This will be subject to change as I struggle to remember 2004...
Top 10 CDs
(includes three 2003 albums I didn't "discover" until 2004)
10. Björk - Medúlla
09. Federico Aubele - Gran Hotel Buenos Aires
08. Tweaker - 2 A.M. Wakeup Call
07. Jem - Finally Woken
06. Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue
05. Eisley - Marvelous Things
04. Tanya Donelly - Whisky Tango Ghosts
03. Rasputina - Frustration Plantation
02. Postal Service - Give Up
01. Metric - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
Notes:
My top two were both released last year but I adore them. I guess I like bleepy and bloopy video game sounds, yes? Favorite 2004 cd was, of course, Rasputina followed closely by Tanya, natch. I'd include Muse - Absolution because I have 6 or 7 songs from their album but I never actually bought it, so I can't count it. Eisley was also from 2003.
2004 albums I wish we'd purchased
Rilo Kiley
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Low box set
Muse
Ones to think about buying
Hanalei
Songs most listened to/put on cds this year
The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum - Collide
Nothing Better - Postal Service
The District Sleeps Alone Tonight - Postal Service
Brand New Colony - Postal Service
Mass Destruction (P*Nut And Sister Bliss Remix) - Faithless
Possum of the Grotto - Rasputina
Secret Message - Rasputina
IOU - Metric
Succexy - Metric
Combat Baby - Metric
The Centre - Tanya Donelly
Butterfly Thing - Tanya Donelly
My Life as a Ghost - Tanya Donelly
The Winter Song - Eisley
I Wasn't Prepared - Eisley
Marvelous Things - Eisley
Maybe You're Gone - Sondre Lerche
Stupid Memory - Sondre Lerche
Days That Are Over - Sondre Lerche
Converting to the Diver Species - Blake Hazard
Tourist - Juliana Hatfield
Ruby - Tweaker
Pure Genius - Tweaker
Crude Sunlight - Tweaker
Primitive (The Way I Treat You) - Ambulance Ltd
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
Waking up in Waco - Banco de Gaia
Snapshot - Fluke
Missing You - Jem
They - Jem
Reptilia - The Strokes
Oceania - Björk
Endlessly - Muse
Apocalypse Now - Muse
CDs purchased/received in 2004
50 foot wave - 50 foot wave
air - talkie walkie
federico aubele - gran hotel buenos aires
azam ali - portals of grace
alpha - stargazing
ambulance ltd - ambulance ltd
banco de gaia - you are here
belly - sweet ride
björk - medúlla
blackouts - history in reverse
blake hazard - little airplanes
david bowie - hunky dory
nick cave - abattoir blues/lyre of orpheus
chicks on speed - 99 cents
collide - vortex/xetrov
cowboy junkies - one soul now
cure - join the dots
dido - life for rent
dna - on dna
tanya donelly - whiskey tango ghosts
dresden dolls - dresden dolls
duran duran - the singles 1981-1985
earlimart - treble & tremble
einstürzende neubauten - perpetuum mobile
eisley - laughing city
eisley - marvelous things
electrelane - the power out
electrocute - a tribute to your taste
faithless - no roots
fall - 50,000 fall fans can't be wrong
fc kahuna -
franz ferdinand - franz ferdinand
fluke - puppy
nelly furtado - folklore
gaza strippers - laced candy
gene loves jezebel - promise
hanzel und gretyl - scheissmessiah
pj harvey - uh huh her
juliana hatfield - in exile deo
interpol - antics
jem - finally woken
lamb - between darkness and wonder
sondre lerche - two way monologue
ministry - houses of the molé
mocean worker - enter the mowo
múm - summer make good
panjabi mc - beware
pzychobitch - day after
rajna - hidden temple
rasputina - frustration plantation
saint etienne - so tough
mark sandman - sandbox
s-prcss - taste like daughter
sonic youth - nurse
vienna teng - waking hour
vienna teng - warm strangers
tortoise - it's all around you
tv on the radio - desperate youth, bloodthirsty babes
tweaker - 2 a.m. wakeup call
u2 - unforgettable fire
various - bombay 2: electric vindaloo
various - dancing on your grave
various - frequent flyer: rio de janeiro
various - frequent flyer: bombay
various - metropolis 2003
various - princess & the warrior soundtrack
various - project sampler
john williams - harry potter soundtrack
rachael yamagata - happenstance