Missed Hits 2004

Each year (this year and last year anyway), I make a comp CD of the best stuff I heard that year that most people probably didn't. I pass it around to a few friends and that sort of thing. Anyway, here's the 2004 list. Maybe I'll post the 2003 list another time. By the way, this is stuff I heard for the first time in 2004, not stuff that came out in 2004. Some of it's a good bit older.

• Ted Leo/Pharmacists "Under the Hedge" from Tyranny of Distance (2001)


• Mike Doughty "Cash Cow" from Skittish/Rockity Roll (2004)


• Desert City Soundtrack "Shoulder" from DCS/Rum Diary Split 7" (2004)


• Kimya Dawson "Heroes 2004" unreleased (2004)


• Roy "Has Darrell Worley Forgotten?" from Big City Sin, Small Town Redemption (2004)


• Alias "Pill Hiding" from Anticon Sampler 1999-2004 (2004)


• The Bomboras "War of the Satellites" from Head Shrinkin' Fun (1998)


• Death Cab for Cutie "We Looked Like Giants" from Transatlanticism (2004)


• Fela Kuti "Let's Start" from Fela Ransome-Kuti and Africa 70 with Ginger Baker Live (1971)


• J Church "Austin's Shitty Limits" from Society is a Carnivorous Flower (2004)


• Elliott Smith "A Fond Farewell" from From a Basement on a Hill (2004)


• The Decemberists "July, July" from Castaways and Cutouts (2002)


• Against Me "Cavalier Eternal" from Against Me as the Eternal Cowboy (2004)


• Rust Belt Music "This is a Colma Train" from Builder 4.0 (2004)


• Postal Service "Sleeping In" from Give Up (2003)


• Loretta Lynn and Jack White "Portland, Oregon" from Van Lear Rose (2004)


• Common Rider "Longshot" from This is Unity Music (2003)


• Velvet Teen "Chimera Obscurant" from Elysium (2004)


• The Birmingham Sunlights "Jacob's Ladder" from In the Garden (2004)