100 Songs for 2004

The year isn't done just yet, but here's a list of 100 songs from the year 2004 that you need to hear. So go download them!

[In alphabetical order by Artist]

Air - Cherry Blossom Girl
Air - Mike Mills
The Arcade Fire - Haiti
The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Ash - Evil Eye
Ash - Renegade Cavalcade
Ash - Meltdown
Ashlee Simpson - Pieces of Me
Avril Lavigne - My Happy Ending
Bad Religion - All There Is
Bad Religion - Atheist Peace
Bad Religion - God's Love
The Beastie Boys - Ch-check It Out
The Beastie Boys - Right Right Now Now
Big and Rich - Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)
Cake - Take It All Away
Cee-Lo - The Art of Noise (featuring Pharrell Williams)
Cee-Lo - The One (featuring T.I. and Jazze Pha)
Christina Milian - Dip It Low
The Coral - Bill McCai
The Coral - Don't Think You're The First
Counting Crows - Accidentally In Love
D12 - My Band
Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights
Dilated Peoples - This Way (featuring Kanye West)
Dios - Starting Five
DJ Danger Mouse - What More Can I Say?
The Elected - A Response To Greed
The Elected - Waves
Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell
Eminem - Like Toy Soldiers
Eminem - Yellow Brick Road
Faithless - Mass Destruction
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
The Futureheads - Man Ray
The Good Life - Night and Day
The Good Life - Notes In His Pockets
The Good Life - Album of the Year
Green Day - American Idiot
Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia
Gwen Stefani - What Are You Waiting For?
Houston - I Like That (featuring Chingy, I-20, and Nate Dogg)
Icarus Line - Up Against The Wall
Iron & Wine - Cinders and Smoke
Iron & Wine - On Your Wings
Iron & Wine - Sodom, South Georgia
Jimmy Eat World - Pain
JoJo - Leave (Get Out)
J-Kwon - Tipsy
Juvenile - Slow Motion
Kanye West - All Falls Down
Kanye West - Jesus Walks
Kanye West - Where U At? (featuring Ludacris and The Game) [aka the Boost Mobile Anthem]
Kelis - Milkshake
Kevin Lyttle - Turn Me On (featuring Spragga Benz)
The Killers - Somebody Told Me
The Killers - Jenny Was A Friend of Mine
Lil' Flip - Game Over (Flip)
Lil' Scrappy - Head Bussa (featuring Lil John)
Linkin Park and Jay-Z - Numb/Encore
The Living End - End of the World
The Living End - Tabloid Magazine
LL Cool J - Headsprung
Lloyd Banks - On Fire
Loretta Lynn - Miss Being Mrs.
Ludacris - Get Back
Ludacris - Blueberry Yum Yum (featuring Sleepy Brown)
Madvillain - Accordion
mc chris - Robot Dog
Modest Mouse - Bukowski
Modest Mouse - Float On
Modest Mouse - The Ocean Breathes Salty
MVP - Rock Your Body (Mic Check 1, 2)
My Chemical Romance - Give 'Em Hell Kid
My Chemical Romance - Hang 'Em High
My Chemical Romance - To The End
My Chemical Romance - You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison
Nellie McKay - Sari
Nellie McKay - Waiter
Nelly - Heart of a Champion
Nelly - Paradise
Nina Sky - Move Ya Body
Norah Jones - Sunrise
One Less Frame - Full Circle
Petey Pablo - Freek-A-Leek
Pitbull - Culo
The Roots - Don't Say Nuttin'
Sum 41 - I'm Not The One
Sum 41 - Noots
Sum 41 - We're All To Blame
Talib Kweli - I Tried (featuring Mary J. Blige)
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead
Terror Squad - Lean Back (featuring Fat Joe and Remy Martin)
Trick Daddy - Let's Go (featuring Lil Jon and Twista)
Twista - Pimp On
Twista - Slow Jamz (featuring Jamie Foxx and Kanye West)
Usher - Burn
Usher - Yeah! (featuring Lil John and Ludacris)
The Vandals - Don't Make Me Get My Fat Lazy Ass Off This Couch
The Von Bondies - C'mon, C'mon
The Walkmen - The Rat

I'm still working on the Best Albums of 2004 list, but if you look above you can see hints of where the list is heading. I'd say that the #1 Album is a 4 horse race at this point. Prominently missing on the list above: U2. I hate those guys.

And listen to some of those songs, they're great.