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W& H WRITERS TOP ALBUMS OF 2004
TIM PEACOCK
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1. MARK LANEGAN - "BUBBLEGUM" (BEGGARS BANQUET)
2. CLAYHILL - "SMALL CIRCLE" (EAT SLEEP)
3. U2 - "HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB" (ISLAND)
4. RAZORLIGHT - "UP ALL NIGHT" (VERTIGO)
5. THE FUTUREHEADS - "THE FUTUREHEADS" (679 RECORDINGS)
6. NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - "ABBATOIR BLUES/ THE LYRE OF ORPHEUS" (MUTE)
7. THE BELLES - "OMERTA" (EAT SLEEP)
8. WILCO - "A GHOST IS BORN" (NONESUCH)
9. VINNY PECULIAR - "GROWING UP WITH VINNY PECULIAR" (SHADRACK & DUXBURY)
10. SIOBHAN PARR - "REPEAT TO FADE" (IRL)
11. HIDDEN CAMERAS - "MISSISSAUGA GODDAM" (ROUGH TRADE)
12. BLUES EXPLOSION - "DAMAGE" (MUTE)
13. ROCKY VOTOLATO - "SUICIDE MEDICINE" (SORE POINT)
14. ADEM - "HOMESONGS" (DOMINO)
15. JAMES YORKSTON & THE ATHLETES - "JUST BEYOND THE RIVER" (DOMINO)
16. GOLDEN VIRGINS - "SONGS OF PRAISE" (XL RECORDINGS)
17. THE EARLIES - "THESE WERE THE EARLIES" (679 RECORDINGS)
18. THE SHINS - "CHUTES TOO NARROW" (SUB POP)
19. THE LIBERTINES - "THE LIBERTINES" (ROUGH TRADE)
20. LOUIS ELIOT - "THE LONG WAY ROUND" (IRL)
21. MISSION OF BURMA - "ON OFF ON" (MATADOR)
22. !!! - "LOUDEN UP NOW" (WARP)
23. JESSE MALIN - "THE HEAT" (ONE LITTLE INDIAN)
24. CASS McCOMBS - "A" (4AD)
25. DAVID SMITH - "FASTEST MACHINE" (ARE YOU LISTENING?)
26. QUIET LONER - "SECRET RULER OF THE WORLD" (CIRCUS 65)
27. OCEANSIZE - "MUSIC FOR NURSES (MINI-LP) (BEGGARS BANQUET)
28. DETROIT COBRAS - "BABY" (ROUGH TRADE)
29. TWILIGHT SINGERS - "BLACKBERRY BELLE" (ONE LITTLE INDIAN)
30. FRENCH KICKS - "TRIAL OF THE CENTURY" (EAT SLEEP)
TIM PEACOCK - RE-ISSUES/ COMPILATIONS OF '04
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1. THE GOOD SONS - "COSMIC FIREWORKS - THE BEST OF 1994-2001" (PHANTASMAGORIA)
2. TALKING HEADS - "THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS" (SIRE expanded edition)
3. SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - "SONGBOOK" (EPIC)
4. THE ROOM - "NO DREAM" (LTM)
5. WILD SWANS - "INCANDESCENT" (RENASCENT )
6. VARIOUS ARTISTS - "DEAD MAN'S SHOES (OST)" (WARP)
7. TAPPER ZUKIE - "PROUD TO BE BLACK" (TROJAN/ SANCTUARY)
8. RICHARD .H.KIRK - "EARLIER/ LATER" (MUTE)
9. THE ROOM - "IN EVIL HOUR" (LTM)
10. MICHAEL CHAPMAN - "DANGEROUS WHEN SOBER (A POTTED HISTORY)" (CASTLE MUSIC)
11. MICHAEL WESTON KING - "ABSENT FRIENDS" (www.michaelwestonking.com )
12. VARIOUS ARTISTS - "UNEARTHED MERSEYBEAT VOL.2" (VIPER)
13. VARIOUS ARTISTS - "A HOUSEGUEST'S WISH" (WORDS ON MUSIC)
14. VARIOUS ARTISTS - "INTERESTING FLAVOURS" (CHOCOLATE FIREGUARD)
15. ANNA DOMINO - "THIS TIME" (LTM)
16. MARIANNE FAITHFULL - "DREAMIN' MY DREAMS" (CASTLE MUSIC)
17. FOR AGAINST - "ECHELONS" (WORDS ON MUSIC)
18. VARIOUS ARTISTS - "ROUGH TRADE SHOPS INDIE 1" (MUTE)
19. THROBBING GRISTLE - "THE TASTE OF TG" (NOVAMUTE)
20. DEPECHE MODE - "REMIXES 1981 - 2004" (MUTE)
TIM PEACOCK - BREAKTHROUGH ARTISTS 0F 2004
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1. CAT DESIGNERS - "STRANGE LITTLE CREATURE" (GOOGLIE MOOGLIE)
2. REST - "BURNING IN WATER, DROWNING IN FLAME" (OUT ON A LIMB)
3. DRIVERDOWN - "GETTING IT OUT THE WAY" (DICELINES)
4. FLIPRON - "FANCY BLUES & RUSTIQUE NOVELTIES" (TINY DOG)
5. STUFFY/ THE FUSES - "JOIN ME OR DIE" (WRATH)
6. HAYLEY HUTCHINSON - "INDEPENDENTLY BLUE" (RNR MUSIC)
7. STANLEY SUPER 800 - "STANLEY SUPER 800" (BINGO)
8. ELEPHANT - "IN THE MOON" (C.U RECORDS)
9. DANIEL PATRICK QUINN - "SEVERED FROM THE LAND" (SUILVEN RECORDINGS)
10. giveamanakick - "IS IT OK TO BE LOUD, JESUS?" (OUT ON A LIMB RECORDS)
JAMES BLUNDELL
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1.JEN GLOEKNER- "MILES AWAY"
2 .U2 - "HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB" (ISLAND)
3. FINN BROTHERS - " EVERYONE IS HERE"
4. THE OPEN -" THE SILENT HOURS"
5. TANYA DONELLY "WHISKEY TANGO GHOSTS" (4AD)
6. NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - "ABBATOIR BLUES/ THE LYRE OF ORPHEUS" (MUTE)
7. HAYLEY HUTCHINSON - "INDEPENDENTLY BLUE" (RNR MUSIC)
8. SONIC YOUTH - "SONIC NURSE" (GEFFEN)
9. BIRD - "THE INSIDES" (ICE CREAM)
10. JULY SKIES - "THE ENGLISH COLD"
11. ASH- "MELTDOWN" (INFECTIOUS)
12. CHUMBAWAMBA- "UN" (MUTT)
13 . RAZORLIGHT - "UP ALL NIGHT" (VERTIGO)
14. REM- " AROUND THE SUN" (WARNERS)
15. RACHAEL GOSWELL- "WAVES ARE UNIVERSAL" (4AD)
16. RON SEXSMITH- "RETRIEVER"
17. JUANA MOLINA- "TRES COSAS"
18. VINNY PECULIAR - "GROWING UP WITH VINNY PECULIAR" (SHADRACK & DUXBURY)
19. 50 FOOT WAVE - "50 FOOT WAVE" (4AD)
20. BJORK "MEDULLA" (ONE LITTLE INDIAN)
MIKE CAMPBELL
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1.Interpol – Antics
2.Razorlight – Up all Night
3.!!! – Louden Up Now
4.Mark Lanegan – Bubblegum
5.The Music – Welcome to the North
6.Secret Machines – Now Here is Nowhere
7.Graham Coxon – Happiness in Magazines
8.Futureheads – Futureheads
9.U2 – How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
10.Velvet Revolver – Contraband
11.Probot - Probot
12.Kasabian – Kasabian
13.80’s Matchbox B-Line Disaster – Royal Society
14.50 Foot Wave – Bug
15.Iron and Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days
16.Radio Dept – Lesser Matters
17.Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
18.Beta Band – Heroes to Zeroes
19.The Killers – Hot Fuss
20.Two Lone Swordsmen – From the Double Gone Chapel
21. Death in Vegas – Satan’s Circus
22. Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
23.Courtney Love – America’s Sweetheart
24.The Hives – Tyrannosaurus Hives
25.The Stranglers – Norfolk Coast
DIFFERENT DRUM (Selections in no particular order)
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Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Grand Drive - The Lights In This Town Are Too Many To Count
Half Cousin - The Function Room
Ron Sexsmith - Retriever
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
Jen Gloeckner - Miles Away
Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
The Egg - Forwards
The Donnas - Gold Medal
Charlotte Hatherley - Grey Will Fade
Moorebeck Stellar - down-tight/in bloom
Lazyboy - Penguin Rock
The Bees - Free The Bees
Bent - Ariels
July Skies - The English Cold
Air - Talkie Walkie
The Czars - Goodbye
Jake Flowers - The Rooster Got Laid
Gabriel Minnikin - Hard Feelings
Various Artists - Interesting Flavours
RAY STANBROOK
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1.The Shins - chutes too narrow
2.Interpol - antics
3.Kings Of Convenience - riot on an empty street
4.Sufjan Stevens - seven swans
5.The Concretes-The Concretes
6.Joy Zipper - american whip
7.Radio Dept – Lesser Matters
8.Adem-Homesongs
9.Eliot Smith - from a basement on the hill
10.The Earlies - these were the earlies
11.The Dears - no cities left
12.Müm-Summer Make Good
13.The Fiery Furnaces - blueberry boat
14.Morrissey - you are the quarry
15.Bonnie Prince Billy - greatest palace music
16.Low-A Lifetime of Temporary Relief: B-sides and Rarities
17.Pavement-Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: L.A.'s Desert Origins
18.The Stills–Logic Will Break Your Heart
19.Ryan Adams-Love Is Hell
20.Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue
SAM HOLDING
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1. KINGS OF CONVENIENCE - RIOT ON AN EMPTY STREET
2. ELLIOTT SMITH - FROM A BASEMENT ON THE HILL
3. GRAHAM COXON - HAPPINESS IN MAGAZINES
4. THE STREETS - A GRAND DON’T COME FOR FREE
5. FRANZ FERDINAND - FRANZ FERDINAND
6. THE MUSIC - WELCOME TO THE NORTH
7. THE LIBERTINES - THE LIBERTINES
8. IRON AND WINE - OUR ENDLESS NUMBERED DAYS
9. THE KILLERS - HOT FUSS
10. RAZORLIGHT - UP ALL NIGHT
SAM SAUNDERS, who is (not for the first time) in no particular order:
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BEING 747 - FUN & GAMES (Wrath)
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY - GREATEST PALACE MUSIC (Domino)
BROWN, STEVEN - SEARCHING FOR CONTACT (LTM)
CARDBOAD COWBOY - UNLOAD YOUR HEAD (Slapdash Records)
CARTHY, MARTIN - WAITING FOR ANGELS (Topic)
DYLAN, BOB - THE BOOTLEG VOLUME 6: BOB DYLAN LIVE 1964 - CONCERT AT PHILHARMONIC HALL (Columbia/Sony)
EVANS, TOMMY - NEW YEAR'S REVOLUTIONS (YNR)
GALITZA - DO YOU SEE, DO YOU? (Wrath)
GOMEZ, ALEX - ALWAYS NEVER (Deltaelectric)
HARVEY, PJ - Uh Huh Her (Island)
McAULAY, OWEN - SEMI-DETACHED (Sans-Culottes)
MOLINA, JUANA - TRES COSAS (Domino)
NASTASIA, NINA - DOGS (re-release on Touch & Go)
OYSTERBAND - THE BIG SESSION VOL. 1 (Westpark Music)
PINEY GIR - PEAKAHOKAHOO (Truck)
REININGER, BLAINE L. - LIVE IN BRUSSELS BIS (LTM)
SQUAREPUSHER - ULTRAVISITOR (Warp)
TUXEDOMOON - CABIN IN THE SKY (Crammed Discs)
VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA - PONTIAC LADY (VHF)
WAITS, TOM - REAL GONE (Anti)
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