Modern Rock #1 Hits of 2004

there should only be one option here

UNO DOS TRES CATORCE!

i had no idea that 311 were still kicking around at this level in 04, also i don't remember "breaking the habit" at all

I might actually vote for "Float On."

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1. ch-check it out
2. i miss you
3. float on
4. megalomaniac
5. american idiot

HOOBASTANK YES!

Voted "Float On". Could plausibly have given it up for U2, Offspring, Blink, Hooba or "Breaking The Habit".

top 5: Last Train Home, Cold Hard Bitch, I Miss You, Breaking The Habit, Megalomaniac

bottom 5: Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Lovesong, Ch-Check It Out, Vertigo, Hit That

Was a close call for me between "Megalomaniac," "I Miss You," and "Float On" -- but had to go with "Float On."

PS -- Remember anti-Bush rock? I think "American Idiot" and "Megalomaniac" both qualify.

I don't think I ever realized how big Linkin Park was. I was living in England in 2004 and maybe they weren't as big there?

i can't imagine they're as big in the UK, but you'd have to be out of the country for more than a year or two to miss them! biggest alt-rock radio band of the decade!

http://www.billboard.com/charts#/charts-decade-end/alternative-artists?year=2009

I didn't miss them entirely I'm just surprised they were quite that big. I'd p much stopped listening to alt-rock radio by then anyway I guess.

Strange to see so many retreads on this list - Offspring, Blink 182, 311, Green Day popping in with #1's 10 years after making it big (maybe not that long for Blink 182).

Linkin Park, "Numb" - this is probably the best of the #1's from that album
Offspring, "Hit That" - who would have thought these guys could sound so old?
Incubus, "Megalomaniac" - would have switched the station after the first line "I hear you on the rayyyyyyydio"
Blink 182, "I Miss You" - proto-Panic! at the Disco, horrible vocals
Hoobastank, "The Reason" - worst band name ever, yet another pop-country #1 modern rock hit
Lostprophets, "Last Train Home" - quite a pleasant listen actually
311, "Lovesong" - why does this exist?
Jet, "Cold Hard Bitch" - catchy but not even close to as good as "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
Linkin Park, "Lying From You" - horrible
Beastie Boys, "Ch-Check it Out" - 9/11 depression hovers over all the music on these lists - never realized that the WTC was on the album cover. Serviceable track.
Velvet Revolver, "Slither" - this band oozes sleaze
Modest Mouse, "Float On" - epic guitar hook, vocal line not quite up to the task
Three Days Grace, "Just Like You" - for such a "hard" track it sure fades into the background easily
Linkin Park, "Breaking the Habit" - FIVE number ones??
Green Day, "American Idiot" - I rep for this one, reminds me of "Welcome to Paradise"
U2, "Vertigo" - I might like this if some underground power popper had done it
Jimmy Eat World, "Pain" - pretty bad
Green Day, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" - of course this is super schmaltzy but I like it anyway.

I'll vote for one of the Green Day tracks.

this year was weird.. I continued listening to modern rock stations after 2003 thinking they were just about to start getting awesome again, but ultimately they ended up mostly killing their own format by avoiding the adventurous atmosphere that rock radio requires in order to stay interesting..

http://www.radiohitlist.com/KROQ/KROQ-2004.htm

SFJ:

The fluctuation in popularity of certain genres is tracked by music magazines and summarized periodically in such headlines as “the death of hip-hop” and “the return of rock.” This is not necessarily weather you need to keep track of, if it even exists. Any good song, of any genre, is potentially a huge hit. Hoobastank’s “The Reason” (Island), for example, would have been popular at any point in the past twenty years. It is easy to imagine Meat Loaf or Rod Stewart or any number of gifted, irony-free singers performing the song, a catchall that neatly synthesizes regret and romanticism—think of your fifteenth high-school reunion compressed into four minutes. The singer, Doug Robb, opens with a talk-show apologia: “I’m not a perfect person. . . . I never meant to do those things to you.” It’s a carefully staged work, close to a ballad but with enough loud guitars to signify as rock. Hoobastank builds the song from a circular guitar figure, adding strings and CinemaScope as needed. Then, just when the song is about to settle for being simply effective, it shifts satisfyingly into an unexpected bridge section. (Never underestimate a bridge.) Widespread downloading helped push the song to No. 1 on the Billboard pop charts in May, and it also found its way into one of the final episodes of “Friends,” a series that often seemed like a high-school reunion that would never end.

Beastie Boys, "Ch-Check it Out"

My favorite single of the year – Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me out" – only managed to get to #3.

Kind of understandable, given the rest of this list.

im ok with these non-#1's...

Phantom Planet "Big Brat"
Jimmy Eat World "Work"
The Darkness "I Believe in a thing called Love" (looks like "Growing On Me" got more airplay in New York than west coast)
Muse "Hysteria" (if only for the bassline.. though overall muse is a major buzzkill)
Snow Patrol "Run" / Keane "Somewhere Only We Know" (kind of embarrassed that I like these)
Papa Roach "Scars" (super embarrassed)
No Doubt "It's My Life"
Slipknot "Duality"
Interpol "Slow Hands"
Strokes "Reptilia" & "12:51"
YYY's "Maps"

LOVE that 2nd Interpol album

I actually think this list is really bad. I guess "Float On" gets my vote, even though it's basically the same as "Take Me Out" but way worse.

oh man, i might vote for last train home

yes!

i feel like too many people are asking "which one of these bands do i like the most?" and not "which of these is the band's best song?" -- i certainly like some of these bands a lot more than Lostprophets or Jet but those are imo the only bands here represented by their best work

Yeah "Last Train Home" is one of the better out of those types of songs.. I'm surprised it was a #1.

Too bad "Since U Been Gone" wasn't played on rock stations.

if "vindicated" had hit no. 1 i'd totally vote for that, though

In the bizarro universe where The Darkness "Growing On Me" hit #1 that would be mine.

Since U Been Gone totally should have been played on rock stations.

this is an interesting year - you can see the beginnings of the new mainstream alt-rock that paved the way for Arcade Fire, the Shins, Animal Collective, My Morning Jacket, Band of Horses etc to get some pretty huge followings. but that KROQ list is still dominated by nu-metal and other depressing post-9/11 hard rock.

I love Since U Been Gone so much.

I still remember hearing "Float On" for the first time at a party and just thinking, man, they did it. A little Pixies, a little Talking Heads, super accessible but still identifiably Modest Mouse in sound and spirit. I was kind of raised thinking this was the goal for underground bands, but it's pretty rare you hear a band make that Top 40 jump.

Don't forget Lindsey Buckingham yelping!

"Float On" was a legit hair-at-the-back-of-the-neck moment from a band to which I was indifferent for years.

i don't like Modest Mouse's sellout moment as much as Lupe Fiasco's sellout moment that was built on top of it

ew

i'm not proud of it, but it's the truth

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voted

this was sort of a great/interesting year, at least a crazy year for indie kids in high school, even tho most of the #1s were p bad.

wld happily vote for ch-check it out, float on, i miss you. wld absolutely vote for i believe in a thing called love or maps, but alas

nb: my local "rock" station (not "modern rock" but the station that plays rock hits from the 70s to the 00s) plays SUBG pretty often.

wld happily vote for ch-check it out

at some point the posthumous beasties love-in has to settle down man

i have never heard a station play SUBG that wasn't very emphatically pop-over-rock

holy christ this is horrible.

Numb, i GUESS

1. it was the last beasties song i've cared about (voted for float on btw)

2. jack fm

ok nvm jack fm isn't exactly local

ch-check it out wasnt as horrible as 'a world gone mad' or whatever but it was still enough to make you go http://i.imgur.com/lwr6f.gif

though i think there was a just blaze remix that i liked back then

at some point the posthumous beasties love-in has to settle down man

could this be written in stone somewhere, please

i didn't like the beasties much at all after about age 14

between lupe fiasco and blue scholars i have learned to hate "float on"

voted for the angel from my nightmare. i like "breaking the habit", "megalomaniac", "ch-check it out", "numb", "cold hard bitch", and "american idiot" all alright i guess.

I checked my 2004 year-end, and I think it was probably the first time in 20 years of doing Top 10s that I didn't have a single guitar song. Unless "99 Problems" counts, which I guess it should. No rock songs then, modern or otherwise.

Since U Been Gone totally should have been played on rock stations.

Totes, but it was a super-late 2004 release and didn't peak on pop radio until spring 2005, anyway.

Was it the Grey Album version of "99 Problems" with "Helter Skelter" thrown in?

smh

x-post: Actually voted them co-#1s; I've come to have a slight preference for Danger Mouse (one of the decade's greatest for me).

yed

Cn I vote for not "The Reason?"

And yeah, "Since U Been Gone" kills everything here.

x-post: Actually voted them co-#1s; I've come to have a slight preference for Danger Mouse (one of the decade's greatest for me).

― clemenza, Monday, June 11, 2012 3:32 PM Bookmark

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Totes, but it was a super-late 2004 release and didn't peak on pop radio until spring 2005, anyway.

Yeah I remembered that shortly after writing this.. My weird memory recalls prolly around thanksgiving or christmas break by the time a friend said "I actually like the new kelly clarkson song" and I was severely skeptical.. That football halftime thing where Ashley Simpson sang "La La" and everyone boo'd & Kelly sang "Since U Been Gone" and killed it was early January 05 and it def peaked in popularity after that point.

Still, it would've fit in really well around that era of modern rock.. especially considering "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" is essentially Billy Joe writing a song intended for Avril Lavigne.

I remember putting "Since U Been Gone" in my top 20 (below "La La"!) at the end of '04 but a year later I was like ok I underrated it, has to be #1 for '05

I think this is where I finally stopped listening to modern rock radio, at least until '09. "Float On", "Slow Hands", "Take Me Out" & "Seed (2.0)" were my jams. SUBG was awesome too. "Megalomaniac" would probably be my runner up from the list (though I liked "Anna Molly" even better)

Also the No Doubt Talk Talk cover was great as well.

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Green Day, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" 	2

Who voted for this pos? I'd been pretty much done with Green Day for a while at this point, but this song made me wash my hands of them completely.

http://www.vakthaa.tv/uploads/thumbs/u6gmxfu3fdt5vfrb.jpg

poor linkin park

when 311's version of lovesong looks like a bright spot, you've got a pretty bad year for mainstream rock.

this list of songs smells like greasy paper bags of Carl's Jr wrappers and a watermelon Pucker's-stained carpet.

speaking of blink 182

http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/6594/le1xd.jpg

that modest mouse song blows

still amazed that indie bobcat goldthwait had crossover appeal

this was also the year of the arcade fire and pixies reunion, good time to be warble-shouting

Yeah, htf did that thing become #1?

Float On rules

at some point the posthumous beasties love-in has to settle down man

― shipl.de.al (some dude), Monday, June 11, 2012 4:53 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

bears repeating in light of results

the results where it got two votes more than jet and half of blink-182's pull?

i don't think it would've gotten more than one vote 6 months ago. but fair enough, "cold hard bitch" definitely underrated.

that modest mouse song blows

― mississippi joan hart (crüt), Thursday, June 14, 2012 2:08 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Missed this one, would have voted "Float On." Huge huge Mouse fan, I never exactly fell in love with the song but I definitely played it a lot when it first came out. I don't think it's aged very well but I couldn't explain why exactly. The parent album is like their Green or something, kind of overproduced but kind of going out of its way to stay "weird" in ways that they'd never actually attempted to be weird before. But I'm with da croupier, I was basically like "Hey, they finally are going to make some money out of this whole thing, good for them."

Would have been tempted by "Ch-Check It Out," which I have always secretly liked more than could be explained. It's an awkward mess in a lot of places and I remain convinced it was written/recorded long before that album (the Cable Guy joke is just inexplicable) but it's got good momentum, good use of the big sha-zam sample and some catchy wordplay even if as usual there's not really much going on with message or narrative or anything.

I never warmed to "Ch-Ch-Check It Out" at the time... liked "The Brouhaha" the best off that album.