Welcome to part 5 of the best albums and songs of the '00s poll. This month we will be focusing on the year 2004.

Please submit at least 5 songs and/or albums, preferably but not necessarily with ranking, lists without ranking will get an average score of 10 points per album. The deadline is midnight on the 30th of June. For the scoring, rules and other details check here.

Please have a look at the 2004 album and song lists before voting.
You can also vote for albums and songs outside the AM top 3000.
I would appreciate if you vote in form:
rank. artist name - albums/songs name. Thanks

Songs

1. Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
2. Modest Mouse – Float On
3. Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies)
4. Annie – Heartbeat
5. The Walkmen – The Rat
6. Arcade Fire – Wake Up
7. M.I.A. – Galang
8. The Libertines – Can’t Stand Me Now
9. Green Day – American Idiot
10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Nature Boy
11. The Killers – Somebody Told Me
12. Scissor Sisters – Laura
13. Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell – Drop It Like It’s Hot
14. Wolfman feat. Pete Doherty – For Lovers
15. Mylo – Drop the Pressure
16. Iron & Wine – Each Coming Night
17. Kanye West – Family Business
18. Josele Santiago - Con las manos vacías
19. John Legend – Used to Love U
20. Tom Waits – Make It Rain

...And here’s my nicolas-style albums list in progress .

Cool! I actually have 20 albums from this year.

I think I'll try to wait it out a little bit, so that others can provide their lists and remind me of records I might have forgotten. Too many list revisions last time.

1. Kanye West- Jesus Walks
2. Arcade Fire- Rebellion(Lies)
3. The Streets- Dry Your Eyes
4. Usher feat. Ludacris- Yeah!
5. Krzysztof Krawczyk i Edyta Bartosiewicz – Trudno Tak
6. Annie - Heartbeat
7. Arcade Fire- Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
8. Natasha Bendingfield- Unwritten
9. Dżem – Do Kołyski
10. Green Day- Boulevard of Broken Dreams
11. U2- Vertigo
12. U2- City of Blinding Lights
13. Kings of Leon- Milk
14. The Walkmen- The Rat
15. Kings of Leon- Slow night, So Long
16. Seal- Walk on By
17. Kanye West feat. Jay-Z- Never Let Me Down
18. Graham Coxon- Freakin’Out
19. Kanye West- All Falls Down
20. Kings of Leon- The Bucket

Albums
1. Arcade Fire – Funeral
2. Modest Mouse – Good News for People Who Love Bad News
3. Interpol - Antics
4. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
5. Kanye West - The College Dropout
6. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
7. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
8. The Futureheads - The Futureheads
9. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
10. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free

Albums-

1. Funeral- Arcade Fire
2. Franz Ferdinand- Franz Ferdinand
3. The College Dropout- Kanye West
4. American Idiot- Green Day
5. SMiLE- Brian Wilson
6. A Grand Don’t Come for Free- The Streets
7. A Ghost Is Born- Wilco
8. Madvillainy- Madvillain
9. You Are the Quarry- Morrissey
10. Hot Fuss- The Killers
11. The Libertines- The Libertines
12. Antics- Interpol
13. Good News for People Who Love Bad News- Modest Mouse
14. Abattoir Blues/ The Lyre of Orpheus- Nick Cave
15. Van Lear Rose- Loretta Lynn

Songs-

1. Take Me Out- Franz Ferdinand
2. Wake Up- Arcade Fire
3. The Rat- The Walkmen
4. Float On-Modest Mouse
5. Mr. Brightside- The Killers
6. First of the Gang to Die- Morrissey
7. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)- Arcade Fire
8. Galang- M.I.A.
9. American Idiot- Green Day
10. Yeah!- Usher (featuring Ludacris)
11. Can’t Stand Me Now- The Libertines
12. Heartbeat- Annie
13. Jesus Walks- Kanye West
14. Rebellion (Lies)- Arcade Fire
15. Slow Hands- Interpol
16. Drop It Like It's Hot- Snoop Dogg (featuring Pharrell)
17. Dry Your Eyes- The Streets
18. Banquet- Bloc Party
19. Jesus of Suburbia- Green Day
20. Yeah!- LCD Soundsystem


How are "Rebellion (Lies)" and "Neighborhood #2 (Laika)" the most acclaimed songs off of "Funeral"? In my mind, "Wake Up" and "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" are miles ahead.

Not a whole lot of exciting stuff going on this year, just a lot of solid albums. Here's to hoping Anniemal can make it.

Albums:
1. Brian Wilson - SMiLE
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
4. Kanye West - The College Dropout
5. Annie - Anniemal
6. Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying
7. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
8. Madvillain - Madvillainy
9. Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands
10. Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell

Songs:
1. Annie - Heartbeat
2. Regina Spektor - Us
3. Sia - Breathe Me (Bit of a guilty pleasure, but it reminds me of the best series ending in television)
4. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
5. Bloc Party - Banquet (Originally released in 2004)
6. Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying
7. The Streets - Blinded By The Lights
8. Loretta Lynn - Story Of My Life
9. U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
10. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

Albums:

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Annie - Anniemal
3. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
4. The Sadies - Favourite Colours
5. Tegan and Sara - So Jealous
6. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
7. Hot Snakes - Audit in Progress
8. Destroyer - Your Blues
9. Jens Lekman - When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog
10. Carissa's Wierd - I Before E
11. Dealership - Action/Adventure
12. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
13. Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
14. Blonde Redhead - Misery Is a Butterfly
15. Max Richter- The Blue Notebooks
16. Green Day - American Idiot
17. Les Savy Fav - Inches
18. AIR - Talkie Walkie
19. Badly Drawn Boy - One Plus One Is One
20. Old Crow Medicine Show - O.C.M.S.

Albums
A deep year

1. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
2. Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
3. Brian Wilson - SMiLE
4. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Like Bad News
5. Kanye West - The College Dropout
6. Arcade Fire - Funeral
7. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
8. Bjork - Medulla
9. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
10. PJ Harvey - Uh-Huh Her
11. Black Keys - Rubber Factory
12. Elliott Smith - From a Basement On a Hill
13. Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me
14. Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
15. Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
16. Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
17. Libertines - Libertines
18. Interpol - Antics
19. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
20. Air - Talkie Walkie

Songs:

1. Arcade Fire- Neighborhood #1
2. Annie- Heartbeat
3. TV on the Radio- Staring at the Sun
4. Annie- Chewing Gum
5. Kelly Clarkson- Since U Been Gone
6. Art Brut- Formed a Band
7. Scissor Sisters- Take Your Mama
8. Morrissey- First of the Gang to Die
9. Interpol- Evil
10. Arcade Fire- Neighborhood #2
11. The Streets- Dry Your Eyes
12. Interpol- Slow Hands

Songs

1. Ryan Adams - This House is Not for Sale
2. Blue Nile - Stay Close
3. Junior Boys - Under the Sun
4. R.E.M. - Leaving New York
5. Cee-Lo feat. Pharrell - Let's Stay Together
6. Jim White - Static on the Radio
7. Gretchen Wilson - What Happened
8. Drive-By Truckers - Carl Perkins' Cadillac
9. Elliott Smith - Twilight
10. Mylo - In My Arms
11. Nas - Reason
12. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Babe, You Turn Me On
13. Brian Wilson - Cabin Essence
14. The Cure - Before Three
15. Tom Waits - How's It Gonna End
16. Todd Rundgren - Stood Up
17. Pete Rock feat. Talib Kweli & C.L. Smooth - Fly Till I Die
18. Streets - Blinded by the Lights
19. Mark Lanegan Band - One Hundred Days
20. Kanye West - We Don't Care

21. Patty Griffin - Kite
22. Todd Snider - Incarcerated
23. Green Day - Letterbomb
24. The Libertines - The Man Who Would Be King
25. Iron & Wine - Naked As We Came
26. Sufjan Stevens - The Dress Looks Nice on You
27. Magnetic Fields - It's Only Time
28. Van Hunt - Dust
29. PJ Harvey - The Life & Death of Mr. Badmouth
30. Morrissey - I Have Forgiven Jesus
31. Finn Brothers - Won't Give In
32. Interpol - Narc
33. Keane - Your Eyes Open
34. Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes
35. Sonic Youth - Unmade Bed
36. Tears for Fears - Secret World
37. Scissor Sisters - Mary
38. Cam'ron - Killa Cam
39. Phoenix - Love for Granted
40. Mastodon - Iron Tusk
41. Steve Earle - Rich Man's War
42. Usher - Simple Things
43. Talib Kweli - Never Been in Love
44. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Agnes, Queen of Sorrow
45. Madvillain - Fancy Clown
46. The Hold Steady - The Swish
47. Joanna Newsom - "En Gallop"
48. Dungen - Gjort Bort Sig
49. U2 - City of Blinding Lights
50. Jesse Malin - Swinging Man

Dan, great idea to post your list in progress too !!

So here is my 2004 list (very much) in progess

I feel this is gonna change very much until the very end of the month when I post my list. Many things I've haven't heard for a looong time, many others I still got to hear. On my wish list (and on my mp3 player ready to go) : Nick Cave, Kanye West, Elliott Smith, Tinariwen, Drive-by Truckers, Black Keys and many more)

Albums

1. Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
2. Brian Wilson - Smile
3. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
4. Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
5. Blue Nile - High
6. Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
7. Ryan Adams - Love is Hell
8. Gretchen Wilson - Here for the Party
9. Kanye West - The College Dropout
10. Green Day - American Idiot
11. Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum
12. Nas - Street's Disciple
13. The Cure - The Cure
14. Finn Brothers - Everyone is Here
15. Patty Griffin - Impossible Dream
16. R.E.M. - Around the Sun
17. Junior Boys - Last Exit
18. Magnetic Fields - i
19. Todd Rundgren - Liars
20. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill

21. Jill Scott - Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2
22. Jim White - Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See
23. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Sings Greatest Palace Music
24. Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather
25. Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
26. U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
27. Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
28. Tom Waits - Real Gone
29. Mastodon - Leaviathan
30. Ted Leo + The Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets
31. Todd Snider - East Nashville Skyline
32. Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
33. Prince - Musicology
34. Pete Rock - Soul Survivor II
35. PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
36. Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me
37. A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
38. Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
39. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
40. Talib Kweli - The Beautiful Struggle
41. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
42. Beastie Boys - To the 5 Boroughs
43. Jesse Malin - The Heat
44. Van Hunt - Van Hunt
45. Usher - Confessions
46. Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts...Now
47. The Libertines - The Libertines
48. Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album
49. Madvillain - Madvillainy
50. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse

Misc.

1. Doug Stanhope - Deadbeat Hero
2. David Ruffin - David - The Unreleased Album
3. Jacques Brel - Infiniment
4. Arthur Russell - The World of Arthur Russell
5. Allen Toussaint - The Complete Warner Recordings
6. Faces - Five Guys Walk Into a Bar...
7. George Strait - 50 # Ones
8. David Cross - It's Not Funny
9. Lou Rawls - I Can't Make It Alone: The David Axelrod Years
10. Howard Tate - Get It While You Can: The Complete Legendary Verve Sessions

1. Modest Mouse-Good News For People Who Love Bad News
2. Franz Ferdinad-s/t
3. Gomez-Split the Difference
4. Trash Can Sinatras-Weightlifting
5. Rilo Kiley-More Adventurous
6. the Delays- Faded Seaside Glamour
7. Stars- Set Yourself on Fire
8. the Go! Team- Thunder, Lightning, Strike
9. Annie-Anniemal
10. the Zutons- Who Killed The Zutons?
11. Blonde Redhead- Misery Is a Butterfly
12. Interpol-Antics

Another awesome year!

Albums:

1. Annie - Anniemal
2. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
3. Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. !!! - Louden Up Now
6. Björk - Medulla
7. Madvillain - Madvillainy
8. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
9. Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
10. Gwen Stefani - Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
11. Interpol - Antics
12. The Cure - The Cure
13. Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
14. Chromeo - She's in Control
15. Janet Jackson - Damita Jo
16. Prince - Musicology
17. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
18. N.E.R.D. - Fly or Die
19. George Michael - Patience
20. PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her

Albums:
1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Kanye West - The College Dropout
3. The Killers - Hot Fuss
4. Luna - Rendezvous
5. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News

Songs:
1. Sia - Breathe Me
2. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
3. The Killers - All These Things That I've Done
4. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
5. Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty

I just saw Staring At The Sun made it through in 2003. RYM has that as a 2004 song but since it made it through I guess it doesn't matter and you can omit that from my list without replacing it with anything.

I recommend Tom Waits - Real Gone (My third favorite Waits), Joanna Newsom - The Milk Eyed Mender, Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans and Nick Cave - Abbatoir Blues/Lyre Of Orpheus.

Not sure what I have to listen to yet for this year. I'm more interested in the pre-fame albums from indie giants in 2003.

I suppose I have to listen to The College Dropout because it's guaranteed to qualify.

Albums-

1. Arcade Fire- Funeral
2. Franz Ferdinand- Franz Ferdinand
3. Kanye West- The College Dropout
4. Green Day- American Idiot
5. Brian Wilson- SMiLE
6. The Streets- A Grand Don’t Come for Free
7. Wilco- A Ghost Is Born
8. Madvillain- Madvillainy
9. Morrissey- You Are the Quarry
10. The Killers- Hot Fuss
11. The Libertines- The Libertines
12. Interpol- Antics
13. Modest Mouse- Good News for People Who Love Bad News
14. Nick Cave- Abattoir Blues/ The Lyre of Orpheus
15. Loretta Lynn- Van Lear Rose

Songs-

1. Franz Ferdinand- Take Me Out
2. Arcade Fire- Wake Up
3. The Walkmen- The Rat
4. Modest Mouse- Float On
5. The Killers- Mr. Brightside
6. Morrissey- First of the Gang to Die
7. Arcade Fire- Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
8. M.I.A.- Galang
9. Green Day- American Idiot
10. Usher (featuring Ludacris)- Yeah!
11. The Libertines- Can’t Stand Me Now
12. Annie- Heartbeat
13. Kanye West- Jesus Walks
14. Arcade Fire- Rebellion (Lies)
15. Interpol- Slow Hands
16. Snoop Dogg (featuring Pharrell)- Drop It Like It's Hot
17. The Streets- Dry Your Eyes
18. Bloc Party- Banquet
19. Green Day- Jesus of Suburbia
20. LCD Soundsystem- Yeah


So I just reread Petri's post in the beginning about rank, artist, song, and realized that I had put my original list in the wrong order. Sorry Petri! Hopefully this is better!

Albums :
1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Daniel Darc - Crève cœur
3. Black Keys - Rubber Factory
4. Prince - Musicology
5. Kasabian - Kasabian
6. Badly Drawn Boy - One Plus One is One
7. The Divine Comedy - Absent Friends
8. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
9. Dominique A - Tout sera comme avant
10. Midlake - Bamnan and Slivercork
11. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
12. The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
13. Devotchka - How It Ends
14. Bjork - Medulla
15. Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
16. Miossec - 1964
17. Libertines - Libertines
18. Keren Ann - Nolita
19. The Zutons - Who Killed The Zutons
20. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
21. Cyann & Ben - Happy Like an Autumn Tree
22. The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
23. Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum
24. Elliott Smith - From a Basement On a Hill
25. Interpol - Antics
26. CocoRosie - La Maison de Mon Rêve
27. Phoenix - Alphabetical
28. Sébastien Tellier - Politics
29. Marianne Faithfull - Before The Poison
30. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Like Bad News
31. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
32. PJ Harvey - Uh-Huh Her
33. Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
34. Air - Talkie Walkie

Following Dan and nicolas, here is my forever-in-progress list of favourite albums of the 00's.

My statement, that imho the year 2003 was not outstanding, caused quite some reactions. So, let's see what happens if I just state that 2004 was a great year ...

ALBUMS:

1. The Killers - Hot Fuss
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. The Cure - s/t
4. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
5. Franz Ferdinand - s/t
6. Kanye West - The College Dropout
7. Keane - Hopes And Fears
8. The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows
9. Prince - Musicology
10. Social Distortion - Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll
11. Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
12. U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
13. Beastie Boys - To The 5 Buroughs
14. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
15. The Music - Welcome To The North
16. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
17. Kasabian - s/t
18. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
19. The Roots - The Tipping Point
20. Jimmy Eat World - Futures
21. Lenny Kravitz - Baptism
22. Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First

*** Note, I bought a number of CD's in '04 I wish I hadn't... Good Charlotte, Incubus, Sugarcult, Sum 41, Velvet Revolver, Seal, New Found Glory

SONGS:

1. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
2. The Walkmen - The Rat
3. The Von Bondies - C'mon, C'mon
4. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
5. Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty
6. The Killers - Smile Like You Mean It
7. Prince - Cinnamon Girl
8. Kasabian - Club Foot
9. Kanye West - Jesus Walks
10. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
11. Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot
12. Morrissey - First Of The Gang To Die
13. M.I.A. - Galang
14. Jimmy Eat World - Pain
15. The Music - Into The Night
16. The Killers - Somebody Told Me
17. Bloc Party - Banquet
18. The Cure - Before Three
19. Modest Mouse - Float On
20. Kings Of Leon - The Bucket
21. The Beastie Boys - Ch-Check It Out
22. U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
23. The Killers - Mr. Brightside
24. My Chemical Romance - Helena
25. Dizzee Rascal - Stand Up Tall
26. Manic Street Preachers - Empty Souls
27. Arcade Fire - Wake Up
28. Morrissey - English Blood, Irish Heart
29. Lostprophets - Last Train Home
30. Cypress Hill - What's Your Number
31. Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
32. Norah Jones - Sunrise
33. Prince - Musicology
34. The Cure - The End Of The World
35. Modest Mouse - The World At Large
36. The Roots - Don't Say Nuthin'
37. Bad Religion - Los Angeles Is Burning
38. k-os - Crabbuckit
39. Social Distortion - Don't Take Me For Granted
40. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
41. The Music - Breakin'
42. U2 - City Of Blinding Lights
43. Franz Ferdinand - This Ffire
44. The Zutons - Pressure Point
45. Jadakiss - Why
46. Los Lonely Boys - Heaven
47. Kanye West - It All Falls Down
48. The Beastie Boys - Right Right Now Now
49. Jimmy Eat World - Work
50. Velvet Revolver - Slither
51. The Black Keys - 10 a.m. Automatic
52. Joss Stone - Fell In Love With A Boy
53. Duran Duran - (Reach Up For The) Sunrise
54. My Chemical Romance - I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
55. The Killers - All These Things I've Done
56. Taking Back Sunday - A Decade Under The Influence
57. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
58. R.E.M. - Electron Blue
59. John Legend - Ordinary People
60. Lostprophets - Wake Up (Make A Move)
61. De La Soul - Days Of Our Lives
62. A Perfect Circle - Passive
63. Pixies - Bam Thwok
64. Megadeth - Die Dead Enough
65. Duran Duran - What Happens Tomorrow
66. Lenny Kravitz - Where Are We Runnin'
67. Nas - Bridging The Gap
68. The Futureheads - Hounds Of Love
69. Wilco - Wishful Thinking
70. Cake - No Phone
71. Green Day - Jesus Of Suburbia
72. Usher - Yeah
73. Lenny Kravitz - California
74. Slipknot - Duality
75. The Hives - Walk, Idiot Walk
76. The Cure - Alt.End
77. Jimmy Eat World - Futures
78. TV on the Radio - New Health Rock
79. Incubus - Talk Shows On Mute
80. The Killers - Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine
81. Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First
82. Blonde Redhead - Elephant Woman
83. Gretchen Wilson - Redneck Woman
84. Sum 41 - We're All To Blame
85. Keane - This Is The Last Time
86. Phoenix - Everything Is Everything
87. U2 - Original Of The Species
88. Breaking Benjamin - So Cold
89. The Walkmen - Little House Of Savages
90. Morrissey - I Have Forgiven Jesus
91. Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone
92. R.E.M. - Leaving New York
93. Midtown - Give It Up
94. N.E.R.D. - She Wants To Move
95. The Used - All That I've Got
96. Embrace - Ashes
97. The Go! Team - Ladyflash
98. Snoop Dogg - Drop It Like It's Hot
99. The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now
100.Elvis Costello - Monkey To Man

Sorry, I forgot the Tom Waits - Real Gone album I put it on the 12 place. Thanks.

30. The Walkmen, The Rat
29. Usher f/Ludacris & Lil Jon, Yeah!
28. Snoop Dogg f/Charlie Wilson & Justin Timberlake, Signs
27. The Libertines, Can't Stand Me Now
26. Scissor Sisters, Take Your Mama
25. The Von Bondies, C'mon, C'mon
24. N.E.R.D., She Wants to Move
23. Keane, Somewhere Only We Know
22. Bloc Party, Banquet
21. Art Brut, Formed a Band

20. Nina Sky, Move Ya Body
19. Wolfman f/Pete Doherty, For Lovers
18. Annie, Chewing Gum
17. Annie, Heartbeat
16. The Hives, Walk Idiot Walk
15. Beastie Boys, Ch-Check It Out
14. The Vines, Ride
13. U2, Vertigo
12. Gwen Stefani, Hollaback Girl
11. Rilo Kiley, Portions for Foxes

10. The Killers, Somebody Told Me
09. Kaiser Chiefs, I Predict a Riot
08. Franz Ferdinand, Take Me Out
07. Morrissey, First of the Gang to Die
06. Morrissey, Irish Blood, English Heart
05. The Killers, Mr. Brightside
04. Kelly Clarkson, Since U Been Gone
03. Snoop Dogg f/Pharrell, Drop It Like It's Hot
02. Prince, Cinnamon Girl
01. Loretta Lynn and Jack White, Portland, Oregon

Albums

[01] Madvillain | Madvillainy
[02] Dungen | Ta Det Lugnt
[03] The Go! Team | Thunder, Lightning, Strike
[04] The Fiery Furnaces | Blueberry Boat
[05] Kanye West | The College Dropout
[06] Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds | Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
[07] Brian Wilson | Smile
[08] Ghost | Hypnotic Underworld
[09] Annie | Anniemal
[10] TV on The Radio | Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
[11] Antibalas | Who Is This America?
[12] Blonde Redhead | Misery Is a Butterfly
[13] Squarepusher | Ultravisitor
[14] Max Richter | The Blue Notebooks
[15] Youssou N'Dour | Egypt
[16] The Divine Comedy | Absent Friends
[17] Tom Waits | Real Gone
[18] Björk | Medulla
[19] Mastodon | Leviathan
[20] Comets on Fire | Blue Cathedral


Songs

[01] Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds | There She Goes My Beautiful World
[02] Kanye West | Jesus Walks
[03] Annie | Heartbeat
[04] Squarepusher | Tetra-Sync
[05] Blonde Redhead | Elephant Woman
[06] The Fiery Furnaces | Chris Michaels
[07] Madvillain (feat. Quasimoto) | Shadows of Tomorrow
[08] Dungen | Festival
[09] The Go! Team | Ladyflash
[10] Ghost | Aramaic Barbarous Dawn/Leave The World!!
[11] RJD2 | Get Off My Spaceship, Bitch
[12] Belle and Sebastian | Your Cover's Blown
[13] Stars | Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
[14] Max Richter | On The Nature of Daylight
[15] Madvillain | ALL CAPS
[16] The Divine Comedy | Our Mutual Friend
[17] Estelle | 1980
[18] Boredoms | Seadrum
[19] Johnny Boy | You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve
[20] Wilco | Spiders (Kidsmoke)
[21] Brian Wilson | Heroes and Villains
[22] Arcade Fire | Wake Up
[23] Deerhoof | Milk Man
[24] Pan Sonic | Rähinä I (Mayhem I)
[25] The Polyphonic Spree | A New Day Continues/We Sound Amazed
[26] Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds | O Children
[27] Feist | Mushaboom
[28] The Fiery Furnaces | Chief Inspector Blancheflower
[29] Beck | Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
[30] Comets on Fire | The Antlers of The Midnight Sun
[31] Joanna Newsom | Sprout and the Bean
[32] M.I.A. | Galang
[33] TV on The Radio | The Wrong Way
[34] Tom Waits | Day After Tomorrow
[35] Antibalas | Indictment
[36] The Go! Team | Bottle Rocket
[37] Elliott Smith | A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity to Be Free
[38] Ghostface | Holla
[39] Sufjan Stevens | The Transfiguration
[40] Animal Collective | Winter's Love
[41] Jens Lekman | You Are The Light (By Which I Travel Into This and That)
[42] N.E.R.D. | Wonderful Place/Waiting for You
[43] Björk | Mouth's Cradle
[44] Youssou N'Dour | Cheikh Ibra Fall
[45] Cam'ron | Killa Cam
[46] Mastodon | Hearts Alive
[47] Eluvium | An Accidental Memory in Case of Death
[48] Liars | Broken Witch
[49] Air | Surfing on a Rocket
[50] LCD Soundsystem | Yeah (Crass Version)

2004 albums

1. DEERHOOF - MILK MAN
2. FIERY FURNACES - BLUEBERRY BOAT
3. ARCADE FIRE - FUNERAL
4. SONIC YOUTH - SONIC NURSE
5. IQU - SUN Q
6. THE GO! TEAM - THUNDER LIGHTING STRIKE
7. BRIAN WILSON - SMILE
8. FRANZ FERDINAND - FRANZ FERDINAND
9. THE STREETS - A GRAND DON'T COME FOR FREE
10. SCISSOR SISTERS - SCISSOR SISTERS
11. THE BETA BAND - HEROS TO ZEROS
12. TV ON THE RADIO - DESPERATE YOUTH, BLOOD THIRSTY BABES
13. FRANKENIXON - AMORPHOUS
14. INTERPOL - ANTICS
15. JOANNA NEWSOM - THE MILK-EYED MENDER
16. ANNIE - ANNIEMAL
17. MAGNETIC FIELDS - I
18. MADVILLIAN - MADVILLIANY
19. DEVENDRA BARNHART - REJOICING IN THE HANDS
20. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - SUNG TONGS

Songs:

1. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
2. Mark Lanegan – One Hundred Days
3. Squarepusher - Tetra-Sync
4. Elliott Smith - King's Crossing
5. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
6. Sasha – On My Own
7. Ghost - Aramaic Barbarous Dawn
8. LCD Soundsystem - Yeah (Crass Version)
9. Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #1
10. Elliott Smith - Memory Lane
11. Madvillain – All Caps
12. Annie - Chewing Gum
13. Squarepusher – Ultravisitor
14. TV On The Radio - Staring At The Sun
15. Elliott Smith - Pretty (Ugly before)
16. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
17. Franz Ferdinand - Matinee
18. Electrelane – The Valleys
19. Kings Of Convenience – I’d Rather Dance With You
20. Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot
21. Ed Harcourt – The Storm Is Coming
22. Divine Comedy – Charmed Life
23. Marissa Nadler – Stallions
24. Medeski, Martin & Wood – Anonymous Skulls
25. Jens Lekman – Maple Leaves (7 inch version)



Albums:

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
3. Mark Lanegan Band – Bubblegum
4. Squarepusher - Ultravisitor
5. Annie - Anniemal

Songs for now :

1. Arcade Fire - Wake Up
2. TV on the Radio - Dreams
3. Animal Collective - Leaf house
4. Kanye West - Spaceship (feat. GLC & Consequence)
5. Les Savy Fav - The Sweat Descends
6. Hives, The - Love in Plaster
7. Arcade Fire - In the Backseat
8. Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights
9. TV on the Radio - Ambulance
10. Elliott Smith - Twilight
11. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
12. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
13. Kanye West - Jesus Walks
14. Joanna Newsom - Peach, Plum, Pear
15. Walkmen, The - The Rat
16. Saul Williams - Act III Scene 2 (Shakesphere)
17. Devendra Banhart - A Sight to Behold
18. Soulwax - NY Excuse
19. Electrelane - The Valleys
20. Hives, The - Abra Cadaver

Found memories live in this list, the first and third times I have seen Wake Up live are the 2 greatest things I have ever seen on stage, but Seven Swans as an opener of Sufjan's concert in the Olympia of Paris last month comes close.

bubbling :

Annie - Heartbeat
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)
Beastie Boys - An Open-Letter to NYC
Beastie Boys - Ch-Check it Out
Belle & Sebastian - Your Cover's Blown
Bloc Party - Helicopter
Didier Super - Arrête de te la Péter
Didier Super - On va tous Crever
Didier Super - Y'en a marre des Pauvres
Franz Ferdinand - This Fire
Hives, The - Diabolic Scheme
Kanye West - Never Let Me Down (feat. Jay-Z)
Kanye West - The New Workout Plan
Lostprophets - Sway/Outro
Lostprophets - We Still Kill the Old Way
Modest Mouse - Float On
N*E*R*D - She Wants To Move
Saul Williams - Black Stacey
Scissor Sisters - Laura
Streets, The - Dry Your Eyes
TTC - Dans le Club
TTC - Girlfriend

I will give a small speech on the French people on this bubling list, on the recommendation thread !

Albums
1. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
2. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
3. Brian Wilson - SMiLE
4. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
5. Kanye West - The College Dropout
6. Annie - Anniemal
7. The Killers - Hot Fuss
8. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Like Bad News
9. Phoenix - Alphabetical
10. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

Songs
1. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood 2 (Laika)
2. Joanna Newsom - The Sprout & The Bean
3. The Go! Team - Ladyflash
4. Green Day - American Idiot
5. The Roots - Guns Are Drawn
6. Kanye West - Jesus Walks
7. Arcade Fire - Wake Up
8. The Killers - Jenny Was A Friend of Mine
9. The Go! Team - Get it Together
10. Modest Mouse - Float On

I left out Funeral in my albums list because everyone knows it is going through and decided to throw support to a so-overrated-its-underrated classic Thunder, Lighting, Strike.

It's weird, I used to love this year when it was, but now it's the first year since 1962 with no album in my AT top 200. However, I'm listening to some really good albums for the first time now, such as Pan American's "Quiet City", Gonzales' "Solo Piano" and DeVotchKa's "How It Ends", so hopefully I will be happy with my list at the end of the month.

Songs of '04:

1 : Tokyo Jihen : Kurumaya-san : Video
2 : CocoRosie : Terrible Angels : Video
3 : Feist : Mushaboom
4 : The Streets : Blinded By The Lights : Video
5 : K-os : The Love Song : Video
6 : The Long Blondes : Giddy Stratospheres : Video
7 : CocoRosie : Good Friday : Video
8 : Razorlight : Golden Touch : Video
9 : Joanna Newsom : Peach Plum Pea : Video
10 : Bedouin Soundclash : Shelter : Video
11 : Beck : Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime : Video
12 : Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings : This Land Is Your Land : Video
13 : The Go! Team : Get It Together : Video
14 : Zero 7 : Somersault (Danger Mouse Remix) : Video
15 : Fabolous : Breathe : Video
16 : Meï Teï Shô : Never Money Today : Video
17 : Johnny Boy : You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve
18 : Laura Veirs : The Cloud Room : Video
19 : Jens Lekman : You Are The Light (By Which I Travel Into This And That) : Video
20 : Castanets : Three Days, Four Nights : Video

21 : CocoRosie : Candy Land
22 : CocoRosie : By Your Side
23 : Deerhoof : Milk Man
24 : Parov Stelar : Kisskiss
25 : Laura Veirs : Rapture
26 : Joanna Newsom : The Book of Right-on
27 : Japancakes : Far from Here
28 : The Go! Team : We Listen Everyday
29 : Nostalgia 77 : Seven Nation Army
30 : LCD Soundsystem : Yeah (Crass Version)
31 : Modest Mouse : Float On
32 : Jolie Holland : Old Fashion Morphine
33 : Modest Mouse : Bukowski
34 : Malcolm McLaren : About Her
35 : Mos Def : Bedstuy Parade & Funeral March
36 : Hot Chip : Crap Kraft Dinner
37 : Annie : Heartbeat
38 : Josephine Foster & The Supposed : Well-Heeled Men
39 : Squarepusher : Tetra-Sync
40 : Jason Forrest : Satan Cries Again
41 : The Killers : Somebody Told Me
42 : Faye Wong : Last Blossom [Live]
43 : Rokia Traore : Sara
44 : Lali Puna : B-Movie
45 : Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti : For Kate I Wait
46 : The Organ : Steven Smith
47 : The Mountain Goats : Letter From Belgium
48 : Josephine Foster & The Supposed : All the Leaves Are Gone
49 : Mylo : Drop The Pressure
50 : Alan Braxe & Fred Falke : Rubicon
51 : Phoenix : Everything is Everything
52 : Shigeru Umebayashi : 2046 (Rumba Version)
53 : Lambchop : Listen
54 : Hayseed Dixie : Ace Of Spades
55 : Regina Spektor : Us
56 : Shalabi Effect : Blue Sunshine
57 : Castanets : As You Do
58 : Antony & The Johnsons : Fistful of Love
59 : Franz Ferdinand : Get Up And Use Me
60 : Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds : Hiding All Away
61 : Frenchbloke & Son : Sexy Model
62 : Electrelane : The Valleys
63 : Babyshambles : Gang Of Gin
64 : Kanye West : Jesus Walks
65 : Nouvelle Vague : Too Drunk To Fuck
66 : Of Montreal : Lysergic Bliss
67 : Skalpel : Theme From Behind the Curtain
68 : Seu Jorge : Starman
69 : The Delgados : Girls Of Valour
70 : P.G. Six : Old Man On the Mountain
71 : Youssou N'Dour : Bamba the Poet
72 : Stereolab : Cosmic Country Noir
73 : Madvillain : All Caps
74 : Saul Williams : List Of Demands (Reparations)
75 : Billie The Vision & The Dancers : Summer Cat
76 : The MFA : The Difference It Makes
77 : Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings : How Long Do I Have To Wait For You?
78 : Modest Mouse : The View
79 : Petter : Repa Skivan
80 : Feist : Gatekeeper
81 : Feist : One Evening
82 : Baby Dee : Lilacs
83 : Les Savy Fav : The Sweat Descends
84 : The Decemberists : The Tain Part I
85 : Scissor Sisters : Take Your Mama Out
86 : Devendra Banhart : A Sight To Behold
87 : Modest Mouse : Ocean Breathes Salty
88 : N.E.R.D. : She Wants To Move
89 : Los Amigos Invisibles : Ease Your Mind
90 : Medeski Martin & Wood : Bloody Oil
91 : Sondre Lerche : Two Way Monologue
92 : Nujabes : Aruarian Dance
93 : Cam'Ron : Down and Out
94 : Destroyer : It's Gonna Take an Airplane
95 : Tinariwen : Assoul
96 : White Magic : Keeping The Wolves From The Door
97 : Xiu Xiu : I Luv the Valley OH
98 : Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited : Komborera (Bless)
99 : Soulwax : NY Excuse
100 : A.C. Newman : Miracle Drug
101 : John Frusciante : Second Walk

Judgement call -- Do all songs on the U.S. version of Thunder Lightning Strike count as candidates for the 2004 songs list?

2004 SONGS

1. DEERHOOF - MILK MAN
2. THE GO! TEAM - BOTTLE ROCKET
3. ARCADE FIRE - WAKE UP
4. ARCADE FIRE - NEIGHBORHOOD 1: TUNNELS
5. FIERY FURNACES - BLUEBERRY BOAT
6. FIERY FURNACES - CHIEF INSPECTOR BLANCHEFLOWER
7. FIERY FURNACES - CHRIS MICHAELS
8. FRANZ FERDINAND - TAKE ME OUT
9. MAGNETIC FIELDS - I THOUGHT YOU WERE MY BOYFRIEND
10. ARCADE FIRE - REBELLION (LIES)
11. THE GO! TEAM - FRIENDSHIP UPDATE
12. SCISSOR SISTERS - LAURA
13. INTERPOL - EVIL
14. SCISSOR SISTERS - TAKE YOUR MAMA
15. DEERHOOF - SONG OF SORN
16. DEERHOOF - RAINBOW SILHOUETTE OF THE MILKY RAIN
17. IQU - PUKA
18. BETA BAND - ASSESSMENT
19. ANNIE - CHEWING GUM
20. ARCADE FIRE - IN THE BACKSEAT

Predictable, but who cares:

* Albums

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
3. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
4. Brian Wilson - Smile
5. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
6. Veils - The Runaway Found
7. Interpol - Antics
8. Ron Sexsmith - Retriever
9. John Frusciante - Shadows Collide With People
10. TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
11. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
12. Keane - Hopes And Fears
13. Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill
14. Sophia - People Are Like Seasons
15. J.W. Roy - Kitchen Table Blues
16. Ambulance LTD - LP
17. Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague
18. Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
19. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
20. Beta Band - Heroes To Zeros

* Songs

1. Bloc Party - Banquet
2. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
3. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
4. Wilco - The Late Greats
5. Modest Mouse - Float On
6. Ron Sexsmith - Imaginary Friends
7. Morrissey - First Of The Gang To Die
8. Arcade Fire - Crown Of Love
9. Iron & Wine - Naked As We Came
10. Interpol - Slow Hands
11. Killers - Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine
12. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
13. Bloc Party - Helicopter
14. Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
15. Interpol - Length Of Love
16. LCD Soundsystem - Yeah
17. Sophia - Oh My Love
18. Ambulance LTD - Anecdote
19. John Frusciante - Omission
20. Franz Ferdinand - The Dark Of The Matinée

P.S.: I sincerely hope Banquet is gonna make it!

Albums 2004:

01. KANYE WEST-The College Dropout
02. NICK CAVE-Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
03. RADIO 4-Stealing Of A Nation
04. MADVILLAIN-Madvillainy
05. BRIAN WILSON-Smile
06. JESU-Jesu
07. VARIOUS ARTISTS-Ocean's Twelve (OST)
08. FRANZ FERDINAND-Franz Ferdinand
09. CARL HANCOCK RUX-Apothecary RX
10. 65DAYSOFSTATIC-The Fall Of Math
11. TORTOISE-It's All Around You
12. GHINZU-Blow!
13. T.V. ON THE RADIO-Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
14. WOVEN HAND-Consider The Birds
15. COCOROSIE-La Maison De Mon Rêve
16. SLIPKNOT-Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
17. ARCHIVE-Noise
18. SECRET MACHINES-Now Here Is Nowhere
19. DEVENDRA BANHART-Rejoicing In The Hands
20. CHARMING HOSTESS-Sarajevo Blues
21. EFTERKLANG-Tripper
22. The BETA BAND-From Heroes To Zeros
23. ALTER EGO-Transphormer
24. KONONO No.1-Congotronics
25. GREEN DAY-American Idiot
26. ELECTRIC PUHA-Sisters In Paradise
27. The DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN-Miss Machine
28. FIERY FURNACES-Blueberry Boat
29. JOSS STONE-Mind, Body & Soul
30. ASUNDER-A Clarion Call
31. The ARCADE FIRE-Funeral
32. FLOTATION TOY WARNING-Bluffer's Guide To The Flight Deck
33. KASABIAN-Kasabian
34. ILLOGIC-Celestial Clockwork
35. FUTUREHEADS-The Futureheads
36. MISS KITTIN-I.Com
37. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE-Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
38. C-MON & KYPSKI-Static Traveller
39. ELECTRELANE-The Power Out
40. DIZZEE RASCAL-Showtime
41. COMETS ON FIRE-Blue Cathedral
42. AUTOMATO-Automato
43. REGINA SPEKTOR-Soviet Kitsch
44. BLACK KEYS-Rubber Factory
45. CIRCLE TAKES THE SQUARE-As The Roots Undo
46. DESTROYER-Your Blues
47. ELECTRIC BARBARIAN-Electric Barbarian
48. DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS-The Dirty South
49. ONEIDA-Secret Wars
50. ESPERS-Espers



Individual songs 2004:

01. KANYE WEST-SPACESHIP (from The College Dropout-Hiphop)
02. The VINES-RIDE (from Winning Days-Pop/Rock) Listen
03. MUNLY & THE LEE LEWIS HARLOTS-AMEN CORNER (from Munly & The Lee Lewis Harlots-Pop/Rock) Listen
04. FRANZ FERDINAND-CHEATING ON YOU (from Franz Ferdinand-Pop/Rock)
05. C-MON & KYPSKI-CRAVING OF A SOLEMN SOUL (from Static Traveller-Electronica) Listen
06. BRIAN WILSON-ROLL PLYMOUTH ROCK (from Smile-Pop/Rock)
07. DAVID HOLMES-$ 165 MILLION + INTEREST (INTO) THE ROUND UP (from Ocean's Twelve-Soundtrack)
08. NICK CAVE-SUPERNATURALLY (from Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus-Pop/Rock)
09. CROTCHDUSTER-MAMMAL SAUCE (from Big Fat Box Of Shit-Metal) Metal satire. Listen
10. KASABIAN-BUTCHER BLUES (from Kasabian-Pop/Rock) Listen

11. The ARCADE FIRE-NEIGHBORHOOD # 2 (from Funeral-Pop/Rock)
12. BAUER-CUBICLE (from Baueresque-Pop/Rock)
15. AMADOU & MARIAM-COULIBALY (from Dimanche A Bamako-World/Africa/Mali) Listen
14. KAISER CHIEFS-I PREDICT A RIOT (single-Pop/Rock)
15. CHARMING HOSTESS-THE TUNNEL (from Sarajevo Blues-Pop/Rock)
16. The VEILS-THE TIDE THAT LEFT AND NEVER CAME BACK (from The Runaway Found-Pop/Rock) Listen
17. BLACK KEYS-TILL I GET MY WAY (from Rubber Factory-Pop/Rock)
18. CARL HANCOCK RUX-I GOT A NAME (from Apothecary RX-R&B/Soul)
19. MODE HOOKERS-SWING ME DADDY (SANDY W. & DAVID KENT REMIX) (single-Electronica)
20. TORTOISE-ON THE CHIN (from It's All Around You-Pop/Rock)

21. RADIO 4-PARTY CRASHERS (from Stealing Of A Nation-Pop/Rock)
22. ELECTRELANE-ONLY ONE THING IS NEEDED (from The Power Out-Pop/Rock)
23. NEKO CASE-THIS LITTLE LIGHT (from The Tigers Have Spoken-Pop/Rock)
24. ILLOGIC-LIVE TO DIE (from Celestial Clockwork-Hiphop) Listen
25. MAX SEDGLEY-HAPPY (single-Electronica)
26. PJ HARVEY-SHAME (from Uh Huh Her-Pop/Rock)
27. ALTER EGO-SATANIC CIRCUS (from Transphormer-Electronica/Techno) Listen
28. WOVEN HAND-DOWN IN YON FOREST (from Consider The Birds-Pop/Rock)
29. FENNESZ-TRANSIT (from Venice-Electronica)
30. GREEN DAY-AMERICAN IDIOT (from American Idiot-Rock/Punk)

31. MADVILLAIN-MEAT GRINDER (from Madvillainy-Hiphop)
32. SECRET MACHINES-THE ROAD LEAD WHERE IT'S LED (from Now Here Is Nowhere-Pop/Rock)
33. CAJMERE-MIDNIGHT (single-Electronica/Club) Listen
34. SLIPKNOT-DUALITY (from Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses-Metal)
35. ELECTRIC PUHA-LOOSE FROM YOUR BASSLINE (from Sisters In Paradise-Electronica)
36. GHINZU-MINE (from Blow!-Pop/Rock)
37. JILL SCOTT-GOLDEN (from Beautifully Human: Words And Sounds vol. 2-R&B/Soul)
38. The STREETS-WOULDN'T HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY (from A Grand Don't Come For Free-Electronica)
39. ASA CHANG & JUNRAY-PARLOR (single-Experimental)
40. ANOUK-GIRL (from Hotel New York-Pop/Rock)

41. IRON & WINE-FREE UNTIL THEY CUT ME DOWN (from Our Endless Numbered Days-Pop/Rock)
42. NICE PETER-THE BUSH SONG (Pop/Rock) Anti-George W. rant.
43. JESU-MAN/WOMAN (from Jesu-Pop/Rock)
44. KANYE WEST-ALL FALLS DOWN (from The College Dropout-Hiphop)
45. GOMEZ-SILENCE (from Split The Difference-Pop/Rock) Listen
46. CLUTCH-PROFITS OF DOOM (from Blast Tyrant-Pop/Rock)
47. DIE ANARCHISTISCHE ABENT UBERHALTUNG-BACK UP (from Ghost Tracks-Rock/Experimental)
48. DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS-WHERE THE DEVIL DON'T STAY (from The Dirty South-Pop/Rock)
49. ARCHIVE-NOISE (from Noise-Pop/Rock) Listen
50. MICAH P. HINSON-DON'T YOU FORGET (from Micah P. Hinson & The Gospel Of Progress-Singer/songwriter)

51. SUFJAN STEVENS-HE WOKE ME UP AGAIN (from Seven Swans-Singer/songwriter) Listen
52. SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM-THE DONKEY (from Of Natural History-Pop/Rock)
53. MARTIN SOLVEIG-I'M A GOOD MAN (MOUSE T. BREAKBEAT MIX) (single-Electronica/Club)
54. SOULFLY-PROPHECY (from Prophecy-Metal)
55. The BETA BAND-ASSESSMENT (from Heroes To Zeros-Pop/Rock)
56. TUNNG-PEOPLE FOLK (from Mother's Daughter And Other Songs-Pop/Rock)
57. JOSS STONE-RIGHT TO BE WRONG (from Mind, Body & Soul-Pop)
58. MF DOOM-GUINNESSES (from Mm...Food!-Hiphop)
59. The BEES-WASH IN THE RAIN (from Free The Bees-Pop/Rock)
60. COCO ROSIE-BY YOUR SIDE (from La Maison De Mon Rêve-Pop/Rock)

61. FELIX DA HOUSECAT-WHAT SHE WANTS (from Devin Dazzle & The Neon Fever-Electronica/Club)
62. The DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN-SETTING FIRE TO SLEEPING GIANT (from Miss Machine-Metal) Listen
63. KOPNA KOPNA-LIKE YOU! (from Like You-Pop/Rock)
64. T.V. ON THE RADIO-DREAMS (from Desperate Youths, Blood Thirsty Babes-Pop/Rock)
65. DEVOTCHKA-LUNNAYA POGONKA (from How It Ends-Pop/World)
66. A.C. NEWMAN-THE TOWN HALO (from The Slow Wonder-Pop/Rock) The New Pornographers' vocalist.
67. 65DAYSOFSTATIC-AREN'T WE ALL RUNNING? (from The Fall Of Math-Pop/Rock)
68. DEVENDRA BANHART-IT'S A SIGHT TO BEHOLD (from Rejoicing In The Hands-Singer/songwriter)
69. J2K-CRAZY BITCH (from Heat In The Streets vol. 2-Hiphop/Grime)
70. EFTERKLANG-SWARMING (from Tripper-Pop/Rock)

71. The HIVES-TWO TIMING TOUCH AND BROKEN BONES (from Tyrannosaurus Hives-Pop/Rock) Listen
72. SEELENLUFT-I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW (from The Way We Go-Electronica)
73. EAGLES OF DEATHMETAL-I ONLY WANT YOU (from Peace Love Deathmetal-Pop/Rock) Hobbyproject by Josh Homme.
74. USHER-BAD GIRL (from Confessions-R&B/Soul)
75. SECRET CHIEFS 3-WELCOME TO THE THEATRON ANIMATRONIQUE (from Book Of Horizons-Pop/Rock) Listen
76. RECLOOSE-CARDIOLOGY (ISOLEE REMIX) (single-Electronica)
77. The FUTUREHEADS-MEANTIME (from The Futureheads-Pop/Rock)
78. ESPERS-RIDING (from Espers-Pop/Rock) Listen
79. AUTOMATO-THE SINGLE (from Automato-Hiphop)
80. NICK CAVE-GET READY FOR LOVE (from Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus-Pop/Rock)

81. ASUNDER-TWILIGHT AMARANTHINE (from A Clarion Call-Metal)
82. JOLIE HOLLAND-OLD FASHION MORPHINE (from Escondida-Singer/songwriter)
83. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE-HANG 'EM HIGH (from Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge-Pop/Rock)
84. YÜ MIYAKE-Japanese title (from Katamari Fortissimo Damacy-Pop/Rock) Listen
85. ESTRADASPHERE-THE JAILING OF WHOOLILICIOUS! (from Passion For Life-Pop/Rock)
86. The DELGADOS-IS THIS ALL THAT I CAME FOR? (from Universal Audio-Pop/Rock)
87. REGINA SPEKTOR-CARBON MONOXIDE (Soviet Kitsch-Singer/songwriter)
88. T. RAUMSCHMIERE-QUERSTROMZERSPANER (LFO MIX) (single-Electronica)
89. BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW-SMILE HEAVY (from Start A People-Pop/Rock) Listen
90. KEANE-SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW (from Hopes And Fears-Pop/Rock)

91. KINGS OF CONVENIENCE-MISREAD (from Riot On An Empty Street-Pop/Rock)
92. n.LANNON-FORTUNE COOKIE (from Chemical Friends-Electronica/Pop)
93. CIRCLE TAKES THE SQUARE-KILL THE SWITCH (from As The Roots Undo-Punk)
94. GRAHAM COXON-ARE YOU READY? (from Happiness In Magazines-Pop/Rock) Blur's guitarist. Listen
95. MIDLAKE-THE JUNGLER (from Bamnan And Silvercork-Pop/Rock)
96. The BLUESKINS-GIRL (from Word Of Mouth-Pop/Rock)
97. BIG E.D.-FRONTLINE (CREEPY CRAWLER MIX) (single-Electronica/Grime) Listen
98. FIERY FURNACES-STRAIGHT STREET (from Blueberry Boat-Pop/Rock)
99. ADEM-STATUED (from Homesongs-Singer/songwriter)
100. KONONO No.1-LUFUALA NDONGA (from Congotronics-World/Africa/Congo)

101. DANGER MOUSE-ENCORE (from The Grey Album-Hiphop) Mash-up between The Beatles' White Album and Jay-Z's Black album. Listen
102. The MUSIC-I NEED LOVE (from Welcome To The North-Pop/Rock)
103. BLUES BROTHER CASTRO-MORE (from Money Maker Me-Pop/Rock)
104. BLOC PARTY-BANQUET (PHONES DISCO EDIT) (single-Pop/Rock)
106. SKEW SISKIN-SHAKE ME (from Album Of The Year-Pop/Rock)
105. MYLO-DROP THE PRESSURE (from Destroy Rock & Roll-Electronica) Listen
107. The LIBERTINES-THE SAGA (from The Libertines-Pop/Rock)
108. BEANS-STRUCTURE TONE (from Now Soon Someday-Hiphop) Also member of Anti-Pop Consortium.
109. WANG INC. vs. KIT CLAYTON-UNRAVELLED (single-Electronica/Techno)
110. DUNGEN-PANDA (from Ta Det Lugnt-Pop/Rock)

111. CARL HANCOCK RUX-ELEVEN MORE DAYS (from Apothecary RX-R&B/Soul) Listen
112. CALIFONE-APPLE (from Heron King Blues-Pop/Rock)
113. RAZORLIGHT-LEAVE ME ALONE (from Up All Night-Pop/Rock)
114. DJ/RUPTURE-LITTLE MORE OIL (from Special Gunpowder-Electronica)
115. BLANCHE-WAYFARING STRANGER (from If We Can't Trust The Doctors...-Pop/Rock) Listen
116. DIZZEE RASCAL-GET BY (from Showtime-Hiphop/Grime)
117. AUDIOKARATE-JESUS IS ALIVE AND WELL (from Lady Melody-Pop/Rock)
118. CLASHING EGOS-KNITTING SKIN (from Clashing Egos-Electronica)
119. LIARS-WE FENCED THE OTHER GARDENS WITH THE BONES OF OUR OWN (from They Were Wrong, So We Drowned-Pop/Rock)
120. M.I.A. & DIPLO-TWO BIT RHYTHM (M.I.A.'s MIX) (from Piracy Funds Terrorism vol. 1-Electronica)

121. DEERHOOF-GIGA DANCE (from Milk Man-Pop/Rock)
122. SOPHIA-IF A CHANGE IS GONNA COME (from People Are Like Seasons-Pop/Rock)
123. ART POPULAR-GANDAIA (from Sem Abuso, Amigos-World/Latin/Brazil)
124. FRANZ FERDINAND-TAKE ME OUT (from Franz Ferdinand-Pop/Rock)
125. CASTANETS-YOU ARE THE BLOOD (from Cathedral-Pop/Rock)
126. ELECTRIC BARBARIAN-ELECTRIC BARBARIAN (from Electric Barbarian-Electronica/Experimental)
127. N.E.R.D.-DRILL SERGEANT pt. 2 (from Fly Or Die-R&B/Soul)
128. FLOTATION TOY WARNING-EVEN FANTASTICA (from Bluffer's Guide To The Flight Deck-Pop/Rock) Listen
129. AVRIL-BE YOURSELF (from Members Only-Electronica)
130. The KILLERS-JENNY WAS A FRIEND OF MINE (from Hot Fuss-Pop/Rock)

131. WILEY-TREDDIN' ON THIN ICE (from Treddin' On Thin Ice-Electronica/Grime)
132. RADIO 4-MONEY (from Stealing Of A Nation-Pop/Rock)
133. JOANNA NEWSOM-THREE LITTLE BABES (from The Milk-Eyed Mender-Singer/songwriter)
134. CULT OF LUNA-INTO THE BEYOND (from Salvation-Metal)
135. TRIGGERFINGER-INNER PEACE (from Triggerfinger-Pop/Rock)
136. JOHN LEGEND-I CAN CHANGE (from Get Lifted-R&B/Soul)
137. PHOENIX-I'M AN ACTOR (from Alphabetical-Pop/Rock)
138. DIVISION OF LAURA LEE-WE ARE NUMBERS (from Dasnotcompute-Pop/Rock)
139. JAMES BLUNT-YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL (from Back To Bedlam-Pop)
140. BJÖRK-THE TRIUMPH OF A HEART (from Medulla-Pop/Rock)

141. MISS KITTIN-REQUIEM FOR A HIT (from I.Com-Electronica)
142. ONEIDA-TREASURE PLANE (from Secret Wars-Pop/Rock)
143. INTERPOL-SLOW HANDS (from Antics-Pop/Rock)
144. SAUL WILLIAMS-BLACK STACEY (from Saul Williams-Hiphop)
145. APOLL-EIMER & SCHAUFEL (single-Electronica/Techno)
146. The HOLD STEADY-KILLER PARTIES (from Almost Killed Me-Pop/Rock)
147. ALI B.-KLAAR OM TE STRIJDEN (from Het Leven Van De Straat-Hiphop)
148. FEIST-WHEN I WAS A YOUNG GIRL (from Let It Die-Singer/songwriter)
149. DESTROYER-IT'S GONNA TAKE AN AIRPLANE (from Your Blues-Pop/Rock)
150. JOHN FRUSCIANTE-REGRET (from Shadows Collide With People-Pop/Rock) Listen

151. COMETS ON FIRE-THE BEE AND THE CRACKING EGG (from Blue Cathedral-Pop/Rock)
152. VETIVER-OH, PAPA (from Vetiver-Pop/Rock)
153. XIU XIU-CRANK HEART (from Fabulous Muscles-Pop/Rock)
154. WILCO-SPIDERS (from A Ghost Is Born-Pop/Rock)
155. MAX RICHTER-ARBORETUM (from The Blue Notebooks-Experimental)
156. TINARIWEN-DUALAHILA AR TESNINAM (from Amassakoul-World/Africa/Mali)
157. DOVES-BLACK AND WHITE TOWN (single-Pop/Rock)
158. A GIRL CALLED EDDY-THE LONG GOODBYE (from A Girl Called Eddy-Singer/songwriter)
159. RICARDO VILLALOBOS-HIREKLON (from Thé Au Harem d'Archimède-Electronica/Techno)
160. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM-YEAH (CRASS VERSION) (single-Pop/Electronica)

161. CEE LO-EVENING NEWS (from Cee-Lo Is The Soul Machine-R&B/Hiphop)
162. The OCEAN-EQUINOX (from Fluxion-Metal)
163. DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979-YOU'RE A WOMAN, I'M A MACHINE (from You're A Woman, I'm A Machine-Pop/Rock)
164. SCISSOR SISTERS-FILTHY/GORGEOUS (from Scissor Sisters-Pop/Electronica)
165. MAURO PAWLOWSKI-TIRED OF BEING YOUNG (from Black Europa-Pop/Rock) Listen
166. The POLYPHONIC SPREE-SECTION 12: HOLD ME NOW (from Together We're Heavy-Pop/Rock)
167. BADLY DRAWN BOY-LOGIC OF A FRIEND (from One Plus One Is One-Pop/Rock)
168. The TOWER RECORDINGS-OTHER KINGS RUN (from The Galaxies' Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field-Pop/Rock)
169. DAVID HOLMES-7/29/04 THE DAY OFF (from Ocean's Twelve-Soundtrack)
170. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE-LEAF HOUSE (from Sung Tongs-Pop/Rock)

171. OF MONTREAL-RAPTURE RAPES THE MUSES (from Satanic Panic In The Attic-Pop/Rock)
172. BEBEL GILBERTO-AGANJÚ (from Bebel Gilberto-World/Latin/Brazil) Listen
173. PLANT LIFE-WE CAN GET HIGH (from The Return Of Jack Splash-R&B/Soul)
174. RILO KILEY-PORTIONS OF FOXES (from More Adventurous-Pop/Rock)
175. MASTODON-NAKED BURN (from Leviathan-Metal)
176. ANDREAS KREMER-MOOSE WEDE (single-Electronica/Techno)
177. CHROME HOOF-NORDIC CURSE (from Chrome Hoof-Pop/Rock)
178. NORAH JONES-BE HERE TO LOVE ME (from Feels Like Home-Pop)
179. JUNIOR BOYS-UNDER THE SUN (from Last Exit-Pop/Electronica)
180. ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI-STRANGE FIRES (from The Doldrums-Pop/Rock)

181. The GO! TEAM-FRIENDSHIP UPDATE (from Thunder, Lightning, Strike-Pop/Electronica)
182. RAY LAMONTAGNE-BURN (from Trouble-Pop/Rock)
183. The DATSUNS-I GOT NO WORDS (from Outta Sight/Outta Mind-Pop/Rock)
184. MOLE HARNESS-ALL YOUR MEMORIES RETURN AT ONCE (from All Your Memories Return At Once-Pop/Rock)
185. ANNIE-ALWAYS TOO LATE (from Anniemal-Pop)
186. SUNBURNED THE HAND OF MAN-BURIED PLEASURE (from Rare Wood-Rock/Experimental)
187. JOSH RITTER-THE BAD ACTRESS (from Hello Starling-Singer/songwriter)
188. MORRISSEY-IRISH BLOOD, ENGLISH HEART (from You Are The Quarry-Pop/Rock)
189. AVENUE D.-2 DRUNK 2 FUCK (from Bootleg-Pop/Electronica)
190. :OF THE WAND & THE MOON:-SHE WITH WHOM COMPAR'D THE ALPS ARE VALLIES (from Alqiz-Pop/Rock)

191. HOT CHIP-DOWN WITH PRINCE (from Coming On Strong-Pop/Electronica)
192. ISIS-SYNDIC CALLS (from Panopticon-Metal)
193. GIFT OF GAB-STARDUST (from The 4th Dimensional Rocketship's Going Up-Hiphop) Ex-Blackalicious. Listen
194. DIPLO-SUMMER'S GONNA HURT YOU (from Florida-Electronica)
195. COURTNEY LOVE-I'LL DO ANYTHING (from America's Sweetheart-Pop/Rock)
196. NOW IT'S OVERHEAD-REVERSE (from Fall Back Open-Pop/Rock)
197. MATTHEW DEAR-STEALING MOVES (single-Electronica/Techno)
198. EMINEM-NEVER ENOUGH (from Encore-Hiphop)
199. SLUDGEFEAST-KING OF THE ARCADE (from Noise, Action, Noise-Pop/Rock)
200. DIE ANARCHISTISCHE ABENT UBERHALTUNG-OFF THE RECORD (from Tub Gurnard Goodness-Rock/Experimental)

Revised 2004 Song List

I forgot about Fiery Furnaces singles released in 2004, some of my favorite songs of theirs.

2004 SONGS

1. DEERHOOF - MILK MAN
2. THE GO! TEAM - BOTTLE ROCKET
3. ARCADE FIRE - WAKE UP
4. ARCADE FIRE - NEIGHBORHOOD 1: TUNNELS
5. FIERY FURNACES - HERE COMES THE SUMMER*
6. FIERY FURNACES - BLUEBERRY BOAT
7. FIERY FURNACES - CHIEF INSPECTOR BLANCHEFLOWER
8. FIERY FURNACES - CHRIS MICHAELS
9. FRANZ FERDINAND - TAKE ME OUT
10. FIERY FURNACES - SINGLE AGAIN*
11. MAGNETIC FIELDS - I THOUGHT YOU WERE MY BOYFRIEND
12. ARCADE FIRE - REBELLION (LIES)
13. THE GO! TEAM - FRIENDSHIP UPDATE
14. SCISSOR SISTERS - LAURA
15. INTERPOL - EVIL
16. SCISSOR SISTERS - TAKE YOUR MAMA
17. DEERHOOF - SONG OF SORN
18. DEERHOOF - RAINBOW SILHOUETTE OF THE MILKY RAIN
19. IQU - PUKA
20. BETA BAND - ASSESSMENT

Some stats from my list:
- 60% young (under 35) 40% older (over 35), a very good year for brilliant comebacks
- 44% from the USA (at the end they always win), 20% from Canada (and many of them on high positions), 20% from Europe and Australia and 16% from the UK (maybe the last year with quite a lot interesting things coming from the UK)
- 28% females 72% males (probably not enough but getting better)

ALBUMS:

1. BRIAN WILSON "SMiLE" (#101 of all time)
2. MORRISSEY "You Are the Quarry"
3. THE ARCADE FIRE "Funeral"
4. FRANZ FERDINAND "Franz Ferdinand"
5. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT "Want Two"
6. FEIST "Let It Die"
7. THE STREETS "A Grand Don't Come for Free"
8. KANYE WEST "The College Dropout"
9. THE LIBERTINES "The Libertines"
10. NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS "Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus"
11. WILCO "A Ghost Is Born"
12. JOSELE SANTIAGO "Las golondrinas etcétera"
13. TOM WAITS "Real Gone"
14. BJÖRK "Medúlla"
15. JUNIOR BOYS "Last Exit"
16. ANNIE "Anniemal"
17. JOLIE HOLLAND "Escondida"
18. LORETTA LYNN "Van Lear Rose"
19. JOANNA NEWSOM "The Milk-Eyed Mender"
20. DEVENDRA BANHART "Rejoicing in the Hands"
21. IRON & WINE "Our Endless Numbered Days"
22. ELLIOTT SMITH "From a Basement on a Hill"
23. DANIEL DARC "Crèvecœur"
24. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS "i"
25. GONZALES "Solo Piano"


SONGS:

1. MORRISSEY "First of the Gang to Die" (#93 in my all-time list)
2. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT "The One You Love" (#114)
3. THE STREETS "Dry Your Eyes" (#160)
4. THE ARCADE FIRE "Rebellion (Lies)" (#170)
5. A GIRL CALLED EDDY "Golden" (#233)
6. JOSELE SANTIAGO "Con las manos vacías" (#238)
7. BECK "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes"
8. THE ARCADE FIRE "Wake Up"
9. FRANZ FERDINAND "Take Me Out"
10. THE LIBERTINES "Can't Stand Me Now"
11. NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS "There She Comes, My Beautiful World"
12. BRIAN WILSON "Wonderful/Song for Children"
13. ELS PETS "Agost"
14. MORRISSEY "Irish Blood, English Heart"
15. THE STREETS "Blinded by the Lights"
16. KANYE WEST feat GLC & CONSEQUENCE "I'll Fly Away/Spaceship"
17. FEIST "One Evening"
18. FRANZ FERDINAND "Auf Achse"
19. THE LIBERTINES "Music When the Lights Go Out"
20. THE ARCADE FIRE "Neigbourhood #1 (Tunnels)"
21. THE KILLERS "Mr. Brightside"
22. MORRISSEY "Let Me Kiss You"
23. AIR "Cherry Blossom Girl"
24. FEIST "Inside and Out"
25. ANNIE "Heartbeat"
26. M.I.A. "Galang"
27. JUNIOR BOYS "Under the Sun"
28. BJÖRK "Mouths Cradle"
29. TOM WAITS "Hoist That Rag"
30. JOLIE HOLLAND "Old Fashioned Morphine"
31. LORETTA LYNN "Miss Being Mrs."
32. JOANNA NEWSOM "Sprout and the Bean"
33. COCOROSIE "Good Friday"
34. IRON & WINE "Fever Dream"
35. SUFJAN STEVENS "To Be Alone With You"
36. ELLIOTT SMITH "Twilight"
37. WILCO "Wishful Thinking"
38. THE ARCADE FIRE "Crown of Love"
39. DANIEL DARC "Psaume 23"
40. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT "Little Sister"
41. MORRISSEY "The World Is Full of Crashing Bores"
42. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS "It's Only Time"
43. GREEN DAY "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
44. U2 "Vertigo"
45. CHUCHO "La mente del monstruo"
46. FRANZ FERDINAND "This Fire"
47. LA COSTA BRAVA "Adoro a las pijas de mi ciudad"
48. ANTÒNIA FONT "Robot"
49. FEIST "Mushaboom"
50. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT "This Love Affair"

FAVOURITE COMPILATION: VARIOUS "The Golden Apples of the Sun"


The Spotify link for the songs list

Maturity and authenticity, two dangerous concepts in music, especially if they go together. Everyone expects from a young rock musician to be wild and rebellious but if this attitude comes from an aged musician it could be easily perceived as fake or even pathetic. Especially if the musician is coming in terms with his age, like Josele Santiago told in an interview to Rockdelux: "When you're young it's you against the world but when you're getting old you realize that it's wiser to be on the world's side". Josele gave us a master class on reconciling the wisdom of adulthood and the wildness of youth on his first solo album "Las golondrinas etcétera" ("The Swallows Etcetera", 2004), a move quite similar (but with different musical approaches) to Daniel Darc's for his "Crèvecœur" or Tom Waits for his "Real Gone", both also from 2004.
Josele Santiago was the leader of Los Enemigos, an acclaimed rock band from Madrid that released from 1985 to 2002 eight studio albums (plus two soundtracks and two live albums), with "La vida mata" ("Life Kills", 1990) as his best album. Josele's harsh voice, rascal lyrics and wild songs marked the repertoire of the band. For his first solo effort he hit the nail on the head with his collaborators, especially with the unexpected choice of Nacho Mastretta as a producer, previously mainly known by his works on lounge music, and the mastery on guitar of Pablo Novoa, former member of Golpes Bajos. The predominantly acoustic sound and relaxed feel was compensated by the raw and even disturbing lyrics about war ("Soldado limpiando un fusil", "Soldier Wiping a Rifle"), poverty ("Serrín", "Sawdust") or drug addiction ("Mi prima y sus pinceles", "My Cousin and Her Paintbrushes", with its memorable chorus "Escucha / Los muertos dicen que no / La calle grita que sí", "Listen / The dead say no / The street shout yes").
From an album with such a remarkable song-writing I've selected paradoxically the only song not written by Josele Santiago, "Con las manos vacías" ("With the Empty Hands"), an obscure song written by Mexican composer Víctor Cordero in a ranchera style that Josele discovered (on a cassette that he bought in a gas station) on the amazing version by the legendary Mexican singer Chavela Vargas (listen here). The desolation of the original is amplified on Josele Santiago's version by an inventive orchestration, with a somber clarinet intro by Mastretta, a subdued but precise ryhthm section, a wonderful lounge organ part by Luca Frasca and a torn guitar solo by Pablo Novoa (reminiscent of Marc Ribot's works for Tom Waits). This guitar solo and the ragged vocal performance of Josele Santiago ("And shout out loud / That love is a lie") prompted a question from my son one day while I was listening to this song. "Daddy, why they're playing and singing so badly?" "Well, my son, in fact they've been playing for so many years, they've learned so much music that they ended playing like that. Believe me, it's a lot more difficult that it seems to play so badly".

PS: Dan M, it was for me a very pleasant surprise to find such an obscure song (widely unknown in Spain at least) in your list. I hope that other AMers could enjoy the song too.



CON LAS MANOS VACÍAS
Composer: Víctor Cordero
Performer: JOSELE SANTIAGO
First release: 2004 ("Las golondrinas, etcétera" album)
Length: 3’50”

Qué triste despertar
en las mañanas frías
sin poder hallar
tus manos en las mías,
contemplar mi balcón
sin sol
y sentirme morir
de amor.

Con tristeza y ausencia
en mis noches sombrías,
implorando clemencia
con las manos vacías.

Qué triste despertar
y verse siempre solo,
con esta soledad
donde se acaba todo.

Y ponerme a gritar
que el amor es mentira
y nos deja al final
con las manos vacías.

Y ponerme a gritar
que el amor es mentira
y nos deja al final
con las manos vacías.

Qué triste despertar ...


WITH EMPTY HANDS

It's so sad to awake
in the cold mornings
without finding
your hands in mine,
to look at my balcony
without sunlight
and to feel like dying
because of love.

With sadness and absence
in my gloomy nights,
begging for mercy
with empty hands.

It's so sad to awake
always alone,
with this loneliness
where everything comes to an end.

And to shout out loud
that love is a lie
that leaves you at the end
with empty hands.

And to shout out loud
that love is a lie
that leaves you at the end
with empty hands.

It's so sad to awake...


Sorry for the bad sound quality



The rest of the Spanish Top 5 of 2004:
2. ELS PETS "Agost": August comes / heavy and lazy / remembering us / the beauty of the time that passes slowly.
3. CHUCHO "La mente del monstruo": How Leon Tolstoi dared? / I’ve been told that his diaries call me thief.
4. LA COSTA BRAVA "Adoro a las pijas de mi ciudad": I love the posh girls of my town / their scent is so special / that one tries to do his best / to know the secret of their kisses.
5. ANTÓNIA FONT "Robot": Efficient robot / much smarter than people / your computer will add up in a second / all the stars in this world.

1. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. Tom Waits - Real Gone
4. Joanna Newsom - The Milk Eyed Mender
5. Nick Cave - Abbatoir Blues/Lyre Of Orpheus
6. TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
7. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
8. Feist - Let It Die
9. Annie - Anniemal
10. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
11. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
12. Dungen - Ta Det Lungt
13. Kanye West - The College Dropout
14. The Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South
15. The Libertines - Up The Bracket
16. Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
17. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
18. Morrisey - You Are The Quarry
19. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
20. Madvillain - Madvillainy

I finally listened to College Dropout. It's got the same positives and negatives as his other albums, but the best few songs are the best few of his I've heard. It's got the same gratingly reductionist politics, the same above average rapping over perfectionist sampling and mixing. It's got less ego-posturing than his later albums, and it all tends to flow more naturally.

It definitely helps me see what other people see in Kanye.

01. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Abattoir Blues/ The Lyre of Orpheus
02. Arcade Fire- Funeral
03. Kanye West- The College Dropout
04. Wilco- A Ghost is Born
05. Madvillain- Madvillainy
06. Brian Wilson- SMiLE
07. Loretta Lynn- Van Lear Rose
08. Franz Ferdinand- Franz Ferdinand
09. Animal Collective- Sung Tongs
10. Joanna Newsom- The Milk Eyed Mender


I know this is kind of dirty pool, but I gave Nick Cave the top spot just because I know Funeral is going to win anyway.


Songs:

01. Arcade Fire- "Wake Up"
02. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- "There She Goes My Beautiful World"
03. Arcade Fire- "Rebellion (Lies)"
04. Kanye West- "We Don't Care"
05. Brian Wilson- "Good Vibrations (2004)"
06. Wilco- "Spiders (Kidsmoke)"
07. Arcade Fire- "Neighborhood #1"
08. Franz Ferdinand- "Take Me Out"
09. M.I.A.- "Galang"
10. Wilco- "Wishful Thinking"

Songs

1 Franz Ferdinand Take Me Out
2 Five for Fighting 100 Years
3 Todd Rundgren Wondering
4 Kelly Clarkson Because of You
5 Green Day Boulevard of Broken Dreams
6 Todd Rundgren Truth
8 Todd Rundgren Sweet
7 Graham Coxon Freakin' Out
9 Usher feat. Ludacris Yeah!
10 Kelly Clarkson Breakaway
11 Killers Somebody Told Me
12 Todd Rundgren Stood Up
13 Morrissey Irish Blood English Heart
14 U2 Vertigo
15 Green Day American Idiot
16 Kelly Clarkson Since U Been Gone
17 Morrissey First of the Gang to Die
18 Libertines Can't Stand Me Now
19 Modest Mouse Float On
20 Arcade Fire Rebellion (Lies)
21 Wolfman feat. Pete Doherty For Lovers
22 Killers Mr. Brightside
23 Scissor Sisters Take Your Mama
24 Bloc Party Banquet
25 Loretta Lynn feat. Jack White Portland, Oregon
26 Todd Rundgren Future
27 Citizen Cope Son's Gonna Rise
28 My Chemical Romance Helena
29 Todd Rundgren Flaw
30 Kanye West Jesus Walks
10 Todd Rundgren God Said
11 Kaiser Chiefs I Predict a Riot
12 Scissor Sisters Laura
13 Iron and Wine Each Coming Night
14 3 Doors Down Let Me Go
15 Brian Wilson Surfs Up
16 U2 All Because of You
17 Keane Your Eyes Open
18 Sufjan Stevens The Dress Looks Nice On You
19 Tears for Fears Secret World
20 Morrissey I Have Forgiven Jesus
21 PJ Harvey Shame
22 Green Day Wake Me Up When September Ends
23 Green Day Holiday
24 Kelly Clarkson Behind These Hazel Eyes
25 Belle and Sebastian Your Cover's Blown
26 Walkmen The Rat
27 Von Bondies C'mon C'mon
28 N.E.R.D. She Wants to Move
29 Interpol Slow Hands
30 Keane Somewhere Only We Know
31 Interpol Evil
32 Futureheads Hounds of Love
33 Franz Ferdinand Matinee
34 Gwen Stefani What You Waiting For?
35 Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell Drop It Like It's Hot
36 Gwen Stefani Hollaback Girl
37 Girls Aloud The Show
38 Snoop Dogg Signs
39 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds There She Goes, My Beautiful World
40 Phoenix Everything is Evertything
41 John Legend Used to Love U
42 Kanye West Family Business
43 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Nature Boy
44 Natasha Bendingfield Unwritten
45 Kanye West All Falls Down
46 Green Day Jesus Of Suburbia
47 U2 Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
48 Ryan Adams This House is Not for Sale
49 Blue Nile Stay Close
50 Junior Boys Under the Sun
51 R.E.M. Leaving New York
52 Rufus Wainwright Memphis Skyline
53 Rufus Wainwright Gay Messiah
54 Usher Confessions II
55 U2 Original of the Species
56 Vienna Teng Green Island Serenade
57 Cure Before Three
58 Sonic Youth Stones
59 Elliott Smith Twilight
60 Modest Mouse The World at Large
61 Killers All These Things That I've Done
62 Head Automatica Solid Gold Telephone
63 Guided By Voices Window of My World
64 From First to Last Minuet
65 Citizen Cope Bullet and a Target
66 Elvis Costello Needle Time
67 Fiery Furnaces Chris Michaels
68 Air Surfing on a Rocket
69 Alter Ego Rocker
70 Jimmy Eat World The World You Love
71 Franz Ferdinand Michael
72 LCD Soundsystem Yeah
73 Annie Heartbeat
74 Hives Walk Idiot Walk
75 Mylo Drop the Pressure
76 Interpol Narc
77 Elvis Costello Monkey to Man
78 M.I.A. Galang
79 Streets Dry Your Eyes
80 TV on the Radio Staring at the Sun
81 Arcade Fire Neighbourhood #2
82 Annie Chewing Gum
83 Rufus Wainwright The One You Love
84 Regina Spektor Us
85 Squarepushers Tetra-Synch

Albums

1 Arcade Fire Funeral
2 Green Day American Idiot
3 Todd Rundgren Liars
4 Morrissey You Are the Quarry
5 Killers Hot Fuss
6 Kelly Clarkson Breakaway
8 Kanye West The College Dropout
7 Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
9 Interpol Antics
10 Rufus Wainwright Want Two

ALBUMS
1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Kanye West - The College Dropout
3. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
4. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
5. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
6. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
7. Brian Wilson - SMiLE
8. Green Day - American Idiot
9. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
10. Danger Mouse - The Grey Album

SONGS
1. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
2. Arcade Fire - Wake Up
3. Franz Ferdinand - Matinee
4. Kanye West - Jesus Walks
5. Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia
6. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
7. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Get Ready for Love
8. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
9. Modest Mouse - Bury Me With It
10. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

Songs

1. Modest Mouse - Float On
2. Loretta Lynn feat. Jack White - Portland Oregon
3. Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes
4. Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now
5. Kanye West - All Falls Down
6. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
7. Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a Riot
8. U2 - Vertigo
9. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood No. 1 (Tunnels)
10. Roots - Don't Say Nuthin'
11. Black Keys - Girl Is on My Mind
12. M.I.A. - Galang
13. Interpol - Slow Hands
14. Prince - Cinnamon Girl
15. Loretta Lynn - Miss Being Mrs.
16. Bjork - Who Is It?
17. Air - Alpha Beta Gaga
18. Killers - Mr. Brightside
19. Nellie McKay - Clonie
20. Hives - Walk Idiot Walk

Albums:

1. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
2. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
3. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
4. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
5. Interpol - Antics
6. CocoRosie - La maison de mon rêve
7. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
8. The Beta Band - Heroes to Zeros
9. Rogue Wave - Out of the Shadow
10. Miossec - 1964
11. Piers Faccini - Leave No Trace
12. Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague
13. Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
14. Arcade Fire - Funeral
15. Deportivo - Parmi eux
16. Death in Vegas - Satan's Circus


Songs;

1. Elliott Smith - Twillight
2. Bloc Party - Banquet
3. Elliott Smith - Fond Farewell
4. Sufjan Stevens - A Good Man is Hard To Find
5. Interpol - Evil
6. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - O Children
7. Sufjan Stevens - The Dress Looks Nice on You
8. CocoRosie - Terrible Angels
9. Piers Faccini - Where Angels Fly
10. Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama
10. The Go! Team - Ladyflash
12. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Nature Boy
13. Art Brut - Formed a Band
14. The Beta Band - Assessment
15. Deportivo - Parmi eux
16. U2 - Vertigo
17. Interpol - Slow Hands
18. Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb
19. The Go! Team - Panther Dash
20. Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You

1 - Arcade Fire - Funeral
2 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
3 - Kanye West - The College Dropout
4 - Brian Wilson - SMiLE
5 - Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
6 - Tom Waits - Real Gone
7 - Antònia Font - Taxi
8 - Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
9 - Josele Santiago - Las golondrinas, etc.
10 - Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand


1 - Antònia Font - Vitamina sol
2 - Bloc Party - Banquet
3 - Kanye West - Jesus Walks
4 - The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now
5 - Modest Mouse - Float On



Antònia Font:

Top heavy year.

Albums

1. Kanye West - The College Dropout
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
4. Madvillain - Madvillainy
5. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
6. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
7. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on a Hill
8. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
9. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
10. The Killers - Hot Fuss

Songs

1. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
2. Elliott Smith - King's Crossing
3. Kanye West - Jesus Walks
4. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
5. Arcade Fire - Wake Up
6. The Walkmen - The Rat
7. Modest Mouse - The World At Large
8. Wilco - Spiders (Kidsmoke)
9. Madvillain - Accordion
10. Kanye West - Spaceship
11. Animal Collective - Winter's Love
12. Interpol - Evil
13. The Killers - Jenny Was a Friend of Mine
14. Wilco - At Least That's What You Said
15. Bloc Party - Banquet
16. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
17. The Go! Team - Ladyflash
18. Animal Collective - Leaf House
19. Kanye West - Family Business
20. Modest Mouse - Float On

SONGS
1. Stars- Ageless Beauty
2. Ed Harcourt- Born in the 70s
3. The Delays- Wanderlust
4. Magnetic Fields- I Don't Really Love You Anymore
5. Scissor Sisters- Music is The Victim
6. Gomez- Catch Me Up
7. the Go! Team- Hold Yr Terror Close
8. Interpol- Evil
9. Divine Comedy- Absent Friends
10.Of Montreal- Disconnect the Dots
11.Electrelane- On Parade
12.Trashcan Sinatras- All the Dark Horses
13.Elf Power- Walking with The Beggar Boys
14.Modest Mouse- Satin in a Coffin
15.AIR-Floating on a Rocker
16.Annie- Me Plus You
17.The Libertines- Don't Look Back
18.Embrace- Ashes
19.Razorlight- Rip it Up
20.Dresdon Dolls- Coin Operated Boy
21.Franz Ferdinand- Michael
22.PJ Harvey- Pocket Knife
23.the Hives- Walk Idiot Walk
24.Patti Smith- Stride of the Mind
25.Keane- This is The Last Time

Big crush on the Black Keys

... and the Go! Team songs sound overhyped and artificial to my ears. original, yes, but that's not enough.

The Black Keys, unlike many so-called "blues rock" bands, know exactly how to play the blues without aping it and can recapture the real Delta idiom. It's not just finding the right guitar sound and the right recording process. The fact that they are indie rockers gave them the kind of critical exposure that could have helped a modern-day Delta bluesmen like Junior Kimbrough, who was their main influence, or RL Burnside.





About The Go! Team I've been a little too harsh and fast judging but they are the exact opposite of THe BK, piling so many different styles, sound textures, references and musical eras. The energy is undeniable, that's right, but it's too... crowded for me. just like The Avalanches or The nited States of America in another decade.

ALBUMS

1.Arcade Fire - Funeral
2.MIA & Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism
3.Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
4.Tomasz Stanko - Suspended Night
5.Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
6.Wilco - A Ghost is born
7.Devandra Banheart - Rejoice in the Hands
8.Gonzales - Solo piano
9.Annie- Anniemal
10.Franz Ferdinand

SONGS
1. Arcade Fire - Wake Up
2. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1(Tunnels)
3. M.I.A. - Galang
4. Kelly Clarckson - SUBG
5. Futureheads - Hounds of Love
6. Interpol - Evil
7. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
8. Kanye West - Jesus Walks
9. LCD Soundsystem - Movement
10. Bloc Party - Banquet

11.Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
12.Annie - My Heartbeat
13.Annie - Chewing Gum
14.Franz Ferdinand - Matinée
15.LCD Soundsystem - Yeah
16.Interpol - Slow Hands
17.Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now
18.Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
19.There She Goes - Nick Cave
20.Loretta Lynn - Portland Oregon

ALBUMS

1) Pleasureman - Gunther
2) Rubber Factory - The Black Keys
3) A Grand Don't Come for Free - The Streets
4) Bubblegum - Mark Lanegan
5) Audit In Process - Hot Snakes
6) Has Been - William Shatner
7) Sonic Nurse - Sonic Youth
8) The Libertines
9) The Pretty Toney Album - Ghostface Killah
10) Piracy Funds Terrorism - MIA & Diplo

Oh my gosh... NO EXCUSES letting these Sonic Youth songs slip. They are in my top 100 of all time!

1. DEERHOOF - MILK MAN
2. THE GO! TEAM - BOTTLE ROCKET
3. ARCADE FIRE - WAKE UP
4. SONIC YOUTH - UNMADE BED*
5. ARCADE FIRE - NEIGHBORHOOD 1: TUNNELS
6. FIERY FURNACES - HERE COMES THE SUMMER
7. FIERY FURNACES - BLUEBERRY BOAT
8. FIERY FURNACES - CHIEF INSPECTOR BLANCHEFLOWER
9. SONIC YOUTH - NEW HAMPSHIRE
10. FIERY FURNACES - CHRIS MICHAELS
11. FRANZ FERDINAND - TAKE ME OUT
12. FIERY FURNACES - SINGLE AGAIN
13. MAGNETIC FIELDS - I THOUGHT YOU WERE MY BOYFRIEND
14. ARCADE FIRE - REBELLION (LIES)
15. THE GO! TEAM - FRIENDSHIP UPDATE
16. SCISSOR SISTERS - LAURA
17. INTERPOL - EVIL
18. SCISSOR SISTERS - TAKE YOUR MAMA
19. DEERHOOF - SONG OF SORN
20. DEERHOOF - RAINBOW SILHOUETTE OF THE MILKY RAIN

A lot of good songs are missing the cut, unfortunately... 2004 was a very good year indeed.

Thanks so much for revising my list. I'll try not to screw up next month.

Lesser AM-alignment than usual this year.

Albums
1. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
2. Junior Boys - Last Exit
3. Gonzales - Solo Piano
4. Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
5. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
6. Kings of Convenience - Riot on An Empty Street
7. Arcade Fire - Funeral
8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
9. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
10. Pan-American - Quiet City
11. Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright - Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright
12. Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
13. Stina Nordenstam - The World Is Saved
14. Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
15. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
16. DeVotchKa - How It Ends
17. Madvillain - Madvillainy
18. Kanye West - The College Dropout
19. Brian Wilson - Smile
20. Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days

Songs
1. Joanna Newsom - The Book of Right-On
2. Junior Boys - Teach Me How to Fight
3. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
4. Sufjan Stevens - The Dress Looks Nice on You
5. Bloc Party - Banquet
6. Gonzales - Gogol
7. Junior Boys - Under the Sun
8. Max Richter - Shadow Journal
9. Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For?
10. Kanye West - Jesus Walks
11. Kings of Convenience - I'd Rather Dance with You
12. Kings of Convenience - Misread
13. Joanna Newsom - Bridges and Balloons
14. Joanna Newsom - Sprout and the Bean
15. Modest Mouse - Float On
16. Modest Mouse - Bukowski
17. Sia - Breathe Me
18. Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright - No Mercy for She
19. Stina Nordenstam - Get On with Your Life
20. Pan-American - Skylight

Then I must listen to Gonzalez (I'm a Satie lover), and Pepe is a man of good advice.

And I agree with you Henrik on 2004. Only one album in my top 200 (The Streets). Lots of good albums though but few great records.

Albums

1) Arcade Fire - Funeral
2) Kanye West - The College Dropout
3) The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
4) Elliott Smith - From a basement on a hill
5) Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
6) Electrelane - The Power Out
7) TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
8) N*E*R*D* - Fly or Die
9) Lostprophets - Start Something
10) Didier Super - Vaut mieux en rire que s'en foutre

I like this top 10 as much as those of the 3 previous years, but I could not manage to find other albums I really like.

Glad to see 3 other people have voted for Spaceship, I guess that won't be enough but it's cool so see this overlooked gem get some praise, usually limited to some Kanye songs I really love (Jesus Walks, Slow Jamz, Runaway) and other I find much less interesting, though still enjoyable (Through the Wire, Touch the Sky...)

Obviously a women's year - the albums:

1. CocoRosie - La Maison De Mon Reve
2. The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
3. Feist - Let It Die
4. Josephine Foster & The Supposed - All the Leaves Are Gone
5. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
6. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
7. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
8. Meï Teï Shô - Lô Bâ
9. Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier
10. Deerhoof - Milk Man

Albums
1)Arcade Fire - Funeral
2)Brian Wilson - SMiLE
3)Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
4)The Killers - Hot Fuss
5)The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
6)Kanye West - The College Dropout
7)Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
8)Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
9)Interpol - Antics
10)Prince - Musicology

Songs
1)Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #1(Tunnels)
2)The Killers - Mr Brightside
3)Morrissey - First Of The Gang To Die
4)Los Lonely Boys - Heaven
5)Annie - Heartbeat
6)The Streets - Dry Your Eyes
7)Kanye West - Jesus Walks
8)Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
9)Wilco - The Late Greats
10)Embrace - Ashes

Albums

1. Brian Wilson: SMiLE
2. The Organ: Grab That Gun
3. The Arcade Fire: Funeral
4. Tachenko: Nieves y rescates
5. Josele Santiago: Las golondrinas, etcétera.
6. Brian Wilson: Getting in over My Head
7. Nancy Sinatra: Nancy Sinatra
8. Dayna Kurtz: Beautiful Yesterdays
9. Miguel Ángel Villanueva: Ningún cielo
10. Lambchop: Aw C'mon, No You C'mon
11. La Granja: Tobogán
12. Fangoria: Arquitectura efímera
13. Scissor Sisters: Scissor Sisters
14. Paolo Conte: Elegia
15. The Hidden Cameras: Mississauga Goddamn
16. Norah Jones: Feels Like Home
17. Sufjan Stevens: Seven Swans
18. Malcolm Scarpa: Las cosas cambian
19. Tom Waits: Real Gone
20. L-Kan: Discazo

21. La Costa Brava: Llamadas perdidas
22. Cooper: Retrovisor
23. K. D. Lang: Hymns from the 49th Parallel
24. Antònia Font: Taxi
25. Los Planetas: Contra la ley de la gravedad
26. Keren Ann: Nolita
27. M. Ward: Duet for Guitars
28. Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter: Oh, My Girl
29. Benjamin Biolay: Clara et Moi
30. Kings of Convenience: Riot on an Empty Street
31. R.E.M.: Around the Sun
32. Iron and Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days
33. The Magnetic Fields: I
34. Feist: Let It Die
35. Devendra Banhart: Niño Rojo
36. Wilco: A Ghost is Born
37. Marlango: Marlango
38. Apenino: Bumerán, Bumerán
39. Vetiver: Vetiver
40. Mark Lanneghan: Bubblegum

Songs

1. The Organ: Memorize the City
2. The Arcade Fire: Neighborhood # 2 (Laïka)
3. Brian Wilson: Roll Playmouth Rock
4. La Granja: Eto’o (su jugador favorito)
5. Tachenko: Amable
6. Brian Wilson: Barnyard
7. Norah Jones: Creepin’ In
8. Tom Waits: Hoist That Rag
9. Tachenko: Afganistán
10. Josele Santiago: Olé, papa
11. The Organ: Brother
12. The Arcade Fire: Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
13. Scissor Sisters: Take Your Mama Out
14. The Organ: Steven Smith
15. Brian Wilson: Child is the Father of the Man
16. Brian Wilson: Song for Children
17. Tachenko: El coche real
18. Brian Wilson: In Blue Hawai
19. Dayna Kurtz: Those Were the Days
20. The Arcade Fire: Neighborhood # 1 (Tunnels)

21. Josele Santiago: Mi prima y sus pinceles
22. The Organ: Basament Bad Song
23. Malcolm Scarpa: El estanco de Paula
24. The Organ: A Sudden Death
25. Tachenko: Nuestro ganador
26. Nancy Sinatra: Don't Let Him Waste Your Time
27. Fangoria: Miro la vida pasar
28. Norah Jones: Be Here to Love Me
29. k.d. lang: Afther the Goldrush
30. Paolo Conte: Sandwich Man
31. Brian Wilson (with Carl Wilson): Soul Searchin’
32. R.E.M.: Leaving New York
33. Fangoria: Retorciendo palabras
34. Kings of Convenience: Misread
35. Norah Jones: Sunrise
36. Scissor Sisters: Confortably Numb
37. Miguel Ángel Villanueva: El 27 de nunca
38. Brian Wilson: Gettin' in Over My Head
39. Scissor Sisters: Tits on the Radio
40. Marlango: It’s All Right

41. The Arcade Fire: Une année sans lumiére
42. Nancy Sinatra: Don't Mean Nothing
43. The Arcade Fire: Crown of Love
44. Nancy Sinatra: Burnin’ Down the Spark
45. Scissor Sisters: Laura
46. Miguel Ángel Villanueva: Todos vamos perdidos
47. Sufjan Stevens: All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands
48. Nancy Sinatra: Ain't No Easy Way
49. Miguel Ángel Villanueva: Desde que no estás
50. Lambchop: I Hate Candy
51. La Costa Brava: Adoro a las pijas de mi ciudad
52. Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter: Oh, My Girl
53. The Hidden Cameras: The Fear Is on
54. Antònia Font: Robot
55. L-Kan: Todo por placer
56. Lambchop: Timothy B. Schmidt
57. The Hidden Cameras: Doot Doot Ploot
58. Lambchop: Something's Going on
59. Lambchop: Under A Dream of a Lie
60. Tom Waits: Sins of My Father

Albums

As I said, 2004 is a minor/decent year in Nicolas' musical universe. Only 1 album in my top 200, 2 in my top 300 but a lot of solid records and possible growers (like Arcade Fire, but my apprciation of it is like a yo-yo, it went from 3rd to 12th and then back to third after another listening, see my RYM review).
This month I had time to look carefully at everyone's list and found interesting things (OCMS thanks to John, and Zélia Duncan, whose album I wish I had more time to listen to, thanks DanM)

1. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free (#116 overall)
2. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory (#256 overall)
3. Arcade Fire - Funeral
4. Old Crow Medicine Show - O.C.M.S.
5. Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
6. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
7. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/Lyre Of Orpheus
8. Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill
9. Bombes 2 Bal - Danse avec ta grand-mère
10. Kanye West - The College Dropout
11. Ba Cissoko - Sabolan
12. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
13. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
14. Björk - Medulla
15. Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
16. Bobby Rush - Folkfunk
17. The Divine Comedy - Absent Friends
18. The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me
19. Daniel Darc - Crève Cœur
20. Madvillain - Madvillainy

21. Brian Wilson - Smile
22. Youssou N'Dour - Egypt
23. Manu Chao - Sibérie m'était contée…
24. Ben Harper & The Blind Boys Of Alabama - There Will Be A Light
25. Tom Waits - Real Gone
26. Feist - Let It Die
27. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
28. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
29. Ray Charles - Genius Loves Company
30. Zélia Duncan - Eu Me Transformo En otros
31. The Cure - The Cure
32. Tinariwen - Amassakoul
33. Blanche - If We Can't Trust The Doctors
34. Jolie Holland - Escondida
35. The Zutons - Who Killed The Zutons ?
36. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
37. Carl Hancock Rux - Apothecary RX
38. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
39. The Libertines - s/t
40. Midlake - Bamnan and Silvercock
41. Interpol - Antics
42. Dr. John - N'awlinz : Dis, Dat or D'udda
43. J.J. Cale - To Tulsa and Back
44. Gretchen Wilson - Here For The Party
45. Ron Sexsmith - Retriever

songs

Good year for songs. Some great songs from "minor" albums IMO (Morrissey, Divine Comedy, Wilco). Especially Wilco. The first song is great, but i found the rest very disappointing (and it was not my first listen), the worst being the noise song in the end (WTF ? what's the fucking point for such a great band to add this on their album ? Prove they can do something else than alt country ? Gain the critics' appraise ? Sound smart ? I'm still wondering)

1 . The Streets - Empty Cans
2 . Daniel Darc - Psaume 23
3 . Morrissey - First Of The Gang To Die
4 . Bombes 2 Bal - La Voiture
5 . The Streets - Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way
6 . Kekele - Ba Kristo
7 . The Divine Comedy - Our Mutual Friend
8 . Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Nature Boy
9 . Sanseverino - Les Sénégalaises
10 . Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
11 . Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - There She Goes, My Beautiful World
12 . The Cure - Before Three
13 . Bombes 2 Bal - Tu m'embêtes
14 . Wilco - At Least That's What You Said
15 . Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
16 . J.J. Cale - Blues for Mama
17 . Ba Cissoko - Taouyah
18 . Drive-by Truckers - Carl Perkins' Cadillac
19 . Kanye West - Last Call
20 . The Black Keys - Girl Is On My Mind


21 . Modest Mouse - Float On
22 . Old Crow Medicine Show - Tell It To Me
23 . Elliott Smith - Memory Lane
24 . LCD Soundsystem - Yeah
25 . The Streets - Dry Your Eyes
26 . Jolie Holland - Sascha
27 . Manu Chao - Petite blonde du bd Brune
28 . Loretta Lynn - Family Tree
29 . Tom Waits - Make It Rain
30 . Björk - Vökuró


31 . The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now
32 . Youssou N'Dour - Mahdiyu Laye
33 . Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1
34 . Franz Ferdinand - Matinee
35 . Ben Harper & The Blind Boys Of Alabama - Wicked Man
36 . Bloc Party - Banquet
37 . Florent Marchet - Levallois
38 . Bobby Rush - Chicken Heads-Refried
39 . Old Crow Medicine Show - Big Time In The Jungle
40 . Nas - Reason


41 . Feist - Gatekeeper
42 . The Streets - Fit But You Know It
43 . Antibalas - Who Is This America Dem Speak of Today?
44 . Dr. John & Randy Newman - I Ate Up The Apple Tree
45 . The Roots - Don't say Nuthin'
46 . The Hold Steady - Most People Are DJs
47 . Ba Cissoko - Maïmouna
48 . John Legend - Ordinary People
49 . Miossec - Brest
50 . Loretta Lynn - Little Red Shoes

I realize I haven't submitted my songs list!

1. Annie - "Heartbeat"
2. Franz Ferdinand - "Take Me Out"
3. Morrissey - "I Have Forgiven Jesus"
4. Arcade Fire - "In the Backseat"
5. Annie - "Come Together"
6. Gwen Stefani - "What You Waiting For"
7. LCD Soundsystem - "Yeah"
8. Arcade Fire - "Rebellion (Lies)"
9. Franz Ferdinand - "Auf Achse"
10. U2 - "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own"
11. Modest Mouse - "Float On"
12. Kylie Minogue - "I Believe in You"
13. Björk - "Desired Constellation"
14. !!! - "Pardon My Freedom"
15. Annie - "Me Plus One"
16. Arcade Fire - "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)"
17. Prince - "Musicology"
18. Morrissey - "Come Back to Camden"
19. Morrissey - "First of the Gang to Die"
20. Franz Ferdinand - "Michael"
21. Janet Jackson - "R n B Junkie"
22. Morrissey - "The World Is Full of Crashing Bores"
23. Snoop Doggy Dogg - "Let's Get Blown"
24. Rachel Stevens - "Some Girls"
25. Janet Jackson - "Spending Time with You"
26. Franz Ferdinand - "Come on Home"
27. Kylie Minogue - "Giving You Up"
28. PJ Harvey - "Shame"
29. Prince - "A Million Days"
30. Annie - "Kiss Me"
31. Annie - "No Easy Love"
32. The Cure - "alt.end"
33. Arcade Fire - "Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)"
34. Annie - "Anniemal"
35. Franz Ferdinand - "Jacqueline"
36. Morrissey - "Irish Blood, English Heart"
37. Annie - "Helpless Fool for Love"
38. Björk - "Where Is the Line"
39. Bumblebeez 81 - "Pony Ride"
40. Björk - "Oceania"
41. The Cure - "The Promise"
42. Kylie Minogue - "I Know"
43. Death from Above 1979 - "Little Girl"
44. Janet Jackson - "I Want You"
45. Sufjan Stevens - "Seven Swans"
46. Annie - "Chewing Gum"
47. Nina Sky - "Move Ya Body"
48. Morrissey - "I Like You"
49. Prince - "Cinnamon Girl"
50. Franz Ferdinand - "Tell Her Tonight"
51. The Cure - "Going Nowhere"
52. Kylie Minogue - "Loving You"
53. Annie - "Happy without You"
54. Chromeo - "You're So Gangsta"
55. Interpol - "Narc"
56. Arcade Fire - "Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)"
57. Björk - "Vokuro"
58. My Chemical Romance - "Helena"
59. Gwen Stefani - "Crash"
60. Janet Jackson - "SloLove"
61. Interpol - "Evil"
62. Morrissey - "You Know I Couldn't Last"
63. Gwen Stefani - "Serious"
64. Prince - "Dear Mr. Man"
65. Gwen Stefani - "Cool"
66. LCD Soundsystem - "Disco Infiltrator"
67. Interpol - "Slow Hands"
68. !!! - "Shit, Scheise, Merde"
69. Chromeo - "Rage"
70. Björk - "Pleasure Is All Mine"

Last day to vote!

Albums
1 . Arcade Fire - Funeral
2 . Interpol - Antics
3 . And the Lefthanded – In the Kingdom of Shadows
4 . TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
5 . Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
6 . Wojciech – Ystävät, toverit
7 . Joanna Newsom - The Milk Eyed Mender
8 . Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
9 . Cut Copy – Bright Like Neon Love
10 . Uusi Fantasia – Top Ten
11 . Branded Women – Velvet Hours Stolen Moments
12 . Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
13 . The Beta Band - Heroes to Zeros
14 . Killers - Hot Fuss
15 . The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
16 . Veils - The Runaway Found
17 . Stina Nordenstam - The World Is Saved
18 . Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
19 . The Divine Comedy - Absent Friends
20 . Blue Nile - High

Songs
1 . Arcade Fire - Wake Up
2 . Animal Collective – Leaf House
3 . Joanna Newsom - Peach, Plum, Pear
4 . Divine Comedy – Our Mutual Friend
5 . Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
6 . Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
7 . Arcade Fire - In the Backseat
8 . The Veils – Lavinia
9 . Husky Rescue – New Lights of Tomorrow
10 . Gwen Stefani – Cool
11 . Air – Alone in Kyoto
12 . Regina Spektor - Us
13 . Killers – Mr. Brightside
14 . Kanye West - Spaceship (feat. GLC & Consequence)
15 . Uusi Fantasia – Takaisin 2002
16 . Boys of Scandinavia – Worse Than a Girl
17 . Laika and the Cosmonauts – N.Y. '79
18 . Johnny Boy : You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve
19 . Stina Nordenstam – Get on with Your Life
20 . Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights

Songs

1. Vertigo - U2
2. Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson
3. Heartbeat - Annie
4. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Green Day
5. Galang - M.I.A.
6. Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
7. Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani
8. Jesus Walks - Kanye West
9. Rebellion (Lies) - Arcade Fire
10. Mr. Brightside - The Killers
11. Float On - Modest Mouse
12. All These Things That I've Done - The Killers
13. Wake Up - Arcade Fire
14. Hope There's Someone - Antony & The Johnsons
15. Yeah (Crass Version) - LCD Soundsystem
16. Helicopter - Bloc Party
17. American Idiot - Green Day
18. Dry Your Eyes - The Streets
19. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) - Arcade Fire
20. The Rat - The Walkmen

Albums
1. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - U2
2. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
3. Funeral - Arcade Fire
4. American Idiot - Green Day
5. Hot Fuss - The Killers
6. The College Dropout - Kanye West
7. A Grand Don't Come for Free - The Streets
8. A Ghost Is Born - Wilco
9. The Libertines - The Libertines
10. Madvillainy - Madvillain

Albums:

1. Arcade Fire – Funeral
2. Kanye West – The College Dropout
3. Zélia Duncan - Eu me Transformo em Outras
4. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
5. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
6. Loretta Lynn – Van Lear Rose
7. Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters
8. Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days
9. Brian Wilson – Smile
10. The Streets – A Grand Don’t Come for Free
11. The Killers – Hot Fuss
12. The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike
13. Elliott Smith – From a Basement on the Hill
14. Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender
15. Madvillain – Madvillainy
16. Old Crow Medicine Show – O.C.M.S.
17. Adriana Calcanhotto – Adriana Partimpim
18. Max Richter – The Blue Notebooks
19. Jolie Holland – Escondida
20. Gonzales – Solo Piano
21. Deportivo – Parmi eux
22. TV on the Radio – Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
23. Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous
24. Josele Santiago - Las golondrinas etcétera
25. Manu Chao - Sibérie m'était contéee ...à tous les pécheurs du fleuve Amour...
26. Steve Earle – The Revolution Starts Now
27. The Von Bondies – Pawn Shoppe Heart
28. Tom Waits – Real Gone
29. Björk - Medúlla
30. Modest Mouse – Good News for People Who Love Bad News

Albums:
1 . Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill
2 . The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
3 . Arcade Fire - Funeral
4 . Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
5 . The Walkmen - Bows & Arrows
6 . The Libertines - The Libertines
7 . The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
8 . Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld
9 . Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
10 . Munly & The Lee Lewis Harlots - Munly & The Lee Lewis Harlots
11 . Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
12 . Eux Autres - Hell Is Eux Autres
13 . Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
14 . TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
15 . Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
16 . Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
17 . Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
18 . Kanye West - The College Dropout
19 . Mad Action - …And Begin
20 . Air - Talkie Walkie

Songs:
1 . Elliott Smith - King's Crossing
2 . The Walkmen - Thinking Of A Dream I Had
3 . Mad Action - Wheel
4 . Fiery Furnaces - Chris Michaels
5 . The Walkmen - The Rat
6 . The Go! Team - Huddle Formation
7 . Belle & Sebastian - Jonathan David
8 . Elliott Smith - Coast To Coast
9 . Arcade Fire - Wake Up
10 . The Go! Team - Bottle Rocket
11 . Elliott Smith - Shooting Stars
12 . Eux Autres - The Other Girls
13 . Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
14 . Ghost - Piper
15 . Ghost - Hazy Paradise
16 . Elliott Smith - A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free
17 . Dungen - Det du tänker idag är du i morgon
18 . Danger Mouse - 99 Problems
19 . TV On The Radio - Staring At The Sun
20 . Wilco - At Least That's What You Said

Thanks!

1. N*E*R*D – Fly Or Die
2. Wilco – A Ghost Is Born
3. The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning Strike
4. Ray LaMontagne – Trouble
5. Delays – Faded Seaside Glamour
6. Secret Machines – Now Here Is Nowhere
7. Arcade Fire – Funeral
8. The Killers – Hot Fuss
9. 22-20s – 22-20s
10. Franz – Ferdinand – s/t
11. TV On The Radio – Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
12. Auf Der Maur – s/t
13. The Libertines – s/t
14. Nick Cave – Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
15. Interpol – Antics
16. The Zutons – Who Killed...
17. Mark Lanegan – Bubblegum
18. Scissor Sisters – s/t
19. Badly Drawn Boy – One Plus One Is One
20. Danger Mouse – The Grey Album
21. Jesse Malin – The Heat
22. Animal Collective – Sung Tongs
23. Califone – Heron King Blues
24. Loretta Lynn – Van Lear Rose
25. Dungen – Ta Det Lugnt
26. Kasabian – s/t
27. Mos Def – The New Danger
28. Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans
29. Martha Wainwright – s/t
30. !!! – Louden Up Now
31. Selfish Cunt – No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper
32. Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender
33. Devendra Banhart – Rejoicing In The Hands
34. The Dears – No Cities Left
35. Kevin Tihista’s Red Terror – Wake Up Captain
36. Bjork – Medulla
37. Fennesz – Venice
38. Morrissey – You Are The Quarry
39. Annie – Anniemal
40. The Streets – A Grand Don’t Come For Free
41. The Hives – Tyrannosaurus Hives
42. Dios – s/t
43. Laura Veirs – Carbon Glacier
44. Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse
45. Elliott Smith – From A Basement On The Hill
46. Kings Of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
47. Engineers – Folly
48. The Von Bondies – Pawn Shoppe Heart
49. Ariel Pink – The Doldrums
50. Phoenix – Alphabetical
51. The Futureheads – s/t
52. Devendra Banhart – Nino Rojo
53. Of Montreal – Satanic Panic In The Attic
54. Gwen Stefani – Love. Angel. Music. Baby
55. The Beta Band – Heroes To Zeros
56. Tom Waits – Real Gone
57. Hope Of The States – The Lost Riots
58. The Czars – Goodbye
59. The Radio Dept. – Lesser Matters
60. Colder – Again
61. PJ Harvey – Uh Huh Her
62. Keane – Hopes And Fears
63. Goldie Lookin’ Chain – Greatest Hits
64. Autolux – Future Perfect
65. Blanche – If We Can’t Trust The Doctors
66. Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days
67. Modest Mouse – Good News For People Who Love Bad News
68. Espers – s/t
69. American Music Club – Love Songs For Patriots
70. Jim White – Drill A Hole....
71. The Beastie Boys – To The 5 Boroughs
72. Dizzee Rascal – Showtime
73. Junior Boys – So This Is Goodbye
74. Brian Wilson – Smile
75. The Bees – Free The Bees
76. Ash – Meltdown
77. Paul Westerberg – Folker
78. Green Day – American Idiot
79. Micah P Hinson - &The Gospel Of Progress
80. Amplifier – s/t
81. The Thrills – Let’s Bottle Bohemia
82. The Polyphonic Spree – Together We’re Heavy
83. U2 – How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
84. Air – Talkie Walkie
85. Comets On Fire – Blue Cathedral
86. Drive-By Truckers – The Dirty South
87. The Walkmen – Bows + Arrows
88. Rufus Wainwright – Want Two
89. The Fiery Furnaces – Blueberry Boat
90. Dead Meadow – Feathers
91. Ikara Colt – Modern Apprentice
92. Kanye West – The College Graduate
93. Kelis – Tasty
94. Graham Coxon – Happiness In Magazines
95. Madvillain – Madvillainy
96. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Greatest Palace Music
97. Giant Sand – Is All Over The Map
98. Lambchop – Aw C’mon/No You C’mon
99. Steve Earle – The Revolution Starts Now
100. Mylo – Destroy Rock & Roll

Albums

1 | Arcade Fire | Funeral
2 | TV On the Radio | Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
3 | Elliott Smith | From a Basement on a Hill
4 | Madvillain | Madvillainy
5 | Fiery Furnaces | Blueberry Boat
6 | Bark Psychosis | Codename: Dustsucker
7 | Stereolab | Margerine Eclipse
8 | Air | Talkie Walkie
9 | Devendra Banhart | Rejoicing in the Hands
10 | Reigning Sound | Too Much Guitar
11 | Tom Waits | Real Gone
12 | The Go! Team | Thunder, Lightning, Strike
13 | Magma | K.A.
14 | The Beta Band | Heroes to Zeros
15 | Comets on Fire | Blue Cathedral
16 | Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand
17 | Annie | Anniemal
18 | Blonde Redhead | Misery is a Butterfly
19 | Liars | They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
20 | Tortoise | It's All Around You


Listening to Funeral definitely isn't the same as it was when I first heard it, but I'd be lying if I said I've listened to and enjoyed any `04 album more.

I actually think this year stacks up pretty well against the first few years of the decade when I compare my lists side-by-side. That Bark Psychosis album is such a gem; I can't say I'm surprised that no one else voted for it but I'm sure nj's a fan. Eleswhere Stereolab, Air, and Tom Waits give underappreciated late-career efforts, and Magma even releases a comeback album!

Wish I could have gotten around to Joanna Newsom, Fennesz, and Max Richter. Biggest disappointments were Wilco and Walkmen, though both will be appearing on my songs list.

Songs

1 | Elliott Smith | King's Crossing
2 | Arcade Fire | Wake Up
3 | Madvillain | ALL CAPS
4 | Walkmen | The Rat
5 | Franz Ferdinand | Take Me Out
6 | Annie | Heartbeat
7 | Fiery Furnaces | Blueberry Boat
8 | Arcade Fire | Rebellion (Lies)
9 | The Beta Band | Assessment
10 | Bark Psychosis | The Black Meat
11 | Animal Collective | Leaf House
12 | Madvillain | Strange Ways
13 | Air | Surfing on a Rocket
14 | Nick Cave | There She Goes, My Beautiful World
15 | Modest Mouse | Float On
16 | Blonde Redhead | Elephant Woman
17 | Arcade Fire | Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
18 | TV On the Radio | Dreams
19 | The Beta Band | Easy
20 | Fiery Furnaces | Quay Cur
21 | Tom Waits | Sins of My Father
22 | Comets on Fire | The Bee and the Cracking Egg
23 | Stars | Your Ex-Lover is Dead
24 | TV On the Radio | The Wrong Way
25 | Death From Above 1979 | Romantic Rights
26 | Tortoise | It's All Around You
27 | Stereolab | Vonal Declosion
28 | Killers | Mr. Brightside
29 | Wilco | Spiders (Kidsmoke)
30 | Elliott Smith | A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity To Be Free

Albums:

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Kanye West - The College Dropout
3. Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
4. Elliot Smith - From a Basement on a Hill
5. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
6. The Bad Plus - Give
7. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
8. Bjork - Medulla
9. The Polyphonic Spree - Together We're Heavy
10. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
11. Cee-Lo Green - Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine
12. The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
13. Cake - Pressure Chief
14. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
15. PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
16. Green Day - American Idiot
17. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
18. Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
19. The Beta Band - Heroes to Zeros
20. Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch


Songs

1. Arcade Fire - Wake Up
2. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
3. The Killers - Mr. Brightside
4. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
5. Elliot Smith - A Fond Farewell
6. The Streets - Dry Your Eyes
7. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
8. Kanye West - All Falls Down
9. The Bad Plus - Velouria
10. Elliot Smith - Don't Go Down
11. Franz Ferdinand - The Dark of the Matinee
12. Danger Mouse - What More Can I Say
13. Representative Ball - She's a Pony
14. The Polyphonic Spree - Section 12 (Hold Me Now)
15. Bjork - Triumph of a Heart
16. Norah Jones - Sunrise
17. Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
18. Kanye West - Family Business
19. The Walkmen - The Rat
20. The Go! Team - The Power Is On
21. The Streets - Blinded by the Lights
22. Sonic Youth - Unmade Bed
23. Green Day - Holiday
24. Loretta Lynn - Mrs. Leroy Brown
25. Cake - End of the Movie
26. Kanye West - End of the Movie

Voting is closed. I'll send the results as soon as possible (within a minutes).

On the last day Elliott Smith came almost from nowhere and took the sixth place. I thought Anniemal was for sure in finals but then something happened. It got only 18 points from the last 20 voters (and from those antonius gave 14 points). I'm a bit disappointed that I didn't put TV on the Radio to my #2. In 2004 Antics and In the Kingdom of Shadows were for sure better albums to me but I have listened both of them only few times after that year.

Albums
Rank . Artist – Album - Score - Voters - Average/voter
1 . Arcade Fire - Funeral - 1353 - 33 - 41
2 . Kanye West - The College Dropout - 669 - 25 - 26,76
3 . Franz Ferdinand - 594 - 27 - 22
4 . Brian Wilson - Smile - 500 - 17 - 29,41
5 . Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus - 363 - 17 - 21,35
6 . Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill - 320 - 13 - 24,62
7 . The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike - 316 - 15 - 21,07
8 . The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free - 295 - 13 - 22,69
9 . Wilco - A Ghost Is Born - 273 - 13 - 21
10 . Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News - 265 - 12 - 22,08

11 . TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes - 257 - 16 - 16,06
12 . Morrissey - You Are the Quarry - 249 - 13 - 19,15
13 . Madvillain - Madvillainy - 242 - 14 - 17,29
14 . Killers - Hot Fuss - 240 - 11 - 21,82
15 . Annie - Anniemal - 230 - 12 - 19,17
16 . Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose - 221 - 11 - 20,09
17 . Interpol - Antics - 190 - 12 - 15,83
18 . Joanna Newsom - The Milk Eyed Mender - 183 - 9 - 20,33
19 . The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat - 160 - 5 - 32
20 . Green Day - American Idiot - 138 - 7 - 19,71
21 . Black Keys - Rubber Factory - 129 - 5 - 25,8
22 . Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans - 115 - 7 - 16,43
23 . Animal Collective - Sung Tongs - 104 - 7 - 14,86
24 . Libertines - 95 - 9 - 10,56
25 . Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South - 89 - 4 - 22,25
25 . Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt - 89 - 5 - 17,8


Kings Crossing got two #1 votes from last three voters. Close but no cigar.
Three Arcade Fire songs in top 4 is quite a achievement.

Songs

Rank . Artist – Song - Score (Voters, Average/voter)
1 . Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out - 561 ( 21 , 26,71 )
2 . Arcade Fire - Wake Up - 506 ( 15 , 33,73 )
3 . Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) - 501 ( 21 , 23,86 )
4 . Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) - 419 ( 20 , 20,95 )
5 . Annie - Heartbeat - 327 ( 12 , 27,25 )
6 . Kanye West - Jesus Walks - 302 ( 13 , 23,23 )
7 . Modest Mouse - Float On - 219 ( 13 , 16,85 )
8 . Morrissey- First of the Gang to Die - 209 ( 10 , 20,9 )
9 . Bloc Party - Banquet - 205 ( 9 , 22,78 )
10 . The Walkmen - The Rat - 191 ( 10 , 19,1 )

11 . Elliott Smith - King's Crossing - 170 ( 4 , 42,5 )
12 . Killers - Mr. Brightside - 148 ( 7 , 21,14 )
13 . Kelly Clarkson Since U Been Gone - 135 ( 5 , 27 )
14 . The Streets- Dry Your Eyes - 129 ( 7 , 18,43 )
15 . M.I.A.- Galang - 125 ( 7 , 17,86 )
16 . Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika) - 123 ( 5 , 24,6 )
17 . Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - There She Goes, My Beautiful World - 119 ( 6 , 19,83 )
18 . Kanye West - Spaceship (feat. GLC & Consequence) - 104 ( 5 , 20,8 )
19 . Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) - 100 ( 6 , 16,67 )
20 . U2 - Vertigo - 96 ( 6 , 16 )
21 . Interpol - Evil - 92 ( 6 , 15,33 )
22 . Loretta Lynn and Jack White, Portland, Oregon - 91 ( 3 , 30,33 )
23 . Sia - Breathe Me - 89 ( 3 , 29,67 )
24 . Animal Collective - Leaf house - 88 ( 4 , 22 )
25 . Elliott Smith - Twilight - 76 ( 3 , 25,33 )

Another disappointment for me is the Tom Waits. I never could really appreciate this record. Just because Ribot is back doesn't mean he's got the right to fuck up the recording.
No, I couldn't find any good song in this album, except maybe "Make It Rain". Add to this an experimental-too dirty sound, a charicature of what he did in the past. The thing worked perfectly on "Bone Machine" because the songs were there.

2004 is not a great year, but 2005 will be for me. Antony, Sufjan, Bright Eyes, Toumani & Ali, Sharon Jones, Katerine, etc... : avalanche of great albums to come

Gah! The Streets, a highly uneven Wilco album, and bleepin' Modest Mouse keep out TVOTR, Madvillain, and Annie. Why why why???

I agree with you except of course for the Streets. To me this guy is a great songwriter. I love albums that tell stories (A day in the life of a geezer), and I like his brand of electro-garage-rap.

I can't believe Loretta Lynn and TVOTR didn't make it.

Is Smile really a 2004 album? *shrug*