NPR's "Best Music of 2004 (Staff Picks)"

"2004 was a year when a handful of artists with their best days long behind them surprised us with their strongest music; Loretta Lynn and Brian Wilson come to mind. It was also a year when a lot of new musicians recorded some of the most personal and fragile songs you’ll hear – Iron and Wine, Bright Eyes, Joanna Newsom and Sufjan Stevens to name a few. It was hard to agree on a definitive list of the year’s best music, but the CDs collected below were the ones most mentioned."

(found at: http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/archives/bestof2004/index.html)

Send to Printer NPR's "Best Music of 2004 (Staff Picks)" "2004 was a year when a handful of artists with their best days long behind them surprised us with their strongest music; Loretta Lynn and Brian Wilson come to mind. It was also a year when a lot of new musicians recorded some of the most personal and fragile songs you’ll hear – Iron and Wine, Bright Eyes, Joanna Newsom and Sufjan Stevens to name a few. It was hard to agree on a definitive list of the year’s best music, but the CDs collected below were the ones most mentioned." (found at: http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/archives/bestof2004/index.html)
	1.		SMiLE by Brian Wilson
	2.		A Ghost Is Born by Wilco
	3.		Good News For People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse
	4.		Our Endless Numbered Days by Iron & Wine
	5.		Funeral by Arcade Fire
	6.		The Milk-Eyed Mender by Joanna Newsom
	7.	?	Motets of Guillaume de Machaut by The Hilliard Ensemble
	8.		Amassakoul by Tinariwen
	9.		Legacy by Guy Davis
	10.		Seven Swans by Sufjan Stevens
	11.		The Clarence Greenwood Recordings by Citizen Cope
	12.		Neruda by Luciana Souza
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