The Top Albums from 2004

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	101	The Arcade Fire	Funeral		Listen
2	112	Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand		Listen
3	197	Brian Wilson	SMiLE		Listen
4	241	Kanye West	College Dropout		Listen
5	366	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus		Listen
6	411	The Streets	A Grand Don't Come for Free		Listen
7	500	Loretta Lynn	Van Lear Rose		Listen
8	536	Wilco	A Ghost Is Born		Listen
9	676	The Libertines	The Libertines		Listen
10	699	Morrissey	You Are the Quarry		Listen
11	717	Tom Waits	Real Gone		Listen
12	753	Interpol	Antics		Listen
13	793	Elliott Smith	From a Basement on a Hill		Listen
14	837	Madvillain	Madvillainy		Listen
15	851	Devendra Banhart	Rejoicing in the Hands		Listen
16	854	TV on the Radio	Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes		Listen
17	864	Scissor Sisters	Scissor Sisters		Listen
18	883	Björk	Medulla		Listen
19	915	Modest Mouse	Good News for People Who Love Bad News		Listen
20	997	Green Day	American Idiot		Listen
21	1181	Mark Lanegan Band	Bubblegum
22	1228	Dizzee Rascal	Showtime
23	1383	P J Harvey	Uh Huh Her		Listen
24	1398	U2	How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb		Listen
25	1440	Iron & Wine	Our Endless Numbered Days		Listen
26	1442	The Go! Team	Thunder Lightening Strike		Listen
27	1516	Junior Boys	Last Exit		Listen
28	1592	Animal Collective	Sung Tongs		Listen
29	1643	The Futureheads	The Futureheads		Listen
30	1782	Elvis Costello & The Imposters	The Delivery Man		Listen
31	1799	Drive-By Truckers	The Dirty South		Listen
32	1821	Feist	Let It Die		Listen
33	1846	Mylo	Destroy Rock & Roll		Listen
34	1896	Joanna Newsom	The Milk-Eyed Mender		Listen
35	1898	The Killers	Hot Fuss		Listen
36	1928	Dungen	Ta Det Lugnt
37	1951	Sonic Youth	Sonic Nurse		Listen
38	1957	Fiery Furnaces	Blueberry Boat		Listen
39	1961	CocoRosie	La Maison De Mon Rêve		Listen
40	2074	!!!	Louden Up Now		Listen
41	2081	Rufus Wainwright	Want Two		Listen
42	2329	Sufjan Stevens	Seven Swans		Listen
43	2537	Ghostface Killah	The Pretty Toney Album		Listen
44	2563	Jill Scott	Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2		Listen
45	2564	Kings of Leon	Aha Shake Heartbreak		Listen
46	2572	Danger Mouse	The Grey Album
47	2583	Air	Talkie Walkie		Listen
48	2703	Cee-Lo	Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine		Listen
49	2737	Secret Machines	Now Here Is Nowhere		Listen
50	2769	Nellie McKay	Get Away from Me		Listen
51	2786	John Legend	Get Lifted		Listen
52	2850	Rilo Kiley	More Adventurous		Listen
53	2860	Fennesz	Venice
54	2876	The Hives	Tyrannosaurus Hives		Listen
55	2887	Annie	Anniemal		Listen
56	2925	Phoenix	Alphabetical		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Steve Earle	The Revolution Starts Now		Listen
		Comets on Fire	Blue Cathedral		Listen
		A. C. Newman	The Slow Wonder
		Snow Patrol	Final Straw		Listen
		Julie Holland	Escondida		Listen
		The Walkmen	Bows + Arrows		Listen
		Keane	Hopes and Fears
		Lambchop	Aw C'mon		Listen
		Adem	Homesongs		Listen
		Lali Puna	Faking the Books		Listen
		Magnetic Fields	i		Listen
		Lambchop	No You C'mon
		Xiu Xiu	Fabulous Muscles		Listen
		Ray Lamontagne	Trouble		Listen