2004 CJLO Staff Picks

“Hey, let’s do our Top Ten lists and post them on the website”. You figure that would be enough to send everyone scurrying to their keyboards and add to the avalanche of year-end lists that are fail-safe crowd favourites, if not the mark of lazy writing. So what happens when we’re too lazy to even do that? Well lure them with free alcohol.

So it was at the CJLO Christmas Party that I navigated through the crowd in search of fellow CJLO DJs to fill out their lists so that you can shop better before the year is over. Of course, given that this mightily ambitious endeavour takes place in an alcohol-friendly environment, the lists were not always complete, readable or even dealing with our friend, Mr.2004. And that, lads, is punk rock journalism.


Dan Stefik: Rocks In Your Head, Mondays 6pm – 8pm


1. Out Of The Shadow (Rogue Wave)
2. Fortune (Mendoza Line)
3. Funeral (Arcade Fire)
4. Early Morning Hymns (Old Canes)
5. Shock City Maverick (Beans)
6. Dents and Shells (Richard Buckner)
7. SMiLE (Brian Wilson)
8. Shake Sugaree (Elizabeth Cotton)
9. We Should Have Never Lived Like We Were Skyscrapers (Chin Up Chin Up)
10. If You Can (the Race)


Dave Marriott: Rocks In Your Head, Mondays 6pm – 8pm


1. …And The Tin Pan Bended and the Story Ended… (Dave Van Ronk)
2. Golden Apples Of The Sun (Various Artists)
3. Cherry Tree (the National)
4. Dents and Shells (Richard Buckner)
5. Out Of The Shadow (Rogue Wave)
6. Every Night (Saturday Looks Good To Me)
7. SMiLE (Brian Wilson)
8. Sung Tongs (Animal Collective)
9. Love Songs For Patriots (American Music Club)
10. Thunder, Lightning, Strike (the Go! Team)


Jennifer Testa: Nostalgia For The Present, TBA


1. Out Of The Shadow (Rogue Wave)
2. Rejoicing In The Hands (Devendra Banhart)
3. Satanic Panic In The Attic (Of Montreal)
4. Dents and Shells (Richard Buckner)
5. These Were The Earlies (the Earlies)
6. Funeral (Arcade Fire)
7. Sung Tongs (Animal Collective)
8. To The Moon (Monster Movie)
9. The Concretes (the Concretes)
10. When I Pretend To Fall (Long Winters) *

* 2003


Dallas Richter: Don’t Mess With Dallas, Tuesdays 8am-10am


1. Shake The Sheets (Ted Leo and the Pharmacists)
2. Future Perfect (Autolux)
3. Gros Mammouth Album Turbo (les Trois Accords)
4. Mute Print (A Wilhelm Scream)
5. Futures (Jimmy Eat World)
6. You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine (Death From Above 1979)
7. Phantom Planet (Phantom Planet)
8. Everything In Three Parts (the Golden Dogs)
9. Murs 3:16: The 9th Edition (Murs)
10. E&A (Eyedea and Abilities)


Alex Huynh: Losing My Edge, Sundays 2pm – 4pm and Tuesdays 8pm-10pm


1. A Grand Don’t Come For Free (the Streets)
2. Funeral (Arcade Fire)
3. Thunder, Lightning, Strike (the Go! Team)
4. Blueberry Boat (the Fiery Furnaces)
5. A Ghost Is Born (Wilco)
6. Secret Wars (Oneida)
7. Sung Tongs (Animal Collective)
8. We Should Have Never Lived Like We Were Skyscrapers (Chin Up Chin Up)
9. Bows and Arrows (the Walkmen)
10. Le Retour du Bleu Métallique (Gwenwed)


Ollie Pulleybank: Boozehound Radio, Sundays 6pm – 8pm


1. The Bronx (the Bronx) *
2. Give It A Name (Million Dollar Marxists)
3. Switchcomb Massacre (Alter Egos)
4. Empire Strikes First (Bad Religion)
5. B-Sides (New Bomb Turks)
6. London Calling: The Vanilla Tapes (the Clash)
7. You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine (Death From Above 1979)
8. The Libertines (the Libertines)
9. Good News For People Who Love Bad News (Modest Mouse)
10. 2004 sucked

* 2003


Katie Kotler: Katie The K, Wednesdays 10am – noon


1. New Deutsch (Various Artists) *
2. Loops From The Bergerie (Swayzak)
3. The Milk-Eyed Mender (Joanna Newsom)
4. Electric Wilderness (Tinkertoy)
5. Grab That Gun (The Organ)
6. Backstroke (Matthew Dear)
7. Cocteau Twins?
8. Ultravisitor (Squarepusher)
9. Closer (Plastikman)
10. Are + Be (Mocky)

* 2003


Jordanna Belle-Isle: Canadian Invasion, Fridays 4pm – 6pm


1. “Romantic Rights” – Death From Above 1979
2. “I Believe” – Marble Index
3. “Combat Baby” - Metric
4. “Gimme That” - Sloan
5. “Dirty Water” – K-Os featuring Sam Roberts
6. “Inside Out” - Feist
7. “Watch” – controller.controller
8. “Zombie Girl” – Howie Beck
9. “Give Me a Chance To Fall” – Gentleman Reg
10. “Party Of One” – Peter Elkas


Nikkie Landry: More Rock Than A Crackhouse, Tuesdays 10am – noon


1. Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (My Chemical Romance)
2. In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: Volume 3 (Coheed and Cambria)
3. Casually Dressed and in Deep Conversation (Funeral For A Friend)
4. Writer’s Block (Evergreen Terrace)
5. Franz Ferdinand (Franz Ferdinand)
6. The Curse (Atreyu)
7. Futures (Jimmy Eat World)
8. They’re Only Chasing After Safety (Underoath)
9. Miss Machine (The Dillinger Escape Plan)
10. American Idiot (Green Day)


Fraser McCallum: F-Train 120, Mondays 8am – 10am


1. “Power Out” – Arcade Fire
2. “The World At Large” – Modest Mouse
3. “This Cold” – John Frusciante
4. “The Rat” – the Walkmen
5. “Slow Hands” – Interpol
6. “Take Me Out” – Franz Ferdinand
7. “House Of Jealous Lovers” – the Rapture *
8. “Can’t Stand Me Now” – the Libertines
9. “Taj Mahal” – Sam Roberts
10. “Ch-Check It Out” – the Beastie Boys

* 2003, even arguably 2002


Louis Rozza: Hooked On SONiCS, Tuesdays 6pm – 8pm


1. The Libertines (the Libertines)
2. Blueberry Boat (the Fiery Furnaces)
3. You Are The Quarry (Morrissey)
4. Heroes To Zeroes (Beta Band)
5. Grab That Gun (the Organ)
6. Weightlifting (Trash Can Sinatras)
7. Goodnight Nobody (Julie Doiron)
8. So Jealous (Tegan and Sara)
9. Future Perfect (Autolux)
10. Margarine Eclipse (Stereolab)
11. Rubber Factory (the Black Keys)
12. Little Heart’s Ease (Royal City)
13. II (Sovietes)
14. The Concretes (the Concretes)
15. Sit Down For Staying (Charmparticles)
16. Universal Audio (the Delgados)
17. Love The Cup (Sons and Daughters)
18. Faded Seaside Glamour (the Delays)
19. Underachievers Please Try Harder (Camera Obscura)
20. You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine (Death From Above 1979)


Chris Bussmann: Bop and Beyond, Wednesdays 2pm – 4:30pm

1. Einsturzende Neubauten, Club Soda, Montreal QC
2. Burning Spear, Washington Sq. Park, Albany NY
3. Kepler, Casa Del Popolo. Montreal QC
4. Napalm Death, Fouf's, Montreal QC
5. Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, Doubleday Field, Cooperstown NY
6. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, El Salon, Montreal QC
7. Kalmunity Vibe Collective, La Sala Rossa, Montreal QC
8. The Pixies, CEPSUM, Montreal QC
9. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Club Soda, Montreal QC
10. The Sifters, The Lark Inn, Albany NY


Mike Bresciani: Wake Up Late With Mikey, Mondays 1:30pm – 3pm


1. Futures (Jimmy Eat World)
2. Give Up (Postal Service) *
3. Join The Dots: B-Sides & Rarities, 1978-2001 (the Cure)
4. Abbatoir Blues/ The Lyre of Orpheus (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
5. Cool To Be You (the Descendents)
6. The Libertines (the Libertines)
7. American Idiot (Green Day)
8. From A Basement On The Hill (Elliott Smith)
9. Pressure Chief (Cake)
10. You Are The Quarry (Morrissey)

* 2003


Antonella Fratino: The Siamese Libertines, Thursdays 6pm – 8pm


1. Talkie Walkie - (Air)
2. Funeral - (The Arcade Fire)
3. End Of The World Party [Just In Case] - (Medeski, Martin & Wood)
4. This Tyrant Is Free - (A. Graham and the Moment Band)
5. Good News For People Who Love Bad News - (Modest Mouse)