Tom's Favorite Albums of 2004

A.C. Newman - Slow Wonder

Alan Jackson - What I Do

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of Bewilderbeast

Beastie Boys - To the 5 Boroughs

Big & Rich - Horse of A Different Color

Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2

Brian Wilson - Smile

Common - Like Water for Chocolate

D'Angelo - Voodoo

Destiny's Child - Destiny Fulfilled

Drive-By Truckers - Dirty South

Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun

Franz Ferdinand - s/t

Grandaddy - Sophtware Slump

Green Day - American Idiot

Gretchen Wilson - Here for the Party

Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me

Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days

Jill Scott - Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2

John Legend - Get Lifted

Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now

Joss Stone - Mind Body & Soul

Kanye West - College Dropout

Kasey Chambers - Wayward Angel

Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway

Killers - Hot Fuss

Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak

Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather

Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose

Madonna - Music

Madvillain - Madvillainy

Merle Haggard - If I Could Only Fly

Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News

Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten

Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me

Norah Jones - Feels Like Home

Outkast - Stankonia

Pink - Can't Take Me Home

PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

Prince - Musicology

Randy Travis - Passing Trhough

Ray Charles - Genius Loves Company 

Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous 

Scissor Sisters - s/t

Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne

Steely Dan - Two Against Nature

Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free

Sugarland - Twice the Speed of Life

Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying

Usher - Confessions

Van Hunt - s/t

Wilco - A Ghost Is Born