Top 10 Albums of 2003

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

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

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

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.

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'

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

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

the flaming sideburns - sky pilots
turbonegro - scandanavian leather

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

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

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)

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?

How could I forget,

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

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

Super Furry Animals 'Rings Around the World'

oops - this should be phantom power

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

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

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

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