Board's Best of 2004 (so far)

[ratioci nation]

anybody want to start with their best albums from the first half of 2004 (a down year)?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I may need to edit this later, but...
 
 1. BR549
 2. Jolie Holland
 3. Bobby Bare Jr.
 4. Grant Lee Phillips
 5. Jesse Sykes
 6. Norah Jones
 
 but surely I am forgetting some
 
 3 out of my top 6 are women. Can any non-lesbians out there top that?
 
 Most overrated: Loretta Lynn's album
 
 this list is sure to change with impending releases by Old 97's and Drive By Truckers.

[ratioci nation]

sure to change as well, and not in order
 
 Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart
 Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
 Shearwater - Winged Life
 Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
 Magnetic Fields - I
 Of Montreal - Satanic Panic In The Attic
 Beta Band - Heros To Zeros
 Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
 TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
 Burning Brides - Leave No Ashes

[bearman🐻]

Air -- Talkie Walkie
 Iron and Wine -- Our Endless Numbered Days
 
 Honorable Mentions:
 Morrissey -- You Are the Quarry
 Franz Ferdinand -- FF
 
 Somewhat disappointing: PJ Harvey (only because all her other stuff is so great)
 The Walkmen -- Bows and Arrows
 
 I still want to pick up Sonic Youth, the Orbital, and the new Charlatans (if it ever makes it across the pond).

[mankie]

Bowie - Reality
 Morrissey - You are the quarry
 
 Honorable mention
 
 Jem - Finally awoken
 
 Everything else is just shite.  

[redsock]

Originally posted by Bollocks:
  Bowie - Reality
 Morrissey - You are the quarry
 
 Honorable mention
 
 Jem - Finally awoken
 
 Everything else is just shite.    

Just so we're clear, those are the only three CDs you bought this year, right?

[jakez468]

burning brides is awful! i did like the VB and SM albums though

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

The only three he has bought this year that were released in 2004 (or post-1990 for that matter)
 
 But in all fairness, I myself have probably bought no more than 10 or so 2004 releases.
 
 
 

Originally posted by redsock:
   

Originally posted by Bollocks:
  Bowie - Reality
 Morrissey - You are the quarry
 
 Honorable mention
 
 Jem - Finally awoken
 
 Everything else is just shite.      

Just so we're clear, those are the only three CDs you bought this year, right? [/b]

[mankie]

Originally posted by redsock:
   

Originally posted by Bollocks:
  Bowie - Reality
 Morrissey - You are the quarry
 
 Honorable mention
 
 Jem - Finally awoken
 
 Everything else is just shite.        

Just so we're clear, those are the only three CDs you bought this year, right? [/b]

That would be because I don't throw money away on shite.
 
 Actually, I have an amendment.
 
 Bowie - Reality
 Morrissey - You are the quarry
 The Waifs - Up all night
 
 Honorable mention
 Jem - Finally woken
 
 The rest are just shite.
 
 thank you!

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by jakez468:
  burning brides is awful! i did like the VB and SM albums though

dude go out a buy a box of q-tips and make sure you don't stick them in your ears to far... the burning brides cd is AWESOME

[Guiny]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
   

Originally posted by jakez468:
  burning brides is awful! i did like the VB and SM albums though

dude go out a buy a box of q-tips and make sure you don't stick them in your ears to far... the burning brides cd is AWESOME [/b]

Are you gonna see them the when they come back to the Black Cat soon? I have their last cd and thought it was pretty good. Maybe I'll check out the new one in hit the concert.

[TomJaworski]

Morrissey, "you are the quarry"
 
 Franz Ferdinand
 
 Wilco "a ghost is born" (although not nearly as good as Yankee Foxtrot)
 
 Kanye West "The College Dropout"
 
 The Walkmen "Bows + Arrows"
 
 Belle & Sebastian "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"
 
 ...too name a few...let me think about it a little more.

[jakez468]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
   

Originally posted by jakez468:
  burning brides is awful! i did like the VB and SM albums though

dude go out a buy a box of q-tips and make sure you don't stick them in your ears to far... the burning brides cd is AWESOME [/b]

i actually did that once with q-tips when i was really young. it scarred me for life so i don't use them anymore.

[Bags]

-edit- I just said what everyone else did to Mank....

[walkman]

Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
 Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
 Black Eyes - Cough
 Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
 !!! - Louden Up Now
 TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
 
 probably in that order...plus very honorable mentions to Of Montreal and Oneida