Usually, I like to be on top.
This past year it just didn't happen.
Granted the first few months of oh!four were spent holed up in a dark spot on the L.E.S.
Sure, I had a couple of good hold overs from oh!three, as well as some music downloads; however without a job, confined to a stone-aged-slow-dial-up connection, and with the eventual shit my hard drive took -- I was pretty much thirsty all year long.
So, I spent a good part of the year playing catch up...
So, let's get this shit up while it's still relevant.
Top Ten Albums of 2004 -- (alphabetically)
Aloha - Here Comes Everyone (Polyvinyl)
Apostle of Hustle - Folkloric Feel (Arts and Crafts)
The Arcade Fire - Funeral (Merge)
The Futureheads - S/T (Sire)
Lali Puna - Faking the Books (Morr Music)
Matthew Dear - Backstroke EP (Spectral)
Mission of Burma - OnOFFOn (Matador)
Pinback - Summer In Abaddon (Touch and Go)
RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke (Def Jux)
TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes (Touch and Go)
Honorable Contenders:
The Album Leaf, Battles, Deerhoof, Dirty on Purpose, The Go Find, The Go Team, Kings of Conveniece, Ted Leo/RX, Murs, Pedro the Lion, Q and Not U, Ratatat, Ulrich Schnauss, Subtle, and Wilco.
Ten Albums I Wish That I Had Heard:
Black Eyes - Cough
The Chinese Stars - Rare Sensation
The Eternals - Rawar Style
Fennesz - Venice
Hot Snakes - Audit In Progress
Pan American - Quiet City
Red Eyed Legends - Mutual Insignificance EP /The High I Feel When I'm Low 12"
Turing Machine - Zwei
The Warmers - Wanted:More
Wrangler Brutes - Zulu // S/T cassette*
Re-Issue of the Year:
Talking Heads - The Name of This Band... (Rhino)
Besides hearing all of the major singles over the years, this was the first Talking Heads album that I really listened to with great interest from begining to end. Of course this is a highly expanded release, but Rhino is nice enough to give the track sequencing for the original album.
I recommend it for intensity's sake.
Greatest Hits/Box Set/RePackaged:
Low - A Lifetime of Temporary Relief****
Best Thing to Happen to Music in the oh!four:
Mp3 blogging**
Funniest/Worst Thing to Happen to Music in the oh!four:
Ashlee Simpson's flub, subsequent booing at the Bowl, and the fact she still has a career.***
Most Overrated Trend that ultimately overshadowed a damn fine concept album****:
The Mashup/Blend vs. Dangermouse/Jay-Z - The Grey Album
Thank God It's Over:
Electroclash
It's a Command. Not a genre:
Dance Punk. (duh, there's an implied comma in there.)
Aforementioned Oh!Three Holdovers:
The Constantines - Shine A Light
Consonant - Love and Affliction
Enon - Hocus Pocus
The Stills - Logic Will Break Your Heart
Sunkillmoon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
First Quarter, (or so...) Anticipated New Releases:
Caribou (formerly Manitoba) - Milk of Human Kindness
Out Hud - Bring On The Drama
Boom Bip - Blue Eyed In The Red Room
Low - The Great Destroyer
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart
The Books - Lost and Safe
M83 - Befire The Dawn Heals Us
LCD Soundsystem - S/T
Prefuse 73 - Surrounded By Silence//Hideyaface
Solvent - Think Like Us//Elevators and Oscillators
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* technically a oh!three release, but I didn't find out about it until oh!four.
** Helped me catch up, kept me sane, introduced me to new stuff, reminded me about music I had forgotten (or tried to
forget.) Inspired me. This blog will feature mp3s.
*** As mentioned by someone... at least Milli Vanilli apologized...
and as far as I know, they never claimed to be punk rock.
**** More on this later.
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
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