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[Dave]

Welp, it's December, the music shops are flooded with best-ofs, novelty singles and Xmas compos, so assuming that nothing earth-shattering is going to be released before the end of the year, it's time for everyone to look back and pick their top five tracks of 2004. Singles, album tracks, demos, live recordings all eligible. Anything released this year that has shaken your world and moved your soul.

Yes, I know it's tricky.

This indie pop boy has picked;

1.Lounger-Dogs Die In Hot Cars
2.Brown Eyes Blue-Mohair
3.Your Cover's Blown-Belle And Sebastian
4.Love Machine-Girls Aloud (look, just shut up, it's a fucking great tune and I'd play it at Exodus if I didn't think it would get me lynched!)
5.Music Is My Boyfriend-Hidden Cameras

Next!

[psydoll]

01.The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - Mister Mental
02.Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath
03.Dizzee Rascal - Stand Up Tall
04.Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For?
05.Karloff - When Your Dark

I hate end of year things as I always forget bands but huzzah for those tracks!

[Dead Anyway]

1) My Gurl- Joan vs Police Woman
2) Shower- The A.M. (B-side of Utopia)
3) Pretty Ugly Before- Elliott Smith
4) Twilight- Elliott Smith
5) Forget Her- Jeff Buckley (Old track but only officially released this year!)

[Inkster]

1. Lostprophets - Last Summer
2. Blink-182 - I Miss You
3. Gwen Stefani - What you waiting for?
4. Snow Patrol - Spitting Games
5. Franz Ferdinand - Michael

These are in no particular order

[Paranoid Android]

1. Brian Wilson - Heroes and Villains
2. TV on the Radio - Staring at the sun
3. Manic Street Preachers - Empty Souls
4. The Hives - Walk Idiot Walk
5. Franz Ferdinand - Take me out (was that this year or last year?)

the top could really have all been from SMilE but i thought i'd just pick the best one.

[Untitled]

slipknot - circle
rammstein - mein teil
britney - toxic
nightwish - nemo
a.p.c - counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums

[Larsen B]

1. Hope of the States - Crack Up at the Race Riots
2. Interpol - Take You On a Cruise
3. Modest Mouse - Black Caddilacs
4. Morrissey - Irish Blood, English Heart
5. Manic Street Preachers - Solitude Sometimes Is

[KarmaTsunami]

biffy clyro - infinity land
jimmy eat world - futures
rise against - siren songs of the counterculture

songs -
killswitch engage - rose of sharron (not how you spell it but WTF)
biffy clyro - there is no such thing as a jaggy snake
blink 182 - 'down' and 'i miss you'

[Alan Cynic]

The Espers "Riding"
Schwervon "Surfin' Bird" live at Drakes
Puerto Muerto "Red Wine" live at Drakes
Le Reno Amps "Dawn" (not sure if title is correct) live at the Sanctuary
PG Six "Crooked Way"

[allstardawn]

I'm just gonna do albums cos I don't think i could pick songs.

Kasabian - self titled
Soulwax - Any Minute Now
Jetplane Landing - Once Like a Spark
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Ash - Meltdown