Urban75 Album of the Year 2004

[DaveCinzano]

Were King Prawn or Bender from Lewisham?

 

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13) M.I.A. and Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism Volume 1



Mixes I think. Better not tell belboid about this one.

 

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12) Wiley - Treddin on Thin Ice



Well I know this isn't garage. I know it's not urban. I know it's not two step. It's grime.

 

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11) 渋さ知らズ [Shibusashirazu] - 渋星 (Shibuboshi)



That weird Japanese thing I was banging on about.

 

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10) Skinnyman - Council Estate of Mind



The only album by this UK hip hop artist (you all like your hip hop UK don't you!). I guess it was all about singles again back in 2004.

 

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9) The Dead Texan



Ambient/drone thing. Unfortunately it's exquisitely beautiful. I hate it.

 

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8) Jolie Holland - Escondida



Back to basics jazzy singer songwriter. You should listen to it. Fall in love with. Fall out of love with it. But it on the back shelf. Rediscover it. Fall in love with it again. But I haven't got time to do all that, I'm trying to do this list!!!!

 

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7) Björk - Medúlla



Björk's acapella odyssey. Just in case you can't get too much of Björk's voice.

[I have what I thought was a fail safe system of detecting whether an album is a singleton vote. Mid placed letters with umlauts/accents meant this slipped through the net.]

 

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Oh blimey I've just got to Old Fashioned Morphine on Escondida. OK I'm in love with it now.

 

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6) Horsepower Productions - To the Rescue



Worth it for Special 131. It'll put you into next week two years ago.

 

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5) Madvillain - Madvillainy



MF DOOM and Madlib make a really solid experimental(ish) hip hop album.

 

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4) Amadou & Mariam – Dimanche À Bamako



A beautifully produced Malian guitar / collection of songs. This really should be higher if more of you had listened to it. Or to be more precise it would be higher if I had listened to it. Consider this the unofficial no.1

 

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3) M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts



Urgent electro ambient post rock sort of thing. I'm not calling it shoegaze - because it makes you look upwards. Very pretty indeed.

 

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2) Los Hermanos - On Another Level



Hypnotising contrapuntal detroit techno. Bags of suave fun.

 

[hash tag]

Contraband by Velvet Revolver gets regular plays.
One of the great unsung albums has to be Prbot by Probot
Who did this featuring Lemmy

 

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You're a bit late hash tag !

 

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You're a bit late hash tag !

But you are not Mrs tag

 

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1) Arcade Fire - Funeral



Sounds like Coldplay playing the Pixies to me. Uplifting music for lonely souls.

 

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Lonely no.1's at =20

Babylon Circus - Dances of Resistance



Teresa Cristina - A vida me fez assim



Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz - Crunk Juice



Leftover Crack - Fuck World Trade



Zero 7 - When It Falls

 

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belboid scoring has

1) Arcade Fire - Funeral
2) M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts
3) Los Hermanos - On Another Level
4=) Amadou & Mariam – Dimanche À Bamako
4=) Madvillain - Madvillainy
6=) Horsepower Productions – To The Rescue
6=) Jolie Holland -Escondida
8) The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan
9) Björk - Medúlla
10) Skinnyman - Council Estate of Mind
11=) Shibusashirazu Orchestra - Shibuboshi
11=) Wiley - Treddin on Thin Ice
13) The Streets - A Grand Dont Come For Free
14=) Le Tigre - This Island
14=) Annie - Anniemal
16) MIA and Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism
17) Jill Scott - Beautifully Human
18=) A Girl Called Eddie - A Girl Called Eddie
18=) Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts Now
20=) Inner Terrestrials - X
20=) Loscil - First Narrows

Steve Earle and Loscil sneaking in there.

 

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By no. of votes

5 votes

Arcade Fire - Funeral

4 votes

Amadou & Mariam – Dimanche À Bamako
Madvillain - Madvillainy
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts

3 votes

Los Hermanos - On Another Level
Horsepower Productions – To The Rescue
Björk - Medúlla
Skinnyman - Council Estate of Mind
Shibusashirazu Orchestra - Shibuboshi
Annie - Anniemal
The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan
MIA and Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism

 

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By no of no 1's.

2 no 1's

Los Hermanos - On Another Level

1 no 1

M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts
Horsepower Productions – To The Rescue
Björk - Medúlla
MIA and Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism
A Girl Called Eddie - A Girl Called Eddie
Babylon Circus - Dances of Resistance
Teresa Cristina - A vida me fez assim
Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz - Crunk Juice
Leftover Crack - Fuck World Trade
Zero 7 - When It Falls

Arcade Fire did not get any first position votes.

 

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I went with

Björk - Medúlla
Shibusashirazu Orchestra - Shibuboshi
Keiji Haino - Black Blues (Acoustic)
The Ex - Turn
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Keiji Haino - Black Blues (Electric)
Haco - Stereo Bugscope 00
Yoshihide Tatsuya / Satoko Fuji - Erans
Korekyojinn - Arabesque
Acid Mothers Temple and The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Mantra of Love
Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura & Otomo Yoshihide - Good Morning Good Night
Keith Rowe, Axel Dörner & Franz Hautzinger - A View From the Window

Good Morning Good Night will make you question everything. Especially the question "why am I listening to this?"

 

[Fez909]

Ooof, I missed this thread. Can't believe no one voted for Moodymann - Black Mahogani

In the running for best house album ever, IMO. Truly brilliant.

https://www.discogs.com/master/6257-Moodymann-Black-Mahogani

He also released a part 2 this year, but part 1 is the main event.

Beaten by Arcade Fire, too

 

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This is what happens when you don't vote. Arcade Fire win.

 

[stavros]

My list:

1. Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz - Crunk Juice
2. Murcof - Utopía
3. Wiley - Treddin on Thin Ice
4. The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan
5. Annie - Anniemal
6. Girls Aloud - What Will the Neighbours Say?
7. múm - Summer Made Good
8. The Beta Band - Heroes to Zeros
9. The Delgados - Universal Audio
10. Venetian Snares - Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding
11. JC Chasez - Schizophrenic
12. Squarepusher - Ultravisitor
13. MIA and Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism

When told that he hadn't won, Lil Jon responded, "Whut?!".

 

[DaveCinzano]

Leftover Crack - Fuck World Trade

Without listening to this, and based entirely on band name, cover image and typeface, I think I can identify who voted for this

 

[AverageJoe]

Wow. I think only four of mine made the list. It's almost making me think I was picking albums from the wrong year

Heres mine.


1. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. Isis - Panopticon
4. Slipknot - Volume 3 (The Subliminal Verses)
5. Kasabian - Kasabian
6. Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
7. The Streets - A Grand Dont Come For Free
8. 65 Days of Static - The Fall of Math
9. Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
10. Interpol - Antics
11. Madvillain - Madvillainy
12. The Killers - Hot Fuss
13. Velvet Revolver - Contraband
14. Ministry - Houses Of The Mole
15. Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
16. Beastie Boys - To The Five Boroughs
17. Green Day - American Idiot
18. Elliott Smith - From A Basement On A Hill
19. The Polyphonic Spree - Together We're Heavy
20. Rufus Wainwright - Want 2

 

[Spandex]

My 1 & 2 were soo close to the top this time...

Los Hermanos - On Another Level
Amadou & Mariam – Dimanche À Bamako
Le Dust Sucker
!!! – Louden Up Now
The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Annie - Anniemal
The Emperor Machine – Aimee Tallulah Is Hypnotised
Daddy Yankee - Barrio Fina
Horsepower Productions – To The Rescue
Putsch '79 - Putsch
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts
Raiders Of The Lost ARP – 4
Gwen Stefani – Love.Angel.Music.Baby.
Ada – Blondie
Pet - Ready Player One
Nouvelle Vague
Nathan Coles - Give Me a Break
Seelenluft – The Way We Go
Joris Voorn – Future History
Superpitcher – Here Comes Love

 

[zahir]

My list:

Teresa Cristina - A vida me fez assim
Omara Portuondo - Flor de Amor
Ildo Lobo - Incondicional
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
Aldina Duarte - Apenas o Amor
Neko Case - The Tigers have Spoken
Gal Costa - Todas as coisas e eu
Jolie Holland - Escondida
Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts Now
Jim Lauderdale - Headed for the Hills