2004 - jeez, what a shít year for music

projectmayhem

i'm still waiting for the NIN 10th anniversary release of the downward spiral on the SACD format. this year though has been a bit of a boring one...

eggshapedfred

new Neil Young album

the new greatest hits doesnt count, then....

there was a couple of great albums this year:
Mansun - Kleptomania (the fourth album.... finally)
Cathy Davey - Something Ilk

also some reissues (with extra stuff)
Jeff Buckley - Grace (Legacy Edition)
The Clash - London Calling

goo

In my opinion, if you think a year is bad for music, you're just not looking hard enough. You practically proved this by putting the most famous, obvious bands in your list...

2004:

the Blood Brothers - Crimes
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Interpol - Antics
Devendra Banhart - Nino Roja

I wish there were somewhere online, other than people's own websites, that you could find out definitively when the CDs were released. Regardless, there've been lots of brilliant albums released this year. And even if there hadn't, last year was fantastic. Xiu Xiu, The Decemberists, The Bronx...

DerekD Goldfish

Best albums of the year include
Mission of Burma- OnOffOn
Manic's - Lifeblood
Sluts of trust- we are the sluts of trust
Nick Cave- Abattoir blues/the lyre of orpheus
Morrissey- You are the Quary
Interpol- Antics

But it hasnt been a particularly great year for music

kida

Not been a great year

Ones I enjoyed were (in no particular order)

Kasabian - Self Titled
Chikinki - lick your ticket
Dogs Die in hot Cars - please describe yourself
Sophia - People are like seasons
Nick Cave as above
Ed Harcourt - Strangers
Floatation Toy Warning - Guide to the flight deck
Interpol - as above
U2 - really grew on me
Gisli - How about that - Icelandic guy - bit like the eels
Hermano - Dare I say
Le Tigre - this island
Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration - Next Years but I have it now
Elliott Smith - From a Basement
The Charlatans up at the lake
80s matchbook b-line disaster
Golden Virgins - songs of praise
Thirteen Senses - The Invitation
Unbunny - Snow Tires
!!! - Louden up now

Bungalow Bill

THe Killers- Hot fuss is bloody brilliant
Kasabian is very good
U2's new one is a grower
Elliot Smith's new one is good
Jimmy eat world Futures is a cool album
The Black album is excellent
American Idiot is as good as Green Day are gonna get, limited but good in its own way.

I thought it was a pretty damn goood year for music.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

The Black album is excellent

wasn't that released in 91?

PiE

Menomena - I Am The Fun Blame Monster

(Dunno when it was released, but it's far and away the best album I've heard this year).

Bungalow Bill

Mordeth wrote:

wasn't that released in 91?

No, it's Jay-Z's last ever album, released just a while ago, 'tis very good. Check out threat especially.