The Best Rock Albums of 2004

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Best of Rock 2004
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    7.5/10
  1. Ghost: Hypnotic Underworld (Drag City)
  2. Pan Sonic: Kesto (Mute)
  3. Charalambides: Joy Shapes (Kranky)
  4. Arcade Fire: Funeral (Merge)
  5. Lydia Lunch: Smoke In The Shadows (Breakin' Beats)
    7/10
  6. TV On The Radio: Desperate Youth Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch & Go)
  7. Isis: Panopticon (Ipecac)
  8. Black Dice: Creature Comforts (DFA)
  9. Shit And Shine: You're Lucky To Have Friends Like Us (Riot Season)
  10. Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat (Rough Trade)
  11. Hannah Marcus: Desert Farmers (Bar None)
  12. Solex: Laughing Stock Of Indie Rock (Arena Rock)
  13. Paik: Satin Black (Strange Attractors)
  14. Joanna Newsom: The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
  15. Guapo: Five Suns (Cuneiform)
  16. Califone: Heron King Blves (Thill Jockey)
  17. cLOUDDEAD: Ten (Mush)
  18. Boris: At Last - Feedbacker (DIW Phalanx)
  19. Architecture In Helsinki: Fingers Crossed (Bar None)
  20. James Blackshaw: Celeste (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
  21. Smoke & Mirrors: Deities (Aural Fixation)
  22. Art Of Fighting: Second Storey (Trifekta)
  23. Madvillain: Madvillainy (Stones Throw)
  24. Comets On Fire: Blue Cathedral (Sub Pop)
  25. Mastodon: Leviathan (2004)
  26. Icarus: I Tweet the Birdy Electric (Leaf)
  27. Chad VanGaalen: Infiniheart (Flemish Eye)
  28. Velvet Cacoon: Genevieve (Southern Lord)
  29. Gang Gang Dance: Gang Gang Dance (Fusetron)
  30. Go Team: Thunder Lightning Strike (Memphis Industries)
  31. Dresden Dolls: Dresden Dolls (8ft)
  32. Coastal: Halfway To You (Words On Music)
  33. Velvet Teen: Elysium (Slowdance)
  34. Pan American: Quiet City (Kranky)
  35. Janek Schaefer: Cold Storage (DSP)
  36. Johann Johannsson: Virthulegu Forsetar (Touch)
  37. N.E.R.D.: Fly or Die (2004)
  38. Dead Meadow: Feathers (Matador)
  39. Triosk: Moment Returns (2004)
  40. Jade Vincent: Vincent & Mr Green (Ipecac)
  41. Iron & Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days (Subpop)
  42. Shitmat: Killababylonkutz (Planet Mu)
  43. Kanye West: The College Dropout (2004)
  44. Fursaxa: Amulet (Last Visible Dog)
  45. Spektr: Et Fugit Intera Fugit Irreparabile Tempus (Candlelight)
Playlist
  1. Architecture In Helsinki: The Owls Go
  2. Pan Sonic: Diminisher
  3. Coastal: Leaves
  4. Arcade Fire: Neighborhood #3 - Power Out
  5. Blood Brothers: Trash Flavored Trash
  6. !!!: Hello? Is This Thing On?
  7. Pan Sonic: Distance
  8. Blood Brothers: Beautiful Horses
  9. Pan Sonic: Gravity
  10. Earlies: The Devil's Country
  11. Roitan: Allbacks
  12. Azita: Miss Tony
  13. Wolf Eyes: Village Oblivia
  14. Ponys: Let's Kill Ourselves
  15. Secret Chiefs 3: The Exile
  16. Art Of Fighting: Along The Run
  17. Fennesz: Circassian
  18. Go Team: We Just Won't Be Defeated
  19. Ponys: Little Friends
  20. Lydia Lunch: Trick Baby
  21. Bob Wiseman: Queen of Sheba
  22. Ponys: Trouble Trouble
  23. Dresden Dolls: Girl Anachronism
  24. Roitan: The Way Puppets Walk
  25. Simon Joyner: Dreams of Saint Teresa
  26. Dresden Dolls: The Jeep Song
  27. Bjork: Ancestors
  28. Drive-by Truckers: Where the Devil Don't Stay

Extended tracks
  1. Pan Sonic: Radiation
  2. Ghost: Hypnotic Underworld
  3. Paik: Satin Black
  4. Black Dice: Skeleton
  5. Meshuggah: I
  6. James Blackshaw: Celeste
  7. Charalambides: Here Not Here
  8. Califone: Heron King Blues
  9. Mono: 16:12
  10. Guapo: Five Suns
  11. Cat Power: Willie Deadwilder
  12. Johan Johannsson: Virthulegu Forsetar
  13. Hannah Marcus: Hairdresser in Taos
  14. Charalambides: Joy Shapes
  15. Pan American: Christo in Pilsen
  16. Lydia Lunch: Hot Tip
  17. Einsturzende Neubauten: Perpetuum Mobile
  18. Flying Luttenbachers: Rise Of The Iridescent Behemoth
  19. Velvet Teen: Chimera Obscurant
  20. Cheer Accident: The Autumn Wind is a Pirate
  21. Far Corner: Fiction
  22. Isis: In Fiction
  23. Brent Gutzeit: Piano Motor Skills #2
  24. Mastodon: Hearts Alive
  25. Icarus: Three False Starts
  26. Jello Biafra: Yuppie Cadillac
  27. !!!: Hello Is This Thing On
Jazz
  1. Paul Dunmall: I Wish You Peace (Cuneiform)
  2. Triosk: Moment Returns (Leaf)
  3. Yeah No: Swell Henry (Squealer)
  4. Jane Ira Bloom: Like Silver Like Song (2004)
  5. Ken Vandermark Territory Band: Company Switch (2004)
  6. Jan Garbarek: In Praise of Dreams (ECM)
  7. Django Bates: You Live and Learn (Lost Marble)
  8. Don Byron: Ivey-Divey (Blue Note)
  9. Evan Parker: The Eleventh Hour (2004)
  10. Geri Allen: The Life of a Song (Telarc)
  11. Dave Douglas: Strange Liberation (Bluebird)
  12. Diana Krall: The Girl in the Other Room (Verve)
  13. New Orchestra: Entropy (2004)
  14. Branford Marsalis: Eternal (Marsalis)
  15. Wynton Marsalis: The Magic Hour (Blue Note)

By genre:

Songwriters

Post-rock
Psychedelia

Electronica

Progressive

Punk/hardcore

Dance
Heavy rock

Instrumental

By country:

Britain

Germany
Japan
  1. Ghost: Hypnotic Underworld (Drag City)

Rest of Europe
Australia

Canada

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