154 - strike
― brimstead, Monday, 29 January 2024 22:14 (nineteen minutes ago) link
Great album
― Evan, Monday, 29 January 2024 22:35 (three months ago) link
so great. hypnotic blurry ambient with a kick drum, like if the protagonist in the Gas albums went to outer space or an abandoned factory on the moon instead of the forest
― brimstead, Monday, 29 January 2024 23:11 (three months ago) link
Came here to say The Knife - Deep Cuts but that ship has actually sailed now!
Seem to remember 2004 being a good year for music. It's very hard to believe these are all coming up to 20 years old now:
Animal Collective - Sung TongsBrian Wilson - SmileThe Streets - A Grand Don't Come For FreeConverge - You Fail MeJoanna Newsome - The Milk Eyed MenderMountain Goats - We Shall All Be HealedNeurosis - Eye Of Every StormBoredoms - Seadrum / House Of SunDevendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The HandsBjork - MedullaAir - Talkie Walkie
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:22 (three months ago) link
add Blueberry Boat to the list
― cellaring potential (morrisp), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:25 (three months ago) link
I feel like this was a banner year for me as a music fan. The year I started paying a lot more attention to current music and also having a lot more access to music due to broadband.
I'd been on ILM a couple of years, but this was the year it really started feeling like a community and I remember going to a few FAPs and meeting fun people in Cambridge and London.
Also it was the year Sick Mouthy let me write my first ever published music articles for Stylus, so that felt like a big deal to me.
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:25 (three months ago) link
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
This was also the year I got really into US noise, Amerindie and Freak Folk stuff. The excitement burned bright, albeit with diminishing returns after a while
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:30 (three months ago) link
2004 list I made at the time: 1. The Uncle Devil Show - A Terrible Beauty (Del Amitri incognito) 2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus 3. Stan Ridgway - Snakebite 4. Tears For Fears - Everybody Loves A Happy Ending 5. Magnetic Fields - i 6. Hem - Eveningland 7. Interpol - Antics 8. Robyn Hitchcock - Spooked 9. Wonder Stuff - Escape From Rubbish Island 10. Nora O'Connor - Til The Dawn
Late Finds & Singles: Boxer Rebellion - 3 singles Killing Joke - Chaos For Breakfast (first 4 singles plus disc of demos) Longwave - Life Of The Party EP Lucero - That Much Further West (2003 release, found early in 2004) Jesse Malin - The Fine Art Of Self-Destruction (2003 release, found early in 2004)
Best Compilation / Reissue / Live: Tommy Keene - Drowning (rarities compilation) Mekons - Punk Rock (all early material played live) Andy Partridge - Fuzzy Warbles Vol 5+6 Weirdos - We Got The Neutron Bomb (Weird World Vol 2) Wire - On The Box: 1979
Best CDRs: A House - Rarities (all vinyl-only material) Cud - Cudstock Naked Gerard Langley - LIT Volume 2
Most Disappointing: Tanya Donelly - Whiskey Tango Ghosts OR They Might Be Giants - The Spine
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:51 (three months ago) link
At the time, Arcade Fire's Funeral felt like an album for the ages. It's Pitchfork's number one for 2004. I haven't listened to it in years, and am not likely to now.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:47 (three months ago) link
Max Richter – The Blue NotebooksSagor & Swing – OrgelplanetenStereolab – Margerine EclipsePeter Hammill – IncoherenceHold Steady – Almost Killed MeNick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of OrpheusMarissa Nadler – Ballads of Living & Dying
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:54 (three months ago) link
i just looked at pitchfork's top 50 of 2004 and the only album on it that i love and own is blueberry boat. i think i was mostly listening to metal and old music back then. i did write monthly for a metal magazine at the time. i think. maybe i was just writing for the Voice. i know that ilx made me buy stuff that i never listened to back then. like junior boys.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:57 (three months ago) link
for the record, i still listen to blueberry boat ALL the time. i'm kinda fixated on it. and their other stuff. but that one in a big way. some things just get ya.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:59 (three months ago) link
just checked out that top 50 and there are vv few albums i still listen to or even own on there. Medulla, Madvillainy, The Blue Notebooks, Last Exit. I should probably own Blueberry Boat, that's a classic. There are some mystifying picks which probably don't make sense to anyone who wasn't there, though.
― omar little, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:06 (three months ago) link
!!! - Louden Up NowAsa-Chang & Junray - Tsu Gi Ne PuElectrelane - The Power OutHalcali - Ongaku no SusumeOneida - Secret Wars Plumbline - Pin PointsSelfish Cunt - No Wicked Heart Shall ProsperStereolab - Margarine EclipseThe Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - The Royal Society
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:09 (three months ago) link
Blueberry Boat is a masterpiece and only gets better with age.
Secret Machines - Now Here Is NowhereLanguis - The Four WallsThe Dead Texan - s/tLali Puna - Faking The BooksBardo Pond & Tom Carter - 4/23/03Ana da Silva - The LighthouseThe Muffs - Really Really HappyJuana Molina - Tres CosasJack Rose - Raag ManifestosFripp & Eno - The Equatorial Stars
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:23 (three months ago) link
2004 releases that I remember liking a lot back then:
David Darling and Wulu Bunun Tribe - mudanin kataBrightblack - Ala.cali.tuckyDeathprod - morals and dogmaJoanna Newsom - the milk eyed menderAnCo - Sung TongsMylo - destroy rock n rollMadvillainyFennesz - veniceBjork - medullaJunior boys - last exitArve Henriksen - chiaroscuroSachiko M / Toshimaru Nakamura / Otomo Yoshihide - Good Morning Good NightSufjan Stevens - seven swansSusumu Yokota - symbolAnnie - anniemalXiu xiu - fabulous musclesBlonde redhead - misery is a butterfly
Probably missing several others… espers, akira rabelais, max richter, deerhoof, tom waits, dungen, air, DFA1979… pretty good year
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:24 (three months ago) link
Listening to Blueberry Boat now... I know this is a total cliché, but if this album were released today, it would still sound totally "fresh" (IMO)
― cellaring potential (morrisp), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:24 (three months ago) link