100 Greatest Albums of 2004

  1. American Idiot - Green Day
  2. The College Dropout - Kanye West
  3. Funeral - Arcade Fire
  4. SMiLE - Brian Wilson
  5. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
  6. Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
  7. Madvilliany - Madvillian
  8. Hot Fuss - The Killers
  9. Confessions - Usher
10. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - U2
11. Love. Angel. Music. Baby. - Gwen Stefani
12. A Ghost Is Born - Wilco
13. Genius Loves Company - Ray Charles
14. Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds, Vol. 2 - Jill Scott
15. You Are the Quarry - Morrissey
16. Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge - My Chemical Romance
17. The Red Light District - Ludacris
18. Get Away from Me - Nellie McKay
19. Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
20. Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson
21. Back to Bedlam - James Blunt
22. Feels Like Home - Norah Jones
23. Medulla - Bjork
24. The Tipping Point - The Roots
25. Musicology - Prince
26. Uh Huh Her - PJ Harvey
27. Where You Want to Be - Taking Back Sunday
28. Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes - TV on the Radio
29. Los Lonely Boys - Los Lonely Boys
30. Sonic Nurse - Sonic Youth
31. Destiny Fulfilled - Destiny's Child
32. Miss Machine - The Dillinger Escape Plan
33. Rubber Factory - The Black Keys
34. Let it Die - Feist
35. Suit - Nelly
36. Thunder, Lightning, Strike - The Go! Team
37. The Libertines - The Libertines
38. A Grand Don't Come for Free - The Streets
39. Almost Killed Me - The Hold Steady
40. Sung Tongs - Animal Collective
41. Get Lifted - John Legend
42. Eye to the Telescope - KT Tunstall
43. The Dirty South - Drive-By Truckers
44. The Beautiful Struggle - Talib Kweli
45. Dear Heather - Leonard Cohen
46. Set Yourself on Fire - Stars
47. More Adventurous - Rilo Kiley
48. Real Gone - Tom Waits
49. Tical 0: The Prequel - Method Man
50. The Futureheads - The Futureheads
51. You're a Woman, I'm a Machine - Death from Above 1979
52. Antics - Interpol
53. Tha Carter - Lil Wayne
54. Encore - Eminem
55. Bows & Arrows - The Walkmen
56. Leviathan - Mastodon
57. Ten - cLOUDDEAD
58. Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon
59. The Milk-Eyed Mender - Joanna Newsom
60. To the 5 Boroughs - Beastie Boys
61. So Jealous - Tegan and Sara
62. Talkie Walkie - Air
63. The Grind Date - De La Soul
64. Anniemal - Annie
65. Contraband - Velvet Revolver
66. Goodies - Ciara
67. Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield
68. The DEFinition - LL Cool J
69. Now Here is Nowhere - The Secret Machines
70. From a Basement on the Hill - Elliott Smith
71. The Pretty Toney Album - Ghostface Killah
72. Straylight Run - Straylight Run
73. R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece - Snoop Dogg
74. The Difference Between Me and You is That I'm Not On Fire - mclusky
75. Catalyst - New Found Glory
76. Gold Medal - The Donnas
77. Sweat - Nelly
78. The Cure - The Cure
79. Who Killed...The Zutons? - The Zutons
80. Phantom Planet - Phantom Planet
81. Humboldt Beginnings - The Pharcyde
82. Crimes - The Blood Brothers
83. We Shall All Be Healed - The Mountain Goats
84. Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) - Slipknot
85. Kasabian - Kasabian
86. Futures - Jimmy Eat World
87. Soviet Kitsch - Regina Spektor
88. Meltdown - Ash
89. Our Endless Numbered Days - Iron & Wine
90. Reise, Reise - Rammstein
91. Satanic Panic in the Attic - of Montreal
92. Kamikaze - Twista
93. Shake the Sheets - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
94. In Love and Death - The Used
95. Is a Real Boy - Say Anything
96. Grey Will Fade - Charlotte Hatherley
97. Joyful Rebellion - k-os
98. Half Smiles of the Decomposed - Guided by Voices
99. Chuck - Sum 41
100. The Lost Riots - Hope of the States