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KALX DJ Faves of 2004

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Read on as KALX DJs list their favorites of the past year, 2004

1. Advantage - Advantage (5RC)
2. Battles - B ep (Dim Mak)
3. Arcade Fire - Funeral (Merge)
4. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes (Touch and Go)
5. Magnetic Fields - i (Merge)
6. Concretes - Concretes (Astralwerks)
7. Human Television - Human Television (Gigantic)
8. Q and Not U - Power (Dischord)
9. VHS or Beta - Night on Fire (Astralwerks)
10. Mclusky - The Difference Between Me and You is That I'm Not on Fire (Too Pure)
11. Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
12. Tilly and the Wall - Wild Like Children (Team Love)
13. William Shatner - Has Been (Shout Factory)
14. Balanceman - Welcome to Balanceland (Nutmeat)
15. Bananas - The First Ten Years of... (Plan it X)
16. Baby Jaymes - Ghetto Retro (Underground Soul)
17. Look Back and Laugh - Look Back and Laugh (Lengua Armada)
18. Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street (Astralwerks)
19. Nomeansno - the People's Choice (AntAcidAudio)
20. Various Artists - HOMEMADE HITS VOL. 1 (Kittridge)

Albums:

• Hood - The Lost You
• Human Television - All Songs Written By
• My Robot Friend - Hot Action!
• Naili - Le Peuple Orphelin
• On!Air!Library! - On!Air!Library
• The Owls - Our Hopes And Dreams
• Papercuts - Mockingbird
• Pidgeon - From Gutter With Love
• Sons And Daughters - Love The Cup
• Tinariwen - Amassakoul

Songs

• Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
• Concretes - Can't Hurry Love
• Copeland - Coming Around Again
• Dears - Summer of Protest
• Deerhoof - Milking
• Killers - Under the Gun
• M83 - Run Into Flowers
• +/- - Walk In A Straight Line
• Private Lessons - False Alarms
• Robots In Disguise - Boys
• Christina Rosenvinge - Dream Room

Albums:

1. Jolie Holland - Escondida (Anti)
2. Human Television - All Songs Written By (Gigantic Music)
3. Aberfeldy - Young Forever (Rough Trade)
4. Psapp - Tiger, My Friend (Leaf)
5. Rosebuds - Make Out (Merge)
6. Concretes - Concretes (Astralwerks)
7. Streets - A Grand Doesn't Come for Free (Vice/Atlantic)
8. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike! (Memphis Industries)
9. Kanye West - College Dropout (Roc-a-Fella)
10. Various Artists - ROUGH TRADE SHOPS INDIEPOP V.1 (Rough Trade)

Singles:

1. Nu-Mark (w/ J-Live) - "Brand Nu Live" (Sequence)
2. Mighty Casey - "Liquorland II" (Busted Lip)
3. Prozack Turner - "Feelin' My Steelo" (Out of Work)
4. Jay Z - "99 Problems" (Roc-a-Fella)
5. MIA - "Galang" (XL)
6. Ty - "Oh You Want More?" (Big Dada)
7. Masta Killa - "Old Man" (Nature Sounds)
8. William Shatner - "That's Me Trying" (Shout Factory)
9. AC Newman - "Miracle Drug" (Matador)
10. My Robot Friend - "Why Won't You Call Me Back" (Proptronix)

• Black Bird Stitches - self-titled
• Book of Knots - self-titled
• Charming Hostess - Sarajevo Blues
• Current 93 - Time of the Last Persecution 7"
• Devotchka - How It Ends
• Ditty Bops - self-titled
• Dresden Dolls - live at the Cafe du Nord August
• Faun Fables - Family Album
• Scott Johnson - John Somebody
• Lief Inge - 9 Beet Stretch, live at 964 Natoma April
• Eleni Karaindrou - Trilogy 1: The Weeping Meadow soundtrack
• Kaki King - Legs to Make Us Longer
• Phil Kline - Unsilent Night performance December
• Madigan - I bleed a decade of songs
• Nurse With Wound - Shipwreck Radio vol. 1
• Max Richter - Blue Notebooks
• Sleepytime Gorilla Musem - of Natural History
• Tiger Lillies - Death and the Bible
• Toychestra and Fred Frith - What Leave Behind
• Tom Waits - Real Gone

• Arcade Fire - Funeral (Merge)
• Bjork - Medulla (Elektra)
• Black Bird Stitches - Black Bird Stitches (SELF-RELEASED)
• Bonny Prince Billy - Greatest Palace Music (Drag City)
• Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder (Merge)
• Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken (Anti)
• Danger Mouse - The Grey Album (unreleased)
• The Faces - Five Guys Walk Into A Bar... (Warner./Rhino)
• The Fall - "The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)" (Narnack)
• PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her (Island)
• Le Tigre - This Island (Strummer/Universal)
• Lhasa - The Living Road (Audiogram)
• Carolyn Mark - The Pros And Cons Of Collaboration (Mint)
• The Sadies - Favourite Colours (Yep Roc)
• William Shatner - Has Been (Shout Factory)
• Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History (Web Of Mimicry)
• Patti Smith - Trampin (Columbia)
• Sally Timms - In The World Of Him (1/4 Stick)
• Tinariwen - Amassakoul (World Village)
• Brian Wilson - Smile (Nonesuch)

Top five reissues:

• The Clash - London Calling: 25th Anniversary Edition (Epic/Legacy)
• The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God (Warner)
• The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy &The Lash (Warner)
• The Pogues - Red Roses For Me (Warner)
• The Pogues - the other four records (Warner)

1. The Arcade Fire - Funeral (Merge)
2. Blonde Redhead - Misery Is a Butterfly (4AD)
3. Autolux - Future Perfect (Red Ink)
4. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
5. Mclusky - The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire (Too Pure)
6. The Soft Pink Truth - Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth? (Tigerbeat 6)
7. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes (Touch &Go)
8. Electrelane - Power Out (Too Pure)
9. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free (Vice/Atlantic)
10. Air - Talkie Walkie (Astralwerks)
11. Thee More Shallows - More Deep Cuts (Monotreme)
12. Q and Not U - Power (Dischord)
13. Interpol - Antics (Matador)
14. Pinback - Summer In Abaddon (Touch &Go)
15. Dios - Dios (Startime International)
16. Hot Snakes - Audit In Progress (Swami)
17. Citizens Here and Abroad - Ghosts of Tables and Chairs (Omnibus)
18. John Vanderslice - Cellar Door (Barsuk)
19. Subtle - A New White. (Lex)
20. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill (Anti)

Top Ten Singles

1. Franz Ferdinand - "Take Me Out" (Domino)
2. LCD Soundsystem - "Yeah" (DFA)
3. Nina Sky - "Move Ya Body" (Universal)
4. Modest Mouse - "Float On" (Epic)
5. Bloc Party - "Banquet" (Dim Mak)
6. M.I.A. - "Galang" (XL)
7. Belle and Sebastian - "Your Cover's Blown" (Rough Trade)
8. Gwen Stefani - "What You Waiting For?" (Interscope)
9. Home Video - "That You Might" (Warp)
10. Pixeltan - "Get Up/Say What" (DFA)

Albums:

• The Legends - Up Against The Legends (Labrador/Little Teddy)
• Matthew Dear - Backstroke/Leave Luck to Heaven (Spectral Sound)
• From Bubblegum to Sky - Nothing Sadder Than Lonely Queen (Eenie Meenie)
• The Frenchmen - Sorry I Ruined Your Party (Clairecords)
• Dani Siciliano - Likes... (!K7)
• MF Doom - MM Food (Rhymesayers)
• M.I.A. &Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism v.1 (Hollertronix)
• 3 Chairs - 3 Chairs (3 Chairs)
• Monne Automne - Introducing Light and Sound (Lo-Fi Stereo)
• Wiley - Treddin' on Thin Ice (XL)

Singles:

• M.I.A. - Galang/Sunshowers/Hombre (Showbiz/XL/Self-Released)
• Prince Po - Hold Dat (Richard X mixes) (Lex)
• M83 - Run into Flowers (Gooom)
• Luomo vs. Domenico Ferrari - The Kick (Straight Ahead)
• Hood - The Lost You (Domino)
• The Rotating Assembly series (Sound Signature)
• Audion - Kisses/The Pong (Spectral Sound)
• The Radio Dept. - Pulling Our Weight (XL)
• Farben - Presents The Presets: The Sampling Matter EP (Klang Elektronik)
• The Streets - Blinded By The Lights (Locked On/679)

On the reissue tip:

• Various Artists - ROUGH TRADE SHOPS INDIEPOP VOL. 1 (Rough Trade)
• Disco Inferno - Technicolour (One Little Indian)
• Doctor Rockit - The Unnecessary History of (Accidental)
• Slowdive - Catch the Breeze (Sanctuary Midline)
• The Prefects - Amateur Wankers (Acute)
• This Poison! - Magazine (Egg)
• Various Artists - SOUND OF LEAMINGTON SPA VOL. 4 (Firestation Tower/Clarendon/Bilberry)
• Black Devil Disco Club (Rephlex)
• The Submarines - Telegraph Signals (Egg)
• The Canterbury Music Festival - Rain &Shine (Rev-Ola)

• William S. Fischer - Circles (Water)
• Serge Gainsbourg - Aux Armes et Caetera (Mercury)=20
• Papercuts - Mockingbird (Antenna Farm)
• The Harry Partch Collection Volumes 1&2 (New World Recordings)
• No. 9 - Mushi-No-Ne (Locust)
• Claudia Quintet - I, Claudia (Cuneiform)
• Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande - Raga Bageshri and Jog (India Archive)
• Christopher Adler - Epilogue for a Dark Day (Tzadik)
• Mary Lou Williams - Presents Black Christ of the Andes (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
• David Byrne - Grown Backwards (Nonesuch)

• John Bischoff - Aperture (23five)
• The Bran (...) Pos - Chirpuis (Chitah! Chitah! Soundcrack)
• Broken Hearted Dragonflies - Insect Electronica from Southeast Asia (Sublime Frequencies)
• Kites/Prurient - The Hidden Family/+White+ (split LP) (Load)
• Francisco Lopez - Untitled #91 (edition...)
• Various Artists - lowercase (Bremstahlung)
• Daniel Menche and Kiyoshi Mizutani - Garden (Auscultare Research)
• Metalux - Waiting for Armadillo (Load)
• 10+10+2 - 12 American Text Sound Pieces (Other Minds)
• R.H.Y. Yau - Coagulation (Auscultare Research)

1. Asunder - A Clarion Call (Life is Abuse)
2. Old Man Gloom - Christmas (Tortuga)
3. Hellacopters - By The Grace of God (Liquor and Poker)
4. Melvins and Lustmord - Pigs of the Roman Empire (Ipecac)
5. Jello Biafra and the Melvins - Never Breathe What You Can't See (Alternative Tentacles)
6. Goat Horn - Storming the Gates (October 32)
7. Nasum - Shift (Relapse)
8. The Bronze - The Bronze - (self released)
9. Kylesa - No Ending/110 Degree Heat Index (Prank)
10. The Great Deceiver - Terra Incognito (Peaceville)
11. Unearth - The Oncoming Storm (Metal Blade)
12. Young Heart Attack - Mouthful of Love (XL)
13. Motorhead - Inferno (Sanctuary)
14. Therion - Lemuria (Nuclear Blast)
15. Reapers - Metalness (Deadsun)
16. Death Angel - The Art of Dying (Nuclear Blast)
17. Three Inches of Blood - Advance and Vanquish (Roadrunner)
18. Various Artists - High Volume: The Stoner Rock Collection (High Times)
19. Insomnium - Since the Day It All Went Down (Candlelight)
20. Ludicra - Another Great Love Song (Alternative Tentacles)

• The Gris Gris - The Gris Gris (Birdman)
• The Concretes - Say Something New (Astralwerks)
• Eagles of Death Metal - Peace Love Death Metal (Ant Acid Audio)
• All Night Radio - Spirit Stereo Radio Frequency (Sub Pop)
• Dosh - Pure Trash (Anticon)
• Electrelane - The Power Out (Beggar's Banquet)
• Savath and Savalas - Apropa't (Warp)
• Roots - The Tipping Point (Geffen)
• Mr. Airplane Man - C'mon DJ (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
• Yuka Honda - Eucademix (Tzadik)

• The Blood Arm - Bomb Romantics (Self-released)
• Arcade Fire - Funeral (Merge)
• TV on the Radio - TV on the Radio (Touch &Go)
• Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak (RCA)
• Roy Budd - Vigilante! (Discotheque)
• Belle and Sebastian - Books EP (Rough Trade)
• LCD Soundsystem - "Yeah (Crass Version)" (DFA)
• Q and not U - "Power" (Dischord)
• Interpol - Antics (Matador)
• Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Re-Issue (Matador)

• Air - Talkie Walkie (Astralwerks)
• Animal Collective - Sung Tongs (Fatcat)
• Baby Jaymes - Ghetto Retro (Self Released)
• Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in Hands/Nino Rojo (Young God)
• Castanets - Cathedral (Asthmatic Kitty)
• Concretes - Concretes (Astralwerks)
• The Gris Gris - The Gris Gris (Birdman)
• Iron &Wine - Endless Numbered Days (Subpop)
• Madvillain - Madvillainy (Stones Throw)
• Juana Molina - Tres Cosas (Domino)
• Mystic Chords of Memory - Mystic Chords of Memory (Rough Trade)
• Joanna Newsom - The Mild-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
• PSAPP - Tiger, My Friend (Leaf)
• Quantic - Mishaps Happening (Ubiquity)
• Vetiver - Vetiver (DiCristina)
• Vietnam - The Concrete’s Always Grayer on the Other Side of the Street (Atlantic)

• Danger Mouse - The Grey Album (via the internet)
• The Darkness - "I Believe In A Thing Called Love" (Atlantic)
• Green Day - American Idiot (Reprise)
• Elvis Presley - Elvis At Sun (BMG)
• Ashlee Simpson - "Pieces Of Me" (DGC)

Another year and hip-hop is still letting me down...

Best Albums of 2004:

1. Bobby Conn &the Glass Gypsies - Homeland (Thrill Jockey)
2. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs (Fatcat)
3. Red Krayola - Singles 1968-2002 (Drag City)
4. Bees - Free the Bees (EMI)
5. Feist - Let It Die (Arts &Crafts)
6. Brian Wilson - Smile (Nonesuch)
7. Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands/Nino Rojo (Young God)
8. Bjork - Medulla (Elektra)
9. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans (Sounds Familyre)
10. Battles - EP C (Monitor)

Best Songs of 2004:

1. Bobby Conn - "Relax" (Thrill Jockey)
2. Joanna Newsom - "The Book of Right On" (Drag City)
3. Phoenix - "Everything Is Everything" (Astralwerks)
4. Har Mar Superstar - "Save The Strip" (Record Collector)
5. William Shatner - "That's Me Trying" (Shout! Factory)

• Spits - 19 Million AC (Dirtnap)
• Post-Haste - Post-Haste (Ionik)
• Uncle Fucker - Usurpers of the Tradition (www.unclefucker.net)
• Wrangler Brutes - Zulu (Kill Rock Stars)
• Big D and the Kids Table - How It Goes (Springman)
• Lars Fredricksen and the Bastards - Viking (Hellcat)
• Dwarves – Must Die (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
• DOA - Live Free Or Die (Sudden Death)
• Green Day - American Idiot
• Jello Biafra and the Melvins - Never Breathe What You Can’t See (Alternative Tentacles)
• Beastie Boys - To The Five Boroughs
• Various Artists – WAR (IF IT FEELS GOOD DO IT) (Hip Hop Slam)
• eX-Girl - Endangered Species (Alternative Tentacles)
• William Shatner - Has-Been
• Slapshot - Digital Hardcore (Bridge Nine)

• Look Back And Laugh - Look Back and Laugh (Lengua Armada)
• Leftover Crack - Fuck World Trade (Alternative Tentacles)
• The Endless - Eye of the Storm (Screeching Bat)
• Liars - There's Always Room on the Broom (Mute)
• Dream Evil - The Book of Heavy Metal (Century Media)
• Diamanda Galás - Defixiones: Will and Testament, Orders from the Dead (Mute)
• Artimus Pyle - Fucked From Birth (Prank)
• Jello Biafra &The Melvins - Never Breathe What You Can't See (Alternative Tentacles)
• Cattle Decapitation - Humanure (Metal Blade)
• Patti Smith - Trampin' (Columbia)

1. Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost (Revenant)
2. Dave Brubeck - Private Brubeck Remembers (Telarc)
3. Jolie Holland - Escondida (Anti)
4. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
5. Eleni Mandell - Afternoon (Zedtone)
6. Juana Molina - Tres Cosas (Domino)
7. Tinariwen - Amassakoul (World Villiage)
8. Tin Hat Trio - Book of Silk (Artemis)
9. Tom Waits - Real Gone (Anti)
10. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)

Yay Area Rap 10:

1. Mac Dre - "Thizzle Dance"/"Get Stupid" (Thizz Ent.)
2. Too $hort - "Burn Rubber" (Jive)
3. E-40 - "Gas, Brake, Dip" (Jive)
4. The Team - "Everybody in the Club" (Moe Doe)
5. Gift of Gab - "The Ride of Your Life" (Quannum Projects)
6. Greans - "Funky"/"Mic Navigators" (Cosmic Flux)
7. Crown City Rockers - "B-Boy" (Basement)
8. DJ Process - "Anything Goes" (CDR)
9. The Federation - "Go Dumb" (Virgin)
10. DJ Shadow - In Tune and On Time: Live (Geffen)

Reissues/Mixes:

1. Arthur Verocai - Arther Verocai (Luv 'n' Haight)
2. Various Artists - Ghana Soundz Vol. 2 (Soundway)
3. Family Four - "Rap Attack" (Tyson)
4. Montgomery Express - Does "Party Fever" and Other Songs of the Montgomery Movement (Ikef)
5. Diplo &Tripledouble - AEIOU2 (CDR)
6. DJ Eleven &Cosmo Baker - I'm Rick James, Bitch! (CDR)
7. Various Artists - Midwest Funk (Jazzman)
8. Super Three - "Philosophy Rappin' Spree" (Delmar International)
9. Various Artists - Songs the Cramps Taught Us, Volume One (Trash Rock)
10. DJ Nuts - Cultura Gopia (Mochilla)

Miscellaneous Songs:

1. M.O.P. (sort of) feat. Sade - "Slade" (Traffic)
2. Cee-Lo - "Let's Stay Together" (Arista)
3. The Blackouts - "No Tomorrow" (Lucid)
4. Kanye West - "We Don't Care" (Roc-A-Fella)
5. Snoop Dogg - "Drop It Like It's Hot" (Geffen)
6. The Roots - "Star" (Geffen)
7. Death From Above 1979 - "You're a Woman, I'm a Machine" (Vice)
8. M.F. Doom - "Hoe Cakes" (Rhymesayers)
9. Brother Ali - "Heads Down (You Haven't Done That Yet)" (Rhymesayers)
10. M.I.A. - "Galang" (XL)

1. Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks (Fat Cat)
2. Lhasa - The Living Road (Nettwerk)
3. Psapp - Tiger My Friend (Leaf)
4. Bill Horist - Lyric/Suite (Accretions)
5. Thavius Beck - Decomposition (Mush)
6. Las Ondas Martels - Y Despues de Todo (Label Bleu)
7. Icy Demons - Fight Back (Cloud Recordings)
8. Black Bird Stitches - Black Bird Stitches (SELF-RELEASED)
9. Juana Molina - Tres Cosas (Domino)
10. Brian Wilson - Smile (Nonesuch)
11. Various Artists - SÍ, SOY LLANERO (Smithsonian Folkways)
12. Tin Hat Trio - Book of Silk (Artemis)
13. Sixtoo - Chewing on Glass and Other Miracle Cures (Ninja Tune)
14. Gianmaria Testa - Altre Latitudini (Le Chant du Monde)
15. PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her (Island)
16. Camper Van Beethoven - New Roman Times (Vanguard)
17. Three Leg Torso - Astor in Paris (Meester)
18. Charming Hostess - Sarajevo Blues (Tzadik)
19. Farida and the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble - The Voice of Mesopotamia (Long Distance)
20. Rufus Wainwright - Want Two (Geffen)

• TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
• Dosh - Pure Trash
• Deerhoof - Milk Man
• B. Fleischmann - Welcome Tourist
• Psapp - Tiger My Friend
• Lars Horntveth - Pooka
• Helio Sequence - Love and Distance
• Phoenix - Alphabetical
• Serge Gainsbourg - Aux Armes Et Caetera (reissue)
• Wilco - A Ghost is Born

1. Holland, Jolie - "Goodbye California"
2. Cale, J.J. - "The Problem"
3. Mark, Carolyn - "Two Days Smug And Sober"
4. Shatner, William - "You'll Have The Time"
5. Kweller, Ben - "On My Way"
6. Real Tues Weld - "Terminally Ambivalent Over You"
7. Jackass - "Plastic Jesus"
8. Lord, Mary Lou - "Farming It Out"
9. Gilkyson, Eliza - "Dark Side Of Town"
10. Jones, Lea - "Turkeys In Texas" (Various Artists – NO ‘W’ NOW)
11. Calexico - "Corona"
12. Mountain Goats - "Letter From Belgium"
13. Chumbawamba - "Wizard Of Menlo Park"
14. Charlemagne - "Dawn Upon"
15. Charms - "Believe"
16. Watkins, Geraint - "Heaven"
17. Concretes - "Warm Nights"
18. Hinojosa, Tish - "Bandera Del Sol"
19. Fountains of Wayne - "Hey Julie"
20. Vollant, Florent - "Tshishe Manitou" (Various Artists – ROUGH GUIDE TO CANADA)
21. Ethier, Andre - "Let Me Put My Suitcase Down"
22. Dylan, Bob - "Summer Days"
23. Mandell, Eleni - "County Line"
24. Case, Neko - "The Tigers Have Spoken"
25. Tricoli, Tangela - "Supermarket Blues"

Albums

• Muse - Absolution
• Blonde Redhead - Misery Is A Butterfly
• Interpol - Antics
• !!! - Louden Up Now
• Beastie Boys - To The 5 Boroughs
• The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
• Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
• Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
• Aya Matsuura - X3
• Depeche Mode - Remixes 81-04
• Crystal Kay - CK5

Singles:

• Morning Musume - Joshikashimashimonogatari
• Hello! Project All Stars - All For One One For All
• Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
• Death Of The Party - Marissa 1 To 8

Fave Albums

• Deerhoof - Milk Man (Kill Rock Stars)
• Pidgeon - From Gutter w/ Love (Absolutely Kosher)
• Real Tuesday Weld - I, Lucifer (Six Degrees)
• Mae Shi - Terror Bird (5RC)
• Animal Collective - Sung Tongs (Fatcat)
• William Shatner - Has Been (Shout Factory)
• Various Artists - OAKLAND: THE SECRET IS OUT (Warm and Fuzzy)
• Arcade Fire - Funeral (Merge)
• Toychestra - Sassy Pony (SELF-RELEASED)
• The Briefs - Sex Objects (BYO)
• Various Artists - PERVERTED BY MARK E: TRIBUTE TO THE FALL (Zick Zack)
• Knights of the New Crusade - My God is Alive! Sorry About Yours!
• Melvins and Lustmord - Pigs of the Roman Empire (Ipecac)
• Neung Phak - Neung Phak (Abduction)
• McClusky - The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not On Fire (Beggars)

Fave Songs

• Eagles of Death Metal - "I Only Want You" (Rekords Rekords)
• Deerhoof - "Giga Dance" (Kill Rock Stars)
• Concretes - "You Can't Hurry Love" (Astralwerks)
• Blood on the Wall - "Mae Abiline" (Social Registry)
• Willowz - "Meet Your Demise" (Dionysus)
• Hello Goodbye - "Songs of Sex and Poetry" (Racing Junior)
• Hives - "Walk Idiot Walk" (Interscope)
• MC Lars - "UK Visa Versa" (Sidecho)
• Robyn Hitchcock - "If you Know Time" (Yep Roc)
• Les Georges Leningrad - "Sponsorships" (Alien8)
• End - "You Only Live Once" (Ipecac)
• Gerling - "Who's Ya Daddy" (Fenway)
• Giant Haystacks - "The War At Home" (SmartGuy)
• Girl Talk - "Touch 2 Feel" (Illegal Art Spasticated)
• The Robot Ate Me - "The Genocide Ball" (Swim Slowly)
• Wendy Kroys - "Dafoe A Go Go"
• Explosion - "Filthy Insane" (Virgin)
• Boyskout - "Back to Bed" (Alive)
• Human Television - "Saw You Walking By" (Gigantic)
• The Priests - "Going Back Home"

Fave Reissues

• The Homosexuals - The Homosexuals (ReR)
• Bananas - The First Ten Years...of the (Plan It X)
• Mice - For Almost Ever / Scooter (Scat)
• Les Savy Fav - Inches (French Kiss)
• Sham 69 - Complete Collection (BMG)
• Blackouts - History in Reverse (K Records)
• Slade - The Best of...(Get Your Boots On) (Shout Factory)
• Various Artists - ROUGH TRADE FIELD GUIDE TO MUSIC VOL. 1 (Rough Trade)
• Various Artists - THAI BEAT A GO-GO (Subliminal Sounds)
• Various Artists - GLITTER FROM THE LITTER BIN (Castle)

Top Albums of 2004:

• Chumbawamba - Un
• Various Artists - BLUES LOUNGE
• Girl Talk - Unstoppable
• Charming Hostess - Sarajevo Blues
• Attaboy &Burke - Sloppy Licker
• Dhamaal Sound System - Dhamaal Sound System
• Konk - The Sound of Konk
• Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
• Bio Ritmo - Bio Ritmo
• Real Tuesday Weld - I Lucifer
• Secret Mommy - Hawaii 5.0
• Clouseaux - Lagoon!
• Various Artists - A JOHN WATERS CHRISTMAS
• Handsome Boy Modeling School - White People

Top Songs of 2004:

• Belle &Sebastian - "Your Cover's Blown"
• Skinny Puppy - "Neuwerld"
• MC Lars - "Mr. Raven"
• Free*Land - "We Want Your Soul"
• Rammellzee - "Pay the Rent"
• Ty - "Ha Ha"
• William Shatner - "Common People"
• The Faint - "Desperate Guys"
• Le Tigre - "Don't Drink Poison"
• Magnetic Fields - "I Thought you Were My Boyfriend (single edit)"
• Bjork - "Where Is The Line"
• Robots In Disguise - "Mnemonic"

1. Iron and Wine - Our Endless, Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
2. The Real Tuesday Weld - I, Lucifer (Six Degrees)
3. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
4. Dealership - Action/Adventure (Turn)
5. Hillstomp - One Word (self-released)
6. Tom Waits - Real Gone (Anti-)
7. Subtle - A New White (Lex)
8. Bjork - Medulla (Elektra)
9. Rasputina - Frustration Plantation (Instinct)
10. Bonny "Prince" Billy - Greatest Palace Music (Drag City)

Favorite songs from 2004:

• Air - "Alpha Beta Gagga", Talkie Walkie
• Billy Nayer Show - "My Cat", Goodnight Straplight Sarantino I Will
Miss You
• BR549 - "That's What I Get", Tangled in the Pines
• Eisley - "Sea King", Marvelous Things EP
• Amy Farris - "Pretty Dresses", Anyway
• Frank Black Francis - "Holiday Song", Frank Black Francis (disc 2 version)
• Hammell on Trial - "Don't Kill", Tough Love
• Hello Goodbye - "Great Talker", Haunted Holiday
• Legends - "Call it Ours", Up Against the Legends
• Eleni Mandell - "American Boy", Afternoon
• Mando Diao - "Chi Ga", Paralyzed EP

Favorite songs reissued in 2004:

• ELO - "Mr Blue Sky", ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (sdtk)
• Faun Fables - "Bliss", Early
• Pearls Before Swine - "City of Gold", Wizard of Is
• Brian Woodbury &His Popular Music Group - "Your Roots Are Phony", Brian Woodbury &his Popular Music
• Mary Lou Williams - "Praise the Lord", Black Christ of the Andes
• Zolar X - "Rocket Roll", Timeless

DJ Rawman's Top 10 Electronic music releases for 2004...

• Vesna - snow sences (n5MD)
• The User - Abandon (Asphodel)
• Skalpel - Skalpel (Ninja Tune)
• Rhythm &Sound - With the Artists (Asphodel)
• Phasmid - her friend the blue star (Skylab Operations)
• Parrish, Theo - Parallel Dimensions (Ubiquity)
• Pan Sonic - Kesto (Mute)
• Oyejide, Wale - one day... everything changed (Shaman Work)
• Jones, Chachi - Claustrophilia (LunaticWorks)
• Various Artists - ARCHIV 1.1 (Asphodel/Raster-Noton)

from Shortwave 2004 Electronic Favorites Special 12/26/2004

1. Various Artists - FAVELA CHIC: POSTONOVE 3 (Milan)
2. Deerhoof - Milk Man (Kill Rock Stars)
3. Pan American - Quiet City (Kranky)
4. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans (Sounds Familyre)
5. Lhasa - The Living End (Nettwerk)
6. LSD March - Suddenly, Like Flames (Last Visible Dog)
7. Pop-O-Pies - Pop-O-Anthology 1984-1993 (Pop-O-Productions)
8. Various Artists - FOLK AND POP SOUNDS OF SUMATRA (Sublime Frequencies)
9. Good For Cows - Bebop Fantasy (Asian Man)
10. William Shatner - Has Been (Shout! Factory)

2004 Albums most listened to (according to what the iTunes tells me):

1. Architecture In Helsinki - Fingers Crossed (Bar None)
2. Interpol - Antics (Matador)
3. The Frenchmen - Sorry I Ruined Your Party (Clairecords)
4. The Legends - Up Against The Legends (Labrador)
5. Electrelane - Power Out (Too Pure)
6. Arcade Fire - Funeral (Merge)
7. Fennesz - Venice (Touch)
8. Joanna Newsom - Milk Eyed Meander (Drag City)
9. The Futureheads - The Futureheads (Sire)
10. Brian Wilson - Smile (Spectral Sound)

2004 Singles/EPs:

1. The Radio Dept. - Pulling Our Weight (XL)
2. Pipas - Bitter Club (Matinée)
3. Pia Fraus - Mooie Island (Seksound)
4. Belle and Sebastian - Books (Rough Trade)
5. The Disappointment - EP (self released)

2004 Reissues:

• Les Savy Fav - Inches (French Kiss)
• Low - A Lifetime of Temporary Relief (Chairkickers Union)
• Camera Obscura - Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi (Merge)
• Slowdive - Catch the Breeze (Sanctuary Records)
• United States of America - United States of America (Sundazed)

Top 15 Albums/Collections of 2004:

1. Various Artists - LOUIE VEGA: CHOICE (Azuli)
2. Moodymann - Black Mahogani (Peacefrog)
3. Various Artists - LARRY LEVAN: THE DEFINITIVE SALSOUL MIXES '78-'83 (Suss'd)
4. Various Artists - DERRICK CARTER: LIVE AT OM (Om)
5. Murs - Murs 3:16: The 9th Edition (Definitive Jux)
6. Various Artists - TRAX RECORDS: THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION (Trax)
7. Various Artists - BLUE NOTE REVISITED (Blue Note)
8. Quantic - Mishaps Happening (Ubiquity)
9. Various Artists - REWIND! VOL. 3 (Ubiquity)
10. Tortured Soul - Introducing Tortured Soul (Purpose)
11. Bing Ji Ling - Doodle Loot Doot Doodle a Doo (Kreme Kool)
12. Various Artists - THE WORLD OF ARTHUR RUSSELL (Soul Jazz)
13. Various Artists - JAZZANOVA: MIXING (Sonar Kollektiv)
14. Various Artists - BUGZ IN THE ATTIC: GOT THE BUG (V2)
15. Fatback Band - Hustle: Ultimate Fatback 1969 to 1984 (Southbound)

Top 15 12"s of 2004:

1. Various Artists - MAD DOG 20/20 EP (Peaches)
2. Platinum Pied Pipers - Stay With Me (Ubiquity)
3. Roomsa - The Sunrise EP feat. Lady Sarah (Salted)
4. Sa-Ra - Glorious (ABB Soul)
5. Various Artists - Candy Apple Edits Vol. 1 (Candy Apple)
6. Dandruff Truckers (aka Swirl People) - Way Back (Bar-BQ)
7. Tha' Rayne - Didn't You Know? (Yam Who? Remix) (Yam Who?)
8. Lizz Fields - I Gotta Go (ABB Soul)
9. Westcott Divine (aka Lawnchair Generals) - La La La (white)
10. Grip Grand - Poppin' Pockets (Look)
11. DJ Phatty - DJ Phatty Vol. 3 (white)
12. DJ Numark - Chali 2Na Comin' Through (Sequence)
13. Redsoul - Erykah Badu "I Want You" & Jill Scott "Golden" bootlegs (white)
14. Roy Davis Jr. feat. Terry Dexter - If You Wanna (Ubiquity)
15. Slater Hogan &John Larner - Caught Out (Hip Therapy)

• Sonic Liberation Front - Ashé a Go-Go (High Two)
• Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks (Fat Cat)
• Lhasa - The Living Road (Nettwerk)
• Brian Wilson - Smile (Nonesuch)
• Steve Kuhn - Promises Kept (ECM)
• Magnetic Fields - I (Nonesuch)
• Caetano Veloso - A Foreign Sound (Nonesuch)
• David Murray &the Gwo-ka Masters - Gwotet (Justin Time)
• Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly (4AD)
• Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse (Elektra)

Top records of 2004:

• The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed (4ad)
• Clouddead - Ten (Mush)
• The Arcade Fire - Funeral (Merge)
• Dealership - Action/Adventure (Turn)
• Idiot Pilot - The Violent Tango (Clickpop)
• Pinback - Summer in Abaddon (Touch and Go)
• Pinback - Too Many Shadows 2004 Tour EP
• B. Fleischmann. - Welcome Tourist (Morr Music)
• Madvillain - Madvillainy (Stones Throw)
• Les Savy Fav - Inches (French Kiss)
• Funkstorung and Tes - Fat Camp Feva EP (K7)
• Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)

Top 5 songs of 2004:

1. Human Television - "Tell Me What You Want"
2. Pinback - "My Star"
3. Mates of State - "Goods (All in Your Head)"
4. Arcade Fire - "Une Annee Sans Lumiere"
5. Clouddead - "Dead Dogs Two"

Best of 2004:

• Isadore - "Saltwater"
• Maritime - "Some One HasTo Die"
• Aether - "Gorecki Revisited"
• Morrissey - "I'm Not Sorry"
• Black Heart Procession - "Your Cave"
• Nanook of the North - The Täby Tapes
• Papercuts - Mockingbird
• Jens Lekman - When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog
• B. Fleischmann - Welcome Tourist
• Readyville - Readyville ep
• One A.M. Radio - A Name Writ in Water
• Blind Willie McTell - Best of
• Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
• Dears - No Cities Left
• Ulrich Schnauss - Strangely Isolated Place