We wanted to recap some of our favorite things from the year in local music, but we didn’t want to put together a best-of list, because it wouldn’t hold all the great stuff we’ve found throughout the year, and it would, of necessity, exclude things that hadn’t yet crossed our path, making it not-quite-a-best-of list. So, we’ve tried something else, getting a few of our writers to name the local songs they couldn’t stop listening to this year, so that at the end of the day, you’d have a sort of DCist mix-tape. Nothing ranked, nothing fancy, just good songs that DCist thinks you ought to have in your car’s cassette deck. So listen, enjoy, and tell us in the comment section which infectious tunes you couldn’t turn off in 2005.