this is my change log for june 12, 2004, meaning this is what i picked up over the 2003-2004 year.

artist	title	year	format	label	#	opinion
a silver mt. zion	thee rusted satellites gather + sing	2003	cd	constellation	27	2
(the) angels of light	everything is good here / please come home	2003	cd	young god	022	2
(the) art of noise	who's afraid of the art of noise?	1984	cd	ztt (universal)	53194	2
	the ambient collection	1990	cd	china/polygram	43-403	2
bjork	vespertine	2001	cd	elektra (time-warner)	2653	2
brian eno	taking tiger mountain (by strategy)	1974	cd	eg (virgin)	017	1
coil	winter solstice: north	1998	lp	eskaton	016?	9
do make say think	winter hymn country hymn secret hymn	2003	cd	constellation	025	1
enya	s/t	1986	cs	atlantic (aol)	81 842	3
godspeed you(!) black emperor(!)	yanqui u.x.o.	2002	cd	constellation	024	2
i mother earth	earth, sky & everything in between	2001	cd	emi	5 32 326	2
inri	inricycled	2004	cd	csis	007	3
ludwig van beethoven	piano sonata no. 8: the pathetique (opus #13)	1799	cd	decca (universal)	43 155	1
	piano sonata no. 14: the moonlight sonata (opus #27)	1801	cd	decca (universal)	43 155	1
	piano sonata no. 21: waldstein (opus #53)	1804	cd	decca (universal)	43 155	1
rabit is wolf	rabit is wolf	2002	cd	csis	4	2
radiohead	hail to the thief	2003	cd	parlophone (emi)	5 84 544	2
shalabi effect	the trial of st. orange	2002	cd	alien8	32	2
sonic youth	sonic nurse	2004	cd	geffen (universal)	86 236	2
sublime	the best of (20th century masters)	2002	cd	mca (universal)	2-921	2
the trivial group	reflections	2003	cd	csis	005	2
the white stripes	elephant	2003	cd	v2 (bmg)	27 148	2
tortoise	it's all around you	2004	cd	thrill jockey	115	2
weezer	the blue album	1994	cd	geffen	4-629	1
wellwater conspiracy	tidepool telegraph	2000	cd	third gear	29	2

i think the adds are a little more contemporary, with a little bit of catch-up added in. it's pretty clear that my primary interest at the time was in post-rock, with everything else mostly being bleeding from the 90s. the coil ep was a present. the girl i lived with at the time was a big bjork fan.

that said, i didn't retreat from rock music on purpose. i just got bored with it, largely because there wasn't much interesting really happening. i've always had wide tastes; an interest in other forms would have never meant i couldn't also listen to some rock bands, if they were interesting. but, there weren't any around that were interesting. the one that kind of broke through it for me was the white stripes...

i was not very interested in the garage rock revival of the time; it struck me as a reduction of rock music to a novelty genre, void of anything remotely original or artistically driven. broadly speaking, rock music (per se) has been boring since the strokes - that is the moment the genre became a parody of itself, driven solely by fashion and greed and not interested in itself, any longer. when commercially viable rock music has been interesting since, it's been almost by accident.

jack white was different due to the simple fact that he was talented, unlike virtually every rock star around him, and virtually every rock star since then. i know there are broader ethnic and cultural issues at play, but what killed rock for me was that it just got boring. he's maybe the last legitimate rock star, in that respect.