The Year in Music
Many radio stations will take the last week of the year and play a "best of" selection of all the music the program director was paid to play. I’m sure the music video channels do this too, but I haven’t watched them in over a decade. We’ll assume that they do.
I wanted to do something similar, so I’ve picked out 19 songs that I first heard in 2005. Not all of them were released this year - the track from Hednoize dates back to 2000. I don’t care. This list to me is a list of songs I discovered in 2005, and which I think are good enough to tell people about.
If you know me at all (and you probably don’t), some of these tracks will not be surprising. I can just hear you saying "Ooo! U2, Depeche Mode and Tears For Fears! Could you drag your pasty white ass out of the 80s?!?" Bite me. I like what I like.
Riley Part 3
The sedan returned Katya to her house just after sunset. There were 17 small cottages here, spread over the grounds of a large Victorian mansion. A discreet sign on the gate outside the grounds named the property “Blackpool Spa & Resort�. Each cottage was painted a different color, hers was teal.
Her head thrummed with sound as she opened the front door. The technicians had told her this would happen. She had eardrops and a specific range of facial exercises to do. She was fully prepared – this had happened to the other sixteen already – so she had their experiences to draw support from.
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