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

[quispquake]

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!!!

[AverageJoe]

1. I've just got one

SMiLE by Brian Wilson

37 years in the making and worth every second.

[Guy Fawkes]

2. 1. "Has Been" by William Shatner...

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

[tuvor]

3. Okay.

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

[quispquake]

4. The Hives album is Great!!!

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!!!

[tuvor]

5. For some reason, Howlin' Pelle reminds me of a young Mick Jagger.

:shrug:

[RevolutionaryActs]

6. Ok here goes,

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

[Forkboy]

7. Top 5

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

[quispquake]

9. That Jello & the Melvins album was my fave punk album of the year...

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

[New Earth]

8. ok here's mine

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

[seg4527]

10. American Idiot by Green Day

Good enough for all top 5 spots. :-D

[LeftCoast]

11. I'll second that!

What an incredible album.

[FDRrocks]

12. Revision....

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.

[New Earth]

13. 311 - Music in 2004?

lol you're about 11 years late :hi:

[FDRrocks]

15. Huh?

I missed the boat? lol

edit: OH YEA I DID! LOL! :(

[WMliberal]

14. albums? I just do the illeeeegal thing and get them for free.

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[Wat_Tyler]

16. OK.

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

[flvegan]

17. Top 3

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

[Kilkenny5]

18. My top five (in no order):

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

[sundog]

19. uh

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.

[TyeDye75]

20. Here we go

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

[peacebird]

21. as a single only - 1985 by Bowling for Soup!

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