My official top 2165 recods of the year is posted. There's not really 2,165 on the list, just 65, with the top 21 being better than the other 44. Plus the top 21 are all that stay on the list in the archive. So lets see some discussion? Oh - and to City Pages, The Onion, Pitchfork, etc, sorry, but Ratatat, Franz Ferdinand, The Arcade Fire, Lorretta Lynn, and The Streets did not make good albums. Thank you for listening.
Comments (8)
my top ten:
Posted by bethany | December 17, 2004 11:43 AM
Posted on December 17, 2004 11:43
I'd comment more thoroughly, but i've been listening to so much classic rock this year and have been working so much that i haven't been able to listen to much new stuff. Thank you Ryan for not putting Franz Ferdinand in the mix. You don't know how much it means to me. I think the first 10 times I heard that song, I thought it was the Strokes. Get a new sound people!
Yes, Milk-Eyed Mender is a great album. I'm surprised the Advantage was that highly ranked. Where's the new Nancy Sinatra album? She does a duet with John Spencer for crying out loud! I'm not gonna complain though. I didn't have the time to listen to this stuff.
Posted by ben | December 17, 2004 12:29 PM
Posted on December 17, 2004 12:29
Yeah, "The Onion's" album lists always suck.
Like anyone cares what a bunch of fake newspaper "journalists" think about music anyway...
Posted by Chris Dugan | December 17, 2004 1:14 PM
Posted on December 17, 2004 13:14
wait, how could you possibly not like the Arcade Fire album??
Posted by Eamon | December 17, 2004 11:22 PM
Posted on December 17, 2004 23:22
maybe i should edit the "good" to say "great". it's not horrible (like the unicorns are) but it's not memorable to me. and ted leo's allright. he was close to the list, but there's a cutoff line.
--------Posted by ryan | December 28, 2004 11:04 AM
Posted on December 28, 2004 11:04
I'm just gonna point you in the direction of a little album by Lazarus called "Like Trees We Grow Up to Be Satellites" which might alter your list some. Other than that and the fact that you put that Walkmen album so high up (crap except for 3 songs) theres about half the list I haven't heard, I'll say its pretty good. The mixes look nice too (still whittling mine down).
Posted by Brent W | December 17, 2005 1:21 AM
Posted on December 17, 2005 01:21
I know everybody has their own tastes and certainly you don't have to think like pitchfork etc...but my tastes somehow don't quite understand the arcade fire's absence or your claim that the album they made was not good. Not a single person that I have played that album for does not enjoy it, haters and the like. I witnessed them last summer in DC. They completely upstaged the Unicorns. Shit man, they were literally banging on the pipes hanging down above the stage. Iv'e never seen a band that entralled/beyond happy to be playing their music for a crowd.
get past the reactionary counter-hype man. you know you like the stuff. its not a crime.
oh, and not to be too wholly in support of the so-called standbys but...do you have something against ted leo?
-justin
Posted by ivnothing | December 28, 2005 1:50 AM
Posted on December 28, 2005 01:50
hey man sorry to seem a bit critical. great list. great.
Posted by ivnothing | December 28, 2005 1:53 AM
Posted on December 28, 2005 01:53