Karlito Basic Member Posts:210  
| 8/25/2004 2:56 PM |
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What thinky'all of the Long Short List:
AC Newman ‘The Slow Wonder’ (Matador)
Air ‘Talkie Walkie’ (Astralwerks)
Amel Larrieux ‘Bravebird’ (Bliss Life)
Bad Acid Trip ‘Lynch The Weirdo’ (Serjical Strike/RED INK)
Bebel Gilberto ‘Bebl Gilberto’ (Six Degrees)
Belle & Sebastian ‘Dear Catastrophe Witness’ (Sanctuary)
Blanche ‘If We Can't Trust The Doctors’ (Cass)
Blonde Redhead ‘Misery Is A Butterfly’ (4AD/Beggars Banquet)
Bob Schneider ‘I'm Good Now’ (Shockorama/Vanguard)
Buckethead ‘Bucketheadland 2’ (ION)
Cafe Tacuba ‘Cuatra Caminos’ (MCA)
Cee-Lo ‘Cee-Lo Green Is The Soul Machine’ (Arista)
Cesaria Evora ‘Voz D'Amor’ (Bluebird Jazz/RCA)
David Bowie ‘Reality’ (ISO/Columbia)
Dead Prez ‘Revolutionary But Gangsta’ (Columbia)
Devendra Banhart ‘Rejoicing In The Hands’ (Young god)
Dios ‘Dios’ (Startime)
Dizzee Rascal ‘Boy In Da Corner’ (Matador/XL)
Eagles Of Death Metal ‘Peace Love Death Metal' (Ant Acid Audio)
Elbow ‘Cast Of Thousands’ (V2)
Fiery Furnaces ‘Gallowsbird's Park’ (Rough Trade)
Franz Ferdinand ‘Franz Ferdinand’ (Domino/Epic)
Galactic ‘Ruckus’ (Sanctuary)
Gary Jules ‘Trading Snakeoil For Wolftickets’ (Universal)
Ghostface Killah ‘The Pretty Toney Album’ (Def Jam)
Holly Golightly ‘Truly She Is None Other" (Damaged Goods)
Iron & Wine ‘Our Endless Numbered Days’ (Sub Pop)
Jamie Cullum ‘Twentysomething’ (Verve)
Jaylib ‘Champion Sound’ (Stones Throw)
Jem ‘Finally Woken’ (ATO)
Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter ‘Oh, My Girl’ (Barsuk)
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros ‘Streetcore’ (Hellcat/Epitaph)
Josh Ritter ‘Hello Starling’ (Signature)
Juana Molina ‘Segundo’ (Domino)
Julieta Venegas ‘Si’ (RCA International)
Keane ‘Hopes And Fears’ (Interscope)
Keb Mo ‘Keep It Simple’ (Epic/Okeh)
Loretta Lynn ‘Van Lear Rose’ (Interscope)
Macy Gray ‘The Trouble With Being Myself’ (Epic)
Magnetic Fields ‘I’ (Nonesuch)
Melt Banana ‘Cell-Scape’ (A-Zap)
Muse ‘Absolution’ (Warner Bros)
My Morning Jacket ‘It Still Moves’ (ATO)
Neil Young ‘Greendale’ (Reprise)
Nellie McKay ‘Get Away From Me’ (Columbia)
Non Prophets ‘Hope’ (Lex)
Oceansize ‘Efflorese’ (Beggars Banquet)
Patti Smith ‘Trampin'’ (Columbia)
Patty Griffin ‘Impossible Dream’ (ATO)
Peaches ‘Fatherf**ker’ (Beggars/XL)
Phil Kline ‘Zippo Songs’ (Cantaloupe)
Phoenix ‘Alphabetical’ (Astralwerks)
PJ Harvey ‘Uh Huh Her’ (Island)
Rufus Wainwright ‘Want One’ (Dreamworks)
Ryan Adams ‘Love Is Hell’ (Lost Highway)
Scarling ‘Sweet Heart Dealer’ (Sympathy For the Record Industry)
Simple Kid ‘1’ (Vector)
Slum Village ‘Detroit Deli: A Taste Of Detroit’ (Priority/Capitol)
Snow Patrol ‘Final Straw’ (A & M/Interscope)
Teitur ‘Poetry & Aeroplanes’ (Universal)
The Coral ‘Nightfreak And The Sons Of Becker’ (Deltasonic/Columbia)
The Honorary Title ‘Anything Else But The Truth’ (Doghouse)
The Killers ‘Hot Fuss’ (Island)
The Secret Machines ‘Now Here Is Nowhere’ (Reprise)
The Sleepy Jackson ‘Lovers’ (Astralwerks)
The Streets ‘A Grand Don't Come For Free’ (Vice)
The Weakerthans ‘Reconstruction Site’ (Epitaph)
Travis ‘12 Memories’ (Epic)
TV On The Radio ‘Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes’ (Touch & Go)
Ty ‘Upwards’ (Big Dada)
Van Hunt ‘Van Hunt’ (Capitol)
Wilco ‘A Ghost Is Born’ (Nonesuch)
Wrens ‘Meadowlands’ (Absolutely Kosher)
Whats all yer top 5 that should win???
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KarlitoBasic Member Posts:210
| 8/25/2004 3:13 PM |
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From the long list, my short list would be as follows (in no particula orda
Air - Walkie Talkie
Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird Park
Neil Young - Greendale
Simple Kid - SK1
Sleepy Jackson - Lovers
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Gar Veteran Member Posts:1676
| 8/25/2004 3:23 PM |
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I'm not so sure that some of those albums deserve to be nominated but I would pick:
Josh Ritter 'Hello Starling'
Neil Young 'Greendale'
Franz Ferdinand 'Franz Ferdinand'
Belle & Sebastian 'Dear Castophre Waitress'
Simple Kid '1'
Although I want to get new Wilco and Sleepy Jacksons.
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KarlitoBasic Member Posts:210
| 8/25/2004 3:38 PM |
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Gar, can't reccomend Sleepy Jackson enough, it's truly a gem
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amawasterBasic Member Posts:127
| 8/25/2004 4:02 PM |
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Some mad choices in there, The Coral ‘Nightfreak And The Sons Of Becker’ thats crazy cos they just thru that together real quick, and jaysis Keane, for god sake
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QsySueBasic Member Posts:119
| 8/25/2004 9:57 PM |
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The only albums I have from that list are:
Ryan Adams ‘Love Is Hell’
Patty Griffin ‘Impossible Dream’
My Morning Jacket ‘It Still Moves’
And they're all excellent. I have seen Keb Mo and Jesse Sykes live, though.
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KarlitoBasic Member Posts:210
| 8/26/2004 11:39 AM |
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QsySue, I haven't heard the My Morning Jacket Album yet, well not that one, defo recommended??
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Dromed Advanced Member Posts:900
| 8/26/2004 2:05 PM |
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My short list would be:
Air ‘Talkie Walkie’ (Astralwerks)
Franz Ferdinand ‘Franz Ferdinand’ (Domino/Epic)
Peaches ‘Fatherf**ker’ (Beggars/XL)
PJ Harvey ‘Uh Huh Her’ (Island)
Phoenix ‘Alphabetical’ (Astralwerks)
I have heard bits of these two and are on my list for soon to be bought...
Loretta Lynn ‘Van Lear Rose’ (Interscope)
Blanche ‘If We Can't Trust The Doctors’ (Cass)
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BinokularVeteran Member Posts:1665
| 8/26/2004 2:26 PM |
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Bizarre, I don't own a single album on that list, though I have just ordered the Holly Golightly one. Air is good, I've heard the entire album but just haven't had the urge to run out and buy it. I've heard good things about melt banana but sadly missed them last time they played Cork :(
If there is one thing that can be taken from this list, its that this is the year that UK garage/hiphop finally broke through in the US. The Streets, Dizzee Rascal (only released over there on matador recently) and Ty.
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| 8/26/2004 3:56 PM |
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I would love Blonde Redhead to get it, but of course they won't. Their Equus ep with David Sylvian is brilliant.
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QsySueBasic Member Posts:119
| 8/28/2004 10:59 PM |
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I highly recommend the My Morning Jacket album. It's the only one of theirs I'm familiar with, so I can't really compare it to their other stuff, but I have heard their newer stuff is more mellow. It Still Moves is pretty rockin'. They have a real unique thing going on.
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| 8/30/2004 6:19 AM |
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Actually, older MMJ is a lot more hushed-out. Pick up 'At Dawn.' It'll blow you away i promise. (Also the album before it, 'Tennessee Fire' has a song called 'old september blues' that just kills me...
And Binokular- that Holly Golightly's fantastic. I've been digging through some of her Billy Childish/Thee Headcoats stuff but he/she/they work under so many names it makes my head spin...(Also- she's recorded with a band called the greenhornes...If you like the Black Keys, the greenhornes do a similar authentic throwback thing for garage rock...)
And, with that in mind, my faves
Devendra Banhart ‘Rejoicing In The Hands’ (Young god)
Ghostface Killah ‘The Pretty Toney Album’ (Def Jam)
Holly Golightly ‘Truly She Is None Other" (Damaged Goods)
Magnetic Fields ‘I’ (Nonesuch)
My Morning Jacket ‘It Still Moves’ (ATO)
That said, my guesses for who'd actually win are different...I'd say Wilco, Dizzee, and MMJ are among the front-runners...
...And did anyone else notice the startling absense of the Walkmen's 'Bows and Arrows'????????
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BinokularVeteran Member Posts:1665
| 8/31/2004 4:12 PM |
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Yeah, all that Headcoatees/Headcoats stuff is great. Holly wasn't actually a member of thee Headcoats, though she has collaborated with them and Billy Childish who actually is a Headcoat. She was part of the Headcoatees who were a spin off all-girl band who were friends of the Headcoats.
Confused yet? me too.
I ordered the damaged goods sampler vol. 2 at the same time as Hollys album, and have mainly been
listening to that. It feels l like theres onlys about 15 people signed to the Damaged Goods record label and they just play in each others bands! See that kind of band hopping doesn't just go on in the Irish music scene!
Oh and they sent a nice little Damaged Goods pin badge free with my order, very punk!  |
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 9/1/2004 8:07 PM |
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There is some great stuff here but the Wrens album is a gajillian times better then anything else on the list, all of you should drop everything and go to road records to buy it now.
In my weekly column on another site I looked at some of the the nominations. A few extracts:
The Wrens - Meadowlands: Now we’re talking, an absolutely remarkable album that I just can’t stop listening to. If good albums grab, you in one of the places that I mentioned earlier then great albums grab one in two at least. This is a balls and soul album, I really can’t describe how great I think it is, but I’m going to try in an upcoming edition of Entertaining Friends. If this album doesn’t win it then people need to die.
PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her: By no means an easy album and no-where near as accessible (or good) as her previous release “Stories from the city, Stories from the sea” but ultimately an extremely rewarding listen. I had to play it about 8 times to get my head around it before I reviewed it and I still don’t think that I managed to get my head around it. I’ve only been able to face listening to it once since then.
The Killers - Hot Fuss: A few potentially great singles do not a great album make and while “Mr. Brightside”, “Jenny was a friend of mine”, “Somebody told me” and “Glamorous Indie Rock n’ Roll” might be wonderful slices of post-Britpop genius the rest of the album isn’t really strong enough to warrant it winning the award.
Rufus Wainwright – Want One: Some people call Rufus Wainwright a genius, I call him a pompous but somewhat talented blowhard with a fetish for over-orchestration. Poses had a couple of good songs on it though.
I look at about 13 of the nominees, pick who I think should win and who got screwed over so if anyone wants to read it it's on http://www.411mania.com/music/columns/article.php?columns_id=2922
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