I'm the asshole with the first Rideside 2004 List
here goes:
Year end List:
Jazz / Classical / Creative / Improv / Experimental
• Dave Douglas ‘Strange Liberation’ (RCA / Blue Bird)
• Electric Masada (Tzadik)
• Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Quartet
• Yo Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone (Sony Classical)
• Locus Solus Live (John Zorn birthday series volume 3) (Tzadik)
Rock / Pop / Indie / Whatever
• Brian Wilson ‘Smile’ (Nonesuch)
• Green Day ‘American Idiot’ (Reprise)
• Bjork ‘Medulla’ (Elektra)
• Channels ‘Open’ (Desoto)
• Black Eyes ‘Cough’ (Dischord)
• ISIS ‘Panopticon’ (Ipecac)
• Fantomas ‘ Delirium Cordia’ (Ipecac)
• Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant ‘Sister Phantom Owl Fish (Ipecac)
• Beastie Boys ‘To The 5 Bouroughs’ (Capitol)
• Dillinger Escape Plan ‘Miss Machine’ (Relapse)
• Converge ‘You Fail Me’ (Epitaph)
• Neurosis ‘ ‘ (Neurot / Relapse)
• Mission Of Burma ‘ On Off On’ (Matador)
• Beta Band ‘Heroes to Zeros’ (Astralwerks)
• Sonic Youth ‘Sonic Nurse’ (DGC)
• Instruction ‘God Doesn’t Care’ (Geffen)
• C4RT s/e demo (s/r)
• Dechahedron
Hip Hop
• EL P ‘Collecting The Kid’ (Def Jux)
• EL P ‘High Water (Mark) (Thirsty Ear)
• Ghostface Killah ‘Tony Starks LP’ (Def Jam)
• Eminem ‘Encore’ (Interscope / Aftermath)
• Handsome Boy Modeling School ‘White People’
Reissues/Archival/Box sets/Etc.
• Albert Ayler ‘Holy Ghost’ 10Xcd Box (Revenant)
• Clash ‘London Calling’ 2Xcd / DVD reissue (Columbia / Sony)
• Miles Davis ‘Seven Steps’ 7Xcd box (Columbia/Sony)
• The Warmers ‘Wanted: More’ cd ep (Dischord)
• Pavement ‘Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain’ 2xcd (Matador)
• Nirvana ‘With The Lights Out’ (3Xcd 1 DVD) (DGC)
• DNA
• NIN ‘Downward Spiral’ 2Xcd 10 yr anniversary SACD 5.1 surround (Interscope)
Most Welcome Comebacks:
• Boredoms
• Beastie Boys
• Page Hamilton / Helmet (even though the new album wasn’t the best)\
• J. Robbins (comeback) / Channels (debut)
no particular order / priority / preference
and by memory only as 95% of my collection is still inaccessible and in boxes
just sayin'
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“The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.†--SUN RA
"My Heartbeat" Annie
"TRAS" Battles
"Encore" Dangermouse/Jay-Z
"Stand Up Tall" Dizzee Rascal
"Take Me Out" Franz Ferdinand
"Lights Out!" Gay For Johnny Depp
"I Can't Drink Whiskey" Paranoid Social Club
"Empty Cans" The Streets
"Staring at the Sun" TV on the Radio
"Wot Do U Call It?" Wiley
Humility of Pain
Blue Corpse
You Walk Alone
White Box Requiem
The Beginning
Foreign Keys
Graven Image
Interstellar Discussion
Glad To Get Away
The Gone Wait
The Place
10. My Band - D12 (look, I live in Europe, I'm culture-starved)
9. Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
8. Dragostea din tei - O-Zone (Romanian boy band)
7. Matinee - Franz Ferdinand
6. Vertigo - U2 (yes, I am ashamed)
5. Yeah - Usher (no, I am not kidding)
4. Run - Snow Patrol
3. Thing Called Love- The Darkness
2. Ne Touche Pas - Vive la Fete (blonde Belgian babe & her moody German boyfriend)
And the number one song of 2004 as far as I'm concerned...
1. Teenage Kicks - The Undertones (John Peel R.I.P.)
How could I forget these gems?
-Q and Not U 'Power' (Dischord)
-Dangermouse 'The Grey Album' (self-released)
-Kaada / Patton "Romances" (Ipecac)
-Melvins 'Neither Here Nor There (Book and cd set) (Ipecac)
Reissues in 2004 cont'd:
Talking Heads 'The Name Of This Band Is' (Rhino 2xcd)
New to me in 2004:
-Melt Banana (Azap)
-Company Flow 'Funcrusher Plus' (Rawkus)
-Isis 'Celestial' (?) , 'Oceanic' (Ipecac)
-Dizee Rascall 'Boy in Da Corner' (Matador)
-Jay-Z 'The Black Album' (I forget the label)
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“The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.†--SUN RA