The MG Presents 60 Years of Great Music - 2004

Zeeba Neighba

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Welcome to the next year in our "Great Music" series - 2004

Here's the rules:

Each Friday (typically) we'll introduce a new year from 1957 through 2016. Each member selects an album released in that year with a few lines (or more) on why you picked it/enjoy it. Your selection does not have to be the most important release or the most admired release of that year (though it certainly can be), simply an album that grabs you and that you really love.

However, once an album is selected by a member, you must choose a different album.

Together we will compile quite the canon of "Great Music" and, who knows, maybe inspire each other to check out some new artists (or to revisit old forgotten classics).

This week - the albums of 2004
 
The Killers - Hot Fuss

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Jill Scott - Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2


Two albums stared back at me from this year and it was literally impossible to choose between this and The Tipping Point. In the end, I picked this for no other reason than ... well for no reason at all. Next time, it could easily be The Roots' album.
 
Arcade Fire - Funeral

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Well played, people ;) I waited and waited for someone to pick this tremendous album. Then I would have gone with Franz Ferdinand's debut or Green Day's American Idiot (which despite its pop success really is a great listen) or The Black Keys' Rubber Factory or The Libertines or, damn it, even Kelly Clarkson's wonderful pop album Breakaway.
But gotta go with this one - well constructed, complex, wonderful, an album that despite it's newness often appears on Top 100 Album lists. It deserves it.
 
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