Ladies and gentlemen, in an attempt to write something worthwhile on this thing, I present to you the 10 hottest rock songs of 2005. I have carefully and painstakingly formed this list based on my experience listening to these songs this year and on countless public opinion polls and surveys. Ok, I didn't do any surveys or polls, but I totally did listen to each of these songs.

So, what is a "hot" rock song? Well, for one, it rocks. Two, it makes you involuntarily shake your head and/or buttocks and think, "Damn, these guys are rocking it!" The concept came to me whilst listening to Blue Orchid, the first single off the White Stripes newest album, "Get Behind Me Satan." Like any band who is well established and has released fine material in the past, I was looking forward to what direction the White Stripes would go and if they could "bring it," as it were, like they did with Seven Nation Army off their "Elephant" album. Needless to say, hearing Blue Orchid blew my mind. Jack and Meg had "brought it" times 100. It's like I said "bring it" and they said "Oh, it has already been broughten." I kept telling my friends about how the new White Stripes single was such a "hot" rock song. Smokin' hot.

Hot rock songs are also sexy in some weird way. Maybe it's in the way it makes you shake your buttocks. It's also in the melody. In the lyrics themselves. They all seem almost perverted somehow. Maybe I'm the problem. For instance, when Jack White sings "how old are you?" in the aforementioned Blue Orchid, all I can picture is Jack (who looks creepy as hell anyway with his weird molestache) talking to a 17 year old girl backstage after one of his gigs, preparing for sexing her up. I'm not saying Jack is a kid toucher or that these are make-out or make love songs, but try it if you're brave. Maybe the ladies will find these songs sexy too. Find out and then report back to me. I'm dying to try it now.

But, now...without any further adieu, I give you the hottest rock songs of 2005 in no real particular order!

(I should note here that several of these are from the last few months of 2004. The reason I include them here is because this is the first list like this I've done and I can do whatever the hell I want with it and also because I spent the last 3 months of 2004 in a funk after the flogging I and the rest of my city received known as Hurricane Ivan. Some of the songs released in the last quarter of 2004 I didn't hear until 2005. So there.)

Article Author: Scott McBride

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