Beste Albums 2004

Top 10 lijstjes Harry Prenger 10 januari 2005

Afgrond vroeg popjournalisten, platenverkopers, labelmedewerkers en andere muziekliefhebbers om een lijstje met hun favoriete tien albums van 2004. Hier komen ze: van Bob Bert (ooit drummer bij Pussy Galore, Sonic Youth en Knoxville Girls) tot Wooden Wand. Met dank aan alle inzenders!

Afgrond (abyss) asked rockjournalists, recordsellers, labelemployees and owners, and other musicfans to send a list of their favourite ten records released in 2004. Here they are: from Bob Bert (former Pussy Galore, Sonic Youth and Knoxville Girls drummer) to Wooden Wand. Many thanks to all contributors!

 

BOB BERT (BBGun Magazine)
www.bbgun.org
1 Elliott Smith - From A Basement On A Hill
2 Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
3 Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
4 The Ponys - Laced With Romance
5 The Sadies - Favourite Colours
6 00I00 - Kila Kila Kila
7 Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
8 Brian Jonestown Massacre - And This Is Our Music
9 Devendra Banhart - Nino Rojo
10 Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind

 

PETER BRUYN (Haarlems Dagblad/Aloha/Rails/Utrechts Nieuwsblad)
1 Leonard Cohen – Dear Heather
2 Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse
3 The Hunches – Hobo Sunrise
4 Wolf Eyes – Burned Mind
5 The Creekdippers – Political Manifest
6 Sunburned Hand of the Man – Rare Wood
7 Liars – They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
8 The Libertines – The Libertines
9 Bobby Conn – Homeland
10 Kopna Kopna – Like You!

 

GEERT (Platenzaak Sounds, Venlo)
www.sounds-venlo.nl
1 Tinariwen - Amassakoul
2 Jawbone - Dang Blues
3 Ernie Payne - Coercion Street
4 Lhasa - The Living Road
5 Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
6 Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
7 Black Keys - The Rubber Factory
8 Rachid Taha - Te'kitoi
9 Mory Kante - Sabou
10 Juana Molina – Segundo

 

HAI (Platenzaak Sounds, Venlo)
www.sounds-venlo.nl
1 Magnetic Fields - i
2 Huong Thanh - Mangustao
3 Angel Brothers and Satnam Singh - From Punjab To Pit Top
4 Carl Hancock Rux - Apothecary RX
5 Tortoise - It's All Around You
6 Lucky Jim - Our Troubles End Tonight
7 Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter - Oh, My Girl
8 Ray Lamontagne - Trouble
9 Lhasa - The Living Road
10 Iron + Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days

 

LARRY HARDY (In The Red Records)
www.intheredrecords.com
1 The Cramps - How To Make A Monster
2 The Intelligence - Boredom And Terror
3 The Fall - The Real New Fall Lp
4 Gris Gris – Gris Gris
5 The Dipers - How To Plan Successful Parties
6 Destruction Unit - Self Destruction Of A Man
7 Black Lips - We Didn't Know The The Forest Spirit Made The Flower
Made The Flowers Grow
8 Liars - They Were Wrong So We Drowned
9 Black Time - Blackout
10 The Fatals - All three 7"s

 

HANS HOEKDIJK (Clear Spot Distributie)
1 Le Orme – L’infinito
2 Redshift - Oblivion
3 IQ - Dark Matter
4 French TV - Pardon Our French
5 Salmon - When The Dust Settles
6 Karmakanik - Wheel Of Life
7 Free System Projekt/Dweller At The Threshold - Passenger 4
8 Nemo - Prelude a La Ruine
9 Forseti - Erde
10 Mind Over Matter - On The Wings Of The Wind

 

MARCELLE VAN HOOF (Gonzo Circus/www.dfm.nu)
(haar mix cd Another Nice Mess 2004 bestellen via mar.celle@planet.nl)
(willekeurige volgorde)
DJ/Rupture - Special Gunpowder
Shitmat - Full English Breakfest
Crackhaus - Crackhaus Spells Disaster
Venetian Snares - Horse And Goat
The Thermals - Fucking A
various - Trade And Distribution Almanac vol.1
Toychesta - Sassy Pony
Listen With Sarah - Are You Sitting Comfortably
various - Grime vol.1
DJ Elephant Power - No Si, Ni So

 

RENE VAN KAAM (Platenblad)
1 Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
2 The Weight - Ten Mile Grace
3 The Sadies - Favourite Colours
4 Simon Joyner - Lost With The Lights On
5 Espers - Espers
6 Delgados - Universal Audio
7 The Libertines - The Libertines
8 Motorpsycho - The International Tussler Society
9 James Yorkston and The Athletes - Just Beyond The River
10 Blonde Redhead - Misery Is A Butterfly

 

ANNIBALE PICICCI (Dense distribution)
www.dense.de
1 Radian - Juxtaposition
2 Stereotyp Meets Al Haca - Phase Three
3 2/5 Bz - No Turistik No Egzotik
4 Beastie Boys - To The 5 Boroughs
5 Nouvelle Vague – Nouvelle Vague
6 Evil Moisture - Killer Nuts
7 Player - Angel Of Theft
8 Chicago Underground Trio - Slon
9 Cobra Killer - 76/77
10 Michaela Melián - Baden-Baden

 

PIETER (Platenzaak Platenworm, Groningen)
www.platenworm.nl
1 Birchville Cat Motel - Beautiful Speck Triumph
2 Espers - Espers
3 Aufgehoben - Anno Fauve
4 Boris - Dronevil
5 Sadistik Exekution - Fukk II
6 Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
7 Paivansade - Puhalluspelto
8 Man's Best Friend - The New Human Is Illegal
9 Kang Tae Hwan Trio - Love Time
10 Acid Mother Temple - Minstrel In The Galaxy

 

EMANUELE PINOTTI (Qbic Records)
www.qbic.web.planet.it/
(willekeurige volgorde)
Vibracathedral Orchestra – Double LP
The Tower Recordings - Futuristic Folk
500MG - Vertical Approach
Meerk Puffy – Meerk Puffy
Wooden Wand And the Vanishing Voice - Xiao
No Neck Blues Band - Dutch Money/First Kingdom Of The Ghost
Ya Ho Wha - The Operetta
Connie Price & The Keystones - Wildflowers
Enore Zaffiri - Musica Reticolare
Kemialliset Ystavat - Varisevien Tanssi/Silmujen Marssi

 

HARRY PRENGER (Afgrond, Platenblad)
1 Liars - They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
2 The Veils - The Runaway Found
3 Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum
4 Tom Waits - Real Gone
5 The Hunches - Hobo Sunrise
6 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
7 Wooden Wand And The Vanishing Voice - Xiao
8 Nurse With Wound/Jim O’Rourke – Angry Eelectric Finger 1 Tape Monkey Mooch
9 Einstürzende Neubauten – Perpetuum Mobile
10 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti 2 – The Doldrums

 

PAUL RONDAGS (Platenzaak Zoom, Maastricht)
1 Fourth Island - Repeat After Me
2 Original Soundtrack - Die Dritte Heimat
3 DJ Spooky - That Subliminal Kid
4 Gary Wilson - Newark Valley
5 Nouvelle Vague – Nouvelle Vague
6 Wagon Christ - Sorry I Make You Lush
7 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti 2 – The Doldrums
8 Troublemakers - Express Way
9 Jimi Tenor - Beyond The Stars
10 Prince Po/Brand Nubian - Po's P-Funk

 

ROMY RUARUS (Evil Bitch Records)
www.evilbitch666.com
(alfabetische volgorde)
The Dwarves - The Dwarves Must Die
Hermano - Dare I Say...
Holly Golightly - Slowly But Surely
The Icarus Line - Penace Soirée
Mastodon - Leviathan
Reigning Sound - Too Much Guitar
Small Jackets - Play At High Level
Social Distortion - Sex, Love and Rock'n'Roll
The Solution - Communicate!
Zeke - 'Til The Living End

 

FRANS STEENSMA (OOR)
1 Moongarden – Round Midnight
2 Ayreon – The Human Equation
3 Blackfield – Blackfield
4 Happy The Man – The Muse Awakens
5 The Tangent – The World That We Drive Through
6 Chain - Exe
7 Proto Kaw – Before Became After
8 Marillion – Marbles
9 Threshold – Subsurface
10 Seventh Key – The Raging Fire

 

KOEN VANDENHOUDT (Kunstencentrum Belgie, Hasselt)
www.kunstencentrumbelgie.com
(willekeurige volgorde)
Wooden Wand And The Vanishing Voice - Xiao
MV/EE & Gabriel Walsh - The Temptation To Zoology
Magik Markers - In The East
Islaya - Meritie
Wolf Eyes & Smegma - The Beast
Sir Richard Bishop - Improvika
Charalambides - Joy Shapes
The Tower Recordings - Ya'ard God
Yellow Swans - Bring The Neon War Home
Doube Leopards - Urban Concussion

 

ED VEENSTRA
(willekeurige volgorde)
Andreas Heiszenberger - Solokarriere
Kommissar Hjuler - Jobeuyseph
Kommissar Hjuler - Hjcvgrimmelshausen
Vitamin B12 - Laleh Ladan
Björk - Medúlla
Chicks On Speed - 99 Cents
Raionbashi - Der Trunkenbold
Arsedestroyer - Teenass Revolt
Z.S.L.O. - The Extreme Cruel Humanity Of I.D.P.
Primitive Calculators - Glitter Kids 7"

 

FRANS DE WAARD (Beequeen, Kapotte Muziek, Korm Plastics)
www.kormplastics.nl www.beequeen.nl
(willekeurige volgorde)
Sagor & Swing - Orgelplaneten
Frank Bretschneider - Looping I-Vi (And Other Assorted Love Songs)
Jim O'Rourke - Two Organs
Guido Möbius - Klisten
various - Popular Electronics
Stephan Mathieu - On Tape
The Hafler Trio - Where Are You? Lesbians On Ecstasy
Merzbow - Sha Mo 3000
Piney Gir - Peakahokaboo
Beequeen - The Bodyshop
Goem – Goem

 

WOODEN WAND (JAMES TOTH) (Wooden Wand And The Vanishing Voice)
http://woodenwand.sinkhole.net
(willekeurige volgorde)
Must - Musings
Feist - Let it Die
Matt Valentine & Erika Elder - Lunar Blues
Little Wings - Magic Wand
Turner Cody - Buds of May
Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South
Moth Masque – Moth Masque
Jolie Holland - Escondida
Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti 2 - The Doldrums
John Frusciante - The Will to Death

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