Here's your chance to join the critics who are issuing their best-of-music in 2004 lists.

What are your fave cd's, songs, artists, concerts, etc of '04?


I'll start off with my fave studio albums (excluding comps, greatest hits, soundtracks, & surf instrol music)*

1. The Rubber Factory- The Black Keys

2. Hit Squad- Bevis Frond

3. Real Gone- Tom Waits

4. The Words We Say Before We Sleep- The Music Lovers

5. Our Endless Numbered Days- Iron & Wine

6. Permanently High- Popium

7. Smile- Brian Wilson

8 .Abattoir Blues & Lyre of Orpheus- Nick Cave

9. Happenstance- Rachel Yamagata

10. When I Said I Wanted to be Your Dog- Jens Lekman

11.From A Basement on a Hill- Elliot Smith

12. Van Leer Rose- Loretta Lynn

13. Mind Body & Soul- Joss Stone

14. A Ghost is Born- Wilco

15. Ten White Stones- The Green Pajamas

16. Too Much Guitar- Reigning Sound

17. Anything- Martina Topley-Bird

18. The Revolution Starts Now- Steve Earle

19. Shake The Sheets- Ted Leo & the Pharmacists

20. Careless Love- Madeleine Peyroux

21. How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb- U2

22. Big As the Sky- A.M.Sixty

23. Laced with Romance- The Ponys

24. Kiss & Tell- Sahara Hotnights

25. Good News for People Who Love Bad News- Modest Mouse

26. Bubblegum- Mark Lannegan Band

27. Ambush- Lateef B & the Chief

Honorable mentions:
"Tigers Have Spoken" Neko Case
"Music for the Girl You Love" Raquel's Boys
"Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes" TV On the Radio
"If We Can't Trust the Doctors" Blanche
"Escondida" Jolie Holland
"Undermind" Phish
"Blueberry Boat" Fiery Furnaces
"Sonic Nurse" Sonic Youth
"Juliette Foster" Phil Agnotti
"Peace With Every Step" Build An Ark
"Consider the Birds" Woven Hand

*list subject to change on a whim

these are songs that made me sit up and pay attention:

1. hey ya - outkast
2. let's get retarded/it started - black eyed peas
3. scar - missy higgins
4. run - snow patrol
3. predictable - good charlotte
5. always - blink 182
6. from the sea - eskimo joe
7. boulevard of broken dreams - green day
8. perfect - simple plan
9. look what you've done - jet
10. too late - evermore
11. breathe no more - evanescence
12. somebody told me - the killers
13. everytime - britney spears
14. take me out - franz ferdinand
15. always there - kate alexa
16. miss you - blink 182
17. beautiful to me - little birdy
18. numb all over - dallas crane
19. she will be loved - maroon 5
20. somewhere only we know - keane
21. explosion - bond
22. better off alone - grinspoon
23. bless my soul - powderfinger
24. light at the end of the tunnel - something for kate
25. life on mars? - david bowie (well, it's new to me...)


yes, you read right - britney spears. i actually cried when i was watching the film clip tonight *clears a space on the mantle for my 'world's wussiest scroller' trophy*

Fave songs of '04. No partiular order.

"Tell Her Tonight" Franz Ferdinand
"Float On" Modest Mouse
"Fever Dream" Iron & Wine
"Beautiful Thing" Popium
"Sugared Up" Delta
"You Make My Heart Beat Fast" Buddy & Julie Miller
"Sasha" Jolie Holland
"Theologians" Wilco
"The Way She Dances" NERD
"Hold Me Now" Polyphonic Spree
"If You Can't Get Me Off Your Mind" Amp Fiddler
"Girl is on My Mind" Black Keys
"Your Little Point" Bevis Frond
"Rich Man's War" Steve Earle
"Metropolitian Glide" Tom Waits
"Right To Be Wrong" Joss Stone
"I Wanna Know" Icicles
"Twilight" Elliot Smith
"There She Goes My Beautiful World" Nick Cave
"Love Not Dead" Thistle
"Origin of the Species" U2
"Me & Mia" Ted Leo & the Pharamacists

oh yeah, i forgot to mention that mine was in no particular order either. hey ya would probably still be at no.1 if it was though i love that song ^_^

Favorite comps of 2004, in particular order

Left of the Dial
most fave comp of 2004

Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered
most fave tribute of 2004

Afro Funk Sessions
Afro Baby
Ghana Soundz Vol. 2
you thought dite's afro was making all that up about lovin afro-funk? As if!

Love, Peace & Poetry- Mexican Psychedelic Music

Zorch Factor Vol. 2 & 3
Rockabilly & psycho-billy from Europe

Death Disco
Gotta love that Throbbing Gristle

Midwest Funk

The Q People- A Tribute to NRBQ

Sympathetic Sounds of Toe-Rag
mid-90's punk, worth it just for Holly Golightly

Nag Nag Nag
'80s through now electronic punk

Mondo Bossa O' Quatro

Lemme Take You to the Beach
unbelieveable surf instrol tribute to Frank Zappa

Creole Bred
creole by cajun & pop stars

Sympathetic Sounds of Detroit

Girls With Guitars
mid-'60s rock

Uncle Junior's Friday Fish Fry
funky!

Boogie Cops & Disco Pimps
disco/funk, lotta horns, jazzy rock

Ave Marina
that rare creature- a label sampler that's without a dud

Hit the Hay Vol. 7
alt-country & power pop

Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label
Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label
double eccentric soul

Matador At 15
another great label sampler

My list isn't as comprehensive.

I liked:

• Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  
• blink 182
  
• The Waifs
  
• Little Birdy
  
• the dissociatives
  
• The Grey Album

xc. what the hell are you doing in Indihickiana, man? your musical tastes scream: "AUSTIN!!!"

you should really consider trying to make the Austin City Limits Festival some September!
check it out...

OOOOooo i'd love to make it the Austin City Limits Festival, zoomie. That '04 schedule bout makes me wet myself with glee!

Isn't the SXSW (South By South-West) festival convention thing also held in Austin? I know the world's largest record/cd collector's convention is usually in Austin sometime in March or April.

Well, this year's vacation isn't set yet so maybe i oughta think about scheduling it in September instead of August (August is a madhouse at work so I usually high-tail it outta there that month, but then Sept is busy too, hmmmm).

well...if you can contain the glee-induced wetting, i make a pretty good tour guide. we could even get Sara & Nora to drag butts south and have a right regular scroll meetup and all for ya...

I would drag my ass down but uh, in September I shall be in Oz, m'dear, as should you or in New Zealand, depending on when.

Any other time than September, I'll drag her royal lawyerness' ass down and we'll initiate xc to the Texas way.

oh yeah. right.

never mind! in '06 then maybe...

'06? Assuming we'll survive 2 more years of Dubya? If so, sounds koolage!