Best Pazz & Jop Crtics Poll Album 2004

Another kind of weird year - I could have gone with Rilo Kiley, The Streets or even Arcade Fire, but in the end I went for The Grey Album which is a genius piece of work in the mash-up genre (which is usually pretty crappy).

The Grey Album is about the only mash-up I think is worth listening to more than once. But i went with the artist everybody loves to hate here, with Kanye West. The Streets album is pretty awesome, too. But I can go for any of the top seven. That Arcade Fire album would probably be my third choice.

Now this is a good year, with lots of great music choose from…among the best for me:

  1. Arcade Fire: Funeral
  2. Streets: A Grand Don’t Come For Free
  3. Modest Mouse: Good News for People Who Love Bad News
    10. Danger Mouse: The Grey Album
  4. Wilco: A Ghost Is Born

No Girl Talk for you?

Good call. OK, Girl Talk, too. Basically, anything that is a bit more than just juxtaposing two musically incongruous songs over each other.

Franz Ferdinand ahead of U2.

Yeah, I agree with that. I can’t think of any other mash ups I would listen to.

Best mashup I’ve heard is The Sugababes Freak like Me