Top 5: Essential Songs to Your Playlist Top 5 Anti-Love Songs February 12, 2009 Love is many things in pop music. Like oxygen. Thicker than water. All around. Will tear us apart. A tender trap. A battlefield. A mystery. A dog from hell. A bitch. A mix tape. A drug. But it was ... Top 5 Striptease Songs February 11, 2009 Boys know a thing or two about strip shows, and boys who don’t know much aren’t really boys, although they most likely know a thing or two about the action on the other side of the strip... Top 5 Most Anticipated Albums of 2010 January 15, 2009 1. Here Lies Love by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim 2. IRM by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck 3. Plastic Beach by Gorillaz 4. Romance Is Boring by Los Campesinos! 5. Wake Up The Nation! By Paul Weller... Mudvayne At Decade’s End: Top 5 Mudvayne Songs December 31, 2009 Their onstage performances were tempests, unloading gritty, calculated mayhem that stayed true to the recordings, peppered with some theatrical elements (monkey suits, face paint, alien masks) ... Top 5 Pixies Songs: A Big Big Love December 20, 2009 On the 20th anniversary of the Pixies’ debut album, let’s look back at the alternative rock band’s Top 5 most memorable songs ... Top 5 Asian Boy Band Singles of 2009 Top 5, December 14, 2009 Here’s no other place in the world where boy bands thrive as successfully - with sparkles on top - as they do in Asia. 2009 witnessed the unstoppable domination of K-Pop and J-Pop boy bands across ... Top 5 Funeral Songs Top 5, December 1, 2009 The hormonal thrill of dying young in a rock and roll way dissipates at the imminent probability of it actually happening to you - life may sometimes suck, but could I have more of it, please? ... Songs for Sci-Fi Adventures Top 5, November 19, 2009 Rock and rollers have dabbled in science fiction with a frenzy, not just in etymology but in actual content... Songs of Melancholia Top 5, November 8, 2009 Happiness is a trick pop never pulled off with much conviction. Melancholia suits it better. Here are five songs that will kill you softly ... TOP 5 Songs for a Hong Kong Rewind Top 5, October 18, 2009 Songs have a way of capturing time and preserving memory, much like prehistoric mosquitoes in amber. That’s pop music’s most fundamental magic - nearly all our swatches of nostalgia come ...

Jitterbug: TOP 5 Playlists to Wake You up Top 5, September 9, 2009 If I were to take that brief to heart - pop as alarm clock, pop as morning pick-me-up - - I’d foist some serious volume on you and be done with it:  Mastodon, A Place to Bury Strangers. But I ...