20 Songs You Must Download This Month

1 Wilco “Spiders (Kidsmoke)” NONESUCH
The most entrancing song you’ll ever hear about taxes and private beaches.

2 Brandy “Talk About Our Love” ATLANTIC
Brandy and Kanye West spend this R&B throwback dissing haters, gossips, et al.

3 !!! “Pardon My Freedom” TOUCH & GO
Dirty-mouthed Brooklyn disco punks lace a pulsating shimmy with 49 fucks and 20 shits.

4 Modest Mouse “Bury Me With It” EPIC
A frantic dispatch from college rock’s great white mopes.

5 Cherie “I’m Ready” LAVA
She’s 19, looks like Cindy Crawford and knows enough to sample Foreigner’s “Urgent.”

6 The Thermals “Our Trip” SUB POP
A snot-nosed, screw-authority battle cry, over and out in two minutes.

7 D12 “40 Oz.” SHADY/INTERSCOPE
Eminem and homies get drunk and go crunk.

8 Blonde Redhead “Elephant Woman” TOUCH & GO
Two Italian dandies and a Japanese fashionista power this beguiling broken-English love song.

9 Secret Machines “Sad and Lonely” REPRISE
Stoner-rockers get motivational while guitars scrawl across a jumbo drumbeat.

10 Franz Ferdinand “Michael” DOMINO
From the Scottish Strokes, the horniest, hottest gay pickup lines ever spoken by a straight man.

11 Sonic Youth “Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Creme” GEFFEN
Over a dissonant tangle, SY’s Gordon sneers about Mariah Carey’s public breakdown.

12 Mario Winans feat. Enya and P. Diddy “I Don’t Wanna Know” BAD BOY/UNIVERSAL
Hip-hop machismo fails when Winans catches his girl boinking another.

13 Mclusky “Without MSG I Am Nothing” TOO PURE/BEGGARS GROUP
Welsh rude boys who have written the world’s spookiest song about food additives.

14 The Streets “Fit But You Know It” VICE
Hilarious Brit MC obsesses over a hottie, uncertain whether to sneer or drool.

15 Lindsay Lohan “Drama Queen (That Girl)” HOLLYWOOD
Urging tweeners to just go for it, this is the manifesto for power-hungry mall brats everywhere.

16 Morrissey “Irish Blood, English Heart” SANCTUARY
Rock’s Oscar Wilde returns with a guitar-driven call to arms for patriots.

17 Janet Jackson “I Want You” VIRGIN
Janet has a crush. “Have your way with me,” she begs over twinkling, Kanye West–produced soul.

18 Carina Round “Into My Blood” WEAPONS OF MASS ENTERTAINMENT/INTERSCOPE
PJ Harvey–esque Brit rockstress wields a tortured, girlish keen, pining for a hypodermic full of fire.

19 Scissor Sisters “Take Your Mama Out All Night” UNIVERSAL
NYC artsos crib the riff from George Michael’s “Freedom” on this bouncy, falsetto-filled Oedipal jam.

20 T.I. “Rubberband Man” ATLANTIC
Boastful Dirty Southerner drawls over a catchy organ riff straight out of an NBA pregame routine.