Zzz Records' Best Sellers of 2004

(Local artists noted in red print)

DECEMBER 2004

  1. The Arcade Fire "Funeral"
  2. Can "Ege Bamyasi"
  3. Franz Ferdinand "Franz Ferdinand"
  4. The Clash "London Calling"
  5. Joanna Newsom "The Milk-Eyed Mender"
  6. The Postal Service "Give Up"
  7. Ben Eaton & the Dirt Cheap Band "Memphis Legs"
  8. Elliott Smith "Elliott Smith"
  9. Elliott Smith "From a Basement on the Hill"
  10. Radiohead "OK Computer"

NOVEMBER 2004

  1. The Postal Service "Give Up"
  2. U2 "How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb"
  3. Various "Indieworkshop.com Random Sounds"
  4. Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
  5. The Arcade Fire "Funeral"
  6. Franz Ferdinand "Franz Ferdinand"
  7. A Perfect Circle "Emotive"
  8. Interpol "Antics"
  9. Johnny Cash "American IV: The Man Comes Around"
  10. Frankenixon "Amorphous"

OCTOBER 2004

  1. Interpol "Antics"
  2. Tom Waits "Real Gone"
  3. Elliot Smith "From a Basement on the Hill"
  4. Brian Wilson "Smile"
  5. Pavement "Crooked Rain Crooked Rain" (re-issue)
  6. The Arcade Fire "Funeral"
  7. Joe Terry "Area/Space"
  8. Mono "Walking Cloud & Deep Red Sky..."
  9. Guided by Voices "Bee Thousand: The Director's Cut"
  10. Black Heart Procession "Amore Del Tropico"

SEPTEMBER 2004

  1. Interpol "Antics"
  2. The Faint "Wet From Birth"
  3. The Black Keys "Rubber Factory"
  4. Guided by Voices "Half Smiles of the Decomposed"
  5. The Good Life "Album of the Year"
  6. The Pixies "Doolittle"
  7. Brian Wilson "Smile"
  8. Bjork "Medulla"
  9. The Libertines "The Libertines"
  10. The Pixies "Surfer Rosa"

AUGUST 2004

  1. The Good Life "Album of the Year"
  2. Mark Lanegan Band "Bubblegum"
  3. Modest Mouse "Good News For People Who Love Bad News"
  4. The Fiery Furnaces "Blueberry Boat"
  5. Elliott Smith "Elliott Smith"
  6. P.J. Harvey "Uh Huh Her"
  7. The Hives "Tyrannosaurus Hives"
  8. Comets on Fire "Blue Cathedral"
  9. Rilo Kiley "More Adventurous"
  10. A.C. Newman "The Slow Wonder"

JULY 2004

  1. Polyphonic Spree "Together We're Heavy"
  2. Beastie Boys "To the 5 Boroughs"
  3. The Cure "The Cure"
  4. Nick Drake "Made to Love Magic"
  5. The Album Leaf "In a Safe Place"
  6. !!! "Louden Up Now"
  7. Morrissey "First of the Gang to Die" (EP)
  8. Sonic Youth "Sonic Nurse"
  9. Diverse "Big Game" (EP)
  10. Notorious B.I.G. "Ready to Die"

JUNE 2004

  1. !!! "Louden Up Now"
  2. Beastie Boys "To the 5 Boroughs"
  3. Wilco "A Ghost is Born"
  4. The Good Life "Lovers Need Lawyers"
  5. Modest Mouse "Good News For People Who Love Bad News"
  6. Slipknot "Vol. 3/The Subliminal Verses"
  7. Sonic Youth "Sonic Nurse"
  8. A.C. Newman "The Slow Wonder"
  9. Frankenixon "Depth Perception"
  10. The Fall "50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong"

MAY 2004

  1. David Cross "It's Not Funny"
  2. Modest Mouse "Good News For People Who Love Bad News"
  3. Mission of Burma "OnOffOn"
  4. Frankenixon "Amorphous"
  5. Slipknot "Vol. 3/The Subliminal Verses"
  6. The Streets "A Grand Don't Come For Free"
  7. Silver Mt. Reveries "Pretty Little Lightning Paw"
  8. Tortoise "It's All Around You"
  9. Black Market Fetus/Discider "Split 45" (single)
  10. Matt Pond PA "Emblems"

APRIL 2004

  1. Modest Mouse "Good News For People Who Love Bad News"
  2. Of Montreal "Satanic Panic In the Attic"
  3. Frankenixon "Amorphous"
  4. TV on the Radio "Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes"
  5. Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova "One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels"
  6. The Walkmen "Bows & Arrows"
  7. Tortoise "It's All Around You"
  8. Deerhoof "Milk Man"
  9. Sufjan Stevens "Seven Swans"
  10. Xiu Xiu "Fabulous Muscles"

MARCH 2004

  1. TV on the Radio "Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes"
  2. Iron & Wine "Our Endless Numbered Days"
  3. The Darkness "Permission to Land"
  4. Blonde Redhead "Misery is a Butterfly"
  5. The Mountain Goats "We Shall All Be Healed"
  6. The Walkmen "Bows & Arrows"
  7. John Vanderslice "Cellar Door"
  8. Probot "Probot"
  9. Preston School of Industry "Monsoon"
  10. Sufjan Stevens "Seven Swans"

FEBRUARY 2004

  1. The Mountain Goats "We Shall All Be Healed"
  2. Air "Talkie Walkie"
  3. The Envy Corps "Soviet Reunion"
  4. Sufjan Stevens "Michigan"
  5. Ghost "Hypnotic Underworld"
  6. The Autumn Project "Fable"
  7. The Rapture "Echoes"
  8. The Unicorns "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?"
  9. 90 Day Men "Panda Park"
  10. Dizzee Rascal "Boy in Da Corner"

JANUARY 2004

  1. Outkast "Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below"
  2. The Mountain Goats "Palmcorder Yajna EP"
  3. John Vanderslice "Cellar Door"
  4. Dizzee Rascal "Boy in Da Corner"
  5. Guided by Voices "Best Of"
  6. The Unicorns "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?"
  7. Interpol "Turn on the Bright Lights"
  8. Decibully "City of Festivals"
  9. Death Cab For Cutie "The Photo Album"
  10. Godspeed You Black Emperor! "Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada"