Zzz Records' Best Sellers for the entire year of 2004

(Local artists noted in red print)

  1. Modest Mouse "Good News For People Who Love Bad News"
  2. Interpol "Antics"
  3. Franz Ferdinand "Franz Ferdinand"
  4. TV on the Radio "Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Lovers"
  5. Frankenixon "Amorphous"
  6. Elliott Smith "Elliott Smith"
  7. Outkast "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below"
  8. Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
  9. The Darkness "Permission to Land"
  10. The Unicorns "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?"
  11. My Bloody Valentine "Loveless"
  12. Air "Talkie Walkie"
  13. The Postal Service "Give Up"
  14. Godspeed You Black Emperor! "F# A# Infinity"
  15. Pixies "Doolittle"
  16. Velvet Underground "Velvet Underground & Nico"
  17. Modest Mouse "The Moon & Antarctica"
  18. Iron & Wine "Our Endless Numbered Days"
  19. The Walkmen "Bows & Arrows"
  20. Godspeed You Black Emperor! "Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada"
  21. !!! (Chk Chk Chk) "Louden Up Now"
  22. Blonde Redhead "Misery is a Butterfly"
  23. The Mountain Goats "We Shall All Be Healed"
  24. Of Montreal "Satanic Panic in the Attic"
  25. Beastie Boys "To the Five Boroughs"
  26. Elliott Smith "Either/Or"
  27. Interpol "Turn on the Bright Lights"
  28. Sufjan Stevens "Seven Swans"
  29. Sufjan Stevens "Michigan"
  30. Pixies "Surfer Rosa"
  31. Slipknot "Volume 3 (The Subliminal Verses)"
  32. The Shins "Oh, Inverted World"
  33. Tom Waits "Real Gone"
  34. The Good Life "Album of the Year"
  35. John Vanderslice "Cellar Door"
  36. The Arcade Fire "Funeral"
  37. The Envy Corps "Soviet Reunion"
  38. Tortoise "It's All Around You"
  39. David Cross "It's Not Funny"
  40. Elliott Smith "From a Basement on the Hill"


In previous years, we have broken ties by rolling dice. We couldn't find the dice this year. Thus, all ties in 2004 were broken with random numbers from random.org.