Arcade Fire Takes the Crown From the Rapture

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The Rapture handed over their Miss Pitchfork award to The Arcade Fire this morning as Pitchfork announced that Funeral had won the best album of 2004 award.

Animal Collective upset The Fiery Furnaces, and surprised the crowd, by grabbing the silver medal.

Fiery Furnaces were then reduced to fourth place, after also being beat by The Streets for #3, who proclaimed, "Dry Your Eyes."

'Freak Folk' seems to have dominated the top ten with Joanna Newsom at #10, Devendra Banhart at #7, and Animal Collective at #2. It was practically a tie with Hip-Hop though, whose white UK representative The Streets came in at #3, indie counterpart Madvillian got #6, and mainstream playa' Ghostface grabbed #9.

Franz Ferdinand showed up at #26, while fellow UK music makers, The Go! Team took the coveted #8.

Brian Wilson is smiling because an album he wrote in 1967, but took 36 years to officially release, showed up at #5.

Annie danced in to #15. Grammy favorite Kanye West got #18. Scissor Sisters took #43. Loretta Lynn thanks Jack Black for #48, but then like me, realized it was Jack White, not Black that collaborated with her on her latest album. Xiu Xiu said, "phew BEEP! phew BEEP! phew BEEP!" in reaction to his just making the list at #50.

This and more @ Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2004

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posted at 1:23 PM on December 22, 2004 in music | Comments (13)

Comments (13)

Nice roundup, Brooklyn Vegan. No major disappointments here, though everyone seems to be ignoring Mr. J. Vanderslice this year. Maybe I'm the only fanboy left?

And Ghostface was a surprise . . . perhaps an oblique tribute to his once-homey, ODB?

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