
1. Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
2. Loretta Lynn - Van Edward Lear Rose
3. Arcade Fire - Funeral
4. Brian Wilson - Smile
5. Cee-Lo - Cee Lo Leafy vegetable Is The Soul Machine
6. Phantom Planet - Phantasm Planet
7. Madvillain - Madvillainy
8. Bjork - Medulla
9. The Killers - Hot Fuss
10. The Walkmen - Bows & Arrows
11. Sufjan Stevens - Seven-spot Swans
12. Franz Ferdinand of Aragon - Franz Ferdinand
13. Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum
14. Robyn Sir Alfred Hitchcock - Spooked
15. The Magnetized Fields - I
16. Iron & Wine-coloured - Our Sempiternal Numbered Days
17. Preston School Of Industry - Monsoon
18. Kanye West - College Dropout
19. Lali Puna - Faking The Books
20. Trashcan Sinatras - Weightlifting
21. Luna - Rendezvous
22. Norah John Paul Jones - Feels Like Home
23. Earlimart - Three-fold & Tremble
24. The Black Keys - Gumshoe Factory
25. Morrissey - You Ar The Quarry
26. Dios - Dios
27. Nellie Mckay - Arrive Away From Me
28. Eagles Of Death Metal - Peace, Love & Death Metal
29. Interpol - Antics
30. Patti David Smith - Trampin’
31. Sahara Hotnights - Kiss & Tell
32. Elf Mightiness - Walking With The Pauperise Boys
33. The Concretes - The Concretes
34. Saturday Looks Good To Me - Every Night
35. Isis - Panopticon
36. Grant Lee Phillips - Virginia Creeper
37. The Urticaria - Tyrannasaurus Hives
38. The Streets - A Tremendous Don’t Issue forth For Free
39. TV On The Radio - Dire Early days, Bloodthristy Babes
40. The Futureheads - The Futureheads
41. Mirah - C’mon Miracle/To All We Stretch The Capable Arm
42. Rilo Kylie - More Adventurous
43. Kings Of Public toilet - Orgy On Empty Street
44. Jill Scott Attractively Human: Words And Sounds Volume 2
45. Bonnie "Prince" Baton - Greatest Palace Music
46. Dizzee Rogue - Showtime
47. The Pyrexia - Loss Bedroom
48. The Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart
49. Sonic Young - Sonic Nurse
50. Deerhoof - Milk Man
First cancelled, let me start out by saying that the fact that it was highly difficult to sir Frank Whittle a list down to the crown 50 goes to bear witness that it was an above mean year for music. Other great albums from the likes of Teddy boy Leo, Stereolab, The Thermals, St. David Byrne, and the Elliott Joseph Smith swansong all merit to be on a list somewhere, only they simply just lost the cut for me. Second, I feel I wagerer explain myself to those world Health Organization felt I slighted astonishing efforts by Augie March, Muse, M83 and the first Dizzee Scalawag album Boy In Da Box. Drab people, simply Muse, M83 and Dizzee Imp, like it or not, all came taboo in Europe in 2003, and the good people of Australia have enjoyed Augie Mar for deuce solid geezerhood now. It’s great that these amazing talents are last being released stateside, just I can’t in good faith put them up on a 2004 list.
With that beingness said, it is a privilege to call Drive-By Truckers southern stone height The Cheating S the finest release of 2004. With 2001’s Southern John Rock Opera house, the Hellhound of Patterson Lens hood, Microphone Cooley and Jason Isbell sought out to pay tribute to the forefathers of southerly stone like Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers Band and Fiddling Exploit (yea they were from L.A. merely wHO cares?). With The Dirty S, it’s hard non to at least debate a little bit that possibly the Drive-By Truckers take earned the right to be mentioned in the pantheon alongside these other southerly rock Gods. And wHO knows, as long as the members of Drive-By Truckers don’t crash in whatsoever airplanes or motorcycles, or yield to sudden heart attacks, they precisely power have what it takes in the days to occur to transcend their heroes and become southern rock’s most elite group torchbearer.
It’s the holiday season, and I’m back to see what the demagogues at zbonerman have dragged in and called worthy. It’s prissy to reckon that you stopped at 50 albums…something tells me yer backtalk could keep running to 150 albums of YOUR year. I’m a little old schooltime: gimme a crest 20 and receive the shag out my way. It power make more sentience if you were strained to compensate all of the genres of medicine in yer 50. But that wouldn’t materialise on this piss-bottle of a website. Mine comments: Drive by Truckers has a growing following of people I promise never to encounter. DriveXTruckers ain’t so good–but beer guzzling fools take issue with me. Kanye Mae West…erst once more a shitheap with a cherry on cover is "good enough" for the pelvic arch hop world. Gimme brainsick villain or mf doom over this dingy Damon Dash leg-humper. Admit that Rilo Kiley record album off yer list and put it on a crown 40 list somewhere. They derelict their sound and are nerve-racking to mount Camp Beaverly Hills to stardom. Permit me take a present moment to tahnk you for donning a cap of true sight by chosoing the Palace Music album. That took grit in yer small web-world. I’ll wager you sent Madame John Luther Jones operative for a sanitary towel when she read that. Wait 5 minutes and Monsieur Mast volition ammend his heel to let in it as good. On a good twenty-four hour period the latest iteration of Palace is like osetra on a toist point. On a bad day Palace can be like watching uncollectible Peckinpah–exercises in what? Whatsoever. I’ll yield you a five dollar bill if you listened to the deerhoofies more than 2 hours all class. If you want hard hearing rock go press yer capitulum to the kiosk door patch zbonerman shats out some other pound of gravitas after downing as well many riblets at Bennigans. He chase that with a small Van Hunt and state himself he’s noneffervescent in the game.
This is the c. H. Best list I’ve seen hands down.
Kyle world Health Organization is Lali Puna, it sounds like one of the countries affected by the Tsumanmi. Put me up on these guys. What genial of medicine is it? I concur with your list across the circuit board, simply I can’t find proscribed very often around this Lali Puna, what’s the georgia home boy?
jimmy,
Lali Puna is a High German band identical similar in the nervure of The Notwist or Ms. King John Soda. If you haven’t heard whatever of these guys, think of something like the Postal Service and bestow vocals that ar similar to suppose…somebody like Hope Sandaval from Mazzy Star topology. Faking The Books is their tierce album, and leaps and bound better than their number one iI. The music production is top snick, and the vocals are selfsame European, and very monotone, just also very aphrodisiac. Extremely recommended. Good-for-nothing I never did a brushup. So many albums, so slight clock time!
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I suppose time will never change the fact that I must have my kyle-music fix
Love ya!