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 two. 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 “Audit In Progress” Audit In Progress (Swami)
2. Challenger “Input the Output” Give the People What They Want In Lethal Doses (Jade Tree)
3. Sparta “Hiss the Villain” Porcelain (Geffen)
4. Taking Back Sunday “The Union” Where You Want to Be
(Victory)
5. Division of Laura Lee “We Are Numbers” Das Not Compute (Burning Heart/Epitaph)
6. Death From Above 1979 “Turn It Out” You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine (Vice)
7. Hot Snakes “Braintrust” Audit In Progress (Swami)
8. Challenger “Brand Loyalty” Give the People What They Want In Lethal Doses (Jade Tree)
9. Hot Water Music “Under Everything” The New What Next (Epitaph)
10. Sparta “Travel by Bloodline” Porcelain (Geffen)
11. Rise Against “Blood to Bleed” Siren Song of the
Counter Culture (Geffen)
12. Descendents “‘Merican” Cool To Be You (Fat Wreck Chords)
13. McLusky “That Man Will Not Hang” The Difference Between Me and You Is That I’m Not On Fire (Too Pure/Beggars)
14. Death From Above 1979 “Romantic Rights” You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine (Vice)
15. My Chemical Romance “The Jetset Life is Gonna Kill You” Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (Reprise)
16. Sparta “End Moraine” Porcelain (Geffen)
17. Hot Snakes “Hair & DNA” Audit In Progress (Swami)
18. Challenger “The Trojan Horse” Give the People What They Want In Lethal Doses (Jade Tree)
19. Descendents “Mass Nerder” Cool To Be You
(Fat Wreck Chords)
20. Death From Above 1979 “Going Steady” You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine (Vice)
21. Division of Laura Lee “Dirty Love” Das Not Compute
(Burning Heart/Epitaph)
22. Hot Water Music “All Heads Down” The New What Next (Epitaph)
23. Helmet “Crashing Foreign Cars” Size Matters (Interscope)
24. Challenger “Blackouts” Give the People What They Want In Lethal Doses (Jade Tree)



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