The BEST of Off-Beat 2004

With Rich Kaminsky

WPKN - FM

Saturday, January 1, 2005 ... 2:00 - 6:00 am

They Might Be Giants
The Ordinary Boys

Best Medical Song

Orange Monkey's Phat Berries
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
They Might Be Giants
Less Than Jake
Cake
NOFX

Paranoid Larry and his Imaginary Band

Best Political Song

The Descendents
Dropkick Murphies
Leftover Crack
AJ McGee
The Slackers
Regime Change

American Ambulance

Oddest Song

The Matthoid
Orange Monkey's Phat Berries
Booby Trap
William Shatner
Ween
King Missile III

Dufus

Rudest Song

Start Trouble
Afroman
Icewagon Flu
Stark (Lani Ford)
Robert Bobby
Get Set Go

Lazyboy

Stupidest Song

Bob Pyle
Icewagon Flu
They Might Be Giants

Get Set Go

Best Pissed Off Song

Cracker
Crankbox
Rockwell
The F-Ups

The Living End

Best Cover Song

Switchblade Kittens
The F-Ups
German Art Students
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Firewater

The Magokoro Brothers

Debut Artist

The Behoovers
PaperDoll
The Veils
The Stereotypes

The Ordinary Boys

Album

Courtney Love
Franz Ferdinand
Patti Smith

Green Day

Best Song

The Lost Trailers
The Descendents

Josh Lederman Y Los Diablos


Voodoo Martini
Toots and the Maytals

No One Knows My Plan
The List Goes On

of the Year

Intestines
Heart Problems
Wearing a Raincoat
Portrait of a Cigarette Smoker at 19
Carbon Monoxide
Drugs Are Good

The Secretary of Defense

of the Year

'Merican
We Got the Power
Life is Pain
Bad President
International War Criminal
Blazing Empire

Hey John Ashcroft

of the Year

Party Time
Osama Bin Lazy
I Love Your Mom
Common People
Ocean Man
Suggested Response to the Coming Crisis

Wrinkle

of the Year

Chemical
Suck a Dick Jockey
Nudity
Slut
Naked on the Internet
What I Love About You

Underwear Goes

of the Year

Frank Purdue
Le Ceba
Stalk of Wheat

Break Your Heart

of the Year

Ain't Gonna Suck Itself
On the Radio
Prince of Dearth
Screw You

Who's Gonna Save Us?

of the Year

All The Young Dudes
All The Young Dudes
Happy Loving Couples
Strawberry Fields Forever
The Beat Goes On

Anarchy in the UK

of the Year

A Torrid Affair
Be Alright
The Wild Son
Try Me

Over the Counter Culture

of the Year

Sunset Strip (America's Sweetheart)
Take Me Out (Franz Ferdinand)
Mother Rose (Trampin')

American Idiot (American Idiot)

of the Year

Longfall
One More Day

Well the Days Go By


Ticket to Havana
Sailin' On

Thanks to everyone who appeared on Off-Beat TV and Radio during 2004:

Scott Freeson, Randy Gordon, Joe Downure (The Darelicks)
Richard Schiffer
Simon Hunter
Murry Hammond (Old 97s)
Russ Rankin (Only Crime)
Darius Koski (Swingin' Utters)
Kevin Adkins (Icewagon Flu)
Gary and the Psychic Experience
Sally Timms