Best of 2004: By the Editors of All Music Guide
Submitted by sleestak on Sun, 12/19/2004 - 06:44
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- !!!, Louden Up Now (Touch And Go)
- Claudio Abbado, Abbado Conducts Mahler & Debussy (Deutsche Grammophon)
- Aberfeldy, Young Forever (Rough Trade)
- Ada, Blondie (Areal)
- The Arcade Fire, Funeral (Merge)
- Architecture in Helsinki, Fingers Crossed (Bar/None)
- Albert Ayler, Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (Revenant)
- Devendra Banhart, Rejoicing in the Hands (Young God)
- Björk, Medúlla (Elektra)
- The Black Keys, Rubber Factory (Fat Possum)
- Blanche, If We Can't Trust the Doctors (V2)
- David Breitman, Mozart: Complete Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin, Vol. 1; Mannheim Sonata (Analekta)
- Camera Obscura, Underachievers Please Try Harder [US Bonus Tracks] (Merge)
- The Clash, London Calling: 25th Anniversary Legacy Edition (Epic/Legacy)
- CocoRosie, La Maison de Mon Reve (Touch & Go)
- Alice Coltrane, Translinear Light (Impulse)
- Various Artists, Come to the Sunshine: Soft Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults (Rhino HandMade)
- Comets On Fire, Blue Cathedral (Sub Pop)
- Deerhoof, Milk Man (Kill Rock Stars)
- Destroyer, Your Blues (Merge)
- Dios, Dios (Startime International)
- Dizzee Rascal, Showtime (XL)
- DJ /rupture, Special Gunpowder (Tigerbeat6)
- Electrelane, Power Out (Beggars Banquet)
- Ensemble Anonymous, Robin and Marion: Songs and Motets from the Time of Adam de la Halle (Analekta)
- Faces, Five Guys Walk into a Bar... (Warner Bros./Rhino)
- Faun Fables, Family Album (Drag City)
- Felix da Housecat, Devin Dazzle & the Neon Fever (Rykodisc)
- The Fiery Furnaces, Blueberry Boat (Rough Trade)
- The Finn Brothers, Everyone Is Here (Nettwerk)
- Jason Forrest, The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash (Sonig)
- Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
- The Futureheads, The Futureheads (Sire)
- The Go! Team, Thunder, Lightning, Strike (Memphis Industries)
- Green Day, American Idiot (Reprise)
- The Hives , Tyrannosaurus Hives (Interscope )
- Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sviridov: Petersburg, a Vocal Poem; Six Romances (Delios)
- Alan Jackson, What I Do (BMG/Arista Nashville)
- Jobriath, Lonely Planet Boy (Sanctuary)
- Junior Boys, Last Exit (Domino)
- Mike Keneally & the Metropole Orkest, The Universe Will Provide (Favored Nations/NPS Output)
- Le Tigre, This Island (Strummer/Universal)
- The Legends, Up Against the Legends (Lakeshore S)
- Jens Lekman, When I Said I Wanted to be Your Dog (Secretly Canadian)
- Sondre Lerche, Two Way Monologue (Astralwerks)
- Liars , They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (Mute)
- The Libertines, The Libertines (Rough Trade)
- Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, Crunk Juice (TVT)
- Guy Livingston, Antheil: The Lost Sonatas (Wergo)
- Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
- Madvillain, Madvillainy (Stones Throw)
- Mastodon, Leviathan (Relapse)
- Nellie McKay, Get Away from Me (Columbia)
- Modest Mouse, Good News for People Who Love Bad News (Epic)
- Moodymann, Black Mahogani (Peacefrog)
- Morrissey, You Are the Quarry (Attack)
- Teedra Moses, Complex Simplicity (TVT)
- Mouse on Mars, Radical Connector (Thrill Jockey)
- A.C. Newman, The Slow Wonder (Matador(
- Joanna Newsom, The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
- The Organ, Grab That Gun (Mint)
- Johnny Paycheck, The Little Darlin' Sound of Johnny Paycheck: The Beginning (Koch)
- The Ponys, Laced With Romance (In The Red)
- Max Richter, The Blue Notebooks (Fat Cat)
- Joan Rodgers, Russian Songs (Hyperion)
- David Ruffin, David - The Unreleased Album (Hip-O Select)
- Saturday Looks Good to Me, Every Night (Polyvinyl)
- Jordi Savall, Villancicos y Danzas Criollas (Alia Vox)
- Scissor Sisters, Scissor Sisters (Universal)
- Sonic Youth, Sonic Nurse (Geffen)
- Rick Springfield, Mission Magic [Bonus Track] (Master Classics)
- The Streets, A Grand Don't Come for Free (Vice/Atlantic)
- Telefon Tel Aviv, Map of What Is Effortless (Hefty)
- Tilly and the Wall, Wild Like Children (Team Love)
- TV on the Radio, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch & Go)
- Caetano Veloso, A Foreign Sound (Nonesuch)
- Ricardo Villalobos, Thé au Harem d'Archimède (Perlon)
- Walking Concert. Run to Be Born (Some)
- The Walkmen, Bows + Arrows (Record Collection)
- Kanye West, The College Dropout (Roc-A-Fella)
- Brian Wilson, SMiLE (Nonesuch)
- Wolf Eyes, Burned Mind (Sub Pop)
- Wrangler Brutes, Zulu (Kill Rock Stars)
- Xiu Xiu, Fabulous Muscles (5 Rue Christine)
