{"id":1858,"date":"2004-12-05T20:17:37","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T01:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2004-12-05T20:18:37","modified_gmt":"2004-12-06T01:18:37","slug":"my-best-of-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/05\/my-best-of-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"My Best of 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8217;tis the season, and since I&#8217;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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Animal Collective<\/strong>&nbsp;&mdash; <em>Sung Tongs<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Arcade Fire<\/strong>&nbsp;&mdash; <em>Funeral<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Robyn Hitchcock<\/strong>&nbsp;&mdash; <em>Spooked<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jolie Holland<\/strong>&nbsp;&mdash; <em>Escondida<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Joanna Newsom<\/strong>&nbsp;&mdash; <em>The Milkeyed Mender<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Of Montreal<\/strong>&nbsp;&mdash; <em>Satanic Panic In The Attic<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Polyphonic Spree<\/strong>&nbsp;&mdash; <em>Together We&#8217;re Heavy<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sterling Roswell<\/strong>&nbsp;&mdash; <em>The Psychedelic Ubik<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jim White<\/strong>&nbsp;&mdash; <em>Dig A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Brian Wilson<\/strong>&nbsp;&mdash; <em>Smile<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are a lot of new artists that I hadn&#8217;t heard before this year.<\/p>\n<p>Music that discovered me this year, although not necessarily released this year, includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Devendra Banhart<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Calvin, Don&#8217;t Jump<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Decemberists<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dressy Bessy<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Fountains Of Wayne<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Handsome Family<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kristin Hersh<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The High Water Marks<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bob Log III<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kate Rusby<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sadies<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Elliott Smith<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Carl Stephenson<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With my monstrous commute, I do listen to a lot of music now. And I like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8217;tis the season, and since I&#8217;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&nbsp;&mdash; Sung Tongs The Arcade Fire&nbsp;&mdash; Funeral Robyn Hitchcock&nbsp;&mdash; Spooked Jolie Holland&nbsp;&mdash; Escondida Joanna Newsom&nbsp;&mdash; The Milkeyed Mender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[1881,47],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choons","tag-1881","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-tY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}