⇦ 2003

2005 ⇨

The Best Music of 2004

Here is a selection of the best albums and songs from 2004. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.

For a list of the top artists who made their debut recording in 2004, check out this list.

Albums (?)		Wikipedia
Air	Talkie Walkie	☆
Arcade Fire	Funeral	☆
Avril Lavigne	Under My Skin	☆
Beastie Boys	To the Five Boroughs	☆
Björk	Medulla	☆
Brian Wilson	SMiLE	☆
Daddy Yankee	Barrio fino	☆
Danger Mouse	The Grey Album	☆
Drive-By Truckers	The Dirty South	☆
Feist	Let It Die	☆
Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand	☆
Green Day	American Idiot	☆
Gwen Stefani	Love Angel Music Baby	☆
Interpol	Antics	☆
Jill Scott	Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds, Vol. 2	☆
Kanye West	The College Dropout	☆
Kelly Clarkson	Breakaway	☆
Kenny Chesney	When the Sun Goes Down	☆
Lil Wayne	Tha Carter	☆
Loretta Lynn	Van Lear Rose	☆
Madvillain	Madvillainy	☆
Mastodon	Leviathan	☆
Max Richter	The Blue Notebooks	☆
MF Doom	MM… FOOD	☆
Modest Mouse	Good News For People Who Love Bad News	☆
Motörhead	Inferno	☆
My Chemical Romance	Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge	☆
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus	☆
Nightwish	Once	☆
Norah Jones	Feels Like Home	☆
of Montreal	Satanic Panic in the Attic	☆
Orbital	Blue Album	☆
Original Broadway Cast	Spamalot: Original Cast Recording	☆
PJ Harvey	Uh Huh Her	☆
Prince	Musicology	☆
Ray Charles	Genius Loves Company	☆
Scissor Sisters	Scissor Sisters	☆
Sonic Youth	Sonic Nurse	☆
Steve Earle	The Revolution Starts Now	☆
Sturgill Simpson (as Johnny Blue Skies)	Passage du Desir	☆
Sufjan Stevens	Seven Swans	☆
The Black Keys	Rubber Factory	☆
The Hives	Tyrannosaurus Hives	☆
The Killers	Hot Fuss	☆
The Libertines	The Libertines	☆
The Roots	The Tipping Point	☆
The Tragically Hip	In Between Evolution	☆
The Von Bondies	Pawn Shoppe Heart	☆
Tom Waits	Real Gone	☆
Trans-Siberian Orchestra	The Lost Christmas Eve	☆
TV on the Radio	Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes	☆
U2	How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb	☆
Usher	Confessions	☆
Velvet Revolver	Contraband	☆
Ween	Quebec	☆
Wilco	A Ghost is Born	☆

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Songs (?)		Wikipedia
50 Cent	Disco Inferno	☆
Alison Krauss & Union Station	Restless	☆
Arcade Fire	Rebellion (Lies)	☆
Arcade Fire	Wake Up	☆
Arcade Fire	Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)	☆
Arcade Fire	Neighborhood #2 (Laika)	☆
Ashlee Simpson	Pieces of Me	☆
Ashlee Simpson	La La	☆
Avril Lavigne	My Happy Ending	☆
Bark Psychosis	Shapeshifting	☆
Beastie Boys	Ch-Check It Out	☆
Belle & Sebastian	Your Cover's Blown	☆
Big & Rich	Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy	☆
Bowling For Soup	1985	☆
Ciara featuring Missy Elliott	1, 2 Step	☆
Ciara featuring Petey Pablo	Goodies	☆
Counting Crows	Accidentally in Love	☆
Daddy Yankee	Gasolina	☆
Dresden Dolls	Coin-Operated Boy	☆
Elis	Der Lutzke Tag	☆
Franz Ferdinand	Take Me Out	☆
Franz Ferdinand	The Dark of the Matinée	☆
Green Day	American Idiot	☆
Green Day	Boulevard of Broken Dreams	☆
Green Day	Wake Me Up When September Ends	☆
Green Day	Holiday	☆
Green Day	Jesus of Suburbia	☆
Gretchen Wilson	Redneck Woman	☆
Gwen Stefani	Hollaback Girl	☆
Gwen Stefani	Cool	☆
Gwen Stefani	What You Waiting For?	☆
James Blunt	You're Beautiful	☆
Jesse McCartney	Beautiful Soul	☆
Joanna Newsom	Peach, Plum, Pear	☆
Kaiser Chiefs	I Predict a Riot	☆
Kano	P's And Q's	☆
Kanye West	Jesus Walks	☆
Kasabian	Club Foot	☆
Keane	Somewhere Only We Know	☆
Kelly Clarkson	Since U Been Gone	☆
Kelly Clarkson	Breakaway	☆
Kelly Clarkson	Because of You	☆
Kelly Clarkson	Behind These Hazel Eyes	☆
KT Tunstall	Black Horse and The Cherry Tree	☆
Kylie Minogue	I Believe in You	☆
Lenny Kravitz	Where Are We Runnin'?	☆
Loretta Lynn & Jack White	Portland, Oregon	☆
Los Lonely Boys	Heaven	☆
Mario	Let Me Love You	☆
Mastodon	Blood & Thunder	☆
Modest Mouse	Float On	☆
Modest Mouse	Ocean Breathes Salty	☆
Morrissey	The First of the Gang to Die	☆
My Chemical Romance	I'm Not Okay (I Promise)	☆
My Chemical Romance	Helena	☆
N.O.R.E. featuring Nina Sky, Gem Star, Daddy Yanke	Oye Mi Canto	☆
Natasha Bedingfield	Unwritten	☆
Nightwish	Nemo	☆
Nightwish	Wish I Had an Angel	☆
Old Crow Medicine Show	Wagon Wheel	☆
Peter Gabriel	The Book of Love	☆
Ryan Cabrera	On The Way Down	☆
Scissor Sisters	Take Your Mama	☆
Sia	Breathe Me	☆
Simple Plan	Welcome to My Life	☆
Slipknot	Before I Forget	☆
Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell Williams	Drop It Like It's Hot	☆
T.I.	Bring Em Out	☆
Tegan & Sara	Walking with a Ghost	☆
The Chemical Brothers	Galvanize	☆
The Hives	Walk Idiot Walk	☆
The Killers	Mr. Brightside	☆
The Killers	Somebody Told Me	☆
The Killers	All These Things That I've Done	☆
The Killers	Smile Like You Mean It	☆
The Killers	On Top	☆
The Libertines	Can't Stand Me Now	☆
The Von Bondies	C'mon C'mon	☆
Tim McGraw	Live Like You Were Dying	☆
TV On The Radio	Staring at the Sun	☆
U2	Vertigo	☆
U2	Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own	☆
U2	City of Blinding Lights	☆
Usher	Burn	☆
Usher	Confessions, Pt. II	☆
Usher (feat. Alicia Keys)	My Boo	☆
Usher/Lil Jon/Ludacris	Yeah!	☆
Velvet Revolver	Slither	☆
Velvet Revolver	Fall to Pieces	☆
Wolfmother	Woman	☆
Zion & Lennox featuring Daddy Yankee	Yo Voy	☆

⇦ 2003

2005 ⇨