In General: Your Favorite Music Things in 2004

New Music I Enjoyed In 2004
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Annie - Anniemal
Butchershop Quartet - Rites of Spring
Casual Dots - s/t
Cocorosie - La Maison Du Mon Reve
Electrelane - The Power Out
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Futureheads - s/t
Hot Snakes - Audit In Progress
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy
Poster Children - No More Songs About Sleep and Fire
Q And Not U - Power
Sea Snakes - Clear As Dat, The Darkest Tools
Sharkquest - Gods and Devils
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
Sons & Daughters - Love the Cup
Ssion - Opportunity Bless My Soul
The Mice - For Almost Ever Scooter
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
Trouble Everyday - Days Vs. Nights
V/A - Bandwidth
V/A - I Can't Get That Evil Wiener Song Out of My Head

Best Shows I Saw In 2004
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Kinski / Constantines: SXSW, March 2004
Cardigans: Maxwells, May 2004
Patrick Wolf: Piano's, May 2006
Mergefest / Superchunk: Cat's Cradle, July 2004
Guided By Voices Karaoke: Tonic, August 2004
Electrelane: Transit, September 2004
The Futureheads: Transit, October 2004
Jah Division: Tonic, October 2004
Fiery Furnaces: Khyber, October 2004
Nancy Sinatra: World Cafe, November 2004
Travis Morrison: Khyber, November 2004

Best Shows I Booked In 2004
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Dresden Dolls: Doc Watson's, February 2004
Head of Femur: Doc Watson's, February 2004
Sons & Daughters: Doc Watson's, March 2004
Metal Urbain: Tritone, April 2004
Quails: Millcreek Tavern, May 2004
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone: Tritone, July 2004
This Radiant Boy: Tritone, July 2004
Gravy Train!!!: Silk City, July 2004
Jim Guthrie: Tritone, August 2004
Medium Medium: Tritone, October 2004
Ariel Pink: Tritone, October 2004
(And by "best," I really mean "laughably worst".)
The Nein: Silk City, December 2004

Awesome Band Award of 2004
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Dragon City, for being so gosh darn good!

pasture music festival & jubillee: jul. 17-18@aspen farm, soldier's grove, wisconsin. (mv&ee, wwvv, skaters, dreamhouse, christina carter, black forest/black sea, pelt, jack rose, blithe sons, born heller, davenport, isle of citadel, black twig pickers, spires that in the sunset rise, son of earth,...)

No Fun Fest: march sometime.. northisx, nyc; (dead machines, wolf eyes, jkae, newton & tan as fuck, knifestorm & unicorn hard on, squelchers, sightings, double leopards, rubber-o-cement, pita, humectant interruption...)

other good shows: wolf eyes & dbl leps & temple of bon matin, sunroof & vibracathedral (or was that 2003?), taiwan deth, hepatitis youth @ school, bunnybrains, espers & nnck, simon finn/virgin eye/nnck, ghost & p.g. six, khanate & orthrelm (2003 or 4?), acid mothers temple

sloan "false alarm"

seeing Trouble Everyday kick ass opening for a local band in a bar in State College and then seeing Trouple Everyday kick ass opening for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on a pier in Philedelphia

Siren Festival 2004! My first music festival ever!

Mission of Burma, who I couldn't have fathomed getting to see live back in high school, making jump up and down to a cover of the Wiper's "Youth Of America" twice in one year

the ridiculous amount of good music blogs in existence, mp3 or otherwise

I got to replace my Swell Maps cassettes with CDs! Finally!!! Like a year or two after "BLAM!" was in a Toyota ad!

the videos for Maroon 5's "She Will Be Loved," The Killers' "Mr. Brightside," Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Y Control" and R. Kelly's "U Saved Me."

Mountain Goats, Hot Snakes and the Talkie Walkies in three straight nights. And those were just the headliners. You big city folk don't know how good you've got it.

the massive amount of mix-CDs I got in exchange for my 3CD-R Fall comp. It was sooooooooo worth all the trips to the post office.

(also "trouple everyday" is trouble everyday and MoB made me jump up and down to the Wipers)

the Can reissues
the Swell Maps reissues
the Cure "Three imaginary boys" (reissue)
Monoshock "Runnin' ape"
Tower Recordings "Galaxies' incredibly sensual"
The Church "Forget yourself"
Comets On Fire "Blue cathedral"
Les Rallizes Denudes "Le 12 mars"
Oneida "Splittin' peaches"

there are lots of other things i liked (Dungen, Gris Gris, Joanna Newsom, Circle, Animal Collective, Wolf Eyes, some Fiery Furnaces songs, the Robbie Williams greatest hits, Air's "Cherry Blossom Girl" and on and on). It was a good year for me.

These were my favorite CD purchases (with dates noted for ones from the last couple years):

Mohammed Abdel Wahab: Khayef Akoul [BGCD6060]
Ali Aldik: Aloush [2004]
Asmahan: s/t [ASMCD 601]
J.S. Bach: Six Partitas [performed on harpsichord by Parmentier]
David Bowie: The Best of Bowie
Angel Canales: Sabor con Angel Canales
Cooper-Moore/Assif Tsahar: America [2003]
John Fahey: Red Cross [2003]
Fairuz: Safarbarlek/Bint el-Harass
Farid el Atrache: Wehyat Eineri
Susie Ibarra: Folkloriko [2004]
Joe Cuba Sextette [featuring Cheo Feliciano on vocals]: Diggin' the Most
Hector Lavoe: The Fania "Legends of Salsa," Vol. 2
Nazem AlGhazali: Vol. 1
Youssou N'Dour: Egypt [2004]
Oum Kalthoum: Al Aamal/Zekraiatt [SONO 123]
Oum Kalthoum: Nahj El Borda (live)
William Parker: Scrapbook [2003]
Willie Rosario: Atazame el Fogon [reissued 2004]
Simon Shaheen/Ali Jihad Racy: Taqasim
Sonora Poncena: Back to the Road [2004]
Sonora Poncena: Grandes Exitos
Riad el Sounbatti: Roubaiyat el Khayam
The Sawt in Kuwait [2004]
Spanish Harlem Orchestra: Across 110th Street [2004]
Sun Ra: Pathways to Unknown Worlds/Friendly Love
Sun Ra: Live in Montreux
Sahar Taha and Omar Bashir: Baghdadiyat
Matthew Shipp: Equilibrium [2003]
Various: Maqams of Syria
Various: Salsa con Sabor
Various: Si Soy Llanero [2004]
Neil Young: Decade
Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps

junior boys 'last exit'
fennesz 'venice'
optimo 'how to kill the DJ part 2'
ada 'blondie'
oren ambarchi 'grapes from the estates'
espers 'espers'
MV + EE 'fantastic string music: ragas & blues' / 'moon jook' (esentially two complementary pieces)
villalobos 'the au harem d'archimede'
bark psychosis 'codename: dustsucker'

ten reissues -

arthur russell 'world of echo' / 'the world of...' / 'calling out of context' / '24-24 music'
morgan geist 'unclassics'
donna mcghee 'make it last forever'
tower recordings 'the futuristic folk of the tower recordings'
theo parrish 'parallel dimensions'
cloud one 'atmosphere strut'
can the remasters (bring on 'future days'/'soon over...'!!)
homosexuals 'astral glamour'
dean roberts '... plays the grand cinema'
hototogisu 'floating japanese gardens...'

ten tracks -

britney - 'toxic'
mya ft chingy 'fallen (zone 4 rmx)'
alicia keys - 'you don't know my name'
luciano + serafin 'funk excursion'
streets 'blinded by the lights'
dj koze 'brutalga square'
phonique 'the red dress (tiefschwarz rmx)'
soulwax 'ny excuse (12 inch version)'
lady sovereign 'ch ching'
snoop dogg 'drop it like it's hot'

shows: double leopards. tower recordings. the dead c. charlemagne palestine. fennesz. animal collective. jack rose. others i cant recall on the spot.

songwriters:
Allison Moorer
Tanya Stephens
T.I.
Charlie Robison
Gustavo Cordera, Juan Carlos Subira, Tito Verenzuela (all from Bersuit Vergabarat)
Teedra Moses
Alex Dezen (from the Damnwells)
Jarda Svoboda (from Traband)
Daby Toure

Joanna Newsom @ Open End Gallery (April)
Sonic Youth @ The Vic (July)
United State of Electronica @ Gigantic (NYC) (October)
Mouse on Mars @ The Hideout Block Party (September)
(some other show I'm forgetting but it obviously couldn't have been that memorable, I guess)

This is an old idea, but I've been hearing about it, if not actually hearing it, a lot this year.

KRS-One
Sea Ray (for whom a band I keyboard for opened)
De La Soul
Reverend Horton Heat (2x)
HairyapesBMX
The Legendary Shack Shakers
Lifesavas
Rahzel
Split Lip Rayfield
Twinemen
amazingly large assortment of local asshats, er, bands

Scissor Sisters
The Arcade Fire
Pharcyde

As for shows, best this year for me would probably be Acid Mothers Temple/Earthless in San Diego, Pixies in San Diego and A Perfect Circle/Mars Volta in Long Beach. And the Squirrels in Seattle, but I always know that's going to be great.

ndie music is for prison gays you fucking dickheads.

Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?

oh yes, I really enjoyed the Crispy ambulance and Winston Tong albums...

Where do you find this, other than El Gran Silencio? I love them, and would love to know of anything else like them (i.e., regional Mexican/Colombian styles with hip-hop beats, that's pretty much their core). I suppose you could add Ozomatli or the Kumbia Kings, but I'm not nearly as impressed with either. Anyway, if this is some kind of trend, it's (welcome) news to me.

NEW MUSIC:
Animal Collective - "Sung Tongs"
Blonde Redhead - "Misery is a Butterfly"
Blood Brothers - "Crimes"
Dizzee Rascal - "Showtime"
The Fall - "The Real New Fall LP (Formerly 'Country on the Click')"
Junior Boys - "Last Exit"
Liars - "They Were Wrong, So We Drowned"
McLusky - "The Difference Between You and Me is I'm Not on Fire"
MF Doom - "Mm..Food", Madvillain - "Madvillainy"
RTX - "Transmaniacon"

STUFF THAT ISN'T NEW BUT IS NEW TO ME OR WAS JUST REISSUED:
Les Savy Fav - "Inches"
Talking Heads - "The Name of This Band is the Talking Heads"
Frankie Knuckles - "Your Love" (the song)
The United States of America - s/t
The Homosexuals - "Homosexuals CD"
Royal Trux - entire back catalogue
Sparks - "Kimono My House," "Propaganda"
Nas - "Illmatic"
The Urinals - "Negative Capability"
Them - "The Story of Them"

ahh two of all time favorites!

my favorite music things this year were listening to the nothing but hip-hop and r and b radio station that starts to come in an hour and a half into my drive home and the tapes i listened in the car otherwise by the likes of janet jackson, def leppard, echo and the bunnymen, b-52s, young mc, steely dan, et al.

umm and my favorite new albums were SHOWTIME and PRETTY TONEY and then THUG MARITMONEY and KING OF CRUNK. 2 THA EXTREME IS nice too, but i just got it!

also w/the reissues: ARTHUR RUSSEL, BRIAN ENO and HOMOSEXCUALS

2. Why does someone on that board have as an avatar MY Max Tundra album-cover-in-MS-Paint?!?

Posted on Thu, Dec. 23, 2004
Rapper Lil J is attuned to the real world

By RAMIRO BURR

San Antonio Express-News

SAN ANTONIO - With Latin hip-hop's rising popularity, more rappers are coming on the scene, but only a few "keep it real," says Houston rapper Lil J.

"In today's hip-hop society, many artists don't bring it how they live it," Lil J said. "In my case, I bring it how I live it and people respect real because real recognizes real. In other words, I don't rap about fairy tales, but only real-life experiences. Also, I have a variety of sounds from tracks for the ladies to feel exotic, to kicking some knowledge, to keeping it ghetto."

Lil J is riding the momentum of a new hit single, "Un Puno De Tierra '04," a radical version of the old norteno cumbia classic by pioneer accordionist Ramon Ayala.

Lyrically, the song takes a philosophical approach to the value of material things when folks pass on into the next world.

As for the music... well, traditionalists can't be blamed for scratching their heads. The song is a hard-core rap tune that blends Ayala's norteno swing with raw beats.

Lil J said it took a while, but he was able to persuade the legendary Ayala to come into the studio with him late last year to record the remake.

"We had been talking to him for a while, and at first he was a skeptic," he said. "But when we showed what we were doing he became interested."

While Lil J believes he influenced other Texas rappers looking to blend norteno with rap, on the West Coast, groups like Akwid and Mexiclan also have mixed traditional styles with hip-hop.

"We put out this norteno/hip-hop song out as my first solo-single and made history with it," Lil J said. "I think that showed [other rappers] that they better be creative with their next project."

The melding of urban and traditional rhythms is a natural evolution, says DJ Khool Aid, who is behind the Los Angeles-based syndicated Latin hip-hop radio show "Pocosperolocos.fm."

Khool Aid adds: "This music has been on the street for 10 years. Some label guys just gave it a name [urban regional], but it really is more like Latin hip-hop. The music works because the kids get the hip-hop they like mixed with the Mexican music they grew up listening to, like Ramon Ayala and the other oldies. So right away you feel good because it's the hip stuff with your early influences."

"Un Puno De Tierra '04" appears on Lil J's new CD, "Time 4 Change" (Done Deal). Produced by Lil J, Russell Lee of the Lone Star Ridaz and DJ Ice, the CD features several guest artists, including Slim Thug, Seven, Candyman and Phreez.

Other tunes describe life in the ghetto, such as "Type of Mexican" and "Right Here."

In the expanding world of Latin hip-hop, Lil J is considered part of the hard-core wave that also would include SPM, Kemo the Blaxican and Chingo Bling. A smoother, R&B wing of the movement is led by artists such as Frankie J and Baby Bash, while the middle is straddled by cumbia fusionists such as the Kumbia Kings and ATM.

Inquirer music critic Tom Moon said something similar to what I was saying above, in this Sunday's paper:

Some of the most energetic rhyming (and production ideas) came from unexpected locales, among them Miami, the childhood home of Chinese American rapper Jin; Mexico, the birthplace of the Gomez brothers of the group Akwid, and Corpus Christi, Texas, where the Kumbia Kings began.

Interestingly, these acts came along at a time when the commercial front line of hip-hop has gone formulaic if not stale. . . . For that reason, they deserved significant coverage, as harbingers of a hip-hop sea change. Jin won't make anyone forget Tupac, but his singular delivery is unique, and his themes go beyond misogyny and gunplay--among the highlights of this long-delated The Rest is History (Virgin) are the linguistic lunge "Learn Chinese" and the Kanye West-produced "I Got a Love."

And though there methods differ, both the Kumbia Kings and Akwid broaden the hip-hop vocabulary--by dropping lyrics in English and Spanish, and Spanglish (Akwid's amazing current release is titled Hoy, Ayer and Forever), and by incorporating signature elements of traditional Latin music. The Kumbia Kings, produced by the Selena's brother, A.B. Quintanilla, play a loose, swaggering, electronically goosed version of the stately Colombian cumbia, while Akwid borrows blaring mariachi brass and Afro-Cuban percussion to fortify age-old son montuno rhythms and canny updates of reggae.

(I'm not sure what he could possibly mean by fortifying son montuno with Afro-Cuban percussion though. Unless there is a Mexican "son montuno" that didn't derive from Cuba. I know genre names sometimes get re-used for very different genres. I'm not interested in supporting what he says, either, just offering some sources with names and opinions. If I recall, he predicted hip-hop's demise around ten years ago, maybe more. I could be confusing him with another Inky critic though, but I doubt it.)

Random stuff new and old I liked; Arthur Russell (obv), Anything with DJ Smallz' name on it, Black Dice, Moodymann, Areal, Border Community releases that I've heard, Teedra Moses, the new Prince, RTX, Devin The Dude, Cheryl Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, anything Terra Danjah did, bloodclaat jungle (thanks to gaz and Alex), Misc., Le Dust Sucker, Crazy Titch mixtape, Bay Area hip hop even if some of it is patently crap, Pharoah Sanders, Morgan Geist's Unclassics, Bombay Beats, Skinnyman, Low, The Streets, Devendra Banhart, Linda Perhacs, Chaka Khan/Rufus "Sweet Thing", vocals like Raz O'Hara and Chelonis R. Jones, and listening to Boy In Da Corner after some time away from it and realizing it's still fucking amazing.

Yeah, I should probably edit that.

1. Stooges Brass Band, It's About Time
2. Dizzee Rascal, Showtime
3. Rebirth Brass Band, Rebirth 4 Life
4. Tom Waits, Real Gone
5. Junior Boys, Last Exit
6. Tortoise, It's All Around You
7. Bjork, Medulla
8. Smoosh, She Like Electric
9. New Birth Brass Band, New Birth Family
10. Machine Drum, Bidnezz

NEW TO ME MUSIC/REISSUES/BLAH ETC.

Tied + Tickled Trio, Observing Systems (I can't state this enough)
Tha Alkaholiks, X.O. Experience (my favorite hip-hop album of the year even though it came out in '01 or whatever)
Jackson 5, Anthology
Janet Jackson, All for You
Kylie Minogue, Body Language
Boards of Canada, Music for Children
Matthew Herbert, Bodily Functions

You can hear this stuff on any Spanish-language station, pretty much; I don't really think Kumbia Kings are anything more than the new Chicano Menudo, anymore, and DJ Kane's album was a snooze, but David Rolas' album was pretty hot (sequencing for shit though), and any recent Celso Pina album will clue you in: he's had collabs with King Chango, Cafe Tacuba, Julieta Venegas, Natalia Lafourcade, all of 'em. This music is best when it's not just rap en espanol, but rather (like Perez' albums) it is more regional than urban, so that the rap stuff and the r&b stuff comes thru in a more surprising way. Other great acts: Crooked Stilo, Flakiss.

Arcade Fire – S/T
Laura Veirs – Carbon Glacier
Animal Collective – Sung Tongs
The Clouds – S/T
The Gris Gris – S/T
Interpol – Antics
August Engkilde Presents EPO – EPO
Cyann & Ben – Happy Like An Autumn Tree
The Hold Steady – Almost Killed Me
The Streets – A Grand Don’t Come For Free
Converge – You Fail Me
The Comas – Conductor
The Dead Texan – S/T
Jukeboxer – In The Food Chain
Mastodon – Leviathan
Subtle – A New White
Isis – Panopticon
Robyn Hitchcock – Spooked
Growing – Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of the Light
The Minor Times – Making Enemies
Pig Destroyer – Terrifyer
The New Year – The End is Near
Haunted House – La Vida…
Wrangler Brutes – Zulu

NEWTOME/REISSSSUE:

Nina Nastasia - Dogs
Davide Balula – Pellicule
Harvey Milk - Kelly Sessions
The Homosexuals - Homosexuals CD
The First Blind Guardian
My Dying Bride - Like Gods of Sun
This Mortal Coil

also liked Eats Tapes at the Bassment and Keith Fullerton Whitman at WFMU / Tonic

TG were jawdroppingly great but had the unfortunate side effect of making most of the noise shows I saw this year seem retro, right down to the mosh pit at the Wolf Eyes show. I think TG should tour.

It's great! A lot of the songs have piano where I would have preferred more crunchy synth like Massive Cure, and most of them aren't as weird beat-wise, but all the songs are awesome.

Hey, she's part of the Christopher Guest improv crew these days -- she was great in A Mighty Wind

Xiu Xiu
Arcade Fire
Jake Fairley
Tim Hecker
The Delgados
The Cure
Death In Vegas
Beef Terminal
Oren Ambarchi
Taylor Deupree
Marz
Felix da Housecat
ddamage
Orbital
Mr. Brian Wilson
Deerhoof

A BIT DISAPPOINTING

Fennesz (good, but disappointing, but such comments will come with the territory when you are as brilliant as Mr. Fennesz)
RJD2
PJ Harvey (actually, this one wasn't a bit disappointing, it was a lot disappointing)
Villalobos
Mum (so boring)
Magnetic Fields (see Fennesz comment)
Black Dice

PLEASANT SURPRISES

The Orb
The Ex (Dutch anarchists to dancepunks: fuck off, we can do this better than you)
Rachel Goswell -- "Coastline" (a surprise because the rest of the album was shit)

NEW TO ME, REISSUES, AND STUFF THAT I FINALLY GOT AROUND TO LISTENING TO IN 2004

Galaxie 500
Magnetic Fields
Donnacha Costello
The Cure -- "Disintegration"
William Basinski
Bob Dylan -- "Bootleg Series Vol 6"
Darkthrone

GIGS

I didn't see too many gigs this year (probably my fewest since 1998), but these were the best:

In Support of Living (Wavelength @ Sneaky Dee's, May 2004)
The Delgados (Lee's Palace, Oct 2004)
Kraftwerk (Berlin Tempodrom, March 2004)
The Ex/Han Bennink (Lee's Palace, May 2004)

1. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free (album of the 21st century so far)
2. Erlend Oye - DJ Kicks
3. Gonzales - Solo Piano
4. Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
5. Air - Talkie Walkie
6. !!! - Louden Up Now
7. Brian Wilson - Smile
8. The Other Leading Brand - Milkshake X Infinity
9. Various Artists - Fired Up!
10. Bark Psychosis - Codename Dustsucker

Singles of the Year:
1. Franz Ferdinand - "Take Me Out"
2. Fatboy Slim feat. Lateef - "Wonderful Night"
3. The Libertines - "Can't Stand Me Now"
4. The Scissor Sisters - "Take Your Mama"
5. Modest Mouse - "Float On"
6. Belle and Sebastian - "Your Cover's Blown"
7. Beastie Boys - "Ch-Check It Out"
8. Snoop Dogg - "Drop It Like It's Hot"
9. Apathy - "It Takes a Seven Nation Army to Hold Us Back"
10. The Prodigy - "Girls"
11. Armand van Helden - "Hear My Name"
12. Air - "Surfing on a Rocket"
13. The Beta Band - "Assessment"
14. The Scissor Sisters - "Laura"
15. Girls Aloud - "Love Machine"
16. Annie - "Chewing Gum"
17. Madrugada - "Song of Majesty"
18. Air - "Alone in Kyoto"
19. U2 - "Vertigo"
20. Gonzales - "Salon Salloon" (not really a single)

Music Writng of the year:
1. Mark Prindle's thoughts on the US presidential election poorly-disguised as an Air Miami EP review
2. Adam Alphabet on the death of ODB
3. Swells sets the record straight on grime.

Video of the Year: The Real Tuesday Weld - "Bathtime in Clerkenwell"

Very Disappointing:
Zero 7 - When It Falls
Eminem - Encore
that Pet Shop Boys Rammstein remix

Compilation of the Year: Slowdive - Catch the Breeze Anthology

Album Title of the Year: Solex - The Laughing Stock of Indie Rock

Worst Album Title of the Year: PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her

Why the Fuck Isn't Anybody Going Totally Bonkers Over:
Fatboy Slim feat. Lateef - "Wonderful Night"
Gonzales - Solo Piano

Why the Fuck Is Everybody Going Totally Bonkers Over:
grime
You Are the Quarry
M.I.A.
"Lose My Breath"

Sad to See You Go: Peelie, Dave Blood, The Beta Band, ODB, Lollapalooza 2004

Glad to See You Go: Creed

Baby Please Don't Go: Dean Ween, Marc Almond, Andy Bell, Pete Doherty/The Libertines

Oh, You'd Better Go Now: R.E.M., The Festive Fifty, iPods

Worst Band Ever: Simple Plan

Worst Thing Ever: GOPunk.

Roll on 2005:
A Guy Called Gerald - To All Things What They Need
Underworld - Untitled
Daft Punk - Human After All
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Sin City
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Beck - Untitled (produced by the Dust Brothers!)
Erasure - Nightbird

* Polysics - Polysics or Die
* Big and Rich - Horse of a Different Color
* Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin
* Bowling For Soup - A Hangover You Don't Deserve
* Alison Krauss & Union Station - Lonely Runs Both Ways
* Lali Puna - Faking the Books
* Frausdots - Couture, Couture, Couture

Stuff I liked, not year specific:

* Alice Cooper - Flush the Fashion
* Alice Cooper - From the Inside
* The Books - The Lemon of Pink
* Eve and the Last Waltz - Love Boat
* Tesla - Five Man Acoustical Jam
* Bon Jovi - Bounce
* Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes

Singles:

Christina Milian
Girls Aloud