40 Best Albums of the Year (SPIN magazine, 2005-01)

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#	Year	Title	Artist	Type	Rating	Releases
1	2003	The College Dropout	Kanye West	Album	4.2	17
2	2004	American Idiot	Green Day	Album	3.9	25
3	2004	Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand	Album	4.3	21
4	2004	Good News for People Who Love Bad News	Modest Mouse	Album	4.15	13
5	2004	The Grey Album	Danger Mouse	Album + Remix	4.5	5
6	2004	From a Basement on the Hill	Elliott Smith	Album	4.2	4
7	2004	A Grand Don't Come for Free	The Streets	Album	3.5	7
8	2004	Van Lear Rose	Loretta Lynn	Album	3	4
9	2004	Antics	Interpol	Album	4.45	17
10	2004	SMiLE	Brian Wilson	Album	4.4	8
11	2004	Showtime	Dizzee Rascal	Album		4
12	2004	Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes	TV on the Radio	Album	2.5	7
13	2004	Tyrannosaurus Hives	The Hives	Album	4	8
14	2004	DFA Compilation #2	Various Artists	Album + Compilation		3
15	2004	America’s Sweetheart	Courtney Love	Album		5
16	2004	Hot Fuss	The Killers	Album	3.8	26
17	2004	Madvillainy	Madvillain	Album	4.4	16
18	2004	Musicology	Prince	Album	3	12
19	2004	Medúlla	Björk	Album	3.9	23
20	2004	Shake the Sheets	Ted Leo + Pharmacists	Album		1
21	2004	Futures	Jimmy Eat World	Album	4.25	21
22	2004	This Island	Le Tigre	Album	3.5	4
23	2003	Final Straw	Snow Patrol	Album	3.5	16
24	2004	You Are the Quarry	Morrissey	Album	3.35	11
25	2004	Now Here Is Nowhere	Secret Machines	Album		6
26	2004	Encore	Eminem	Album	3.15	12
27	2004	Real Gone	Tom Waits	Album	4.35	9
28	2004	Kompakt 100	Various Artists	Album + Compilation		1
29	2004	How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb	U2	Album	3.95	28
30	2004	The Libertines	The Libertines	Album	3	13
31	2004	Uh Huh Her	PJ Harvey	Album	4	9
32	2004	Wet From Birth	The Faint	Album	4	6
33	2004	Blue Cathedral	Comets on Fire	Album		3
34	2004	Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge	My Chemical Romance	Album	3.7	11
35	2004	Talkie Walkie	Air	Album	4	7
36	2004	More Adventurous	Rilo Kiley	Album	5	4
37	2004	Since We Last Spoke	RJD2	Album	4.25	7
38	2004	A Ghost Is Born	Wilco	Album	4	9
39	2004	The Pretty Toney Album	Ghostface Killah	Album		2
40	2004	The Milk‐Eyed Mender	Joanna Newsom	Album	4.2	4

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