I'm inspired by Sports Illustrated's Peter King, who, instead of "grading" NFL drafts the day after they occur, waits 5 years to do so ... his recent look at the 2001 was really interesting
anyway, now that they've sunk in some, what do you all think of the best albums of '03? it was a pretty fucking good year for music!
these are my favorites, it's definitely not an exhaustive list, just what i've listened to a gazillion times in the last 3 years or so, and some others that i only discovered later ... and there's a shitload more that i still haven't gotten around to listening to, where does the time go...
1) Explosions in the Sky - "The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place"
2) The Decemberists - "Her Majesty"
3) M83 - "Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts"
4) The Shins - "Chutes Too Narrow"
5) The Postal Service - "Give Up"
6) OutKast - "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below"
7) Drive-By Truckers - "Decoration Day"
Death Cab for Cutie - "Transatlanticism"
9) Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - "Hearts of Oak"
10) The New Pornographers - "Electric Version"
11) British Sea Power - "The Decline of British Sea Power"
12) Lucero - "That Much Further West"
13) Viktor Vaughn - "Vaudeville Villain"
14) The Fire Theft - "The Fire Theft"
15) Prefuse 73 - "One Word Extinguisher"
Honorable Mentions:
Against Me! - "As the Eternal Cowboy..."
Burt Davenport - "Game Preserve"
Belle & Sebastian - "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"
Danger Mouse & Jemini - "Ghetto Pop Life"
Dizzee Rascal - "Boy in Da Corner"
Fountains of Wayne - "Welcome Interstate Managers"
Four Tet - "Rounds"
Grandaddy - "Sumday"
Guster - "Keep it Together"
Jay-Z - "The Black Album"
Kathleen Edwards - "Failer"
King Geedorah - "Take Me to Your Leader"
Little Brother - "The Listening"
My Morning Jacket - "It Still Moves"
The Notwist - "Neon Golden"
Pretty Girls Make Graves - "The New Romance"
Radiohead - "Hail to the Thief"
Ratatat - "Ratatat"
stellastarr* - "stellastarr*"
The Strokes - "Room on Fire"
Sufjan Stevens - "Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State"
Sun Kil Moon - "Ghosts of the Great Highway"
The White Stripes - "Elephant"
The Wrens - "The Meadowlands"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Fever to Tell"
a few that didn't age so well:
Basement Jaxx - "Kish Kash"
BRMC - "Take Them On, On Your Own"
Earlimart - "Everyone Down Here"
The Rapture - "Echoes"
Ryan Adams - "Rock N Roll"
South - "With the Tides"
The Thrills - "So Much for the City"
The Trouble With Sweeney - "I Know You Destroy!"
Yo La Tengo - "Summer Sun"
Zwan - "Mary Star of the Sea"
