Show Me Magic’s Jim Auton and Bill Cummings present Golden Retriever regular specials focusing on the music and culture one year of the past. In a bumper new episode the pair look back on the year 2004, picking out their favourite tracks, under rated songs and clunkers from the year!
They look back on what they were doing in 2004, the good and bad of music in the early noughties, including the hype surrounding the Libertines, the cut and paste pop of The Go Team, French electro, the New York music scene, the New Cross scene, the nadir of landfill, the differences between music discovery then with the rise of MySpace and now and much more.
Tracklist
The Libertines – Can’t Stand Me Now
The Go Team! – Ladyflash
The Zutons – You Will You Won’t
Air – Cherry Blossom Girl
The Walkmen – The Rat
Eminem – Just Lose It
Bloc Party – Banquet
Luxembourg – What the housewives don’t tell you
Eric Prydz – Call On Me Yeah
Yeah Yeahs – Maps
Produced by Andy VonPip