How On Earth Does He Do It!?
Okay, here are my Top 50 records of 2004 as of now. The top 10 are pretty much set in stone, unless something absolutely AMAZING comes by in the next two months. The rest are subject to change at any time. Should I realize a certain album came out in 2004, or should i realize i forgot something. But overall, this is pretty definitive. I only put full albums on this list, EP's did not qualify. Also, before someone asks why Brian Wilson's "Smile" isn't on this list, i'll tell you. Because the album was originally written and songs appeared on different albums at least 36 years ago, I don't qualify it as a 2004 release, despite that the actual proper 'release' just now happened. Also, compilations are ineligible for the list.
1. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning Strike
2. Madvillain - Madvillainy
3. Les Savy Fav - Inches
4. Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
5. Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
6. Mice Parade - Obrigado Saudade
7. Dungen - Ta Det Lungt
8. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
9. Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
10. Mastodon - Leviathan
11. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
12. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
13. Mission of Burma - On Off On
14. Ratatat - Ratatat
15. Kid606 - Who Still Kill Sound?
16. Arcade Fire - Funeral
17. Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
18. Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
19. Futureheads - Futureheads
20. Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
21. Air - Talkie Walkie
22. Mirah - C’mon Miracle
23. Kanye West - College Dropout
24. Joanna Newsom - The Milk Eyed Mender
25. Blood Brothers - Crimes
26. Jason Forrest - Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash
27. The Streets - A Grand Don’t Come For Free
28. AC Newman - The Slow Wonder
29. Interpol - Antics
30. Fennesz - Venice
31. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
32. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
33. Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld
34. Foreign Exchange - Connected
35. Ted Leo/Rx - Shake the Sheets
36. Dresden Dolls - Dresden Dolls
37. Tom Waits - Real Gone
38. Bjork - Medulla
39. Black Dice - Creature Comforts
40. Mclusky - The Difference Between Me and You Is That I’m Not on Fire
41. Deerhoof - Milkman
42. Wagon Christ - Sorry I Make You Lush
43. Rogue Wave - Out of the Shadow
44. Devendra Banhart - Nino Rojo
45. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
46. Destroyer - Your Blues
47. Knifehandchop - How I Left You
48. Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse
49. Eagles of Death Metal - Peace, Love, and Death Metal
50. The Soft Pink Truth - Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth
1. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning Strike
2. Madvillain - Madvillainy
3. Les Savy Fav - Inches
4. Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
5. Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
6. Mice Parade - Obrigado Saudade
7. Dungen - Ta Det Lungt
8. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
9. Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
10. Mastodon - Leviathan
11. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
12. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
13. Mission of Burma - On Off On
14. Ratatat - Ratatat
15. Kid606 - Who Still Kill Sound?
16. Arcade Fire - Funeral
17. Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
18. Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
19. Futureheads - Futureheads
20. Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
21. Air - Talkie Walkie
22. Mirah - C’mon Miracle
23. Kanye West - College Dropout
24. Joanna Newsom - The Milk Eyed Mender
25. Blood Brothers - Crimes
26. Jason Forrest - Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash
27. The Streets - A Grand Don’t Come For Free
28. AC Newman - The Slow Wonder
29. Interpol - Antics
30. Fennesz - Venice
31. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
32. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
33. Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld
34. Foreign Exchange - Connected
35. Ted Leo/Rx - Shake the Sheets
36. Dresden Dolls - Dresden Dolls
37. Tom Waits - Real Gone
38. Bjork - Medulla
39. Black Dice - Creature Comforts
40. Mclusky - The Difference Between Me and You Is That I’m Not on Fire
41. Deerhoof - Milkman
42. Wagon Christ - Sorry I Make You Lush
43. Rogue Wave - Out of the Shadow
44. Devendra Banhart - Nino Rojo
45. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
46. Destroyer - Your Blues
47. Knifehandchop - How I Left You
48. Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse
49. Eagles of Death Metal - Peace, Love, and Death Metal
50. The Soft Pink Truth - Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth