My Top 7 CDs of 2004

This will probably change because I'll think of new CDs and configurations, and also because I still haven't acquired all the CDs from 2004 I'm interested in. But here, in no particular order:

1. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. DeVotchKa - How It Ends
3. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
4. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets
5. Joseph Arthur - Our Shadows Will Remain
6. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts
7. Ray Lamontagne - Trouble

I'm also really interested in Franz Ferdinand, The Futureheads, Snow Patrol, Death from Above 1979, Flunk, and a few others I can't think of off the top of my head. They didn't make my list because I haven't heard those CDs much. If I had money or, ahem, I would probably have them already. Relative poverty has kept my stereo (relatively) empty this season.