from other music. . .

here is their list of the top-selling albums of 2004. i find it very interesting for a couple of reasons. like, does it surprise anyone other than me that dungen's album outsold interpol's antics? or that junior boys outsold modest mouse? or that the double made it onto this list in the first place?

i'm not saying those bands are bad or anything. for real. i'm just feeling mildly out of touch, and well, it hurts. make it go away poppy!

1. Franz Ferdinand "S/T" (Domino/Epic)
2. Animal Collective "Sung Tongs" (FatCat)
3. TV on the Radio "Desperate Youth..." (Touch & Go)
4. Arcade Fire "Funeral" (Merge)
5. Devendra Banhart "Rejoicing in the Hands" (Young God)
6. Joanna Newsom "Milk-Eyed Mender" (Drag City)
7. Dungen "Ta Det Lugnt" (Subliminal Sounds)
8. Interpol "Antics" (Matador)
9. Sufjan Stevens "Greetings from Michigan" (Asthmatic Kitty)
10. !!! "Louden Up Now" (Touch & Go)
11. Madvillain "Madvillainy" (Stones Throw)
12. Junior Boys "Last Exit" (Kin/Domino)
13. Modest Mouse "Good News for People..." (Epic)
14. Sufjan Stevens "Seven Swans" (Sounds Familyre)
15. Blonde Redhead "Misery is a Butterfly" (4AD)
16. Air "Talkie Walkie" (Astralwerks)
17. Arthur Russell "Calling Out of Context" (Audika)
18. White Magic "Through the Sun Door" (Drag City)
19. Arthur Russell "World of Arthur Russell" (Soul Jazz)
20. Devendra Banhart "Nino Rojo" (Young God)
21. The Double "Palm Fronds" (Catsup Plate)
22. TV on the Radio "Young Liars EP" (Touch & Go)
23. Magnetic Fields "I" (Nonesuch)
24. Fennesz "Venice" (Touch)
25. Unicorns "Who Will Cut our Hair..." (Alien8)
26. Iron and Wine "Our Endless Numbered Days" (Sub Pop)
27. Mum "Summer Make Good" (FatCat)
28. Various Artists "Kompakt 100" (Kompakt)
29. Dizzee Rascal "Boy in Da Corner" (Matador)
30. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy "Sings Greatest Palace Music" (Drag City)

Comments

[jay]

well, the thing about those records you mention is that the store pushes them so heavily. when they got ahold of the dungeon record there was a shitstorm of activitiy. it was featured on the rack, he did an instore, every clerk and their mother recommended it (same at kims). this also went for the double record. i even bought it because of the way a clerk described it to me and the high praises it had on its note card, but alas, it wasn't how they painted it, and now it sits without being touched. the informed shoppers at this store manage to score all the burns of the more exposed records. hence the antics and mm drop.

my 2.5 cents.

[manicmess]

i bet you're so right. i do most of my shopping online instead of going to the actual store, so i must miss all of the spin. it's so insane that the people who work there have that much control over the music that actually gets sold. i can't decide if i find that totally impressive or totally annoying.