Listmakers
This is a work in progress, I decided to exclude reissues and compilations and just go for the solid rock action. Am I missing anything of quality?

Top Ten Albums of 2004
Franz Ferdinand (Domino/Epic)
Devendra Banhart “Nino Rojo” (Young God)
Animal Collective “Sung Tongs” (FatCat)
Ghost “Hypnotic Underworld” (Drag City)
Blonde Redhead “Misery is a Butterfly” (4AD)
Paul Weller “Studio 150” (V2)
Holly Golightly “Slowly But Surely” (Damaged Goods)
Van Hunt “Van Hunt” (Capitol)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus” (Anti)
CocoRosie “La Maison de Mon Reve” (Touch & Go)

Close but not quite…
The Futureheads (Sire)
TV On the Radio “Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes” (Touch & Go)

Things I need to listen to again because people won’t shut up about them.
Nellie McKay “Get Away from Me”
Ghostface Killah
Fiery Furnaces both albums
Air “Talkie Walkie" (Astralwerks)
Loretta Lynn
Phoenix “Alphabetical”
Wilco “A Ghost Is Born”

Mild disappointments but still kinda good
The Libertines s/t
Rufus Wainwright “Want One”
PJ Harvey “Uh Huh Her”

I’m not sure what all the fuss is about, can you tell me?
The Killers
The Secret Machines
Peaches
The Cooper Temple Clause
Radio 4