Top 5 albums you first heard in 2003 (so far)

Someone else be there first to answer. I feel guilty when I ask something just so I can give my opinion.

I've picked up lots of old albums this year so far, here's five of the best:

1. Nurse With Wound 'Spiral Insana'
2. Black Dice 'Beaches & Canyons' (Fatcat)
3. The Faust Tapes
4. Merzbow 'Aqua Necromancer'
5. Fushitsusha 'Double Live' (PSF 3/4)

(no particular order)

Tony Joe White - s/t (from like 1970, or 71, I think)
Deadly Snakes - Ode to Joy (from 2003)
John Hiatt & the Goners - Beneath this Gruff Exterior (2003, judgment may be clouded cuz it makes me think of my dear old dad, and with father's day 'round the corner, etc.)
Rufus Thomas - best of (only about half the album I'd never heard before [I have few Sun & Stax compilations and the Do the Funky Chicken alb], but I love love love it)
Reigning Sound - Time Bomb High School (from last year)

Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
V/A - No New York
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Melt Banana - Charlie
Neu - s/t

Kopernik - s/t
Eno/Lanois - Apollo Soundtracks
Nick Drake - Tamworth-In-Arden (w/ studio outtakes)
Orson Welles - The Begatting Of The President
Francisco Canaro - Tangos Clasicos

These are the ones that come mind at the moment as having made me go "Daaamn" on first listen. The Orson Welles one is a dooozy.

1. global communication - 76 : 14
2. mum - finally we are no-one
3. four tet - rounds
4. orbital - brown album
5. future sound of london - lifeforms

Oneness Of Juju - African Rhythms
Joe Farrell - Moon Germs
Ohm - S/T
Valentin Clastrier - Heresie (sadly I only have this on CDR)
Henry Cow - In Praise Of Learning

brian eno - ambient 4/on land
nas - illmatic
aphex twin - saw ii
the beta band - the three eps
uhm, i'm warming to the new broadcast..

shit, save for one comp that's my whole 03 tally. i don't think i even listen to albums anymore.

so, you got around to liking illmatic then or was this just what you bought?

no no, it really grew on me. but to retain some measure of independence in the face of the unbearable rightness of the early-to-mid-90s rap canon, i think 'nyc state of mind' is actually my least favourite track on the album.

you know i may not even crack the 12 cd mark this year but at least my purchase to enjoyent ratio has been quite high. i mean i'll bet ned hasn't even gotten around to listening to those flying saucer attack cocteau twins remixes or whatever.

no offense ned.

haha

styrofoam- i'm what's there to show that something's missing
four tet- rounds
plaid- parts in the post
matt elliott- the mess we made
ms. john soda- no p. or d.

Hey! ;-)

It's hard to be honest on this one, for some reason, but I will try.

Definitely Oum Kalthoum's Sahran Lewahdi, but also, I think El Awellah fel Gharam.

I can't honestly deny the Boredoms' Chocolate Synthesizer, but I'm less sure about Super ae. So that's three so far.

Angel Canales "El Sentimiento del Latino en Nueva York. Maybe this isn't that great of an album, but I'm really happy to finally hear Canales after being very curious about him, and to find out that I like his singing very much.

I think I will go with Super ae as my fifth, with honorable mentions to Sun Ra's Nothing Is (which could go up in value to me by the end of the year), La Lupe's Two Sides of La Lupe (etc.), Red Hot + Riot, and Fela Kuti's Expensive Shit/He Miss Road. I've heard a lot of other good stuff too, but usual with fewer stand-out moments than these.

(Your spelling of Oum Kalthoum titles may vary.)

erase errata - other animals
exploding hearts - guitar romantic
raekwon - only built 4 cuban linx
streets - original pirate material
trick daddy - thugs are us

The Dears - No Cities Left
Polysics - For Young Electric Pop
Mark Eitzel - The Ugly American
Accelera Deck - Shadow Land
Sybarite - Nonument

Completely subjective, probably have five different ones tomorrow. 'Cept that Dears record, that's been all over my lists lately.

Basement Jaxx - "Remedy"
Andrew WK - "I Get Wet"
Motorhead - "Ace Of Spades"
Madonna - "The Immaculate Collection"
Weezer - "The Blue Album"

This just goes to show that I only ever buy cheap sale CDs. As I have only bought two CDs released this year.

can - future days
the white birch - star is just a sun
amon düül II - yeti
the hidden cameras - smell of our own
dinosaur jr. - you're living all over me

best album heard his year not from this year
: spearmint 'a different lifetime'.
f-ing ace. absolutely the most uder-rated, heartfelt, beautiful, , bla bla bla.

true though.

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Pale Saints - In Ribbons
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Chameleons - Strange Times
Throwing Muses - s/t (2003)

Update: M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts. How did I forget this?

I'm going to have to break my own rules here. There's just too much good stuff.
Dance:

Autechre- Draft 7.30
DJ Scud
Plaid: Parts In The Post - Remixes
Goldfrapp 'Black Cherry'
Radioactivemans's Fabric mix CD (whatever number that was).

Rock:

PJ Harvey "To Bring You My Love"
Melt Banana "Scratch and Stitch"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Fever to Tell"
Erase Errata "Other Animals"
Killing Joke "The Death and Resurrection Show"
Metallica "St Anger"
Slits "Cut"

The Byrds "Sweetheart of the Rodeo"
Notwist "Neon Golden"
Ahmad Jamal Trio "Live at the Pershing: But Not for Me"
Caetano Veloso (1971)
Fennesz "Endless Summer"
Ethiopiques Vol. 3
Hrvatski "Swarm and Dither" + "Oiseaux 1996-1998" + Keith Fullerton Whitman "Playthroughs"

(alphabetically)

The Best of Bollywood
Moffou, Salif Keita
We Are The Rowboats, Krakatoa
Alegria, Wayne Shorter
6, Supersilent

Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living
Feelies - Crazy Rhythms

Top five of this year but not of this year...

Mouse On Mars - Iaora Tahiti
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
Can - Future Days
Four Tet - Dialogue
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock