From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V5 #1 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Sunday, January 2 2005 Volume 05 : Number 001 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] 2004 bests [2fs ] Re: [loud-fans] 2004 bests [Aaron Mandel ] [loud-fans] 2004 Top Ten or Twenty [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 15:24:29 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: [loud-fans] 2004 bests Here's mine. (And what's the URL for Aaron Mandel's poll again? We haven't heard from Aaron for a while...) Here's the abbreviated version of my best of 2004 (a fuller version is at ). Top tier: John Cale Hobo Sapiens Interpol Antics Ted Leo & the Pharmacists Shake the Sheets Macha Forget Tomorrow A.C. Newman The Slow Wonder Next tier: The Arcade Fire Funeral The Magnetic Fields i John Vanderslice Cellar Door Wilco A Ghost Is Born Brian Wilson Smile Nextest tier: All Night Radio Spirit Stereo Frequency Bjvrk Medzlla Elvis Costello & the Imposters The Delivery Man Franz Ferdinand [s/t] Guided by Voices Half Smiles of the Decomposed Robyn Hitchcock Spooked Mission of Burma ONoffON Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News - -- ++Jeff++ The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 17:28:59 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 2004 bests On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, 2fs wrote: > Here's mine. (And what's the URL for Aaron Mandel's poll again? We > haven't heard from Aaron for a while...) http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~aaron/poll/lf04/ I spent most of December in my own little cave making my traditional end-of-year mix CDs and, for unrelated reasons, cooking a lot of fish. a ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 22:22:00 -0600 From: Subject: [loud-fans] 2004 Top Ten or Twenty Here are some of the better cds that I purchased this (or technically last year now)Please dont hesitate to send questions, comments or omissions 1 Morrissey - You Are The Quarry 2 A.C. Newman - Slow Wonder 3 Killers - Hot Fuss 4 Wilco - A Ghost Is Born 5 Keane - Hopes And Fears 6 Secret Machines 7 Interpol - Antics 8 Luna - Rendevous 9 Juliana Hatfield - In Exile Deo 10 Paul Westerberg - Folker 11 Bill Janovitz & Crown Victoria - Fireworks On T.V. 12 Ted Leo and Pharmacists - Shake The Sheets 13 The Jane Anchor - Second Wave 14 U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb 15 Richard Shindell - Vuelta 16 Richard Buckner - Dents and Shells 17 Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Please Describe Yourself 18 Kevn Kinney - Sun Tangled Angel Revival 19 Finn Brothers - Everyone Is Here 20 Snow Patrol - Final Straw Here are some honorable mentions Elbow  Cast Of Thousands Starsailor  Silence Is Easy Franz Ferdinand The Thrills - Let's Bottle Bohemia Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South Rilo Kiley  More Adventurous Jill Sobule - Underdog Victorious Calexico  Convict Pool Jay Farrar  Stone, Steel and Bright Lights Velvet Crush  Stereo Blues Doug Gillard  Salamander Brian Wilson - Smile The Left Of The Dial - Dispatches From The 80's Underground box set should get some mention too... Hope all is well, Ant ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V5 #1 *****************************