Top 10 Albums of 2003

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

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
No, it's that list that sucks.

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
piss off rhett. you suck.

Reportedly, Rhett only sucks if you are a large African-American football player.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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*

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 :)

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…..

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.

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

Have to agree with Pollard…although I own 16 of the records on the WOXY list, it's pretty lame all round. Evanescence? What???

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

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
No, it's that list that sucks.

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
piss off rhett. you suck.

Reportedly, Rhett only sucks if you are a large African-American football player.

Is that the excuse he gave you when he turned you down?

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…)

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

bump.

You must listen to the same radio station and read the same music magazines as a number of other people on here.

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

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.

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.

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