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 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. Ambulance LTD “Anecdote” LP (TVT)
2. R.E.M. “Aftermath” Around the Sun (Warner Brothers)
3. The Arcade Fire “Crown of Love” Funeral (Merge)
4. Snow Patrol “Run” Final Straw (A&M/Universal)
5. Keane “Everybody’s Changing” Hopes and Fears (Interscope)
6. Norah Jones “Sunrise” Feels Like Home (Blue Note)
7. Sam Phillips “Infiltration” A Boot and a Shoe (Nonesuch)
8. PJ Harvey “Pocket Knife” Uh Huh Her (Island)
9. Iron and Wine “Teeth In the Grass” Our Endless
Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
10. Elliot Smith “A Fond Farewell” From a Basement on the Hill (Anti/Epitaph)
11. Wilco “Company In My Back” A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
12. R.E.M. “Final Straw” Around the Sun (Warner Brothers)
13. The Mountain Goats “The Young Thousands” We Shall All
Be Healed (4AD)
14. Patti Smith “Trespasses” Trampin’ (Columbia/Sony)
15. Loretta Lynn “Family Tree” Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
16. Sam Phillips “Reflecting Light” A Boot and a Shoe (Nonesuch)
17. Kings of Convenience “Homesick” Riot On an Empty Street (Astralwerks)
18. Iron and Wine “Cinder & Smoke” Our Endless
Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
19. Drive By Truckers “Goddamn Lonely Love” The Dirty South (New West)