top 10 records of 2004

[meandmyc64]

early drafts of this list appear in the margins of my class notes from early October...

1. Brian Wilson - Smile
2. RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke
3. Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
4. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
5. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
6. Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
7. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - sings Greatest Palace Music
8. The Magnetic Fields - i
9. Saturday Looks Good To Me - Every Night
10. Joanna Newsome - The Milk-Eyed Mender

Ten records heavily considered:

Arcade Fire - Funeral
VHS or Beta - Night on Fire
Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic
The Mountain Goats - We Shall all be Healed
David Byrne - Grown Backwards
Tilly and the Wall - Wild Like Children
Owen - I Do Preceive
Kasey Chambers - Wayward Angel
Polyphonic Spree - Together We're Heavy
Morrissey - You are the Quarry

edit: oh and also - lali puna - faking the books