Singles going steady and Dispatches

As promised in this week’s Dispatches, my year-end guide to my favorite discs, here are my favorite singles of the year:

1. Gnarls Barkley, “Crazy”
2. Chris Cornell, “You Know My Name”
3. Dixie Chicks, “Not Ready to Make Nice”
4. Prince, “Black Sweat”
5. Corrine Bailey Rae, “Put Your Records On”
6. Arctic Monkeys, “I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor”
7. Bob Dylan, “Thunder on the Mountain”
8. Shakira w/Wyclef Jean, “Hips Don’t Lie”
9. Outkast, “Idlewild Blue”
10. Earl Greyhound, “All Better Now”
11. U2 and Greenday, “The Saints are Coming”
12. Panic! at the Disco, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies”
13. Oasis, “Lyla”
14. Pearl Jam, “World-Wide Suicide”
15. Christina Aguilera, “Ain’t No Other Man”
16. Earl Greyhound, “All Better Now”
17. Shakira, “Illegal”
18. O.K. Go, “Here It Goes Again”
19. Bitter:Sweet, “The Mating Game”
20. Bruce Springsteen, “Pay Me My Money Down”
21. Beyonce, “Ring the Alarm”
22. Snow Patrol, “Chasing Cars”
23. Rihanna, “SOS”
24. Beyonce, “Irreplaceable”
25. Natasha Beddinfield, “Unwritten”
26. Pearl Jam, “Life Wasted”
27. Rihanna, “Unfaithful”
28. Nelly Furtado w/ Timbalake, “Promiscuous”
29. John Legend, “Show Me”
30. John Mayer, “Waiting for the World to Change”

I’ve probably forgotten something, but this seems to be it.

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet