List some of your favorite records that turn 20 this year

Party of Helicopters!

Everything mentioned so far is fine but you’re missing the most important album of 2002:

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE - YOU FORGOT IT IN PEOPLE

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 9 January 2022 12:51 (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

weekly rotation

& mirah - advisory committee

Tindersticks – Waiting for the Moon
Lucinda Williams – World Without Tears
Gillian Welch – Soul Journey
Kathleen Edwards – Failer
Esbjörn Svensson Trio – Seven Days of Falling
Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts of the Great Highway
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter – Reckless Burning
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – "This Is Our Punk-Rock," Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing
Kraftwerk – Tour de France Soundtracks
The Necks – Drive By

I found a list I made of my favorite albums of 2003 made contemporaneously:

1. The Sounds - Living In America
2. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
3. The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
4. Atmosphere - Seven's Travels
5. The White Stripes - Elephant
6. Stiffed - Sex Sells
7. Helios Creed - On The Dark Side Of The Sun
8. Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage
9. Killing Joke - Killing Joke
10. Drive - By Truckers - Decoration Day
11. Widow - Midnight Strikes
12. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
13. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
14. Arch Enemy - Anthems Of Rebellion
15. Glass Candy - Love Love Love
16. Outkast - Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
17. Party Of Helicopters - Don't Believe It
18. Soul Position - 8,000,000 Stories
19. Neurosis & Jarboe - Neurosis & Jarboe
20. Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll
21. Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
22. Peaches - Fatherfucker
23. Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
24. An Albatross - We Are The Lazer Viking
25. Black Moustache - Black Moustache
26. Fefe Dobson - Fefe Dobson
27. Hamell On Trial - Tough Love
28. Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
29. The Apes - Oddeyesee
30. Grafton - Blind Horse Campaign
31. Laibach - WAT
32. Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts
33. Hatebreed - The Rise Of Brutality
34. Daughters - Canada Songs
35. Martin Rev - To Live
36. Lisa Germano - Lullaby For Liquid Pig
37. Wehrwolfe - Godless We Stand
38. Jane's Addiction - Strays
39. Ladytron - Softcore Jukebox
40. The Kills - Keep On Your Mean Side
41. Old Man's Child - In Defiance Of Existence
42. Intro5pect - Intro5pect
43. Supersuckers - Motherfuckers Be Trippin'
44. Cobra Verde - Easy Listening
45. Mando Diao - Bring 'Em In
46. T. Raumschiere - Radio Blackout
47. Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Fever To Tell
48. Buzzcocks - Buzzcocks
49. The Agony Scene - The Agony Scene
50. British Sea Power - The Decline Of British Sea Power
51. The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed
52. Aereogramme - Sleep And Release
53. Ministry - Animositisomina
54. Zyklon - Aeon
55. The Black Keys - Thickfreakness
56. S.T.U.N. - Evolution Of Energy
57. Liz Phair - Liz Phair
58. Chimaira - The Impossibility Of Reason
59. Dead Meadow - Shivering King And Others
60. Vital Remains - Dechristianize
61. The Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island, Burn
62. Ex Models - Zoo Psychology
63. The Sun - Love & Death
64. Superjoint Ritual - A Lethal Dose Of American Hatred
65. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take Them On, On Your Own
66. The Hidden Hand - Divine Propaganda
67. Paloalto - Heroes And Villains
68. Fireball Ministry - The Second Great Awakening
69. Asmegin - Hin Vordende Sod & Sø
70. Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather
71. Goatwhore - Funeral Dirge For The Rotting Sun
72. Camarosmith - Camarosmith
73. TRS - 80 - Shake Hands With Danger
74. The Strokes - Room On Fire
75. Diverse - One A.M.

Tour de France Soundtracks is the one that's really messing with me because I remember all the hoopla about how it was Kraftwerk's first album in 17 years

get rich or die trying

Marconi Union - Under Wires & Searchlights
Movietone - The Sand and the Stars
No-Man - Together We're Stranger
Piano Magic - Troubled Sleep
David Sylvian - Blemish
Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland

John Fahey - + (Red Cross, Disciple of Christ Today)
Viktor Vaughan - Vaudeville Villain
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
The Magnolia Electric Co. - Magnolia Electric Co.
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Loose Fur - Loose Fur
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
The Cinema Orchestra - Man With a Movie Camera
King Geedorah - Take Me To Your Leader
Paddy McAloon - I Trawl the MEGAHERTZ
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Four Tet - Rounds
The Hidden Cameras - The Smell of our Own
Steve Roach - Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Master & Everyone
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner

This was my list at the time:
1. Justin Sullivan - Navigating By The Stars
1. Killing Joke - Killing Joke [2003]
3. Snow Patrol - Final Straw
4. Clearlake - Cedars
5. Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine & Ours
6. Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell Pts. 1 & 2
7. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
8. David Sylvian - Blemish
9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take Them On, On Your Own
10. I Am Kloot - I Am Kloot

I've probably listened to the Radiohead, Pernice Brothers and Ryan Adams albums once or twice in the intervening years and that Snow Patrol album was, indeed, the final straw for them. I'd swap those out for:
Lucero - That Much Further West
Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts Of The Great Highway
The Fall - The Real New Fall LP

The rest I still love.

I really didn't like Hail To The Thief much at the time but have been playing a reconstructed version of it a lot more in the past couple of years. I'd include that version in my top albums for 2003 except that it officially doesn't exist.

Gallowsbird's Bark
Fever to Tell

ya I'm sure this has been said a lot but HTTT is a really great record if you delete like a third of it

M. Ward, The Transfiguration of Vincent
Cat Power, You Are Free
My Morning Jacket, It Still Moves
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Hearts of Oak
Songs:Ohia, Magnolia Electric Company
Radiohead, Hail to the Thief
The Books, The Lemon of Pink
The White Stripes, Elephant
Steely Dan, Everything Must Go
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros, Streetcore

Paddy McAloon - I Trawl the MEGAHERTZ

Oooh, yeah, missed that one. That record is just pure heartbreak.

Some that haven't been mentioned yet:

Lilys - Precollection
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Pig Lib
Ween - Quebec
Guided by Voices - Earthquake Glue
Momus - Oskar Tennis Champion
Broadcast - Haha Sound
Blur - Think Tank

It's hard to believe "Crazy in Love" turns 20 this year but maybe that's because it was 2010-11 when I had a neighbor who played it nonstop.

This thread has started a bit of a relisten project for me over the last few years, but I just realized I never compiled my 2002 list. So, my favorites that turn twenty-one this year:

The Notwist, Neon Golden
The Mountain Goats, All Hail West Texas
The Reputation, The Reputation
Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Jetplane Landing, Zero for Conduct
Dolly Parton, Halos and Horns
Stretch Princess, Fun With Humans
Emm Gryner, Asianblue
Aimee Mann, Lost in Space
Christine Fellows, The Last One Standing
Richard Buckner, Impasse
The Mountain Goats, Tallahassee

On to 2003…

This was my top 10 of 2003, as judged at the time:

1. OutKast, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
2. Radiohead, Hail to the Thief
3. Prefuse 73, One Word Extinguisher
4. Belle and Sebastian, Dear Catastrophe Waitress
5. Basement Jaxx, Kish Kash
6. M83, Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts
7. The Postal Service, Give Up
8. Broken Social Scene, You Forgot it in People
9. The North Atlantic, Wires in the Walls
10. Schneider TM, 6 Peace EP

looking through my list, here are some that surprised me:

first two Lemon Demon albums - not that this means anything to anyone else but its kind of a reminder of how much different online culture was two decades ago

Sketch Show, Loophole - remember thinking they were old guys then, making great music pretty late in their career. in retrospect they weren't that old!!

Ween, quebec - same thing. felt like such a "late career" album when in reality they were younger than I am now

The Sea and Cake, One Bedroom - just because I actually remember buying this CD twenty years ago. still remember reading every review I could find online and wondering why people didn't like it

ooh and also The Stadium Techno Experience by Scooter. I'd never have believed you if you told me they would still be around and reasonably famous 20 years from then. and I liked that album!

I was a big Sea and Cake fan at the time and liked One Bedroom, but also probably found it somewhat inferior to their last couple of albums and thus unworthy of inclusion on a top 10. Or maybe my enjoyment of it just felt sort of predictable and comfortable, whereas most of the albums that made my list were new discoveries or surprises.

Pretty dull list from me, but Autechre Draft 7.30, Broadcast Haha Sound, Cat Power You Are Free, Gescom ISS::SA, Missy This is Not a Test, Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People, the Outkast album, Prefuse 73 One Word Extinguisher, Sufjan Michigan, William Basinski The Disintegration Loops are all still in regular rotation. At the time I played the Radiohead, Bonnie Prince Billy, Strokes' Room on Fire and The White Stripes' Elephant a lot but not much these days.

10 that haven't been mentioned yet:

Harold Budd - La Bella Vista
Brian Eno - January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now
Jeff Hanson - Son
McLusky - My Pain and Sadness Is More Sad and Painful Than Yours
New Pornographers - The Electric Version (favorite album of 2003)
Puffy AmiYumi - Nice
Lou Reed - The Raven (overstuffed, but I like it)
Josh Rouse - 1972
Matthew Sweet - Kimi Ga Suki Raifu (his last great album?)
Various - Wig in a Box: Songs from and Inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch

And because I looked up the wrong year by mistake, 10 lesser-known choices from 2002:

Damien Jurado & Gathered in Song - I Break Chairs (his loud album)
1 Giant Leap - 1 Giant Leap
Mull Historical Society - Loss
Twinemen - Twinemen (surviving members of Morphine plus Laurie Sargent from Face to Face)
Wondermints - Mind If We Make Love to You
Jason Loewenstein - At Sixes and Sevens (first solo album from my favorite Sebadoh member)
Cato Salsa Experience - A Good Tip for a Good Time
Gem - Sunglare Serenade (Doug Gillard and Tim Tobias)
Canyon - Empty Rooms (alt-country with a distinct 'Dark Side of the Moon' feel)
J Mascis & The Fog - Free So Free

listened to a lot of records 20 years ago, broke it down like so -

god tier

* Three 6 Mafia - Da Unbreakables
* Kevin Drumm - Land of Lurches
* Perfume - Sweet Donuts
* Nav Katze - Never Mind The Distortions
* John Fahey - Red Cross Disciple Of Christ Today

solid

* Pharaoh Overlord - #2
* Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa
* Annea Lockwood - A Sound Map of the Hudson River
* Enslaved - Below the Lights
* Skullflower - Exquisite Fucking Boredom
* Eliane Radigue - Geelriandre / Arthesis
* Circle - Guillotine
* Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
* SORA - Re.sort

pretty good

* Luomo - The Present Lover
* Mu-Ziq - Bilious Paths
* Bardo Pond - On The Ellipse

haven't listened in a while but probably holds up

* Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
* Darkspace - I
* Wolf Eyes - Dead Hills
* Nasum - Helvete
* Cymbals - Love You
* Hoahio - Peek-Ara-Boo
* Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
* Erykah Badu - Worldwide Underground

haven't listened in quite a while, feeling less confident but were played a lot at the time

* Ashanti - Chapter II
* Black Dice - Beaches and Canyons
* Venetian Snares - Badminton

The Police - Synchronicity

what? That wasn’t 20 years ago?

Ok, then In Utero.

Horsepower Productions - In Fine Style

The three albums of 2003 that I still play the most are: Pig Lib, Electric Version, and Ghosts of the Great Highway.

Vital Remains - Dechristianize

^^^ That's a good one. I listened to that a lot back then.

I played it every day for a month on the way to college.

some other genre favorites

T.I. - Trap Muzik
Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Trying
Lil Kim - La Bella Mafia
Bonecrusher - Atten CHUN!
Britney Spears - In the Zone
Michigan - Sufjan Stevens

Adult - Anxiety Always
Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes For Cash
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Broadcast - Haha Sound
Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
Clearlake - Cedars
Dave Clarke - Devil's Advocate
Dizee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
Dopplereffect - Linear Accelerator
Fat Truckers - For Sale
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
HALCALI - Halcali Bacon
Hell - NY Muscle
LFO - Sheath
Melt-Banana - Cell-scape
OutKast - Speakerboxxx
Plaid - Dial P / Spokes
Raiden (mixed by) - Paranoia LP
Relaxed Muscle - A Heavy Nite With...
Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
The Locust - Plague Soundscapes
The Rapture - Echoes

I forgot to include Pluramon's Dreams Top Rock, which still sounds fantastic

Welcome to the club:

Last Exit
The Disintegration Loops
Seven Swans
Coming On Strong

Meanwhile, dubnobasswithmyheadman now thirty years old 😱

The Blue Notebooks
Body Language
Margerine Eclipse
Madvillainy
Milk Man
Mm...Food
The Tigers Have Spoken

Still adore, and listen to regularly

Casual Dots s/t
Reigning Sound - Too Much Guitar
The Real New Fall Album

Iron & Wine, Our Endless Numbered Days
The Blue Nile, High
Tom Waits, Real Gone
Ray LaMontagne, Trouble

154 - strike

boredoms - seadrum/house of sun
Black Leotard Front - "Casual Friday"

There are some good jazz/modern composition albums from 2004 that I still like to listen to:

Jenny Scheinman - Shalagaster
Mihaly Dresch Quartet - Egyenes Zene
Jewels and Binoculars (Michael Moore trio) - Floater

! I don't think I have heard Jewels and Binoculars, despite having named an actual human child after that song

154 - strike

― brimstead, Monday, 29 January 2024 22:14 (nineteen minutes ago) link

Great album

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

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 Tongs
Brian Wilson - Smile
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
Converge - You Fail Me
Joanna Newsome - The Milk Eyed Mender
Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
Neurosis - Eye Of Every Storm
Boredoms - Seadrum / House Of Sun
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands
Bjork - Medulla
Air - Talkie Walkie

add Blueberry Boat to the list

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.

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

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

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.