Album of The Year - Endgame

Woob_woob said:
Yea Winters Love may be my favorite song of all time. Sung Tongs is my favorite due to countless good memories that are associated with that music. There are about 5 perfect AnCo albums (including Person Pitch) imo
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For sure regarding the 5 perfect albums and then 2+ really good albums/eps. And kids on holiday comes in after winters love! It’s perfect.
Woob_woob said:
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Idk if this album will make my top 10 but this song rips for always.
 
Joe Mac said:
So I think this will be a list heavy on bands from this side of the ocean for me sorry!

Loving this nostalgia boost. All I need now is a to be transported back in time to a bad student night club with terrible diet cheap booze...
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Different point in my life - starting high school - but the nostalgia boost is real
 
I mentioned the two artists in disgrace...

These are two songs I love off two albums I love, pity about the people that made them..

They should be high up my lists but I’ll probably leave both off 😟



 
Top 10 2004
1. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. Kanye West - College Dropout
4. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
5. The Streets - A Grand Don’t Come For Free
6. Destroyer - Your Blues
7. Hot Chip - Coming On Strong
8. Kings Of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street
9. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
10. Franz Ferdinand - S/T

HMs:
Rufus Wainwright - Want Two
Walkmen - Bows & Arrows
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
Brian Wilson - Smile
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands
 
1. Murs & 9th Wonder - Murs 3:16: The 9th Edition
2. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
3. Kanye West - The College Dropout
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. Magma - K.A
6. Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer
7. Isis - Panopticon
8. Madvillain - Madvillainy
9. Mos Def - The New Danger
10. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender

Lots of really incredible and undeniably influential albums from this year. I base my lists ENTIRELY on personal enjoyment, which is why relatively obscure albums beat out cultural classics like Funeral or Madvillainy, but the classics are classics for a reason - they're fucking amazing. Though I have to say, I'm not entirely sure I could've made a list much longer than this, especially if really enjoying the albums is a criteria (as opposed to just a ranked list of all the albums from 2004 I've listened to, good and bad). I could probably do 20, maybe 25, but not a whole ton more than that I don't think. Obviously quality > quantity and all that, but I found it sorta funny since the last year we did was 2013 - while I wouldn't rank any album from that year over College Dropout or Funeral, I could EASILY make a list of at least 50 albums from that year that I loved
 
This year was unreal. What was in the water these days ? Any year where I don't even rank Cave's or PJ's album from that year is nothing short of exceptional !

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Johnny Cash - Unearthed
3. Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
4. Feist - Let It Die
5. Alela Diane - The Pirate's Gospel
6. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
7. AIR - Talkie Walkie
8. Tom Waits - Real Gone
9. John Butler Trio - Sunrise Over Sea
10. Dead Combo - Vol. 1

Honorable Mentions :
Eagles of Death Metal - Peace, Love & Death Metal
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
NERD - Fly or Die
PJ Harvey - Uh huh her
Melissa Auf Der Maur - Auf Der Maur
Bjork - Medulla
Nick Cave - Abbatoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus
Saul Williams - Saul Williams
Ben Harper & the Blinds Boys of Alabama - There Will Be A Light
ISIS - Panopticon
A Perfect Circle - eMotive
 
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1. Adem - Homesongs
2. Tinariwen - Amassakoul
3. Franz Ferdinand - s/t
4. Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street
5. The Country Soul Review - Testifying
6. James Yorkston - Just Beyond the River
7. Brian Wilson - Smile
8. Secret Machines - Now Here is Nowhere
9. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
10. Ed Harcourt - Strangers

Honourable mention - my first and possibly greatest Orchestre Poly-Rythmo compilation - Kings of Benin (on Soundway)
 
spreddy updated for 2013...i'm calling arcade fire canadian! and mbv irish!!

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The N+G Album of the Year...

Top 100 Artists of the last 60 years Order,Artist,Votes,Nationality 100,Black Sabbath,36,English 99,Oasis,36,English 98,Spoon,36,American 97,Sam Cooke,37,American 96,Stan Getz,37,American 95,Joy Division,37,English 94,Janet Jackson,37,American 93,My Bloody Valentine,38,Irish 92,The Replacements,...
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2004 was a REALLY strong year!

back then arcade fire and yeezy were clear standouts, and then i lurrrrrrrrrved the walkmen, the streets...and kings of leon?

my fave oztrayan album of 04 was probably eskimo joe's a song is a city, which was stacked with great oz pop-rock songs

other local considerations would be dappled cities debut, kasey chambers' wayward angel, sia's colour the small one, nick cave's double album, and i dug the vines second record big time - rob schnapf's production was tight
 
1. Converge - You Fail Me
2. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
3. Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
4. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
5. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
6. MF DOOM - MM...FOOD
7. Isis - Panopticon
8. Old Man Gloom - Christmas
9. Venetian Snares - Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding
10. Leftöver Crack - Fuck World Trade
 
One of the most slept-on releases of the century came out this year: Zap Mama - Ancestry in Progress.

Clearly influenced by the Soulquarians Sound, it also features Erykah, Questlove and Common. Unfortunately never released on vinyl. But I´m probably biased on this, as this was the soundtrack to the first summer I spent with my now-wife..

 
1. Madvillain - Madvillainy
2. Zap Mama - Ancestry in Progress
3. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
4. Kanye West - The College Dropout
5. Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer
6. Feist - Let it Die
7. MF Doom - MM..Food
8. Prince - Musicology
9. Usher - Confessions
10. Kings of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street

Honorable Mention: Slum Village - Detroit Deli
 
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