End Of Year Polls: 2004 Inpress Writers' Poll

2004 INPRESS MAGAZINE WRITERS POLL

TOP 10 ALBUMS (Title/Artist)
1. Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
2. The Runaway Found - The Veils
3. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
4. Antics - Interpol
5. The Lost Riots - Hope Of The States
6. Stellastarr* - Stellastarr*
7. Play The CBC Sessions [Mini-Album] – The Hidden Cameras
8. As The Crow Flies - Seafood
9. Codename:DustSucker - Bark Psychosis
10. Up All Night - Razorlight
Just outside:
The Futureheads - The Futureheads
The Invitation - Thirteen Senses
Bone - Tim Booth

ARTISTs OF THE YEAR
XTC and The Gang of Four – everything in 2004 started here…
For 2004
The Hidden Cameras

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTIST GIG [UK]
Tim Booth and the Individuals

BEST LOCAL ARTIST GIG [Oz]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

BEST RADIO SHOW
Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant & Karl Pilkington on XFM Saturday afternoons

BEST TV SHOW
Bo’Selecta! Vol. 3 {maybe not best, but fun!}

BEST FILM
None springs to mind

BEST BOOK
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
or
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
[both paperbacks published in 2004]

BEST WEBSITEs
Wha’happenin’ - BBC NEWS http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Skewed Cult TV - TACHYON TV http://www.tachyon-tv.co.uk/
Retro band news - REMEMBER THE 80’S http://www.remembertheeighties.com/

BEST MEDIA MOMENT
Rebecca Loos wanking off a pig on Channel Five reality show The Farm.

HIGHLIGHT OF THE YEAR
“Last Wave” – the new wave revival, and good pop music – party like it’s 1979

LOWLIGHT OF THE YEAR
Globally?
Conservative politics.
Zeitgeist?
Death of John Peel; Keane

PREDICTION FOR 2005
Prog rock revival
Bands to watch?
Bozilla, The Long Blondes, The Dears, The Departure, The Bravery, The Magic Numbers
Revival?
The return of The Psychedelic Furs

QUOTE OF THE YEAR
“His keks didn’t do his Jacobs any favours” – Ian McCulloch getting vernacular on Rufus Wainwright

WHERE WERE YOU LAST NEW YEARS EVE?
Visiting a friend in a oncology ward

WHERE WILL YOU BE THIS NYE?
St Etienne, The Concretes and The Magic Numbers gig at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire

What scandal would u most like to see Delta Goodrem involved in for 2005?
Pig wanking

2004 IN REVIEW (150 WORDS OR LESS)
Forget Year Zero – This was NINETEEN EIGHTY – TWO – THOUSAND AND FOUR.



© James McGalliard 2007