2004 Shortlist Award

[Mr-K]

Well the big list of nominees was announced, and there's some pretty good stuff on there.

Here's the big list:
AC Newman "The Slow Wonder" (Matador)
Air "Talkie Walkie" (Astralwerks)
Amel Larrieux "Bravebird" (Bliss Life)
Bad Acid Trip "Lynch The Weirdo" (Serjical Strike/RED INK)
Bebel Gilberto "Bebel Gilberto" (Six Degrees)
Belle & Sebastian "Dear Catastrophe Waitress" (Rough Trade)
Blanche "If We Can't Trust The Doctors" (Cass)
Blonde Redhead "Misery Is A Butterfly" (4AD/Beggars Banquet)
Bob Schneider "I'm Good Now" (Shockorama/Vanguard)
Buckethead "Bucketheadland 2" (ION)
Cafe Tacuba "Cuatra Caminos" (MCA)
Cee-Lo "Cee-Lo Green Is The Soul Machine" (Arista)
Cesaria Evora "Voz D'Amor" (Bluebird Jazz/RCA)
David Bowie "Reality" (ISO/Columbia)
Dead Prez "Revolutionary But Gangsta" (Columbia)
Devendra Banhart "Rejoicing In The Hands" (Young god)
Dios "Dios" (Startime)
Dizzee Rascal "Boy In Da Corner" (Matador/XL)
Eagles Of Death Metal "Peace Love Death Metal" (Rekords Rekords/Ant Acid Audio)
Elbow "Cast Of Thousands" (V2)
Fiery Furnaces "Gallowsbird's Park" (Rough Trade)
Franz Ferdinand "Franz Ferdinand" (Domino/Epic)
Galactic "Ruckus" (Sanctuary)
Gary Jules "Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets" (Universal)
Ghostface Killah "The Pretty Toney Album" (Def Jam)
Holly Golightly "Truly She Is None Other" (Damaged Goods)
Iron & Wine "Our Endless Numbered Days" (Sub Pop)
Jamie Cullum "Twentysomething" (Verve)
Jaylib "Champion Sound" (Stones Throw)
Jem "Finally Woken" (ATO)
Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter "Oh, My Girl" (Barsuk)
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros "Streetcore" (Hellcat/Epitaph)
Josh Ritter "Hello Starling" (Signature)
Juana Molina "Segundo" (Domino)
Julieta Venegas "Si" (RCA International)
Keane "Hopes And Fears" (Interscope)
Keb Mo "Keep It Simple" (Epic/Okeh)
Loretta Lynn "Van Lear Rose" (Interscope)
Macy Gray "The Trouble With Being Myself" (Epic)
Magnetic Fields "I" (Nonesuch)
Melt Banana "Cell-Scape" (A-Zap)
Muse "Absolution" (Warner Bros)
My Morning Jacket "It Still Moves" (ATO)
Neil Young "Greendale" (Reprise)
Nellie McKay "Get Away From Me" (Columbia)
Non Prophets "Hope" (Lex)
Oceansize "Efflorese" (Beggars Banquet)
Patti Smith "Trampin'" (Columbia)
Patty Griffin "Impossible Dream" (ATO)
Peaches "Fatherfucker" (Beggars/XL)
Phil Kline "Zippo Songs" (Cantaloupe)
Phoenix "Alphabetical" (Astralwerks)
PJ Harvey "Uh Huh Her" (Island)
Rufus Wainwright "Want One" (Dreamworks)
Ryan Adams "Love Is Hell" (Lost Highway)
Scarling "Sweet Heart Dealer" (Sympathy For the Record Industry)
Simple Kid "1" (Vector)
Slum Village "Detroit Deli: A Taste Of Detroit" (Priority/Capitol)
Snow Patrol "Final Straw" (A & M/Interscope)
Teitur "Poetry & Aeroplanes" (Universal)
The Coral "Nightfreak And The Sons Of Becker" (Deltasonic/Columbia)
The Honorary Title "Anything Else But The Truth" (Doghouse)
The Killers "Hot Fuss" (Island)
The Secret Machines "Now Here Is Nowhere" (Reprise)
The Sleepy Jackson "Lovers" (Astralwerks)
The Streets "A Grand Don't Come For Free" (Vice)
The Weakerthans "Reconstruction Site" (Epitaph)
Travis "12 Memories" (Epic)
TV On The Radio "Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes" (Touch & Go)
Ty "Upwards" (Big Dada)
Van Hunt "Van Hunt" (Capitol)
Wilco "A Ghost Is Born" (Nonesuch)
Wrens "Meadowlands" (Absolutely Kosher)

I would like to see AC Newman, Belle and Sebastian, Dizzee Rasscal, Fiery Furnaces, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, TV on the Radio all make it. But I think the final list will look something like this:

Air
Dizzee Rascall
Eagles of Death Metal
Fiery Furnaces
Franz Ferdinand
Iron and Wine
Muse
The Killers
TV on the Radio
Wilco

Site: http://www.shortlistofmusic.com/

Oh yeah, and Josh Homme nominated his own goddamn band for this. Good work guy. *sigh*

[kabuki]

No Scissor Sisters or M83?
This list sucks. How can you dish out 2004 awards months before the year's end?

[Opaque]

No Scissor Sisters or M83?
This list sucks. How can you dish out 2004 awards months before the year's end?

Because then CDs that come out after these awards will just go into the next years awards.

It's not a hard concept.

[Mr-K]

Because then CDs that come out after these awards will just go into the next years awards.

It's not a hard concept.

But it leaves out my seeing Q and Not U, Ted Leo, and The Faint on this years' show.

[Eirikur]

I really want Blonde Redhead to make it, but we all know that won't be happening.

It's annoying how they take the first few months/late last year's music for this award. Bah.

[perkyskirt]

goooooo peaches!

[Eirikur]

goooooo peaches!

Fatherfucker was the worst CD I have heard this year so far, followed closely by the new Liars CD.

[Opaque]

But it leaves out my seeing Q and Not U, Ted Leo, and The Faint on this years' show.

Q and not U has a CD coming out this year!

This is awesome news!

[Mr-K]

Q and not U has a CD coming out this year!

This is awesome news!

Where have you been? It's called Power and it's pretty good.

[Opaque]

Where have you been? It's called Power and it's pretty good.

I've been here.

With my fingers in my ears, my eyes closed, huming while under a rock on the moon.