Every two years, the safe home for the gays that are the music charts and bombarded by the straights as a barrage of football songs come out to celebrate the World Cup and/or Euros.

This week on The 2000s Chart Show, it's the Euros 2004, and the straights were celebrating with a "footie" spin on Come on Eileen, a slightly dog whistle-sounding single featuring The Libertines and Supergrass and a song about World War One. The breeders having a normal one, as always.

If you think the "beautiful game" is lame, however, we have plenty to discuss this week in our latest run down of the pop music of 2004. In this episode, we're exploring even more of the fallout of Janet Jackson's Super Bowl malfunction, making love under the linden tree with O-Zone and learn how Lauryn Hill rejected Kanye West.

This week's episode features discussion about the following songs:

The 411 - On My Knees

4-4-2 - Come on England

Anastacia - Left Outside Alone

Avril Lavigne - Don’t Tell Me

Beastie Boys - Ch-Check It Out

Beyonce - Naughty Girl

Candee Jay - If I Were You

Cassidy - Hotel

Christina Milian - Dip It Low

The Corrs - Summer Sunshine

D12 - My Band

Eamon - F*** It (I Don't Want You Back)

Emma Bunton - Crickets Sing for Anamaria

Evanescence - Everybody’s Fool

Faithless - Mass Destruction

The Farm feat. SFX Boys Choir - All Together Now 2004

Frankee - FURB

Hoobastank - The Reason

Janet Jackson - All Nite (Don’t Stop)/I Want You

Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl

Jurgen Vries - Take My Hand

Kanye West - All Falls Down

Keane - Everybody's Changing

Kelis - Trick Me

The Killers - Mr Brightside

Kristian Leontiou - Story of My Life

Linkin Park - Breaking the Habit

Mario Winans - I Don’t Wanna Know

Mark Owen - Makin’ Out

Maroon 5 - This Love

O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei

Peter Andre - Insania

The Rasmus - In the Shadows

Sarah Connor - Bounce

Scissor Sisters - Laura

Speedway - In & Out

The Streets - Fit But You Know It

Twisted X - Born in England

V - Blood Sweat and Tears

VS - Call U Sexy

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