2004 in music. • Page 7

That's awesome.

Also have to say, he doesn't show off a lot on record but he may just be the best guitarist I've ever seen live, and I've seen some legends.

 

This was recorded in 2005, but it was touring Sunrise Over Sea like he was when I first saw him and this song just took my breath away live:

 

Listened to Say Anything's Is a Real Boy this afternoon. They were obviously super popular on AP, so I probably have heard this before, but not for ~15 years, and not more than once or twice.

It's a weird one this! My first thoughts, on hearing pretty much every song is that it just sounds so obnoxious from an immediate surface level first impression of the songs, but then the songs themselves are actually quite interesting - a bit manic, and chaotic, but quite well put together, and then there's probably some ludicrous lyric or moment that brings them tumbling back down again.

Something like "Alive With the Glory of Love" is on the one hand, a pretty fun and well crafted pop-rock song. On the other hand, lyrically I couldn't believe what I was hearing - some sort of horny, holocaust fantasy. It absolutely boggles my mind thinking about it. The album goes from, "Hey, that's pretty good actually" to "Hang on, what the fuck?" pretty rapidly and repeatedly.

I feel like I'd enjoy it quite a bit more if I didn't understand English, which is not really a ringing endorsement - it's not bland though, I'll give it that.

 

"Admit it" is probably my favorite song from this album. I use the phrase "elegantly disheveled" on a daily basis because of this song

 

@phaynes12 is there a master list of each winner somewhere?

 

yeah, if you go to the OP in here there’s a link at the bottom for Years in Music. it’s maybe three comments down but i have a running list

 

If it makes you feel any better, Max is Jewish and his grandparents lived through the Holocaust. Apparently that was the genesis of the song, imagining what it must be like to be in love during something so terrible.

 

Never liked Say Anything at all really, but Alive With the Glory of Love is a jam

 

We have until Sunday right?

 

yes

 

1. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. The Killers - Hot Fuss

Pretty much the albums that defined my early teens and was the start of me really getting into music, so have to go with them here.

 

Love and respect to all of you with first place My Chem votes.

 

it’s gonna be too little too late unfortch

 

So....I'm totally going to see MCR and Midtown in September with one of my besties! Very excited!!!

 

1. American Idiot-Green Day

So by 2004, my transition into a rock/pop punk/emo fan was in full swing, and I of course already knew and liked a bunch of Green Day songs. American Idiot drops and basically fully cements me as a fan of the general sound of pop punk and it's subgenres. It was the start of my sophomore year of high school, my first girlfriend broke up with me a month later, and that winter I picked up a guitar for the first time. I knew enough about music and guitar to know that hey, Green Day is a "3 chord band" that should be easy to learn how to play their songs...and I did. This album is how I taught myself how to play guitar, which 1. Explains why I'm not very good at guitar! and 2. solidifies this album as huge in my life to me. I knew the entire album front to back, both lyrically and on guitar. Played along with it constantly. Even now I can still play most of them by memory even though I hardly pick up my guitar at all. Just a fun album for that following summer especially to rock out on. And yeah, that whole break up with my first girlfriend made Whatsername hit hard for me at the time. It hit even harder when my first real serious relationship ended a few years later haha. But yeah overall what an album. There are no songs I dislike on here. A few songs I was just lukewarm on like Are We The Waiting and Letterbomb, but didn't hate. And damn those 9 minute songs are great. It was impossible to escape the singles and yes of course Boulevard and September got way overplayed. But the songs still work today. Pre-covid a live band around here played AMerican Idiot and it was the first time I had listened to the song in a while and yeah, for all the jokes about how it was obviously about Bush admin and etc...it still worked in 2019! lol

2. Where You Want To Be-Taking Back Sunday

I came to this album later after going through that one rough break up I've been mentioning, as I came to all sorts of emo music in that time period. But I knew a few songs off this already thanks to the singles. I def remember seeing the music videos to Decade and Photograph on MTV or VH1 or wherever. Friends, including a girl I had a crush on, had quotes from this album all over their AIM and myspace profiles and away messages. I heard songs from it at parties, etc. Now, there's not a song on here I don't like. I listen to some on the back half a little less than the others, but really find parts to like about all these songs. Fred came in and they made the wise choice, IMO, to TRY to sound like OG TBS a little bit, trading off those vocals and having Fred doing some screaming and etc. It's definitely a perfection/polishing of the sound they started with. So many great moments to sing/scream along to on here....Defiinitely love doing Fred's parts in most of the songs. Phasers verses, end of Bonus Mosh, Photograph chorus, New American Classic verse and backing vocals, etc. Could literally talk about parts of each and every song that get me hyped to scream or sing along to.

3. Hot Fuss-The Killers

The truth is I really do only love the front half of the album. Back half I'm pretty meh on. But out of all the remaining albums I could have picked, this is the one I listened to the entire album the most, and of course has some of the highest highs humanly possible lol. We all know the singles here, plus Jenny. Holy hell what a first half of an album. Still will rock out to any of these songs to this day. Mr. Brightside hasn't become the unofficial nerdy white millennial national anthem for nothing.

The rest of my choices are all, much like 2003, a WHOLE lot of songs I liked where I never got into or never even bought the actual albums, like...

Straylight Run-I absolutely love EOPN, my good friend at the time introduced me to that song actually because he was a piano player and liked it/learned how to play it. Mistakes We Knew We Were Making was another good "depressed because of my break up" song that I got into years later. Tension and The Terror was put on a mix CD by said girlfriend during our relationship. Your Name Here is good and extra special to me now since my wife is from long island.

Tegan and Sara-Again never got into the whole album, but like a few tracks from it. Wake Up Exhausted is a good one. WHere Does The Good Go was in a lot of away messages around here on AIM. Same ex put I Know I Know I Know on a mix CD for me, still love that song.

MCR-The singles were basically it for me in terms of what I liked, but I remember seeing the I'm Not Okay video on MTV A LOT. Really liked and still love Helena. Ghost Of You was also really good/had a really cool video.

The Spill Canvas-There's like 5 or so songs on here I love. The Tide was one I heard and saw the lyrics to a lot in melodramatic aim profiles. Love is just a hoax! Same with All Hail The Heartbreaker. So many overdramatic AIM away messages and xanga/livejournal/blurty entries around here with those lyrics. Same ex put So Much, The Night Will Go As Follows, and the title track on a mix for me (she really was a catalyst for me getting into a lot of emo/scene music lol). 3685 another song I saw the lyrics A LOT in those same aforementioned online spaces.

Lots of other songs from the year i loved that have been mentioned here, or their bands have. LOVED Beating Hearts Baby, remember seeing that video a lot, and then once again put on a mix CD for me. Modest Mouse, couldn't escape Float On, and I liked Ocean BReathes Salty too. Alive With The Glory Of Love? Yup, you guessed it...mix CD. SUCH a fun song to sing along to, especially when you're young and in love haha. Pieces was a good Sum41 song.

Holy shit those Usher songs were EVERYWHERE. Yeah especially, but Let It Burn? My god man. Everyone was an R&B singer "in their bag" when they heard that song in 9th/10th grade lmao. Somewhere Only We Know was a nice little song. I liked those Jimmy Eat World singles more than Bleed American I'm pretty sure. Work and Pain were both so good. ah, Ashlee Simpson....girlfriend at the time loved that show she had on MTV, so I heard a lot of songs from that. Pieces of Me is a legit catchy song. That make me wanna la la song was...really dumb lol

Encore was another eminem album, I bought it, the singles were everywhere, and I liked some of them, but def a step down from the previous two albums. But Toy Soldiers was a good song. Some weird ass ones on there too that I forgot about lol. Really liked The Used single All That I've Got. Memory by sugarcult, remember hearing/seeing that one around a lot. Duality I enjoyed from Splitknot. Was never a Kanye fan but yeah those singles from that first album.

Also can't claim to like or know who Max Richter was at the time, but I'm pretty sure some of hte songs from the album you guys named ended up in The Leftovers, and those were awesome.

There's so many more I'm sure I'm forgetting.

 

This beaut came out in 2004

 

bahahaha

lotta great thoughts in here that I echo and agree with , but THIS one certainly the most.

wasn't until prob early '06 that anyone in my circle knew The Spill Canvas, but shit, once they did lol

 

1. Say Anything: ...Is A Real Boy
2. My Chemical Romance: Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
3. Kanye West: The College Dropout (yes, Kanye sucks but this album definitely does not)

4. Green Day: American Idiot
5. Ashlee Simpson: Autobiography - this is one of the first 5 or so albums I ever remember listening to in full. I used to fall asleep to it every night
6. The Killers: Hot Fuss

 

BTW, if you want to talk about one of the most 2004 events of 2004 (at least pertaining to alt-rock/emo/rock, etc) standards, the lineup for the 2 nights of the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas was staggering: Green Day, My Chemical Romance, The Killers, Muse Incubus, Velvet Revolver, Jimmy Eat World, Modest Mouse, Good Charlotte, Sum 41, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol, Snow Patrol, Keane, Chevelle, The Used, The Shins, Taking Back Sunday, Social Distortion, etc. Just nuts.

 

1. Green Day - American Idiot
2. Jimmy Eat World - Futures
3. Relient K - MMHMM

Here's a playlist of some 2004 songs I like in no particular order:

 

There are a lot of monumental songs (for me) from 2004 that aren't on any of the albums on my list, but it's hard to for recall them as the years 2003-2006 kind of blur together for me in that regard. However, in the Hip Hop thread, this came up today:

What a banger. I remember being surprised that he did not manage to stick around.

 

futures wins with 47. american idiot has 35 and college dropout and three cheers tied with 32.

 

we have 7 bands now with multiple wins. the beatles (6), jimmy eat world (3), led zeppelin (2), springsteen (2), smashing pumpkins (2), weezer (2), and radiohead (2).

just baffling lol

 

I was about to say that's probably the last win for Jimmy Eat World but then I remembered loads of people on here also love the albums post-Chase This Light.