Music: Best Albums of the Year series: 2004

[Saturated Fats]

1967: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1980: AC/DC - Back in Black
1994: Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
2000: Radiohead - Kid A
1973: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

1988: Metallica - ...And Justice for All (12 votes)

2nd Place: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (10 votes)
3rd Place (tie): NWA - Straight Outta Compton (9 votes)
3rd Place (tie): The Travelling Wilburys - S/T (9 votes)
3rd Place (tie): Dire Straits - Money for Nothing (9 votes)

1988 was a competitive and fun poll, but the option that I initially predicted to win, ended up taking it. I think 2004 is a little bit less clear, as genre diversity and the split between popular and underground is a bit more obscured. I expect plenty of 'Other' votes, but also hope that there are enough options on the list to get a popular consensus.

The next year we will cover is 1969 (nice).

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[Trap Jesus]

The two DOOM albums (/Madvillain), Modest Mouse and Arcade Fire for me.

 

[Cas]

2004 was kind of dead period for (good) metal, though maybe I just haven't dug deeply enough:

Darkthrone - Sardonic Wrath
Hibria - Defying the Rules
Pagan Altar - Lords of Hypocrisy and The Time Lord (both originally recorded decades earlier but not released until 2004)
The Ruins of Beverast - Unlock the Shrine
Therion - Lemuria and Sirius B

Although I like all of these, the most clearly excellent album of the bunch is Hibria - Defying the Rules. Fast, raw, and heavy power metal from Brazil.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Lots of great stuff from 2004, really goes in every directions too.

1. Vincent Delerm - Kensington Square
2. Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant - Sister Phantom Owl Fish
3. Tub Ring - Zoo Hypothesis
4. John Frusciante - Inside of Emptiness (best of the 5 [!] Frusciante albums that year, and best from him since his 2 debut albums)
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5. Plus-Tech Squeeze Box - Cartooom! (if you don't love PTSB, you have no pulse)
6. Bjork - Medùlla
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7. Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
8. Melvins & Lustmord - Pigs of the Roman Empire
9. Morceaux de Machine - Estrapade
10. Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
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HM:
Natural Snow Buildings - The Winter Ray
John Zorn - Magick
Tom Waits - Real Gone
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons
Fanfar Pourpour - Le Bal
Boredoms - Seadrum / House of Sun
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
These Arms Are Snakes - Oxeneers or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
CocoRosie - La maison de mon rêve
The Matches - E. Von Dahl Killed the Locals

Edit:
The Blood Brothers - Crimes

Still voted for Waits and Cave even though they fall out of my top-10 - there's just too much great stuff from that year.

Love these polls. I like checking a little before the poll is posted, but damn after that it feels like a looooong time for the next one.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Arcade Fire

Brian Wilson

Green Day
Killers
Tom Waits

 

[ghostnights]

Killers
Converge

 

[Mescaleroman]

Voted Bjork off the list.

My others are

the Stranglers - Norfolk Coast
the Beautiful Girls - Learn Yourself
the Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets
Ian Brown - Solarized

 

[Teemu]

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Ray LaMontagne – Trouble
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Mm..Food. It's perfect.

(DOOM): Has the laser cannon been lowered?
(DOOM Cronie): Everything has been prepared as you ordered. But how did you get permission to return to New York master?
(DOOM): Through the efforts of the misguided fools
(J. Jonah Jameson): It's free enterprise, and I'm not gonna have some blasted government bureaucrat tell me how to run my business. But DOOM will be my guest on my private estate in Long Island. There's nothing you can do about it
(Jameson Employee): He's dangerous, I just hope you know what you're doing
(Jay Jonah Jameson): Don't I always. Ah, there's DOOM's jet, right on time

(Voice 1): Why's it so cold out here?
(Voice 2): The heat went out in the whole building
(Voice 3): It's warming up out there in Long Island with DOOM
(Voice 1): DOOM? Here in New York?
(Voice 2): Yes DOOM has an amazing new machine

(DOOM): Get the president of the United States on the phone
(Jay Jonah Jameson): How long's all this gonna take, DOOM?
(DOOM): I would not advise you to repeat that error
(Jay Jonah Jameson): Sure, I know what you mean

 

[kihei]

They'd all be Brazilian albums with U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb maybe coming in tenth.

 

[Teemu]

1969 (nice) will be the first year I'll have limit myself to 10. Why did CCR and Zeppelin have to release multiple albums? That's just not fair.

 

[plank]

1967: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1980: AC/DC - Back in Black
1994: Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
2000: Radiohead - Kid A
1973: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

1988: Metallica - ...And Justice for All (12 votes)

2nd Place: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (10 votes)
3rd Place (tie): NWA - Straight Outta Compton (9 votes)
3rd Place (tie): The Travelling Wilburys - S/T (9 votes)
3rd Place (tie): Dire Straits - Money for Nothing (9 votes)

1988 was a competitive and fun poll, but the option that I initially predicted to win, ended up taking it. I think 2004 is a little bit less clear, as genre diversity and the split between popular and underground is a bit more obscured. I expect plenty of 'Other' votes, but also hope that there are enough options on the list to get a popular consensus.

The next year we will cover is 1969 (nice).

I approve the Angel Olsen picture!

 

[plank]

1. The Dirty South - Drive By-Truckers
2. Stairs and Elevators - Heartless Bastards
3. Undermind - Phish
4. Pity the Shape I'm In - The Psychobilly Kadillaks
5. Van Lear Rose - Loretta Lynn
6. Pyramid Electric Co. - Jason Molina
7. To Tulsa and Back - J.J. Cale
8. More Adventurous - Rilo Kiley
9. Favourite Colours - The Sadies
10. Shangri-La - Mark Knopfler
11. Contraband - Velvet Revolver
12. The Ride - Los Lobos
13. Antics - Interpol

 

[todeskultes]

Coil - Black Antlers
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Buried Inside - Chronoclast

 

[Mikeaveli]

Madvillain - Madvillainy
MF DOOM - MM.. FOOD
edIT - Crying Over Pros For No Reason
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Brian Wilson - Smile
Masta Killa - No Said Date

 

[Unholy Diver]

Brian Wilson - Smile
Tom Waits - Real Gone
Mark Knopfler - Shangri - La

 

[Babe Ruth]

I voted for American Idiot..
Write-in vote for Ashes of the Wake (Lamb of God).

 

[Teemu]

1. The Dirty South - Drive By-Truckers
2. Stairs and Elevators - Heartless Bastards
3. Undermind - Phish
4. Pity the Shape I'm In - The Psychobilly Kadillaks
5. Van Lear Rose - Loretta Lynn
6. Pyramid Electric Co. - Jason Molina
7. To Tulsa and Back - J.J. Cale
8. More Adventurous - Rilo Kiley
9. American V: A Hundred Highways - Johnny Cash
10. Shangri-La - Mark Knopfler
11. Antics - Interpol

Kind of surprised you don't have Iron & Wine

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn

 

[member 51464]

They'd all be Brazilian albums with U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb maybe coming in tenth.

Please do share the Brazilian albums! I have been working to knock the rust off my Portuguese and listening to Brazilian tunes is one of my favorite ways to do so.

 

[plank]

Kind of surprised you don't have Iron & Wine

I don't have that album. I have and really like The Creek Drank the Cradle, The Shepherd's Dog and In the Reins w/Calexico. Do you recommend I pick it up?

 

[Langdon Alger]

Kind of of off topic, but why did the 1994 music thread disappear?

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Kind of of off topic, but why did the 1994 music thread disappear?

I guess it's a temporary bug? You can see the google cache: Music: - Best Albums of the Year series: 1994

These past threads should be all linked in the OP.

 

[Langdon Alger]

I guess it's a temporary bug? You can see the google cache: Music: - Best Albums of the Year series: 1994

These past threads should be all linked in the OP.

Thanks, I was wondering what happened to that thread.

 

[Teemu]

I don't have that album. I have and really like The Creek Drank the Cradle, The Shepherd's Dog and In the Reins w/Calexico. Do you recommend I pick it up?

OK I wasn't sure if it was Iron & Wine in general or just that album. Yea, its right up your alley.