the music of 2004 has finally been caught up to...with...for........

1. elliott smith - from a basement on the hill
2. the elected - me first
3. kaki king - legs to make us longer
4. rilo kiley - more adventurous
5. the fiery furnaces - blueberry boat
6. tom waits - real gone
7. simon joyner - lost with the lights on
8. joanna newsom - the milk-eyed mender
9. lambchop - aw c'mon/no you c'mon
10. nick cave and the bad seeds - the lyre of orphans/abattoir blues
11. blonde redhead - misery is a butterfly
12. pj harvey - uh huh her
13. the ditty bops - the ditty bops
14. bjork - medulla
15. drive-by truckers - the dirty south
16. nellie mckay - get away from me
17. midnight movies - midnight movies
18. saul williams - saul williams
19. aveo - battery
20. sufjan stevens - seven swans
21. col. claypool's bucket of bernie brains - the big eyeball in the sky
22. mastadon - leviathon
23. the magnetic fields - i
24. sonic youth - sonic nurse
25. xiu xiu - fabulous muscles
26. the dillenger escape plan - miss machine
27. decahedron - disconnection imminent
28. elvis costello and the imposters - the delivery man
29. the bruces - the shining path
30. the delgados - universal audio
31. tilly and the wall - wild like children
32. cub country - stay poor, stay happy
33. davandra banhart - nino rojos
34. john vanderslice - cellar door
35. deerhoof - milkman
36. the arcade fire - funeral
37. pinback - summer in abaddon
38. cocorosie - la maison de mon reve
39. rasputina - frustration plantation
40. the black keyes - rubber factory
41. modest mouse - good news for people who love bad news
42. the good life - album of the year
43. adem - homesongs
44. castle oldchair - sad pants
45. iron and wine - our endless numbered days
46. mcclusky - the different between you and me...
47. mark lanegan - bubblegum
48. james yorkston and the athletes - just beyond the river
49. richard buckner - dents and shells
50. ted leo and the pharmacists - shake the sheets
51. on!air!libarary! - on!air!library!
52. adrian belew - side one
53. son ambulence - key
54. tara jane o'neil - you sound, reflect
55. the faint - wet from birth
56. grails - red light
57. espers - espers
58. black forest/black sea - forcefields and constellations
59. tv on the radio - desperate youth..
60. the one AM radio - a name writ in water
61. shannon wright - over the sun
62. the mountain goats - we shall all be healed
63. minus story - the captain is dead, let the drum corpse...
64. minmae - ya te vas
65. music am - a heart and two stars
66. dear nora - mountain rock
67. the old 97's - drag it up
68.mono - walking cloud and deep red sky
69. stephen duffy and the lilac time - keep going
70. devandra banhart - rejoicing the hands
71. autolux - future perfect
72. now it's overhead - fall back open
73. burd early - mind and mother
74. richard youngs - river through howling sky
75.the killers - hot fuss
76. the vells - flight from echo falls
77. poster children - no mroe songs about sleep and fire
78. the brunettes - mars loves venus
79. the secret machines - now here is nowhere
80. the kinison - what are you listening to?
81. jason anderson - new england
82. jesse sykes and the sweet hereafter - oh my girl
83. dios - dios
84. comets on fire - blue cathedral
85. the concretes - the concretes
86. the zutons - who killed...
87. the blood brothers - crimes
88. matt pond pa - emblems
89. clinic - winchester cathedral
90. badly drawn boy - one plus one is one
91. the (international) noise conspiracy - armed love
92. neurosis - the eye of every storm
93. preston school of industry - monsoon
94. regina spektor - soviet kitsch
95. the aum rifle - peal of bells
96. sondre lerche - two way monologue
97. frausdots - couture, couture, couture
98. call and response - winds take no shape
99. the snake the cross the crown - mander sails
100. the washdown - yes to everything
101. the 89 cubs - there are giants in the earth
102. detachment kit - of this blood
103. jimmy eat world - futures
104. hot snakes - audit in progress
105. saturday looks good to me - every night
106. onelinedrawing - the volunteers
107. biirdie - morning kills the dark
108. animal collective - sung tongs
109.ed harcourt - strangers
110. the veils - runaway
111. the fucking am - gold
112. dogs die in hot cars - please describe yourself
113. converge - you fail me
114. oneida - secret wars
115. green day - american idiot
116. bloodthirsty lovers - the delicate seam
117. aloha - here comes everyone
118. the icarus line - penance soiree
119. melee - everyday behavior
120. sparta - porcelain
121. the hidden cameras - mississuaga, goddamn
122. the futureheads - the futureheads
123. the beta band - heroes to zeroes
124. the beauty pill - the unsustainable lifestyle
125. calliope - sounds like circles feel
126. black eyes - cough
127. evening - other victorians
128. !!! - louden up now
129. matt marque - nothing personal
130. the bigger lovers - this affair never happened
131. the hidden hand - mother teacher destroyer
132. rockfour - nationwide
133. earlimart - treble and tremble
134. matt sharp - matt sharp
135. mary lou lord - baby blue
136. pedro the lion - achilles heel
137. lost patrol - songs about running away
138. the advantage - the advantage
139. loretta lynn - van lear rose
140. lisa dewey and the lotus life - busk
141. elf power - walking with the beggar boys
142. beep beep - business casual
143. communique - poison arrows
144. travis morrison - travistan
145. rachel yamagata - happenstance
146. codeseven - dancing echoes-dead sounds
147. simple kid - simple kid
148. stereolab - margarine eclipse
149. sea change - lay of the land
150. phantom planet - phantom planet