Best Albums - 1st Half of 2004

[Chewbacca]

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[kiwi]

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[ProgressChrome]

"ballroom" by Trapist is a really good album from 2004

[ProgressChrome]

I also like these albums from this year:

Broken Spindles - "Fulfilled Complete"
Clann Zu - "Black Coats and Bandages"
Thee Silver Mountain Reveries - "The Pretty Little Lightning Paw EP"
Air - "Talkie Walkie"
Green Milk From The Planet Orange - "He's Crying Look"

[mono]

And The Lefthanded - In The Kingdom Of Shadows
Uusi Fantasia - Top Ten
Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
Madvillain - Madvillainy
MF DOOM - MM Food
Viktor Vaughn - VV2
Liars - They Were Wrong
Franz Ferdinand - S/T
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Interpol - Antics
Radio 4 - Stealing Of A Nation
TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth
PJ Harvey - Uh Huh
!!! - Louden Up Now
Air - Talkie Walkie
Imatran Voima - Church Of Latter Day Maggots
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands
Giant Robot - Domesticity
Hidden Cameras - Mississauga GODDAM
Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
John Frusciante - Will To Death
Jose Gonzalez - Veneer
OST - Brown Bunny
Papa M - Hole Of Burning Alms
Plutonium 74 - Pasilasta Kallioon
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book Of Horizons
Streets - A Grand Don't

[mono]

Originally posted by Sean Casey


what's this

Check it out, I'm sharing it.

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[smashingjj]

The new Soulwax sounds pretty cool. Of course, more electronica/disco than ever.

i also still have to hear radio 4, is it as good as their debut?

[mono]

Originally posted by smashingjj
also still have to hear radio 4, is it as good as their debut?

I like it. They've gone into a more disco-y direction.

[Eulogy]

Originally posted by Sean Casey

Abra Moore - Everything Changed

OH MY. I know who that is!!

'cause see I've been thnking it over
it's all just a little too much
you see, I've got a four leaf clover
it's gotta bring a little luck

oh yes, and...

oh wow. Vh1 top ten countdown from like 8 years ago.

[bloop]

Originally posted by Eulogy


OH MY. I know who that is!!

'cause see I've been thnking it over
it's all just a little too much
you see, I've got a four leaf clover
it's gotta bring a little luck

oh yes, and...

oh wow. Vh1 top ten countdown from like 8 years ago.

If you're knocking it, don't. He listed a very strong album - you'd be surprised.

[sawdust restaurants]

right now, my top 10 would probably be, in some order:

madvillainy
joy shapes
rejoicing in the hands
sonic nurse
the well of memory
burned mind
seven swans
now here is nowhere
sung tongs
the blue cathedral

i need to give a lot of stuff more time, though.

[Mayfuck]

2004 sucks

[Mayfuck]

Originally posted by Sean Casey
Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
Dresden Dolls - The Dresden Dolls
Deerhoof - Milk Man
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Kate Jacobs - You Call That Dark
Juana Molina - Tes Cosas
Savath & Savalas - Apropat
Nouvelle Vague
Kill Me Tomorrow - The Garbageman & the Prostitute
Sunn O))) - White 2
Feist - Let It Die
Fennesz - Venice
Born Heller - Born Heller
Eleni Mandell - Afternoon
Decemberists - The Tain
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Black Earth
Music AM - A Heart & Two Stars
CocoRosie - La Maison De Mon Reve
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Black Dice - Creature Comforts
McLusky - Difference Between Me and You
Claudia Quintet - I, Claudia
Lali Puna - faking the Books
Einsturzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile
Liars - They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Kanye West - College Dropout
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Mirah - C'mon Miracle
Secret Machines - Now Here is Nowhere
Electrelane - Power Out
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
Max Richter - Blue Notebooks
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
The Roots - The Tipping Point
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
Magnetic Fields - I
Bark Psychosis - Codenameustsucker
90 Day Men - Panda Park
Mum - Summer Make Good
Minus Story - The Captain is Dead, Let the Drum Corpse Dance
Arovane - Lilies
PG Six - The Well of Memory
Hair Police - Obedience Cuts
Chib - Moco
Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier
Dave Douglas - Strange Liberation
End. - Sounds of Disaster
Patti Smith - Trampin'
Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral
Kerrier District - Kerrier District
Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly
People Like Us - Abridged Too Far
Abra Moore - Everything Changed
Superpitcher - Here Comes Love

This is why 2004 sucks. Are you just listing whatever came out this year? Could all of these really be the "best" of 2004? No. The problem is this year seems to be sorely lacking in diversity. It's either folk and folk hybrids or discopunk dance-y rock scenester shit.

Originally posted by Sean Casey
Kate Jacobs - You Call That Dark
Juana Molina - Tes Cosas
Decemberists - The Tain
PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Black Earth
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
McLusky - Difference Between Me and You
Kanye West - College Dropout
Electrelane - Power Out
The Roots - The Tipping Point
90 Day Men - Panda Park
Mum - Summer Make Good
Minus Story - The Captain is Dead, Let the Drum Corpse Dance
End. - Sounds of Disaster
Patti Smith - Trampin'
Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly
Abra Moore - Everything Changed
Superpitcher - Here Comes Love

These are the best of? C'mon these aren't even good.

[sawdust restaurants]

Have there been any really good electronica albums to come out at all this year? Because if so, I don't think I've heard them. I like Team Doyobi and Fennesz and Emotional Joystick enough, but none of them are as good as, say, One Word Extinguisher or Up in Flames (if you count that as electronica) or that Jan Jelinek record.

[Mayfuck]

Originally posted by Sean Casey
i don't think they're all "amazing" but there's enough to like about all of them

Unblock me so we can discuss music

[Lie]

Originally posted by Mayfuck
This is why 2004 sucks. Are you just listing whatever came out this year? Could all of these really be the "best" of 2004? No. The problem is this year seems to be sorely lacking in diversity. It's either folk and folk hybrids or discopunk dance-y rock scenester shit.

These are the best of? C'mon these aren't even good.

Everything I've heard on that list is good, and so what? It helps out people like me who are looking for crap to download. This isn't an official best of thread so everyone please just post as much damn stuff as you can. Thank you.

[mercurial]

Trinity Roots - Home, Land, and Sea

I just bought it, and it's brilliant!

[Irrelevant]

Originally posted by Mayfuck

These are the best of? C'mon these aren't even good.

Tres Cosas and Sounds of Disaster are pretty good records.

[Irrelevant]

Originally posted by sawdust restaurants
Have there been any really good electronica albums to come out at all this year? Because if so, I don't think I've heard them. I like Team Doyobi and Fennesz and Emotional Joystick enough, but none of them are as good as, say, One Word Extinguisher or Up in Flames (if you count that as electronica) or that Jan Jelinek record.

uh. not too many. i like the Dat Politics record. i was excited when i saw that Capitol K has a new record, but i downloaded it and it's not too great. the new Mouse on Mars is all right.

[Irrelevant]

these are records i can think of that i think are strong.

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Birchville Cat Motel - Beautiful Speck Triumph
Black Dice - Creature Comforts
Black Eyes - Cough
Charalambides - Joy Shapes
CocoRosie - La Maison de Mon Rev
dDamage - Radio Ape
Deerhoof - Milk Man
Donato Wharton - Trabanten
Double - Palm Fronds
Ekkehard Ehlers, Joseph Suchy, Franz Hautzinger - Soundchambers
Enduser - From Zero (if this counts)
Fennesz - Venice
Gang Wizard - Jeckyll Loves Hyde
Jason Forrest - Unrelenting Songs of the Post-1979 Disco Crash
Kill Me Tomorrow - The Garbageman and the Prostitute
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Mindflayer - It's Always 1999 (shouldn't technically count as this year though)
Mokira - Album
OOIOO - Kila Kila Kila
Ponys - Laced with Romance
Satanicpornocultshop - Anorexia Gas Balloon
Shalabi Effect - Pink Abyss
Team Doyobi - Choose Your Own Adventure
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
Violetta Beauregarde - Obviously I Don't Live in San Francisco
Liars - They Were Wrong So We Drowned
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
FRX - FRX (if this counts)
Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral
Accelera Deck - Sunstrings
Acid Mothers Temple - Mantra of Love
Birchville Cat Motel - With Maples Ablaze
Dat Politics - Go Pets Go
Decomposure - Taking Things Apart
Deathprod - Morals and Dogma
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Gunslinger-R - Girls in the Guns
Hair Police - Obedience Cuts
Kevin Drumm - Impish Tyrant
Weasel Walter, Kevin Drumm, Fred Lonberg-Holm - Eruption
Susumu Yokota - Laputa
Metalux - Waiting for Armadillo
Microwaves - Attack Decay Sustain Release
Mouse on Mars - Radical Connector
Nautical Almanac - Rooting for the Microbes
Prurient - Shipwrecker's Diary (did this come out last year?)
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
Vibracathedral Orchestra - self-released double LP

i kept it to 50. not bad. i like this year.

[Lie]

Originally posted by Irrelevant
these are records i can think of that i think are strong.

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Birchville Cat Motel - Beautiful Speck Triumph
Black Dice - Creature Comforts
Black Eyes - Cough
Charalambides - Joy Shapes
CocoRosie - La Maison de Mon Rev
dDamage - Radio Ape
Deerhoof - Milk Man
Donato Wharton - Trabanten
Double - Palm Fronds
Ekkehard Ehlers, Joseph Suchy, Franz Hautzinger - Soundchambers
Enduser - From Zero (if this counts)
Fennesz - Venice
Gang Wizard - Jeckyll Loves Hyde
Jason Forrest - Unrelenting Songs of the Post-1979 Disco Crash
Kill Me Tomorrow - The Garbageman and the Prostitute
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Mindflayer - It's Always 1999 (shouldn't technically count as this year though)
Mokira - Album
OOIOO - Kila Kila Kila
Ponys - Laced with Romance
Satanicpornocultshop - Anorexia Gas Balloon
Shalabi Effect - Pink Abyss
Team Doyobi - Choose Your Own Adventure
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
Violetta Beauregarde - Obviously I Don't Live in San Francisco
Liars - They Were Wrong So We Drowned
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
FRX - FRX (if this counts)
Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral
Accelera Deck - Sunstrings
Acid Mothers Temple - Mantra of Love
Birchville Cat Motel - With Maples Ablaze
Dat Politics - Go Pets Go
Decomposure - Taking Things Apart
Deathprod - Morals and Dogma
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Gunslinger-R - Girls in the Guns
Hair Police - Obedience Cuts
Kevin Drumm - Impish Tyrant
Weasel Walter, Kevin Drumm, Fred Lonberg-Holm - Eruption
Susumu Yokota - Laputa
Metalux - Waiting for Armadillo
Microwaves - Attack Decay Sustain Release
Mouse on Mars - Radical Connector
Nautical Almanac - Rooting for the Microbes
Prurient - Shipwrecker's Diary (did this come out last year?)
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
Vibracathedral Orchestra - self-released double LP

i kept it to 50. not bad. i like this year.

Kinda weird how that list is almost in alphebetical order.

[Eulogy]

I really wonder how you guys have that much time on your hands.

[sawdust restaurants]

Originally posted by Irrelevant
uh. not too many. i like the Dat Politics record. i was excited when i saw that Capitol K has a new record, but i downloaded it and it's not too great. the new Mouse on Mars is all right.

yeah, i heard the DAT politics for the first time the other day and it's all right. capitol k is bleh, and i didn't even make it one spin through the mouse on mars records because i hated it so much, which has only happened with one other record this year (mum).

i heard a track off the new shitmat today, and i thought it was pretty cool. kinda jason forrest-y, except with ragga influences instead of cock rock and disco.

[Irrelevant]

i like Shitmat but the album is kind of uneven. sometimes it's bangin' and sometimes it's pretty dorky.