Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal album of the year 2004:
Future Leaders of the world - LvlIV

2004 (Runner-ups):
Shadows Fall - The War Within
Sum 41 - Chuck
Killswitch Engage - The end of heartache
Papa Roach - Getting away with murder

Other great hard rock/heavy metal albums of 2004
Anthrax - Greater of two evils
Chevelle - This type of thinking (Could do us in)
Damageplan - New Found Power
Destrophy - Chrysalis
Drowning Pool - Desensitized
Earshot - Two
Element Eighty - Element Eighty
Flaw - Endangered Species
Saliva - Survival of the sickest
Shinedown - Leave a wisper

Best Pop/Rock album of the year 2004:
Switchfoot - Switchfoot

2004 (Runner-ups):
Howie Day - Stop all the world now
Gavin DeGraw - Chariot
Hanson - Underneath (Don't laugh, check it out!)
Ashlee Simpson - Autobiography
Ryan Cabrera - Take it all away

Other great pop/rock albums of 2004
Citizen Cope - The Clarence Greenwood Recordings
Dido - Life for rent (Technically '03 but was big this year)
Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin
The Calling - Two
Good Charlotte - The Chronicles of life and death
Jet - Get born
Jimmy Eat World - Futures
Lenny Kravitz - Baptism
Richard Marx - My own worst enemy
Rick Springfield - Shock/Denial/Anger/Acceptance
Sarah McLachlan - Afterglow
Sister Hazel - Lift
Socialburn - Where you are
Stroke 9 - All In

Misc. great albums:
James Newton Howard - The Village

Good Audiobooks I listened to this year:
Bill Clinton - My Life
Bob Woodward - Plan of Attack
Dan Brown - Angels & Demons & Da Vinci Code
John Grisham - The last juror & The king of torts
Patrick J. Buchanan - Where the right went wrong
Richard Clarke - Against all enemies

Biggest disappointment of the year:
Eminem - Encore (Save your money!)