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  The New Afternoon Show - Top 89.1 of 2004

Compiled by: 
Brad LaBonte (Co-Producer/Host/Music Director), Daniel Blumin (Co-Producer/Host), and Rob Hatch-Miller (Host)

 

1. A Certain Ratio - The Graveyard And The Ballroom/To Each.../Sextet (Universal Sound)

2. Mitchell Akiyama - If Night Is A Weed And Day Grows Less (Sub Rosa )

3. Oren Ambarchi - Grapes From The Estate (Touch)

4. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs (Fat Cat)

5. Arcade Fire - Funeral (Merge)

6. Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands/Nino Rojo (Young God)

7. Beans - Now Soon Someday EP/Shock City Maverick (Warp)

8. Big Boy Pete - The Margetson Demos (Gear Fab)

9. Blackouts - History In Reverse (K)

10. Blood On The Wall - S/T (The Social Registry)

11. Boredoms - Seadrum/House Of Sun (Warner Music Japan )

12. Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1 (Acute)

13. Bulent - Benimle Oynar Misin (World Psychedelia)

14. The Bunnybrains - Box The Bunny (Narnack)

15. Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day (DiCristina)

16. Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder (Merge)

17. The Casual Dots - S/T (Kill Rock Stars)

18. Charalambides - Joy Shapes (Kranky)

19. Climax Golden Twins - Highly Bred And Sweetly Tempered (North East Indie )

20. Nels Cline/Andrea Parkins/Tom Rainey - Out Trios Vol. 3 (Atavistic)

21. Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral (Sub Pop)

22. Elizabeth Cotten - Shake Sugaree (Smithsonian Folkways)

23. Deerhoof - Milk Man (Kill Rock Stars/5RC)

24. DNA - DNA On DNA (No More Records)

25. The Double - Palm Fronds (Catsup Plate)

26. Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt (Subliminal Sounds)

27. Einsturzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile (Mute)

28. Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets/Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)/Another Green World/Before And After Science/Discreet Music/Ambient 1: Music For Airports/Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror/Ambient 4: On Land (Virgin/Astralwerks)

29. Espers - S/T (Locust)

30. The Ex - Turn (Touch And Go)

31. Faust vs. Dalek - Derbe Respect, Alder (Staubgold/Klangbad)

32. Bill Fay - From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock:  A Collection Of Demos And Outtakes 1966-70 (Wooden Hill)

33. Fennesz - Venice (Touch)

34. Simon Finn - Pass The Distance (Durtro/Jnana)

35. Franz Ferdinand - S/T (Domino)

36. Freeform - Wildcat EP (Skam)

37. Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld ( Drag City )

38. Global Goon - Family Glue (Audio Dregs)

39. Hall Of Fame - Paradise Now (The Social Registry)

40. David Hemmings - Happens (Rev-Ola)

41. The Homosexuals - Astral Glamour (Messthetics)

42. Keith Hudson And Friends - The Hudson Affair (Trojan)

43. Iron And Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)

44. Simon Joyner - Lost With The Lights On (Jagjaguwar)

45. Khanate - Things Viral (Southern Lord)

46. Klang - No Sound Is Heard (Blast First Petite)

47. Liars - They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (Mute)

48. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Press Color (Ze)

49. The Mice - For Almost Ever Scooter (Scat)

50. Monoshock - Runnin' Ape Like From The Backwards Superman: 1989-1995 (S-S)

51. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender ( Drag City )

52. The Nightingales - Pigs On Purpose (Cherry Red)

53. No Things - S/T (Self Released)

54. Notekillers - S/T (Ecstatic Peace)

55. Noxagt - The Iron Point (Load)

56. The David Nzomo Trio - The Sweet Soul Of Kenya (Latitude)

57. The Occasion - Seven Songs (Self Released)

58. Pan Sonic - Kesto (Mute)

59. Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori - Phantom Orchard (Mego)

60. Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain:  LA's Desert Origins (Matador)

61. P.G. Six - The Well Of Memory (Amish)

62. Phonophani - Oak Or Rock (Rune Grammofon)

63. Prince Jammy - Umoja/20th Century Debwise (Blood And Fire)

64. Radian - Juxtaposition (Thrill Jockey)

65. The Revelons - Anthology (Sepia Tone)

66. Jack Rose - Raag Manifestos (VHF)

67. Arthur Russell - Calling Out Of Context/World Of Echo (Audika)

68. Sightings - Arrived In Gold (Load)

69. Silkworm - It'll Be Cool (Touch And Go)

70. The Skygreen Leopards - One Thousand Bird Ceremony (Soft Abuse)

71. The Soft Pink Truth - Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth? (Tigerbeat6)

72. Stronen/Storlokken - Humcrush (Rune Grammofon)

73. David Thomas & Two Pale Boys - 18 Monkeys On A Dead Man's Chest (Smog Veil)

74. Tower Recordings - The Galaxies' Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field Of...(Communion)

75. Tussle - Don't Stop EP/Kling Klang (Troubleman Unlimited)

76. Tyrannosaurus Rex/T. Rex - A Beard Of Stars/My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Their Hair...But Now They're Content To Wear Stars On Their Brows/Prophets, Seers & Sages The Angels Of The Ages/Unicorn/T. Rex (A&M)

77. Various Artists - Cambodian Cassette Archives:  Khmer Folk And Pop Music Vol. 1 (Sublime Frequencies)

78. Various Artists - Ghana Soundz: Afro-Beat And Fusion In 70's Ghana Volume 2 (Soundway)

79. Various Artists - Mr. Toytown Presents...Obscure Psychedelic, Popsyke, & Soft-Pop 45s, 1969-1974 (Toytown)

80. Various Artists - Popular Electronics:  Early Dutch Electronic Music From Philips Research Laboratories 1956-1963 (Basta)

81. Various Artists - Space Is No Place Vol. 2 (Psych-O-Path)

82. Various Artists - They Keep Me Smiling (United Acoustic Recordings)

83. Various Artists - The Third Unheard: Connecticut Hip Hop 1979-1983 (Stones Throw)

84. Various Artists - Unclassics (Environ)

85. Tom Waits - Real Gone (Anti-)

86. Wasteland - Spirit Shots EP/October (Transparent)

87. White Magic - Through The Sun Door ( Drag City )

88. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)

89. Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind (Sub Pop)

89.1. Woven Hand - Consider The Birds (Sounds Familyre)


The New Afternoon Show staff would like to thank all the artists who stopped by for live performances, guest DJ sets, and interviews.  We'd also like to thank all the record labels, sponsors, and listeners for their continued support in 2004.

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