Photograph is Proof Taking Back Sunday 7 #62
69 Hysteria Muse 40 #3
70 Passive A Perfect Circle 16 #41
71 Why Do You Love Me Garbage 24 #26
72 Talk Coldplay 37 #7
73 Out of Exile Audioslave 9 #52
74 All That I've Got The Used 9 #19
75 Speak Easy Three Eleven 1 #75
76 Twisted Transistor Korn 17 #14
77 Give It Up Pepper 8 #44
78 The Suffering Coheed and Cambria 11 #56
79 Time To Waste Alkaline Trio 7 #33
80 Look At The World From The Bottom of A Well Mike Doughty 1 #80
81 Walking Dead Z-Trip 6 #33
82 Ugly The Exies 5 #30
83 Personal Jesus Marilyn Manson 16 #16
84 King Without a Crown Matisyahu 43 #1
85 We Don't Care Anymore Story of the Year 5 #34
86 Everything Changes Staind 6 #15
87 The Bucket Kings of Leon 20 #28
88 Stronger Trust Company 3 #71
89 Vermilion Slipknot 8 #6
90 Big Pimpin' Linkin Park/Jay-Z 1 #90
91 Lyla Oasis 14 #31
92 Nth Degree Morningwood 20 #8
93 Bullet Proof Skin Institute 4 #42
94 Club Foot Kasabian 21 #22
95 Over My Head (Cable Car) The Fray 8 #72
96 Make a Move Incubus 7 #48
97 Perfect Situation Weezer 36 #7
98 Badfish/Boss DJ Jack Johnson 4 #61
99 Finding Out True Love is Blind Louis XIV 25 #5

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The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2005 was broadcast by The Buzz (Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC). Positions are shown exactly as the station ranked them; artist and song names have been standardized so that every entry links to that song’s complete chart history across all stations. It counts toward the Alternative & Modern Rock rankings.

Contributed by Michel Gelinas. Thank you!

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