ILx'ers Top Albums of 2003

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Either there is no such thread, or the person behind it has forgotten to put it in the correct category.

Anyway, here is mine, for starters:

1. Super Furry Animals: Phantom Power
Their masterpiece?
Personally I would rank "Radiator" even higher, but this is still SFA at their very best. About time this quirky Welch bunch becomes more than just a cult band. They deserve all the attention Beck has and more than that.

2. Julian Berntzen: Waffy Town
A Norwegian release that went straight to my Beatlesque pop heart. Sort of a concept album suite heavily influenced by The Beatles and other late 60s psychedelia. Producer H.P. Gundersen (also worked with Sondre Lerche) is one of the best producers in the world right now - sort of an undiscovered genius from the rest of the world.

3. Fountains Of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers
On their debut, they tried to sound like Weezer, which didn't come out too nice. They are a lot better off now having polished and softened their sound, moving closer to the style of Jellyfish. Intelligent tunes blend with intelligent lyrics, creating their best album so far.

4. Radiohead: Hail To The Thief
After two weird albums, that did have their moments but were still patchy with a lot of strange experimentation, Radiohead did finally return to traditional song structures again, but without necessarily getting rid of the better parts of their electronic sound of the two previous efforts. Combined, "Hail To The Thief" was easily their best album since "OK Computer" and a welcome return to form.

5. Grandaddy: Sumday
Hard to decide whether I prefer the somewhat quirky "Sophtware Slump" or this more straigtforward effort. Anyway, Grandaddy certainly prove they have an ear for excellent pop music, and this was one of the year's most underrated albums. If not necessarily better than their 2000 effort, this was at least almost as good.

6. Number Seven Deli: Falkner Street
Another Norwegian effort, and another classic pop album in the Beatles/Beach Boys/Byrds/Badfinger/Big Star tradition. Great multi voiced vocals, and yet another band doing the best genre in the world in a great way.

7. Dandy Warhols: Welcome To The Monkey House
I like Dandy Warhols. An "alternative" American band that knows their pop history and knows how to write tasty pop songs.
"You Were The Last High" was IMO the best single of 2003, and while the rest is somewhat more patchy there are definitely more gems here. The emergence of Nick Rhodes in the producer seat provided for a change in musical style that fit them well. I have to admit the album isn't as much a grower as some of the other albums from 2003 though.

Erlend Øye: Unrest
The last Norwegian entry on the list.
While I did like the Kings Of Convenience debut from 2001, I still felt the album was a bit underproduced in all its accoustic nakedness. Hearing Øye's excellent songs and voice with a somewhat more interesting production was therefore kind of a relief. A great early 2003 album that would have deserved more attention - this is better than Kings Of Convenience.

Jayhawks: Rainy Day Music
Out of the alt.country bunch, Jayhawks have always been my favourites. Sadly, they left behind the pure pop style of "Smile" on this album, but there are still enough great songs to make it a Top 10 iten for me.

Outkast: Speakerbox/The Love Below
Virtually every genre has sort of the crossover album that mixes the genre with elements from lots of other genre in a really ambitious concept album, and creates a classic. "Speakerbox/The Love Below" is basically to hip-hop was "London Calling" was to punk, "Mellon Collie" was to grunge, "Leftism" was to electronica and "Physical Grafitti" was to heavy rock. A truly ambitious album that is sooo much more than just a hip-hop album. Which is probably why it is the first ever hip-hop album to appear in my year-end Top 10 ;)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 1 January 2004 00:48 (twenty years ago) link

/me dies

― dean gulberry (deangulberry), Thursday, 1 January 2004 00:51 (twenty years ago) link

I forgot to rank the last three, but they are 8 to 10, obviously :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 1 January 2004 00:52 (twenty years ago) link

Y'know, I'd cite mine....but sadly, they're all too predictable, and I've already expounded on them in utterly needless detail elsewhere, so I'll spare everyone. You're welcome.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 1 January 2004 01:41 (twenty years ago) link

rapture - echos
not all of it lived up to the hype(infatuation & sister saviour are stinkers) but still a remarkable album with a ton of great tracks and even some ballads, which was a nice surprise

adam green - friends of mine
fuckin AWESOME. its so good. wonderful melodies and hooks and great production imo.

erase errata - at crystal palace
too short if anything. more realized and developed than their last full length

black dice - beaches n canyons
fuckin great. was it 03? I can't remember

gogogoairheart - love my life, hate my friends
great great great. Love it. good shit right here

chromatics - chrom rats vs basement ruts
deserved more attention. one of the best post punk releases so far.

dm & jemini - ghetto pop life
really good.

lightning bolt - wonderful rainbow
awesome awesome awesome

yeah yeah yeahs - fever to tell
really solid, only 1 or 2 subpar tracks. but thats only compared to the other great ones on the album

― stopatnothing, Thursday, 1 January 2004 01:50 (twenty years ago) link

01 pas/cal 'oh honey. we're ridiculous'/'the handbag memoirs'
*i cheated this isn't an album but my fave 11 songs of the year and actually the stupendous 'oh honey...' comes out in feb. everywhere other than detroit.
02 misty dixon 'iced to mode'
*it's beautiful, wonder if it will be their only record
03 Belle and Sebastian 'dear catastrophe waitress'
*my fave belle and sebastian album ever
04 ballboy 'the sash my father wore and other stories'
*i played it about 21 times that first evening
05 Random Number 'towards the forlorn society'
*pretty, i only like pretty, electronic music, i am boring
06 Arnaud Fleurent-Didier 'portrait de jeune homme en artiste'
*he's mindbogglingly great
07 gimmik 'back to basics'
*more pretty electronic stuff, a bit bouncier
08 radio dept 'lesser matters'
*they're ugly for being swedish and all
09 four tet 'rounds'
*i hated the first two records
10 Swirlies 'cats of the wild vol. 2'
*this made me like the yes tapes cd
11 edwin moses 'love will turn you upside down'
*belle and sebastian sounded a lot like them on bits of their album
12 Broadcast 'haha sound'
*none of the dull spots that were on the first album
13 lexaunculpt 'the blurring of trees'
*more pretty electronics and trees
14 manual 'isares'
*the new slowdive, sorta
15 Lilys 'precollection'
*i have been unable to convince anyone else of its greatness
16 pram 'dark island'
*my favorite band, sympathy pick, i love it, really
17 pearlfishers 'sky meadows'
*david scott writes wonderful pop songs, love him
18 lucksmiths 'a little distraction'
*better than the album, meant less time to make guild league records, hurrah
19 Florian 'florianopolis'
*teenage minor league belle and sebastian from sweden
20 BMX Bandits 'down at the hop'
*genius, duglas and francis each
21 Saturday Looks Good To Me 'all our summer songs'
*sounds more like his name is alive's 'stars on esp' than the first one
22 Sk/Um 'i pagu fallsins'
*see 13
23 Luma Lane 'Nicegirls'
*like cloudboy, in absence of cloudboy fulfills my ethereal girl quota
24 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci 'Sleep/Holiday'
*i want them to make an all out country record in Nashville
25 I am Robot and Proud 'grace days'
*very twee
26 camera obscura 'underachievers please try harder'
*it's much better if you delete the fifth aong and replace it with the two b-sides from the teenager single
27 super furry animals 'phantom power'
*i had it lower but then relistened and wondered how i had forgotten it was good
28 aislers set 'how i learned to write backwards'
*my fave aislers set record, no one i know loves it
29 Instant Music Cafe 'io amo pop'
*genius japanese pop
30 of montreal 'if he is protecting our oil...'
*b-sides, but i love kevin barnes
31 Devics 'stars at saint andrea'
*a female version of the czars
32 beaumont 'tiara'
*how i wish saint etienne records would sound
33 stereolab 'instant o in the universe'
*groovy
34 relict 'tomorrow is again'
*the clientele record is better but i had lower expectations for this one
35 ulrich schnauss 'a strangely isolated place'
*the other new slowdive
36 Pipas 'golden square'
*the new heavenly
37 lucksmiths 'naturaliste'
*not as good as the ep, but their best non-compilation album
38 boyracer/kanda tour cd
*totally excellent dolly mixture cover, sad about 555 though
39 la buena vida 'album'
*an anonymous record
40 mojave 3 'spoon and rafter'
*the first song reminds me of spiritualized 'let it flow'
41 Starlets 'further into night forever'
*isobel campbell sings on it, but i can't figure out on which song
42 clientele 'the violet hour'
*pretty great really but he should get a girl singer(s) like the relict have
43 saloon 'if we meet in the future'
*not as good as the first one but better than yo la tengo
44 tokey tones 'caterpillar'
*they released two records, i didn't like the other much
45 other people's children 'delete control escape'
*i don't like the photos of this guy
46 monade 'socialism, oui barbarie'
*it's ok, i never listen to it, disagree with sentiments of title
47 lucky dragons 'dark falcon'
*i like the dark falcon back story
48 cannonball jane 'street vernacular'
*i want a school teacher who makes broken pop songs at night
49 bitmap 'alpha beta gamma'
*i'd rather have a new salako record, a country salako record would be the best
50 sprinkle boyish 'fine day, good to see you'
*japanese saint etienne, better than their last two records even
51 mmmfan316 'dot matrix'
*nintendo pop- there were like 5 nintendo pop records this year, this is the only one i have
52 diskettes 'the diskettes'
*go canada
53 slipside 'the world can wait'
*destined for sounds of leamington spa 17 comp in 2017

― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 1 January 2004 02:33 (twenty years ago) link

lightning bolt 'wonderful rainbow'
black dice & wolf eyes collaboration LP
sunburned hand of the man s/t LP
bonnie billy 'master & everyone'
comets on fire 'field recordings from the sun'

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 1 January 2004 03:56 (twenty years ago) link

I'm sure this is the fifth one of these...

Anyway:

Aereogramme - Sleep & Release
Envy - A Dead Sinking Story
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
Deftones - Deftones
Hood - Compilations

― Stupid (Stupid), Thursday, 1 January 2004 04:11 (twenty years ago) link

accessible:

1)Sting - Sacred Love
2)Rosanne Cash - Rule of Travel
3)Seal - IV
4)Massive Attack - 100th Window
5)Alicia Keys - Diary

and excessive:

1)David Sylvian - blemish
2)Jing Chi - Live
3)Natalie MacMaster - Blueprint
4)Andy Summers - Earth + Sky
5)King Crimson - The Power To Believe

― bahtology v. silm, Thursday, 1 January 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link

1. Outkast 'Speakerboxxx/The Love Below'
a worthy winner as long as you create your own single disc version
1. Basement Jaxx 'Kish Kash'
dance music dead? this is the supernova then
3. Richard X 'The X-Factor Vol. 1'
contemporary electropop as it should be
4. Dizzee Rascal 'Boy In Da Corner'
the sound of the bow bells drowned out by warped proto-beats and schizo-rhymes galore
5. Broadcast 'haha sound'
new songs and sceneries from the custodians of the sci-fi lullaby
6. Audio Bullys 'Ego War'
better beats than OPM but less humour and a few dodgy bits prevent it from being higher
7. Goldfrapp 'Black Cherry'
sulky synthesized sex on a stick
8. White Stripes 'Elephant'
rawr
9. Radiohead 'Hail To The Thief'
staggering
10. The Rapture 'Echoes'
beats jump up to get punked down
11. The Strokes 'Room On Fire'
how did THAT get in there?!?!
12. Pitman 'It Takes A Nation Of Tossers'
13. Ellen Alien 'Berlinette'
14. Soft Pink Truth 'Do You Party?'
15. L.F.O. 'Sheath'
16. Junior Senior 'D-d-don't Stop The Beat'
17. Massive Attack '100th Window'
18. u-Ziq 'Bilious Paths'
19. Zongamin 'Zongamin'
20. Black Box Recorder 'Passionoia'

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 January 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

My list for 2003 will, undoubtedly, be different in a couple of months due to hearing some great stuff that I missed up to now.
Of what I heard so far, right now, today, it's these:

1. BADAWI "Clones and False Prophets"
(am I the only one that get's it?)
2. HIM "Many in High Places Are Not Well"
3. POLMO POLPO "Like Hearts Swelling"
4. MANITOBA "Up In Flames"
5. NETTLE "Firecamp Stories: Remixes"
(thank you bargain bins!)
6. PREFUSE 73 "One Word Extinguisher" + "Outtakes"
7. VARIOUS ARTIST "Archiv 1 (Rastor-Noton)"
8. METRIC "Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?"
9. KILLING JOKE "Killing Joke"
(who woulda thunk???....besides Alex in NY)
10. THE LONESOME ORGANIST "Forms and Follies"
(Just missed: OUTKAST "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below"
-- too much work on the skip button)

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 1 January 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link

What does Geir think of Hey Ya?

― ModJ (ModJ), Thursday, 1 January 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

he thinks it's okay

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 January 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link

Aaaaaw yeah..

― ModJ (ModJ), Thursday, 1 January 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago) link

1. La Casa Azul - Tan Simple Como La Amor - Great hotch potch of joyful sunshine pop.
2. The Ataris - So Long Astoria - High NRG Dawsonesque Emopop
3. Mates of State - Team Boo - A nice racket
4. Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea - Happy Billy, couldn't last

Honourable mentions:
1. Papa Fritas - Pop Has Freed Us'
2. Zola - Siete Maletas
3. Funeral For A Friend - Casually Dressed and Deep In Conversation
4. The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
5. All American Rejects
6. No Doubt - The Singles
7. Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy
8. HIM - Love Metal
9. Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
10. The Labybug Transistor
11. Styrofoam - I'm what's there to show that something's missing

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 1 January 2004 19:02 (twenty years ago) link

In no special order:

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Elbow - Cast of Thousands
Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
Muse - Absolution
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow

and I must be forgetting something, but these are good enough to be here.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Thursday, 1 January 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago) link

1) Non-Prophets "Hope"
2) Outkast "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below"
3) Jay-Z "The Black Album"
4) Aesop Rock "Bazooka Tooth"
5) The Rapture "Echoes"
6) Dizzee Rascal "Boy In Da Corner"
7) Radiohead "Hail To The Thief"
8) Brother Ali "Shadows On The Sun"
9) The Strokes "Room On Fire"
10) Metric "Old World Underground Where Are You Now"

― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Thursday, 1 January 2004 19:56 (twenty years ago) link

that gogogo is a reissue from like 98 though.

― twelve, Thursday, 1 January 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago) link

Ok some are reissues:

1) Wrens - Bridge and Tunnel
Only song I don't like is 13 mths and 6 mins all the rest are classix
2) Shins - Oh, Chutes too Narrow
Not as good as the last one but I was obsessed w/that.
3) Minor Threat - First Demo Tape
No it is not redundant
3) Beat Happening - Music Trees to Climb
I have a weakness for them
4) Thermals - Holistic
Superchunk! Sort of. Only complaint is the recording is too good.
5) Brother Ali - Shadows on the Sun
My fav. hip-hop record this year. Great performer too.
6) Pinback - Offcell EP
Ah so pretty.
7) KaOiTo - band red
Intially really great, then annoying, then great again
8) Cerberus Shoal - Chaimng the Knobblesome
Only record that made me feel like I was on drugs (and in a commune)
9) MIchael Yonkers Band - Hippy Hippy Shake
Represent. I was really excited when I read about this and it only slightly dissappointed
10) VA - New York Noise
Reinforced my belief that NYC isn't even close to as cool (vital etc) as it was and this is because so many current bands are careerists

Also I bought some hyped2death stuff and that is very nice.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Thursday, 1 January 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago) link

1) Zongamin : Zongamin
2) Phill Niblock : Touch Food
3) Ekkehard Ehlers : Politik braucht keinen Feind
4) Naw : The Resound of a Foggy Autumn Dawn
5) Ambre : Le mensonge

― Zzz (-_-) zzZ (Wintermute), Thursday, 1 January 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago) link

DJ/rupture: Minesweeper Suite (Tigerbeat6)

Jan Jelinek Avec the Exposures: La Nouvelle Pauvreté (~scape)

Soulwax: Soulwax Presents Hang All DJ's Volume 1 (Head Traxx Inc.)

Soulwax: Soulwax Presents Hang All DJ's Volume 2 (Head Traxx Inc.)

Philip Jeck: 7 (Touch)

Soundmurderer: Wired for Sound (Violent Turd)

Robert Crumb Presents Hot Women Singers (EFA)

Yo La Tengo: Summer Sun (Matador)

Flowers in the Wildwood: Women in Early Country Music 1923-1939 (Trikont)

Dizzee Rascal: Boy in Da Corner (XL)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 1 January 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago) link

I knew I shouldn't've kept the < br> tags.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 1 January 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link

The Shins Chutes Too Narrow
Ween Quebec
Lyrics Born Later That Day
Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow
Kool Keith The Lost Masters
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
My Morning Jacket It Still Moves
Granddaddy Sumday

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 January 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago) link

Outkast: Speakerbox/The Love Below
Virtually every genre has sort of the crossover album that mixes the genre with elements from lots of other genre in a really ambitious concept album, and creates a classic. "Speakerbox/The Love Below" is basically to hip-hop was "London Calling" was to punk, "Mellon Collie" was to grunge, "Leftism" was to electronica and "Physical Grafitti" was to heavy rock. A truly ambitious album that is sooo much more than just a hip-hop album. Which is probably why it is the first ever hip-hop album to appear in my year-end Top 10

i would have thought this was too close to rhythm to make geir's list?

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 2 January 2004 00:11 (twenty years ago) link

haw haw Geir doesn't like rhythm, hi-larious haw haw

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 2 January 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago) link

its not a joke, im just interested as to whether this marks a shift in his attitude towards hip-hop/rap in general

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 2 January 2004 00:15 (twenty years ago) link

Nonsense.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 2 January 2004 00:19 (twenty years ago) link

I mean, Geir, I would bet any money that you prefer The Love Below to Speakerboxx. Not a criticism, merely an observation.

And yes, this addressed to Geir himself because talking about someone as if they're not in the room is just plain fucking rude.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 2 January 2004 00:20 (twenty years ago) link

And yes, this addressed to Geir himself because talking about someone as if they're not in the room is just plain fucking rude.
its a webboard, give a shit

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 2 January 2004 00:25 (twenty years ago) link

there was no rudeness intended btw, if i was trying to be rude id be rather more obvious.

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 2 January 2004 00:29 (twenty years ago) link

basement jaxx - kish kash
m. mayer - fabric 13
dizzee rascal - boy in da corner
the rapture - echoes
bubba sparxxx - deliverance
ted leo & the pharmacists - hearts of oak
freeway - philadelphia freeway
soundmurderer + sk-1 - rewind records
david banner - mississippi: the chopped & screwed album
ricard villalobos - alcachofa
bobby konders - mad sick head nah good mix
n.a.s.t.y. crew - mixed by jammer
animal collective - spirit they've vanished, spirit they've gone/danse manatee

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 January 2004 00:51 (twenty years ago) link

I'll know when I vote for the Pazz/Jop thing over the weekend...and even then I think it won't be much. I'm looking forward to writing a meditiation of sorts in the comments section more.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 January 2004 00:53 (twenty years ago) link

Just posted mine, with notes (and links to MP3s where available) here.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 2 January 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago) link

Am I allowed to put Nasty Crew's "The Nasty Show" as no. 1 if I've only got it as a realmedia file?

Re: Geir - for this purpose I resurrect my solar system model: Geir thinks that melodic traditionalism is the sun in the musical solar system, and he will look favourably upon the face of any planet (musical style) which receives and reflects the sun's light. Outkast is like the sunny side of the planet Hip-hop while Lil' Jon is forever shrouded in darkness. However I would imagine that for him hip hop is like Pluto and meat-and-potatoes rock is like Venus, ie. the light that Outkast gives back is weaker and more distant than the light that Travis gives back.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 2 January 2004 01:17 (twenty years ago) link

awesome analogy

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 2 January 2004 01:24 (twenty years ago) link

In the case of Outkast, just the fact that large parts of the album abandons rap and embraces Prince-style funk or Quiet Storm is definitely a good thing, and I hope the entire hip-hop community will go the same way.

Also, more or less the entire "black" music community needs to start making concept albums, I mean, hardly anybody but Prince has done previously.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 2 January 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago) link

Geir, for black concept albums: search every second hip hop album ever.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 2 January 2004 02:06 (twenty years ago) link

I love Tim. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 January 2004 02:17 (twenty years ago) link

Was talking to my roommate today about favorites from this year and I had a hard time coming up with anything definitive. Excessive downloading made it hard for me to focus on one thing for very long.

I still don't consider this list definitive - I'm sure I have forgotten some things and there are some 2002 releases that slipped in. Everything falls into one of two basic categories, 1) albums that surprised and blew me away on first listen, and 2) albums that reminded me of other things I've liked in the past (comfort music, basically). Not too sure about the order after the first five or so.

1. Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana
2. A-Frames - 2
3. Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters
4. Thermals - More parts Per Million
5. Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
6. Kevin Blechdom - Bitches Without Britches
7. Animal Collective - Campfire Songs
8. Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island Burn
9. Ellen Allien - Berlinette
10. Lucky Dragons - Dark Falcon
11. Fannypack - So Stylistic
12. Brunettes - Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks
13. Pipas - Golden Square
14. Stars - Heart
15. Matthew Dear - Leave Luck to Heaven
16. Envy - A Dead Sinking Story
17. Erase Errata - Live at Crystal Palace
18. My Favorite - The Happiest Days of Our Lives
19. Matt Elliot - The Mess We Made
20. All Girl Summer Fun Band - 2
21. A.R.E. Weapons
22. Tujiko Noriko - From Tokyo to Naigara
23. Wire - Send
24. The Like Young - Art Contest
25. Sunroof! - Cloudz

― Ryan WS (fffv), Friday, 2 January 2004 02:31 (twenty years ago) link

They may be concept album in that they are being tied together by a concept, but they aren't influenced by classical music the way a good concept album should.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 2 January 2004 02:36 (twenty years ago) link

Geir have you heard any southern bounce? Half the melodies are stolen from classical composers!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 2 January 2004 02:41 (twenty years ago) link

cut & paste from my p&j confirmation email:

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell - Interscope (15 points)
2. Blur - Think Tank - Virgin (15 points)
3. Martin L. Gore - Counterfeit² - Mute/Reprise (13 points)
4. Concretes - The Concretes - Licking Fingers (12 points)
5. Wrens - The Meadowlands - Absolutely Kosher (11 points)
6. British Sea Power - The Decline Of British Sea Power - Sanctuary/Rough Trade (9 points)
7. Woven Hand - Blush Music - Sounds Familyre (8 points)
8. Kenna - New Sacred Cow - Columbia (7 points)
9. White Stripes - Elephant - V2 (5 points)
10. Hidden Cameras - The Smell Of Our Own - Sanctuary/Rough Trade (5 points)

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 2 January 2004 02:45 (twenty years ago) link

My 10 Favorite Albums of '03
1. Jay-Z - The Black Album
2. Cex - Being Ridden
3. Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
4. Carla Bozulich - Red Headed Stranger
5. Freeway - Philadelphia Freeway
6. Lake Trout - Another One Lost
7. Kenna - New Sacred Cow
8. Chris Lee - Cool Rock
9. Grand Buffet - Pittsburgh Hearts EP
10. The Diplomats - Diplomatic Immunity

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 2 January 2004 03:24 (twenty years ago) link

Only the first few are in any real order:

1. Magic Dirt - Tough Love
2. The 88 - Kind of Light
3. Clear Horizon - Clear Horizon
4. KaitO UK - Band Red
5. Tegan & Sara - If It Was You (2003 re-release in the US)
6. MF Doom - Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain
7. Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner (really hated this at first)
8. Laptop - Don't Try This At Home
9. Lilys - Precollection (great but feels somewhat irrelevant)
10.Joy Zipper - American Whip (2004 version will be different, therefore the promo counts for 2003)

― dlp9001, Friday, 2 January 2004 03:26 (twenty years ago) link

1.Exploding Hearts-Guitar Romantic
2.Saturday Looks Good To Me-All Your Summer Songs
3.Puffy AmiYumi-Nice
4.The Clientele-
5.Lightning Bolt-Wonderful Rainbow
6.David Banner-Mississippi: The Album
7.Belle and Sebastian-Dear Catastrophe Waitress
8.MF Doom as Viktor Vaughn-Vaudville Villain
9.Sufjan Stevens-Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State
10.Songs:Ohia-Magnolia Electric Company

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Friday, 2 January 2004 03:38 (twenty years ago) link

I don't really have a vote on best of records that came out in 2003, to be honest I usually find things when I find things.

The new music/bands I found in 2003 that I enjoyed the most:

Neurosis
Isis
Opeth
Oneida

― earlnash, Friday, 2 January 2004 04:09 (twenty years ago) link

Criteria for inclusion and paragraph-length blurbs can be found on Seaworthy Southeast Thesaurus.

1. Outkast, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
2. Radiohead, Hail to the Thief
3. Prefuse 73, One Word Extinguisher and Extinguished: Outtakes
4. Belle & Sebastian, Dear Catastrophe Waitress
5. Basement Jaxx, Kish Kash
6. M83, Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts
7. The Postal Service, Give Up
8. Broken Social Scene, You Forgot It in People
9. The North Atlantic, Wires in the Walls
10. Schneider TM, 6 Peace EP

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 January 2004 07:10 (twenty years ago) link

This was my Baltimore City Paper List:

1. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Pig Lib (Matador)
2. Sightings Absolutes (Load)
3. The Microphones Mount Eerie
4. Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow (Load)
5. Belle & Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress (Rough Trade)
6. Neil Michael Hagerty The Howling Hex (Drag City)
7. Skullflower Exquisite Fucking Boredom (Tumult)
8. Jeff Hanson Son (KRS)
9. Cursive The Ugly Organ (Saddle Creek)
10. Radiohead Hail to the Thief (Capitol)

After getting "Room On Fire" for Christmas, I'd like to put it in the place of Skullflower.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 2 January 2004 12:56 (twenty years ago) link

richard x - presents his x-factor v1
ellen allien - berlinette
cardigans - long gone before daylight
basement jaxx - kish kash
dizzee rascal - boy in da corner
50 cent - get rich or die tryin'
viktor vaughn - vaudeville villain
sufjan stevens - michigan
bonnie prince billy - master and everyone
chris clark - empty the bones of you

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 2 January 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link

1. Dizzee Rascal, Boy In Da Corner
2. Girls Aloud, Sound Of The Underground
3. Carina Round, The Disconnection
4. Basement Jaxx, Kish Kash
5. Diamanda Galás, Defixiones: Will And Testament
6. tATu, 200km/h In The Wrong Lane
7. Cat Power, You Are Free
8. Missy Elliott, This Is Not A Test
9. Lene, Play With Me
10. Bubba Sparxxx, Deliverance
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever To Tell
12. The Cardigans, Long Gone Before Daylight
13. Richard X, Richard X Presents His X-Factor Vol 1
14. Black Box Recorder, Passionoia
15. Nina Nastasia, Run To Ruin
16. Outkast, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
17. Moloko, Statues
18. Rufus Wainwright, Want One
19. Ellen Allien, Berlinette
20. The Kills, Keep On Your Mean Side

Explanations and blurbs here if you scroll down a bit. As you can see the order from about 7 down is in a permanent state of flux...

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 2 January 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago) link

Of course I forgot to put Kelis in, Tasty would go just above Richard X at the moment I think.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 2 January 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

jay-z - the black album
colder - again
basement jaxx - kish kash
m83 - dead cities...
50 Cent - Get Rich...
Four tet - Rounds
Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
Black box recorder - passionoia
sleepy jackson - lovers
prefuse 73 - one word extinguisher

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 2 January 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link

Metric - "Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?"
Belle and Sebastian - "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"
The Russian Futurists - "Let's Get Ready to Crumble"
Holly Golightly - "Truly She Is None Other"
KaitO - "Band Red"
White Stripes - "Elephant"
The Handsome Family - "Singing Bones"
Quasi - "Hot Shit!"
Crooked Fingers - "Red Devil Dawn"
The Band of Blacky Ranchette - "Still Looking Good To Me"
The Dirtbombs - "Dangerous Magical Noise"
The Detroit Cobras - "Seven Easy Pieces"
Outkast - "Speakerboxx/The Love Below"
The Deadly Snakes - "Ode To Joy"
Adult. - "Anxiety Always"
Janet Bean and the Concertina Wire - "Dragging Wonder Lake"
M83 - "Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts"
Stereolab - "ABC Music"
The New Pornographers - "Electric Version"
Playgroup - "DJ Kicks"

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 2 January 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago) link

1. TV on the Radio - Young Liars EP
2. Roswell Rudd/Toumani Diabate - Malicool
3. Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
4. The Thermals - More Parts Per Million
5. The Wrens - The Meadowlands
6. Andrew Hill - Passing Ships
7. Manitoba - Up In Flames
8. Grachan Moncur - New Africa
9. Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
10. Getachew Makurya - Negus of Ethiopian Sax - Ethiopiques 14
11. Medicine - Mechanical Forces of Love
12. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
13. Dennis Bovell - Decibel - More Cuts and Dubs
14. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
15. Stephen Malkus - Pig Lib
16. The Rapture - Echoes
17. Joe Strummer - Streetcore
18. Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
19. Decemberists - Her Majesty the Decemberists
20. The Constantines - Shine a Light
21. The Clean - Anthology
22. V/A Wild Dub/Dread Meets Punk Rocker
23. Ricardo Villalobos - Taka Taka In the Mix
24. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
25. Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa

― scott m (mcd), Friday, 2 January 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link

Top Ten Canadian

(note, these are my favourites, not "most important" or even "best" just the one's that I responded to in a very deep, meaningful, and emotional way.

1. I LOVE THE MODERN WAY - Andrew Vincent & the Pirates
Openly acknowledging their debt to Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, this Ottawa trio deliver post-teenage kicks aplenty through a surprisingly effective mix of catchy, unadorned rockaroll and life-as-dealt lyrics about everything from losing your hair to watching Oprah. I LOVE THE MODERN WAY is as much fun as back-to-back episodes of SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS.

2. ODE TO JOY - the Deadly Snakes
Toronto's garage rock ambassadors of mean-spiritedness made the album of their career with ODE TO JOY. Despite its sinister themes of murder, spite, and general oblivion, this raucous album mystifyingly manages to live up to its title.

3. NOW THIS IS FIGHTING - Parkas
Like Sloan in their prime, the Parkas make guitar pop fun again without insulting the intelligence of their audience. If there was any justice in this world, "Giants in my Field," with its irresistible hooks, killer harmonies, and lines like "revenge is just the local favourite pastime," would be the new fight song of every high school football team in the country.

4. BROKEN SPIRIT, I WILL MEND YOUR WINGS - Soft Canyon
Though the reformation of Tricky Woo, from whose ashes this band rose, likely signals the end of Soft Canyon, BROKEN SPIRIT... stands as a gorgeously grandiose document of epic imagination and rural psychedelia.

5. TALKIN' HONKY BLUES - Buck 65
Even though he's now acknowledging conventional song structure, Haligonian hip hop artist Buck 65 is still just as much Beat poet as rapper. Watch for his Gregory Corso-meets-the Neptunes sounds to crack the mainstream in 2004.

6. BLOW THE HOUSE DOWN - the Great Uncles of the Revolution
If acoustic country jazz with classical leanings gets its own rack in record stores anytime soon, it will be because of this album. Andrew Downing, along with Kevin Turcotte and Juno Award-winners Jesse Zubot and Steve Dawson, delivers a handful of great, crisp originals and a remarkable, rustic reworking of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf."

7. WHO WILL CUT OUR HAIR WHEN WE'RE GONE? - the Unicorns
Wacky, nerdy, and morbid, yet bright, fun, and engaging music inspired by the glittery stickers elementary school girls put on their notebooks. Lying somewhere between Despistado and Junior Senior, the Unicorns are the clown princes of silly art rock.

8. HOT NEW SPIRITS - Tangiers
With all the swagger of the Strokes and none of the baggage, this Toronto quartet lived up to their NYC counterparts' promise and then some. Dark, desperate and dangerously cool.

9. ON TOP OF THINGS!- the Chains
If five French-Canadians can capture the sound of the 1960s British Invasion so convincingly, maybe all this talk of power pop being the next garage rock might amount to something. ON TOP OF THINGS! is the Beatles' RUBBER SOUL meets the Stones' AFTERMATH while still sounding fresh and optimistic.

10. LATE NIGHTS, EARLY MORNINGS - Bottleneck
This Vancouver band brings the best elements of classic country-pop into the 21st Century on their second album. Jazzy inflections, heart-wrenching lyrics and tremendous vocals make this a great record by which to consider the sunrise.

Bubbling Under (still non-imports), 2003 releases from: John Millard & Happy Day, Despistado, Fight the Monster, Junior Pantherz, Kid Koala, Warsawpack, Big Dave McLean, Joel Plaskett Emergency, Tyler Banadyga, and the High Dials.

Best of the Rest (non-non-imports), 2003 releases from: Junior Senior, Black Eyed Peas, Lyle Lovett, Panjabi MC, Frank Black & the Catholics, Mary J. Blige, the Jessica Fletchers, Neil Michael Hagerty, the Singles, and Howe Gelb.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 January 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link

Also, my non-non-imports list is suspect, because I put about three minutes worth of thought into it. Was merely culled from discs I could see from where I was sitting.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 January 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link

keith rowe/john tilbury - duos for doris
erlend oye - unrest
michael mayer - fabric 13
david banner - mississippi chopped and screwed
blood brothers - burn piano island burn
belle & sebastian - dear catastrophe waitress
xiu xiu - a promise
pluramon - dreams top rock
luomo - the present lover
medicine - mechanical forces of love

― dan (dan), Friday, 2 January 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

My list with commentary.

― o. nate (onate), Saturday, 3 January 2004 01:37 (twenty years ago) link

So as not to duplicate my P&J ballot:
11. Thunderbirds Are Now! Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
12. David Banner/Michael Watts Mississippi: the Screwed and Chopped Album
13. Deana Carter I'm Just a Girl
14. Party of One Caught the Blast
15. Electric Six Fire
16. Gary Allan See If I Care
17. Northern State Dying In Stereo
18. Transplants Transplants
19. FM Knives Estrogen EP
20. Toby Keith Shock'n Y'All

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Saturday, 3 January 2004 02:48 (twenty years ago) link

1. Basement Jaxx
2. Dizzee
3. Radioheaed
4. Richard X
5. Four Tet
6. Cat Power
7. The Strokes
8. Outkast
9. Ver Darkness
10. Rapture
11. Mogwai
12. Jay-Z
13. Zwan
14. Plaid
15. LFO
16. Herbert
17. White Stripes
18. Spiritualized
19. Jonny Greenwood
20. Gillian Welch

In other words, I think I really need broadband in the new year.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 3 January 2004 03:18 (twenty years ago) link

Alizee - Mes Courants Electriques
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham - L'Avventura
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Strokes - Room On Fire
Stars - Heart
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
va - Fabric 13 - Michael Mayer
New Pornographers - Electric Version
Postal Service - Give Up
va - Smallville - Tobias Thomas
Electric Six - Fire
va - Le Future, Le Funk
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
Luomo - The Present Lover

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 3 January 2004 03:37 (twenty years ago) link

For as micro and as unmoving a year for music as I thought this was (my inner journalist is a stick in the mud), I was surprised that I walked away with LOTS of records in my top tier. I had to do a ton of cutting and re-listening and single elimination tournaments (sounds geeky, but really just means flipping through the two discs on a snippet basis back-to-back) to come up with a solid 10 for P&J. Ultimately, these struck me as ones that would stay with me for the long-term, or that spoke to me, or were undeniably rich on the intellectual tip.

Here tis:

1. David Banner, Mississippi: The Screwed and Chopped Album
2. Bubba Sparxxx, Deliverance
3. Drive-By Truckers, Declaration Day
4. The White Stripes, Elephant
5. OutKast, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
6. The Mars Volta, De-loused in the Comatorium
7. The Shins, Chutes Too Narrow
8. Cat Power, You Are Free
9. The Darkness, Permission to Land
10. Neil Young, Greendale

My also-rans: Kid Rock, The Strokes, Death Cab For Cutie, The Rapture, Radiohead, Metallica, Ying Yang Twins, The Bug, 50 Cent, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, M. Ward, The Kills, Basement Jaxx, Grandaddy, Richard X, Fog, Led Zeppelin, Super Furry Animals, New Pornographers, Scene Creamers, Nada Surf.

― Chris O., Saturday, 3 January 2004 10:22 (twenty years ago) link

In no order, here are ten.

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE – Welcome Interstate Managers
YEAH YEAH YEAHS – Fever To Tell (Interscope)
THE BLACK KEYS – Thickfreakness (Fat Possum)
THE WHITE STRIPES – Elephant (V2)
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS – Electric Vision (Matador)
SHELBY LYNNE – Identity Crisis (Capitol)
THE SHINS – Chutes Too Narrow (SubPop)
GRANDADDY – Sumday (V2)
THE JAYHAWKS – Rainy Day Music (American)
THE CLIENTELE – The Violet Hour (Merge)

I always think a Top Ten is too little. 25 probably covers it better for me.

― don weiner, Saturday, 3 January 2004 12:33 (twenty years ago) link

01. The Rapture- Echoes
02. Xiu Xiu- A Promise/ Fag Patrol
03. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone- Twinkle Echo
04. M. Ward- Transfiguration of Vincent
05. Dizzee Rascal- Boy in da Corner
06. Mu- Afro Finger & Gel
07. The Russian Futurists- Let's Get Ready to Crumble
08. The Clientele- The Violet Hour
09. Radiohead- Hail to the Thief
10. Basement Jaxx- Kish Kash
11. Adult.- Anxiety Always
12. M83- Dead Cities...
13. Postal Service- Give Up
14. Out Hud- S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D.
15. Tujiko Noriko- From Tokyo to Naigara
16. Dorine Muraille- Mani
17. Cat Power- You Are Free
18. Jonny Greenwood- Bodysong
19. Ellen Allien- Berlinette
20. Deerhoof- Apple O'
That's a revised version of the list at href="http://medium.washcoll.edu/reviews">this site.

― lou (lou), Saturday, 3 January 2004 12:34 (twenty years ago) link

Oops- One more try...this site

― lou (lou), Saturday, 3 January 2004 12:43 (twenty years ago) link

1.Dizzee Rascal-Boy In Da Corner
2.Michael Mayer-Fabric 13
3.David Banner-Mississippi
4.Andre 3000-The Love Below
5.Jay Z-The Black Album
6.Turbonegro-Scandinavian Leather
7.Blood Brothers-Burn Piano Island Burn
8.Al Green-I Can’t Stop
9.The Rapture-Echoes
10.Animal Collective-Here Comes The Indian
11.Manitoba-Up In Flames
12.Basement Jaxx-Kish Kash
13.A.R.E. Weapons-A.R.E. Weapons
14.Drive By Truckers-Decoration Day
15.Barbara Morgenstern-Nichts Muss
16.Devendra Banhart-Black Babies
17.Mogwai-Happy Songs For Happy People
18.Killer Mike-Monster
19.Fog-Ether Teeth
20.Calexico-Feast Of Wire

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 3 January 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link

Freeway should really be in there, too. Oh well.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 3 January 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago) link

1. Dave Attel - Skanks for the Memories
2. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog - Come Poop with Me

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Saturday, 3 January 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

'Come Poop With Me' is actually really funny. Do you have the one with the bonus DVD?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 4 January 2004 04:58 (twenty years ago) link

yah but i just listened to Mitch Hedberg's "Mitch All Over" and i have to rate that with my #1 (it also has a bonus dvd!)

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Sunday, 4 January 2004 06:36 (twenty years ago) link

01 Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
02 (tie) Atmosphere - Seven's Travels
02 (tie) Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
04 The Rapture - Echoes
05 (tie) Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance
05 (tie) Jay-Z - The Black Album
05 (tie) The Strokes - Room On Fire
05 (tie) The White Stripes - Elephant
09 (tie) Broadcast - Haha Sound
09 (tie) Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic

Honorable mention: Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day; New Pornographers - The Electric Version; David Banner - Mississippi: The Album; Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth; Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher; The Darkness - Permission to Land; everything even remotely brushed up against by MF Doom

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 4 January 2004 06:47 (twenty years ago) link

1. Broadcast - "Haha Sound"
2. Architecture in Helsinki - "Fingers Crossed"
3. Deadly Snakes - "Ode to Joy"
4. Camera Obscura - "Underchievers Please Try Harder"
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Fever to Tell"
6. Beulah - "Yoko"
7. Belle & Sebastian - "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"
8. Grandaddy - "Sumday"
9. Metric - "Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?"
10. Hidden Cameras - "The Smell of Our Own"
11. The Shins - "Chutes Too Narrow"
12. Postal Service - "Give Up"
13. The Darkness - "Permission to Land"
14. The Raveonettes - "Chain Gang of Love"
15. The Rapture - "Echoes"
16. Ellen Allien - "Berlinette"
17. Pas/Cal - "The Handbag Memoirs EP"
18. Club 8 - "Strangely Beautiful"
19. British Sea Power - "The Decline of British Sea Power"
20. Fannypack - "So Stylistic"
21. Bikeride - "Morning Macumba"
22. Stars - "Heart"
23. The Stills - "Logic Will Break Your Heart"
24. Ricardo Villalobos - "Alcachofa"
25. Fountains of Wayne - "Welcome Interstate Managers"

Though I just mail-ordered Saturday Looks Good to Me and Ballboy.. Maybe I like those more?

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 4 January 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago) link

Nice to see all the lists that include Metric.

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 4 January 2004 19:30 (twenty years ago) link

1. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
2. Broken Social Scene - You Forget it in People
3. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
4. Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
5. MF Doom is Viktor Vaugn - Vaudeville Villain
6. Four Tet - Rounds
7. Junior Senior - D-D Don't Stop the Beat
8. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
9. The White Stripes - Elephant
10.The Shins - Chutes too Narrow

― stephen morris, Sunday, 4 January 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago) link

I am amazed at how perfectly that list alternates between "albums I was a dork for" and "albums I, and let me diplomatic here, could have been more interested in".

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 4 January 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago) link

okay:

1. Basement Jaxx
2. Drive-By Truckers
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4. King Sunny Ade
5. Dizzee Rascal
6. Bubba Sparxxx
7. Atmosphere
8. Electric Six
9. The Rapture
10. New Pornographers
11. Jay-Z
12. Outkast
13. Justin TImberlake
14. Amy Rigby
15. Audio Bullys
16. Yo La Tengo
17. White Stripes
18. Lyrics Born
19. Liz Phair
20. Kathleen Edwards

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Sunday, 4 January 2004 21:14 (twenty years ago) link

here's my lists that i submitted for Mojo... i reckon they're about the most representative i submitted this year...

1)= My Morning Jacket, It Still Moves (RCA)
1)= Mars Volta, Deloused In The Comatorium (Strummer)
3) Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever To Tell (Dress Up)
4) Blood Brothers, Burn Piano Island Burn (Artist Direct)
5) Deerhoof, Apple O (5 Rue Cristiane)
6) Nefilim Modulation Systems, Woe To Thee O Land If Thy King be a Child (Big Dada)
7) Outkast, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (RCA)
8) The Gossip, Movement (K)
9) The Hunches, Yes No Shut It (In The Red)
10) Lightning Bolt, Wonderful Ranbow (Load)

Top five compilations and/or box-sets

1) GBV, Hardcore UFOs Box (Matador)
2) V/A - Goodbye Babylon (Dust 2 Digital)
3) The Wonder Of Stevie (compiled by Bobbito & DJ Spinna)(Harmless)
4) V/a, Root Damage (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
5) Movement Soul (ESPDisk)

Top five reissues

1) Jeff Buckley, Live At Sin E (Sony Legacy)
2) Neil Young, On The Beach (Warners)
3) Glenn Branca, The Ascension (Car Park)
4) Guided By Voices, Get Out Of My Stations (Siltbreeze)
5) Uncle Tupelo, Still Feel Gone (Sony Legacy)

― stevie (stevie), Sunday, 4 January 2004 21:23 (twenty years ago) link

10 of 2003 (no real order):

Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island Burn
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Murder by Death - Who Will Survive, And What Will be Left of Them
Xiu Xiu - A Promise
British Sea Power - The Decline Of
Ted Leo - Hearts of Oak
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Cooper Temple Clause - Kick Up the Fire...
Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Non-Prophets - Hope

Best comp:
Guided by Voices - Human Amusement at Hourly Rates

Great 2004 albums so far:
Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
Liars - They Were Wrong So We Drowned

Most anticipated 2004 album:
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News

― Simon H., Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:22 (twenty years ago) link

MORE FIRE CREW

― fletcher dexter, Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:31 (twenty years ago) link

LESS FIRE CREW

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 5 January 2004 00:20 (twenty years ago) link

THE EXACT SAME AMOUNT OF FIRE CREW AS BEFORE

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 5 January 2004 00:36 (twenty years ago) link

ok time to leave

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 5 January 2004 00:36 (twenty years ago) link

here's my own pazz and jop list:

1. Reverend Charlie Jackson - God’s Got It - CaseQuarter (15 points)
2. Jolie Holland - Catalpa - Anti (14 points)
3. Pluramon - Dreams Top Rock - Karaoke Kalk (13 points)
4. Hidden Cameras - Smell of Our Own - Rough Trade (12 points)
5. A-Frames - 2 - S-S (11 points)
6. Various Artists - Goodbye, Babylon - Dust to Digital (9 points)
7. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash - Astralwerks (8 points)
8. Cass McCombs - A - Monitor (7 points)
9. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow - Sub Pop (6 points)
10. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner - XL (5 points)

― yetimike (McGonigal), Monday, 5 January 2004 00:57 (twenty years ago) link

2003 top ten
1. Kinski- Airs Above Your Station (Subpop)
2. The Clean- Anthology( Merge/Flying Nun)
3. The Verlaines - You’re Just Too Obscure For Me (Flying Nun)
4. John Fahey - Red Cross (Revenant)
5. The Dead C - The Damned (Starlight Furnature Co.)
6. Six Organs Of Admittance- Compathia (Holy Mountain)
7. Simply Saucer- Cyborgs Revisited (Sonic Unyon)
8. Fat Worm Of Error- 2003 Mixtape (Yeah! Cassettes)
9. Clear Horizon- Clear Horizon (Kranky)
10. Sun City Girls- God Is My Solar System/ Superpower (Eclipse)

Contenders
Wayne Rodgers- Constant Displacement (Drag City)
Double Lepoards- Halve Maen (Eclipse)
Sunburned Hand Of The Man Bootleg

What I haven't heard that could have been in the 10.
Led Zeppelin, Paik, Robert Wyatt, The Screaming MeeMees, Goodbye, Babylon Set

What I'm looking forward to in 2004
P.G. Six, Ghost

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 5 January 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago) link

1. “Dear Catastrophe Waitress” Belle and Sebastian
2. “Five Dollar Bill” Corb Lund Band
3. “It Takes A Nation Of Tossers” Pitman
4. “Blackmarket Boy” Fallacy
5. “Ghetto Pop Life” DM and Jemini
6. “Music For The Mature B Boy” DJ Format
7. “Welcome Interstate Managers” Fountains of Wayne
8. “Un-Thugged: Essential Selection” DJ Yoda and Dan Greenpeace
9. “200 km/h In The Wrong Lane” t.a.T.u.
10. “Saucy Haulage Ballads” Half Man Half Biscuit

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 5 January 2004 01:10 (twenty years ago) link

Just sent in my pazz and jop as follows:

Your Pazz & Jop albums ballot was submitted as follows:

1. Junior Senior - D-D-Don't Stop The Beat - Mercury (20 points)
2. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash - XL (20 points)
3. Sugababes - Three - Universal/Island (15 points)
4. Richard X - Richard X Presents His X Factor Vol 1 - EMI (10 points)
5. Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance - Interscope (10 points)
6. Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground - Polydor (5 points)
7. The Darkness - Permission To Land - Must Destroy (5 points)
8. David Banner - Mississippi: The Album - Universal (5 points)
9. The Clientele - The Violet Hour - Pointy (5 points)
10. Tatu - 200 km/h In The Wrong Lane - Polydor (5 points)

I rolled a dice to decide which 5 out of 9 or 10 five-pointers went in.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 5 January 2004 01:35 (twenty years ago) link

1. Richard X - Presents His X-Factor v1 - Virgin (14 points)
2. Ellen Allien - Berlinette - Bpitch Control (12 points)
3. Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight - Universal (12 points)
4. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash - XL (12 points)
5. 50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin' - Shady/Aftermath (10 points)
6. Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner - XL (10 points)
7. Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain - Sound Ink (8 points)
8. Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan - Ashmatic Kitty (8 points)
9. Bonnie Prince Billy - Master And Everyone - Drag City (8 points)
10. Chris Clark - Empty The Bones Of You - Warp (6 points)

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 5 January 2004 01:37 (twenty years ago) link

I rolled a dice to decide which 5 out of 9 or 10 five-pointers went in.

What were the other ones, Tom?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 5 January 2004 01:38 (twenty years ago) link

Strokes, Dizzee, Broadcast, VA - Now 56. I had ARE Weapons on the list too at one point.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 5 January 2004 01:40 (twenty years ago) link

in no particular order

matthew dear – leave luck to heaven / false - false
mu – afro finger and gel / colette no5
villalobos – alcachofa / taka taka
michael mayer – fabric 13 / tobias thomas – smallville
prefuse 73 – one word extinguisher / luke vibert – yoseph
coloma – finery / barbara morgenstern – nichts muss
radiohead – httt / postal service - give up
bubba sparxxx – deliverance / missy elliot - this is not a test!
cat power – you are free / david sylvian - blemish
ekkehard ehlers and stephan mathieu – heroin + remixes** / william basinski – the river
carl a finlow – electrilogy plus / dinky – black cabaret
sami koivikko – salmiakki / baby ford - basking in the brakelights
james holden - balance 005 / serie noire 2 mixed by the glimmer twins

**a reissue, but it has new material

― disco hangover (disco stu), Monday, 5 January 2004 01:44 (twenty years ago) link

My Voice pixx:
1. Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site - Epitaph (30 points)
2. Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers - Virgin (14 points)
3. Sloan - Action Pact - BMG (14 points)
4. Mcenroe - disenfranchised - Peanuts & Corn (10 points)
5. Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes for Cash - Warp (7 points)
6. Rapture - Echoes - Vertigo (5 points)
7. Grandaddy - Sumday - V2 (5 points)
8. Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music - American (5 points)
9. Danko Jones - We Sweat Blood - Universal (5 points)
10. New Pornographers - Electric Version - Matador (5 points)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago) link

90 new answers and only 2 lists have the 50 cent album in them???

― minna (minna), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:37 (twenty years ago) link

He'll probably do better in people's singles lists.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:40 (twenty years ago) link

50 Cent is so overrated that it defies all semblance of logic.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:42 (twenty years ago) link

i was wondering about the total lack of love for 50 too. is it cause the album came out so early in the year or do people really not rate it?

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:43 (twenty years ago) link

1. Katatonia - Viva Emptiness - Peaceville (15 points)
2. Opeth - Damnation - Koch (14 points)
3. Gaby Kerpal - Carnabailito - Nonesuch (13 points)
4. Groovski - Groovski - Groovski (12 points)
5. Virgin Black - Elegant...and dying - The End (11 points)
6. El Gran Silencio - Super Riddim International Vol.1 - EMI Latin (9 points)
7. Wonwons - Original Punk Super Stars - Public Eyesore (8 points)
8. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway - Jetset (7 points)
9. Ulver - 1993-2003:1st decade in the machines - Jester (6 points)
10. Amon Amarth - Virsus The World - Metal Blade (5 points)

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:52 (twenty years ago) link

Katatonia

I really need to finally hear these guys.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:52 (twenty years ago) link

shit, i spelled "versus" wrong. oh well. yeah, you do ned. but i already told you that and i ain't telling you again.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:57 (twenty years ago) link

Wah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:58 (twenty years ago) link

See, this is why I suggested a long time ago that 50 Cent really wasn't going to do that well (i.e., Top 10) on P&J.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago) link

who could make it through an entire 50 Cent album?

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:19 (twenty years ago) link

Actually, my original sentiment (from way back in June) was 50 Cent only goes Top 10 if the Outkast album totally bombs. And obv. that didn't happen.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:21 (twenty years ago) link

Argh! I left Coloma off my Village Voice poll! Which looked like this:

1. Luomo - The Present Lover
2. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
3. V/A: Michael Mayer - Fabric 13
4. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
5. Ward 21 - U Know How We Roll
6. Sugababes - Three
7. Junior Senior - D-D-Don't Stop the Beat
8. Mis-Teeq - Eye Candy
9. V/A: Jammer - N.A.S.T.Y. Mix
10. The Rapture - Echoes

... but mentally replace The Rapture with Coloma. Also what I've heard of Bubba would put it in there if I had the whole thing.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:29 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, you know, you really didn't need 50 at all if you were listening to bubba, outkast, david banner, yin yang twinz, youngbloodz, etc, etc. the south ruled the school. too bad nelly didn't sing in da club, i might have liked it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:32 (twenty years ago) link

1. A.R.E. Weapons - A.R.E. Weapons - Rough Trade (10 points)
2. A Frames - 2 - S-S (10 points)
3. Justin Timberlake - Justified - Jive (10 points)
4. Matthew Dear - Leave Luck to Heaven - Ghostly (10 points)
5. Strokes - Room on Fire - RCA (10 points)
6. Rapture - Echoes - DFA/Strummer/Universal (10 points)
7. Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance - BeatClub/Interscope (10 points)
8. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash - Astralwerks (10 points)
9. FannyPack - So Stylistic - Tommy Boy (10 points)
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell - Interscope (10 points)

1. A.R.E. Weapons - "Don't Be Scared" - Rough Trade
2. Beyonce - "Crazy in Love" - Columbia
3. Matthew Dear - "Dog Days" - Ghostly
4. Chevelle - "Send the Pain Below" - Epic
5. R Kelly - "Ignition (Remix)" - Jive
6. Killer Mike - "A.D.I.D.A.S." - Epic
7. Wayne Wonder - "No Letting Go" - Atlantic
8. Dizzee Rascal - "I Luv U" - XL
9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Maps" - Interscope
10. Cold - "Stupid Girl" - Geffen

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:13 (twenty years ago) link

. YOU ALL LOVED AVRIL LAVIGNE [X] MONTHS BACK; WHAT HAPPENED???

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:22 (twenty years ago) link

1. Pluramon: Dreams Top Rock (Karaoke Kalk)
2. Sogar: Apikal.Blend (12k)
3. The Books: The Lemon of Pink (Tomlab)
4. The Clientele: Violet Hour (Merge)
5. Animal Collective: Here Comes the Indian
6. Manitoba: Up In Flames (Leaf)
7. Alejandra & Aeron: Bousha Blue Blazes (Lucky Kitchen)
8. Califone: Quicksand/Cradlesnakes
9. Fennesz: Live in Japan (Headz)
10. So: So (Thrill Jockey)

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:22 (twenty years ago) link

Avril Lavigne's album was 2002. Some of her singles might get voted on this year; I might put "I'm With You" on my top 60 of 2003.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:27 (twenty years ago) link

"i'm with you" would easily be in my top 25. "sk8r boi" would have been in my top 20 last year.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:31 (twenty years ago) link

da unbreakables, s. carter collection mixtape, choppin em up 8, philadelphia freeway, ego war, assholes by nature, my last underground, mississippi, juve the great, college dropout, alexisonfire, god's son, the final chapter 2k3.

― cloverlandthug, Monday, 5 January 2004 05:50 (twenty years ago) link

1. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash - Astralwerks (15 points)
2. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner - XL (15 points)
3. Michael Mayer - Fabric 13 - Fabric (15 points)
4. Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark - Rough Trade (12 points)
5. Animal Collective - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished/Danse
Manatee (reissue) - Fatcat (9 points)
6. Rapture - Echoes - DFA/Universal (8 points)
7. Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa - Playhouse (8 points)
8. Diamanda Galas - La Serpenta Canta - Mute (8 points)
9. Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance - Beat Club/Interscope (5 points)
10. Barbara Morgenstern - Nichts Muss - Monika (5 points)

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 5 January 2004 09:00 (twenty years ago) link

Oh bollocks I forgot Ward 21.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 5 January 2004 12:02 (twenty years ago) link

01 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
02 Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
03 Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
04 Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
05 Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
06 Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
07 Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co
08 Cafe Tacuba - Cuatros Caminos
09 David Banner - Mississippi: The Album
10 Shelby Lynne - Identity Crisis

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Monday, 5 January 2004 13:08 (twenty years ago) link

P&J:

1. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash - Astralwerks (25 points)
2. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner - XL (15 points)
3. Michael Mayer - Fabric 13 - Fabric (15 points)
4. Soundmurderer - Wired for Sound - Violent Turd (8 points)
5. Clientele - The Violet Hour - Merge (8 points)
6. Rapture - Echoes - Strummer/Universal (7 points)
7. Darkness - Permission to Land - Atlantic (7 points)
8. Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak - Lookout (5 points)
9. Strokes - Room on Fire - RCA (5 points)
10. Broadcast - Haha Sound - Warp (5 points)

hm: junior senior, bubba sparxxx, coloma, goldfrapp, tobias thomas, sean paul, girls aloud, yyys, libertines, luomo, george, sufjan stevens, richard x, tatu, saturday looks good to me, fiery furnaces, david banner, freeway, m83, enduser, villalobos.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Monday, 5 January 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago) link

1. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
2. 1 Mile North - Minor Shadows
3. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
4. Cat Power - You Are Free
5. Enduser - 15 Tracks
6. Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island, Burn
7. Fog - Ether Teeth
8. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
9. Rapture - Echoes
10. Strokes - Room on Fire
11. Arab Strap - Monday at the Hug and Pint
12. Bubba Sparxx - Deliverance
13. Books - The Lemon of Pink
14. Mu - Afro Finger and Gel
15. Broadcast - Haha Sound
16. Constantines - Shine a Light
17. Sole - Selling Live Water
18. So - So
19. TV on the Radio - Young Liars
20. Xiu Xiu - A Promise
21. Kills - Keep on Your Mean Side
22. Manitoba - Up in Flames
23. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
24. Angels of Light - Everything Is Good Here / Please Come Home
25. Eluvium - Lambent Material

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Monday, 5 January 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

1. British Sea Power - The Decline Of British Sea Power
2. Stellastarr* - Stellastarr*
3. Dizzee Rascal - Boy In da Corner
4. The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
5. Snow Patrol - Final Straw
6. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
7. Hot Hot Heat - Make Up The Breakdown
8. The Rapture - Echoes
9. Zwan - Mary Star Of The Sea
10. Tom McRae - Just Like Blood
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
12. Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
13. The Strokes - Room On Fire
14. Deftones - Deftones
15. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

ok let's see

6. damien jurado - 'where shall you find me?'
3. barbara morgenstern - 'nichts muss'
5. ricardo villalobos - 'alcahofa'
1. david sylvian - 'blemish'
4. nasty crew - deuce cover-mount cd
2. bubba sparxxx - 'deliverance'
9. m. ward - 'the transfiguration of st. vincent'
7. melt banana - 'cell-scape'
8. tara jane o'neill - 'tko'
10. m83 - 'dead cities, red seas & lost souls'

― dav¡d (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago) link

screw that order: alasdair roberts - 'farewell, sorrow'; michael mayer - 'peel session'.

― dav¡d (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 00:11 (twenty years ago) link

As here, mostly...

20. Jolie Holland - Catalpa
19. Manitoba - Up in Flames
18. The Dears - No Cities Left
17. The Weekend - Teaser + Bonus Level
16. Nina Nastasia - Run to Ruin
15. Damien Jurado - Where Shall You Take Me?
14. Elbow - Cast of Thousands
13. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
12. Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
11. Okkervil River - Down the River of Golden Dreams
10. Four Tet - Rounds
09. Postal Service - Give Up
08. Josh Rouse - 1972
07. The Clientele - The Violet Hour
06. The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall
05. The Books - The Lemon of Pink
04. OutKast - The Love Below/Speakerboxxx
03. Songs:Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co (with demos)
02. The Microphones - Mt Eerie
01. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

Should be in there but I can't be bothered at this point: MF Doom's King Geedorah and Sun Kil Moon's Ghosts of the Great Highway.

― Sean M (Sean M), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 00:28 (twenty years ago) link

1. Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
2. Janet Bean & Concertina Wire - Dragging Wonder Lake
3. Saturday Looks Good to Me - All Our Summer Songs
4. Exploading Hearts - Guitar Romantic
5. Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan
6. Andrew Bird - Weather Systems
7. Emmylou Harris - Stumble Into Grace
8. Hidden Camaras - Smell of Our Own
9. My Morning Jacket - It Moves
10. Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
11. Handsome Family - Singing Bones
12. The Thermals - More Parts per Million
13. Jolie Holland - Catalpa
14. Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.
15. Twilight Singers - Blackberry Belle

― Catherine (Catherine), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 03:41 (twenty years ago) link

1. Matthew Dear - Leave Luck to Heaven - Spectral Sound (17 points)
2. David Sylvian - Blemish - Samadhi Sound (15 points)
3. Jay-Z - The Black Album - Roc-a-Fella (12 points)
4. Monolake - Momentum - Monolake (11 points)
5. Villalobos - Alcachofa - Playhouse (10 points)
6. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner - XL (9 points)
7. Broadcast - Haha Sound - Warp (8 points)
8. Lawrence - The Absence of Blight - Dial (7 points)
9. Kelis - Tasty - Star Trak (6 points)
10. Andrés - Andrés - Mahogani (5 points)

― Andy K (Andy K), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

why do I never get a paz and jopp thing? I wrote about music last year, and my choices would be outlying points of difference, it's not fair :(

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

jel's picks should just BE the pazz and jop top 10, end of story! :)

My 10s (subject to revision, blah blah):

1. kevin blechdom – Bitches Without Britches
2. Villalobos - Alcachofa
3. Jay-Z – The Black Album
4. The Black Eyed Peas – Elephunk
5. The Darkness – Permission To Land
6. LFO – Sheath
7. Throwing Muses – Throwing Muses
8. Rachel Stevens – Funky Dory
9. 50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tryin’
10. Bubba Sparxxx – Deliverance

Reissues / archive compilations
1. V/A – Pop à Paris, Vols. 1-5 (Universal France)
2. V/A – Mutant Disco (Ze)
3. Motorbass – Pansoul + EPs (Labels/Virgin France)
4. Elton John – “Are You Ready For Love?” [CD single] (Southern Fried)
5. Donna Summer – Bad Girls [deluxe edition] (Mercury)
6. Neil Young – On The Beach (Reprise)
7. Yes – Close To The Edge (Rhino)
8. V/A – The Ranking Miss P presents ‘Sweet Harmony’ (Trojan / Sanctuary)
9. Diana Ross – Diana [deluxe edition] (Motown)
10. V/A – Sampled 4 (Virgin)

New compilations & mix CDs
1. Michael Mayer – Fabric 13
2. Miss Kittin – Radio Caroline, Vol. One
3. V/A – Wanna Buy A Craprak?
4. The Herbaliser – Solid Steel presents ‘Herbal Blend’
5. Tiga – DJ Kicks
6. V/A – Sign: Greensleeves Rhythm Album #42
7. Errol Alkan – One Louder
8. Swayzak – Fabric 11
9. V/A - !K7 150 (+ !K7 150 mix by DJs Are Not Rockstars)
10. DFA – Dance to the Underground

― Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

add this to my list oh yes: animal collective - 'spirit they've vanished...'/'danse manatee'

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago) link

oh and this one too: russian futurists - 'let's get ready to crumble' (i know it's an awful title).

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

somebody should use this thread to calculate an ILM-consensus Top 10 albums list.

Bubba Sparxxx- deliverance
girls aloud- sound of the underground
Mary J Blige- Love And Life
basement jaxx- kish kash

mary j's was nice.

― lid, Wednesday, 7 January 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago) link

four weeks pass...

2003:

1. Japanther Dump The Body In Rikki Lake Menlo Park
2. Blues Goblins ST Off & Blues Goblins As Is Thee Quasi Imprint
3. Maher Shalal Hash Baz Blues Du Jour Geographic
4. Neil Michael Hagerty The Howling Hex Drag City
5. Life Partners S/T Twisted Village
6. Neung Phak 1 Abduction
7. Mammal Double Nature SNSE
8. Celesteville Mamlo Tape Mountain
9. Mindflayer Take Your Skin Off Bulb
10. Beans Tomorrow Right Now Warp
11.. Jad Fair & Bill Wells Whale friends and relatives
12. Tyondai Braxton and Parts & Labor Rise, Rise, Rise Narnack
13. the mirrors 13 patient flowers Fleece
14. Wrangler Brutes S/T Wrangler Brutes Records
15. The Grey Tapes S/T 555
16. The Speaking Canaries Get Out Alive: The Last Type Story Scat
17. James Koulvasi Gweeee!!!! Silly Bird
18. Why? Oaklandazulasylum Anticon
19. Karl Hendricks Trio The Jerks win Again Merge
20. Campfire Songs S/T Catsup Plate

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 6 February 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago) link

1. Dizzie Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
2. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
3. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
4. Various Artists - Ghana Soundz
5. Four Tet - Rounds
6. Michael Mayer - Fabric 13
7. Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
8. Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won
9. Missy Elliot - This is not a Test
10. Kraftwerk - Tour de France Soundtracks

― tipustiger, Saturday, 14 February 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago) link

1.Alexander Kowalski - Response
2.Bangkok Impact - Traveller
3.Ott - Blumenkraft
4.Laidback Luke - Windmill Skills
5.Ellen Allien - Berlinette
6.Soundmurderer - Wired For Sound
7.Midi Miliz - Passages
8.Legowelt - Classics 1998-2003
9.Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
10.V/A - Powerslaves: An Electro Tribute To Iron Maiden

(excluding any Metal - haven't made my mind up yet)

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 14 February 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago) link

The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow

― 7368, Saturday, 14 February 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago) link

chester beatty - shot of love
jan jelinek - la nouvelle pauvrete
50 cent - get rich or die trying
basement jaxx - kish kash
justin timberlake - justified
rapture - echoes
dopplereffekt - linear accelerator
mu - afro finger and gel
deerhoof - apple o
sunroof - cloudz

jacques lu cont - fabric 09
david guetta - fuck me i'm famous
gus gus - mixed live at sirkus
motorbass - pansoul reissue
jackie-o motherfucker - wow/magick fire music 2cd

i listened to youngsbower's "relayer" more than anything else above this year but it's actually late 2002 i guess.

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 14 February 2004 23:44 (twenty years ago) link

i suppose i could've listed dizzee rascal, jay-z, lfo and mutant disco but i had a bad habit of listening to only 2 or 3 songs several times in a row and then taking it off. i think i forgot andres' s/t on mahogani, too.

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 14 February 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

1. Bardo Pond - On the Ellipse
2. Mirah/Ginger & Friends - Songs From the Black Mountain Music Project
3. Mira Calix - Skimskitta
4. Pretty Girls Make Graves - New Romance
5. kaito - band red
6. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
7. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
8. Kinski - Airs Above Your Station
9. Alizée - Mes Courants Electriques
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

― O.Leee.B. (Leee), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 07:13 (twenty years ago) link

five months pass...

super furry animals?! are you kidding me? who's going to even think of that when naming good albums that were released in 03? nobody. nobody even talks about it now.

lightning bolt on the other hand should be number one. or anybody that's actually DOING SOMETIHNG.

rock music gets so boring sometimes.

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

it's not an official poll dude

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Apparently the sister of the bassist or drummer or something of lightning bolt goes to my school. That's the rumor.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

To the posthumous Sun Ra solo piano CD that was my favorite of 2003 (in 2003, but probably still my favorite now), I would add:

Cooper-Moore/Assif Tsahar: America
John Fahey: Red Cross
William Parker: Scrapbook
Matthew Shipp: Equilibrium
Wadi el-Safi: Netrik Sahran
Rahim AlHaj: Iraqi Music in a Time of War

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Friday, 31 December 2004 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Also: Various: Lost Classics of Salsa, reissues of very rare tracks from the 70s.

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Friday, 31 December 2004 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Man. There were some pretty silly lists up there. Makes me feel a little bit better about the direction that ILM has gone.

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Saturday, 1 January 2005 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

geir likes outkast?

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 1 February 2013 13:55 (eleven years ago) link

yes he always used them as his exception to the rule.

― dog latin, Friday, 1 February 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link

My 2003 top 10 would be something like this:

Black Moon - Total Eclipse
Luomo - The Present Lover
Renée Geyer - Tenderland
Barbara Morgenstern - Nichts Muss
The Modernist - Kangmei
Meshell Ndegeocello - Comfort Woman
Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players - Can't Cool
Ellen Allien - Berlinette
Dinky - Black Cabaret
The Majesticons - Beauty Party

― Tuomas, Friday, 1 February 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link

super furry animals?! are you kidding me? who's going to even think of that when naming good albums that were released in 03? nobody. nobody even talks about it now.
lightning bolt on the other hand should be number one. or anybody that's actually DOING SOMETIHNG.
rock music gets so boring sometimes.
― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Thursday, September 23, 2004 7:37 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

10 years later and it's still a great album.

― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 1 February 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link

who was seahorse genius?

― that futterwacken you like is back in style (how's life), Friday, 1 February 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link

The Present Lover AND Alcochofa in 2003. Killer year for those alone.

― Dick Townwolves (Captain Ahab), Friday, 1 February 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link

Was just listening to Worldwide Underground last night. That wd make my list for sure

― every dog latin has his day (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link

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