Best Albums of 2004
Explore the best albums of 2004, based on over 2 million album rankings across 60,000 charts.
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"Preceding their huge Grammy win with Suburbs, this is Arcade Fire's true masterpiece. Emotionally strong and relevant, supported by beautiful instrumental arrangement. This album rocked my world when I first sat through it." Reply
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2004
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"It's like A Clockwork Orange. It's dastardly sinister while also being humorously whimsical." Reply
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PsychologistHD | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +13 votes (13 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"Green Day should've stopped here. Go big, take yourselves too seriously, and reach for messages you've avoided before. It is a grand album, with some grand tracks, but convinced Green Day they were something they weren't - U2." Reply
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junodog4 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +12 votes (12 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"I'm a white guy from Maine who headed down to Virginia for college. My freshmen year this album was released. I had made a couple of black friends who every day for what felt like forever would sing the songs on this album wherever we walked. The gym, food court, football game, and I would tease ..." [+] Reply
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"I can agree with the comments about unevenness to a degree. The first 5 tracks are certainly all-time classics, but because they're so good, any song would fall short for almost any band. However, Andy, You're a Star, Believe Me, Natalie, and Change Your Mind are all good tracks as well. Maybe th..." [+] Reply
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"A fresh and utterly infectious album. Obviously hugely inspired Talking Heads, still, Franz Ferdinand's debut was a thoroughly enjoyable and original album. Unfortunately, considering all the excitement over their first record, they never really managed to follow it up. Still, this is a standout ..." [+] Reply
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"An AMAZING record. I believe is their best album. Its very commercially viable,which brings a fun and creative side to the standard Modest Mouse brood." Reply
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micah88800 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"Maybe not as good as a piece of art as TOTBL, but damn look at that track list. Killer track after killer track. No bad songs and a few great ones. Song for song, you could argue this is the better record. Best tracks: Not Even Jail, Evil, NARC, Next Exit, Slow Hands" Reply
- micah88800 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"The followup to Operation: Doomsday is a concept album about, well, food. It's got a similar sound to that album, but it has a much more refined and clean sound, and though I do prefer O:D, this is pretty good too. "Beef Rapp" is a hell of an opener, sampling a Spider Man episode for the beat. Ma..." [+] Reply
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"Joanna Newsom is the best thing to happen to me since Bob Dylan." Reply
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MCOTho | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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Best Albums of 2004 composition
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| Various Artists | 10 | 1% | |
| John Frusciante | 3 | 0% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 3 | 0% | |
| Pain Of Salvation | 2 | 0% | |
| Phil Elverum | 2 | 0% | |
| Brad Mehldau | 2 | 0% | |
| Devendra Banhart | 2 | 0% | |
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435 | 44% | |
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175 | 18% | |
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48 | 5% | |
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47 | 5% | |
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46 | 5% | |
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30 | 3% | |
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23 | 2% | |
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