THE TOP 40 ALBUMS OF 2004

1.    FRANZ FERDINAND - Franz Ferdinand (Domino/Epic)
2.    MODEST MOUSE - Good News For People Who Love Bad News (Epic)
3.    AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB - Love Songs For Patriots (Merge)
4.    NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus (Mute/Anti-)
5.    RILO KILEY - More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute)
6.    THE LIBERTINES - The Libertines (Rough Trade)
7.    THE HOLD STEADY - Almost Killed Me (Frenchkiss)
8.    ELLIOTT SMITH - From A Basement On The Hill (Anti-)
9.    KANYE WEST - The College Dropout (Roc-A-Fella)
10.  JENS LEKMAN - When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog (Service Sweden/Secretly Canadian)
11.  THE KILLERS - Hot Fuss (Island)
12.  CAMERA OBSCURA - Underachievers Please Try Harder (Elefant Spain '03/Merge)
13.  WILCO - A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
14.  MADVILLAIN - Madvillainy (Stones Throw)
15.  MORRISSEY - You Are The Quarry (Attack/Sanctuary)
16.  THE FUTUREHEADS - The Futureheads (679 UK/Sire)
17.  THE DEARS - No Cities Left (spinART) 
18.  THE STREETS - A Grand Don't Come For Free (Locked On/679 UK/Vice/Atlantic)
19.  THE DELGADOS - Universal Audio (Chemikal Underground UK/Transdreamer)
20.  TV ON THE RADIO - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch And Go)
21.  DUNGEN - Ta Det Lugnt (Subliminal Sounds Sweden import)
22.  PRINCE - Musicology (NPG/Columbia)
23.  THE ARCADE FIRE - Funeral (Merge)
24.  ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Sung Tongs (Fat Cat)
25.  SNOW PATROL - Final Straw (Polydor/Fiction UK/A&M)
26.  JOANNA NEWSOM - The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
27.  HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL - White People (Atlantic/Elektra)
28.  SECRET MACHINES - Now Here Is Nowhere (Reprise)
29.  INTERPOL - Antics (Matador)
30.  TOM WAITS - Real Gone (Anti-)
31.  ELECTRELANE - The Power Out (Too Pure)
32.  LEATHERFACE - Dog Disco (BYO)
33.  DESTROYER - Your Blues (Merge)
34.  J.U.F. - Gogol Bordello vs. Tamir Muskat (Stinky) 
35.  LUNA - Rendezvous (Jetset)
36.  DIZZEE RASCAL - Showtime (XL)
37.  THE MOUNTAIN GOATS - We Shall All Be Healed (4AD)
38.  MISSION OF BURMA - ONoffON (Matador)
39.  TODD SNIDER - East Nashville Skyline (Oh Boy)
40.  NELLIE MCKAY - Get Away From Me (Columbia)

	David Rawson