List your top five albums (CD's for you young 'uns) of 2004!!!

As usual, when the repression gets into high gear, art makes a comeback!!! It was a HORRIBLE year in pop music, but the underground is exploding with tons of good sounds this year...here's my top five of the year:

01) Fursaxa-Madrigals in Duos (Beautiful folk/trance from one woman band Tara Burke)

02) Comets on Fire-Blue Cathedral (Completely over the top psychedelic freak out!)

03) Espers-Espers (Another folky piece from Greg Weeks and company...a very mellow, yet incredibly involving album...and yes, it's out on vinyl!)

04) Animal Collective-Sung Tongs (Experimental folk/trance...kind of like Incredible String Band crossed with Faust!)

05) Born Heller-Born Heller (Another folky record from my favorite current vocalist Josephine Foster. I saw them in April, and it was one of my favorite shows ever!)

Reissue of the year: Zolar X-Timeless (Jello Biafra reissued this on Alternative Tentacles...his description: Chrome crossed with the Stooges!!! The lead singer almost sounds like Geddy Lee!!! A GREAT record!!!).

Please list yours!!!

SMiLE by Brian Wilson

37 years in the making and worth every second.

2. "American Idiot" by Green Day
3. "The Spine" by They Might Be Giants
4. "Terror State" by Anti-Flag (2003/2004)
5. "Reise, Reise" by Rammstein

I'm sure some of these are from 2003, but whatever.

Black Eyed Peas: Elephunk
Hives: Tyrannosaurus Hives
Nelly Furtado: Folklore
Kings of Leon: Youth and Young Manhood
Air: Talkie Walkie

ON EDIT: Best song: Somebody Told Me by the Killers

I really like them...Hopefully they'll tour around here one day...I've seen a lot of live footage of them, and they ROCK!!!

:shrug:

In no order....

How to dismantle an atomic bomb - U2

Hot Fuse - The Killers

Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

Lazyboy TV - Lazyboy

Hopes and fears - Keane

Alsoooooo The Ditty Bops CD was most excellent as was Green Day's American Idiot... oh damn it, why must I only be able to pick 5? :P

1-Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm
2-Isis - Panopticon
3-Cult Of Luna - Salvation
4-Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
5-Jello Biafra w/The Melvins - Never Breathe What You Can't See

Jello is BACK on that one...Great choice!!!

some of them may have been released in late 2003, but these are my favorites that i actually bought or umm....obtained....;) recently or in 2004

1) 311 - Evolver (actually came out in 2003, but it needs publicity here)

2) Muse - Absolution (F*CKING OWNZ IT ALL)

3) VAST - Nude

4) Zoot Woman - self titled (singer's voice is YUMMY)

5) Butterfly Messiah - Eternal

Good enough for all top 5 spots. :-D

What an incredible album.

1) Rock Against Bush Vol 1 - V/A (comp not album)
2) Indestructable - Rancid (They sure are, this is practically a comeback album)


Haha. That's all I can think of right now, my cd book is in my whip.

lol you're about 11 years late :hi:

I missed the boat? lol

edit: OH YEA I DID! LOL! :(

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1 - The Libertines
2 - Manic Street Preachers - Lifeblood
3 - The Streets - A Grand don't come for free
4 - Brian Wilson - Smile
5 - Franz Ferdinand

1. Beastie Boys, "To the 5 Boroughs"
2. Green Day, "American Idiot"
3. Eminem, "Encore"

Franz Ferdinand
Keane "Hopes and Fears"
Scissor Sisters
The Arcade Fire "Funeral"
Interpol "Antics"

I liked

Muse - Absolution (once I got over the Thom Yorke comparisons)
Air - Talkie Walkie

Both were mentioned above, but come to think of it, I really didn't buy too many albums that were released this year. I really didn't like Interpol - Antics too much, though I thought I would.

1- Franz Ferdinand/Franz Ferdinand
2- Morrisey/ You are the Quarry
3- Green Day/American Idiot
4- Neil Young/Greatest hits
5- The Streets/A Grand dont come for free

Maroon 5 - songs about jane
Green Day - American Idiot
Dido - Life for Rent
Dave Matthews band - Busted Stuff
U2 - Atomic Bomb