"Zoe lists things."
"Zoe lists things."
Best Albums
-Interpol, Antics
-The Walkmen, Bows and Arrows
-Flip Kowlier, In de Fik
-The Raveonettes, That Great Love Sound
Best Singles
-Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand (also best video, though THIS FIRE is also great!)
-Great Love Sound – The Raveonettes
Best Live Gigs
-Imarobot, Melkweg
-Flip Kowlier, Rotown
-Scissor Sisters, Nightown (long story, but I was fully impressed and they rightly a place on this list.)
-Beluah, Paradiso
-BRMC, Paradiso
Best Moments
-The Flip Kowler show in Rotterdam‘s Rotown was memorably one of the best of moments of the year. He was extremely amusing even though neither myself nor 1/2 of the Dutch audience there had any idea what he was saying. He danced around, told stories, imitated the Darkness, rapped and played a diverse blend of music from his albums.
-Beluah at Paradiso. I have been a fan for some time, but never saw them live seeing as they were a west coast band and barely toured the east coast whist I was living in the US. They had a great energy on stage, like a band that had been playing together for years should. Their live show left everything else behind, and you could just see that they were having a lot of fun, regardless of what was going on in the band actually. I think they announced their official breakup just weeks later. The reason that it is one of my Best Moments of 2004 is because Tim, Jonathan and I got to go on stage with them and play tambourine. That was wicked!
Best-Dressed Band
Interpol
Sonic Youth
Worst Albums
Maroon 5
Keene
Worst Singles
Anything by Keane
Wishes For Next Year
-New Raveonettes album, due out in 2005, should be excellent, striped down and less noisy, also Sharin Foo moves to guitar and sings more.
-More local band awareness.
Words: Zoe Gottehrer