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 lighter/mellow 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. Keane “Somewhere Only We Know” Hopes and Fears (Interscope)
2. Aberfeldy “Love Is an Arrow” Young Forever (Rough Trade)
3. Elliot Smith “Memory Lane” From a Basement on the Hill (Anti/Epitaph)
4. Sam Phillips “All Night” A Boot and a Shoe (Nonesuch)
5. Norah Jones “The Long Way Home” Feels Like Home
(Blue Note)
6. Rilo Kiley “More Adventurous” More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute)
7. Drive By Truckers “The Sands of Iwo Jima” The Dirty South (New West)
8. The Arcade Fire “Une Annee Sans Lumiere” Funeral (Merge)
9. Snow Patrol “Chocolate” Final Straw (A&M/Universal)
10. R.E.M. “Boy In the Well” Around the Sun (Warner Brothers)
11. Matt Pond PA “KC” Emblems (Altitude)
12. Blonde Redhead “Melody” Misery Is A Butterfly
(4AD/Beggars Group)
13. PJ Harvey “Shame” Uh Huh Her (Island)
14. The Coral “Liezah” Magic and Medicine (Columbia/Sony)
15. Drive By Truckers “Danko/Manuel” The Dirty South
(New West)
16. Patti Smith “Cash” Trampin’ (Columbia/Sony)
17. Norah Jones “What Am I to You?” Feels Like Home
(Blue Note)
18. U2 “Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own” How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (Interscope)
19. Elliot Smith “Let’s Get Lost” From a Basement on the Hill (Anti/Epitaph)
20. Iron and Wine “Naked As We Came” Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
21. Aberfeldy “Tie One On” Young Forever (Rough Trade)