AMG has their best of 2004 list up at their site...here's the link:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=23:ZZ~T3

Some of their faves include The Arcade Fire, Bjork, the reissue of London Calling, The Black Keys, Dios (oooh...I forgot that one on my list!), The Fiery Furnaces, The Finn Brothers, Franz Ferdinand, Green Day, The Hives, Sondre Lerche, Junior Boys, The Libertines, Liars, Mastadon, Madvillain, Modest Mouse, Morrissey, A.C. Newman, Joanna Newsom, The Organ, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Scissor Sisters, Sonic Youth, The Walkmen, Brian Wilson, Kanye West, and Xiu Xiu, among many others...

What else is new? They list a zillion albums, but no Camper van Beethoven or Wilco.

I thought it was a good list.

Varied and not the typical.Kind of nice to see.

I think Imprezu is right here, despite the fact that they were killing mark softly with their song. It was a pretty wide net and covered both the stuff I expected (Arcade Fire, Brian Wilson) and some stuff I didn't (Finn Brothers, Dios, Sondre Lerche, Jens Lenkmann). Not a bad little list, I'd say.

I couldn't sit through the Jens Lekman album

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Originally posted by Vykromond:
I couldn't sit through the Jens Lekman album

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I've heard tracks from it but not the whole thing. I liked the 2 or 3 songs I heard, but they might have been the best of the lot.

No Iron & Wine, or the Castanets? But they do include Lil Jon, Green Day and the Fiery Furnaces. I guess its good albums and then some random really bad ones that sold well.

The Fiery Furnaces sold well?!?

pE, I could be wrong. It got #12 on Stylus's list.

I'll reserve judgment until I hear the whole thing. One of the clerks at my local indie store swears by Jens Lenkmann, but I'm waiting for a chance to hear more of it, in a more intimate setting. Everything sounds good over the big speakers in the record store...

I'm not sure why they left out the Iron and Wine, danse_russe, but I've heard good things about the Green Day. I like the tracks I've heard. My personal dislike for the Fiery Furnaces aside, I'm not surprised they made it. They were on MANY year-end best-ofs...

Mostly good (if predictable) choices, but I have to wonder, why the hell is Lil Jon on there?

this list is too big and in its attempts too be overly inclusive still manages to miss iron & wine. Questionable choices: scissor sisters
(irrating), Morissey who is eternally cool (you are the quarry is not a great album) and l'il jon. Seriously??

Props to the ridiculousness of alan Jackson making it. Pretty amusing.