Once again TRM has worked out the top 100 songs of the year. The Eels came out on top with their song Hey Man (Now You’re Really Living), which has one of the cheapest video clips around featuring front man E with a personal camera filming himself singing along to the studio version of the song. The Eels made the top 10 a second time with Railroad Man, both songs being from the TRM Album of the Year Blinking Lights and Other Revelations. Melbourne 4 piece Clinkerfield took out second place with their song 'Tis the season for some treason taken from their Treason Season album, they also came in at #97 with Fuck Love Song from the same album and at #24 with A house is not a home from their follow up release The Silly, Serpentine Wind EP. New UK outfit Bernard took out 3rd spot with their hard hitting track Red Jacket-Seneca as well as coming in at #35 with a remake of their song One last breathe while The Go-Betweens third album after reforming managed to get two songs in the top 20 with Finding You at #5 and Darlinghurst nights at #17. Overall there were just under 70 artists making it into the list this year with no band achieving more than 3 songs in the list.
1 Eels - Hey man now you're really living 2 Clinkerfield - 'Tis the season for some treason 3 Bernard - Red Jacket-Seneca 4 The Unseen Guest - Let me in 5 Go-Betweens - Finding you 6 Eels - Railroad man 7 Helmet - Enemies 8 The Cure - alt.end 9 Modest Mouse - The world at large 10 Mike Oldfield - Rocky 11 Vast - I can't say no to you 12 Elliot Smith - A fond farewell 13 Moby - Raining again 14 Gelbison - All your scars 15 Primitive Radio Gods - You are the dreamer 16 Doves - Black & white town 17 Go-Betweens - Darlinghurst nights 18 Fear Factory - Spinal compression 19 NIN - The hand that feeds 20 Mark Lowrie - Mercy bullet 21 Mars Volta - L'via L'viaquez 22 Interpol - Next exit 23 The Sinking Citizenship - The doomstars 24 Clinkerfield - A house is not a home 25 Bright Eyes - First day of my life 26 Not Drowning Waving - Crazy bird (Live @ the corner hotel) 27 Jess Mcovoy - Easy 28 Of Montreal - Disconnect the dots 29 Razorlight - Golden touch 30 Mark Lowrie - Hold on to me 31 Hannah Capps - Sift me 32 Rammstein - Rosenrot 33 Okkervil River - For real 34 Hives - B is for Brustus 35 Bernard - One last breath (05) 36 Gomez - Me you and everybody 37 Jess Mcovoy - Silence 38 Mars Volta - The widow 39 Eels - Trouble with dreams 40 Fear Factory - Bite the hand that bleeds 41 The Drones - Baby 42 Moby - Beautiful 43 Marji Curran - Merry-go-round 44 Mudvyne - Determined 45 Razoelight - Which way out 46 Rammstein - Reise, reise 47 Sophie Koh - Something silly 48 Strapping Young Lad - Shine 49 Kate Bush - King of the Mountain 50 Nightwish - Planet hell 51 Helmet - Smart 52 The Sinking Citizenship - Neutralise 53 They Might be giants - Pictures of pandas painting 54 Sime Nugent - Gentle as she goes 55 The Red Paintings - Walls 56 Head Hammer - Retaliation upon salvation 57 Gelbison - The snow 58 Gelbison - Summer of love 59 Gomez - Do one 60 Cog - My enemy 61 Hoodoo Gurus - Chop 62 Vast - Don't take your love away 63 Transport - Sunday driver 64 The Cure - Taking off 65 NIN - Everyday is exacly the same 66 Speedstar - Are you feeling better, Angela 67 Straping young Lad - We ride 68 Walken - Blue sky 69 Hives - Abra cadavra 70 Mudvyne - Just 71 Of Montreal - City bird 72 The Sinking Citizenship - Radio unsound 73 Bright Eyes - Land lock blues 74 Jess Mcovoy - Love like this 75 In the Grey - Start the year 76 Souls on Board - Hand 77 Gotye - Thanks for your time 78 Epicure - Tightrope walker 79 British India - Outside 109 80 The Inches - Undercover 81 Editors - Bullets 82 The Unseen Guest - Anywhere somewhere 83 Black Neilson - Love song to Chan Marshall 84 The Unseen Guest Sandilista 85 Black Mountain - Druganaut 86 Giants of Science - Here is the punishment 87 Altona - Mexican friends 88 Bertie Blackman - You kill me 89 The Black Arts - War on hurricanes 90 Sophie Koh - Fall into space 91 The Devoted - Few sleep less 92 Andy Clockwise - Alice May 93 Boat People - Clean 94 Rhubarb - Start again 95 Clinkerfield - Fuck love song 96 Youth Group - Someone else's dream 97 System of a Down – B.O.A.D. 98 Peabody - The weight just right 99 Paul Mac - Panic room 100 NERD - Fly or die