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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

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