Time to post our best of 2004 lists.
BEST 10 LPs:
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Bad Religion - Empire Strikes First
Fall - Country on the Click/The Real New Fall LP
Interpol - antics
Libertines - s/t
Modest Mouse - Good News for People
Mountain Goats - We Shall All be Healed
+/- - You Are Here
Elliot Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
Sonic Youth - Nurse
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10 BEST "So glad they're still here" LPs
Bjork - Medulla
Elvis Costello - The Delivery Man
Einsturzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile
Guided By Voices - Half-Smiles of the Decomposed
Robyn Hitchcock - Spooked
David Kilgour - Frozen Orange
Magnetic Fields - i
Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse
Tom Waits - Real Gone
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BEST SINGLE:
Pixies - Bam Thwok
(TIE)
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
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LEAST WELCOME:
Eminem - Encore
(TIE)
U2 - How to Dismantle
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BEST VARIOUS ARTISTS:
Wig in a Box
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WORST HYPED LP:
Pattern Is Movement - the (im)possibility of Longing
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MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER LP:
Autolux - Future Perfect
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BEST GUILTY PLEASURE LP:
Green Day - American Idiot
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BEST REUNION:
Pixies
Post Edited (12-17-06 13:45)
