Top 25 CDs of 2004:
1) The Well-Wishers - Twenty-four Seven
2) The Waxwings - Let's Make Our Descent
3) Cloud 11 - Terrestrial Ballet
4) Magic Christian - s/t
5) The Gurus - s/t
6) Brian Wilson - Smile
7) The Shannons - Scripts and Stories
8) Bowling for Soup - A Hangover You Don't Deserve
9) The Lackloves - The Beat and the Time
10) The Loves - LOVE
11) Lisa Mychols - Sweet Sinsations
12) Silver Sunshine - s/t
13) The Donnas - Gold Medal
14) The Grip Weeds - Giant on the Beach
15) Tripsitter - California Son
16) Junebug - Second
17) Muck and the Mires - Beginner's Muck
18) The Contrast - Fade Back In
19) The Bobbleheads - Automatic Fun
20) Adam Marsland - You Don't Know Me
21) The Living End - Modern Artillery
22) Junebug - First
23) The Dollyrots - Eat My Heart Out
24) Lenny Kravitz - Baptism
25) Shiner 22 - Mint

Honorable Mention (in no particular order): Eugene
Edwards, Barry Holdship, The Zinedines, Plastica, Red
Planet, Low Millions, Avion

#1 Thing I learned while trying to compile my year end
list: there is LOTS of great music out there!!! (Which
might explain why I couldn't limit it to just 20 and
waited almost till the last minute to post it....every
time I thought I had it figured out, I'd find out
about some other new release that that ended up being
a serious contender! Appologies to all the worthy
artists whos CDs I didn't find out about in
time/didn't get a chance to listen to before the
deadline that might have otherwise been on my list.)

Special Thanks to: Everyone on this list who posted
band recommendations throughout the year and/or who
posted their list earlier so that I could be reminded
of stuff I had forgotten about; Michael Bennett for
sponsoring these year end festivites; David Bash and
Andrea Kremer for keeping band links up on the IPO
site so those of us who can't travel the globe for IPO
can use them as a music shopping guide; Bruce Brodeen,
Jeremy Morris, Jaimie Vernon, and all the other indie
label guys on the list that provide a happy home for
great music.

-shosh     



		
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