Best and worst album you bought in 2004

[Barcelona]

The best album I got would be Neil Young's Greendale.
 
 Worst album was VHS or Beta's "Night on Fire". I liked their music when saw them at the Blackcat but the album is really awful.

[PigIron]

That Beastie Boys cd got old really quick.  The new Clutch record kicked ass.

[kcjones119]

Best: Ted Leo 'Shake the Sheets'
 Worst: Gomez 'Split the Difference'

[dlcjr1775]

Best :Wilco 'A Ghost is Born'
 Worst :Modest Mouse 'Good News...'

[Frank Gallagher]

Worst - Beautiful South, Headnodders.
 Best - Beautiful South, Headnodders.
 
 
 I have really come to like the album, although I thought it was awful at first. I think I was disapointed it was just an album of covers, because Paul Heaton is one hell of a songwriter in his own right. But once I got past that it's a great album. A bit like Billy Bragg and that Mermaid avenue shit, although that was still shit after I had gotten over the fact they weren't his original songs.
 
 Someone bought me Keane (not Roy) and I like that also.

Originally posted by Barcelona:
  The best album I got would be Neil Young's Greendale.
 
 Worst album was VHS or Beta's "Night on Fire". I liked their music when saw them at the Blackcat but the album is really awful.

Do you mean that the album was released in 2004, or only that you bought it in '04???  Enquiring minds want to know...

[K8teebug]

Best:  Toss up between Wilco "Ghost is Born" and Arcade Fire "Funeral"
 
 Worst:  British Sea Power.  The first two songs are great (which were all I listened to in the store) and the rest of the album is unlistenable.

[lionforce5]

Assuming "bought" isn't a relative term:
 
 Best: Bugge Wesseltoft - Film Ing
 
 Worst: none - I actually listen to music before I buy it.
 
 Assuming "bought" is a relative term meaning "acquired":
 
 Best: The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
 
 Worst: The Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere

[edbert]

best- David Ruffin: The Unreleased Album (Motown Select/Hip-O).  Recorded in 1970 but not released until 2004
 worst- Van Morrison's latest

[eltee]

best (tie):
   <img src="http://www.freshtracksmusic.com/upload/images/10000194b.jpg" alt=" - " />Endochine - Day Two
   <img src="http://www.twistandshout.com/graphics/ItemThumbnailB3257.gif" alt=" - " /> VARIOUS - PUBLIC SERVICE RECORDS PS1
 worst:
   <img src="http://www.twistandshout.com/graphics/ItemThumbnailA1504.gif" alt=" - " /> David Sylvian - Blemish

[markie]

Originally posted by kcjones119:
  Best: Ted Leo 'Shake the Sheets'
 Worst: Gomez 'Split the Difference'

Ding ding Ding
 
 Actually I dont think Ted Leo was the best, but the gomez album might well have been the worst. I like all there other albums too. Notice how one of the songs is a complete rip-off of a clash song.....

[kcjones119]

Originally posted by Forumie Partie Markie:
   

Originally posted by kcjones119:
  Best: Ted Leo 'Shake the Sheets'
 Worst: Gomez 'Split the Difference'

Ding ding Ding
 
 Actually I dont think Ted Leo was the best, but the gomez album might well have been the worst. I like all there other albums too. Notice how one of the songs is a complete rip-off of a clash song..... [/b]

Mine was actually combining those albums with shows I saw by them this year.  I though Ted was great and the show made me enjoy the album more.  I went to gomez and was bored out of my gourd.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by K8teebug:
  Best:  Toss up between Wilco "Ghost is Born" and Arcade Fire "Funeral"
 
 Worst:  British Sea Power.  The first two songs are great (which were all I listened to in the store) and the rest of the album is unlistenable.

ouch ... that BSP disc took me a few listens to get into (i assume you're talking about their LP), but i really love it now ... their live show is second to none ... WW1 army drummer? tons of acid? hanging from the pipes at black cat?  ... awesome ....

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

I didn't buy anything particuarly godawful, but I was pretty disappointed with Firey Furnaces.  Just didn't catch on.

[Justin Tonation]

Originally posted by El Tee:
 worst:
    <img src="http://www.twistandshout.com/graphics/ItemThumbnailA1504.gif" alt=" - " /> David Sylvian - Blemish

I couldn't disagree more.  Blemish was a tremendous step forward for Sylvian. He managed to make music that was dramatically different from his previous efforts without losing his identity. And the results were phenomenal.