Albums

1. The Hold Steady: Separation Sunday
2. M.I.A.: Arular
3. DangerDoom: The Mouse and the Mask
4. Sleater Kinney: The Woods
5. The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree
6. FME: Cuts
7. Kanye West: Late Registration
8. Spoon: Gimme Fiction
9. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
10. Go-Betweens: Oceans Apart
11. William Parker: Sound Unity
12. The Constantines: Tournament of Hearts
13. Amadou & Mariam: Dimanche à Bamako
14. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings: Naturally
15. The Perceptionists: Black Dialogue
16. Lightning Bolt: Hypermagic Mountain
17. The David S. Ware Quartets: Live in the World
18. Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
19. A Frames: Black Forest
20. Clem Snide: The End of Love
21. Art Brut: Bang Bang Rock & Roll
22. Our New Orleans 2005
23. The Ponys: Celebration Castle
24. Sirone Bang Ensemble: Configuration
25. Against Me!: Searching for a Former Clarity (Fat Wreck Chrods)
    
26. Blueprint: 1988
27. Blackalicious: The Craft
28. Robbie Fulks: Georgia Hard
29. The Willowz: Talk in Circles
30. The Brakes: Give Blood
31. Run the Road
32. Comet Gain: City Fallen Leaves
33. Billy Bang: Vietnam: Reflections
34. Edan: Beauty and the Beat
35. Marc Ribot: Spiritual Unity
36. The Rough Guide to the Music of Sahara
37. David S. Ware: Live in the World
38. Robyn: Robyn
39. The Books: Lost and Safe
40. Buck 65: This Right Here is Buck 65
41. Amy Rigby: Little Fugitive
42. Lady Sovereign: Vertically Challenged
43. James Carter/Cyrus Chestnut/Reginald Veal/Ali Jackson: Gold Sounds
44. The Fall: Fall Heads Roll
45. Scott Hamilton: Back in New York
46. Jamie Lidell: Multiply
47. The Pernice Brothers: Discover a Lovelier You
48. Wide Right: Sleeping on the Coach
    
    Outside Top (alphabetically):
    
    Annie: Annimal
    Fiona Apple: Extraordinary Machine
    Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake, it's Morning
    Busdriver: Fear of a Black Tangent
    Count Base-D: Begborrowsteal
    Fannypack: See You Next Tuesday
    Fieldwork: Simulated Progress
    Gogol Bordello: Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
    Al Green: Everything's OK
    Kano: Home Sweet Home
    LCD Soundsystem
    Steven Malkmus: Face the Truth
    MC Hawking: A Brief History of Rhyme
    The New Pornographers: Twin Cinema
    William Parker: Luc's Lantern
    Bobby Pinson: Man Like Me
    Qasimoto: The Further Adventures of...
    The Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang
    Shakira: Oral Fixation Vol. 2
    Sonny Rollins: Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert
    Thunderbirds are Now: Justamustache
    The Thing: Live at Blå
    Loudon Wainwright III: Here Come the Choppers
    White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan
    Stevie Wonder: A Time to Love
    
    Close:
    
    Antony & the Johnnsons: I Am a Bird Now
    Babyshambles: Down in Albion
    Block Party: Silent Alarm
    Blood on the Wall: Awesomer
    Mariah Carey: The Emancipation of Mimi
    Ry Cooder: Chavez Ravine
    Death Cab for Cutie: Plans
    Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have it So Much Better
    Gorillaz: Demon Days
    Kings of Leon: Aha Shake Heartbreak
    Love as Laughter: Laughter's Fifth
    Madonna: Confessions on a Dance Floor
    Out Hud: Let Us Never Speak of it Again
    Liz Phair: Somebody's Miracle
    John Prine: Fair and Square
    Richard Thompson: Front Parlour Ballads
    Martha Wainwright: Martha Wainwright
    Wilderness: Wilderness
    
    Indifferent:
    
    Ryan Adams: Jacksonville City Nights
    Animal Collective : Feels
    Architecture in Helsinki: In Case We Die
    The Darkness: One Way Ticket to Hell . . . and Back
    Devendra Banhrt: Cripple Crow
    Beck: Guero
    Big Star: In Space
    Black Mountain: Black Mountain
    Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Howl
    Bright Eyes: Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
    Broken Social Scene: Broken Social Scene
    Kate Bush: Aerial
    Vashti Bunyan: Lookaftering
    The Clientele: Strange Geometry
    Cobra Verde: Copycat Killers
    Common: Be
    The Decemberists: Picaresque
    Deerhof: Runners Four
    The Doves: Some Cities
    Kathleen Edwards: Back to Me
    Missy Elliott: The Cookbook
    Feist: Let It Die
    50 Cent: The Massacre
    Leela James: A Change Is Gonna Come
    Kaiser Chiefs: Employment
    Ladytron: Witching Hour
    Lil' Wayne: Tha Carter 2
    Little Brother: The Minstrel Show
    Living Things: Ahead of the Lions
    Low: The Great Destroyer
    Maximo Park: A Certain Trigger
    Paul McCartney: Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard
    Nada Surf: The Weight Is a Gift
    The National: Alligator
    New Order: Waiting for the Sirens' Call
    Nils Petter Molvær: ER
    Platinum Pied Pipers: Triple P
    The Posies: Every Kind of Light
    Queens of the Stone Age: Lullabies to Paralyze
    Ricochets: Isolation
    Josh Rouse: Nashville
    Bruce Springsteen: Devils and Dust
    System of a Down: Hypnotize
    System of a Down: Mezmerize
    Teenage Fanclub: Man Made
    Wolf Parade: Apologies to the Queen Mary
    Neil Young: Prairie Wind
    
    Get away from me!:
    
    Ryan Adams: Cold Roses
    Ryan Adams: 29
    ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: Worlds Apart
    BigBang: Poetic Terrorism
    Black Eyes Peas: Monkey Business
    James Blunt: Back to Bedlam
    Bon Jovi: Have a Nice Day
    Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney: Superwolf
    Jamie Cullum: Catching Tales
    Cast Zoobon: Problembarn
    Coldplay: X&Y
    Daft Punk: Human After All
    Gavin DeGraw: Chariot
    Neil Diamond: 12 Songs
    Dungen: Ta Det Lungt
    Eels: Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
    The Game: The Documentary
    David Gray: Life in Slow Motion
    Kent: Du & jag & döden
    Lil' Kim: The Naked Truth
    Madrugada: The Deep End
    The Magic Numbers: The Magic Numbers
    Magnet: The Tourniquet
    The Mars Volta: Frances the Mute
    My Morning Jacket: Z
    Necro: The Sexorcist
    Nine Inch Nails: With Teeth
    Silje Nergård: Be Still My Heart - The Essential
    Röyksopp: The Understanding
    Sigur Ros: Takk . . .
    Saint Thomas: Children of the New Brigade
    Turboneger: Party Animals
    
    Undecided:
    
    Balkan Beat Box: Balkan Beat Box
    Broadcast: Tender Buttons
    Rodney Crowell: The Outsider
    Gang Gang Dance: God's Money
    Various Artists: Golden Afrique 1
    Isolee: We Are Monster
    Konono No. 1: Congotronics
    Marah: If You Didn't Laugh You'd Cry
    Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley: Welcome to Jamrock
    James McMurtry: Childish Things
    Okkervil River: Black Sheep Boy
    Pelican: The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
    Rogue Wave: Descended Like Vultures
    Silver Jews: Tanglewood Numbers
    Stars: Set Yourself on Fire
    Sunn O))): The Black One
    Young Jeezy: Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101
    Why?: Elephant Eyelash
    
    2004-albums not entered:
    
    The Arcade Fire: Funeral
    The Go! Team: Thunder, Lightning, Strike

(Entries in red means the addition was made after the list was deemed "frozen")