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musicOMH's Best Of 2004 Awards Opera Editor Helen Wright has a penchant for wildly camp bands, good old fashioned rock and roll and people who play games with lyrics... oh, and magic opera, too.

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Nature Boy

ALBUMS:

For uniting so many musicOMH editors and writers in unheard-of roars of approval:
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters

For creating irresistible music and great one-liners:
The Killers - Hot Fuss

For creating a thing of beauty and wit out of thin air and Scotch Eggs:
Bandini - Love On A Budget

SINGLES:

For recording such a great single I had to buy the album:
The Killers - Somebody Told Me

For raising the temperature to boiling point:
Pink Grease - Fever

For rocking without losing an iota of wit and world-weariness:
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Nature Boy

LIVE PERFORMANCES:

For being more entertaining than any band has a right to be:
Scissor Sisters @ The Astoria, London, 3 April 2004

For getting back to basics:
Richard Hawley & The Feral Cats @ 100 Club, London, 14 July 2004

For being even better live than on the album:
Bandini @ Upstairs At The Garage, London, 21 September 2004

OPERA:

For creating sheer magic on stage (and for Thomas Ades finishing the score just in time):
The Tempest @ ROH

For the exquisite singing of Karita Mattila:
Arabella @ ROH

For exciting us long before they went down to some festival or other:
The Valkyrie @ ENO

MUSIC DVDs:

For taking us to another world entirely:
Goldfrapp - Wonderful Electric

- Helen Wright

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