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..so what were the best albums you came to love?

* doesn't have to be a 2004 release.

 

Artist:

Album Name:

Genre:

Best Track:

Special significance:

 

 

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Artist: Saosin

Album Name: Translating The Name

Genre: Emo/Scream/Hardcore

Best Track: They Perched On Thier Stilts, Pointing And Daring Me To Break Custom

Special significance?: I met Anthony Green. He's the brother of an old employee I know.

This album owns all.

 

 

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b]Artist[/b]: The Apex Theory

Album Name: inthatskyissomethingwatching

Genre: progressive rock/heavy/instrumental

Best Track: Get To Work

Special significance: Just listen to it.

 

 

 

 

 

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Artist: Iron & Wine

Album Name: Our Endless Numbered Days

Genre: acoustic guitar/folk/indie

Best Track: Naked As We Came

Special significance: Great CD to listen to in the late summer/fall.

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(1)

Clutch

"Blast Tyrant"

Rock and or Roll

They just get better with every damn album

The album just has this good beat from beginning to the end

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(2)

Meat Beat Manifesto

"RUOK?" and "In Dub" (In Dub are dub remixs of RUOK tracks)

RUOK

MBM master jack dangers comes up with new sounds and still manages to get people moving (download "spinning round" to see what i mean)

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Legbone

A Different Path

Ohio hardcore old school skate punk http://www.legbone.com

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and for a bonus

devo "duty now for the future" has been in my record player for most of 2004

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Hmm.......just 3, huh?

 

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Artist: Circle Takes the Square

Album Name: As the Roots Undo

Genre: Post-Hardcore? Energetic Noise? I don't know it's all over the place....

Best Track: Interview at the Ruins

Special significance: Really dark album. Perfect blend of slow melodic sounds and brutal in your face noise.

 

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Artist: My Chemical Romance

Album Name: Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

Genre: Pop punk

Best Track: Thank You for the Venom

Special significance: Yeah, they blew up. Yeah, their fan base is almost entirely made up of 14 year old girls. Yeah, they sing about girls and other highschool problems. But I'll be damned if this isn't the most catchy, danceable album of 2004. I seriously listened to it exclusively and non-stop for about a month.

 

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Artist: The Libertines

Album Name: The Libertines

Genre: Grimey Brit-Pop

Best Track: Can't Stand Me Now

Special significance: These guys are a soap opera of drug abuse and broken friendships. But they make damn good music. Come on, jump on the band wagon....

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I love these threads. Three is tough but here we go.

 

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Artist: Ehmes

Album Name: Drip (2002)

Genre: Ambient/Jungle/IDM

Best Track: All 8 of them.

Special significance: One of those electronic CD's that sounds like nothing else you've ever heard before. Listened to it intensely while mapping for Half-Life. I know a CD is good when I listen to it three times in a row. Plus you can legally download it at archive.org which makes it even better.

 

 

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Artist: Frederik Schikowski

Album Name: Einblick Ins Familienalbum (1999?)

Genre: Glitch/Casio

Best Track: Nice Day, Mr. Braveheart; Eine Ahnung

Special significance: Words cannot describe how awesome this CD is. Everything from the harshest glitches to what borders on the line of waiting room music and genius. From irritant records, had to order from the UK.

 

 

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Artist: Kid Dynamite

Album Name: Shorter Faster Louder (2000)

Genre: Disco

Best Track: Got a Minute?; Handy with the Tongue Sword; Death and Taxes

Special significance: Yeah, I got into these guys a little late. But they picked me up at the right time. The first CD is a great one, too.

 

 

 

Special note:

 

Carthage - 23:64 (2003)

QRD - Faardte (2004?)

Converge - You Fail Me (2004)

Tom Waits - Real Gone (2004); Bone Machine (1992)

Boom Bip and Dose One - Peel Sessions (????)

 

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Because it kicks so much melodic ass within 16 minutes and 19 seconds that it deserves that big ass picture in this thread.

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Artist: Old Man Gloom

Album Name: Seminar III

Genre: metal

Best Track: zozobra

Special significance: rock

 

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Artist: Tweaker

Album Name: 2 am Wake Up Call

Genre: rock

Best Track: Ruby

Special significance: and

 

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Artist: Saosin

Album Name: Translating The Name

Genre: Emo/Scream/Hardcore

Best Track: They Perched On Thier Stilts, Pointing And Daring Me To Break Custom

Special significance?: roll.

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Fuck showing album covers.... ;)

 

Artist: The Smiths

Album Name: Louder Than Bombs

Genre: New Wave? 80s? I dont know

Best Track: Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

Special significance: This album has about 80 of me and my boyfriend's songs. It reminds me of driving in his car on the freeway or in the city just relaxing and being content with life.

 

 

Artist: De La Soul

Album Name: Art Official Intelligence

Genre: Hiphop

Best Track: My Writes

Special significance: None really, album is just freshy fresh.

 

Artist: Aesop Rock

Album Name: Float

Genre: Hiphop

Best Track: Big Bang

Special significance: Cause I found the man who bare my children. Nah, but, I hated on Aesop Rock and most of DefJux this year until I finally gave them a chance, now I am sweating the whole DefJux crew. Fab.

 

Theres more, but Im lazy and my booboo is going to be here soon. :)

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Artist: Blanche

Album: If We Can't Trust The Doctors

Genre: Country/Alternative

Best song: Jack On Fire

Special significance: I saw them in august, supporting the White Stripes. Highlight of my summer

 

 

 

 

 

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Artist: Franz Ferdinand

Album: Franz Ferdinand

Genre: skinny guy guitar rock, scots w/ suits

Best song: Auf Achse

Special significance: is "they're very good" enough? My girlfriend really likes Auf Achse. and they are art students with money. :)

 

 

 

 

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Artist: Pink Floyd

Album: Animals

Genre: act like you know

Best song: Dogs

Special significance: my dads life lines up nicely with Dogs

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Artist: Capharnaum

Album Name: Fractured

Genre: Technical DeathMetal

Best Track: Only 8 tracks but each of them are FIRE

Special significance: the drummer was FOURTEEN years old when most of these tracks were recorded... making them the most talented musicians on the planet (lead guitars were done by a 19 year old). Capharnaum is a band made up of band members from several popular metal bands (Trivium, Martyr, Monstrosity)

 

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Artist: Crotchduster

Album Name: Big Fat Box of Shit

Genre: Genre? Label This? NEVER.

Best Track: You have to listen to the cd from 1 until 9 is finished to truly appreciate Crotchduster, but my favorite is track 3 "Cain Sings the Blues"

Special significance: The drummer is a dog, and the purpose of the band is to commit tax fraud while providing the good people of Williamsburgland with Mammal Sauce (track 6, my second favorite). The fact that Crotchduster exists only to make paradies on every style of music ever is also amazing.

 

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Artist: Trivium

Album Name: Ember to Inferno

Genre: Technical Death Metal

Best Track: Fugue (A Revelation), If I Could Collapse the Masses

Special significance: The guitar work is amazing, anything Jason Seucof touches turns to gold ... Trivium hold it down and have songs about things like child\spousal abuse, domestic problems etc etc

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Artist: The Go! Team

Album Name: Thunder, Lightning, Strike.

Genre: indie

Best Track: The Power is on

Special significance: None, I just like it.

 

 

 

Artist: The Faint

Album Name: Wet From Birth

Genre: Synth-pop/New Wave influences

Best Track: Southern Bells from London Sing

Special significance: None, I just like it.

 

 

Artist: Felix Da Housecat

Album Name: devin dazzle & the neon fever

Genre: House

Best Track: Ready 2 Wear

Special significance: None, I just like it.

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Artist: Incubus

Album Name: A Crow Left Of The Murder

Genre: Rock

Best Track(s): Anythng but "Southern Girl".

Special Significance: Ben Kenney of The Roots is their new bassist, Brandon Boyd is an amazing song writer and vocalist, and Mikey's guitar work... delicious. This shit owns. Just buy it.

 

 

 

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Artist: Radiohead

Album Name: Hail To The Thief

Genre: Alternative Rock

Best Track(s): Sail To The Moon

Special Significance: I guess I didn't enjoy this album as much as I thought I was going to. It was still good though no doubt. I personally thought that the lyrics were weak but the music (guitar, drums, that computer-ish shit) was on point. If you liked this album, you should check out eMotive by A Perfect Circle.

 

 

 

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, THE MARS VOLTA. JUST CHECK OUT THE "UNTITLED" SECTION OF 12OZ. LET'S JUST SAY AT ONE POINT, I LIKED THEM MORE THAN INCUBUS... So yeah, they're good.

 

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Artist: Verse

Album Name: Rebuild

Genre: Hardcore

Best Track: Saying Goodbye

Special significance?: Just a breath of fresh air in all of this metallic hardcore that seems to be everywhere

 

 

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b]Artist[/b]: Converge

Album Name: You Fail Me

Genre: Hardcore/Metal

Best Track: Drop Out

Special significance: Just another great album by Converge, in my opinion their best album musically

 

 

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Artist: Champion

Album Name: Promises Kept

Genre: Hardcore

Best Track: Different Directions

Special significance : Some call it generic, it may be that, but it's still good and i love it.

 

HONORABLE MENTION

 

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Jeff Perlin from old NYHC band Breakdowns new band, you know everything the guy does is good.

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Artist: Refused

Album Name: the shape of punk to come

Genre:punkrock

Best Track(s): The deadly rythm ...listen to what can be done with a classic blues bass riff...surprise ending in this song...fucking bad to the bone

Special Significance: "They deliver revolutionary songs with intellectual beats that goes deep and get their influence from many different sides. They are innovaters and creators of the new noise and they refuse to stay at a stop."-burningheart.com...i think this is a great album for young kids and young musiicians to listen to and take inspiration from...they've set an exccellent example as to what can be done with the energy and audacity of punk music...i wish i could ve seen them live...wish i discovered them sooner

 

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Artist: the mars volta

Album Name: de-loused in the comatorium

Genre: progressive/math-rock

Best Track(s):televators

Special Significance: shut out all outside noise and distractions and strap a set of headphones on and explore your soul and enjoy the sound...its refreshing to hear a compassionate album like this...the ultimate tribute to a lost friend (theirs not mine)

 

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Artist: melvins and lustmord

Album Name: pigs of the roman empire

Genre: noise,stonerrock,mathrock

Best Track(s): i dont know any names of any of the tracks...like the other three albums i listed, i listen to them from beginning to end...

Special Significance: alot of cool studio tricks...lustmord brings alot of depth to this album...he really becomes a member of the band...to me the melvins are one of the greatest bands to ever exist...this album is one of their best

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Originally posted by EyeforAnEYE@Dec 26 2004, 05:01 PM

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Artist: Verse

Album Name: Rebuild

Genre: Hardcore

Best Track: Saying Goodbye

Special significance?: Just a breath of fresh air in all of this metallic hardcore that seems to be everywhere

 

 

 

 

 

they are setting off their tour tonight at as220 in providence...their hometown...im proud to have sean as a friend...awesome vocalist and excellent song writer...goodluck to you guys

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Originally posted by DeNocheAtacamos+Dec 26 2004, 06:48 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DeNocheAtacamos - Dec 26 2004, 06:48 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-EyeforAnEYE@Dec 26 2004, 05:01 PM

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Artist: Verse

Album Name: Rebuild

Genre: Hardcore

Best Track: Saying Goodbye

Special significance?: Just a breath of fresh air in all of this metallic hardcore that seems to be everywhere

 

 

 

 

 

they are setting off their tour tonight at as220 in providence...their hometown...im proud to have sean as a friend...awesome vocalist and excellent song writer...goodluck to you guys

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Yeah, I wish i could go to that show, I have yet to see them, definitely one of the best hardcore albums i've heard in the past few years

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No offense, but Incubus sucks. I've heard them described as "Faith no More if you cut their balls off". I think that's a pretty good description. But to each their own.

$5 says you don't like them because their frontman seems gayish/girly. Oh well. It's either that or because of Morning View. Remember that song Drive? Yeah, that. Anyways, A Crow Left Of The Murder is completly different from Morning View. Their old albums are great too. Ehh... Fuck it. I don't feel like defending anymore.

 

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hmm i did like that incubus album too

 

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Artist: Mylo

Album Name: Destroy Rock & Roll

Genre: electro something or another/house-ish

Best Track: Musclecar (Reform Reprise)

Special significance?: he does uptempo/downtempo very well smooth like egg nog

 

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Artist: Mos Def

Album Name: New Danger

Genre: hip hop

Best Track: boogie man song/The easy spell

Special significance?: i liked it, he's pretty blunt on this album but def. less harsh than nas...

also he blended black jack johnson

snippets in very nicely

 

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Artist: Scissor Sisters

Album Name: scissor sisters

Genre: ??? pop/dance/electro/70's

Best Track: It Can't Come Quickly Enough

Special significance?: there just good musicians who bring back

just general good songs/lyrics and they manage to balance humor

and seriousness (is that a word?)

 

honorable mention...i couldn't just choose just 3 its impossible

 

Artist: Tiefschwarz

Album Name: Misch Masch

Genre: electro something or another

Best Track: Mickey Mouse Muthaf

Special significance?: crazy stuff its just sounds i've never heard before, dude was killing it this year

 

Artist: Gwen Stefani

Album Name: lamb

Genre: pop/80's

Best Track: Long way to go

Special significance?: yea i know...but anyway

i thought it was a pretty good album

the 80's tracks were on point i liked the creativity

the producers chosen worked well with her

and she's the only white chick that could

get away with rapping

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bear vs. shark

this album is so good, it's silly. if you're not listening to it, you're not living. their new stuff is even better.

 

the fire theft

it wasn't released in 2004, but i fronted on it till just a few months ago. this album is awesome. its just like sunny day, but....but awesome just like sunny day was.

 

tie:

ISIS

pelican

both are awesome, epic bands that rock hard as hell. i really wish pelicans drummer could stop sucking assholes in his spare time, but whatever, obviously they're still good since they made it into my top 3.

 

 

 

supplimental:

the three bands i listened to most.

 

1.faith no more - they'll probably always win.

2.godspeed you black emporer! - 25 minute songs? sign me up!

3.every time i die/bear vs shark/jay z - i listened to them all a lot. they are good.

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Originally posted by Yellow Feets@Dec 27 2004, 01:14 AM

No offense, but Incubus sucks. I've heard them described as "Faith no More if you cut their balls off". I think that's a pretty good description. But to each their own.

$5 says you don't like them because their frontman seems gayish/girly. Oh well. It's either that or because of Morning View. Remember that song Drive? Yeah, that. Anyways, A Crow Left Of The Murder is completly different from Morning View. Their old albums are great too. Ehh... Fuck it. I don't feel like defending anymore.

 

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Yeah, I'd appreciate if you didn't imply that I'm homophobic or only into bands with big, tough, and bald singers like Stained or Disturbed.

 

I don't like it because I think it's unlistenable and pretentious college pop music. And if I had to choose, I would take the stuff they put out a couple of years ago over there new stuff. Thankfully, I can choose to just turn off my radio. That's all.

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