Artist	Song
Mates of State	Drop and Anchor
Maritime	Lights
Of Montreal	Erroneous Escape into Erik Eckles
The Helio Sequence	Don't Look Away
Mike Doughty	Move On
Jon Brion	Strings That Tie to You
David Byrne	Why
Cake	Waiting
They Might Be Giants	Museum of Idiots
Calexico	Corona
Mike Park	On That Stage
Dan Bern and the IJBC	Tyranny
Jello Biafra w/ The Melvins	Islamic Bomb
Mclusky	Kkkitchens, What Were You Thinking?
Say Anything	Alive with the Glory of Love
Roy	Cut the Cord
Rilo Kiley	More Adventurous
Bright Eyes	I Woke Up with this Song in My Head this Morning
The Mountain Goats	Quito
Travis Morrison	Any Open Door
Now It's Overhead	A Little Consolation
Frank Black w/ The Two Pale Boys	Velouria

Comment:

This mix is by no means indicative of the absolute best of 2004! It is simply 80 minutes of SOME of the best music released in 2004. I realize that many great artists/songs/albums are missing from this mix, but I made do with the cds in my collection at the time that I mixed it. I tried to include my top ten favorite albums of the year, along with many of my favorite songs of the year. In some cases, great songs that came from otherwise dismal albums made the mix. All in all, however, I think this at least represents a small sampling of some of the best music 2004 had to offer.This mix was created November-December, 2004. At least 40 copies were made and handed out to friends and family. The cover photo was shot by Maranatha Wilson in Minneapolis, August, 2004. I chose that image because I hoped it would suggest that I was raising my glass to my friends in appreciation. Instead, I'm afraid it just makes me look like some kind of ego maniac!NOTE: I accidentally added a track from an album that came out in 2003 (Mike Park, For the Love of Music: 11/11/03). Ooops!

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