Fave-Lists 2004

Best Albums done between 1.1. and 31.12. 2004:


Modest Mouse: Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Sonic Youth: Nurse
Mark Lanegan: Bubblegum
Tom Waits: Real Gone
Motorpsycho presents the International Tussler Society
Moving Units: Bad Dreams

That´s it I must admit. Hasn´t been a good year after all.

Please add your favez!

Yeah, Sonic Youth's Nurse and Tussler are the best

my list differs a bit.

my three faves were (and they are still on rotation):

michaela melian - baden-baden
coco rosie - la maison de mon reve
holly golightly - slowly but surely

but the following albums delighted me too(without any ranking):

stina nordenstam -the world is saved
björk - medulla
interpol - antics
rufus wainwright - want two
devendra banhart - rejoicing in the hands
devendra banhart - nino rojo
elliott smith - from a basement on the hill
destroyer - your blues
the black keys - rubber factory
the fiery furnaces - blueberry boat
sufjan stevens - greetings from michigan
ben weaver - stories under nails
joann newsom - the milk-eyed mender
kreidler -eve fututre recall
the dresden dolls - same

and sure i liked franz ferdinand's debut lp also.


what a fantastic music year with a lot of different kind of gems.

and the new one seems to start as well as the last ends: the new ...trail of dead lp will be released in two weeks....


many greetings

andreas

modest mouse
mono

Isis - Panopticon
Enslaved - Isa
Sophia - People Are Like Seasons
Ulvhedin - Pagan Manifest
Red Harvest - Internal Punishment Programs
Tønes - Grønnare Gras
Black Debbath - Den Femte Statsmakt
Mayhem - Chimera
Darkthrone - Sardonic Wrath
Slayer - Still Reigning
Entombed - Unreal Estate

Death Angel? Probot??? ... anyone?
Don't betray your roots or he will come and take you South of Heaven ... mouhaw!

A short summary, no particular order, just stuff i enjoyed in 2004.

MUSIC:
...........
-Dresden Dolls, s/t
-Mono, Walking cloud and deep red sky, flag fluttered and the sun shined
-Archive, Noise
-The Faint, Wet from Birth
-Sigur Ros, New EP (ba ba ti ki di do or something like that)
-New Bright Eyes Songs i heard in 2004, pretty amazing, to be released any day now.

LIVE:
........
Can't tell which one was the best one. these i enjoyed a lot. i mean, A LOT.

-Mono, bad bonn festival
-Sophia, zürich
-Firewater, bern & geneva
-The Faint, zürich
-Dresden Dolls, strasbourg

~Naqoyqatsi (film+audio)

Can’t say how much I love this.
Sometimes watch it everyday to remind me
that I’m just a virtual-being.

Love and Peace...!

only thing that comes to mind is tussler!

--alex

without any order --

The Album Leaf - In A Safe Place
featuring the awesome talents of sigur ros.

The Beta Band - Heroes to Zeros
too bad this highly experimental band from england split recently..

Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague
new/dark-wave classics done in an easy listening style. veeery nice.

Maria Solheim - Frail
great singer/songwriter from Norway. nice voice, great songs, it's just scary that she believes in god. ;-)

Motorpsycho presents The International Tussler Society
obvious?

Clinic - Winchester Cathedral
Giant Sand - Is all over the Map
Green Day - Amercian Idiot
KVLR - KVLR
Rammstein - Reise, Reise
Manic Street Preachers - Lifeblood
Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
Ryan Adams - Love is Hell

1. Wilco - A ghost is born
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. Modest Mouse - Good news for people who love bad news
and i guess we also can add Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain LA Desert (deluxe version) on this list. One of the greatest pop records in the history with a lot of bonus songs...

the years best download
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot demo

And i guess 2005 will be a hell of a year. new albums from trail of dead (it's just fucking amazing. I guess a lot of mp fans will love this), Spoon, Broken Social Scene etc...

The ten 2004 releases that i enjoyed the most:

In Flames - Soundtrack To Your Escape
Slipknot - Vol.3: (The Subliminal Verses)
The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band - The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band
Cadillac - Magnetic City
Helldorado - Director's Cut
Motorpsycho presents - The International Tussler Society
Gluecifer - Automatic Thrill
Home Groan - The Opening Act
The National Bank - {The National Bank}
WE - Smugglers


Other brilliant releases i discovered in 2004:

Black Comedy - Synthesis (2002)
Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night (1973/2001 remaster)
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard (1974/2004 deluxe edition)
Emmerhoff & The Melancholy Babies - Loosebox (2002)
Entombed - Morning Star (2001)
Entombed - Inferno (2003)
Grand Funk Railroad - Live Album (1970/2002 remaster)
Hatfield And The North - The Rotters Club (1975)
Helmet - Meantime (1992)
Insense - Insense (2002)
Pink Fairies - Kings Of Oblivion (1973/2002 remaster)
The Quill - Hooray! It's a Deathtrip (2003)
Slipknot - Slipknot (1999)
Slipknot - Iowa (2001)
Soft Machine - Fourth/Fifth (1971/1972/1999 remaster)
Soilwork - Figure Number Five (2003)
Sparzanza - Into The Sewers (2003)
Sunride - The Great Infiltration (2001)
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (1969)

beta band split? what a pity. fantastic band. unfortunately never saw them live.

yup, they split (and nobody seems to have registered it) -> [url]http://www.lab.artscience.net/clients/beta/yabb/YaBB.cgi/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=1091463694;start=0[/url]

cadillacs 'magnetic city' is definetly not to be left out..

Yes, Caddilac's great! Saw them on a concert here in Namsos, on the youth-club "Lagre'"

elliott smith - faboth
dungen - ta det lugnt

indeed dungen, and also roberth roth- someone, somewhere. and yourcodenameis:milo - all roads to fault. etc!

My two cents:

MP - TITS
duuhhh

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
Beefheart gone hardcore

Tom Waits - Real Gone
Finally a worthy sequel to 'Bone Machine'

Soulwax - Any day now
Belgiums hottest band since dEUS

And of course: all the albums I forgot (sitting at work & not seeing my collection).

Greets,

Thomas

last years favourite definitely Blonde Redheads wonderful Misery is a Butterfly

everybody: go and have a listen!

byee