― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 January 2004 00:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 2 January 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago) link
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
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 2 January 2004 01:24 (twenty years ago) link
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
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 2 January 2004 02:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 January 2004 02:17 (twenty years ago) link
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 Hana2. A-Frames - 23. Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters4. Thermals - More parts Per Million5. Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow6. Kevin Blechdom - Bitches Without Britches7. Animal Collective - Campfire Songs8. Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island Burn9. Ellen Allien - Berlinette10. Lucky Dragons - Dark Falcon11. Fannypack - So Stylistic12. Brunettes - Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks13. Pipas - Golden Square14. Stars - Heart15. Matthew Dear - Leave Luck to Heaven16. Envy - A Dead Sinking Story17. Erase Errata - Live at Crystal Palace18. My Favorite - The Happiest Days of Our Lives19. Matt Elliot - The Mess We Made20. All Girl Summer Fun Band - 221. A.R.E. Weapons22. Tujiko Noriko - From Tokyo to Naigara23. Wire - Send24. The Like Young - Art Contest25. Sunroof! - Cloudz
― Ryan WS (fffv), Friday, 2 January 2004 02:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 2 January 2004 02:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 2 January 2004 02:41 (twenty years ago) link
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
― Al (sitcom), Friday, 2 January 2004 03:24 (twenty years ago) link
1. Magic Dirt - Tough Love2. The 88 - Kind of Light3. Clear Horizon - Clear Horizon4. KaitO UK - Band Red5. Tegan & Sara - If It Was You (2003 re-release in the US)6. MF Doom - Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain7. Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner (really hated this at first)8. Laptop - Don't Try This At Home9. 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
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Friday, 2 January 2004 03:38 (twenty years ago) link
The new music/bands I found in 2003 that I enjoyed the most:
NeurosisIsisOpethOneida
― earlnash, Friday, 2 January 2004 04:09 (twenty years ago) link
1. Outkast, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below2. Radiohead, Hail to the Thief3. Prefuse 73, One Word Extinguisher and Extinguished: Outtakes4. Belle & Sebastian, Dear Catastrophe Waitress5. Basement Jaxx, Kish Kash6. M83, Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts7. The Postal Service, Give Up8. Broken Social Scene, You Forgot It in People9. The North Atlantic, Wires in the Walls10. Schneider TM, 6 Peace EP
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 January 2004 07:10 (twenty years ago) link
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
― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 2 January 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link
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
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 2 January 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago) link
― 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
― scott m (mcd), Friday, 2 January 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link
(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 PiratesOpenly 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 SnakesToronto'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 - ParkasLike 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 CanyonThough 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 65Even 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 RevolutionIf 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 UnicornsWacky, 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 - TangiersWith 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 ChainsIf 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 - BottleneckThis 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
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 January 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link
― dan (dan), Friday, 2 January 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Saturday, 3 January 2004 01:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Saturday, 3 January 2004 02:48 (twenty years ago) link
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
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 3 January 2004 03:37 (twenty years ago) link
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 Land10. 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
FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE – Welcome Interstate ManagersYEAH 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
― lou (lou), Saturday, 3 January 2004 12:34 (twenty years ago) link
― lou (lou), Saturday, 3 January 2004 12:43 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 3 January 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 3 January 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Saturday, 3 January 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 4 January 2004 04:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Sunday, 4 January 2004 06:36 (twenty years ago) link
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
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
― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 4 January 2004 19:30 (twenty years ago) link
― stephen morris, Sunday, 4 January 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 4 January 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago) link
1. Basement Jaxx2. Drive-By Truckers3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs4. King Sunny Ade5. Dizzee Rascal6. Bubba Sparxxx7. Atmosphere8. Electric Six9. The Rapture10. New Pornographers11. Jay-Z12. Outkast13. Justin TImberlake14. Amy Rigby15. Audio Bullys16. Yo La Tengo17. White Stripes18. Lyrics Born19. Liz Phair20. Kathleen Edwards
― chris herrington (chris herrington), Sunday, 4 January 2004 21:14 (twenty years ago) link
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
Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island BurnSuper Furry Animals - Phantom PowerRadiohead - Hail to the ThiefMurder by Death - Who Will Survive, And What Will be Left of ThemXiu Xiu - A PromiseBritish Sea Power - The Decline OfTed Leo - Hearts of OakSufjan Stevens - MichiganCooper Temple Clause - Kick Up the Fire...Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe WaitressNon-Prophets - Hope
Best comp:Guided by Voices - Human Amusement at Hourly Rates
Great 2004 albums so far:Walkmen - Bows and ArrowsXiu Xiu - Fabulous MusclesLiars - 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
― fletcher dexter, Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 5 January 2004 00:20 (twenty years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 5 January 2004 00:36 (twenty years ago) link
― tipustiger, Saturday, 14 February 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago) link
(excluding any Metal - haven't made my mind up yet)
― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 14 February 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago) link
― 7368, Saturday, 14 February 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago) link
jacques lu cont - fabric 09david guetta - fuck me i'm famousgus gus - mixed live at sirkusmotorbass - pansoul reissuejackie-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
― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 14 February 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago) link
― O.Leee.B. (Leee), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 07:13 (twenty years ago) link
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
― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Cooper-Moore/Assif Tsahar: AmericaJohn Fahey: Red CrossWilliam Parker: ScrapbookMatthew Shipp: EquilibriumWadi el-Safi: Netrik SahranRahim AlHaj: Iraqi Music in a Time of War
― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Friday, 31 December 2004 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Friday, 31 December 2004 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Atnevon (Atnevon), Saturday, 1 January 2005 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link
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 EclipseLuomo - The Present LoverRenée Geyer - TenderlandBarbara Morgenstern - Nichts MussThe Modernist - KangmeiMeshell Ndegeocello - Comfort WomanBurnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players - Can't CoolEllen Allien - BerlinetteDinky - Black CabaretThe 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
― 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