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The 40 Best Deep Cuts of 2004: Staff Picks
The 40 best non-singles released from 2004's best albums, including Green Day, Usher, Gwen Stefani and Ye.
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo Reports have it that the “wannabe señorita” who flies too close to the sun in a private jet in acclaimed pop not-quite-star Annie’s “Me Plus One” is actually Gerri Haliwell — to whom producer and co-writer Richard X was supposed to give the song “Some Girls,” before it ended up a huge ’04 U.K. hit for Rachel Stevens. But if only had two minutes to convince the unconverted, you could do no better than “Accordion,” with its wheezing title-instrument hook and knocking drums providing the perfect backdrop for a dazzling single verse of Doom couplets, including “Chase it with more beer, taste it like truth or dare/ When he have the mic, it’s like the place get like: ‘ Aw, yeah!,'” “In living, the true gods/ Giving y’all nothing but the lick like two broads,” and of course the all-time kicker, “Slip like Freudian/ Your first and last step to playing yourself like accordion.” — A.U. “We Don’t Care” was simply a stunner: funny, compassionate and genuinely kinda inspiring; built around a swirling sample from the Jimmy Castor Bunch’s cover of Gino Vannelli’s “I Just Wanna stop” and punctuated by resounding horn blasts, it was the extremely rare song that actually earns its kids singalong on the chorus.
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