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