trickyy

we've had earlier debates on the album of the year, but now the year is pretty much over. however, instead of arging over a single album, i am going to list a few favorites. feel free to submit your own selections/categories.


best newly discovered band
m83 - dead cities...

best newly discovered genre
library music

best product of nafta
arcade fire - funeral

best french band singing in english
air - talkie walkie

best band from los angeles
autolux - future perfect

best band from brighton
the go! team - thunder lightning strike

best reissue
pavement - crooked rain, crooked rain

best band i can't understand
dungen - ta det lugnt

best subdued indie rock
(tie) camera obscura - underachievers please try harder
the concretes - the concretes


and here are some other year-end lists:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...854056-7377659
http://www.popmatters.com/music/feat...004lundy.shtml
http://www.theonionavclub.com/featur...php?issue=4049
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4236175
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/top/2004/index5.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/flash...373540,00.html

qweds

heard of ratatatat?

i can never get the right number of tat's, but anyway quite good. Though they might not be new 04, i just don't know

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Derwood

Albums I loved this year:

Reverend Horton Heat: Revival
Secret Machines: Now Here is Nowhere
Polyphonic Spree: Together We're Heavy

Damn, I'm sure there are more. (Muse: Absolution came out in 2003 but I just bought it, same with a few others)

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KWSN

So many great albums.

I kind of like Pitchfork's list. Some notable omissions but overall pretty good. Blueberry Boat, A Grand Don't Come for Free and Funeral all in the top 5 is pleasing.

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rockzilla

I'll have to give this a little thought.

!!! - Louden Up Now.
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
Rush - Feedback (It was only an EP, but it's the first time in 5 years that I've cared that much about Rush)
The Walkmen - Bows & Arrows
Sparta - Porcelain

Two other albums that I really liked were actually released in 2003, but I didn't find them until this year.
The Fitness - Call me for Together
Metric - Old World Underground, Where are you Now?

blitz.fenix

HIM - Greatest Hits Album was great : P
The Streets - A grand don't come for free
and
Gwar- War Party

World's King

Best album: Green Day - American Idiot

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mikeylips

Chevelle - This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)
The Music - Welcome to the North

snowy

My top five albums of the year:
Franz Ferdinand--Franz Ferdinand
The Killers--Hot Fuss
U2--How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
Keane--Hopes and Fears
Air--Talkie Walkie

Honorable Mention goes to Muse--Absolution (this would be a best of 2004, but it was originally released in the UK in 2003)

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K-Wise

Gavin Degraw - Chariot/Chariot Stripped (Quite possibly the best songwriter I've heard in years..not sure though)
Los Lonely Boys (These guys just kick serious ass)
Keane - Hopes & Fears (Somewhere Only We Know...WOW just great fuckin song)
Ben Jelen - Give It All Away (I dunno if I really think it's one of THE best but I have to give it to him for writing "Come On" it really is a great song..the rest of the album isn't as good by comparison but still not bad. )

Hmm I'll have to get back to this in a bit.

Asta!!

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strange

Best Album of 2004:

The Cure - The Cure

high_way

best new albums

grinspoon - thrills, kills and sunday pills
the hives - tyransoushives (sp)
bjork - medulia - she is also best newly discovered music for this year
the killers - hot fuss
franz ferdinand - franz ferdinand
modest mousee - good news for people who like bad news
after the fall - after the fall
gyroscope - gyroscope
the music - welcome to the north

best newly discovered music
bjork
the birthday party
bauhaus
the buzzcocks
radiohead

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Impostor of the imposturous

mused76

interpol: antics

Tophat665

Top album I bought in the last year:
Cake - Pressure Chief (only album I bought new last year)

Top album from last year that I plan to buy:
Tom Waits - Real Gone

Top 3 Bands I discovered in the last year:
1) CKY
2) Spock's Beard
3) Coheed and Cambria

Most promising album of 2004 that I probably won't buy new:
Green Day - American Idiot

As I have noted before, I think most current music is crap (Kids today and the NOISE they listen to), so I am pressed to come up with anything. These, to me, are the bright spots.

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Evil_Timmy

John Vanderslice's new album, Cellar Door, is a stunning accomplishment. Other albums that I loved from this year (that haven't been mentioned yet) are:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
Four Tet - Rounds
The Icarus Line - Penance Soiree
The Stills - Logic Will Break Your Heart
Elf Power - Walking With the Beggar Boys

Ramallah

My favorites:
Unearth - The Oncoming Storm
Isis - Panopticon
With Honor - Heart Means Everything
Shadows Fall - The War Within
Mastodon - Leviathan

FoolThemAll

Of the eight 2004 CDs I've bought this year:

1. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets
2. Rogue Wave - Out of the Shadow
3. Mason Jennings - Use Your Voice
4. Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue
5. The Zutons - Who Killed the Zutons?
6. Velvet Revolver - Contraband
7. Ari Hest - Someone To Tell
8. Travis Morrison - Travistan

Most of my 2004 CD purchases were not 2004 CDs.

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docbungle

Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine

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Bacchanal

Mastodon - Leviathan
Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
Clutch - Blast Tyrant
All That Remains - This Darkened Heart
God Forbid - Gone Forever
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
Haste The Day - Burning Bridges


There are more, but that's a good representation of what I've listened to the most out of what came out this past year.

Architeuthis

Tom Waits Real Gone

Best of 2004

Glory's Sun

Killswitch Engage =The End Of Heartache (that was 2004 right?) and yeah I know flame all you want but Howard Jones fuckin rocks

blitz.fenix

I have to add Catch 22 Live CD/DVD to the list cuz it was such a great value for such great quality. I love it.

xerraire1

When is somoene going to add the one, the only, the fabolous. Michael Bublé! His smooth suave voice combined with his jazz/classical style. Winner in my opinion.

u2s vertigo. Man and a Women. U2 in general

alansmithee

Best album of the year Madvillain (MF DOOM and Madlib) - Madvillainy

madcow

Interpol - Antics
The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Elefant - Sunlight Makes me Paranoid

Those albums get my vote.

Jadedfox

Orbital - Blue Album
Air - Talkie Walkie
The Haunted - rEVOLVEr
Zero 7 - When it falls

--jaded

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high_way

two more to add

blues explosion - damage
sarah blasko - overture and the underscore

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Ramega

Some of my favs:

Megadeth - The System Has Failed
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Beastie Boys - To the Five Boroughs
Skindred - Babylon
Killswitch Engage - End of Heartache

keyshawn

Thus, they are my albums of the year [most of these were not originally released in 2004]

badly drawn boy - hour of the bewilderbeast
3rd degree - radio 7
course of nature - superkala
the postal service - give up
nellie mckay - get away from me
black keys - rubber factory
switchfoot - learning to breathe

Hip-hop nominations:
kanye west - college dropout
madvillian - madvilliany
jedi mind tricks - legacy of blood
k-os - joyful rebellion

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trickyy

gonna definitely check out madvillian


best music by an old guy
brian wilson - smile
tom waits - real gone

best new producer
diplo

dX927

Green Day - American Idiot
one of the only CDs in recent history that i can listen to all the way through and it actually has cohesion.

And even though it got piss poor reviews when it came out, I thought Encore by Eminem was a good album as well. To me it was kinda like the Godfather Part 2 in a way. Telling his life story and then flipping us to the present and following his decent to madness.

And since I haven't seen it yet on this list, I have to be the first to mention The Grey Album. I think Danger Mouse took the mash up thing to a whole new level and it's going to ignite a new generation of remixers.

ElwoodBlues

Pain of Salvation-Be. This CD is truly a masterpiece, and I do not know if it will ever be topped musically or conceptually

Linkin Park/Jay-Z-Collision Course. Not really musically difficult or anything, but damn catchy. I can't take this CD out of my player.

Those are my years best

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Frosstbyte

My top is (not surprisingly):

Nightwish-Once

I can't get enough of that CD. Did worlds to expand their sound on it. Orchestration is GOOD!

Sleepyjack

My favourites from 2004 are:

The Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Go Team - Thunder Lightening Strike
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing the Hands
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
The Good Life - Album OF The Year
Inteprol - Antics
Wilco - Ghost is Born
AC Newman - SLow
Castanets - Cathedral
The Liars - They were wrong so they drowned
Secret Machines - Now Here is Nowhere
The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
Architecture in Helsinki - fingers crossed (yay, they're Australian as well )

hmmm...

Manic_Skafe

Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
Cattle Decapitation - Humanure
Mastodon - Leviathan
Arsis - A Celebration of Guilt
Exhumed - Platters Of Splatter (I doubt this counts as a 2004 release)
Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
Deicide - Scars Of The Crucifix
Today Is The Day - Kiss The Pig
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Jehst - Falling Down
Dizzie Rascal - Shotime
Borknagar - Epic

I'm sure Anaal Nathrakh and Amon Amarth would've been way up there if I heard the albums.

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obediah

It smells pretty strongly of pitchfork in here! Considering that the alternatives are Rolling Stone or Clear Channel, I'm not really complaining.

My favorite CD of the year was probably the Blackstar EP I made by taking the few good songs off of the the new Mos Def and Talib Kweli CDs.

I really liked the new Woven Hand, Sufjan Stevens, Aesop Rock, Madvilliany and RJD2 .

It was good to hear from Tom Waits and Nick Cave again, both with solid if not groundbreaking releases.

And of course the ones I wouldn't have found without pitchfork - Castanets, Air, Arcade Fire, M83, Max Richter, Four Tet and probably a few others.