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Scene Point Blank's Favorites: Year End (2004)

Posted pre-2010

Alex:

1. Liars - They Were Wrong So We Drowned
2. Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
3. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
4. Pinback - Summer in Abaddon
5. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
6. Mastodon - Leviathan
7. Various Artists - DFA Compilation #2
8. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
9. John Butler Trio - Sunrise Over Sea
10. Shalabi Effect - Pink Abyss
11. Cee-Lo Green - Cee-Lo Green is the Soul Machine
12. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
13. A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
14. Jason Forrest - The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash
15. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
16. Devendra Banhart - Ni'o Rojo
17. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
18. Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
19. Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic
20. Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
21. The Blood Brothers - Crimes
22. !!! - Louden Up Now
23. Black Eyes - Cough
24. Architecture In Helsinki - Fingers Crossed
25. Air - Talkie Walkie

Giles:

1. Isis - Panopticon
2. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
3. Converge - You Fail Me
4. Minus the Bear - They Make Beer Commercials Like This
5. Madvillain - Madvillainy
6. Interpol - Antics
7. Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets
8. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
9. Kanye West - The College Dropout
10. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
11. Circle Takes The Square - As The Roots Undo
12. A Day In Black And White - My Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboys
13. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
14. Mono - Walking Cloud And Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered And The Sun Shined
15. Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
16. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
17. Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album
18. Old Man Gloom - Christmas
19. These Arms Are Snakes - Oxeneers or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home
20. Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
21. Mastodon - Leviathan
22. De La Soul - The Grind Date
23. Hot Snakes - Audit in Progress
24. Grails - Red Light
25. The Advantage - The Advantage

Jeff C.:

1. Say Anything - ...is a Real Boy
2. The Honorary Title - Anything Else but the Truth
3. Lifelong Tragedy - Destined for Anything
4. Owen - EP
5. Owen - I Do Perceive
6. Crime in Stereo - Explosives and the Will to Use Them
7. Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want to Be
8. Stand Accused - Demo
9. Killing the Dream - Killing the Dream
10. This is Hell - This is Hell

Jerome:

1. Kanye West - The College Dropout
2. The Velvet Teen - Elysium
3. The Honorary Title - Anything Else but the Truth
4. The Red Light Sting - Hands up Tiger
5. Showbread - No Sir, Nihilism is not Practical
6. Owen - I do Perceive
7. The Faint - Wet from Birth
8. Fear Before the March of Flames - Art Damage
9. Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
10. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
11. Talib Kweli - The Beautiful Struggle
12. The Blood Brothers - Crimes
13. The Ghost - This Pen is a Weapon
14. Converge - You Fail Me
15. Dosh - Pure Trash
16. Kissing Tigers - The Pleasure of Resistance
17. Bjórk - Medúlla
18. Head Automatica - Decadence
19. The Good Life - Album of the Year
20. Mewithoutyou - Catch us for the Foxes
21. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
22. Hanalei - We are all Natural Disasters
23. He is Legend - I am Hollywood
24. Isis - Panopticon
25. Keane - Hopes and Fears

Jonathan:

1. 90 Day Men - Panda Park
2. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
3. The Cocker Spaniels - Withstand The Whatnot
4. Madvillain - Madvillainy
5. Man Man - The Man in a Blue Turban with a Face
6. Kanye West - The College Dropout
7. Battles - EP C
8. Battles - B
9. Tree Wave - Cabana
10. Frog Eyes - The Folded Palm
11. Make Believe - Make Believe EP
12. Mastodon - Leviathan
13. Arsis - A Celebration of Guilt
14. Murs - 3:16 The 9th Wonder
15. Oneida- Secret Wars
16. Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
17. Animal Collective- Sung Tongs
18. Espers - Espers
19. Deerhoof - Milk Man
20. Bjórk - Medúlla
21. Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
22. Savath & Savalas - Aprop'at
23. Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
24. MF Doom - Mm..Food?
25. Panda Bear - Young Prayer

Melanie:

1. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
2. The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
3. Air - Talkie Walkie
4. Converge - You Fail Me
5. Interpol - Antics
6. The Cure - The Cure
7. The Faint - Wet From Birth
8. The Blood Brothers - Crimes
9. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
10. Kanye West - The College Dropout

Michael:

1. Isis - Panopticon
2. Minus the Bear - They Make Beer Commercials Like This
3. Eagles of Death Metal - Peace Love Death Metal
4. These Days - Death Sentence
5. Fantómas - Delirium Cordia
6. Old Man Gloom - Christmas
7. These Arms Are Snakes - Oxeneers or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home
8. Kaada & Patton - Romances
9. Bjórk - Medúlla
10. Roy - Big City Sin and Small Town Redemption
11. With Honor - Heart Means Everything
12. 27 - Let The Light In
13. Meshuggah - I
14. Terror - One with the Underdogs
15. Life Long Tragedy - Destined for Anything
16. Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
17. Killing the Dream - Killing the Dream
18. Mare - Mare
19. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
20. The Rise - Reclamation Process
21. Jesu - Heart Ache
22. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
23. Converge - You Fail Me
24. Secret Chiefs 3 - The Book of Horizons
25. Lights Out - Get Out

Nancy:

1. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. The Good Life - Album of the Year
3. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
4. Ambulance Ltd - LP
5. The Velvet Teen - Elysium
6. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
7. Air - Talkie Walkie
8. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
9. A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
10. Interpol - Antics
11. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
12. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets
13. Wilco - A Ghost is Born
14. Earlimart - Treble & Tremble
15. Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
16. Tilly and the Wall - Wild like Children
17. Matt Pond PA - Emblems
18. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
19. The Elected - Me First
20. Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
21. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
22. The Cure - The Cure
23. Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
24. Will Johnson - Vultures Await
25. The Killers - Hot Fuss

Pat:

1. Morrissey - You are the Quarry
2. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. The Cure - The Cure
4. Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
5. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
6. Brian Wilson - SMiLE
7. Bjórk - Medúlla
8. Interpol - Antics
9. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
10. Meshuggah - I

Shane:

1. Minus Story - The Captain Is Dead, Let the Drum Corpse Dance
2. Isis - Panopticon
3. Brian Wilson - SMiLE
4. The Velvet Teen - Elysium
5. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
6. Dirty Projectors - Slaves, Graves and Ballads
7. Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
8. Mono - Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined
9. On Fire - This Time It Is Forever
10. Loscil - First Narrows
11. Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands / Nino Rojo
12. Mock Orange - Mind Is Not Brain
13. Newsom, Joanna - Milk Eyed Mender
14. Deerhoof - Milk Man
15. Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
16. Panda Bear - Young Prayer
17. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
18. The Dead Texan -The Dead Texan
19. Madvillain - Madvillainy
20. Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What Is Effortless
21. Roots of Orchis - Crooked Ceilings
22. Adelaide - Adelaide
23. CocoRosie - La Maison de Mon Róve
24. Japancakes - Waking Hours
25. Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks

Zed:

1. Madvillain - Madvillainy
2. Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
3. Circle Takes The Square - As the Roots Undo
4. Secret Mommy - Mammal Class
5. Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
6. Old Man Gloom - Christmas
7. Mono - Walking Cloud And Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered And The Sun Shined
8. MF Doom - MM..Food?
9. Takaru - There Can Only Be None
10. Welcome The Plague Year - Welcome The Plague Year
11. Make Believe - Make Believe EP
12. Isis - Panopticon
13. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
14. Kanye West - College Dropout
15. Hot Snakes - Audit in Progress
16. Sex Positions - Sex Positions LP
17. Arsis - A Celebration of Guilt
18. Frog Eyes - The Folded Palm
19. Viktor Vaughn - Venomous Villain
20. Verse - Rebuild
21. La Quiete - La Fine Non ... La Fine
22. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
23. Converge - You Fail Me
24. A Day In Black And White - My Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboys
25. Life Long Tragedy - Destined for Anything

— words by the SPB team

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