Morning View- ACLOTM - Light Grenades is an amazing trifecta, usually overshadowed by SCIENCE and Make Yourself. But those 3 albums are really something and, speaking about A Crow..., there's not one bad song on the whole album. Megalomaniac, Talk shows on mute, Agoraphobia, Pistola, Sick sad little world, Zee Deveel, Smile Lines... Very, very underrated.
1. Ray Lamontagne - Trouble 2. Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days 3. Tegan and Sara - So Jealous Excruciating Cuts: John Butler Trio - Sunrise Over Sea As Tall As Lions - Lafcadio Onelinedrawing - The Volunteers The Get Up Kids - Guilt Show Silent Drive - Love Is Worth It. Arcade Fire - Funeral This Day and Age - Always Leave the Ground Underoath - They're Only Chasing Safety Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want to Be Hanson - Underneath Others I love: JImmy Eat World - Futures Citizen Cope - The Clarence Greenwood Recordings Avril Lavigne - Under the Skin Straylight Run - Straylight Run The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me Prince - Musicology Jon Frederik Band - Life in Progress Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy Kanye West - The College Dropout Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous Elliott Smith - From a Basement on a Hill Butch Walker - Letters The Honorary Title - Anything Else But the Truth Green Day - American Idiot Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache The Roots - The Tipping Point Brandtson - Send Us a Signal The Killers - Hot Fuss Fall Out Boy - My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue EP Joe Cocker - Heart and Soul 36 Crazyfists - A Snow Capped Romance P.O.S. - Ipecac Neat Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway Unearth - The Oncoming Storm Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather Northstar - Pollyanna Lovers - The Gutter and the Garden The Junior Varsity - The Great Compromise Yesterday's Rising - When We Speak, We Breathe EP Good ones: U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb 2pac - Loyal to the Game John Frusciante - Curtains Lovedrug - Pretend You're Alive Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News Norah Jones - Feels Like Home Ben Harper and The Blind Boys of Alabama - There Will Be a Light Hold On - Name Taken Madvillain - Madvillainy Mary Chapin Carpenter - Between Here and Gone The Spill Canvas - Sunsets and Car Crashes Alexisonfire - "Watch Out" Damien Rice - B-Sides John Legend - Get Lifted I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business - I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business Hellogoodbye - Hellogoodbye EP Hopesfall - A Types Talib Kweli - The Beautiful Struggle Mewithoutyou - Catch for Us the Foxes Kaki King - Legs to Make Us Longer Heart - Jupiter's Darling Emery - The Weak's End Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters Nonpoint - Recoil Megadeth - The System Has Failed Ray Charles - Genius Loves Company Janet Jackson - Damita Jo Rush - Feedback EP Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer - Popsicle EP The National - Cherry Tree EP Carissa's Wierd - I Before E Prince - Chocolate Invasion Prince - Slaughterhouse R.E.M. - Around the Sun The Academy Is... - The Academy EP Black Label Society - Hangover Music Vol. VI Brian Wilson - Presents SMiLE Vanessa Carlton - Harmonium Prince - C-Note Pat Green - Lucky Ones Not a fan: Gwen Stefani - Love.Angel.Music.Baby The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free Head Automatica - Decadence Ben Kweller - On My Way Evanescence - Anywhere But Home Far-Less - Turn to Bright EP Altar Bridge - One Day Remains A Perfect Circle - EMOtive Tantric - After We Go 3 - Wake Pig Targets for Listening: Atreyu - The Curse Blindside - About a Burning Fire Chromeo - She's in Control Everlast - White Trash Beautiful Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder Keane - Hopes and Fears Mae - Destination: B-Sides Matisyahu - Shake Off the Dust...Arise George Michael - Patience Misery Signals - Of Malice and the Magnum Heart The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed Nas - Street's Disciple Phoenix - Alphabetical Punchline - Action Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture Sparta - Porcelain This Providence - Our Worlds Divorce Nick Cave - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus Cee-Lo Green - Is the Soul Machine Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak The Libertines - The Libertines Morissey - You Are the Quarry Zutons - Who Killed..the Zutons? Wilco - A Ghost is Born Mastodon - Leviathan My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge The Black Keys - Rubber Factory Bayside - Sirens & Condolences Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans Engine Down - Engine Down Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch Cam'ron - Purple Haze Feist - Let It Die Usher - Confessions
Im really surprised that no one has mentioned Northstar’s “Pollyanna”. Not even in their honorable mentions. That album is so good.
I actually think that Chris did, he just mislabeled it as Nonpoint. Am I right @cshadows2887 ? I have never heard it myself, RIYL?
I think fans of of early 2000 scene bands would like it. It’s in the same realm as TBS, Brand New, Jimmy Eat World, etc. If you’re up for it, give the first 4 songs a try and let me know what you think?
Oh shit, totally forgot about Pollyanna. Wouldn't have made my top 3 but that's an honorable mention for sure. One of the best ap.net albums.
1. Tegan and Sara - So Jealous 2. Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land 3. Saul Williams - Saul Williams So Jealous, and the next two Tegan and Sara records are absolute all time favourites for me. Incredibly well written pop songs, simply constructed and so earnest and heartfelt. All three of them are perfect to me, they mean the world to me. Infinity Land is the last of Biffy's "wonky rock" albums before they went a bit more straightforward (but still great!) on their next album, Puzzle. This is a mathy, proggy, aggressive and melodic album - I remember seeing a review from this at the time saying it sounds like the middle point between Jimmy Eat World and Dillinger Escape Plan, which simultaneously makes perfect sense and no sense at all. Had a bit of difficulty with the third choice, but went for Saul Williams always fascinating, lyrical and poetic hip-hop. Honourable Mentions; Bjork - Medulla: A pretty fascinating album, and it doesn't always work for me, but songs like Who Is It and Where is the Line are remarkably constructed with just vocals. Green Day - American Idiot: A massive album for me at this time, a big bold and epic album that sold a trillion and one copies and was ubiquitous for a couple of years. Arcade Fire - Funeral: Huge, grandiose indie rock record, that like a lot of other 2004 records, just sounded so massive and bombastic. Jimmy Eat World - Futures: A strong contender to win the whole thing, a brilliant JEW album, and maybe my favourite song of theirs, The World You Love. Planes Mistaken for Stars - Up in them Guts: Love this description of them from Dan Ozzi: My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge: A great poppy, melodramatic post-hardcore little masterpiece. Kanye West - The College Dropout: Maybe Kanye's best? There's a real innocence and joy to this record listening to it now, with those classic soul samples. Madvillain - Madvillainy: A complex, sample heavy supervillain hip-hop record that sounds like nothing else. The Get Up Kids - The Guilt Show: The Get Up Kids at their pure power pop best. Converge - You Fail Me: Just horribly heavy, slightly slower and more malevolent than Jane Doe.
Polyanna was always one of those albums that I found pleasant but never really... impressed me? Kinda was just there. I always thought of that album in the same breath as Name Taken's Hold On which also came out in 2004
Adding Northstar and Tegan and Sara to my targets list. Love the descriptions of both. I know some later T&S stuff but not this one.
Both Northstar albums have filler, but at their best they're both like listening to a step up YFW followup without having to support an abuser. They may not be all time classics in the grand scheme of music history, but they fall into that category for me where (hyperbole to make a point alert) writing them off is might as well be writing off the whole genre, because I don't think many scene bands outdid the best Northstar songs. I think Pollyanna especially is a really good take on a (slightly) americana influenced emo album and has half decent lyrics to boot. I've always considered them more similar to BN, but re-reading what I just wrote above I feel like I could make a similar case for Where You Want to Be right down to having a bit of filler but some truly high highs.
I kinda can't believe I haven't at least heard of this band. Haven't listened to it yet but looking forward to it. As we've established in many other years, finding new previously unheard gems is the most redeeming part of this exercise.
1. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge 2. Slipknot - Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses) 3. Madvillain - Madvillainy 4. Jimmy Eat World - Futures 5. The Used - In Love and Death 6. Descendents - Cool to Be You 7. Zao - The Funeral of God 8. Midtown - Forget What You Know 9. The Cure- The Cure 10. Relient K - Mmhmm
Okay so @cshadows2887 I just heard "there'll come a time" by John Butler Trio while shuffling this evening, and holy shit. Song fuckin' RIPS. I only knew a few songs by them prior to this (which I enjoy) but always thought most of their stuff was more mellow/vibey than that track. Consider me impressed. Hope to get to the rest of that album tomorrow, hopefully it's as enjoyable as that track was!
2004 1. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge 2. Brian Wilson - SMiLE 3. Jimmy Eat World - Futures 4. Denver Harbor - Scenic 5. Green Day - American Idiot 6. Good Charlotte - The Chronicles Of Life And Death 7. Madvillain - Madvillainy 8. Eminem - Encore 9. Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want To Be 10. The Killers - Hot Fuss 11. MF DOOM - MM...FOOD 12. The Used - In Love And Death 13. Incubus - A Crow Left Of The Murder... 14. The Beastie Boys - To The 5 Boroughs 15. A Perfect Circle - eMOTIVe Honorable Mentions Spider-Man 2: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Great soundtrack, especially Gifts & Curses by Yellowcard which is one of my favorite songs ever) Favorite songs from other 2004 albums DJ Tiesto - "Adagio For Strings" Animal Collective - "Leaf House" Ashlee Simpson - "La La" Eighteen Visions - "This Time" Interpol - "Evil" Straylight Run - "Existentialism On Prom Night" Franz Ferdinand - "Take Me Out" Incubus - "Follow" Sum 41 - "We're All To Blame" The Von Bondies - "C'mon C'mon" Sugarcult - "Destination Anywhere" Hellogoodbye - "Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn" Gwen Stefani - "What You Waiting For" Alexisonfire - "No Transitory" Seether, Amy Lee - "Broken" Avril Lavigne - "My Happy Ending" Chevelle - "Vitamin R (Leading Us Along)" Modest Mouse - "Ocean Breathes Salty" 311 - "Love Song" Papa Roach - "Getting Away With Murder" Relient K - "Be My Escape" Bowling For Soup - "1985" Britney Spears - "My Prerogative" New Found Glory - "All Downhill From Here" Arcade Fire - "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" Rise Against - "Swing Life Away" Head Automatica - "At The Speed Of A Yellow Bullet" This has to be the most meaningful year in music for me. I graduated high school, went through some personal stuff and the albums from this year really resonated with me deeply. Now most of those songs are on top of my greatest of all time list.
Pollyanna has one of my favorite lines in emo: "You move me like I've got new feet" Works better in context than written, but it's really grabbed me since the minute I heard it.