Top 50 of 2004 (1 Viewer)

[Davy Chase]

took a leaf out of nlgbbbblth's book this year and made up a top 50:

1. Six by Seven - Bochum (Light up my life)

2. Cinerama - Always the Quiet One (Peel Session)

3. Six by Seven - What’s wrong with understanding

4. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)

5. The Fall – Theme from Sparta F.C. #2

6. Cinerama – Why are Nickels bigger than dimes (Peel)

7. Six by Seven – Clouds

8. Interpol – Slow Hands

9. Cinerama – It’s not you, it’s me

10. Morrissey – First of the gang to die

11. Dido – White Flag

12. Cinerama – Mars Sparkles down on me (Peel)

13. The Wedding Present – Bad Thing

14. Modest Mouse – Float On

15. Interpol – Evil

16. Six by Seven – Around

17. Annie – Chewing Gum

18. PJ Harvey – The Letter

19. The Killers – Jenny was a friend of mine

20. Franz Ferdinand – Take me out

21. Cinerama – Erinner Dich

22. Daniel Wylie – Brighton Beach

23. The Wedding Present – Interstate 5

24. The Duke Spirit – Drinking you in

25. The Fall – Blindness (Peel)

26. Ikara Colt – Modern Feeling

27. The Killers – Mr. Brightside

28. Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies)

29. Morrissey – Irish Blood, English Heart

30. Six by Seven – Dreaming of a better life

31. Lambchop – Low Ambition

32. The Duke Spirit – Red Weather

33. The Kingsbury Manx – Pale Komet

34. Interpol –C’Mere

35. Joanna Newsom – Book of Right-On

36. Fiery Furnaces – Straight Street

37. Daniel Wylie – Consoling the girl

38. The Fall – What about us? (Peel)

39. Guided by Voices – Gonna Never Have to Die

40. Wilco – At least that’s what you said

41. Melys –Eyeliner

42. Morrissey – Come back to Camden

43. The Wedding Present –Snapshots

44. The Delgados – Is that all that I came for?

45. The Divine Comedy – Charmed Life

46. All Night Radio – Daylight till dawn

47. Snow Patrol – Spitting Games

48. The Divine Comedy – Absent Friends

49. Elliot Smith – Little One

50. Morrissey – It’s hard to walk tall when you’re small




I'm sure I've left out some good stuff, but what u reckon?

 

[Anthony]

I reckon you didn't get too many albums in 2004.

 

[Davy Chase]

well I suppose singles are singles for a reason sometimes.

I feel justifiably proud at sticking Six by Seven at the summit. Great band. .

 

[Alan Remorse]

theyre no six PARTS seven

 

[Cyprus Avenue]

Duke Spirit are class alright.

Red Weather and Cuts Across The Land are savage tracks!

 

[Cyprus Avenue]

I'd have to definitely include Jape - Floating .....and the 1st 5 tracks off the new Therapy? album

 

[taubstumm]

I feel justifiably proud at sticking Six by Seven at the summit. Great band. .

jaykers. i thought i was the only person in the universe who liked them.

dear thumped,

do yourselves a favour: get a copy of 'the things we make' (beggars banquet 1998), which is the debut album by six by seven and one of the best debut albums of the past decade. six by seven can be a bit indie-geetar-by-numbers in places, but that album has some of the most fantastic indie-drone-punk stuff ever on it. or else just go on soulseek or whatever it is you kids use to get music these days, and get european me, ten places to die, and a beautiful shape.

tom.

 

[Davy Chase]

fair play Tom. The Closer You Get is a great album aswell. They released two this year: O4 was their fourth album proper but they also put out a mail order only/leftovers thingy called Left Luggage at the Peveril Hotel which is actually even better.

 

[jp]

took a leaf out of nlgbbbblth's book this year and made up a top 50:

1. Six by Seven - Bochum (Light up my life)

great song
i o u luv is a great song too
i like that band

 

[IFF]

Snow Patrol?

Aww come on, snow patrol shouldn't feature in the top 50 songs of 2004. top 50 singles? yes but not top 50 songs. i remember when it was released first as a single from the final straw album, it was brilliant, it still is. final straw album 17 months on is still brilliant

that's somethin g that pisses me off when people include snow patrol in their top alubms of 2004. i don't know why

 

[Cormcolash]

Snow Patrol?

Aww come on, snow patrol shouldn't feature in the top 50 songs of 2004. top 50 singles? yes but not top 50 songs. i remember when it was released first as a single from the final straw album, it was brilliant, it still is. final straw album 17 months on is still brilliant

that's somethin g that pisses me off when people include snow patrol in their top alubms of 2004. i don't know why

Na seriously, Snow Patrol are just balleeks.

 

[moc]

Na seriously, Snow Patrol are just balleeks.

their old stuff is brilliant.

 

[Cormcolash]

I just think they're balleeks. And I saw them play six years ago. Everyone used to call them Slow Patrol.

 

[moc]

i've seen em about 15 times. one of my favourite bands. their new stuff is bland, but the old stuff is still fantastic, songs for polarbears is one of my favourite albums ever.

 

[spiritualtramp]

I think Snow Patrol are ok. I have only heard their singles but compared to other bands they are low on my hate list.

 

[Davy Chase]

Snow Patrol?

Aww come on, snow patrol shouldn't feature in the top 50 songs of 2004. top 50 singles? yes but not top 50 songs. i remember when it was released first as a single from the final straw album, it was brilliant, it still is. final straw album 17 months on is still brilliant

that's somethin g that pisses me off when people include snow patrol in their top alubms of 2004. i don't know why

a point well taken, but it was released as a single in 2004 so I stuck it in. personally, I know very little about the band. saw them supporting Belle and Sebastian a long time ago but that's about it. The other singles off Final Straw didn't set my world alight but Spitting Games is the tune Bob Mould left off Copper Blue (ie - very good)

 

[nlgbbbblth]

took a leaf out of nlgbbbblth's book this year and made up a top 50:

mine went like this btw

01 Bearsuit – ‘Chargr’ (Fortuna Pop)
02 The Fall – ‘Blindness’ (Peel Session)
03 Interpol – ‘Evil’ (Matador)
04 Wedding Present – ‘Interstate 5’ (Scopitones)
05 Interpol – ‘Take You On A Cruise’ (Matador)
06 Morrissey – ‘Irish Blood, English Heart’ (Sanctuary)
07 Rollers/Sparkers – ‘Stick Shift (Green Light)’ (Peccadillo)
08 Ballboy – ‘Let’s Fall In Love And Run Away From Here’ (SL)
09 Half Man Half Biscuit – ‘A Legend In My Time’ (Acetate)
10 Franz Ferdinand – ‘Take Me Out’ (Domino)
11 Interpol – ‘C’Mere’ (Matador)
12 Interpol – ‘Public Pervert’ (Matador)
13 The Fall – ‘What About Us?’ (Peel Session)
14 PJ Harvey – ‘In The Desperate Kingdom Of Love’ (Island)
15 Elliott Smith – ‘King’s Crossing’ (Domino)
16 Ballboy – ‘There Are Only Inches Between Us, But There Might As Well Be Mountains And Trees’ (SL)
17 Wedding Present – ‘Bad Things’ (Scopitones)
18 Sonic Youth – ‘Dude Ranch Nurse’ (Geffen)
19 Delgados – ‘Is This All That I Came For?’ (Chemikal Underground)
20 Help She Can’t Swim – ‘Bunty Vs Beano’ (Fantastic Plastic)
21 The Fall – ‘Clasp Hands’ (Peel Session)
22 Rollers/Sparkers – ‘Signal Burning’ (Peccadillo)
23 Half Man Half Biscuit – ‘Asparagus Next Left’ (Peel Session)
24 Walkmen – ‘The Rat’ (Record Collection)
25 Ballboy – ‘We Are Past Our Dancing Days’ (SL)
26 The Fall – ‘Wrong Place, Right Time / I Can Hear The Grass Grow’ (Peel Session)
27 McLusky – ‘She Will Only Bring You Happiness’ (Too Pure)
28 Delgados – ‘Keep On Breathing’ (Chemikal Underground)
29 Guided By Voices – ‘Huffman Prairie Flying Field’ (Matador)
30 Persil – ‘Traces Of Knots’ (Transformed Dreams)
31 Redneck Manifesto – ‘Paint The Dikbloc Pink’ (Trust Me I’m A Thief)
32 Ballboy featuring Laura Cantrell – ‘I Lost You But I Found Country Music’ (Peel Session)
33 Morrissey – ‘The First Of The Gang To Die’ (Sanctuary)
34 Sun Kil Moon – ‘Lily And Parrots’ (Jetset)
35 Ikara Colt – ‘I’m With Stupid’ (Fantastic Plastic)
36 Mission Of Burma – ‘The Enthusiast’ (Matador)
37 Bearsuit – ‘On Your Special Day’ (Fortuna Pop)
38 PJ Harvey – ‘The Letter’ (Island)
39 The Fall – ‘(We Are) Mod Mock Goth’ (Action)
40 Large Mound – ‘We’d Love To Stay, We’d Play For Free’ (Scientific Laboratories)
41 Stereolab – ‘Margerine Rock’ (Duophonic)
42 Cinerama – ‘It’s Not You, It’s Me’ (Go Metric!)
43 Ballboy – ‘The Art Of Kissing’ (SL)
44 Kaito – ‘Should I’ (Blast First/Mute)
45 Michael Knight – ‘Waves To The Shore’ (Villain)
46 Mountain Goats – ‘Palmcorder Yajna’ (4AD)
47 Joy Zipper – ‘Baby You Should Know’ (13 Amp)
48 Fiery Furnaces – ‘My Dog Was Lost But Now He’s Found’ (Rough Trade)
49 Chalets – ‘Nightrocker’ (Setanta)
50 Melys – ‘Eyeliner’ (Sylem)

 

[Alan Latchley]

For what it's worth The Fall's Peel Session take on "Blindness" is my favourite track of the year. Good choices chaps.

 

[Wheels]

Em, Dido?

 

[Zeelander]

I can't think of fifty words I may have used in 2004, let alone compile a list of 50 songs I listened to and liked. Some of you people have too much time on your hands.

Also, for my thoughts on the inclusion of Dido, please refer to... http://www.thumped.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=16633&highlight=dido