Top 5 albums of the year?

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At this point:

1. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
2. Dogs Die in Hot Cars - Please Describe Yourself
3. Arcade Fire - Funeral
4. Sonic Youth - Nurse
5. Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles

― Chris Vidacto, Saturday, 30 October 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

1. richard bartz - midnight man
2. misc - crunch time
3. raiders of the lost arp - 4
4. oxia - 24 heures
5. scorn - list of takers

― :| (....), Sunday, 31 October 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i am having doubts over whether my number one pick, even though i haven't heard a note yet, will even be released. but for now my favorite is the brunettes 'mars loves venus'.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 31 October 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

it's way too early for this

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 31 October 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

As of today, this minute:

1. Delays - Faded Seaside Glamour
2. Devendra Banhart - Nino Rojo
3. Felix da Housecat - Devin Dazze...
4. Efterklang - Tripper
5. Keef Baker - The Widnes Years

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 31 October 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

not for me. there nothign to look forward to but the ananda album. its too early for top 5 singles though. crosspost.

― :| (....), Sunday, 31 October 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

1. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
2. The Other Leading Brand - Milkshake X Infinity
3. Air Talkie Walkie
4. Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
5. !!! - Louden Up Now

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

1. wolf eyes
2. wolf eyes
3. dead machines
4. wolf eyes
5. wolf eyes / john weise

― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Johnny Fever, I'm curious why Nino Rojo and not Rejoicing in the Hands?

― martin hilliard, Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi, thus far my music tastes are faggy:

1. David Byrne
2. Sonic Youth
3. Brian Wilson
4. Xiu Xiu
5. Something that hasn't come out yet, I'm sure.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

La Sonora Ponceña: Back to the Road
Ensemble Al-Umatri: The Sawt in Kuwait*
Various [supregroup really]: Si Soy Llanero*
Susie Ibarra: Folklorico
Youssou N'Dour: Egypt

Maybe.

Honorable mention: Ali Aldik Aloush, Spanish Harlem Orchestra Across 110th (which might end up in the top five), Grupo Niche Imaginacion, Tito Nieves Fabricando Fantasias, and maybe Gilberto Santa Rosa's Autentico.

[Oh god, Cheo Feliciano with Joe Cuba playing now on the radio. I need to just get everything they did together and get it over with.]

*Okay, so I only just got these today. . .

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Junior Boys, Last Exit
2. Sonic Youth, Sonic Nurse
3. Phoenix, Alphabetical
4. Animal Collective, Sung Tongs
5. Bark Psychosis, Codename: Dustsucker

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, this is way too difficult. i'm going to post my top 20 once i get them in order.

― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Johnny Fever, I'm curious why Nino Rojo and not Rejoicing in the Hands?

More of the individual songs stuck with me.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm sure i'm leaving A LOT out. also, sorry for the pitchforkness of this.

1) V/A So Young But So Cold: Underground French Music 1977 - 1983
2) Fiery Furnaces Blueberry Boat
3) Walkmen Bows and Arrows
4) V/A Princess Nicotine: Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar
5) V/A Popular Electronics: Early Dutch Electronic Music from Philips Laboratories
6) Weird War - If You Can't Beat 'Em Bite 'Em
7) The French Kicks The Trial of the Century
8) Devendra Banhart Nino Rojo
9) The Beauty Pill The Unsustainable Lifestyle
10) The Hold Steady The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me
11) Courtney Love America's Sweetheart
12) Giant Sand Is All Over the Map
13) V/A Cambodian Cassette Archives: Khmer Folk and Pop Music, Vol 1
14) Battles EP C
15) Fuck Those Are Not My Bongos
16) Mountain Goats We Shall All Be Healed
17) Liars They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
18) Lhasa The Living Road
19) The Fever Red Bedroom
20) Animal Collective Sung Tongs

― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

wow some of those comps sound pretty cool, jody

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 31 October 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

they are (obv)

― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 31 October 2004 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Call me boring, but:

1. Brian Wilson -- Smile
2. Kanye West -- The College Dropout
3. Lil' Flip -- U Gotta Feel Me
4. Air -- Talkie Walkie
5. Mountain Goats -- We Shall All Be Healed

Others I've dug: The Thrills, Elliott Smith, Neko Case, Rock Against Bush Vol. 1, TV on the Radio, Tegan and Sara, Jimmy Eat World, Camper, Mocean Worker, The Dears, Dogs Die in Hot Cars.

Man, I have some catching up to do. I took the summer off from the music wiriting racket. Way in the dark on hip-hop and electronic.

― Chris O., Sunday, 31 October 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed mender
2. Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
3. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
4. The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
5. Delays - Faded Seaside Glamour

― Dave Gutowski (largeheartedboy), Sunday, 31 October 2004 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

wulfize - burned mind
comets on fire - blue cathedral
bardo pond & tom carter
born heller - s/t
charalambides - joy shapes

pearls before swine - wizard of is (archival material of the year?)

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 31 October 2004 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

harumph. maybe replace the bardo pond/carter disc with the new Ghost, or black forest/black sea - radiant symmetry.

i haven't even begun to think about this yet, pardon me for using the thread to collect my thoughts.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 31 October 2004 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

right now it goes a little something like this

1. Bersuit Vergarabat La Argentinidad al Palo
2. Yolanda Perez Aqui Me Tienes
3. Allison Moorer The Duel
4. Chingo Bling The Tamale Kingpin
5. Teedra Moses Complex Simplicity

but I will change my mind 1000 times obviously

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 31 October 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

1. United State of Electronica (Mannheim/www.usemusic.com)
2. Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats (Essay, Germany)
3. Gretchen Wilson: Here for the Party (Epic)
4. Devin the Dude: To Tha X-Treme (Rap-a-Lot)
5. The Streets: A Grand Don’t Come for Free (Vice)

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Sunday, 31 October 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

N.E.R.D. - Fly or Die
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
Magnetic Fields - i
Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Blood Brothers - Crimes

other notables: Jason Forrest, A.C. Newman, Jewels & Binoculars, Air, The Streets, Ghost, Dave Douglas, Keren Ann, Fiery Furnaces, Sonic Youth

― o. nate (onate), Sunday, 31 October 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

1. The Homosexuals, Astral Glamour
2. The Necks, Drive-by
3. Sufjan Stevens, Seven Swans
4. Kanye West, The College Dropout
5. I Remember Syria

I'm hoping the new Hikura Utada will crash this list.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 31 October 2004 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

way too early, but these Shatner's Has Been is currently top of the pile

― Jeff W (zebedee), Sunday, 31 October 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

1. William Shatner - Has Been
2. Big & Rich - Horse of a Different Color
3. Bonnie Prince Billy sings Greatest Palace Music
4. Brian Wilson - Smile
5. Lali Puna - Faking the Books

I've put the Animal Collective on my Xmas list.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 31 October 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

B2D, I highly recommend checking out: Si Soy Llanero. I think you might like this. It's Colombian joropo, whatever that is (well, it's this).

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 31 October 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

R_S, I will promise to do that if you promise to listen to Sergent Garcia's La Semilla Escondido. It's Cuban reggae by a Spanish guy from Paris. It will probably end up in my top five.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 31 October 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Can it be loved on the basis of brief audio clips? Because I think all you need to get interested in this Si Soy Llenaro are the brief clips (because this style jumps right into the action immediately). Anyway, I will check out this Sgt. Garcia album in some form.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 31 October 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

okay, R_S, you're on. I will begin my investigations soon. and read my review of it to see if it sounds like the kind of thing in which you'd be interested.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 31 October 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

1. United State of Electronica s/t
2. Solvent - Apples & Synthesizers
3. Eno - Another Green World (Remaster)
4. Air - Talkie Walkie
5. Junior Boys - Last Exit

― tipustiger, Sunday, 31 October 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot:

Bowling for Soup - A hangover you don't deserve.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 31 October 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Brian Wilson - SMiLE
2. R.E.M. - Around the Sun
3. Homestead and Wolfe - Our Times
4. Camper Van Beethoven - New Roman Times
5. The Homosexuals - Astral Glamour

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 31 October 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

american music club, love songs for patriots
the streets, a grand don't come for free
comets on fire, blue cathedral
bark psychosis, codename: dustsucker
liars, they were wrong so we drowned

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 31 October 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

kings of convenience - riot on an empty street
bark psychosis - codename: dustsucker
sophia - people are like seasons
lambchop - awcmon/noyoucmon
arthur russell - the world of arthur russell

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 31 October 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Forgot Marcel Khalife's Caress, though I'm not sure I'd put that in my top-five at this point.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 31 October 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Since I guess I'm including reissues/comps (er, one)...

1. United State of Electronica
2. Happy People/U Saved Me, R. Kelly
3. Van Lear Rose, Loretta Lynn
4. Words & Music: John Mellencamp's Greatest Hits
5. Last Exit, Junior Boys

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Sunday, 31 October 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Albums I really like so far:

Bill Frisell - Unspeakable
Oren Ambarchi - Grapes from the Estate
Stahls Bla - Schlactplatte
Mephista - Entomological Reflection
John Zron - Masada String Trio
Oneida - Secret Wars
Prince - Musicology
Tom Waits - Real Gone
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
Mouse On Mars - Radical Connector
Ratatat
Merzbow - Kim Cascone
Gypsy Kings - Roots
Smash & Teeny feat John Butcher - Gathering
Fennesz - Venice
Philip Jeck - 7

Looking forward to hearing: Fred Frith, Susie Ibarra, Wagon Christ, K-Os, Boredoms, Pan Sonic, Alice Coltrane

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 31 October 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave Douglas is good too but not as good as either his last album or the Frisell album. I just downloaded the Norah Jones and am looking forward to listening to that too.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 31 October 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Blood Brothers - Crimes
2. Stars - Set Yourself On Fire

Tie for the rest: Futureheads, Xiu Xiu, Ted Leo maybe?

― Simon H., Sunday, 31 October 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Others I look forward to hearing include: Wilco, Deerhoof, Blues Explosion, Roots

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 31 October 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Madvillain - Madvillainy (has no one else mentioned this yet?)
2. Noxagt - The Iron Point
3. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
4. Brian Wilson - Smile
5. Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind

Honorable Mentions: Dizzee Rascal, Erlend Oye, Sufjan Stevens, Elliott Smith, The Streets, Black Dice, Sunn O)))

― DOPESMOKER (smile), Sunday, 31 October 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Madvillain - Madvillainy
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Hot Snakes - Audit In Progress
Black Dice - Creature Comforts
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In the Hands
Michael Mayer - Touch
Panda Bear - Young Prayer
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Stike
Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Sunday, 31 October 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't even have a number one yet.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Sunday, 31 October 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Liars - They Were Wrong So We Drowned
2. On! Air! Library! - On! Air! Library!
3. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
4. Junior Boys - Last Exit
5. Air - Talkie Walkie

― inzace, Sunday, 31 October 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The Necks, Drive-by
Charalambides, Joy Shapes
Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet, Tail's Out
Camera Obscura, Underachievers Please Try Harder
The Streets, A Grand Don't Come for Free

― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 31 October 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Kanye West - College Dropout
Big & Rich - Horse of a Different Color
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
George Michael - Patience

The Streets / RTX / United State of Electronica

― frankE (frankE), Sunday, 31 October 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Begs2Differ, I can't find Sgt. Garcia to download, but based on some audio clips it doesn't really seem like something that would interest me much. His take on Cuban music might interest me more than the reggae cuts (which seem like they are just going to kind of sit there), but I'm not that interested in timba to begin with, which is the Cuban music he seems to mostly be drawing from here.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 31 October 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

If I included reissues, my top ten of every year would probably all be reissues. So I don't.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Monday, 1 November 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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that mum album is beautiful, i don't know why everyone seems to hate it

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 5 November 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

b4r1ma - thanks for the info! if yr after the new buffalo, I'll see what I can do. how does what you've heard of cartooom! combare to fakevox?

also forgot big & rich & le dust sucker to my list (& scratch out the feelstyle album); plus I can't imagine not loving the diplo/m.i.a. piracy funds terrorism thing to bits & pieces.

― etc, Friday, 5 November 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Electrelane - The power out
Mount Eerie - Seven new songs of Mount Eerie

― Kanske, Friday, 5 November 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Devin the Dude
John Langford
Gretchen Wilson
Drive By Truckers
The Magnetic Fields

― danh (danh), Friday, 5 November 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I would like to add Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake Back Together Again. Boy is this record good.

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 5 November 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Courtney Love
Phoenix
Ghostface
Pitman
Nick Cave

Perhaps.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 November 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

that mum album is beautiful, i don't know why everyone seems to hate it

I think it's the vocals. The music is really amazing, but the vocals make me want to tear my hair out.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 6 November 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

mia/diplo
tycho
utada hikaru
lusine icl
paul keeley

― stomp (+dancefloor), Saturday, 6 November 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

5 of -

Wiley, Junior Boys, Black Dice, Crazy Titch, Morgan Geist, Le Dust Sucker, Ada, Southern Smoke, Animal Collective, Dizzee, DJ Clever, Wolf Eyes, Devin Tha Dude, Ghostface, Prince, Tom Waits, Bis Neunzehn, Liars, Target, Robag Wruhme, Stina Nordenstam, Villalobos.

Need to hear:

M.I.A./Diplo, TI, Panda Bear, Weatherall, Crunch Time

― adam... (nordicskilla), Saturday, 6 November 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy
2. Gravenhurst - Flashlight Seasons
3. CocoRosie - La Maison de Mon Reve
4. Toby Goodshank - Safe Harbour
5. Les Mouches - You're worth more to me than 1,000 Christians

― sibsi (sibsi), Saturday, 6 November 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

TI isn't coming out til next year.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

mcd, you're a godsend. I didn't even know they put something out. I'll look for it.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i agree with patrick wolf, but that came out in 2003

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Sundar - yeah, I just got it. Wasn't really on my radar either, I'm sure the Chicago ilx massive is more in touch. Anyway, the record has such a casual & easy-going vibe, it's hard not to love.

― mcd (mcd), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Casual and easygoing, wow! When I saw them with William Parker (and another saxophonist whose name I forget) a couple years ago they were cacophonous.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, for the mo:

1) V/A: Mei Lwun - Uno Records
2) Teedra Moses - Complex Simplicity
3) Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
4) Junior Boys - Last Exit
5) V/A: M.A.N.D.Y. - Get Physical 2nd Anniversary Label Compilation

From what I've heard of them Stina Nordenstam and Run the Road might muscle in there. What's the Crazy Titch thing you refer to Adam?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 7 November 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Brian Wilson - Smile
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Jens Lekman - When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog
Erlend Oye - DJ Kicks
Junior Boys - Last Exit

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 7 November 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

2) Teedra Moses - Complex Simplicity

Be Your Girl sounds pretty if rather unremarkable in a mid-Nineties Mary J Blige in search of a tune kind of way. I haven't heard the album. Second best of the year though, really?

― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 7 November 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim- Crazy Titch thing is the mixtape with Mr Wong and Vader, which I seem to like a lot more than everyone else.

I forgot Mei Lwun! and Superpitcher!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Sunday, 7 November 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

is the Hood album coming out this year? that would probablybe top 5 if it did.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 7 November 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

there is a new hood ep. it's out.

― stomp (+dancefloor), Sunday, 7 November 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i agree with patrick wolf, but that came out in 2003

2004 release on Tomlab for everywhere outside of the UK.

The New Hood ep (The Lost You) is fantastic. The full length isn't due until January.

― Ryan WS (fffv), Sunday, 7 November 2004 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"Be Your Girl sounds pretty if rather unremarkable in a mid-Nineties Mary J Blige in search of a tune kind of way. I haven't heard the album. Second best of the year though, really?"

Yes, it's a personal thing though. "Be Your Girl" is good and a real grower but nowhere near being one of the top tracks. Really I'm voting it up there for "Backstroke", the title track, "For A Lifetime" and "Last Day", which I've been listening to over and over and over again and have taken on some sort of emotional resonance for me. There's about another four tracks or so that are ace too though, making it a very strong album by R&B standards.

First listen to the Stina album suggests it *will* crack top five easily.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 7 November 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I still can't find that Uno Records thing. In this day and age that disgusts me. I think I forgot about 20 albums in my list earlier.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 7 November 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

new possible entries: The Ike Reilly Assassination, Sparkle in the Finish; Charlie Robison, Good Times

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 7 November 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Right now, I think my list would be something like

01 The Fiery Furnaces "Blueberry Boat"
02 Maxi Geil & Playcolt "A Message To My Audience"
03 Phoenix "Alphabetical"
04 Scissor Sisters "Scissor Sisters"
05 Annie "Anniemal"

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 8 November 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that Maxi Geil record in shops?

― danh (danh), Monday, 8 November 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld
Junior Boys - Last Exit
Phoenix - Alphabetical
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
Tim Hecker - Mirages

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh I donno

Annie - Anniemal
Ghostface - Pretty Toney
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Trick Daddy - Thug Matrimony
Luomo - Present Lover*

*I counted this last year so really my number five should be

Lil Scrappy and Trillville

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm. I probably could include the Teedra Moses too although I should give it more time.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

the futureheads
junior boys
stars
grand national
!!!

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm kind of avoiding considering Luomo this year, even though I only heard it this year (and was only released in the U.S. this year) -- it would just make things too complicated.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

What is definitely in the top five is the Liars record.

What is definitely not in the top five is the Streets record.

― tk, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ghostface krillah
lansing-dreiden
dizzee
wiley
junior boys

none of which i own

― artdamages (artdamages), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Junior boys the most frequently ranked album? A quick search suggests its listed 19 or so times.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 06:48 (twenty-one years ago)

b4r1ma - thanks for the info! if yr after the new buffalo, I'll see what I can do. how does what you've heard of cartooom! combare to fakevox?

Cartooom! is more pastiche-like, there's more spaciness, insanity, samples, d'n'b, funk and hip hop, the production is a little more refined and there are more in-song switchups. Fluxblog has an mp3 of 'The Martin Show' up now, though I can't get it.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

People do not understand the concept of five.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

By the end of their time in the spotlight, neither did they. Although the life-size cardboard cut out in the video was amusing.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

annie - anniemal
dizze rascal
go team
hot snakes - audit in progress. rocks my socks!
anticon label sampler

― Mr Monket (apn99), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

So far at least:
1.Smile – Brian Wilson
2.Pictures In The House Where She Lives – Julian Berntzen
3.Everyone Is Here – The Finn Brothers
4.Two Way Monologue – Sondre Lerche
5.Hopes And Fears – Keane

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Then there's the new Revolutionary Ensemble album after a 25+ year hiatus. Shit dawg is this cookin.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Rio Baile Funk-Favela Booty beats
M.I.A./Diplo
Youssou NDour-Egypt
The Streets
Si Soy Llanero
Big & Rich
Ojos de Brujo-Bari
Tinariwen

― steve-k, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 05:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Junior boys the most frequently ranked album? A quick search suggests its listed 19 or so times.

Also, Anniemal with 11 top 5 listings and 5 honorable-mention/could-break-in listings.

I didn't really dig the Junior Boys on first listen, but Annie is definitely really fun and might squeeze onto my own list if I ever bother to make one.

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Isis
Ruinzhivatna
Wolf Eyes
Fucking Am
William Shatner

― meaty beaty, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Kanye West
Wiley
Pan*American
The Streets
Handsome Boy Modeling School

Honorary mention:
Stina Nordenstam, Björk, Mikael Simpson, Dizzee, Money Your Love, Skyphone, The Roots, Snoop, Devendra Banhart, Sufjan Stevens, Favela Beats, Prince Po, Promoe, Claus Hempler, N*E*R*D, cLOUDDEAD, José Gonzales.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The Streets
Dizzee
Mylo
Fiery Furnaces
Go! Team

And maybe Tiefschwarz in there instead of one of them if we're allowed mix CDs.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Shannon Wright- Over The Sun (Quarterstick)
Christian Kleine-Real Ghosts (CCO)
Thalia Zedek- Trust Not Those...(Quarterstick)
Pedro The Lion-Achilles Heel (Jade Tree)
Destroyer- Your Blues (Merge)
Richard Buckner- Dents & Shells (Merge)

― CL, Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Lil Jon - Crunk Juice
Ghostface - Pretty Toney
Brian Wilson - Smile
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
Annie - Anniemal

― ainsley harriott, Thursday, 25 November 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Annie
Go! Team
The Streets
Dizzy Rascal
Phoenix

― snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, 25 November 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Thalia Zedek - "Trust not Those..."
Gravenhurst - "Flashlight Seasons"
Atombombpocketknife - "Lack and Pattern"
KaitO - "Band Red"
Giant Drag - "Lemona"

Hmm... barely bought any new music this year: Nick Cave, Hooker and Stuffy/The Fuses being the other albums I remember buying. Been pretty skint since June though so mainly bought 2nd Hand/sale stuff. The Low boxset was amazing, have been promised it for Christmas.

― Ben Dot (1977), Thursday, 25 November 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

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