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100 Greatest Albums of 2004

Criteria: These music albums from the year 2004 were chosen for their initial and lasting popularity and their influence and impact on rock music in general. Also considered is critical acclaim. The list includes rock and roll and related genres that were influential on rock music.
Top 100 Albums by Year
Note: Yearly album lists go by earliest 'release date'.
Not necessarily the year an album peaked in the U.S. charts.
  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
American Idiot Green Day album cover
The College Dropout Kanye West album cover
Funeral Arcade Fire album cover
SMiLE Brian Wilson album cover
Franz Ferdinand album cover
Good News For People Who Love Bad News Modest Mouse album cover
Madvilliany by Madvillian album cover
 DigitalDreamDoor Editor Picks for 2004
  Ryan's choice - An unheralded great album from 2004
 •  Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck - Flotation Toy Warning
  Lew's choice:
 •  40 Days - The Wailin' Jennys




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