Critics Choice for 2004- Best Singles & Albums

BEST ALBUMS OF 2004:

1. FRANZ FERDINAND
Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
2. THE KILLERS
Hot Fuss [Lizard king]
3. THE STREETS
A Grand Don’t Come For Free [Locked on/679]
4. INTERPOL
Antics [Matador]
5. U2
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb [island]
6. PJ HARVEY
Uh huh her [Island]
7. NICK CAVE
Abbatoir blues/the lyre of orpheus [Mute]
8. THE FRAMES
Burn the Maps [Plateau]
9. TOM WAITS
Real gone [Anti]
10. LEONARD COHEN
Dear Heather [Columbia]
11. MORRISSEY
You are the quarry [Attak]
12. BJORK
Medulla [One Little Indian]
13. CATHY DAVEY
Something Ilk [EMI]
14. MARK LANEGAN
Bubblegum [Beggar’s Banquet]
15. THE LIBERTINES
The libertines [Rough Trade]
16. KINGS OF LEON
Aha Shake Heartbreak [BMG]
17. THE DIVINE COMEDY
Absent Friends [Parlophone]
18. REM
Around the sun [Warner]
19. ELLIOTT SMITH
From a basement on a hill [Domino]
20. REPUBLIC OF LOOSE
This is the tomb of the juice [Big Cat]
21. JIM WHITE
Drill a hole in the substrate [V2]
22. MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Lifeblood [Sony]
23. ASH
Meltdown Iinfectious]
24. MARK GEARY
Ghosts [Independent]
25. THE SECRET MACHINES
Now here is nowhere [reprise]
26. THE ZUTONS
Who killed the zutons [deltasonic]
27. THE ROOTS
Tippin’ point [geffen]
28. JAPE
The monkeys in the zoo [Trust me i’m a Thief]
29. DECLAN O’ROURKE
Since Kyabram [N4]
30. SCISSOR SISTERS
Scissor sisters [Polydor]

BEST SINGLES OF 2004:

1. THE KILLERS
All These things That I've Done [Lizard King]
2. FRANZ FERDINAND
Take me Out [Domino]
3. SNOW PATROL
Run [Fiction]
4. THE STREETS
Dry your Eyes [Locked on/679]
5. U2
Vertigo Iisland]
6. THE LIBERTINES
Can’t Stand me Now [Rough Trade]
7. MORRISSEY
Irish blood english heart [Attak]
8. INTERPOL
Slowhands [Matador]
9. GRAHAM COXON
Freakin’ out [EMI]
10. DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS
I Love You cause I Have to [v2]
11. REM
Leaving New York [Warner]
12. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD
These Words [BMG]
13. THE KILLERS
Mr. Brightside [Lizard King]
14. THE STREETS
Fit but You Know it [Locked on/679]
15. NICK CAVE
Nature Boy [Mute]
16. BRITNEY SPEARS
Toxic [Jive]
17. BELLX1
Eve Apple of my Eye [Island]
18. KELLIS
Milkshake [Virgin]
19. THE CHALETS
Theme from the Chalets [Nasty Pop]
20. SNOW PATROL
How to be Dead Fiction [Fiction]
21. ASH
Clones [Infectious]
22. JOSH RITTER
Snow is Gone [Independent]
23. DAMIEN RICE & CHRISTY MOORE
Lonely Soldier [DRM]
24. CATHY DAVEY
Cold man’s nightmare [EMI]
25. MANIC STREET PREACHERS
The Love of Richard Nixon [Sony]
26. THE KILLERS
Somebody Told Me Llizard King]
27. JULIET TURNER
Vampire [Hear Tthis]
28. CHARLOTTE HATHERLY
Kim Wilde [Double Dragon]
29. THE DIVINE COMEDY
Come Home Billy Bird [Parlophone]
30. THE WHITE STRIPES
Jolene (live under blackpool lights) [XL]