Your Best / Worst Album(s) Of 2004?..

Basq

Well, since there's Best Film Awards going on over at the Films Boards. I thought i'd take the initiative and ask everyone what their favourite album of the year has been? It can be 1 album or a couple.

My favourite albums of the year:
- The Killers - 'Hot Fuss'
- Green Day - 'American Idiot'
- Garden State OST
- Snow Patrol 'Final Straw'
- Jimmy Eat World - 'Futures

My honorable mentions:
- Razorlight - 'Out All Night'
- U2 - 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb'
- Keane 'Hopes & Fears'
- Ash - 'Meltdown'

My worst albums of the year:
- The Thrills - 'Let's Bottle Bohemia'
- Fatboy Slim - 'Palookaville'

olly

Good idea

Favourite Albums:
Lostprophets Start Something
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers For Sweet Romance
Velvet Revolver Contraband
Green Day American Idiot
A Few Compilations
The Donnas Gold Medal
Snow Patrol Final Straw
The Distillers Coral Fang

Worst Albums:
Try not to buy them but anything by
Girls Aloud or any of that ****

Kali

This is like the fifth of these threads this year

Interpol - Antics
Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
Bjork - Medulla
The Go Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
Philip Jeck - 7
oh and The Walkmen - Bows And Arrows

Sallybags

The Libertines - The Libertines
Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free

Kingp35

JET - GET BORN

Abolute classic

impr0v

Hot fuss.

Also, if John Frusciante condensed his prodigious output this year into one album it would be top of my list for sure.

Ro: maaan!

The Distillers - Coral Fang
Green Day - American Idiot
Jamie Lawson - Last Night Stars

radiospan

My Favourites:
Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
Prodigy - Always Outnumbered
Dizzee - Showtime
Streets - Grand Don't Come For Free
Interpol - Antics
Polysics - Polysics or Die!!!
Rammstein - Reise Reise

(I must try Hot Fuss)

Worst:
Haven't heard that many shockers, but...
Eminem - Encore

Makaveli

RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke
Interpol - Antics
Madvillain - Madvillainy

Didn't Final Straw come out last year?

case n basket

Snow Patrol - Final Straw and Embrace - Out of Nothing are the only albums i've bought this year, but they're both awesome.

Basq

Makaveli wrote:

Didn't Final Straw come out last year?

Amazon have it's release date listed at February 2nd of this year.

Hip

A couple of the more interesting albums I've heard this year are:

cLOUDDEAD - Ten
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender

DerekD Goldfish

basquille wrote:

Amazon have it's release date listed at February 2nd of this year.

Yes it was reissued with an extra track then but was releaed properly last year

Anyway my favourite albums of the year were
Mission of Burma- OnOffOn
McLusky- The difference between me and you is im not on fire
Nick Cave- The lyre of orpheus/abattoir blues
Morrissey- You are the quarry

mentalimplosion

interpol - antics
franz ferdinand - franz ferdinand

... the only two new releases i bought this year

T.G Catter

The Futureheads:The Futureheads
Interpol:Antics
The Arcade Fire:Funeral
Kanye West:The College Dropout
Elliott Smith:From a Basement on the Hill

Sajan

The choices on this forum are deadly. Must be said. BUT.. No room for Modest Mouse. Good News for People who love Bad News. SO SO SO good. And I know there isn't an album yet but one to get for next year which I cant wait for is Bloc party. These guys blow me away. And Playing in Whelans for €13.00 in January. Great.

Makaveli

Forgot about cLOUDDEAD.
Adding MF Doom - MM Food aswell.

The Frames - Burn The Maps

what an album!

treefingers

modest mouse, interpol, arcade fire, wilco

and some great shouts up there from kali - xiu xiu, walkmen, go team all awesome albums.

dont know about the worst, but one that i was disappointed by was bjorks. just did nothing for me.

oh, and velvet revolvers album was awful!

Miguel_Sanchez

Was the Postal Service's album out this year or last?

People should go check it out anyway. Absolute classic.

Civilian_Target

olly wrote:

Good idea

Favourite Albums:

The Distillers Coral Fang

No! No! No! - it's the worst Distillers album there is - listen to Sing Sing Death House.

Personally - I think these albums need mentioning:

Rammstein - Reise Reise
Cradle of Filth - Nymphetamine
Alison Krauss - Lonely Runs Both Ways

Overall - 2004 wasn't a patch on 2003 - very disappoininting musical output...

Basq

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

Was the Postal Service's album out this year or last?

People should go check it out anyway. Absolute classic.

I'm amazed to actually have found someone else who knows about The Postal Service.

Utter genius of an album! Which reminds me, i'd also add their album 'Give Up' to my Best Of The Year.

'Give Up' was actually released in February of last year though. I only heard it at the start of Summer.

BolBill

Best : The Killers

Worst : Horslips (haven't even heard it but can smell how crap its gonna be)

monument

I’ve never had any of their stuff (bootlegged, or not) before, so I’m going to have to enter best of Pixies Wave of Mutilation as my top album for the year. I don’t care if it’s a best of!


Snow Patrol – Final Straw
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
The Streets – A Grand Don’t Come For Free
The Cure – the Cure
Interpol – Antics
The Libertines – the Libertines
The Libertines – Up the Bracket
Morrissey – You Are Quarry
Killers – Hot Fuss
The Frames - Burn the Maps

Liked most of the above albums this year.

Really like The Stills: Logic Will Break Your Heart

latimer

Spent '04 listening to:

Denver Harbor - Scenic
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
The Kinison - What Are You Listening To?
Brand New - Deja Entendu

Spacedog

Faithless - No Roots
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
The Streets – A Grand Don’t Come For Free
Killers – Hot Fuss

orangerooster

I've bought very little new music this year that I've liked all that much, just bought old albums by people I hadnt heard-the best of which was Jeffrey Lewis's two albums.

The worst album of 2004 is undoubtedly The Frames Burn The Maps-which I'm not happy about cause I used to think they were fairly ok.

Cork

Best - The Killers.

Worst. U2 - a band past their best before date. Sounded good at first listen but went pretty stale after a week.

Trills were disappointing.

The Cure was a re-awakening to that band.

& Hopefully The Frank And Walters & Dave Couse will bring out a masterpieces in 2005.

bopper

olly wrote:

Try not to buy them but anything by
Girls Aloud or any of that ****

:eek: :eek: :mad: :mad: What will the neighbours say was a fantastic album.

Superman

In no particular order!

The best:
Faithless - No Roots
The Streets – A Grand Don’t Come For Free
Killers – Hot Fuss
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Gwen Stefani - Love.Angel.Music.Baby (well half are good tracks)
Chemical Brothers - Push The Button
RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke
alot more I can't think of off hand

There are a alot of crap albums, but these were most disapointing:
Xzibit - Weapons Of Mass Destruction
D12 - World
Eminem - Encore
generally alot of rap

lordgoat

Wilco - a ghost is born
elliott smith - from a basment
modest mouse - good news...
postal service - give up
libertines - libertines
interpol - antics
shins -chutes too narrow(this may have been out earlier, can't remember)
and how i forgot nick cave's double album i don't know -lyre of Orpheus/Abbaoir blues...


i dont see the point in posting albums i disliked

annette curtain

brendan benson-Lapalco
brendan benson-Alternate 2 luv (can you tell im a benson fan!!)
elliott smith - from a basment
the killers hot fuss
franz ferd-same name
guns n roses greatest hits
chilis live at hyde park
various-even better than the real thing
Damien Rice-Cannonball
Eva Cassidy-Songbird


worst
enimen-encore big dissappointment
u2
keane
sisscor sisters

Nightwish

Best Albums
Nightwish-Once
Tristania-Ashes
Elis-Dark Clouds In A Perfect Sky
Within Temptation-The Silent Force
Rammstein-Reise Reise

Worst
Keane
Snow Patrol
The Thrills
U2
Franz Ferdinand

Oeneus

Best:
Velvet Revolver - Contraband
Megadeth - The System Has Failed

Worst:
Gwen Stefani - Whatever it's called

Worst hunk of crap I've ever heard. And I used to respect the girl. Hugely disappointed with the direction she's going!

--Kaiser--

Best album release I've heard from 2004:

Volume 3: The Subliminal Verses - Slipknot

Now I liked Slipknots first album, but the second stank and i had lost all hope for their recovery, but this is one of the best metal albums i've ever heard, and contains the absolute masterpiece Vermilion, as well as a few suprising acoustic numbers. Must see them live!

Superman

Oeneus wrote:

Best:
Velvet Revolver - Contraband
Megadeth - The System Has Failed

Worst:
Gwen Stefani - Whatever it's called

Worst hunk of crap I've ever heard. And I used to respect the girl. Hugely disappointed with the direction she's going!

ah its alright but i guess if your a Megadeth fan i can see where your comming from

Scammo

Best:

Kings of Leon: Aha Shake Heartbreak
Kanye West: The College Dropout
The Killers: Hot Fuss
Snow Patrol: Final Straw
The Thrills: Lets Bottle Bohemia


Worst:

Keane: Hopes and Fears
Franz Ferdinand
Scissor Sisters
Eminem: Encore(a great disappointment)