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AP Magazine unveils it's choice for the most anticipated album of 2004.
In a year which will see Nine Inch Nails, Portishead, Beatsie Boys, Queens of the Stone Age and Ben Folds all release albums, AP chooses Good Charlotte for its honor.
Excuse me while I weep.
(Anyhow, I am anticipating MTX's release more than anything)
And here, I announce the least anticipated album of 2004: WASP. As if that wasn't bad enough, it's a two part concept album! Why, Jeebus? What have we done to deserve such wrath?
Comments
Have you checked out the two EPs Ben Folds released so far this year? Excellent stuff. He's doing another before the end of the year, then a full-length disc in the beginning of 2004. It's Christmas every day--Folds is one of maybe five artists I'd buy anything from on the general assumption that anything that comes from their brain will be good.
Got to see him in Clive, IA and Minneapolis, MN over the past year and a half, too. Cool stuff.
I don't expect most magazines to pick up on the excellence of any music that doesn't involve a guitar, though. Tunnel vision and all.
Posted by: Erica | December 1, 2003 06:16 PM
Jesus, could I get any more oblivious? You were talking about the one coming out in 2004. Duh, me.
Posted by: Erica | December 1, 2003 06:17 PM
Finn Brothers. C'mon, guys - stop f**king around.
Posted by: ccwbass | December 1, 2003 06:28 PM
Queens of the Stone Age, the Mark Lanegan Band, the Eagles of Death Metal, and the rumored release of one of Screaming Trees lost albums--these are the things that I'll be waiting for. Portishead will be good, too, but Nine Inch Nails hasn't done anything for me for a while.
Pretty Hate Machine was such an incredible album--everything after it has seemed a little like a letdown to me.
Good Charlotte, though? I think not.
Posted by: zombyboy | December 1, 2003 06:31 PM
The Pixies may have a new album out soon as well. Oh happy day! A very good year for my son to be born, sounds like...
Posted by: robyn | December 1, 2003 06:38 PM
Oh for christ's sake, I'd be more excited about having all of my teeth pulled (again).
Posted by: Matt | December 1, 2003 07:12 PM
A concept double-album from Blackie Lawless? That could be Eddie Murphy-level funny.
Posted by: Thlayli | December 1, 2003 07:50 PM
Good Charlotte? That makes perfect sense... IN BIZZARRO WORLD orld orld orld.
Posted by: Ed | December 1, 2003 08:53 PM
The Eyeliners will be releasing my most anticipated album of 2004.
They play the sort of fast, intensely fun, blithely unpretentious rock & roll I love.
I don't hate Good Charlotte - does that mean I'm a pariah?
Posted by: MikeR | December 1, 2003 10:17 PM
Reznor's waaaaay past it. It pains me to say that, given how important "Downward Spiral" was.
Mind you, if he did a CD of nothing but instrumentals, that might be worth buying...
Posted by: David Ross | December 1, 2003 10:28 PM
A new Ben Folds? A new Pixies album? And a new Finn Bros? Hallelujah. I might even have to start using "Rockin' the Suburbs" as my theme song again to celebrate.
That being said, it will only be a truly great year when the most underappreciated band in the world (Lotion) reunites and puts out a new cd.
Posted by: Cam | December 1, 2003 10:45 PM
Looking forward to the new Eagles album and wait for it, the new Judas Priest one too. And yes, Blackie has lost the plot...actually he did a long time ago.
Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge | December 2, 2003 05:58 AM
Zombyboy, Screaming Trees are coming out with "lost" stuff? Do tell! I love them.
Posted by: Pauly | December 2, 2003 09:10 AM
I haven't anticipated a new album since Judas Priest's 1986 dissapointment Turbo. For that matter I haven't listened to much of anything done since about then.
Posted by: Victor Krueger | December 2, 2003 10:11 AM
Michelle,
Care to document that hypothetical NIN 2004 release? (Please!)
I'll believe it when I hear it,
Jeanne Z
Posted by: Anonymous | December 2, 2003 01:05 PM
Is it so that they can make the same album with the same themes and less persuasive music and lyrics for the third time? (Second, technically, it's the 3rd album, the first was good, the second, OK, this one probably worse).
::shudders::
Posted by: Josh Heit | December 2, 2003 10:33 PM
i will be the first in the record shop when trent releases his next one. i couldnt live without downward spiral, or the fragile!
Posted by: freya | December 6, 2003 10:59 AM