This was a tough year...lots of great CDs.  For better or worse, here's my 
top 20 favs of 2004:

1.  Butch Walker - Letters
2.  Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
3.  Green Day - American Idiot
4.  Keane - Hopes & Fears
5.  The Killers - Hot Fuss
6.  Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
7.  U2 - How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
8.  Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
9.  The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
10. American Hi-Fi - Hearts on Parade
11. Snow Patrol - Final Straw
12. Kings on Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
13. Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want to Be
14. Lit - Lit
15. Brandy - Afrodisiac
16. The Libertines - The Libertines
17. Kanye West - College Dropout
18. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets
19. Prince - Musicology
20. Wilco - A Ghost is Born

and the rest.....

21. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
22. Velvet Revolver - Contraband
23. Hanson - Underneath
24. The Argument - Recess Serenade
25. Chris Stamey - Travels in the South
26. The Donnas - Gold Medal
27. Elvis Costello & The Imposters - The Delivery Man
28. Interpol - Antics
29. Arcade Fire - Funeral
30. The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows 
31. Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
32. The Cure - The Cure
33. Beastie Boys - To the 5 Boroughs
34. The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
35. Razorlight - Up All Night


Bob Stupay
Levy Home Entertainment