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Can you please send me the list of NME's best albums of 2004?  

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Hello Matt,

Thanks for your attention.
Here goes the list of the best albums of 2004 according to the NME's pool:

1 Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand
2 The Libertines by The Libertines  
3 A Grand Don't Come For Free by The Streets
4 Scissor Sisters by Scissor Sisters  
5 The Futureheads by The Futureheads  
6 The Grey Album by Danger Mouse  
7 The College Dropout by Kanye West
8 Up All Night by Razorlight
9 Lesser Matters by The Radio Dept.  
10 No Cities Left by The Dears  
11 Antics by Interpol
12 You Are The Quarry by Morrissey
13 Hot Fuss by The Killers
14 Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
15 Showtime by Dizzee Rascal
16 To The 5 Boroughs by Beastie Boys
17 Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes by TV on the Radio
18 How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb by U2
19 The Concretes by The Concretes
20 Kasabian by Kasabian
21 Hopes And Fears by Keane
22 Love Angel Music Baby by Gwen Stefani
23 Love Is Hell by Ryan Adams
24 From A Basement On The Hill by Elliott Smith
25 Aha Shake Heartbreak by Kings of Leon
26 Now Here Is Nowhere by Secret Machines
27 Destroy Rock & Roll by Mylo
28 Over The Counter Culture by The Ordinary Boys
29 The Lost Riots by Hope of the States
30 Dios by Dios
31 Rejoicing In The Hands by Devendra Banhart
32 Tasty by Kelis
33 Smile by Brian Wilson
34 Amplifier by Amplifier
35 Happiness In Magazines by Graham Coxon
36 Thunder, Lightning, Strike by The Go! Team
37 Who Killed The Zutons? by The Zutons
38 Greatest Hits  by Goldie Lookin' Chain [aka 'GLC']
39 Encore by Eminem
40 Free the Bees by The Bees
41 Black on Both Sides by Mos Def
42 Soviet Kitsch by Regina Spektor
43 Welcome To The North by The Music
44 A Ghost Is Born by Wilco  
45 American Idiot by Green Day
46 Seven Swans by Sufjan Stevens
47 Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins
48 The Milk-Eyed Mender by Joanna Newsom
49 No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper by Selfish Cunt
50 22-20s by 22-20s

If you need anything else, please feel free to get in touch, ok?

With my regards,

Amarilis Gibeli  -  "Searchin'  around..."

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I actively search out want lists of rare, hard-to-find & out-of- print Lps & CDs, antiques and collectables items, books, lyrics, sheet music and any other audio/visual media & format as well, for individuals, traders, retail outlets and online auctions. My specialty is 60`s (psych & garage rock, doo-wop, girls groups, etc.) & 70`s (hard, punk, progressive, etc.), although I have acquired a large range of knowledge in the 80`s & 90`s and on any other style & period as well. As a researcher in musical subjects, I have received requests to write programme notes for modern & classical music, history of music, forms, contemporary music life, bibliographic references, among other topics.

Experience

I'm an Independent Consultant for music legal rights & copyright
law (Musical Performance & Mechanical Rights) for 32 years in
Brazil, as well as private record collector, trader & music
researcher.

Organizations
Sociedade Independente de Compositores e Autores Musicais
(SICAM), Sociedade Brasileira de Escritores de Musica (SABEM),
Escritorio Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição (ECAD), among
others copyright societies.

Education/Credentials
Law School "Largo Sao Francisco", at the University of Sao
Paulo, Brazil.
Still working as translator and subtitler at MTV Brazil.

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