Here's some good ones:

The Light: Mirah
Oh Sombra: Electrelane
I Don't Believe You: Magnetic Fields
Remember Today: The Thermals
Arrested: Jesse Malin
Sweet Payne: Hold Steady
The Ocean Breathes Salty: Modest Mouse
Portland, Oregon: Loretta Lynn & Jack White

My favorite song of the year (so far) is:
"Company in My Back," Wilco

Some other great songs of 2004 include:
"Portland, Oregon," Loretta Lynn/Jack White
"All Caps," Madvillian
"Circle," Slipknot
"Still in Love Song," The Stills
"Triple Trouble," Beastie Boys
"Skull Ring," Iggy Pop
"Lazy Gun," Jet
"My Tortured Soul," Probot
"Unmade Bed," Sonic Youth
"Let's Get Retarded," Black Eyed Peas

"Followed The Waves" by Auf Der Maur is amazing. Easily my favourite song of the year.

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"Let's Get Retarded," Black Eyed Peas

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Song comes from an album released last year.

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My favorite song of the year (so far) is:
"Company in My Back," Wilco

Some other great songs of 2004 include:
"Portland, Oregon," Loretta Lynn/Jack White
"All Caps," Madvillian
"Circle," Slipknot
"Still in Love Song," The Stills
"Triple Trouble," Beastie Boys
"Skull Ring," Iggy Pop
"Lazy Gun," Jet
"My Tortured Soul," Probot
"Unmade Bed," Sonic Youth
"Let's Get Retarded," Black Eyed Peas

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Logic Will Break Your Heart, Skull Ring, Elephunk and Get Born were all released last year.

Another updated list (because I don't want to just correct people without contributing something):

1: "The Rat" by The Walkmen
2: "Seventeen Years" by Ratatat
3: "I Luv the Valley OH!" by Xiu Xiu
4: "I Love You Golden Blue" by Sonic Youth
5: "Float On" by Modest Mouse
6: "Love and Some Verses" by Iron & Wine
7: "Spiders (Kidsmoke)" by Wilco
8: "Could Well Be In" by The Streets
9: "Peace Attack" by Sonic Youth
10: "Alone In Kyoto" by Air
11: "Mike Mills" by Air
12: "Through the Wire" by Kanye West
13: "Jacqueline" by Franz Ferdinand
14: "My Immigrant Mom Talks Funny!" by David Cross
15: "Dry Your Eyes" by The Streets

in no particular order:
miracle drug - A.C. Newman
soddam, south geogia - iron and wine
17 years - ratatat
the rat - the walkmen
i love the valley OH! - xiu xiu

_Logic Will Break Your Heart_, _Skull Ring_, _Elephunk_ and _Get Born_ were all released last year.

I am sorry for my mistake!! These songs still seem so fresh to me that I didn't even realize I've been playing them for more than seven months. I'll be more careful next time . . .

so many good ones have already been mentioned (very pumped on the Architexture in Helslinki song by the way, pumped I'm not the only one into them), I'll try and add some that haven't been mentioned to the mix

"1976"-RJD2
"Hold Me Now"-The Polyphonic Spree
"the late greats"-Wilco
"greetings in braile"-The Elected
"foregone Conclusions"-Pedro The Lion
"disconnect the dots"-Of Montreal
"sun AM"-Moonbabies
"I don't believe you"-The magnetic fields
"phoenix-if I ever feel better"-Erlend Oye
"50 Cents"-Dios
"suspended from class"-Camera Obscura
"kindling"-Architexture in Helslinki
"on the table"-A.C. Newman

Nice ones, Guys. Heaps to chew on.

I'm surprising myself by still sticking with The Streets "Dry Your Eyes".

But I wanna throw "Left Handed" by Lali Puna into the mix. (Notwist meets Nico).

Thank you, come again.

Yes, this thread is fun because there are so many new songs to check out. I am enjoying this thread.

I would like to throw out MY FAVORITE song from the new, awesome CURE record.

The song is called "BEFORE THREE," and it RULES!

If you are a fan of The Cure, you'll immediately appreciate Robert Smith's lyrics about LOVE and more specifically, the overwhelming desire to keep a love alive. The love that he sings about seems to define his very identity, and it's sad because it's all in the past tense which suggest that the love is lost. What makes this song so perfect is where it is placed on the record. It's the third song, and it follows "Lost" and "Labyrinth" -- two songs that seem to me to describe the after effects of a lost love.

If you're a fan of The Cure, you might have noticed that this is the first Cure song that includes the F-word. This does not bother me at all because it fits the context. When Robert Smith sings that he and his lover were so "f-ed and high," to me, this makes the love seem more vulnerable and understandable and REAL . . . .

I can relate to this song, and I love it! I love the guitars, the vocals, the lyrics, and where it sits in the record.

Wicked Dickie from Rasputina's Frustration Plantation has been stuck in my head a lot recently. Madvillain's Figaro. Ramm Ell Zee's Cheesy Lipstick and Pay The Rent and Pogo! Beastie Boys Hey!Fuck You and Triple Trouble. The Streets' Fit But You Know It and Not Addicted. Loretta Lynn's Have Mercy. Horrorpops's Julia and Ghouls. Kool Keith & Nancy Des Rose's Mami. Dead Prez's Hell Yeah(Pimp the System). PJ Harvey's Pocket Knife and The Letter. Prince's The Marrying Kind and If Eye Was The Man In UR Life. Ministry's noW. Skinny Puppy's Empte and Use Less. That's it for now! I'm going CD shopping later today, so I'm sure I'll find some new gems to get stuck in my head!
Until then "Never Say Jamin Zabar Jamin Zabar"!

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hmmmmmmmm.....best songs.....

my list, no order at the moment

- Adem - Ringing in my Ear
- Wilco - Company in my back
- Mirah - Look Up!
- Reigning Sound - Funny Thing
- Modest Mouse - Bukowski
- TV on the Radio - King Eternal
- A.C. Newman - Most of us Prizefighters
- Feist - Mushaboom (I like the demo version better...if you can find it)
- Po' Girl - Malaise Days (2003? Perhaps, I dunno...good song though....)
- Animal Collective - Leaf House
- Califone - Trick Bird

Im sure there are many many more...thats just what ive been really diggin the last month or two...any suggestions for more songs would really be appreciated

Got a couple ones that I'm pretty pumped on, that I don't think have been mentioned yet.

"you can't hurry love" by The Concretes
"who could win a rabit" by The Animal Collective

When I'm hitting "repeat" for a song and letting it loop three or four times every day for a couple of weeks, I think I have a new favorite on the year...

"In Spanish Harlem" Chris Stamey
As I've ranted and raved elsewhere, the opening lyric "Kenny Burrell doesn't know how to play out of tune..." immediately grabbed the ears of this jazzbo, but it takes more than name dropping to make a great song and this one delivers the rest of the goods in spades. It's a whistful pean to a place that no longer exists, and probably never did in the idealized way Stamey sings about it, but just might if wishing could make it so.

Now Playing: Olympic coverage on NBC

A couple of candidates:

"Switchblade" by Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers

"When U Find Someone" by Ken Stringfellow

"birthday" by junior boys has to be on this list.

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A couple of candidates:

"Switchblade" by Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers

"When U Find Someone" by Ken Stringfellow

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A few more:

"The Town Halo" by A.C. Newman (love that cello!)

"Theologians" by Wilco

These may not be the best songs of 2004, but they certainly qualify as the most emotionally-affecting songs of the last month:

Bjork: "Vokuro" and "Mouth's Cradle."

Libertines: "The Man Who Would Be King", "Music When the Lights Go Out" ["I No Longer Hear the Music" seems like a better title], "What Katie [KT] Did", and the hidden track after "What Became of the Likely Lads" (although that song might grab you)--even I don't know if it has a title, but I'd call it "Acoustic Fantasia" (Tremendous acoustic which even Paul Simon would kill for.)

Okay, here's what I got:

The Crystal Method - "Starting Over"
Error - "Homicide"
Franz Ferdinand - "Take Me Out"
Hiromi - "Kung-Fu World Champion"
The Killers - "Somebody Told Me"

And I've also got to include "Danger! High Voltage" by Electric Six. I know it was released in 2003, but I heard it for the first time this February. So there.

kwakerjak

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and the hidden track after "What Became of the Likely Lads" (although that song might grab you)--even I don't know if it has a title, but I'd call it "Acoustic Fantasia" (Tremendous acoustic which even Paul Simon would kill for.)

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It's called "France," justsoyknow.