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2005, 18-15 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, The Clientele, Love Is All and Clipse

Finally getting closer to the end, and the stakes get raised. It's a deadly dog eat dog game of cat and mouse, winner take all game of epic proportions!

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2005, 22-19 Broadcast, Bonnie ''Prince'' Billy and Matt Sweeney, The Hold Steady and Sleater-Kinney

Holy shit, why did I write so many words? It's always nice to see the quality of music go up, and have bands that I actually want to listen to on the list.

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Boy, oh boy, am I late with these. I am gonna have to pick up the pace. Isaac is probably already done with 22-19 already! But enough of that, the music quality is picking up a little, and we haven't held back either!

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2005, 30-27 Franz Ferdinand, Serena Maneesh, Sunn 0))) and Jamie Lidell

We're back, and no thanks to me and the holidays. We've got a lot of words for you today about other words that are connected to music in some fashion. So read, and comprehend. We certainly haven't gotten rusty over the break!!

( And now, the ENTIRE COMPANY! )

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2005, 38-35 Devendra Banhart, Dominik Eulberg, Keith Fullerton Whitman and The Game

I was very concerned about this batch...horrible, horrible things promised to invade our ears! What happened? Read on...

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Personally (Stephen here), I think this is one of the worst batches we've done, almost worse than the Basinski batch. But Isaac may disagree!! Let the reviews begin!

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2005, 46-43 Fiona Apple, M83, Vashti Bunyan and Spoon

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Actually, we took a break because I had to prepare a science-type presentation for this, then there was work and sick type stuff. But we're back, and we're going to continue. We might go a bit faster than before; we'll see how we feel. ( But let's get things started! )

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2004 Recap

Hey everyone! Here's our summary of the Top 50 albums of 2004.

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2004, 02-01 Animal Collective and The Arcade Fire

Ladies and gentlemen, we are now DONE reviewing the albums of 2004!!! ::applause:: Thank you, thank you. Today we have the Big 2 - The Animal Collective and The Arcade Fire! Stay tuned for a recap of 2004 soon!

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2004, 6-03 MF Doom & Madlib are Madvillian, Brian Wilson, The Fiery Furnaces and The Streets

Wow, music that doesn't suck or make us mad! Can you believe it? You shouldn't believe everything you read!!

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2004, 10-07 Joanna Newsom, Ghostface, The Go! Team and Devendra Banhart

Here's the next batch - next time is the penultimate review set of 2004!! This time we've got "freak-folk", mediocre rap and 70s cop show theme songs!

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2004, 14-11 Erlend 0ye, Dungen, MIA/Diplo and Sonic Youth

It's Sunday, but I believe we've got another set coming up relatively soon, so don' go away so soon! Today we've got DJ mixtapes/compilations and pretentious noisy guitar rock! Lots of fireworks in this one, folks!!!

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2004, 18-15 Kanye West, Sufjan Stevens, Dizzee Rascal and Annie

Ugghhh...tired. Posting at 1:45 AM sucks. Anyway, hope you enjoy it. Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day...so tally-ho or something.

This is also the most we have disagreed out of any of our reviews, so enjoy.

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2004, 22-19 Foreign Exchange, Fennesz, Air and Bjork

Just a tad late this time... coming up next, on Monday I think, is Kanye West, Sufjan Stevens, Dizzee Rascal, and Annie!

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2004, 26-23: Franz Ferdinand, DFA Artists, TV on the Radio and Modest Mouse

Sorry for the delay, folks. Next time we have Foreign exchange, Fennesz, Air, and Bjork on the menu!

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God, what a mediocre collection. Things better pick up next week. (Except they won't, really.)

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