Obligatory 2004 Round Up

I've taken down all the posts between this one and the current few. I thought lists of this nature were interesting to look back on. I apologize if some of the links are broken... I'll take a look at them when I have a second or two.


Top 20 Albums (Sales)

01 Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Like Bad News (epic/sony)
02 The Postal Service - Give Up (sub pop)
03 Hayden - Elk-Lake Serenade (hardwood)
04 Franz Ferdinand - S/T (domino/sony)
05 Tortoise - It's All Around (thrill jockey)
06 Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (sub pop)
07 Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People (emi)
08 The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (sub pop)
09 The Arcade Fire - Funeral (merge)
10 Tom Waits - Real Gone (anti/epitaph)
11 Bjork - Medulla (warner)
12 Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill (anti/epitaph)
13 Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands (young god)
14 A. C. Newman - Slow Wonder (blue curtain)
15 The Black Keys - Rubber Factory (fat possum)
16 !!!- Louden Up Now (touch and go)
17 Guided By Voices - Half Smiles of the Decomposed (matador)
18 Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (barsuk)
19 Elliott Smith - S/T (kill rock stars)
20 Belle & Sebastien - Catastrophe Waitress (bmg)

Top 20 Albums (My Picks)

01 American Music Club - Love Songs for Patriots (merge)
02 Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans (sounds familyre)
03 The Good Life - Album of the Year (saddle creek)
04 Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (sub pop)
05 Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Like Bad News (epic/sony)
06 Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill (anti/epitaph)
07 The Arcade Fire - Funeral (merge)
08 Pinback - Summer in Abbadon (touch and go)
09 Interpol - Antics (matador)
10 Rogue Wave - Out of the Shadow (sub pop)
11 Electrelane - The Power Out (too pure)
12 The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows (record collection)
13 The Pink Mountaintops - S/T (scratch)
14 Joan of Arc - Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain (polyvinyl)
15 Molasses - Trouble at Jinx Hotel (fancy/alien8)
16 Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles (5 rue christine)
17 The Black Keys - Rubber Factory (fat possum)
18 Nick Cave - Lyre of Orpheus/Abattoir Blues (anti/epitaph)
19 Wilco - A Ghost is Born (nonesuch)
20 Hayden - Elk-Lake Serenade (hardwood)