Urban75 Album of the Year 2004

[chilango]

Mine:

Babylon Circus - Dances of Resistance

Inner Terrestrials - X

Le Tigre - This Island

Amadou & Mariam -

M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts

Jolie Holland -Escondida

The (International) Noise Conspiracy -

Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts Now

Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture

The Hives -

Arcade Fire - Funeral

 

[belboid]

I never got my shit together for this one. Had I done so, Arcade Fire might have won by even more, Le Tigre might have made the top ten and Go! Team and Loretta Lynne would have made the chart somewhere.

 

[Knotted]

So? What next?

1954?

2014 revisit?

 

[stethoscope]

Can we get on with 1995 now?!

 

[zedr]

ah sorry, totally dipped out of this.

my list probably would have looked something like this...

65dos - the fall of math
madvillain - madvillainy
corea - los peores 7km de mi Vida
the go team - thunder lightning strike
circle takes the square - as the roots undo
mclusky - the difference between me and you..
MF doom - mm food
kimya dawson - hidden vagenda
hives
horsepower productions

 

[Knotted]

Talking of Kimya Dawson, this is all over social media ATM

 

[hitmouse]

My list was:

Leftover Crack - Fuck World Trade
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me
Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
Saul Williams - Saul Williams
Le Tigre - This Island
Dead Prez - Revolutionary But Gangsta
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
Futureheads - Futureheads
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Magnetic Fields - i
Jello Biafra & the Melvins - Never Breathe What You Can’t See
Skinnyman - Council Estate of Mind
Casual Dots - Casual Dots
Dogs Die in Hot Cars - Please Describe Yourself
Inner Terrestrials - X
Nasum - Shift
The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
!!! - Louden Up Now
Kimya Dawson - My Cute Fiend Sweet Princess
Ministry - Houses of the Mole
Venomous Concept - Retroactive Abortion
Walkmen - Bows & Arrows

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

Will confess to a spot of tactical voting there, I think that by most conventional standards of what makes an album "good" or an album cover "not completely stupid" I might have to rate Funeral higher than Fuck World Trade, but I thought Arcade Fire would probably still do alright without the boost of my #1 spot.

So? What next?

1954?

2014 revisit?

Yeah, roll on 2014.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Zero 7 - When It Falls
Bruce Langhorne - The Hired Hand
Evil Nine - You Can Be Special Too
Los Hermanos - On Another Level
AIR - Talkie Walkie
Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
Étienne de Crécy - Super Discount 2
The Egg - Forwards
Horsepower Productions - To the Rescue
DJ Marky & XRS - In Rotation
DeVotchKa - How It Ends
Loscil - First Narrows
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Virðulegu forsetar
The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan
Husky Rescue - Country Falls
Richard Bartz - Midnight Man
Putsch 79 - Putsch
Devendra Banhart - Niño rojo
65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math
Two Lone Swordsmen - From the Double Gone Chapel
Filteria - Sky Input

 

[ska invita]

Bruce Langhorne - The Hired Hand

this is making a good soundtrack for this sad new dawn

 

[stavros]

So? What next?

1954?

2014 revisit?

It's got to be 2014, because I'm fucked if I can remember what I might've voted for back then. My opinions may have changed even if I could.

 

[zahir]

So? What next?

1954?

2014 revisit?

2014

 

[The39thStep]

Indeliblelink Full marks for Zero & and Jóhann Jóhannsson which I would have put somewhere in my list if they had been brought to my attention

1. A Girl Called Eddie
2. Bark Psychosis- Operation Dustsucker
3. The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan
4. Jolie Holland - Escondida
5. Max Richter-The Blue Notebook
6. The Organ - Grab That Gun
7. M83 -Dead Cities
8. Loscil- First Narrows
9. The Earlies - These Were The Earlies
10. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
11. Interpol- Antics
12. Arcade Fire -Funeral
13. Dead Combo- Vol 1.
14. Shibusashirazu Orchestra - (Shibuboshi)
15. Lambchop- Aw C'mon / No You C'mon
16. Lali Puna ‎– Faking The Books
17. The Album Leaf - In A Safe Place
18. Kings Of Convenience -Riot On and Empty Street
19. Sylvain Cahuveau- Des plumes Dans Le Tete
20. Mum- Summer Make Good

 

[zahir]

Here's one I missed.

Yasmin Levy - Romance & Yasmin

 

[ska invita]

Here's one I missed.

Yasmin Levy - Romance & Yasmin

Really interesting, thanks for posting it. On first listen I presumed Turkish but discogs says "Singer/songwriter of Judeo-Spanish music, born 23 December 1975 in Jerusalem, Israel. In her music she combines medieval Ladino/Judeo-Spanish music with elements of Andalusian Flamenco and Turkish music as well as instruments like the darbuka, oud, violin, cello, and piano. Her debut album "Romance & Yasmin" was released in 2000." (incidentally those tracks you posted are from the 2000 debut, the 2004 album is this one https://www.discogs.com/master/1154742-Yasmin-Levy-La-Judería and is more spanish influenced from what i can hear at a glance)

 

[zahir]

Really interesting, thanks for posting it. On first listen I presumed Turkish but discogs says "Singer/songwriter of Judeo-Spanish music, born 23 December 1975 in Jerusalem, Israel. In her music she combines medieval Ladino/Judeo-Spanish music with elements of Andalusian Flamenco and Turkish music as well as instruments like the darbuka, oud, violin, cello, and piano. Her debut album "Romance & Yasmin" was released in 2000." (incidentally those tracks you posted are from the 2000 debut, the 2004 album is this one https://www.discogs.com/master/1154742-Yasmin-Levy-La-Judería and is more spanish influenced from what i can hear at a glance)

Yes, my copy of the CD says 2004 but that seems to be the European release with the original release in Israel in 2000. She got quite a bit of publicity at the time and I can't remember any indication that the album had been already been kicking around for a few years. Maybe that was a marketing decision.

The material on Romance & Yasmin consists of old Ladino songs from Turkey performed in a more contemporary Turkish style. The albums she's done since haven't really matched up to it. Anyway here's another track with a translation. It's the kind of thing you might expect to find in rebetika songs from the same period. There are some Ladino songs with medieval roots but this is more late Ottoman / early 20th century.



Since the age of fifteen
I started to make love
To a young bandit
Who managed to steal my heart.

My beloved's profession
Is being a thief and a gambler
I hope he will keep the ceiling over our our heads
From the hands of the police

Thirty liras he wants from me
I will give him thirty one
I hope he will use it in his profession
in profession of winning