Best albums of 2004?

mank!

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Slim pickings this year I feel.

Graham Coxon - Happiness In Magazines
Kings of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill
 

stubbyrulz

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hmm i gonna say lamb of god - ashes of the wake cos its the only good un i can remember atm
 

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Prolly

DJ Geogrey In The House
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Amon Tobin Solid Steel
or
Zen Retrospective


I agree pretty slim year
 

Skyler

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My best album of the year is:

The Collection Volume 2. by Next Generation Records.
 

harebear

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Converge - You fail me
or Anaal Nathrakh - The codex necro
or Lykathea Aflame - Elvenfris (hope that was out this year =p)
 

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Dont normally read this part of the forum but here goes :

(First 5 tracks of) Hot Fuss by The Killers
To the 5 Boroughs by The Beastie Boys
Aha Shake Heartbreak by The Kings of Leon
 

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Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm
Cult of Luna - Salvation
Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
 

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1st time I heard Bloodbath they sounded really boring but they have been growing on me. Shame thingy bob from Opeth has left them now, great singer.
 

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Agree with "Aha Shake Heartbreak" by The Kings of Leon

and i'd like to add "This Type Of Thinking..." by Chevelle.
 

reznor

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best albums of 2004

lo all...


mozzer would have to be in there for sure....

gonna go see him on monday..

morrissey=you are the quarry
franz ferdinand= franz
rammstein=reise reise


shame joy division are not with us to spoil us...xx
 

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Far too much boring schmindie rock this year, goddammit why can't students get a taste in music. The few gems released this year were :-

N*E*R*D - Fly or Die
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
High Contrast - High Fidelity
Prodigy - Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned
Andy C - Nightlife 2
 

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harebear said:
1st time I heard Bloodbath they sounded really boring but they have been growing on me. Shame thingy bob from Opeth has left them now, great singer.

When I heard Peter Tägtgren was going to take over Mikael Åkerfeldts job as a singer I never thought Tägtgren could sound like that.
Have to say I like the new album better than the old.
 

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Derric said:
When I heard Peter Tägtgren was going to take over Mikael Åkerfeldts job as a singer I never thought Tägtgren could sound like that.
Have to say I like the new album better than the old.

Tätgren has never recorded a better vocalsession imo. It just proves how good Dan Swanö is with producing it and doing the backing growl. Great stuff.

Well for me I think there has'nt been much that made me very impressed this year, most stuff feelt like it was a rehash of old albums for me. Well here we go.

Cult Of Luna - Salvation
I can hear alot of Neurosis and Isis in there latest album, which for me is just dandy since new Neurosis didnt really stick with me. Guess I miss the more themathic sound of a "Sun that never sets".

Orphaned Land - Mabool
Anyone that know me know that I get really bored with music fast and always tend to like alternative sounding stuff. Well something about Mabool made me listening to it over and over. Dunno what it is.

Dunno there's alot of stuff I could list that are kickass albums but I just end up comparing em to earlier efforts and then they pale. An example is Nasum's latest that is way outdone by Helvete.

Well lets hope 2005 gives albums that are alot more interesting.
 

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I agree, definitely slim pickings this year. Still, I have bought and enjoyed:

The Futureheads
The Music - Welcome To The North
Scissor Sisters
 

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I disagree, a fantastic year for music. Arcade Fire & The Go! Team are clear winners, and the rest are in no particular order.

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
3. The Hidden Cameras - Mississauga Goddamn
4. The Magnetic Fields - I
5. Bloc Party - E.P
6. Brian Wilson - Smile
7. Adem - Homesongs
8. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
9. The Walkmen - Bows & Arrows
10. Morrissey -You are the Quarry
11. Sons & Daughters - Love the Cup (EP, but it's quality!)
12.The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
13. Mclusky -The Difference Between you and me is i'm not on fire
14.Madvillain - Madvillainy
15.The Earlies - These Were The Earlies
16.The Concretes - The Concretes


Good albums i haven't guven enough air time too yet: Death From Above 1979 - you're a woman, I'm a machine, the fiery furnaces - blueberry boat, joanna newsom - the milk eyed mender, animal collective - sung tongs, Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind.

*Edit* stick franz ferdinand in there too, somewhere.
 

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shanks said:
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Anyone that know me know that I get really bored with music fast and always tend to like alternative sounding stuff. Well something about Mabool made me listening to it over and over. Dunno what it is.
orphaned land are really cool i just got into them aswell :p love tribal stuff
 

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how could i forget:

Dj Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
 

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reznor said:
lo all...


mozzer would have to be in there for sure....

gonna go see him on monday..

morrissey=you are the quarry
franz ferdinand= franz
rammstein=reise reise


shame joy division are not with us to spoil us...xx

Saw Morrissey last night at Birmingham and he was fucking brilliant, didn't like YATQ much but after hearing some of the tracks last night live it's grown on me - Irish Blood, English Heart is bloody good live. Hope you enjoy the gig ¦D
 

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Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Marit Bergman - Baby Dry Your Eye
 

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i like YATQ, grown on me a lot since i first heard it, best album i've got this year though is American Idiot by Green Day, i think the title track is very weak compared to the rest of it though
 

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Best album was Polyphonic spree together we are heavy.

Very good albums were

DJ dangermouse - Grey Album
Nick cave - Lyre of orpheus
Ed harcourt - Strangers
Phoenix - Alphabetcal
The libertines - The libertines
Was a few very good swedish albums as well but since most dont know the artists ill just skip em.
 

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maxi said:
I disagree, a fantastic year for music. Arcade Fire & The Go! Team are clear winners, and the rest are in no particular order.

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
3. The Hidden Cameras - Mississauga Goddamn
4. The Magnetic Fields - I
5. Bloc Party - E.P
6. Brian Wilson - Smile
7. Adem - Homesongs
8. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
9. The Walkmen - Bows & Arrows
10. Morrissey -You are the Quarry
11. Sons & Daughters - Love the Cup (EP, but it's quality!)
12.The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
13. Mclusky -The Difference Between you and me is i'm not on fire
14.Madvillain - Madvillainy
15.The Earlies - These Were The Earlies
16.The Concretes - The Concretes


Good albums i haven't guven enough air time too yet: Death From Above 1979 - you're a woman, I'm a machine, the fiery furnaces - blueberry boat, joanna newsom - the milk eyed mender, animal collective - sung tongs, Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind.

*Edit* stick franz ferdinand in there too, somewhere.


Holy feck someone here listens to the go team! :eek:)
I havent really given that album that much of a shot and i was supposed to see them live but got to drunk and lazy.

The power is on with the go team might however be one of the top 3 songs of the year imo.
Very nice albums picked too. Similiar taste really
 

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ReActor said:
I agree, definitely slim pickings this year.

Agreed, it's been one of the worst years for music since the 80s. No one has really come onto the scene and done anything more than re-hash the same old same-old.

Best of the lot - Scissor Sisters. No question about it. And it's not even as if they did anything particularly groundbreaking. 'A Grand Don't come for Free' grew on me in the end. Still reckon it's a step backwards from the debut album though.

Miserable fucker, eh? :)
 

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Can't beleive I forgot about "Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad news"
 

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Well they re-released it so I can say -

Jeff Buckley - Grace.
 

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Trem said:
Well they re-released it so I can say -

Jeff Buckley - Grace.

Really kickass. Watch the DVD on the legacy edition in the beginning. Try to hear the sentences "Music is endless" "I guess its called freedom" without laughing. And the video with the monkeys stealing his bike is awesome.
 

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Blonde Redhead - Misery is a butterfly
Enon - Hocus Pocus
Helmet - Unsung (i know best-ofs shouldn't count but it is really good, a pity the new album is crap)
Ween - Quebec


Edit:
And in 2004 I finally found a replacement copy of 'Yank Crime' By Drive like Jehu so Ill put that in there as well. Best Emo album before Emo became shit.
I suppose the new sonic youth album is a prospect but havent heard it yet..
 

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