Except for the songs that made my Top 20 songs of 2004 and the representative tracks from my Top 20 Albums of 2004, these are the rest of the best aggressive rock tracks of 2004, volume one. To be eligible, a song needed to be included on an album released in the United States between December 1, 2003 and November 30, 2004.

1. Hot Snakes “Reflex” Audit In Progress (Swami)
2. The Kinison “Farm and the Girls” What Are You Listening To? (La Salle)
3. The Cooper Temple Clause “Promises, Promises” Kick Up the Fire and Let the Flames Break Loose (RCA)
4. Division of Laura Lee “Does Compute” Das Not Compute (Burning Heart/Epitaph)
5. Brazil “Zentropa” A Hostage and the Meaning of Life (Fearless)
6. Taking Back Sunday “Set Phasers To Stun” Where You Want to Be (Victory)
7. My Chemical Romance “I Never Told You What I Do
for a Living” Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (Reprise)
8. The Walkmen “The Rat” Bows + Arrows (Record Collection)
9. The Hives “B Is for Brutus” Tyrannosaurus Hives (Interscope)
10. Death From Above 1979 “Blood On Our Hands” You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine (Vice)
11. Hot Snakes “Kreative Kontrol” Audit In Progress (Swami)
12. The Kinison “You’ll Never Guess Who Died” What Are You Listening To? (La Salle)
13. Sparta “While Oceana Sleeps” Porcelain (Geffen)
14. Rise Against “The First Drop” Siren Song of the
Counter Culture (Geffen)
15. Descendents “Cool to Be You” Cool To Be You
(Fat Wreck Chords)
16. Challenger “Death Museum” Give the People What They Want In Lethal Doses (Jade Tree)
17. The Cure “Us or Them” The Cure (Geffen)
18. The Hives “Diabolic Scheme” Tyrannosaurus Hives (Interscope)
19. McLusky “Without MSG I Am Nothing” The Difference Between Me and You Is That I’m Not On Fire (Too Pure/Beggars)
20. Sparta “La Cerca” Porcelain (Geffen)
21. Brazil “The Novemberist” A Hostage and the Meaning of Life (Fearless)
22. The Hiss “Ghost’s Gold” Panic Movement (Sanctuary)