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        <title>2004 (Best Of)</title>
        <description> Matt Smithwick writes: 
i&amp;#039;d like to see some 2004 top ten lists from contributors to trouser press. especially ira -- any chance of seeing something like that?

I&amp;#039;ll oblige: 

ALBUMS
1. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand - Domino/Sony
2. Cul de Sac and Damo Suzuki - Abhayamudra - Strange Attractors
3. James Hunter - People Gonna Talk - GO
4. The Blondes, Inc - The Blondes, Inc - Truthflies
5. Mission of Burma - OnOffOn - Matador
6. John Fogerty - Deja Vu All Over Again - Geffen
7. Chris Stamey - Travels in the South - Yep Roc
8. Shore - The Shore - Maverick
9. Brian Wilson - Smile - Nonesuch
10. Bigger Lovers - This Affair Never Happened... - Yep Roc

SINGLES
1. Terri Clark - &amp;quot;Girls Lie Too&amp;quot; - Mercury
2. Killers - &amp;quot;Somebody Told Me&amp;quot; - Island
3. Green Day - &amp;quot;Boulevard of Broken Dreams&amp;quot; - Reprise
4. U2 - &amp;quot;All Because of You&amp;quot; - Island
5. Steve Earle - &amp;quot;The Revolution Starts Here&amp;quot; - E-Squared/Artemis
6. Skye Sweetnam - &amp;quot;Tangled Up in You&amp;quot; - Capitol
7. Eminem - &amp;quot;Just Lose It&amp;quot; - Interscope

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            <title>Re: 2004 (Best Of)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ MF Doom - MM ...  Food<br />
Hold Steady - ... Almost Killed Me<br />
Dangermouse - The Grey Album<br />
Iron &amp; Wine<br />
A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder<br />
Streets - A Grand Don&#039;t Come for Free<br />
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender<br />
Madvillain - Madvillainy<br />
Mastodon - Leviathan<br />
The Advantage<br />
<br />
REISSUES<br />
The Mice - For Amost Ever Scooter<br />
KMD - Mr. Hood]]></description>
            <dc:creator>jglauner</dc:creator>
            <category>Trouser Press</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: 2004 (Best Of)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ My favorite albums of the year:<br />
<br />
1. NELLY McKAY - Get Away From Me<br />
2. VIVA VOCE - The Heat Can Melt Your Brain<br />
3. ISIS - Panopticon<br />
4. SECRET MACHINES - Now Here is Nowhere<br />
5. WILLIAM SHATNER - Has Been<br />
6. SAM PHILLIPS - A Boot and a Shoe<br />
7. WOVEN HAND - Consider the Birds<br />
8. RILO KILEY - More Adventures<br />
9. ARCADE FIRE - Funeral<br />
10. ROBYN HITCHCOCK - Spooked<br />
10a. CITIZEN COPE - The Clarence Greenwood Recordings<br />
<br />
Singles/Songs (it&#039;s hard to tell what&#039;s actually a single anymore)<br />
<br />
1. SONS &amp; DAUGHTERS - Johnny Cash<br />
2. MODEST MOUSE - Float On<br />
3. JOSEPH ARTHUR - Can&#039;t Exist<br />
4. TEARS FOR FEARS - Call Me Mellow<br />
5. PAUL WESTERBERG - As Far As I Know<br />
6. DRESDEN DOLLS - Coin Operated Boy<br />
7. RACHEL YAMAGATA - Worn Me Down<br />
8. SCISSOR SISTERS - Take Your Mama Out<br />
9. RILO KILEY - It&#039;s a Hit<br />
10. COURTNEY LOVE - But Julian, I&#039;m a Little Bit Older Than You<br />
11. STEVE EARLE - The Revolution Starts...Now<br />
12. VANESSA CARLTON - White Houses<br />
13. THE THRILLS - Not For All the Love in the World<br />
14. FRANZ FERDINAND - Take Me Out<br />
15. U2 - Vertigo<br />
<br />
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            <dc:creator>breno</dc:creator>
            <category>Trouser Press</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: 2004 (Best Of)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The 2 best records I heard this year were The Libertines and Ike Reilly Assassination &quot;Sparkle in the Finish&quot;  - (Ira, no Ike Reilly entry yet?)Biggest fraud? Franz Ferdinand. 2 great tunes on that album and an annoying cutesy attitude.  That&#039;s it.I know there&#039;s not much love for the Strokes on this board (fools!), but at least the Strokes write fully formed songs. Troubling, to say the very least........<br />
<br />
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            <dc:creator>mats84</dc:creator>
            <category>Trouser Press</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: 2004 (Best Of)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I saw them on SNL last night... sounds like a jumble of old ideas... Edge guitar, a bit of the Sound/Echo, etc... pretentious delivery... ehh...]]></description>
            <dc:creator>MrAl</dc:creator>
            <category>Trouser Press</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: 2004 (Best Of)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Me? I like the Killers single a lot, although the album blows.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>ira</dc:creator>
            <category>Trouser Press</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: 2004 (Best Of)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ what about Mountain Con&#039;s Dust Zeros Dirty Ones?<br />
<br />
and wtf is with the Killers on the list?]]></description>
            <dc:creator>ivandorris</dc:creator>
            <category>Trouser Press</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2005 08:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: 2004 (Best Of)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ my list...<br />
<br />
LP’S/CD’S/10”<br />
<br />
ÄÄRITILA-J Kaikki, Kuitenkin Päättyy Kuolemaan!<br />
BEHIND ENEMY LINES-The Global Cannibal<br />
BOXED IN-s/t<br />
CUT THE ****-Marked For Life<br />
DEAD STOP-Done With You<br />
FUCKED UP-Epics In Minutes<br />
KEGCHARGE-Sadistic War Glory<br />
LOOK BACK AND LAUGH-s/t<br />
NO HOPE FOR THE KIDS-s/t<br />
DAS OATH-s/t <br />
REFUSENIKS-s/t<br />
REPOS-s/t<br />
SAY GOODBYE-s/t<br />
SCURVY DOGS-It’s All Gonna End<br />
THE SERMON-Volume<br />
STRAIGHT TO HELL-We Will Bury You<br />
STRUNG UP-Society Rot In Hell<br />
SUNDAY MORNING EINSTEINS-Kängnäve<br />
<br />
<br />
7”<br />
DEATHTOLL-s/t<br />
DIRECT CONTROL-s/t<br />
LIFE CRISIS-Unpeaceful Protest<br />
NON FIKTION NOIS-¡Contaminación Mundial EP<br />
RAT BASTARDS-s/t<br />
REGULATIONS-Destroy<br />
SKITKIDS/EXHALE-Split<br />
SLEEPER CELL-both 7”s<br />
<br />
Demos:<br />
KEEP LAUGHING<br />
SEND MORE COPS<br />
POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT<br />
CTS-Campaign To Shred<br />
<br />
Reissues:<br />
DMZ-s/t<br />
REALLY RED-Teaching You The Fear<br />
URBAN WASTE-s/t<br />
WAR OF DESTRUCTION-Danish Collection<br />
THE WORST-The Worst of the Worst]]></description>
            <dc:creator>MrAl</dc:creator>
            <category>Trouser Press</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Very nice choices above...<br />
<br />
Here&#039;s what has been stuck in my cd player in the past year:<br />
<br />
Wilco - Ghost is born<br />
Interpol - Antics<br />
Arcade Fire - Funeral<br />
VHS or Beta - Night on fire<br />
Ambulance Ltd - self titled]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
            <category>Trouser Press</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: 2004 (Best Of)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ i want to mention also the following that i came to love after my list that i posted a few weeks ago:<br />
<br />
Mendoza Line<br />
Doug Gillard<br />
Figgs<br />
Reigning Sound<br />
Grip Weeds<br />
Hold Steady<br />
<br />
<br />
an outstanding year!<br />
<br />
and yes: Lanegan&#039;s bubblegum is great great--thanks for the earlier tip!]]></description>
            <dc:creator>michael baker</dc:creator>
            <category>Trouser Press</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2005 01:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: 2004 (Best Of)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ thanks be to Matt Smithwick and that other guy, Ira Robbins.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>STEVE</dc:creator>
            <category>Trouser Press</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: 2004 (Best Of)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I live for shite like this:<br />
<br />
1. Mark Sandman - Sandbox<br />
2. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose<br />
3. Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum<br />
4. The Secret Machines - Now Here is Nowhere<br />
5. Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters<br />
6. U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb<br />
7. The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives<br />
8. Mike Doughty - Skittish/Rockity Roll<br />
9. The Samples - Black and White<br />
10. The Concretes - The Concretes<br />
<br />
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            <dc:creator>Floyd Eberhard</dc:creator>
            <category>Trouser Press</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: 2004 (Best Of)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Best live stuff I saw in ought4<br />
Built to Spill<br />
Modest Mouse<br />
Deerhoof<br />
Robert Randolph<br />
Primordial Soup]]></description>
            <dc:creator>skook</dc:creator>
            <category>Trouser Press</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2005 09:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>2004 (Best Of)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Matt Smithwick writes: <br />
i&#039;d like to see some 2004 top ten lists from contributors to trouser press. especially ira -- any chance of seeing something like that?<br />
<br />
I&#039;ll oblige: <br />
<br />
ALBUMS<br />
1. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand - Domino/Sony<br />
2. Cul de Sac and Damo Suzuki - Abhayamudra - Strange Attractors<br />
3. James Hunter - People Gonna Talk - GO<br />
4. The Blondes, Inc - The Blondes, Inc - Truthflies<br />
5. Mission of Burma - OnOffOn - Matador<br />
6. John Fogerty - Deja Vu All Over Again - Geffen<br />
7. Chris Stamey - Travels in the South - Yep Roc<br />
8. Shore - The Shore - Maverick<br />
9. Brian Wilson - Smile - Nonesuch<br />
10. Bigger Lovers - This Affair Never Happened... - Yep Roc<br />
<br />
SINGLES<br />
1. Terri Clark - &quot;Girls Lie Too&quot; - Mercury<br />
2. Killers - &quot;Somebody Told Me&quot; - Island<br />
3. Green Day - &quot;Boulevard of Broken Dreams&quot; - Reprise<br />
4. U2 - &quot;All Because of You&quot; - Island<br />
5. Steve Earle - &quot;The Revolution Starts Here&quot; - E-Squared/Artemis<br />
6. Skye Sweetnam - &quot;Tangled Up in You&quot; - Capitol<br />
7. Eminem - &quot;Just Lose It&quot; - Interscope<br />
<br />
]]></description>
            <dc:creator>ira</dc:creator>
            <category>Trouser Press</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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