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This has been bothering me all weekend. I have some MP3’s at work, a full (recently released?) album by a band whose name I can’t recall. I’d never heard of them before, but they may have been around for a while. My colleague passed them on to me. I went through all the Pitchfork reviews and current charts yesterdat, but couldn’t find them. I don’t know anything about the band and haven’t heard the songs enough to say anything about them, but their singer sounds a lot like Tom Jones. I think they’re British, but they might not be. I think their name sounded a little odd or funny, in that it didn’t fit with the music they played. I could wait till tomorrow to find out, but maybe you can tell me right now.Update: Duh. Remembered I can access work mail from home, found the original mail with the download link. The band is called Electric Six . If the Scissor Sisters played rock music, that’s what they sound like.

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Best of my 2004
(records I played the most, no rationale involved)

* Declan O’Rourke – Since Kyabram
* U2 – How to dismantle an atomic bomb
* The Killers – Hot Fuss
* Robi Draco Rosa – Mad Love

Best of 2004
(records I should play more)

* Nick Cave – Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus
* Morrissey – You are the quarry
* 90 day men – Panda Park
* Nancy Sinatra – Nancy Sinatra
* Leonard Cohen – Dear Heather
* The Dears – No Cities Left
* Ben Christophers – Spaces in Between
* Tim Booth – Bone
* Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters
* Interpol – Antics

Best re-release / compilation

* Japan – back catalogue
* Kylie Minogue – Ultimate Kylie
* Virgin Prunes – back catalogue

Disappointments
(records I wanted to play, but didn’t live up to expectation)

* George Michael – Patience
* Marianne Faithful – Before the poison

I don’t get it
(records other people recommended)

* Arcade Fire – Funeral

Eclipsed
(records that didn’t survive the hype)

* Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand

For this year’s MeFiSwap (the first time I participate while my burner is actually operable) I procrastinated as usual and then quickly threw a compilation together last night. Read on if you want to know the playlist which has no agenda at all. The U2 track is on it for its rarity (an unreleased track), the rest is simply ‘tunes I have enjoyed at some point in time’.

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