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Ewan

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posted December 21, 2004 04:07

Hey guys.

OK, you know the drill... your favourite albums of 2004. C'mon, it'll be fun.

THE EARLIES - These Were... - This album is beautiful genius. Kind of like a half English/half American Mercury Rev or The Polyphonic Spree with beats, only better. Caught them live as well and it was an absolutely brilliant show.

ELLIOTT SMITH - From A Basement On The Hill - What's to be said? Not the album as it was intended to be, but it's a brilliant album nonetheless. Rocking, soothing and heart breaking all at once.

THE SHINS - Chutes Too Narrow - Sure you all know it, but it's just great tunes with great lyrics. And really, what more can you ask for?

Honourable mentions -
The Thrills, Micah P. Hinson And The Gospel Of Progress, Of Montreal, The Polyphonic Spree

Dishonourable mention -
Ben Kweller's second effort, which was frankly, rather shit.

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Ewan

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posted December 21, 2004 21:28

What, do I smell or something?

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***norm

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posted December 22, 2004 08:58

This has been a weird year for music and me. I think I have finally gotten to the point that "new" music has lost a bit of its luster and the old stand by artists are more important. Comfort music or something. That said, The Killers are delightfully catchy and My Chemical Romance is wonderful.

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Colonel Klink

Member # 78

posted December 22, 2004 10:43

I don't know why I find My chemical romance "OK but weird", sounds a bit like Taking back sunday but it's not that great to me.

On a side note, I've read somewhere that every kid and their mother like MCR in highschools.

Which is not a good sign.
Popularity killed Blink 182

Oh and ewan smells.

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PunkMunkey

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posted December 22, 2004 20:34

My favorites of 2004 include:

The Empire Strikes First - Bad Religion
American Idiot - Green Day
Tiger Army III: Ghost Tigers Rise - Tiger Army
The Cure - The Cure
Shake The Sheets - Ted Leo & Pharmacists
Futures - Jimmy Eat World
The New What Next - Hot Water Music
Pressure Chief - Cake

...but like Norm, I've been kind of falling bak on "old standards"...I've been spinning a lot of The Clash lately (especially the Legacy Edition of London Calling) along with some Ramones, some Husker Du, Replacements and the like.

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Colonel Klink

Member # 78

posted December 24, 2004 08:33

quote:
Originally posted by PunkMunkey:

The Empire Strikes First - Bad Religion

Wasn't that good to me.

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American Idiot - Green Day

This one was mindblowing, although, as they pointed out on some radios they kinda ripped off some famous songs ("boulevard of broken dreams" sounds like Oasis' wonderwall, "extraordinary girl"'s intro sounds like tenacious D's wonderboy). Still, very good album. I really like "holidays"?

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The Cure - The Cure

As a former huge Cure fan (look my hair, look my hair), I found this one was a cool attempt to get back to "roots" but Robert's getting old and the flame's not there anymore.

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Futures - Jimmy Eat World

When I first listened to it in May or so, I found it rather nice. Then I was in the US in october/november and the single was played every freaking hour or so. It just took my "brain" away.

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Daniel

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posted December 24, 2004 21:38

65daysofstatic - "The Fall of Math"
Handsome Boy Modeling School - "White People"
Q and not U - "Power"
Death From Above 1979 - "You're a Woman, I'm a Machine"
Cake - "Pressure Chief"
Drive By Truckers - "The Dirty South"
The Arcade Fire - "Funeral"

Those are my favorites from this year.

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Jody

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posted December 30, 2004 07:56

The Shins album was my favorite, easily.
But, I have to say that RJ and I have very similar taste in music. I haven't had much time to check out those new albums he mentioned, but a lot of those bands have been past favorites...

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Mike

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posted December 30, 2004 09:33

i enjoyed:

midtown, green day, jimmy eat world, the killers, a perfect circle, the black mages (not entirely sure if this was released in '04 though).

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Sir Paul

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posted January 12, 2005 13:18

I think I bought a total of four albums last year in total.

Green Day - American Idiot: was AMAZING, man I listened to that CD straight for like 2 months. All the intricacies (sp) were just mindblowing. I really think it is one of the best albums I have heard in a really long time. Just good good music all the way through, the longer songs especially, with all their different movements etc.

Team America: World Police - Soundtrack: was.. interesting to say the least. Those "southpark guys" are masters of parody and sarcasm. Between the "America, Fuck yeah!" and "I'm so ronery" to the wicked love song based on how much the movie Pearl Harbor sucked.. it was pretty enjoyable I thought.

Eminem - Encore: was really really good I thought. I really dont like (or know anything about) rap in general. I enjoyed some Dr. Dre and Snoop Dog in middle-school and early high-school, but once I found "punk rock" music I never really went back to Rap. This album by Eminem was really something else though, half of it was really serious-type stuff that sounded great, while the other half was goofy-ass-shit that also sounded great. I dont think it will steer me off towards listening to more rap, but I enjoyed this one.

Finally.. my favorite album of 2004..

Halo 2 - Soundtrack: Yeah Yeah, I am a dork I know. My love of the game probably biases me in some way, but hot damn I really enjoy this cd. Its mostly instrumental "background" and "theme" music, which forms the meat of the album. There is also a few "real" songs by Incubus (not good), a song by Hoobustank (not bad) and one by Breaking Benjamin (I think?) which is really good. I am a big fan of movie music, and this game soundtrack ranks right up there with the best movie music I've heard. It roxorz

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matve
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posted February 01, 2005 12:08

Why surely it's got to be

Tad '8-Way Santa'

and

Rotten Banana 'Tales from the Cyanide Jar'

Ewan, you have even less taste now than you did when I last saw you. Elliott Smith? His inane ramblings could never compete with the songwriting finesse of Tad Doyle and Christopher Reeve. The others? I don't know them, but really, you should know better. And while I'm at it, what about the infamous Monkey Dam tapes of 1997? Bah!

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