Ok, i have $22.25 left in my 2004 music budget and i don't know what to spend it on. i'm looking for ideas. So here's the "contest":

Please post your ordered top 3 of 2004 -- your favorite new albums of this year. Whichever album that's the most "popular" choice of all that i haven't already heard (in its entirety) i will buy, with a minimum of 20 top 3 lists. You can have ties, but try not to. Don't know when i'll end this, but it'll have to be before i go on xmas break, so i guess i'll give this til december 17th, but retain the right to buy early once the minimum of 20 different lists have been achieved.

If you're unclear on any rules, let me know. i'm excited to end the year trying something new. Isn't that what we're all here for?

1. Animal Collective "Sung Tongs"
2. Iron & Wine "Our Endless Numbered Days"
3. Destroyer "Your Blues"

Hope I could offer something new ...

3. libertines - s/t
2. streets - a grand don't come for free
1. fiery furnaces - blueberry boat

My Top 3 (Currently...)

BLONDE REDHEAD - Misery Is A Butterfly
THE WALKMEN - Bows + Arrows
TV ON THE RADIO - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

1) nick cave - abbatoir blues
2) k-os - joyful rebellion
3) sufjan stevens - seven swans

1] the libertines - the libertines

2] franz ferdinand - franz ferdinand

3] brian wilson - smile

1. xiu xiu
2. destroyer
3. fiery furnaces

seriously, that nick cave is pretty fuckin good. spent the sober half of my weekend listening to that a lot.

i still say 2004 music mostly sucked, so take your cash and buy some old-but-new-to-you stuff.

KPH

1.Drive By Truckers-The Dirty South
2.Joseph Arthur-Our Shadows Will Remain
3. Two Cow Garage-The wall against our back

arcade fire - funeral
The Veils - The runaway found
Elbow - Casts of Thousands

AIR, Talkie Walkie
Elliott Smith, A Basement On The Hill
Apostle Of Hustle, Folkloric Feel?

As of today:

1. Arcade Fire---Funeral
2. Walkmen---Bows and Arrows
3. Fiery Furnaces--Blueberry Boat

Okey dokey, not all popular choices, but if word count means anything....

Honeydogs
Fiery Furnaces
Mark Lanegan Band

OK, my first post was much too bitchy for the really stoic mood I'm in today. As such, an attempt at playing along:

01 Wilco - A Ghost is Born
02 The New Year - The End is Near
03 Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse

KPH

1) Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
2) Madvillain - Madvillainy
3) Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days

1. Menomena - I am the Fun Blame Monster!
2. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
3. John Vanderslice - Cellar Door

Pretty sure that's 2003.

I thought so too. But I checked all music and it has it listed as 2004. I was planning on submitting it for your poll, but if I can't get your stamp of approval I must reconsider.


Edit: Assuming it is, here is my list:
1. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
2. John Vanderslice - Cellar Door
3. cLOUDDEAD - Ten

yeah, i had the menomena last year - however it was rereleased with national distrib this year.

KPH

1. Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South

2. Arcade Fire - Funeral

3. Razorlight - s/t

Ah crap, this is my first time participating in the poll and I'm fucking it up.

currently there's a 4-way tie for first after 15 distinct posts. sh|t, i might be able to buy this thing today. keep 'em coming. interesting reading up on a couple of these i hadn't heard of before (or just read about on this/cmj board).

How was the viva voce?

i'm likin' it but need more listens. probably won't make my top 20 and is currently slated for around the middle of 2004 entries, but that can change.

1 black keys - rubber factory
2 junior boys - last exit
3 iron & wine - our endless numbered days