2004: Albums Aquired
Submitted by AAA on Fri, 04/23/2004 - 11:31
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- !!! - !!! (7.8)
- !!! - Louden Up Now
- Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth (8.6)
- Air - Walkie Talkie
- American Football - American Football
- And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes (9.0)
- Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
- Arcade Fire, The - Funeral
- Avalanches, The - Since I Left You
- Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of the Bewilderbeast
- Devendra Banhart - Nino Rojo
- Devendra Banhart - Oh Me Oh My...
- Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
- Belle & Sebastion - The Boy With the Arab Strap
- Belle & Sebastion - Tigermilk (9.2)
- Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
- Bjork - Medulla
- Bjork - Vespertine
- Black Eyes - Cough (8.0)
- Black Keys - Rubber Factory
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take Them On, On Your Own (7.9)
- Books, The - Lemon of Pink
- Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon (7.5)
- Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors (7.8)
- Bright Eyes - Letting Off the Happiness (9.2)
- Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (8.9)
- Broken Social Scene - Feel Good Lost
- Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
- Built to Spill - Keep it Like a Secret
- Cat Power - You Are Free (8.8)
- Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green...is the Soul Machine
- Coheed and Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade
- Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral
- Concretes, The - The Concretes
- Cure, The - The Cure
- Cure, The - Galore (8.7)
- Cure, The - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (7.9)
- Cure, The - Staring at the Sea (8.5)
- Cursive - The Ugly Organ
- Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
- Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes (8.8)
- Death from Above 1979 - Romantic Rights EP (7.6)
- Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
- Decemberists, The - 5 Songs
- Decemberists, The - Castaways and Cutouts
- Decemberists, The - Her Majesty...The Decemberists (9.1)
- Decemberists, The - Picaresque
- Decemberists, The - The Tain
- Deerhoof - Apple O'
- Deerhoof - Milk Man
- Destroyer - Your Blues
- Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner (9.0)
- Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
- Dresden Dolls, The - The Dresden Dolls
- Eminem - Encore
- Emocapella - I'm Sorry (8.8)
- Exploding Hearts, The - Guitar Romantic
- Fiery Furnaces, The - Blueberry Boat (9.2)
- Fiery Furnaces, The - Gallowsbird Bark
- Flaming Lips, The - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (8.8)
- Foreign Exchange, The - Connected
- Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (8.7)
- Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
- Gomez - In Our Gun
- Grandaddy - Sumday (8.3)
- Eminem - The Eminem Show
- Emmylou Harris - Stumble into Grace
- Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
- Hot Hot Heat - Make Up the Breakdown (8.8)
- Interpol - Antics
- Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (9.0)
- Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (8.7)
- Jay-Z - The Black Album
- Jay-Z - The Blueprint
- Jay-Z - Jay-Z Unplugged
- Jem - Finally Woken
- Joy Division - Closer
- Junior Boys - Last Exit
- Junior Senior - D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat
- Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
- Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets
- Les Savy Fav - Inches
- Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
- M83 - Dead Cities, Red Sand & Lost Ghosts
- Madvillian - Madvilliany
- Magnetic Fields, The - i
- Manitoba - Up in Flames
- Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
- Mates of State - My Solo Project
- Mates of State - Our Constant Concern
- Mates of State - Team Boo
- Nellie McKay - Get Away from Me
- Microphones, The - The Glow, Part 2
- Microphones, The - It was Hot, We Stayed in the Water
- Microphones, The - Live in Japan
- Microphones, The - Mt. Eerie
- Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates
- Mirah - C'mon Miracle
- Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out of Something
- Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
- Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
- Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About
- Mooney Suzuki, The - Electric Sweat
- Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
- Morrissey - You are the Quarry
- Mountain Goats, The - We Shall All Be Healed
- Muffs, The - Really Really Happy
- Mum - Yesterday Was Dramatic Today is Ok
- My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
- My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
- N.E.R.D. - Fly or Die
- Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
- New Pornographers, The - Electric Version
- New Pornographers, The - Mass Romantic
- A.C. Newman - Slow Wonder
- Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic
- On! Air! Library! - On! Air! Library!
- Onelinedrawing - The Visitor
- Outkast - Stankonia
- Panda Bear - Young Prayer
- Phantom Planet - The Guest
- Phantom Planet - Phantom Planet
- Pinback - Summer in Abandon
- Polyphonic Spree, The - The Beginning Stages of...
- Prince - The Hits 2
- Q and Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep
- Radiohead - Amnesiac
- Radiohead - The Bends
- Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
- Radiohead - Kid A
- Radiohead - OK Computer
- Rapture, The - Echoes
- Raveonettes, The - Chain Gang of Love
- Reggie and the Full Effect - Under the Tray
- Rilo Kiley - Execution of All Things
- RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke
- Rogue Wave - Out of the Shadow
- Scissor Sisters, The - The Scissor Sisters
- Shesus - Loves You...Loves You Not
- Shins, The - Chutes Too Narrow
- Shins, The - Oh, Inverted World
- Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byurjn
- Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One
- Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
- Snow Patrol - Final Straw
- Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
- Soundtrack - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Once More With Feeling"
- Soundtrack - Valley Girl
- Spiritualized - Amazing Grace
- Spiritulaized - Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space
- Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
- Stars - Heart
- Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State
- Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
- Stills, The - Logic Will Break Your Heart
- Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions
- Streets, The - A Grand Don't Come for Free
- Supergrass - Life on Other Planets
- Tenacious D - Tenacious D
- Thrills, The - So Much for the City
- Thursday - War All the Time
- Justin Timberlake - Justified
- TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
- Ugly Casanova - Sharpen Your Teeth
- Unicorns, The - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
- Walkmen, The - Bows and Arrows
- Weakerthans, The - Left and Leaving
- Weezer - Pinkerton
- Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album)
- Wilco - A Ghost is Born
- Wrens, The - The Meadowlands
- Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
Wow!! I think we are actually the same person, and just haven't realized it yet!!! I just purchased the Polyphonic Spree album and was very impressed with it. Also, the Hot Hot Heat album is a recent buy for me. And next on my list to buy: The Gomez album and BMRC. That Junior Senior album is actually very underappreciated, I find. I can't help but wonder, are you going to Lollapalooza this summer?
When I looked at your best of the decade list, I could tell that we had similar taste. I'm 17, and a senior in high school, so our overlapping taste is probably a function of our age and scene.
I hadn't even thought about Lollapalooza this year, but I might look into it. Here in the DC area, we have the Hfstival, which features Modest Mouse, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Cure, Cypress Hill, Jay-Z, The Violent Femmes, and The Offspring...I was seriously considering attending it this year, if only to see Modest Mouse and The Cure.
Judging from your apparant tastes, I STRONGLY recommend getting "Talkie Walkie" by Air. I've gotta feeling you'll dig it. It's my favorite album this year by far.
Also, if you can find it try to get "Out of the Loop" by I Am the World Trade Center. It's really cool.
I was seriously considering getting the Air record just the other day, but I ended up getting Franz Ferdinand's album.
I'll check out I Am the World Trade Center...they sound interesting!
I Am the World Trade Center are a duo from New York (as the name insists) that really have alot of potential to be indie/dance rock(?) greats.
Their record production is really fresh and thrilling. It may be a little hard to find their albums, but it's worth it.
Could you rate these albums in some fashion? For those poor music lovers who have to pick and choose.
What do you do for a living?
Tallyho
:?)
I was actually thinking of adopting Pitchfork's out of 10 rating system for these albums. I suppose I'll start implementing that now.
I am an 18 year old about to enter the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. I also work at IKEA.
Thanks for rating them. :?)
What's the major?
Have you heard the new Death Cab For Cutie and does Planes sound anything like it?
Tallyho
:?)
I have heard a little bit of Transatlanticism, but not all...for some reason, I'm not in too much of a rush. Most of my friends who love Deathcab liked the album a lot.
I'm gonna slowly go through and grade the albums that I feel comfortable grading.
I'm majoring in Acting.
Yay! A fan of Death From Above... very cool.
GREAT live band!
Yeah my friend saw them live and raved... that's how I know about them... he's actually going to see them again... sometime this month I think.
Did he by any chance see them w/ The Unicorns?
(by the way, where do you live?)
I am Canadian... as the beer ads say :)
Ah, well, that makes sense, considering that DfA is also a buncha canucks (term used lightly and playfully).
Are you going to get Wilco's new album?
Here's the thing...I love Yankee Hotel Foxtrot so much that I'm scared to hear the new one. The critical reception even from people who love Wilco has been lukewarm.
I'll pick it up when my expectations are nice and low.
I understand. I think that the new album is entertaining, but it is not Wilco's best. It's worth the money though.
I'll try it out eventually. Jeez, my list for this year is getting long. I have a feeling that I'm just gonna shorten it to 10 and put the rest in my honorable mentions...sorry, had nothing to do with Wilco.
I'd be really interested in hearing what you thought of Banhart's album, since I loved it but I haven't really heard the opinion of a lot of listologists on it...
Ooooh... "And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead" have a new album out? I'll have t ocheck it out!
So, did Pitchforkmedia overrate (9.7) Arcade Fire or did they get it right for once?
I actually tend to agree with a lot of their reviews (notice I did not say all) and I do love The Arcade Fire. It's gorgeous and moving...plus the opening track is to die for.
Ooh, you must let me know what you think of Loveless.
I'm really excited to listen to it, so I'll be sure to tell you.
What are your thoughts of Lemon of Pink? ;-)
After the first listen, I think it's awesome. But I'll get it a few more spins before making any real opinions.