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Tag: 2004

  • time hasn’t been kind to them

    Found these on top of the fridge during a cleanup.

    I remember thinking they looked pretty cool at the time.

  • My Best of 2004

    ’tis the season, and since I’m not used to doing these things yet, and I can never give an album a numeric ranking, here are my Ten Best Music Albums of 2004, in alphabetical order:

    • The Animal Collective — Sung Tongs
    • The Arcade Fire — Funeral
    • Robyn Hitchcock — Spooked
    • Jolie Holland — Escondida
    • Joanna Newsom — The Milkeyed Mender
    • Of Montreal — Satanic Panic In The Attic
    • The Polyphonic Spree — Together We’re Heavy
    • Sterling Roswell — The Psychedelic Ubik
    • Jim White — Dig A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See
    • Brian Wilson — Smile

    There are a lot of new artists that I hadn’t heard before this year.

    Music that discovered me this year, although not necessarily released this year, includes:

    • Devendra Banhart
    • Calvin, Don’t Jump
    • The Decemberists
    • Dressy Bessy
    • The Fountains Of Wayne
    • The Handsome Family
    • Kristin Hersh
    • The High Water Marks
    • Bob Log III
    • Kate Rusby
    • The Sadies
    • Elliott Smith
    • Carl Stephenson

    With my monstrous commute, I do listen to a lot of music now. And I like it.