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Coffee Break: The sound of 2005

LCD Soundsystem perform on 'Austin City Limits' on PBS.
LCD Soundsystem perform on 'Austin City Limits' on PBS.courtesy KLRU-TV/Austin City Limits. Photo by Scott Newton

by Jill Riley and Anna Weggel

January 22, 2021

The Current will be celebrating our Sweet 16 on Sunday (look ma! we can drive!), and since we can't celebrate with our normal birthday parties at First Avenue this year we thought we'd take a look back on 2005, the year it all began.

There wasn't an official Top 89 poll that year, but using some playlist data, we have a pretty good guess of what some of the top songs would be.

So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what top songs from 2005 do you want to hear?

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs played

LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
A Band of Bees - Chicken Payback
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.
Low - California
Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek