SQL to return list of years since a specific year

This gets all years from 2004 to the present, using a recursive CTE:

with yearlist as 
(
    select 2004 as year
    union all
    select yl.year + 1 as year
    from yearlist yl
    where yl.year + 1 <= YEAR(GetDate())
)

select year from yearlist order by year desc;