SPIN Top 40 Of 2003

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― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:15 (twenty years ago) link

Holy shit! I wrote close/preen HTML style and it actually did it!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:16 (twenty years ago) link

my own top ten is nothing fantastic either, believe me. between the book and the move and getting settled into the job and having the job keep me really really occupied I've barely had time to keep up.

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:22 (twenty years ago) link

am i allowed to vote for my brother? the cd he gave me at thanksgiving is really great. although, i don't know when it originally came out.it's on some belgian label but he made me a cdr of it so technically it's from this year i guess.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:24 (twenty years ago) link

Postal Service but not Death Cab? Nutty.

Nice to see Ted Leo and the New Pornographers on the list, at least. I suppose I'll have to wait until Pazz & Jop for some Decemberists love...

― Nick Mirov (nick), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:24 (twenty years ago) link

i only truly love that groovski album and heck that came out last year. not that anyone knows or cares. and katatonia i love to pieces but i always love them to pieces. no real surprises.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:27 (twenty years ago) link

I may be living in my own little world, but I would have thought that either Deerhoof or KaitO (not both...working the same territory) would have made the list. Does Spin still have a "top 10 that weren't so popular" list?

Glad to see that Moles reissue mentioned by Spin. BTW, even the record label doesn't know what the mixes on it are. It looks like Richard Davies re-mixed it as well as re-mastering...some of the versions are very different. What a strange thing to do.

― dlp9001, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 03:09 (twenty years ago) link

I have a bad feeling the Spin list will look better than P&J tops, maybe.

Meanwhile I gotta bump something from my list to make way for blink!

This year was fucking great for albums.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 03:21 (twenty years ago) link

i am only interested in 2004 records at this point.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 03:25 (twenty years ago) link

is the Blink album that good Sterling? I'm hungry for more pop-punk myself. Last year I think that's all I had and this time I'm dry.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 03:26 (twenty years ago) link

I suppose I'll have to wait until Pazz & Jop for some Decemberists love...

It will get plenty from PFM, nick. (unfortunately ;) )

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 03:58 (twenty years ago) link

In a perfect world, The Love Below would place in the top 5, and Speakerboxxx in the top 25.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 04:41 (twenty years ago) link

Vice versa

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 04:42 (twenty years ago) link

You, sir, are high.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 04:42 (twenty years ago) link

in a perfect world, neither would have ever ben released.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 04:50 (twenty years ago) link

it's like trans, except with critical acclaim not coming 20 years later.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 04:51 (twenty years ago) link

also spin are aware that there are other rappers in the south besides outkast, right?

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 04:52 (twenty years ago) link

Spin makes certain crucial omissions -- now whatcha gonna do? ACT A FOOL

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:02 (twenty years ago) link

And most EVERYTHING music is bad, Michaelangelo. Why should electronic stuff be any different?

cf. "Supersonic"

(Anthony - all I know is my special time with my little collection, but two words - Street. Survivors. I Never Dreamed out of You Got That Right. Manna from heaven.)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:10 (twenty years ago) link

Chuck -- Just out of curiosity, how do you see Bubba, the Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lucinda, and 50 Cent placing on the albums poll?

― Josh Timmermann (Josh Timmermann), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:54 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, and Liz Phair?

― Josh Timmermann (Josh Timmermann), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:54 (twenty years ago) link

Postal Service but not Death Cab? Nutty.

I don't find this nutty at all. I can't imagine SPIN harbors a whole lot of love for a band like DCFC, esp. with a record that's good but ultimately not that exciting or that different from their other albums (which didn't get attention from SPIN, either).

Add that to the fact that the Postal Service record got way more hype (esp. w/ that readymade PR hook = "see, he mailed it to the other guy, and then the other guy mailed it back...) and LOTS of crossover appeal, with both the indie-rock and electro-pop audiences. I have a couple friends who aren't into Death Cab at all (I mean, have barely heard the band) who like the Postal Service. Dude, even Matos likes the record!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 06:21 (twenty years ago) link

I suppose I just have a hard time pinning down the Spin aethestic/demographic-targeting (unless the aesthetic really is "being lazy and then jumping on the bandwagon just early enough to pretend like you built the bandwagon"). Okay, fine, they're not big on DCFC, most likely for the "good but ultimately not that exciting or that different from their other albums" reason. But then why play up that Jealous Sound record, which to my ears falls under the exact same heading of good but very nearly identical to everything Blair Shehan has ever done (cf. Knapsack)? I guess I'm just baffled, even though I know full well how these lists get compiled...

― Nick Mirov (nick), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 09:09 (twenty years ago) link

Of course Spin's list will look better than the (ugh) Pazz and Jop poll! Pazz and Jop is a poll y'see. So OF COURSE it's all gonna be really obvious choices.

I don't understand why everyone cares about the damn thing. It's not like it's ever surprising at all.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 15:32 (twenty years ago) link

blah blah CANON blah blah

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 16:13 (twenty years ago) link

anthony, for pop-punk love get the new offspring (it's surprisingly good)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 16:17 (twenty years ago) link

Records from this list that I've heard:

21 The Mars Volta "Deloused in the Crematorium"
16 Blur "Think Tank"
13 Belle & Sebastian "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"
11 Metallica "St. Anger"
10 Radiohead "Hail to the Thief"
08 The New Pornographers "Electric Version"

Records from this list that made my top 10:

13 Belle & Sebastian "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"
10 Radiohead "Hail to the Thief"

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 16:33 (twenty years ago) link

Wow, I didn't even know there was a new Robbie Williams album.

― scott m (mcd), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 16:45 (twenty years ago) link

can i just say that i think 'in da club' is totally, utterly overrated?

― maura (maura), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 17:33 (twenty years ago) link

it's like, big deal, you got shot nine times, can you at least sound AWAKE on your record

― maura (maura), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 17:37 (twenty years ago) link

I totally agree as far as his album goes, Maura -- I mean, OPEN YOUR MOUTH WHEN YOU RAP, MORON! (Though my 12 year old kid sez, "Dad, that's 'cuz he got shot in the face!" I mean, the guy was more legend than artist to begin with; to pre-teen boys, he's like an invincible built in super hero who JUST CAN't DIE. Which is INTERESTING, maybe, but it doesn't make his music any better.) What I like about "In Da Club" (MAYBE my # ten single, no higher than that) is that its chorus is both the catchiest and most popular birthday song since "Happy Birthday to You," which last time I checked was the most popular song in the entire English language. The beat is okay too (Frank Kogan told me it reminds him of a spy movie or something), but honestly, the chorus is all I care about. The verses are completely irrelevant as far as I'm concerned. So: Overrated? Definitely. But still good.

― chuck, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 17:49 (twenty years ago) link

I like the birthday theme of the intro to "Step In The Name of Love" more than the birthday theme of the intro to "In Da Club".

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 17:53 (twenty years ago) link

3 of the albums made my top 50. Radiohead [#1], Dizzee Rascal [#4], and Outkast [#48].

Surprisingly, I've actually heard most of the rest of the albums.

And what I like about 50 Cent is his lack of enunciation. He's very soft, melodic, nearly legato, the words blend together like water. It's such a contrast to his image. What I don't really care for, is basically, everything else about him and his music.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 17:55 (twenty years ago) link

I also like the backing track on "In Da Club" better than on any of his other singles. The string section and stuttering guitar work create some bounce and tension where "Wanksta" and "P.I.M.P." just become mind-numbingly repetitive.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 17:57 (twenty years ago) link

step in the name of love is definitely >>> in da club.

i would like to hear just the backing track of in da club as the new 'law and order' theme, i think

― maura (maura), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

Agreeing with Chuck and Maura here -- first time I heard him this time last year I was puzzled as to how this guy was supposed to be the new cool Eminem protege when there was nothing there...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:25 (twenty years ago) link

number of these albums I've never heard: 26.
number of these albums that made my top ten list: 0.
post in which I give up my claim to be any kind of knowledgable music critic: this one.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:26 (twenty years ago) link

i've heard 4 out of 40, Haikunym! and none of those are making my list. but i've never called myself a music critic. more of a part-time crank.(i have heard most of the singles though. and i'm gonna need lists like those when i make up my singles list so that i remember what came out 10 months ago. sean paul will probably be in my top 1 and 2. that part is easy)

― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:34 (twenty years ago) link

yeah I started out
just to get the free CDs,
then got pretentious

in 2004
I will leave it all behind
SO looking forward....

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

you iz gud riter tho. do it for fun or free.too many bad riters. i am too lazy and shy to ask for free stuff. plus, i don't like people bugging me.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:44 (twenty years ago) link

thanks scott very much
I'm okay but no "genius"
(as you've been lauded)

I will keep writing
but will stop being obsessed,
SPENDING ALL MY CASH

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:46 (twenty years ago) link

MAURA I KISS YOU

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:46 (twenty years ago) link

haha 7 of these albums are in my provisional top 10!!

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

i am so "spin"

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

"Spin" is so YOU

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

re: Melissa's 2003 top 50 - will this be published on Quicksilver Shapeshifter? [PS Melissa, don't forget about J.Greenwood Mixing It special on Friday - with replay online for 7 days]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

trife and i argued for like TWO HOURS over this list last night, and now i cant even remember why.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

re: Melissa's 2003 top 50 - will this be published on Quicksilver Shapeshifter? [PS Melissa, don't forget about J.Greenwood Mixing It special on Friday - with replay online for 7 days]

Yeah, I'll publish it fairly soon. I'm just a bit lazy about rounding up all the album covers and such.

(And of course I'll be listening to Radio 3 on Friday.)

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:55 (twenty years ago) link

everyone needs
a trife to argue this list
about! but I don't.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

I agree that 50 Cent is tremendously overrated. The only time I like "In Da Club" is when Beyonce does it, and the only time I like 50 Cent's vocals is on that one bootleg mix with "Wanktsa" vocals over Devo's "Whip It." It's amazing how he sounds kinda sharp and lively with the Devo music, and on the original he sounds as though he's a narcoleptic.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 22:36 (twenty years ago) link

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