What's with the tie? Cheater!

I had to choose Wolf Eyes in the Shmoo Poll (because LSF wouldn't count), but Les Savy Fav was my *actual* # 20.

1. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
2. Blonde Redhead - Misery Is A Butterfly
3. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
4. Midnight Movies - Midnight Movies
5. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
6. Elf Power - Walking w/ the beggar boys
7. Deerhoof - Milk Man
8. Harvey, PJ - Uh Huh Her
9. Air - Talkie Walkie
10. Lali Puna - Faking The Books
11. Vanderslice, John - Cellar Door
12. Smith, Elliott - From A Basement On The Hill
13. Clinic - Winchester Cathedral
14. Liars - They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
15. Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
16. To Rococo Rot - Hotel Morgen
17. Bjork - Medulla
18. Múm - Summer Make Good
19. Doiron, Julie - Goodnight Nobody
20. Magnetic Fields, The - i


note - i only bought 21 2004 releases.
choices were limited.

which 1 didn't make the cut?

1. Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
2. Arcade Fire, The - Funeral
3. Lynn, Loretta - Van Lear Rose
4. Wilson, Brian - Smile
5. Bare Jr., Bobby - From the End of Your Leash
6. Razorlight - Up All Night
7. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
8. Newman, A.C. - The Slow Wonder
9. Reilly, Ike - Sparkle In The Finish
10. Phish - Undermind
11. Libertines, The - The Libertines
12. Interpol - Antics
13. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
14. Walkmen, The - Bows + Arrows
15. Case, Neko - The Tigers Have Spoken
16. Ambulance Ltd. - LP
17. Black Keys, The - Rubber Factory
18. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
19. Leo, Ted & The Pharmacists - Shake The Sheets
20. West, Kayne - The College Dropout

this is just to see if we are paying attention right???

this one comes in just slightly above 'round room' as the worst possible album phish could ever make.

new list at end.

"Connection", Crowd Control", & "Nothing" are fucking awesome, concise tracks. "A Song I Heard The Ocean Sing" is tedious but does a kick ass job of approximating the loopy jams of latter era Phish. Its all around a pretty a-ok dude.

Round Room sucks with the exception of "Mexican Cousin" which is ok by me anytime.

dude.

Young Prayer at #1? Charalambides? Surprised to see someone here list those. (I like both of those a lot, but probably wouldn't put them in my top 20.)

Ghost is in my top 10, I think, as is Mike Ladd. Nice list.




Didn't shmoo say he'd count anything? Inches was conceived as an album in advance, and it contains a decent amount of new material (at least 4 songs, right?). I'm pretty sure I'm going to count it. Wolf Eyes probably isn't going to crack my top 20 even though I still dig it a lot.

I am quite surprised that Interpol is only on 5 lists. I don't know if its going to be on mine, but still I am surprised. Also pleasantly surprised to see how much love Drive By Truckers is getting.

Interpol will be top 20 over here.

1.Anethema-A Natural Disaster
2.Drive By Truckers-The Dirty South
3.Woven Hand-Consider The Birds
4.Brian Wilson-Smile
5.Converge-You Fail Me
6.Mountain Goats-We Shall All Be Healed
7.Cee Lo-Cee Lo Green Is The Soul MAchine
8.Nick Cave and The Bad Seed Seeds-Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
9.Iced Earth-The Glorious Burden
10.Kanye West-The College Drop Out
11.Mission Of Burma-OnOffOn
12.Mastodon-Leviathan
13.Wilco-A Ghost Is Born
14.Elliot Smith-From A Basement On A Hill
15.Loretta Lynn-Van Lear Rose
16.Interpol-Antics
17.Madvillian-Madvilliany
18.Jim White-Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See
19.Leatherface-Dog Disco
20.Marah-20,00 Streets Under the Sky

damn, anathema. dope.

Yeah.."A Natural Disaster" is un-fucking believable. I wish more people had heard this. RIYL- Radiohead, Opeth, Trail Of Dead, Massive Attack, Pink Floyd, Katatonia. In A Blender. On Puree.

Yes, I'll count whatever you vote for, Kind Of Blue, Pet Sounds, Loveless, whatever.

This brings up a good point. How does the drop-down list bias the results? Hmmm...

cool. this is most likely in my top 5..it's gotten so little talk this year..

Dude check out my earlier post in today's NP thread.

Here's my shmoo entry.
1. Llhasa - The Living Road
2. Wagner PA & Brazuca Matraca - el transuente imparable
3. Blake, Norman & Nancy - Morning Glory Ramblers
4. Bebo & Cigala - Lagrimas Negras
5. Espers - Espers
6. Dunger, Nicolai - Here's My Song...
7. White, Jim - Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See
8. Mombojo - Nadadenovo
9. Trio Mocoto - Beleza Beleza Beleza
10. Johnson, Will - Vultures Await
11. New Year, The - The End Is Near
12. Porto, Fernanda - Giramundo
13. Byrne, David - Grown Backwards
14. Hoodoo Gurus - Mach Schau
15. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
16. Stevens, Sufjan - Seven Swans
17. Traore, Rokia - Bowmboi
18. Lerche, Sondre - Two Way Monologue
19. Smith, Darden - Circo
20. Gipsy Kings - Roots

Annoyed with myself for leaving Destroyer off my list. Something else will have to drop to 21, I think. Probably Wilco. There's so many others that are good this year, too, but dozens of ties would be a bad thing to do to shmoo.

revised list to reflect Destroyer oversight correction and Drive-by Truckers moving up in awesomosity:

1. Newsom, Joanna - The Milk-Eyed Mender
2. Fiery Furnaces, The - Blueberry Boat
3. Blue Nile, The - High
4. Hitchcock, Robyn - Spooked
5. Cave, Nick & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
6. Destroyer - Your Blues
7. Liars - They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
8. Frog Eyes - The Folded Palm
9. Waits, Tom - Real Gone
10.Wilson, Brian - Smile
11.Drive-By Trickers - The Dirty South
12.Banhart, Devendra - Rejoicing In The Hands
13.Bjork - Medulla
14.Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
15.Moviola - East Of Eager
16.Mirah - C'Mon Miracle
17.Concrete Blonde - Mojave
18.Sigmatropic - Sixteen Haiku & Other Stories
19.Tangle Eye - Alan Lomax's Southern Journey Remixed
20. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born

there are many many many albums that I have not heard this year...Ive mostly been using soulseek as my source for music this year, so from what I have heard.. this is the list Ive come up with

1. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
3. Mclsuky - Difference Between you and me is that Im not on fire
4. Madvillian - Madvilliany
5. Murs - The 9th Edition
6. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
7. Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
8. RJD2 - Since we Last Spoke
9. Razorlight - Up all Night
10. Ghostface - Pretty Toney Album
11. Kanye West - College Dropout
12. Junior Boys - Last Exit
13. The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
14. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
15. Jean Grae - This Week
16. Air - Talkie Walkie
17. Tom Waits - Real Gone
18. Cee-Lo Cee-Lo Green is the Soul Machine
19. Medeski, Martin & Wood - End of the World Party(just in case)
20. The Bees - Free the Bees

How the hell did I miss Will Johnson?

You guys wish you took as much time and speculation as I do with this.

you'd all laugh at my top 20

I don't know whether to kill you...



or kiss you.