The Best Singles of 2004

Top 50

1. Float On - MODEST MOUSE
2. The Rat - THE WALKMEN
3. Staring At The Sun - TV ON THE RADIO
4. Take Me Out - FRANZ FERDINAND
5. Slow Hands - INTERPOL
6. C’mon C’mon - THE VON BONDIES
7. Theme From Sparta FC #2 - THE FALL
8. Mono - COURTNEY LOVE
9. Somebody Told Me - THE KILLERS
10. Lost In The Plot - THE DEARS
11. Equus - BLONDE REDHEAD
12. An Open Letter To NYC - BEASTIE BOYS
13. Irish Blood, English Heart - MORRISSEY
14. Nature Boy - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
15. Reptilia - THE STROKES
16. Mister Mental - THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER
17. Johnny Cash - SONS AND DAUGHTERS
18. Single Again - THE FIERY FURNACES
19. The Letter - PJ HARVEY
20. Beat Your Heart Out - THE DISTILLERS
21. American Idiot - GREEN DAY
22. Good Reason - SEAFOOD
23. You Can’t Hurry Love - THE CONCRETES
24. This Deed - ELECTRELANE
25. Meantime - THE FUTUREHEADS
26. She’s Hearing Voices - BLOC PARTY
27. Hello? Is This Thing On? - !!!
28. Absolute Affirmation - RADIO 4
29. Ladyflash - THE GO TEAM
30. Come To This - THE SLEEPY JACKSON
31. Everybody Come Down - THE DELGADOS
32. Big Time - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES
33. Two-Timing Touch And Broken Bones - THE HIVES
34. Ride - THE VINES
35. I Disappear - THE FAINT
36. Stand Up Tall - DIZZEE RASCAL
37. Jesus Walks - KANYE WEST
38. I Don't Care - THE ROOTS
39. Rocket Ride - FELIX DA HOUSECAT
40. Professional Distortion - MISS KITTIN
41. Followed The Waves - AUF DER MAUR
42. We Fenced Other Gardens With The Bones Of Our Own - LIARS
43. Hit The City - MARK LANEGAN BAND
44. Why Don't You Do It For Me? - 22-20s
45. This Mystic Decade - HOT SNAKES
46. TKO - LE TIGRE
47. Hot Gossip - BLUES EXPLOSION
48. Morning Wonder - THE EARLIES
49. Bam Thwok - PIXIES
50. Can’t Stand Me Now - THE LIBERTINES

The Best Albums Of 2004

Top 50

1. Franz Ferdinand - FRANZ FERDINAND
2. Abattoir blues / The lyre of Orpheus - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
3. Good news for people who love bad news - MODEST MOUSE
4. Louden up now - !!!
5. Desperate youth, blood thirsty babes - TV ON THE RADIO
6. Pawn shoppe heart - THE VON BONDIES
7. Antics - INTERPOL
8. You are the quarry - MORRISSEY
9. Funeral - THE ARCADE FIRE
10. Sonic nurse - SONIC YOUTH
11. Misery is a butterfly - BLONDE REDHEAD
12. Bubblegum - MARK LANEGAN BAND
13. No cities left - THE DEARS
14. To the 5 boroughs - BEASTIE BOYS
15. Hot fuss - THE KILLERS
16. The power out - ELECTRELANE
17. Bows + arrows - THE WALKMEN
18. You're a woman, I’m a machine - DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979
19. Tyrannosaurus Hives - THE HIVES
20. Uh huh her - PJ HARVEY
21. More adventurous - RILO KILEY
22. The Concretes - THE CONCRETES
23. Thunder, lightning, strike - THE GO! TEAM
24. The Futureheads - THE FUTUREHEADS
25. The royal society - THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER
26. Audit in progress - HOT SNAKES
27. This island - LE TIGRE
28. The college dropout - KANYE WEST
29. American idiot - GREEN DAY
30. Shake the sheets - TED LEO + THE PHARMACISTS
31. Damage - BLUES EXPLOSION
32. Auf Der Maur - AUF DER MAUR
33. Cellar door - JOHN VANDERSLICE
34. Our endless numbered days - IRON AND WINE
35. The dirty south - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
36. Love songs for patriots - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB
37. Is all over the map - GIANT SAND
38. Universal audio - THE DELGADOS
39. LP - AMBULANCE LTD
40. They were wrong, so we drowned - LIARS
41. Sur les traces de black eskimo - LES GEORGES LENINGRAD
42. 76/77 - COBRA KILLER
43. Stealing of a nation - RADIO 4
44. Margerine eclipse - STEREOLAB
45. La maison de mon reve - COCOROSIE
46. Love and distance - THE HELIO SEQUENCE
47. Almost killed me - THE HOLD STEADY
48. Fuckin A - THE THERMALS
49. The Libertines - THE LIBERTINES
50. Showtime - DIZZEE RASCAL

Also recommended:

Wet from birth - THE FAINT, Future perfect - AUTOLUX, Midnight Movies - MIDNIGHT MOVIES, Out of the shadow - ROGUE WAVE, These were The Earlies - THE EARLIES, Origin vol. 1 - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, Sex, love and rock 'n' roll - SOCIAL DISTORTION, Half smiles of the decomposed - GUIDED BY VOICES, A-ha shake heart break - KINGS OF LEON, 22-20s - 22-20s, Rubber factory - THE BLACK KEYS, Madvillainy - MADVILLAIN, Murs 3:16 the 9th edition - MURS, The tipping point - THE ROOTS, Faking the books - LALI PUNA, The new danger - MOS DEF, White people - HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL, Devin Dazzle & The Neon Fever - FELIX DA HOUSECAT, I com - MISS KITTIN, A grand don't come for free - THE STREETS, Winchester cathedral - CLINIC, Monolithic baby! - MONSTER MAGNET, Now here is nowhere - SECRET MACHINES, Lesser matters - THE RADIO DEPT., Around the sun - R.E.M., A ghost is born - WILCO, From a basement on the hill - ELLIOTT SMITH, She loves you - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS, America’s sweetheart - COURTNEY LOVE, Baby - THE DETROIT COBRAS, Three fingers - THE ROGERS SISTERS, Thunder + lightning - MODEY LEMON, Street’s disciple - NAS, The grey album - DANGER MOUSE, Das not compute - DIVISION OF LAURA LEE, Leave no ashes - BURNING BRIDES, Winning days - THE VINES, Up all night - RAZORLIGHT, Modern apprentice - IKARA COLT, Blueberry boat - THE FIERY FURNACES, 50 foot wave - 50 FOOT WAVE, Love the cup - SONS AND DAUGHTERS, All songs written by: Human Television - HUMAN TELEVISION, Awcmon Noyoucmon - LAMBCHOP, Monsoon - PRESTON SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY, Onoffon - MISSION OF BURMA, Porcelain - SPARTA, Secret wars - ONEIDA, Penance soiree - THE ICARUS LINE, 04 - SIX BY SEVEN, Heroes to zeros - THE BETA BAND, In exile deo - JULIANA HATFIELD, Whiskey tango ghosts - TANYA DONELLY, Tasty - KELIS, Revolutionary but gangsta - DEAD PREZ, Tical 0: the prequel - METHOD MAN, In a safe place - THE ALBUM LEAF, As the cry flows - SEAFOOD, Armed love - THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY, Fur - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT, Wild like children - TILLY AND THE WALL, One plus one is one - BADLY DRAWN BOY, Achilles heel - PEDRO THE LION, Panda park - 90 DAY MEN, The Dresden Dolls - THE DRESDEN DOLLS, Treble and tremble - EARLIMART, Folker - PAUL WESTERBERG, Together we’re heavy - THE POLYPHONIC SPREE, The laughing stock of indie rock - SOLEX, Rejoicing in the hands / Nino rojo - DEVANDRA BANHART, The delivery man - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE IMPOSTERS, New roman times - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN, Fine lines - ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET, Radios burn faster - READ YELLOW, Yes to everything - THE WASHDOWN, Red bedroom - THE FEVER, School of etiquette - BOYSKOUT, Girls of war - DIE MONITR BATSS, No wicked heart shall prosper - SELFISH C*NT, Radical connector - MOUSE ON MARS, Ten - CLOUDDEAD, The handler - HAR MAR SUPERSTAR, The Pretty Toney album - GHOSTFACE, Encore - EMINEM, The beautiful struggle - TALIB KWELI, Cee-Lo Green is the soul machine - CEE-LO, Talkie walkie - AIR, Medulla - BJORK, Blue cathedral - COMETS ON FIRE, Burned mind - WOLF EYES, Summer in Abaddon - PINBACK, Trial of the century - FRENCH KICKS, Fontaine Toups - FONTAINE TOUPS, The difference between you and me is that I’m not on fire - McLUSKY, Kiss and tell - SAHARA HOTNIGHTS, Gold medal - THE DONNAS, Winged life - SHEARWATER, The lost riots - HOPE OF THE STATES, Over the counter culture - THE ORDINARY BOYS, Phantom Planet - PHANTOM PLANET, Drill a hole in that substrate & tell me what you see - JIM WHITE, Seven swans - SUFJAN STEVENS, Micah P Hinson and The Gospel Of Progress - MICAH P HINSON AND THE GOSPEL OF PROGRESS, Real gone - TOM WAITS, Where the humans eat - WILLY MASON, Post to wire - RICHMOND FONTAINE, The heat - JESSE MALIN, Soviet kitsch - REGINA SPEKTOR, Satan’s circus - DEATH IN VEGAS, Always outnumbered, never outgunned - THE PRODIGY, Any minute now - SOULWAX, C.aarme - C.AARME, Power - Q AND NOT U, Purity pledge - TODD, Named and shamed - THE FLAMING STARS, i - THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, Alphabetical - PHOENIX, Scissor Sisters - SCISSOR SISTERS, How to dismantle an atomic bomb - U2, Trampin’ - PATTI SMITH, Educated guess - ANI DIFRANCO, The milk-eyed mender - JOANNA NEWSOM, Spooked - ROBYN HITCHCOCK, Van Lear Rose - LORETTA LYNN, Rendezvous - LUNA, No more songs about sleep and fire - POSTER CHILDREN, Those are not my bongos - FUCK, Pyramid Electric Co. - JASON MOLINA, Bangers vs. fuckers - COACHWHIPS, Get saved - PILOT TO GUNNER, Moratoria - BIKINI ATOLL, Inches - LES SAVY FAV, Interim - THE FALL