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Title: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: ratioci nation on December 09, 2003, 10:24:00 am
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
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: lily1 on December 09, 2003, 10:32:00 am
no people's history of the dismemberment plan? or radiohead's httt?
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: ratioci nation on December 09, 2003, 10:38:00 am
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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
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: ggw on December 09, 2003, 10:44:00 am
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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.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: brennser on December 09, 2003, 11:29:00 am
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'
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: allmy$to930 on December 09, 2003, 11:32:00 am
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: allmy$to930 on December 09, 2003, 11:39:00 am
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
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: godsshoeshine on December 09, 2003, 11:41:00 am
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
 8) broken social scene--you forgot it people
 9) new pornographers--electric version
 10) gossip--movement
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: the_fanta on December 09, 2003, 11:49:00 am
the flaming sideburns - sky pilots
 turbonegro - scandanavian leather
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Venerable Bede on December 09, 2003, 12:00:00 pm
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
 8) the shins- chutes too narrow
 9) fountains of wayne- welcome interstate managers
 10) dandy warhols- welcome to the monkey house
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: brennser on December 09, 2003, 12:04:00 pm
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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
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: bearman🐻 on December 09, 2003, 12:11:00 pm
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
 8) 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)
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: markie on December 09, 2003, 12:42:00 pm
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?
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: markie on December 09, 2003, 12:51:00 pm
How could I forget,
 
 Adam Green: Friends of Mine. I have probably listened to this album more than any other this year.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on December 09, 2003, 12:52:00 pm
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
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: brennser on December 09, 2003, 01:20:00 pm
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Super Furry Animals 'Rings Around the World'
 
oops - this should be phantom power
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: sparky on December 09, 2003, 01:29:00 pm
1. radiohead - httt
 2. vue - babies are for petting EP
 3. grandaddy - sumday
 4. holopaw - s/t
 5. fountains of wayne - welcome interstate managers
 6. White Stripes - elephant
 7. Jayhawks - rainy day music
 8. Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
 9. Idlewild - Remote Part
 10. cat power - you are free
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: vansmack on December 09, 2003, 01:48:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by bunnyman:
  1) Supergrass - Life On Other Planets ...by far the best thing I heard all year)
 
Word.
 
 Then...
 
 Dandy Warhols - Welcome to the monkey house
 Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
 Elefant - Sunlight Makes me Paranoid
 Broken Social Scene - you forgot it people
 The Postal Service - Give Up
 The Decemberists - Her Majesty the Decemberists
 The Shins - Chutes to Narrow
 The Libertines -- Up The Bracket
 Grandaddy - Summaday
 White Stripes- Elephant
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: sonickteam2 on December 09, 2003, 02:15:00 pm
top 10 albums of the year?  ok then
 
 1. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
 2. White Stripes - Elephant
 3. Forget Cassettes - Instuments of Action
 4. Idlewild - The Remote Part
 5. Kenna - New Sacred Cow
 6. The Stills - Logic Will Break Your Heart
 7. Muse - Absolution
 8. Postal Service - Give Up
 9. Long Winters - When I Pretend To Fall
 10. The Music - The Music (for Markie)
 
 honourable mentions:
 Blur - Think Tank
 The divorce - There will Be Blood Tonight
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Moon Mullen on December 09, 2003, 02:23:00 pm
1.) The Notwist- Neon Golden
 2.) Manitoba- Up In Flames
 3.) Prefuse 73- One Word Extinguisher
 4.) Lizzie West- Holy Road: Freedom Songs
 5.) Outkast- Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
 6.) Singapore Sling- The Curse of the Singapore Sling
 7.) The Delgados- Hate
 8.) Broken Social Scene- You Forgot it in People
 9.) Dizzee Rascal- Boy in da Corner
 10.) Four Tet- Rounds
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Celeste on December 09, 2003, 02:54:00 pm
1. Yoko--Beulah
 2. Yours, Mine & Ours--Pernice Bros.
 3. Chutes Too Narrow--The Shins
 4. Rainy Day Music--The Jayhawks
 5. Decoration Day--Drive By Truckers
 
 and the bottom 5 are a DISTANT bottom from the top 5 in my list!
 
 6. One Mississippi (reissue) --Brendan Benson
 7. When I Pretend to Fall--The Long Winters
 8. Ricky Skaggs--Live From the Charleston Music Hall
 9. Give Up--Postal Servce
 10.Transatlanticism--Death Cab
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: SPARX on December 09, 2003, 03:03:00 pm
1)Weakerthans-Construction Site....................                          2)Joe Strummer-Streetcore........................................3)mark lanegan-Here come the wierd chills.........                                   4)Death Cab for Cutie-Transatlanticism..............                    5)bjm-And this is our music.............                                6)The Tyde-Twice.............                                7)oranger-Shutdown the Sun..........                                     8)warlocks-Phoenix..............                             9)New pornographers-Electric Version......                                     10)Stars-Heart..........                                                                                     Can't leave it at 10 so,here's a few more:                                             11)Bowie-Reality........                                   12)Twilight Singers-blackberry belle.........                                    13)british sea power-decline of..........                                      14)Shins-chutes too Narrow..........                                  15)Cramps-fiends of Dope island.........                                   16)Chemical Bros-greatest hits 93-03.........                                       17)Steve Burns-songs for Dustmites......                                   18)Iggy Pop-skull ring.........                                     19)Supersuckers-Motherfuckers be trippin..........                                 20)Lucinda williams-World Without tears.........                                                                                       Best EP:Statistics
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: SPARX on December 09, 2003, 03:05:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by ggw™:
 [
 1I 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. [/QB]
I really like the BSS release but wasn't it 2002?
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: ggw on December 09, 2003, 03:07:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by SPARX:
 I really like the BSS release but wasn't it 2002?
In Canada it was a 2002, but it was released in the US in 2003.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: lily1 on December 09, 2003, 03:14:00 pm
wow, someone else that knows the notwist! i LOVE that album!
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by Moon Mulllens:
  1.) The Notwist- Neon Golden
 
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: SPARX on December 09, 2003, 04:37:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by ggw™:
   
Quote
Originally posted by SPARX:
 I really like the BSS release but wasn't it 2002?
In Canada it was a 2002, but it was released in the US in 2003. [/b]
It's definitely a top ten contender then.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: krcube on December 09, 2003, 05:40:00 pm
no particular order
 
 muse - absolution (whoever mentioned that earlier, you win, pure and simple)
 dir en grey - VULGAR
 cali=giri - 8
 shiina ringo - karuki zamen kuri no hana
 tomahawk - mit gas
 outkast - speakerboxx/the love below
 polysics - NATIONAL P
 fantomas - delirium cordia (if it ever gets released this year, i still feel terrible for downloading it without purchasing.  goddamn the internet makes everything so tempting and easy)
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Disaffection on December 10, 2003, 12:27:00 am
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: jakez468 on December 10, 2003, 12:33:00 am
I've heard the notwist, and it's horrible!
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Moon Mullen on December 10, 2003, 03:03:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by jakez468:
  I've heard the notwist, and it's horrible!
Coming from someone who listens to garbage like Third Eye Blind and Orgy, that diatribe was wasted.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Bags on December 10, 2003, 09:29:00 am
I'm not sure it will make my top ten (I have to think about that list, a lot), but it's a great album!
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by lily1:
  wow, someone else that knows the notwist! i LOVE that album!
 
   
Quote
Originally posted by Moon Mulllens:
  1.) The Notwist- Neon Golden
 
[/b]
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: sonickteam2 on December 10, 2003, 10:49:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by krcube:
  no particular order
 
 muse - absolution (whoever mentioned that earlier, you win, pure and simple)
 
yes!!! thier best CD yet. Do you think we'll get a decent tour this time?  i dont remember them coming around in 2000-2001. I also have a review of Absolution on www.bigyawn.net (http://www.bigyawn.net)
 
 good shit.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: ratioci nation on December 10, 2003, 10:51:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
  yes!!! thier best CD yet. Do you think we'll get a decent tour this time?  i dont remember them coming around in 2000-2001. I also have a review of Absolution on www.bigyawn.net (http://www.bigyawn.net)
 
 good shit.
Absolution is ok, I still think Origin of Symmetry is their best.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: wxdude on December 10, 2003, 02:27:00 pm
White Stripes - Elephant
 Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music
 Radiohead - HTTT
 Idlewild - The Remote Part
 Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
 Elbow - Cast of Thousands
 Jesse Malin - The Fine Art of Self Destruction
 Shelby Lynne - Identity Crisis
 Annie Lennox - Bare
 Grandaddy - Sumday
 
 A few others:
 Over The Rhine - Ohio
 Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine and Ours
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: sonickteam2 on December 10, 2003, 02:32:00 pm
Heres what everyone's favourite radio station WOXY thinks....
 
 http://www.woxy.com/bestof03.shtml (http://www.woxy.com/bestof03.shtml)
 
 1 The White Stripes Elephant  
 2 The Postal Service Give Up  
 3 Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The Head  
 4 The Black Keys Thickfreakness  
 5 Radiohead Hail To The Thief  
 6 Evanescence Fallen  
 7 The Donnas Spend The Night  
 8 The New Pornographers Electric Version  
 9 Grandaddy Sumday  
 10 Audioslave Audioslave  
 11 The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects  
 12 Hot Hot Heat Make Up The Breakdown  
 13 Cat Power You Are Free  
 14 Zwan Mary Star Of The Sea  
 15 Foo Fighters One By One  
 16 The Strokes Room On Fire  
 17 Longwave The Strangest Things  
 18 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Take Them On, On Your Own  
 19 Ted Leo / Pharmacists Hearts Of Oak  
 20 Jet Get Born  
 21 Fountains Of Wayne Welcome Interstate Managers  
 22 The Tyde Twice  
 23 Karate Some Boots  
 24 Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People  
 25 The Sights Got What We Want  
 26 Blur Think Tank  
 27 Guided By Voices Earthquake Glue  
 28 Pete Yorn Day I Forgot  
 29 The Kills Keep On Your Mean Side  
 30 Jane's Addiction Strays  
 31 The Dandy Warhols Welcome To The Monkey House  
 32 The Twilight Singers Blackberry Belle  
 33 Outkast Speakerboxxx / The Love Below  
 34 AFI Sing The Sorrow  
 35 Muse Absolution  
 36 Kings Of Leon Youth And Young Manhood  
 37 A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step  
 38 Burning Brides Fall Of The Plastic Empire  
 39 The Datsuns The Datsuns  
 40 Thursday War All The Time  
 41 The Music The Music  
 42 The Hiss Panic Movement  
 43 Pearl Jam Riot Act  
 44 Cave In Antenna  
 45 Beulah Yoko  
 46 Ben Harper Diamonds On The Inside  
 47 The Roots Phrenology  
 48 The Libertines Up The Bracket  
 49 Interpol Turn On The Bright Lights  
 50 Ween Quebec  
 51 The Fruit Bats Mouthfuls  
 52 Vendetta Red Between The Never And The Now  
 53 Rainer Maria Long Knives Drawn  
 54 Kenna New Sacred Cow  
 55 Supergrass Life On Other Planets  
 56 Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around  
 57 Super Furry Animals Phantom Power  
 58 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell  
 59 Yo La Tengo Summer Sun  
 60 South With The Tides  
 61 The Raveonettes Whip It On EP  
 62 The Stratford 4 Love & Distortion  
 63 Stellastarr* Stellastarr*  
 64 My Morning Jacket It Still Moves  
 65 Aerial Love Feed demos  
 66 The Coral The Coral  
 67 Placebo Sleeping With Ghosts  
 68 Hot Water Music Caution  
 69 Red Hot Chili Peppers By The Way  
 70 The D4 6Twenty  
 71 Dashboard Confessional A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar  
 72 The Stills Logic Will Break Your Heart  
 73 The Rapture Echoes  
 74 Mellowdrone A Demonstration Of Intellectual Property EP  
 75 Forget Cassettes Instruments Of Action  
 76 Nada Surf Let Go  
 77 The Warlocks Phoenix  
 78 The Shins Chutes Too Narrow  
 79 The Great Shakes The United Shakes Of America EP  
 80 Electric Six Fire  
 81 Junior Senior D-D-Don't Don't Stop The Beat  
 82 Rancid Indestructible  
 83 Howie Day Stop All The World Now  
 84 The Long Winters When I Pretend To Fall  
 85 Johnny Marr + The Healers Boomslang  
 86 Paul Weller Illumination  
 87 Bleu Redhead  
 88 Radio 4 Electrify EP  
 89 Paloalto Heroes And Villains  
 90 REM The Best Of REM: In Time 1988-2003  
 91 The Greenhornes Dual Mono  
 92 Badly Drawn Boy Have You Fed The Fish?  
 93 The Kicks The Kicks  
 94 Jurassic 5 Power In Numbers  
 95 Travis 12 Memories  
 96 Metric Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?  
 97 Queens Of The Stone Age Songs For The Deaf
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on December 10, 2003, 02:42:00 pm
Total rubbish. Talk about a complete lack of diversity.
 
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
 [QB] Heres what everyone's favourite radio station WOXY thinks....
 
  http://www.woxy.com/bestof03.shtml (http://www.woxy.com/bestof03.shtml)
 
 1 The White Stripes Elephant  
 2 The Postal Service Give Up  
 3 Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The Head  
 4 The Black Keys Thickfreakness  
 5 Radiohead Hail To The Thief  
 6 Evanescence Fallen  
 7 The Donnas Spend The Night  
 8 The New Pornographers Electric Version  
 9 Grandaddy Sumday  
 10 Audioslave Audioslave  
 11 The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects  
 12 Hot Hot Heat Make Up The Breakdown  
 13 Cat Power You Are Free  
 14 Zwan Mary Star Of The Sea  
 15 Foo Fighters One By One  
 16 The Strokes Room On Fire  
 17 Longwave The Strangest Things  
 18 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Take Them On, On Your Own  
 19 Ted Leo / Pharmacists Hearts Of Oak  
 20 Jet Get Born  
 
 
 etc, etc
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: sonickteam2 on December 10, 2003, 02:46:00 pm
piss off rhett.  you suck.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on December 10, 2003, 02:49:00 pm
No, it's that list that sucks.
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
  piss off rhett.  you suck.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: sonickteam2 on December 10, 2003, 02:58:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  No, it's that list that sucks.
 
   
Quote
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
  piss off rhett.  you suck.
[/b]
perhaps. everything sucks to someone. i just like to say mean stuff to you.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: markie on December 10, 2003, 03:07:00 pm
Wow, I actually own 23 of the 97, and have copied/listened to about 10 others from Jadetree. I guess Woxy rules my world. I suck.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: igor on December 10, 2003, 03:09:00 pm
cat power - you are free
 my morning jacket - it still moves
 the wrens - meadowlands
 postal service - give up
 radiohead - hail to the thief
 holopaw - s/t
 sun kil moon - ghosts of the great highway
 angels of light - everything is good here, please come home
 south - with the tides
 crooked fingers - red devil dawn
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: ggw on December 10, 2003, 03:20:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  No, it's that list that sucks.
 
   
Quote
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
  piss off rhett.  you suck.
[/b]
Reportedly, Rhett only sucks if you are a large African-American football player.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: ratioci nation on December 10, 2003, 03:48:00 pm
The Woxy list actually is a pretty piss poor list when considering their playlist, I rarely listen but I did not think they played Evanesence and Audioslave.  I own an alarming amount of them, less then half, but still too many.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on December 10, 2003, 03:52:00 pm
I like the KEXP listener list, as well as the Village Voice Pazz and Jop Poll. Unfortunately, the security NAZI's at my work have blocked KEXP, though I can get most other radio stations.
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by pollard:
  The Woxy list actually is a pretty piss poor list when considering their playlist, I rarely listen but I did not think they played Evanesence and Audioslave.  I own an alarming amount of them, less then half, but still too many.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: markie on December 10, 2003, 03:52:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by pollard:
  The Woxy list actually is a pretty piss poor list when considering their playlist, I rarely listen but I did not think they played Evanesence and Audioslave.  I own an alarming amount of them, less then half, but still too many.
I bet you are pretty close to having half.... you must own at least 35.
 
 Still three or four baddies (plus Zwan and all american rejects) that they rarely played in amongst a list of pretty great albums. I bet its better than pitchforks list.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: sonickteam2 on December 10, 2003, 03:57:00 pm
FYI
 
 I was listening on Sunday when WOXY counted the top 97 albums down and they explained how they came up with them.
 
  total airplay.  Meaning every time they played a song on one of those albums, it got a point and so the album with the most songs getting airplay was generally higher on the list.  They played like 6 different songs from Elephant at one time or another.  whereas others may have been better albums, the songs just didnt get as much airplay
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: ggw on December 10, 2003, 03:59:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by pollard:
  The Woxy list actually is a pretty piss poor list when considering their playlist, I rarely listen but I did not think they played Evanesence and Audioslave.  I own an alarming amount of them, less then half, but still too many.
They played it a lot at the beginning of the year.
 
 Their playlist has improved immensely as the year has progressed.  I find myself switching to KEXP a lot less.
 
 I own 33 of the albums.  But several of them are 2002 albums that made the WOXY list because they still got lots of airplay in 2003.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: ratioci nation on December 10, 2003, 04:09:00 pm
I own 39 of them, the best 39 in my opinon.  :D  
 
 Actually a couple of them are pretty bad, I am not saying names though. *says Radiohead under his breath*
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: sonickteam2 on December 10, 2003, 04:13:00 pm
i actually only own 21 of them.  but i dont buy very many Cds.  theres more i would buy if i didnt get sick of poeple playing them at work  :)
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: flawd101 on December 10, 2003, 06:40:00 pm
plz trash me.......
 
 afi
 cold
 ARCH ENEMY
 avenged sevenfold
 spineshank
 as i lay dying
 metal for the masses(both)
 soilwork
 sjr
 anthrax
 billy talent
 
 cant remember....bin a long year.....
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: walkman on December 10, 2003, 07:54:00 pm
All I know is that
 
 Delgados â?? Hate
 
 is one hell of a record.
 
 I also really liked Black Eyes' self-titled, The Notwist's Neon Golden and Earlimart's Everyone Down Here.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Bags on December 10, 2003, 11:07:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
  i actually only own 21 of them.  
Sonick, I own 21 as well...there's a lot of shit on there.
 
 Anyhow, I bought 42 albums with a date of 2003 (I sorted them via my iTunes, so it's truly based on year of release -- I have Idlewild and Postal Service, for instance, as 2002]).  
 
 Here's my top eleven (in the best order I can estimate):
 
 The Wrens,   The Meadowlands (Ltd. Edition)
 White Stripes,   Elephant
 Guided By Voices,   Earthquake Glue
 Fountains Of Wayne,   Welcome Interstate Managers
 The Sounds,   Living in America
 Scout,   This Soft Life
 The Shins,   Chutes Too Narrow
 The Long Winters,   When I Pretend To Fall
 The High Strung,   These Are Good Times
 Decemberists,   Her Majesty The Decemberists
 
 
 Honorable Mentions (not in order):
 
 The Tyde,   Twice
 Pernice Brothers,   Yours, Mine & Ours
 Guster,   Keep It Together
 Dressy Bessy,   Dressy Bessy
 Death Cab, For Cutie   Transatlanticism
 Buzzcocks,   Buzzcocks
 New Pornographers,   Electric Version
 The Notwist, Neon Golden
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: walkman on December 10, 2003, 11:19:00 pm
Have to agree with Pollard...although I own 16 of the records on the WOXY list, it's pretty lame all round.  Evanescence?  What???
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Yank on December 11, 2003, 03:23:00 am
In no particular order...
 
 The Coral - Magic And Medicine
 The Bandits - And They Walked Away
 Elbow - Cast Of Thousands
 I Am Kloot - I Am Kloot
 Rain Band - Rain Band
 White Stripes - Elephant
 Le Neon - Luss
 Lomax - A Symbol Of Modern Living
 Colder - Again
 Oceansize - Effloresce
 
 and bubbling under...
 
 Shack - Here's Tom With The Weather
 Puressence - Planet Hopeless
 Tim Burgess - I Believe
 British Sea Power - The Decline Of
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Celeste on December 11, 2003, 10:00:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
   
Quote
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  No, it's that list that sucks.
 
   
Quote
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
  piss off rhett.  you suck.
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Reportedly, Rhett only sucks if you are a large African-American football player. [/b]
Is that the excuse he gave you when he turned you down?
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Jaguär on December 11, 2003, 11:12:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
  Heres what everyone's favourite radio station WOXY thinks....
 
Not mine. That station gets on my fucking nerves! Has nothing to do with the music, it's all the very irritating talk and commercials, otherwise, I'd listen. I usually listen to 3wk.com and sometimes various other stations. I never, ever listen to WOXY.
 
 Just a start off the top of my head....
 
 I Am Kloot - Life In A Day
 Elbow - Cast Of Thousands
 The Rain Band - The Rain Band
 The High Dials - A New Devotion
 South - With The Tides
 Electro Amp Cynic - The 8 Album
 Trespassers William - Different Stars
 The Wrens - The Meadowlands
 Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People
 
 (to be continued...)
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: chokedamp on December 12, 2003, 12:58:00 pm
top 10:
 
 1. radiohead - hail to the thief
 2. idlewild - the remote part
 3. the postal service - give up
 4. blur - think tank
 5. yeah yeah yeahs - fever to tell
 6. rufus wainwright - want one
 7. the rapture - echoes
 8. the strokes - room on fire
 9. junior senior - d-d-don't stop the beat
 10. thursday - war all the time
 
 -m
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: chokedamp on December 12, 2003, 06:00:00 pm
bump.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on December 12, 2003, 06:02:00 pm
You must listen to the same radio station and read the same music magazines as a number of other people on here.
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by chokedamp:
  top 10:
 
 1. radiohead - hail to the thief
 2. idlewild - the remote part
 3. the postal service - give up
 4. blur - think tank
 5. yeah yeah yeahs - fever to tell
 6. rufus wainwright - want one
 7. the rapture - echoes
 8. the strokes - room on fire
 9. junior senior - d-d-don't stop the beat
 10. thursday - war all the time
 
 -m
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Bags on December 12, 2003, 06:51:00 pm
That would make sense if he likes the same music, wouldn't it?
 
 Oh wait, were you implying he(she?) likes those bands *because* he reads certain magazines?  I think that's the cart before the horse.
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  You must listen to the same radio station and read the same music magazines as a number of other people on here.
 
   
Quote
Originally posted by chokedamp:
  top 10:
 
 1. radiohead - hail to the thief
 2. idlewild - the remote part
 3. the postal service - give up
 4. blur - think tank
 5. yeah yeah yeahs - fever to tell
 6. rufus wainwright - want one
 7. the rapture - echoes
 8. the strokes - room on fire
 9. junior senior - d-d-don't stop the beat
 10. thursday - war all the time
 
 -m
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Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on December 12, 2003, 07:04:00 pm
I was more commenting on how eerily similiar some peoples lists are...that they all must listen to the same radio stations/read the same propaganda.
 
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by Bagster:
  That would make sense if he likes the same music, wouldn't it?
 
 Oh wait, were you implying he(she?) likes those bands *because* he reads certain magazines?  I think that's the cart before the horse.
 
   
Quote
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  You must listen to the same radio station and read the same music magazines as a number of other people on here.
 
   
Quote
Originally posted by chokedamp:
  top 10:
 
 1. radiohead - hail to the thief
 2. idlewild - the remote part
 3. the postal service - give up
 4. blur - think tank
 5. yeah yeah yeahs - fever to tell
 6. rufus wainwright - want one
 7. the rapture - echoes
 8. the strokes - room on fire
 9. junior senior - d-d-don't stop the beat
 10. thursday - war all the time
 
 -m
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Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: ggw on December 12, 2003, 07:35:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  You must listen to the same radio station and read the same music magazines as a number of other people on here.
 
I can't imagine why you directed that comment at chokedamp.  Only three of the titles on his (her?) top 10 appear on anybody else's top 10.
 
 You, on the other hand, have six albums in your top 10 that appear on the top 10 lists of others.
 
 I guess you must listen to the same radio station and read the same music magazines as a number of other people on here.
 
 
 It's hard to believe that anybody ever gave a moron like you a job working with statistics.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: ratioci nation on December 12, 2003, 10:04:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  I haven't heard the full Death Cab album or Broken Social Scene album.
Meant to reply before, are you going to Ted Leo, if so, do you want copies of these two?
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Barcelona on December 13, 2003, 11:04:00 am
1 - Neil Young - Greendale.
 
 I will think about the other 9 albums, but to me, this one is by far the best album of the year.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: bearman🐻 on December 14, 2003, 05:27:00 pm
It's official...the best record I've heard this year is the Shins. Great, great stuff.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: ggw on December 15, 2003, 01:58:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by pollard:
   
Quote
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  I haven't heard the full Death Cab album or Broken Social Scene album.
Meant to reply before, are you going to Ted Leo, if so, do you want copies of these two? [/b]
Didn't make Ted Leo -- was out of town.
 
 I'll be at AmAnSet tonight. If you're going to be there, I'll gladly swap you a copy of Global A Go-Go for a copy of DCFC.  I picked up a copy of Broken Social Scene already.  thanks.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: ratioci nation on December 15, 2003, 08:20:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
 
Quote
Originally posted by pollard:
 [qb]  Didn't make Ted Leo -- was out of town.
 
 I'll be at AmAnSet tonight. If you're going to be there, I'll gladly swap you a copy of Global A Go-Go for a copy of DCFC.  I picked up a copy of Broken Social Scene already.  thanks. [/b]
Looks like I may not make it tonight, will have to wait until next time.  Which will probably be in January some time I guess.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 15, 2003, 12:06:00 pm
Gathered up the approxmently 30 Records/EPs that I physically own and were released this year.   This includes compliation and reissues.    I'm not going to include the stuff acquired via Emusic or other sources which would expand my list a bit (i.e. The Carlsonics, New Phonographers, Pernice Brothers, Teenage Fanclub, Dirtbombs, etc).   Like GGW there are seveal records I haven't heard yet which would expand the list further (i.e Myracle Brah, BRMC, )   I'm always back filling so my list of 2003 releases will probably look different next year.
 
 So here is the list of Continued Favorties from 2003, it goes to 11!
 
 1. The Mood Elevator - Married Alive
 2. De Novo Dahl - EP
 3. Idlewild - The Remote Part
 4. Splitsville - Incorporated
 5. Delagdos -Hate
 6. Supergrass -
 7. The High Strung
 8. The Bamboo Kids
 9. Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Mangers
 10. D4- 6Twenty
 11. White Stripes - Elephant
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: ratioci nation on December 15, 2003, 12:14:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
 
 1. The Mood Elevator - Married Alive
 
Far better than the previous one in my opinion.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 15, 2003, 12:24:00 pm
There's a trend here... Last it was Brendan Benson on tops this year it's The Mood Elevator.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: ggw on December 15, 2003, 01:25:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  (i.e Myracle Brah
I've been enjoying the album you gave me, and I've heard a cut from the new album getting some play on WOXY, albeit only on the "new music" segments, not the regular airplay.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: grotty on December 15, 2003, 02:10:00 pm
Does everyone really love that Postal Service record? I think it's one of the more average things I own. I've given it a few more listens seeing how it's on  many  lists but it's not taking hold.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: grotty on December 15, 2003, 02:21:00 pm
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Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Moon Mullen on December 15, 2003, 02:42:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by grotty:
  Does everyone really love that Postal Service record? I think it's one of the more average things I own. I've given it a few more listens seeing how it's on  many  lists but it's not taking hold.
I thought it was just ok. I played it when I initially bought it, but not since.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: ratioci nation on December 15, 2003, 02:45:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by grotty:
  Does everyone really love that Postal Service record? I think it's one of the more average things I own. I've given it a few more listens seeing how it's on  many  lists but it's not taking hold.
I really do, I started playing it while stuck at home working in the big snow storm last winter, it struck a chord with me then and I have loved it since.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: J'Mal on December 15, 2003, 02:58:00 pm
That Postal Service CD is among the best in a long, long time.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on December 15, 2003, 03:03:00 pm
I'm with you Grotty. I find it listenable, but not remarkable. In terms of synth driven pop, I found the Stars album to be more satisfying.
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by grotty:
  Does everyone really love that Postal Service record? I think it's one of the more average things I own. I've given it a few more listens seeing how it's on  many  lists but it's not taking hold.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: markie on December 15, 2003, 03:07:00 pm
something about the guys voice works really well with the synths. Probably because it is so sickly sweet and smooth.
 
 I think the album is great. Definitely one of the best things I have heard all year.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: ggw on December 15, 2003, 03:10:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by mark e smith:
  something about the guys voice works really well with the synths. Probably because it is so sickly sweet and smooth.
 
I really don't like his voice that much, but it works very well with his Death Cab songwriting sometimes, like on the Photo Album.
 
 I understand why people like Postal Service so much, it's kind of different from most other indie stuff.  Although I like the album, if I'm going to listen to Gibbard's voice, I prefer DCFC.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: PigIron on December 15, 2003, 09:15:00 pm
I dont think I bought that many records this year.  But of the ones I did, I liked these:
 
 Ween - Quebec
 The Drive-By Truckers record
 Roots - Phrenology
 Tomahawk - Mit Gas
 Jurassic 5 - Newest record
 The live Clutch record, whatever thats called
 
 I bought the new Janes Addiction record but barely got passed the first few songs.  Maybe its OK.  And I dont know if the newest QOTSA record came out this year or last, but that was good.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Jaguär on December 16, 2003, 01:20:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by Jaguär:
  Revised...
 
 I Am Kloot - Life In A Day
 Elbow - Cast Of Thousands
 The Rain Band - The Rain Band
 The High Dials - A New Devotion
 South - With The Tides
 Electro Amp Cynic - The 8 Album
 Trespassers William - Different Stars
 The Wrens - The Meadowlands
 Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People
 Charlene - Charlene
 
 
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: SPARX on December 16, 2003, 03:20:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Moon Mulllens:
   
Quote
Originally posted by grotty:
  Does everyone really love that Postal Service record? I think it's one of the more average things I own. I've given it a few more listens seeing how it's on  many  lists but it's not taking hold.
I thought it was just ok. I played it when I initially bought it, but not since. [/b]
I'm with Moon on that.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: JCMSTL on December 17, 2003, 07:35:00 pm
Radiohead
 Postal Service
 Death Cab For Cutie
 Ryan Adams
 Richard Ashcroft
 White Stripes
 The Strokes
 Outkast
 Erykah Badu
 Cursive
 
 I know I'm leaving a ton out, but you get the idea.
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on December 22, 2003, 02:35:00 pm
Just got a used copy of the Fountains of Wayne album. Gonna put them at #6 and bump the rest down.
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  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. Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Mgrs.
 7. Teenage Fanclub: Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Seconds: A Short Cut to Teenage Fanclub
 8. Shelby Lynne:Identity Crisis
 9. Brendan Benson: One Mississippi/Wellfed Boys EP
 10. Thad Cockrell: Warmth and Beauty
 11. Ricky Skaggs: Live From the Charleston Music Hall
Title: Re: Top 10 Albums of 2003
Post by: ratioci nation on December 22, 2003, 02:42:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  4. Stars: Hearts
 
Listening to this for the first time right now, I like it so far, especially Romantic Comedy, but I don't think it is as good as Postal Service or that similar, IMHO.