Post Your top 11-20 List of 2004...is it more interesting or better than your top 10?

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11. Daby Toure, Diam
12. Trick Daddy, Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets
13. Los Tigres del Norte, Pacto de Sangre
14. Ely Guerra, Sweet & Sour, Hot y Spicy
15. Luiz Gayotto, Fragmentos de Musica Livre e Espontanea
16. Hiromi, Brain
17. Charlie Robison, Good Times
18. Teedra Moses, Complex Simplicity
19. Big & Rich, Horse of a Different Color
20. Don Byron, Ivey-Divey

verdict: "more interesting, but probably not better"

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

If it actually is better, maybe it should be your top 10? :)

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

if it actually is more interesting, maybe it should be your top 10.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

if it is your 11-20 list, maybe there's a reason for that.

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

It might be more interesting to other people, I don't know if there's anything in my top ten which would surprise anyone (mostly because that's the shit I've been going on about all year). I think the whole list probably gets more interesting as it goes down.

11. Teedra Moses, Complex Simplicity
12. Dizzee Rascal, Showtime
13. Brandy, Afrodisiac
14. Emma Bunton, Free Me
15. Christina Milian, It's About Time
16. Shystie, Diamond In The Dirt
17. Scissor Sisters, Scissor Sisters
18. JC Chasez, Schizophrenic
19. Miss Kittin, I Com
20. Lydia Lunch, Smoke In The Shadows

I'm kind of disappointed that none of the grime albums made my top ten. I really expected them to midway through the year. Wiley is like 22.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

like half of yr list would be mine, lex

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

if it is your 11-20 list, maybe there's a reason for that.

Well yes, but the only reason I can think of is because I don't consider the albums in my 11-20 to be as good as those in my top 10. Theoretically speaking anyway, since I haven't compiled such a list.

Unless people are taking other factors besides their own personal opinion of the albums into account... but that's no fun now is it?

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 3 January 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

11. Annie - Anniemal
12. V/A: Ivan Smagghe - Death Disco
13. V/A - Bis Neunzehn
14. Wiley - Treddin' on Thin Ice
15. Petey Pablo - Still Writing In My Diary
16. Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
17. Michael Mayer - Touch
18. Christina Milian - It's About Time
19. Lucien-N-Luciano - Blind Behaviour
19. Superpitcher - Here Comes Love
20. V/A - Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats

Hovering around the edges: Tiefschwarz - Misch Masch; Ellen Allien - My Parade; Princess Him - More Equal Than The Others; Ricardo Villalobos - Theorem etc.; Kanye West - The College Dropout; V/A - See You At The Party; Headman - Dance Moderne; Ivan Smagghe - Suck My Deck; Kompakt 100; !!! - Louden Up Now; Fiery Furnances - Blueberry Boat; New Buffalo - The Last Beautiful Day; that Knowledge Inperspective comp.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

how would it be "better"? i don't get that, unless we changed our minds. more interesting is another question though. these are off the top of my head (which is fried after collating 700 pazz and jop ballots), and needless to say i am probably forgetting a bunch. also, these are in the order i remember them, now how much i like them, ok?:

gretchen wilson
wolf eyes
third unheard: connecticut hip-hop compilation
montgomery gentry
numbers band
witchcraft
lil wayne
ewigkeit
dna
crunk classics compilation

― chuck, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

i meant "NOT how much i like them". (though actually they probably ARE more or less in the order of how i like them, come to think of it.)

― chuck, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

11 A.C. Newman, Slow Wonder
12 Brian Wilson, Smile
13 Eagles of Death Metal, Peace Love Death Metal
14 Charalambides, Joy Shapes
15 People Like Us, Abridged Too Far
16 Coachwhips, Bangers v. Fuckers
17 An Albatross, Eat Lightning Shit Thunder
18 Ghost, Hypnotic Underworld
19 Devin tha Dude, To Tha X-Treme
20 Gris Gris, Gris Gris

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

11.The Blood Brothers-Crimes
12.V/A-Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats
13.Mountain Goats-We Shall All Be Healed
14.Big and Rich-Horse of a Different Color
15.DJ/Rupture-Special Gunpowder
16.Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra-Who Is THis America?
17.Franz Ferdinand-S/T
18.Junior Boys-Last Exit
19.Nellie McKay-Get Away From Me
20.Les Savy Fav-Inches

That's from a weeks ago. I've been listening to the /Rupture album a lot more lately and would probably place it higher if I made the list today.

― C0L1N B--KETT, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

Tim, I'm suprised you like the New Buffalo record. (although, to be fair I haven't heard many of the songs recorded and Sally's scurvy-chic could've just put me off when I saw her live).

― C0L1N B--KETT, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

11. Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz - Crunk Juice
12. Sixtoo - Chewing On Glass & Other Miracle Cures
13. various artists - Channel 3: a compilation of Output Recordings
(compilation)
14. Dizee Rascal - Showtime
15. Felix Da Housecat - Devin Dazzle & The Neon Fever
16. Eagles Of Death Metal - Peace Love Death Metal
17. RTX - Transmaniacon
18. Phoenix - Alphabetical
19. Doctor Mix & The Remix - Wall Of Noise (reissue)
20. various artists - How To Kill The DJ Part Two (mix & compilation)

My 11-20 is probably not quite as "trad" as the top 10. Not that any of these are, like, waaaay out there or anything!

I think I actually meant to put the Air album where the Phoenix album is, too. Duh, go me.

― haitch™ (haitch), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 05:16 (twenty years ago)

I guess the reason these didn't make my Top Ten (other having to cram everything into *one* Top Ten; taking away Reissues eternally fucks P&J, much more so than bandwagon bandwagging) is that I didn't feel compelled to put them in my Top Ten. The order might have changed if the ballot actually had this many slots, but it woud have gone something like this:
11. Drive-By Truckers--THE DIRTY SOUTH
12. Ghost--HYPNOTIC UNDERWORLD
13. Cyndi Boste--SCRAMBLED EGGS (THE ROSE ST. SESSIONS)
14. Big & Rich--HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR
15. Miles Davis--BIRDLAND 1951
16. GRIME
17. Arthur Russell--CALLING OUT OF CONTEXT
18. Metal Boys featuring China--TOKIO AIRPORT
19. Benny Lackner Trio--NOT THE SAME
20. Shukar--BEAR TAMER'S MUSIC
If only Gogol Bordello vs. Tamil Muskat's JUF and the Subliminal Sounds comp THAI BEAT A-GO-GO had a couple more hot tracks each, they would have been on this list, if not(probably!) the Top Ten. But couldn't just ify incl.something half hot/half not-so-hot. Not without room for a waring label.

― don, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

I like the idea of this thread, I usually find the second ten albums from everyone's lists are more varied and interesting.

11. Bjork - Medulla
12. The Yellow Swans - Bring The Neon War Home
13. Kanye West - College Dropout
14. Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
15. Jim Guthrie - Now, More Than Ever
16. Mastodon - Leviathan
17. DFA Compilation #2
18. Excepter - KA
19. Sunn0))) - White2
20. Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles

― reed (smile), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

GRIME being the Rephlex comp; BEAR TAMERS MUSIC without the apostrophe, and "warning" label, though a warring label might also prove useful. If I had a third tier:
21. Arthur Russell--WORLD OF ECHO
22. Mastodon--LEVIATHAN
23. Ladies W.C.--s/t
24. Pere Ubu--ONE MAN DRIVES etc
25. 52nd Street Blues Project--BLUES & GRASS (Blood Ulmer, Charlie Burnham & Co., even more harmolodically down home than on ODYSSEY)
26. Nancy McCallion--s/t (solo debut of Mollys mainperson. Not as great as she can be and/or they could be, but good; in my Nashville Scene Top Ten)
27.I dunno: Gretchen Wilson? David Thomas and 2 Pale Boys? Haven't listened enough to that one. Lots of stuff! I gotta go

― don, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Wiley - Treddin' On Thin Ice
Junior Boys - Last Exit
Coachwhips - Bangers Vs Fuckers
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Hella - The Devil Isn't Red
Help She Can't Swim - Fashionista Super Dance Troupe
Snack Truck - Harpoon
Sunn0))) - White2
Descendents - Cool To Be You
RTX - Transmaniacon

excluding comps and reissues

― DJ Mencap0))), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

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