Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 2004

The Top Albums from 2004
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	34	Arcade Fire	Funeral		Listen
2	206	Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand		Listen
3	217	Kanye West	The College Dropout		Listen
4	399	Madvillain	Madvillainy		Listen
5	449	Green Day	American Idiot		Listen
6	458	Brian Wilson	SMiLE		Listen
7	549	The Streets	A Grand Don't Come for Free		Listen
8	587	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus		Listen
9	689	The Libertines	The Libertines		Listen
10	694	Wilco	A Ghost Is Born		Listen
11	848	Morrissey	You Are the Quarry		Listen
12	935	Animal Collective	Sung Tongs		Listen
13	949	The Killers	Hot Fuss		Listen
14	952	Danger Mouse	The Grey Album
15	963	Elliott Smith	From a Basement on the Hill		Listen
16	986	TV on the Radio	Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes		Listen
17	993	Modest Mouse	Good News for People Who Love Bad News		Listen
18	1041	Loretta Lynn	Van Lear Rose		Listen
19	1053	Devendra Banhart	Rejoicing in the Hands		Listen
20	1157	Scissor Sisters	Scissor Sisters		Listen
21	1199	Bj�rk	Medulla		Listen
22	1205	Interpol	Antics		Listen
23	1220	Tom Waits	Real Gone		Listen
24	1234	Joanna Newsom	The Milk-Eyed Mender		Listen
25	1292	The Go! Team	Thunder, Lightning, Strike		Listen
26	1298	Amadou & Mariam	Dimanche � Bamako		Listen
27	1302	Iron & Wine	Our Endless Numbered Days		Listen
28	1344	Junior Boys	Last Exit		Listen
29	1484	The Fiery Furnaces	Blueberry Boat		Listen
30	1531	Kings of Leon	Aha Shake Heartbreak		Listen
31	1590	Mastodon	Leviathan		Listen
32	1619	Dungen	Ta Det Lugnt
33	1715	U2	How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb		Listen
34	1858	!!!	Louden Up Now		Listen
35	1882	Rufus Wainwright	Want Two		Listen
36	1912	The Walkmen	Bows + Arrows		Listen
37	1964	CocoRosie	La Maison De Mon R�ve		Listen
38	1979	Mark Lanegan Band	Bubblegum
39	1981	Air	Talkie Walkie		Listen
40	2089	Sufjan Stevens	Seven Swans		Listen
41	2118	Drive-By Truckers	The Dirty South		Listen
42	2175	The Black Keys	Rubber Factory
43	2387	PJ Harvey	Uh Huh Her		Listen
44	2393	Ghostface Killah	The Pretty Toney Album		Listen
45	2398	Rilo Kiley	More Adventurous		Listen
46	2471	Blonde Redhead	Misery Is a Butterfly
47	2526	Feist	Let It Die		Listen
48	2542	The Futureheads	The Futureheads		Listen
49	2579	Dizzee Rascal	Showtime
50	2631	Annie	Anniemal		Listen
51	2807	Sonic Youth	Sonic Nurse		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Devendra Banhart	Ni�o Rojo		Listen
		Max Richter	The Blue Notebooks
		Kasabian	Kasabian		Listen
		Stars	Set Yourself On Fire		Listen
		Micah P. Hinson	Micah P. Hinson & The Gospel of Progress
		Usher	Confessions
		John Legend	Get Lifted		Listen
		The Magnetic Fields	i		Listen
		Mylo	Destroy Rock & Roll		Listen
		Fennesz	Venice
		Secret Machines	Now Here Is Nowhere		Listen
		Xiu Xiu	Fabulous Muscles		Listen
		Keane	Hopes and Fears
		Nellie McKay	Get Away from Me		Listen
		Kings of Convenience	Riot on an Empty Street
		Of Montreal	Satanic Panic in the Attic		Listen
		Tinariwen	Amassakoul		Listen
		Electrelane	The Power Out		Listen
		Ray Lamontagne	Trouble		Listen
		Elvis Costello & The Imposters	The Delivery Man		Listen
		The Hives	Tyrannosaurus Hives		Listen
		Jill Scott	Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2		Listen
		Lambchop	Aw C'mon		Listen
		Lambchop	No You C'mon
		Phoenix	Alphabetical		Listen
		Cee-Lo	Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine		Listen
		Comets On Fire	Blue Cathedral		Listen
		A.C. Newman	The Slow Wonder
		Jolie Holland	Escondida		Listen
		Adem	Homesongs		Listen
		Steve Earle	The Revolution Starts Now		Listen
		Lali Puna	Faking the Books		Listen
		The Von Bondies	Pawn Shoppe Heart		Listen
		Mission of Burma	ONoffON
		Oneida	Secret Wars
		American Music Club	Love Songs for Patriots		Listen
		Prince	Musicology		Listen
		Ted Leo + Pharmacists	Shake the Sheets		Listen
		The Zutons	Who Killed The Zutons?		Listen