Albums Of 2004

[Thurston_Whore]

Oh well 2004 is over and another new year of the same shit is upon us,Probably 1 good thing came out of this year for me,and that was some new records apart from that the world is turing in to more of a war zone each day,the weather climate is chaging ect..ect.. so i just thought i'd type up some good albums from this year that i got,please feel free to add to the list or recomend some to. - lets hope this new year brings us all some better news huh.



In no right order.


The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - The Royal Society
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
Nirvana - With The Lights Out
Beastie Boys - To The 5 Boroughs
PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
Mclusky - The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
Auf Der Maur - Auf Der Maur
Bitch Alert - Pay For Orgasm
Graham Coxon - Happiness In Magizines
Local H - Whatever Happened To P.J Soles
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
The Catheters - Howling It Grows And Grows
Burning Brides - Leave No Ashes
The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned
Le Tirgre - This Island

[Smallstone]

Nice list:) Here, for what it's worth is my list of all things musical 2004! Albums and gigs.

Album of the Year: Nick Cave 'Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus'

The rest:

2. Sufjan Stevens 'Seven Swans'

3. Devendra Banhart 'Rejoicing In The Hands' / 'Nino Rojo'

4. Iron And Wine 'Our Endless Numbered Days'

5. Interpol 'Antics'

6. Oneida 'Secret Wars'

7. Wilco 'A Ghost Is Born'

8. Mark Lanegan 'Bubblegum'

9. Sonic Youth 'Nurse'

10. The Shins 'Chutes Too Narrow'

Bubbling Unders, re-issues and stuff from late 2003 enjoyed in 2004!!

Mojo 'Raw Soul' comp. The best covermount ever?

Bettye Swann re-issue on Honest Jons.

Velvet Revolver album

The Go Team 'Thunder, Lightning, Strike'

Delgados 'Universal Audio'

Probot 'Probot'

Marianne Faithfull 'Before The Poison'

Aberfeldy 'Young Forever'

Sufjan Stevens 'Michigan'

Willard Grant Conspiracy 'Regard The End' (strong contender for album of 2003! - came into my headspace too late)

Hey Colossus 'Hates you and you and you and you and you....' - another shameless plug!

Comets On Fire 'Blues Cathedral'

Cure and Siouxsie B sides box sets!

Can re-issues!

Harmonia 'Musik Von Harmonia' & 'Deluxe' + Cluster 'Zuckerzeit'

Isis 'Panopticon'

Gigs of the year!

Nick Cave @ Brixton - 3 nights and he was on fire at all of them!

Sonic Youth at Brixton

MUDHONEY!! at the Astoria!! What do I need to say about this one!

Shellac at the Scala in January and December!

White Stripes NME show at Brixton Academy - storming Friday night binge!!!

The Hey Colossus/Charlottefield/Cove/Trencher: Afternoon show at ROTA Notting Hill Arts CLub - awesome!!

Oneida, Wolves Of Greece and HC at Heavenly Social!! Really good set from New Yorks finest!!

Nebula at the Underworld!

Willard Grant Conspircay and the Handsome Family at the Bloomsbury - jesus what a show from WGC!

Part Chimp, Todd and HC upstairs at the Garage (and Wolves of Greece as well I guess). Totally awesome Silver Rocket show!

Devendra Banhart at the Water Rats

Iron and Wine at the Borderline

Sufjan Stevens at the Bush Hall with full band dressed as swans!!

Pixies at Brixton on the Friday night (Saturday night was ok....). Possibly the best gig I have EVER seen. Perfect sounds, set list, vibe, etc etc. 'Hey' was incredible. Up there with Neil Young playing 'Helpless' at Finsbury Park.

Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings at the Shepherd Bush Empire in August! Again they just slayed!! Awesome set!! Rawlings is the best guitar player in the world!!

Mark Lanegan at the awful venue that is Islington Academy. Still a good night! Probably best I have seen him!

so there you go.

[lamestain]

a few more albums of 2004:
Melvins + Lustmord - Pigs of the Roman Empire
Jello Biafra + Melvins - Never Breath What You Can't See
Elliott Smith - From A Basement on the Hill
Frank Black Francis - Black Francis Demo/Frank Black Francis

my favorite album of '04: Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse

my favorite concerts of '04:
Pixies @ the Aragon in Chicago
Melvins @ the Troubadour in LA
Melvins @ the Patio in Indianapolis
Sonic Youth @ the Vic in Chicago
Sonic Youth @ the Rave in Milwaukee
Walter Trout & the Radicals @ the Riverfront in Peoria
Foghat @ the Riverfront in Peoria

[Thurston_Whore]

fuck!

thanks for reminding me of those albums lamestain man!

yeah gig's of the year for me is...

reading festival
All Tomorrows Parties
Lightning Bolt + Wolf Eyes - Electric Ballroom Camden
Violent Femmes - The Forum
Sunn O))) - The Scala London

[thorn]

best gig of year FOR ME (included so small minded individuals who want to attack me cant!!!) was the pixies obviosly as ive never seen them before!!!

best cd nirvanawith the lights out obviusly

and thats that!!!