2004 Top 10 List

1. Erika Hoffmann/Chad Gilchrist - "Must Musings" (Abundance Records)
   
2. Black Lips - "We Did Not Know the Forest Spirit Made the Flowers Grow" (Bomp)
   
3. Nathaniel Mayer - "I Just Want to be Held" (Fat Possum)
   
4. Guided By Voices - "Half Smiles of the Decomposed" (Matador)
   
5. A.C. Newman - "The Slow Wonder" (Matador)
   
6. Destroy All Monsters - "Live in Tokyo and Osaka 1996" (Compound Annex)
   
7. Diamanda Galas - "La Serpenta Canta" (Mute)
   
8. Stereolab - "Margerine Eclipse" (Elektra)
   
9. Ghost - "Hypnotic Underworld" (Drag City)
   
10. Doug Gillard - "Salamander" (Pink Frost)
    

Other essential stuff:
FACES-Five Guys Walk into a Bar (box set)
JOBRIATH-Lonely Planet Boy (FINALLY a reissue of this guy's stuff!)
MC5 - A True Testimonial DVD (pulled out of circulation due to a legal dispute - best rockumentary you've ever never seen!!!)

P.S. the MUST MUSINGS record is a 2004 private pressing LP from Detroit- an acid folk masterpiece of the highest order. I'm not exaggerating!