I spent most of 2004 catching up on the music I hadn't heard in 2003. Now that I've had a chance to review everyone's "Best of" lists, I'm somewhat comfortable with my top five albums:
1. Polyphonic Spree - "Together We're Heavy"
2. Secret Machines - "Now Here is Nowhere"
3. Arcade Fire - "Funeral"
4. Modest Mouse - "Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
5. Elliott Smith - "From a Basement on a Hill"
Best titled album of the year:
Secret Machines - "Now Here is Nowhere"
Album that receives honorable mention rather than a top 5 rank simply because of the Ipod commercials:
U2 - "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb"
Record of the year:
Modest Mouse - "Float On"
I realize that no one cares. I'm somewhat comfortable with that, too.
2 comments:
Are other Modest Mouse songs better than "Float On"? Because I find that song just...ok. And I'm quite surprised by their incredible popularity.
If you don't like "Float On", you probably won't like their other work. But, if you're full of moxie and feeling lucky, try "Paper Thin Walls", "3rd Planet", or the song that made me buy Modest Mouse albums in the first place, "Tiny Cities Made of Ashes".
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