Album of The Year - Endgame

1. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
4. Friends of Dean Martinez - Random Harvest
5. Brian Wilson - SMiLE
6. Interpol - Antics
7. PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
8. Feist - Let It Die
9. Rufus Wainwright - Want Two
10. Múm - Summer Make Good

11-25 (in alphabetical order):

Air - Talkie Walkie
Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker
The Beta Band - Heroes to Zeros
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Lali Puna - Faking the Books
George Michael - Patience
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
Tortoise - It's All Around You
U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Elizabeth Anka Vajagic - Stand with the Stillness of This Day
Tom Waits - Real Gone
Kanye West - College Dropout

bonus track:

 
2004

Deceivingly good year of music IMO. I didn't realize that so many good albums came from this year. The top 6 are heavy hitters for indie rock this decade. god damn.

  1. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
  2. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
  3. of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic
  4. Jens Lekman - When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog
  5. Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
  6. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
  7. The National - Cherry Tree EP
  8. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
  9. Arcade Fire - Funeral
  10. Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine

Honorable Mentions
  • Animal Collective - Sun Tongs
  • Bjork - Medulla
  • The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows
  • The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
  • Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
  • The Magnetic Fields - i
  • Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture
  • Fennesz - Venice
  • The Album Leaf - In a Safe Place
  • Converge - You Fail Me
  • The Veils - The Runaway Found
 
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1. Stina Nordenstam - The World is Saved
2. Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch (how come this is not #2 on everyone's lists?)
3. Marianne Faithfull - Before The Poison (I bet this is not #3 on your lists because you never listened to it)
4. William Shatner - Has Been
5. Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin
6. Maria Mena - White Turns Blue
7. Björk - Medúlla
8. Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me
9. Melissa Auf Der Maur - Auf Der Maur
10. Sarah Harmer - All Of Our Names

Honorable mentions: The Divine Comedy - Absent Friends ; The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
(damn, it was a great year for albums made by women)

And never forget about this incredible hit of 2004:

 
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well, '04 was sneaky good. there's very little separation 1-10 for me here

1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus
2. Bob Schneider - I'm Good Now
3. Interpol - Antics
4. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on a Hill
5. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
6. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
7. Kasabian - Kasabian
8. Citizen Cope - The Clarence Greenwood Recordings
9. Arcade Fire - Funeral
10. Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street

Honorable Mention:
Air - Talkie Walkie
The Helio Sequence - Love and Distance
Mos Def - The New Danger
Matt Pond PA - Emblems
Wilco - A Ghost is Born
Iron&Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch
The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me
The Helio Sequence - Love and Distance
Mos Def - The New Danger
Matt Pond PA - Emblems
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
 
2004
1. Kanye West-The College Dropout
2. Wilco-A Ghost Is Born
3. Joanna Newsom-Milk Eyed Mender
4. Animal Collective-Sung Tongs
5. Modest Mouse-Good News For People....
6. Of Montreal-Satanic Panic In The Attic
7. Arcade Fire-Funeral
8. Madvillain-Madvillainy
9. Avril Lavigne-Under My Skin
10. Air-Talkie Walkie
 
Waitressboy said:
1. Stina Nordenstam - The World is Saved
2. The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight (how come this is not #1 on everyone's lists?)
3. Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch (how come this is not #2 on everyone's lists?)
4. Marianne Faithfull - Before The Poison (I bet this is not #3 on your lists because you never listened to it)
5. William Shatner - Has Been
6. Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin
7. Maria Mena - White Turns Blue
8. Björk - Medúlla
9. Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me
10. Melissa Auf Der Maur - Auf Der Maur

Honorable mentions: Sarah Harmer - All Of Our Names ; The Divine Comedy - Absent Friends ; The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free

And never forget about this incredible hit of 2004:

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Long Gone Before Daylight came out in 2013 (that's how!)
 
cbl said:
well, '04 was sneaky good. there's very little separation 1-10 for me here

1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus
2. Bob Schneider - I'm Good Now
3. Interpol - Antics
4. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on a Hill
5. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
6. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
7. Kasabian - Kasabian
8. Citizen Cope - The Clarence Greenwood Recordings
9. Arcade Fire - Funeral
10. Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street

Honorable Mention:
Air - Talkie Walkie
The Helio Sequence - Love and Distance
Mos Def - The New Danger
Matt Pond PA - Emblems
Wilco - A Ghost is Born
Iron&Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch
The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me
The Helio Sequence - Love and Distance
Mos Def - The New Danger
Matt Pond PA - Emblems
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
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Completely forgot about that Nick Cave. I don’t think it would make my top 10 but very good album(s) nonetheless
 
My fave albums of 2004:

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Interpol - Antics
3. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
4. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Loves Bad News
5. The Killers - Hot Fuss
6. Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
7. Kasabian - Kasabian
8. Keane - Hopes and Fears
9. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
10. Green Day - American Idiot
 
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2004 was a different era of my life and the music I still really look fondly upon it. My god I forgot about Mylo & Junior Boys album. I played the hell out of those albums these years. The others in the top 10 still make rotation. Madvillainy is probably my favorite of the decade and probably post millennium so far. I probably listen to the album or tracks from the album at least once a week since 2004.

1. Madvillain - Madvillainy
2. Blonde Redhead - Misery is a butterfly
3. Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
4. Kanye West - The College Dropout
5. Air talkie walkie
6. PJ Harvey - uh huh her
7. edIT - Crying over pros for no reason
8. Junior Boys - Last Exit
9. Mylo - Destroy rock & roll
10. Two Lone Swordsmen - From the Double Gone Chapel

Some Honorable mentions...
Ochre - A Midsummer Nice Dream
the go! team - thunder lightning strike
mia / diplo - piracy funds terrorism vol 1
The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
joanna newsom - the milk-eyed mender
MF Doom - mm food
Kid Spatula - Meast
Diplo - Florida
Squarepusher - Ultravisitor
the killers hot fuss
Telefon Tel Aviv - Map Of What Is Effortless
65DaysOfStatic - The Fall Of Math
RJD2 - Since WE Last SPoke
Tycho - Sunrise Projector
bjork medulla

My anthem ❤
 
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Just wanted to say again that I enjoy looking at everyone's lists! A phenomenal year, all things considered.
  1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
  2. MF Doom - Mm..Food
  3. Björk - Medulla
  4. Feist - Let It Die
  5. Fennesz - Venice
  6. Jesu - Jesu
  7. Kanye West - The College Dropout
  8. Isis - Panopticon
  9. Tim Hecker - Mirages
  10. AIR - Talkie Walkie
 
1. Hope of the States - The Lost Riots
2. The Futureheads
3. The Libertines
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. Franz Ferdinand
6. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
7. Feist - Let It Die
8. Interpol - Antics
9. The Killers - Hot Fuss
10. The Polyphonic Spree - Together We’re Heavy

In another world where their makers weren’t deplorable human beings Love Is Hell (my fav RA) and You Are The Quarry would have been 1 & 2...
 
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2004 was a different era of my life and the music I still really look fondly upon it. My god I forgot about Mylo & Junior Boys album. I played the hell out of those albums these years. The others in the top 10 still make rotation. Madvillainy is probably my favorite of the decade and probably post millennium so far. I probably listen to the album or tracks from the album at least once a week since 2004.

1. Madvillain - Madvillainy
2. Blonde Redhead - Misery is a butterfly
3. Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
4. Kanye West - The College Dropout
5. Air talkie walkie
6. PJ Harvey - uh huh her
7. edIT - Crying over pros for no reason
8. Junior Boys - Last Exit
9. Mylo - Destroy rock & roll
10. Two Lone Swordsmen - From the Double Gone Chapel

Some Honorable mentions...
Ochre - A Midsummer Nice Dream
the go! team - thunder lightning strike
mia / diplo - piracy funds terrorism vol 1
The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
joanna newsom - the milk-eyed mender
MF Doom - mm food
Kid Spatula - Meast
Diplo - Florida
Squarepusher - Ultravisitor
the killers hot fuss
Telefon Tel Aviv - Map Of What Is Effortless
65DaysOfStatic - The Fall Of Math
RJD2 - Since WE Last SPoke
Tycho - Sunrise Projector
bjork medulla

My anthem ❤
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I don’t enjoy doing this but that Ulrich Schnauss also came out in 2003 (it would’ve made my top 10 otherwise!)
 
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