1. Brian Wilson - SMiLE
2. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
3. Tears For Fears - Everybody Loves a Happy Ending
4. Air - Talkie Walkie
5. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
6. The Ditty Bops - The Ditty Bops
7. The Minus 5 - In Rock
8. The Aluminum Group - Morehappyness
9. Cloud Eleven - Terrestrial Ballet
10. Curt Boettcher - Chicken Little was Right
11. Spymob - Sitting Around Keeping Score
12. Simon & Garfunkle - Old Friends
13. Todd Rundgren - Liars
14. Rod Stewart - Stardust (Great American Songbook Vol. III)
15. Meat Beat Manifesto - In Dub
16. Hall and Oates - Our Kind of Soul
17. Chris Isaak - Chris Isakk Christmas
18. Wilson Phillips - California
19. Keane - Hopes and Fears
20. Elliot Smith - From a Basement on the Hill

not sure if 10 & 12 qualify.  But I liked them and they did come out in 2004.  Tough choice between 1 & 2, I *really* love listening to Van Lear Rose.

and on SMiLE, I am incapable of an "impartial" judgment; i.e. hearing the music for and by itself, it is part and parcel of too much of my aural history.  And I will politely disagree with Josh, I prefer this version of Surf's Up, mainly because when he hits the line "a broken man too tough to cry..." it just works so much deeper from the wreckage of the present.  When I saw the concert at Davies Hall in SF, that one line was an electric shock and the highpoint of the concert for me.  Having said that, hearing Carl on the earlier version is a great bittersweet moment also.