Top 10 Albums of 2003

[ratioci nation]

I dont think a lot of albums are release in the weeks before Christmas, so here goes, in no particular order.
 
 Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
 Guided By Voices - Earthquake Glue
 The Postal Service - Give UP
 The Wrens - Meadowlands
 The Delgados - Hate
 Fruit Bats - Mouthfuls
 Angels Of Light - Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home
 The Decemberists - Her Majesty the Decemberists
 Pernice Brothers - Yours. Mine & Ours
 The Shins - Chutes to Narrow

[lily1]

no people's history of the dismemberment plan? or radiohead's httt?

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by lily1:
  no people's history of the dismemberment plan? or radiohead's httt?

disliked both, especially people's history
 
 Really should be top 15 - then I would add
 Holopaw
 Bonnie Prince Billy
 Jayhawks
 Okkervil River
 Dandy Warhols

[ggw]

Originally posted by lily1:
  no people's history of the dismemberment plan?

That's a nice album to have if you're a D Plan fan, but I don't think it's anything great.
 
 Here's my preliminary top ten:
 
 1.  The Wrens -- Meadowlands
 2.  The Decemberists -- Her Majesty, The Decemberists
 3.  Idlewild -- The Remote Part
 4.  The Shins -- Chutes Too Narrow
 5.  Black Keys -- Thickfreakness
 6.  The White Stripes -- Elephant
 7.  Joe Strummer -- Streetcore
 8.  The Libertines -- Up The Bracket
 9.  BRMC -- Take Them On, On Your Own
 10. The Mars Volta -- Deloused in the Comatorium
 
 I haven't heard the full Death Cab album yet, nor The Deadly Snakes or Broken Social Scene albums.  So, this list may change if I find that any of those albums turn out to be as good as many people seem to think.

[brennser]

also in no particular order
 
 Favorites
 
 Elbow 'Cast of Thousands'
 Dave Couse 'Genes'
 Throwing Muses 'Throwing Muses'
 Decemberists 'Her Majesty'
 Super Furry Animals 'Rings Around the World'
 Delgados 'Hate'
 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists 'Hearts of Oak'
 Teenage Fanclub '4,766 seconds'
 Cathal Coughlan 'The Skys Awful Blue' (Cheating a little bit but it got its US release in 2003)
 Grandaddy - 'Sumday'
 Shins 'Chutes too Narrow'
 
 Honorable mentions
 
 Lloyd Cole 'Music in a Foreign Language'
 Twilight Singers 'Blackberry Belle'
 Damien Rice '0'
 Idlewild 'The Remote Part'

[allmy$to930]

[allmy$to930]

I'm sure I would give you a different list in a couple months...here it goes.
 
 1. The Shins-Chutes Too Narrow
 2. The Postal Service-Give Up
 3. Delgados-Hate
 4. My Morning Jacket-It Still Moves
 5. Cat Power-You Are Free
 6. The White Stripes-Elephant
 7. Bishop Allen-Charm School
 8. Tim Easton-Break Your Mother's Heart
 9. Long Winters-When I Pretend to Fall
 10. Bonnie Prince Billy-Master and Everyone

[godsshoeshine]

1) ted leo/rx--hearts of oak
 2) gbv--earthquake glue
 3) shins--chutes too narrow
 4) exploding hearts--guitar romantic
 5) aisler's set--how i learned to write backwards
 6) the karl hendricks trio--the jerks win again
 7) belle & sebastian--dear, catastrophe waitress
  broken social scene--you forgot it people
 9) new pornographers--electric version
 10) gossip--movement

[the_fanta]

the flaming sideburns - sky pilots
 turbonegro - scandanavian leather

[Venerable Bede]

in no particular order:
 
 1) delgados- hate
 2) grandaddy- sumday
 3) gbv- earthquake glue
 4) sun kil moon- ghosts of the great highway
 5) ween- quebec
 6) white stripes- elephant
 7) the rachels- systems/layers
  the shins- chutes too narrow
 9) fountains of wayne- welcome interstate managers
 10) dandy warhols- welcome to the monkey house

[brennser]

7) the rachels- systems/layers

I saw them a few weeks ago in San Francisco - definitely one of the more interesting gigs I've been to - really liked some of their stuff, but thought some of it was pretentious wank

[bearman🐻]

1) Supergrass - Life On Other Planets (technically 2002 in the UK, but 2003 in the US...by far the best thing I heard all year)
 2) Chemical Brothers - Singles 93-03 (w/bonus CD)
 3) The Desert Sessions - Volume 9 and 10 (feat. Queens of the Stone Age and PJ Harvey)
 4) Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
 5) Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
 6) Grandaddy - Sumday
 7) Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts
  Buzzcocks - Buzzcocks
 
 Honorable Mentions: Blur - Think Tank, Johnny Marr and the Healers - Boomslang (plus I've been meaning to pick up the Shins and a number of others)

[markie]

In no particular order.
 
 Coral: Magic and Medicine
 Tyde: Twice
 Postal Service
 Decemberists
 The high Strung
 Dandy Warhols: Welcome to the monkey house
 Grandaddy: Summaday
 Delgados: Hate
 
 I wonder what else I have forgotten?

[markie]

How could I forget,
 
 Adam Green: Friends of Mine. I have probably listened to this album more than any other this year.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

In a particular order:
 
 1. Pernice Brothers: Yours, Mine, and Ours
 2. the Shins: Chutes Too Narrow
 3. Drive By Truckers: Decoration Day
 4. Stars: Hearts
 5. Jayhawks: Rainy Day Music
 6. Teenage Fanclub: Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Seconds: A Short Cut to Teenage Fanclub
 7. Shelby Lynne:Identity Crisis
 8. Brendan Benson: One Mississippi/Wellfed Boys EP
 9. Thad Cockrell: Warmth and Beauty
 10. Ricky Skaggs: Live From the Charleston Music Hall