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Best sounds of '04

Music writers sound off on their favorite albums of the year

1. The Arcade Fire, "Funeral" (Merge) 2. The Walkmen, "Bows & Arrows" (Record Collection) 3. Devendra Banhart, "Rejoicing in the Hands" (Young God) 4. Patrick Wolf, "Lycanthropy" (Tomlab) 5. Joanna Newsom, "Milk-eyed Mender" (Drag City) 6. Rilo Kiley, "More Adventurous" (Beaute/ Brute/Warner) 7. Bonnie "Prince" Billy, "Greatest Palace Music" (Drag City) 8. Franz Ferdinand, "Franz Ferdinand" (Domino) 9. Mission of Burma, "onOFFon" (Matador) 10. Les Savy Fav, "Inches" (French Kiss) - CHRIS DeWITT

1. Animal Collective, "Sung Tongs" (Paw Tracks). 2. TV on the Radio, "Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes" (Touch & Go) 3. John Vanderslice, "Cellar Door" (Barsuk) 4. The Walkmen, "Bows and Arrows" (Record Collection) 5. Modest Mouse, "Good News For People Who Love Bad News" (Epic) 6. Devendra Banhart ,"Rejoicing in the Hands" (Young God) 7. The Castanets, "Cathedral" (Asthmatic Kitty) 8. Brian Wilson, "Smile" (Nonesuch) 9. The Arcade Fire, "Funeral" (Merge) 10. Bj?rk, "Medulla" (Elektra) - SCOTT BRIZZOLARA

1. The Magnetic Fields, "i" (Nonesuch) 2. Ted Leo/ The Pharmacists, "Shake the Sheets" (Lookout!) 3. Green Day, "American Idiot" (Warner Bros) 4. Tom Waits, "Real Gone" (Anti) 5. Rilo Kiley, "More Adventurous" (Beaute/ Brute) 6. TV on the Radio, "Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes" (Touch & Go) 7. Secret Machines, "Now Here Is Nowhere" (Reprise) 8. The Black Keys, "Rubber Factory" (Fat Possum) 9. The Get-Up Kids, "Guilt Show" (Vagrant) 10. Mark Lanegan, "Bubblegum" (Beggars) - EMILY ZEMLER

1. Caviar, "The Thin Mercury Sound" (Aezra) 2. Local H, "Whatever Happened to PJ Soles?" (Studio E) 3. Incubus, "A Crow Left of the Murder" (Epic) 4. Wilco, "A Ghost Is Born" (Nonesuch) 5. Burden Brothers, "Buried in Your Black Heart" (Trauma) 6. Modest Mouse, "Good News for People Who Love Bad News" (Epic) 7. Green Day, "American Idiot" (Reprise) 8. Sparta, "Porcelain" (Geffen) 9. Hot Snakes, "Audit in Progress" (Swami) 10. Chevelle, "This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)" (Epic) - GARRETT KARRBERG

1. Brian Wilson, "Smile" (Nonesuch) 2. Green Day, "American Idiot" (Reprise) 3. Morrissey, "You are the Quarry" (Attack) 4. Daniel Johnston and Assorted Artists, "Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered" (Gammon) 5. Chris Potter, "Lift: Live At the Village Vanguard" (Sunnyside) 6. The Hives, "Tyrannosaurus Hives" (Interscope) 7. Holly Golightly, "Slowly But Surely" (Damaged Goods) 8. Flogging Molly, "Within A Mile From Home" (Side One Dummy) 9. David Byrne, "Grown Backwards" (Nonesuch) 10. Tiger Army, "Tiger Army III: Ghost Tigers Rise" (Epitaph) - NEAL FERSKO

1. The Killers - "Hot Fuss" (Island) 2. Athlete - "Vehicles and Animals" (Astralwerks) 3. Ash - "Meltdown" (Warner Music / Infectious / Homegrown) 4. U2 - "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" (Universal) 5. The Libertines "The Libertines" (Rough Trade) 6. Green Day - "American Idiot" (Reprise) 7. The Futureheads "The Futureheads" (679 Recordings) 8. Vast - "Nude" (Four Five Six Entertainment) 9. Phantom Planet "Phantom Planet" (Epic) 10. Ambulance LTD - "LP" (TVT Records) -ADAM BENDER


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