Wednesday, January 12, 2005
(10:51 PM) | Anonymous:
I still love you, 2004.
Look. It's late. I know - you know. Yet, I felt the need to give the Dec. 28th cds the same chance as the rest of the albums. So, I've spent the past 2+ weeks listening very carefully to "The Very Best of Brooks & Dunn", Zito & Zalo's "Raizes Sertanejas", Fats Domino's "Sweet Patootie", and the Japanese reissue of Hot Rod Crue's "Hot Rod Cruezin'"It all went for not though, as the scientific method has proved - all those folks suck, except Fats, who is disqualified for using the word "Patootie".
I think a lot of CDs came out in 2004. I don't know. I feel like I had a hold on music for a little bit, and then I lost it. It's remarkably similar to the feeling I had in 1994 when Donruss put out the "Studio" stuff, and Upper Deck put out another 80 side sets, and Fleer continued to suck, and Topps put out another 160 subsets before finally buying Upper Deck and increasing subset production to some 250,000 subsets.
Up until that point I'd collected every set every year - I had the routine, I bought a few boxes of topps until I had close enough to go hunt down commons and continued through the donruss and everything until I got down to like..collecting Pannini Stickers to keep feeding my habit. Then boxes went from $18 to $75, subsets multiplied like Bebe's Kids, and I was left alienated.
Indie rock was the new cool thing of 2004. Franz Ferdinand and Modest Mouse led the way, and soon that annoying kid at your work was talking about Xiu Xiu and the newest Zoloft The Rock & Roll Destroyer cd.
Needless to say, I grew disinterested to an extent, and caught up on a lot of older stuff. I'll level with you - once I saw a second Modest Mouse video on MTV's regular rotation, I just huddled in the corner of my room listening to "Family Affair" by Sly & The Family Stone the rest of the year. So, anything after October is a wash for me, but I did catch some cds that were released this year, and then I ranked them here. So, this isn't the list, but it is a list.
Enjoy list.
The rankings lie behind this cut.
