the songs of 2004

[Basstrap]

I tried to include songs that I thought most people would like
so you should be able to get any one of these songs and enjoy it to some extent.

I tried to put them in some kind of order from best to least best, but that's hard to do

Please, feel free to add to the list

The Arcade Fire - Crown of Love
Elliott Smith - Twilight
The Walkmen - The Rat
Franz Ferdinand - Darts of Pleasure
Castanets - No Light to Be Found
Adem - Statued
Wilco - Hummingbird
The Good Life - Album of the Year
Devendra Banhart - Will is my Friend
Mylo - Drop the Pressure
Fennesz - Chateau Rouge
Espers - Voices
Architecture in Helsinki - Souvenirs
Pedro The Lion - Transcontinental
Hayden - Home By Saturday
Ratatat - 17 Years (skeek, you'd like these guys)
Action Action - Drug Like
cLOUDEAD - Pop Song
The One AM Radio - Under Thunder and Gale
Air - Run
On! Air! Library! - Bread
The Fiery Furnaces - Straight Street
Erlend Oye - Sheltered Life
The Futureheads - Robot
Comets on FIre - Wild Whiskey
Iron and Wine - Love And Some Verses
Mirah - The Light
Rogue Wave - Every Moment
Les Savy Fav - Hold Onto Your Genre
Bjork - Oceania
Jolie Holland - Old Fashioned Morphine
Junior Boys - More Than Real
The Fall - Contraflow
Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue
Blackmoth Super Rainbow - I Am The Alphabet
The Race - Sinking Feeling
Loscil - Discent
Dungen - Ta Den Lungt
Animal Collective - Who Could Win A Rabbit
Radio 4 - Party Crashers
Mclusky - She Will Only Bring You Happiness
Muse - Sing For Absolution
William Basinski - D / P 2.2
Venetian Snares - Cadmium Lung Jacket
Skygreen Leopards - The Heron
To Rococo Rot - Feld

 

[Basstrap]

only one song per band

 

[Zoorock Girl!]

You're first four songs are amazing. For me, let's see...

The Arcade Fire - seriously, I can't remember the name off hand, and I'm too lazy to look it up. It's the one that goes "everytime you close your eyes" over and over again...brilliant!

The Walkmen - The Rat. Best all out rock song I've heard in a long time. Probably since 2+2=5.

Loscil - The Grid

Sandro Perri - Dreaming (is real)

Wilco - Less than you think

Beck - argh, again the name escapes me. It was in that really good Jim Carey movie earlier this year. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

I'll have more later.

 

[Basstrap]

Tom Waits new album is great

lots of vocal elemtns and beatboxing

like Medulla possessed by the devil.

Tom Waits - Don't Go Into That Barn

 

[Elvis Presley]

Pinback- Fortress

Sun Kill Moon- Carry me Ohio

The Mountain Goats- Palmcorder Yajna

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists- Me and Mia

AC Newman- Miracle Drug

Wilco- Company in my back

Iron and Wine- On your wings

Jens Lekman- you are the light

Secret Machines- Nowhere again

Agreed with
Jolie Holland
Sondre Lerche
The Walkmen

 

[elciojg]

That's Good!

U2 - All Because Of You (locust mix)

 

[AcrobatMan]

Wow

you guys are great. please make me a CD and send it across ( i dont think they sell it here).. i havent listened to most of these songs

But Basstrap has great credibility - music-wise

 

[Basstrap]

as new releases come out we should keep adding to this thread

and then, pick the top 20 at the end of the year!

*geeky moment*

 

[Basstrap]

Wow

you guys are great. please make me a CD and send it across ( i dont think they sell it here).. i havent listened to most of these songs

But Basstrap has great credibility - music-wise

if you're on soulseek, I'm CaptainSoul
I've got a folder made called best of 2004

it's nice to hear kind words. everyone at work thinks I have a bad taste in music.
Elvis takes the cake though
I can't believe I forgot A.C. Newman

 

[AcrobatMan]

is soulseek somekind of napster ? anyway i dont think i can use that option.

 

[bedouin fire]

sorry, but what came to my mind before open the post was "irish blood, english heart" by morrissey.

 

[Elvis Presley]

sorry, but what came to my mind before open the post was "irish blood, english heart" by morrissey.

Not bad, I actually prefer First of the Gang to Die though. Moz should be represented however....

 

[mikeuk]

Keane - Bedshaped

Snow Patrol- Chocolate


Mike

 

[pax]

"Primitive (The Way I Treat You)" Ambulance LTD
"The Letter" PJ Harvey
"The Year of the Rat" Badly Drawn Boy
"The Tide that Left and Never Came Back" the Veils

 

[Elvis Presley]

um, is that all you people can muster?

 

[Basstrap]

Ambulance LTD. - Ophelia
Animal Collective - Who Could Win a Rabbit
Mouse on Mars - Wipe That Sound
Dillinger Escape Plan - Sunshine the Werewolf
Tom Waits - Don't Go Into That Barn

I would like to change my Fall song from Contraflow to Sparta 2

 

[jkayet]

"The Tide that Left and Never Came Back" the Veils

haven't thought about them in a while...

 

[smooshcat]

Nobody's mentioned the Killers - Mr Brightside yet. So I will.

 

[bsp77]

Modest Mouse - Float On

Yes, it has been overplayed, but not the song's fault

 

[IWasBored]

Modest Mouse - Float On

Yes, it has been overplayed, but not the song's fault

yeah, it's too bad about the overplayed thing...

personally i think it's a better song than 'ocean breathes salty'

 

[HeartlandGirl]

Jay-Z - 99 Problems

And I prefer Ocean Breathes Salty, though Float On is excellent as well.

 

[Basstrap]

the second track that is a slower float on, basically, is better than float on.

I love all the 'bah bah bah bah baAah'

 

[pax]

I loved the Veils' CD! They stayed very under the radar. I am obsessed with them and the Long Winters.

 

[IWasBored]

I love all the 'bah bah bah bah baAah'

speaking of things that go 'baah'

the briggs - song for us
social distortion - nickels and dimes
street dogs - tale of mass deception
flogging molly - (undecided, everything on the new album is so good...)

 

[pax]

Did anyone mention "Fit But You Know It" by the Streets?

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

Ash - Orpheus

can't think of anything else at the moment. maybe Laura Veirs but I haven't heard enough of the record to make a good impression. Kings of Convenience perhaps.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

oh and "Long Time Coming" by the Delays. Unless that was last year.

 

[Sweet Tart]

damn i wish i had a computer at home. for the last year i haven't had the internet @home so i haben't been keeping up with new good music.

i haven't heard of most of those bands.

 

[meegannie]

"The Tide that Left and Never Came Back" the Veils

 

[meegannie]

haven't thought about them in a while...

Cutting his hair was a good move.