Best album of the 1st 1/2 of 2004?
 

Tomorrow marks the halfway point (month-wise) of 2004, so what was your favorite album so far this year?

Remember, the album has to have a release date between Jan 1 and June 30 2004

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There are a lot comming out in the next 2 months though that i'm really looking forward too, as well as many that came out so far, but not as much.

Velvet Revolver- Contraband

Probably the Beasties. I will have to remember what all has come out.

The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free

Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose

Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News

Paterson Hood - Killers and Stars

Morrissey - You Are the Quarry

Those are at the top of my list, in that order.

Mason Jennings - Use Your Voice

Clutch - Blast Tyrant

It just came out today, but I heard a couple of songs @ their concert a week ago:

RUSH - Feedback

Yeah, the new Beasties Boys' album is pretty fucking cool. That's my vote with Velvet Revolver a some-what close second.

Pain of Salvation - 12:5
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either

killswitch engage - the end of heartache

or

clutch - blast tyrant

i guess id say talkie walkie by air. i listen to that more than any other recent album.

best newish band would be li'l cap'n travis

i also like releases by wilco, sixtoo, modest mouse, dj shadow, and (still digesting) sonic youth. haven't heard all of contraband yet.

*trying to remember what all came out*

Either:

1. Fantomas - Delirium Cordia
2. Velvet Revolver - Contraband

Air - Talkie Walkie
Orbital - The Blue Album

Great stuff on both of them.

--jaded

arrh, should have thought of that.

Franz Ferdinand self titled.

Out of the stuff that comes to mind that I've heard (there's a lot of stuff out there I haven't heard any of):

Wilco - A Ghost is Born
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Patterson Hood - Killers and Stars
David Cross - It's Not Funny (okay, it's a comedy album, not a music album, but it's got some moments that got bigger laughs out of me than anything has in months, so it makes my list)

Monster Magnet- Monolithic Baby
although i admit i havent heard other full albums out from this year besides the singles

My top three for the first half of 2004 are:

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woot for the hip

Velvet Revolver followed by...

Beastie Boys
Modest Mouse
Monster Magnet
Franz Ferdinand

Blue Öyster Cult hasn't come out with an album yet this year, so obviously, the answer is: There is not best album of the first half of 2004. ;)

this one slipped by me, but so far it sounds quite good

Magnetic Fields -- "I"
 

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Modest Mouse -- Good News for People who Love Bad News

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The Cure's new album

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PJ Harvey -- UH HUH HER

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Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge by My Chemical Romance, but the new Midtown CD is up there too

cooper temple clause - kick up the fire and let the flames break loose

You may have noticed a few of these as recent avatars of mine as well. :D

In no particular order:

The Dresden Dolls - The Dresden Dolls
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Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me
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Rasputina - Frustration Plantation
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Air - Talkie Walkie
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Jem - Finally Woken
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Rachael Yamagata - Happenstance
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Eleni Mandell - Afternoon
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The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight (North American Release)
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Tres Chicas - Sweetwater
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My picks in no particular order:

The Walkmen- Bows and Arrows

The Killers- Hot Fuss

D12- World

Modest Mouse- Good News for People Who Love Bad News

madvillain - madvillainy

Most of those I have never heard of.

I would go with

Prince

Los Lonely Boys

I'm definitley going to agree with the current leader, Modest Mouse Good News for People who Love Bad News has been the best cd released so far.

Oh snap folks, picked up a new one today:

Ambulance LTD "LP"

First few listens, fan-tastic.

radiohead - com lag ltd
dead poetic - new medicines
John fruciante - shadows collide witih people
Black sun empire - driving insane
underoathe - their only chasing safety
evergreen terrace - writer's block

another 2 votes for Loretta Lynn -" Van Lear Rose" and The Magnetic Fields "i"

In no particular order:

VAST - "Nude"
Rasputina - "Frustration Plantation"
Clutch - "Blast Tyrant"
Fear Factory - "Archetype"

My predictions for the second half of 2004's best albums:

NIN - "Bleedthrough"
Tool - as yet untitled
Rammstein - "Mein Teil"
Mudvayne - as yet untitled

what?!? They're putting out an album this year? I figured at best it would be in 05'. You have a link to anything about this?

Saw it on an MTV2 news brief a few weeks back. They're currently in the studio recording, and remarked that the album would be done well before the end of the year. The reporter did, however, comment that they may wait until January/February 2005, so as not to get lost in "the christmas shuffle."

As far as second half predictions...

The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
Head Automatica - Decadence

I'm positive Drive By Truckers' The Dirty South will make my second half of '04 list. Out on Aug. 24th