Board's Best of 2004 (so far)

anybody want to start with their best albums from the first half of 2004 (a down year)?

I may need to edit this later, but…

1. BR549
2. Jolie Holland
3. Bobby Bare Jr.
4. Grant Lee Phillips
5. Jesse Sykes
6. Norah Jones

but surely I am forgetting some

3 out of my top 6 are women. Can any non-lesbians out there top that?

Most overrated: Loretta Lynn's album

this list is sure to change with impending releases by Old 97's and Drive By Truckers.

sure to change as well, and not in order

Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart
Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
Shearwater - Winged Life
Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
Magnetic Fields - I
Of Montreal - Satanic Panic In The Attic
Beta Band - Heros To Zeros
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Burning Brides - Leave No Ashes

Air – Talkie Walkie
Iron and Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days

Honorable Mentions:
Morrissey – You Are the Quarry
Franz Ferdinand – FF

Somewhat disappointing: PJ Harvey (only because all her other stuff is so great)
The Walkmen – Bows and Arrows

I still want to pick up Sonic Youth, the Orbital, and the new Charlatans (if it ever makes it across the pond).

Bowie - Reality
Morrissey - You are the quarry

Honorable mention

Jem - Finally awoken

Everything else is just shite. ;)

Originally posted by Bollocks:
Bowie - Reality
Morrissey - You are the quarry

Honorable mention

Jem - Finally awoken

Everything else is just shite. ;)

Just so we're clear, those are the only three CDs you bought this year, right?

burning brides is awful! i did like the VB and SM albums though

The only three he has bought this year that were released in 2004 (or post-1990 for that matter)

But in all fairness, I myself have probably bought no more than 10 or so 2004 releases.

Originally posted by redsock:

Originally posted by Bollocks:
Bowie - Reality
Morrissey - You are the quarry

Honorable mention

Jem - Finally awoken

Everything else is just shite. ;)

Just so we're clear, those are the only three CDs you bought this year, right?

Originally posted by redsock:

Originally posted by Bollocks:
Bowie - Reality
Morrissey - You are the quarry

Honorable mention

Jem - Finally awoken

Everything else is just shite. ;)

Just so we're clear, those are the only three CDs you bought this year, right?

That would be because I don't throw money away on shite.

Actually, I have an amendment.

Bowie - Reality
Morrissey - You are the quarry
The Waifs - Up all night

Honorable mention
Jem - Finally woken

The rest are just shite.

thank you!

Originally posted by jakez468:
burning brides is awful! i did like the VB and SM albums though

dude go out a buy a box of q-tips and make sure you don't stick them in your ears to far… the burning brides cd is AWESOME

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:

Originally posted by jakez468:
burning brides is awful! i did like the VB and SM albums though

dude go out a buy a box of q-tips and make sure you don't stick them in your ears to far… the burning brides cd is AWESOME

Are you gonna see them the when they come back to the Black Cat soon? I have their last cd and thought it was pretty good. Maybe I'll check out the new one in hit the concert.

Morrissey, "you are the quarry"

Franz Ferdinand

Wilco "a ghost is born" (although not nearly as good as Yankee Foxtrot)

Kanye West "The College Dropout"

The Walkmen "Bows + Arrows"

Belle & Sebastian "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"

…too name a few…let me think about it a little more.

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:

Originally posted by jakez468:
burning brides is awful! i did like the VB and SM albums though

dude go out a buy a box of q-tips and make sure you don't stick them in your ears to far… the burning brides cd is AWESOME

i actually did that once with q-tips when i was really young. it scarred me for life so i don't use them anymore.

-edit- I just said what everyone else did to Mank….

Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Black Eyes - Cough
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
!!! - Louden Up Now
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes

probably in that order…plus very honorable mentions to Of Montreal and Oneida

whoa, how could I have forgotten Nellie?

1. BR549
2. Nellie McKay
3. Jolie Holland
4. Bobby Bare Jr.
5. Grant Lee Phillips
6. Jesse Sykes
7. Norah Jones

4 out of my top 7 are women. Can any non-lesbians out there top that?

Most overrated: Loretta Lynn's album

this list is sure to change with impending releases by Old 97's and Drive By Truckers.

the bees - 'free the bees'
kanye west - 'college dropout'
joanna newsom - 'the milk-eyed mender'
erlend oye - 'dj kicks'
air - 'talkie walkie'
quincy jones & bill cosby - 'the new mixes'
antibalas - 'who is this america?'

Originally posted by LonnieBeale:
Belle & Sebastian "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"

Was that 04??

If so, add it to my list, too lazy to edit.

I'll try this one and I'll (sort of) put them in order.


1. Muse - Absolution (US Issue was 2004)
2. All Night Radio - Spirit Radio Frequency
3. Radiohead - Com Lag
4. Cooper Temple Clause - Kick Up The Fire
5. The Thermals - Fuckin A
6. Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
7. Basement Jaxx - Cish Cash
8. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
9. Burning Brides - Leave no Ashes
10. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (screw you, i still like it!)

and I am sure the new Interpol will be up there by years end.

I can see why you like it - bastard offspring of Ash and Soundgarden - only 1 listen and I'm really digging it

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:

Originally posted by jakez468:
burning brides is awful! i did like the VB and SM albums though

dude go out a buy a box of q-tips and make sure you don't stick them in your ears to far… the burning brides cd is AWESOME