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Urban75 Album of the Year 2004

Mine:

Babylon Circus - Dances of Resistance

Inner Terrestrials - X

Le Tigre - This Island

Amadou & Mariam -

M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts

Jolie Holland -Escondida

The (International) Noise Conspiracy -

Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts Now

Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture

The Hives -

Arcade Fire - Funeral
 
I never got my shit together for this one. Had I done so, Arcade Fire might have won by even more, Le Tigre might have made the top ten and Go! Team and Loretta Lynne would have made the chart somewhere.
 
ah sorry, totally dipped out of this.

my list probably would have looked something like this...

65dos - the fall of math
madvillain - madvillainy
corea - los peores 7km de mi Vida
the go team - thunder lightning strike
circle takes the square - as the roots undo
mclusky - the difference between me and you..
MF doom - mm food
kimya dawson - hidden vagenda
hives
horsepower productions
 
My list was:

Leftover Crack - Fuck World Trade
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me
Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
Saul Williams - Saul Williams
Le Tigre - This Island
Dead Prez - Revolutionary But Gangsta
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
Futureheads - Futureheads
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Magnetic Fields - i
Jello Biafra & the Melvins - Never Breathe What You Can’t See
Skinnyman - Council Estate of Mind
Casual Dots - Casual Dots
Dogs Die in Hot Cars - Please Describe Yourself
Inner Terrestrials - X
Nasum - Shift
The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
!!! - Louden Up Now
Kimya Dawson - My Cute Fiend Sweet Princess
Ministry - Houses of the Mole
Venomous Concept - Retroactive Abortion
Walkmen - Bows & Arrows

Without listening to this, and based entirely on band name, cover image and typeface, I think I can identify who voted for this 🤣
Will confess to a spot of tactical voting there, I think that by most conventional standards of what makes an album "good" or an album cover "not completely stupid" I might have to rate Funeral higher than Fuck World Trade, but I thought Arcade Fire would probably still do alright without the boost of my #1 spot.

So? What next?

1954?

2014 revisit?
Yeah, roll on 2014.
 
Zero 7 - When It Falls
Bruce Langhorne - The Hired Hand
Evil Nine - You Can Be Special Too
Los Hermanos - On Another Level
AIR - Talkie Walkie
Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
Étienne de Crécy - Super Discount 2
The Egg - Forwards
Horsepower Productions - To the Rescue
DJ Marky & XRS - In Rotation
DeVotchKa - How It Ends
Loscil - First Narrows
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Virðulegu forsetar
The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan
Husky Rescue - Country Falls
Richard Bartz - Midnight Man
Putsch 79 - Putsch
Devendra Banhart - Niño rojo
65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math
Two Lone Swordsmen - From the Double Gone Chapel
Filteria - Sky Input
 
Indeliblelink Full marks for Zero & and Jóhann Jóhannsson which I would have put somewhere in my list if they had been brought to my attention

  1. A Girl Called Eddie
  2. Bark Psychosis- Operation Dustsucker
  3. The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan
  4. Jolie Holland - Escondida
  5. Max Richter-The Blue Notebook
  6. The Organ - Grab That Gun
  7. M83 -Dead Cities
  8. Loscil- First Narrows
  9. The Earlies - These Were The Earlies
  10. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
  11. Interpol- Antics
  12. Arcade Fire -Funeral
  13. Dead Combo- Vol 1.
  14. Shibusashirazu Orchestra - (Shibuboshi)
  15. Lambchop- Aw C'mon / No You C'mon
  16. Lali Puna ‎– Faking The Books
  17. The Album Leaf - In A Safe Place
  18. Kings Of Convenience -Riot On and Empty Street
  19. Sylvain Cahuveau- Des plumes Dans Le Tete
  20. Mum- Summer Make Good
 
Here's one I missed.

Yasmin Levy - Romance & Yasmin




Really interesting, thanks for posting it. On first listen I presumed Turkish but discogs says
"Singer/songwriter of Judeo-Spanish music, born 23 December 1975 in Jerusalem, Israel. In her music she combines medieval Ladino/Judeo-Spanish music with elements of Andalusian Flamenco and Turkish music as well as instruments like the darbuka, oud, violin, cello, and piano. Her debut album "Romance & Yasmin" was released in 2000."

(incidentally those tracks you posted are from the 2000 debut, the 2004 album is this one https://www.discogs.com/master/1154742-Yasmin-Levy-La-Judería
and is more spanish influenced from what i can hear at a glance)
 
Really interesting, thanks for posting it. On first listen I presumed Turkish but discogs says
"Singer/songwriter of Judeo-Spanish music, born 23 December 1975 in Jerusalem, Israel. In her music she combines medieval Ladino/Judeo-Spanish music with elements of Andalusian Flamenco and Turkish music as well as instruments like the darbuka, oud, violin, cello, and piano. Her debut album "Romance & Yasmin" was released in 2000."

(incidentally those tracks you posted are from the 2000 debut, the 2004 album is this one https://www.discogs.com/master/1154742-Yasmin-Levy-La-Judería
and is more spanish influenced from what i can hear at a glance)

Yes, my copy of the CD says 2004 but that seems to be the European release with the original release in Israel in 2000. She got quite a bit of publicity at the time and I can't remember any indication that the album had been already been kicking around for a few years. Maybe that was a marketing decision.

The material on Romance & Yasmin consists of old Ladino songs from Turkey performed in a more contemporary Turkish style. The albums she's done since haven't really matched up to it. Anyway here's another track with a translation. It's the kind of thing you might expect to find in rebetika songs from the same period. There are some Ladino songs with medieval roots but this is more late Ottoman / early 20th century.



Since the age of fifteen
I started to make love
To a young bandit
Who managed to steal my heart.

My beloved's profession
Is being a thief and a gambler
I hope he will keep the ceiling over our our heads
From the hands of the police

Thirty liras he wants from me
I will give him thirty one
I hope he will use it in his profession
in profession of winning
 
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Forgot about this.

mine:

Horsepower Production - To the Rescue
DJ Japan - Alcoholic Backstage
Crackhaus - Spells Disaster
DJ Rupture vs Mutamassik - The Bidoun Sessions
Daniel Bell - seven types of six
Madvillian - Madvillainy
Passenger of Shit - 6
Dizzy Rascal - Showtime
Rip off Artist - New Clear Days
Skinnyman - Council Estate of the Mind
Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche à Bamako
Shibusashirazu Orchestra - Shibuboshi
matthew dear - backstroke
wiley - treadin on thin ice
MF Doom - Mm..Food
roll deep - Creeper Vol. 2
dj marky and xrs - in rotation
detroit grand pubahs - galactic ass creatures from uranus
Kanye West - The college dropout
 
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