Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright, 2004

I'm going to second Call Me Lightning-The Trouble We're In.

I also really like Shake The Sheets by Ted Leo/RX Pharmacists

AND

The Black Album by Jay-Z

Year Future- the hidden hand ep
Birdland- Demo

-Paul

Converge "You Fail Me"
Iscariote "Necropole Trauma"
Grails "Red Light"
King Geedorah "Take me to your leader"

2003, three-way tie: bonnie billie, "master and everyone"
shipping news, "3/4"
magnolia electric company
(w/ brokaw right behind)

2004: christ, still too close to call...i came home from the office last evening to find my love had just produced the brokaw soundtrack thing-y you all were talking up. i must say, that new year record did nothing for me on the first listen. at the moment, i'm tempted to call either sonic nurse or molina's pyramid electric number one, but i'm just not sure... all told, i don't think i've heard a record this year as great as last year's top 4. both the forthcoming magnolia electric and bonnie/sweeney albums belong in that league, but i s'pose they don't qualify. fuck.

it's been a pretty good year when you look at what's been released. and this is just the beginning what i could think of off the top of my head.


tortoise - it's all around you
giant sand - is all over... the map
the new year - the end is near
elliott smith - from a basement on the hill
nina nastasia - dogs (reissue)
clinic - winchester cathedral
90 day men - panda park
brother danielson - brother is to son
q and not u - power
xiu xiu - fabulous muscles
mono - walking cloud and deep red sky, flag fluttered and the sun shined
tarentel - we move through water
mclusky - the difference between me and you is i'm not on fire
death from above 1979 - you're a woman, i'm a machine
brian wilson - smile ("official")
the arcade fire - funeral
comets on fire - blue cathedral
sonic youth - sonic nurse
mirah - c'mon miracle
mission of burma - onoffon
devendra banhart - rejoicing in the hands
devendra banhart - nino rojo
iron and wine - our endless summer days
sufjan stevens - seven swans
blonde redhead - misery is a butterfly
wolf eyes - burned mind
tv on the radio - desperate youth, blood thursty babes
secret machines - now here is nowhere
isis - panopticon
silkworm - it'll be cool
black dice - creature comforts
!!! - louden up now
the advantage - the advantage
magnetic fields - i
vetiver - vetiver
bonnie "prince" billy - greatest palace music
on!air!library! - on!air!library!
deerhoof - milk man
hella - the devil isn't red
oneida - secret wars

1969: The Velvet Underground - "The Velvet Underground"

1982: Flipper - "Generic"

2004: Ted Leo/Rx - "Shake the Sheets"

Nirvana- With the Lights Out

It's a tie:

Icarus Line "Penance Soiree"

Battles "B EP"

Isis "Panopticon"

bdp

2004
Sonic Youth: Sonic Nurse