I'm sorry. Am I boring you?
So, my editor just called my top ten list for 2004 "conventional." "Conventional?" I ask. "How?" "Well, I just mean that I've actually heard of all these artists." Of course she has. She's my editor. Anyway, the top-ten including my forced witticisms and word-play will be published in Willamette Week next Wednesday. But, as a teaser, I've posted my top 30 and then some other year-end lists. And, yeah, I'm sure some of this is misspelled, but I've got a bad Modest Mouse hangover and copy editing ain't on the agenda today. Enjoy.
2004’s Top Albums
1. Devendra Banhart, Nino Rojo
2. Kanye West, College Dropout
3. Arcade Fire, Funeral
4. The Hold Steady, The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me
5. duo 505, Late
6. The Mountain Goats, We Shall All Be Healed
7. Joanna Newsom, The Milk Eyed Mender
8. Modest Mouse, Good News for People Who Love Bad News
9. Candi Staton, Self-titled
10. Green Day, American Idiot
11. Viva Voce, The Heat Can Melt Your Brain
12. Dizzee Rascal, Showtime
13. The Futureheads, Self-titled
14. Interpol, Antics
15. Richard Buckner, Dents & Shells
16. Sonic Youth, Sonic Nurse
17. The Thermals, Fuckin’ A
18. The Eagles of Death Metal, Peace Love Death Metal
19. DFA Comp. #2
20. The Streets, A Grand Don't Come for Free
21. Dosh, Pure Trash
22. Air, Talkie Walkie
23. John Tejada, Logic Memory Center
24. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Shake the Sheets
25. The Good Life, Album of the Year
26. Tegan & Sarah, So Jealous
27. Psychic TV, Godstar: Thee Director’s Cut
28. Franz Ferdinand, s/t
29. The Cure, s/t
30. Cut Copy, Bright Like Neon Love
*Bonus: DJ N-Wee, The Slack Album (The Black Album/Slanted and Enchanted mash-up)
2004’s Top Portland Albums
1. Viva Voce, The Heat Can Melt Your Brain
2. The Thermals, Fuckin’ A
3. Richmond Fontaine, Post to Wire
4. Dolorean, Violence in the Snowy Fields
5. Corrina Repp, It’s Only the Future
6. Josh Hodges, Sexton Blake
7. Blitzen Trapper, Field Rexx
8. Talkdemonic, Mutiny Sunshine
9. The Helio Sequence, Love and Distance
10. Blanket Music, Cultural Norms
*Bonus: Modest Mouse, Good News For People Who Love Bad News (Isaac Brock lives in P-town. The rest of the band doesn’t.)
2004’s Biggest Dissapointments:
1. Le Tigre, This Island
2. PJ Harvey, Uh Huh Her
3. Travis Morrison, Travistan
4. U2, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
5. R.E.M., Around the Sun
*Bonus: Bjork, Medulla (Solely for the throat singer)
What Will Most Likely Be Awesome in 2005 (Some album titles not available)
1. Low, The Great Destroyer
2. The Decemberists
3. Spoon, The Beast and Dragon are Adored
4. New Gorillaz album with Danger Mouse and De La Soul
5. Frank Black, Honeycomb (guests: Al Green, Lucinda Williams, Cheap Trick, The Band)
6. Billy Corgan’s solo album
7. Flaming Lips, At War with the Mystics
8. GNR, Chinese Democracy
9. Lauryn Hill
10. Bright Eyes
11. ODB, Dirt McGirt
12. Sleater-Kinney, Entertain
13. Kanye West, Late Registration
14. Queens of the Stone Age
15. Al Green
*Bonus: Soul Coughing reissues
What Will Most Likely Suck in 2005
1. D.M.C. (formerly of Run-D.M.C.), Checks, Thugs and Rock n' Roll (guests: late Jam Master Jay, Kid Rock, Korn's Fieldy, Sarah McLachlan, Limp Bizkit's DJ Lethal)
2. Paris Hilton
3. Limp Bizkit (Wes Borland rejoined, which means nothing really)
4. New Weezer
5. New Billy Idol
*Bonus: Billy Corgan solo album
2004’s Top Albums
1. Devendra Banhart, Nino Rojo
2. Kanye West, College Dropout
3. Arcade Fire, Funeral
4. The Hold Steady, The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me
5. duo 505, Late
6. The Mountain Goats, We Shall All Be Healed
7. Joanna Newsom, The Milk Eyed Mender
8. Modest Mouse, Good News for People Who Love Bad News
9. Candi Staton, Self-titled
10. Green Day, American Idiot
11. Viva Voce, The Heat Can Melt Your Brain
12. Dizzee Rascal, Showtime
13. The Futureheads, Self-titled
14. Interpol, Antics
15. Richard Buckner, Dents & Shells
16. Sonic Youth, Sonic Nurse
17. The Thermals, Fuckin’ A
18. The Eagles of Death Metal, Peace Love Death Metal
19. DFA Comp. #2
20. The Streets, A Grand Don't Come for Free
21. Dosh, Pure Trash
22. Air, Talkie Walkie
23. John Tejada, Logic Memory Center
24. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Shake the Sheets
25. The Good Life, Album of the Year
26. Tegan & Sarah, So Jealous
27. Psychic TV, Godstar: Thee Director’s Cut
28. Franz Ferdinand, s/t
29. The Cure, s/t
30. Cut Copy, Bright Like Neon Love
*Bonus: DJ N-Wee, The Slack Album (The Black Album/Slanted and Enchanted mash-up)
2004’s Top Portland Albums
1. Viva Voce, The Heat Can Melt Your Brain
2. The Thermals, Fuckin’ A
3. Richmond Fontaine, Post to Wire
4. Dolorean, Violence in the Snowy Fields
5. Corrina Repp, It’s Only the Future
6. Josh Hodges, Sexton Blake
7. Blitzen Trapper, Field Rexx
8. Talkdemonic, Mutiny Sunshine
9. The Helio Sequence, Love and Distance
10. Blanket Music, Cultural Norms
*Bonus: Modest Mouse, Good News For People Who Love Bad News (Isaac Brock lives in P-town. The rest of the band doesn’t.)
2004’s Biggest Dissapointments:
1. Le Tigre, This Island
2. PJ Harvey, Uh Huh Her
3. Travis Morrison, Travistan
4. U2, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
5. R.E.M., Around the Sun
*Bonus: Bjork, Medulla (Solely for the throat singer)
What Will Most Likely Be Awesome in 2005 (Some album titles not available)
1. Low, The Great Destroyer
2. The Decemberists
3. Spoon, The Beast and Dragon are Adored
4. New Gorillaz album with Danger Mouse and De La Soul
5. Frank Black, Honeycomb (guests: Al Green, Lucinda Williams, Cheap Trick, The Band)
6. Billy Corgan’s solo album
7. Flaming Lips, At War with the Mystics
8. GNR, Chinese Democracy
9. Lauryn Hill
10. Bright Eyes
11. ODB, Dirt McGirt
12. Sleater-Kinney, Entertain
13. Kanye West, Late Registration
14. Queens of the Stone Age
15. Al Green
*Bonus: Soul Coughing reissues
What Will Most Likely Suck in 2005
1. D.M.C. (formerly of Run-D.M.C.), Checks, Thugs and Rock n' Roll (guests: late Jam Master Jay, Kid Rock, Korn's Fieldy, Sarah McLachlan, Limp Bizkit's DJ Lethal)
2. Paris Hilton
3. Limp Bizkit (Wes Borland rejoined, which means nothing really)
4. New Weezer
5. New Billy Idol
*Bonus: Billy Corgan solo album
posted by Mark Baumgarten at 3:55 PM
5 Comments:
Dear roomie, I am so proud to be your first commenter ever. Welcome to the world of the cyber-dairy. Prepare to experience navel gazing on a level you never imagined possible. Or maybe that's just me. I'm totally linking to you, like soon!
Re yr picks:
* Good records, the ones I've heard, except that horrible Interpol. HA!
* I had no idea you were so into Devendra and Kanye. I need to give those albums a good listen.
* Surprised to see the Air album in there. Other than "Run", which is like single of the year or something like it, I thought it was pretty weak.
* I'd add M.I.A. to the list of things that will probably kick ass in 2005.
I meant cyber-diary, althought the cyber-dairy is pretty fucking awesome too. Moo.
You know what the Sleater Kinney album is going to be called?!
Dude, no Van Lear Rose? Fuck conventionality, that's just heresy. You just lost your keys to the city.
You have made me feel like it's OK to like normal music! So many music critics are so willfully obscure. This list happies me up.
I am holding on to a tiny thread of hope that Weezer will not ruin my life for the third album running.
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