Your #1 Album of 2003

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Fuck the runners-up.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

For me, "Wonderful Rainbow" by Lightning Bolt.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Ted Leo Hearts of Oak

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Need you really ask...?

http://home.clara.net/antoni/kj2003.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.kelprecords.com/images/av/modern_way_cover_mini.jpg

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a toss up between The Black Lips - Black Lips! and The Deadly Snakes - Ode To Joy.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Ode to Joy is my #2, and if I hadn't seen Andrew Vincent live, Deadly Snakes would have been #1.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Dizzee Rascal, I'm afraid

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

three way tie between dizzee/mayer/jaxx

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I will let you know when I figure it out!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

richard x!

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I've said it before and I'll say it again -- Sylvie Courvoisier's "Abaton". Since most of these published year-end lists seem pretty oblivious to 2003 jazz/improv releases (to say nothing of classical/modern composers), and, hence, are de facto rock/pop/hiphop/electronica best-ofs, it behooves me to pick a release in that category as well, in which case: Robert Wyatt's "Cuckooland".

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The Love Below/Speakerboxxx still going strong.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

No ties allowed! You choose or you lose.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

It could only be...

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00009WVWU.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

what exactly do i "lose"?

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Does that album have a parental advisory thing on in Holland then? I thought most people have given em up as a waste of time...

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

the respect & admiration of ILMers

xpost

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine was Pluramon's Dreams Top Rock

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Cass McCombs- A

― Magic City (ano ano), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah mark I really liked that one. but its one of the few 2003 releases I've heard.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

My choice this year is an easy one. Of what I heard, it's:

"Clones and False Prophets" by Badawi
No filler. Guitars! (Who's Mark Ribot???)
It's a total BedouinWobbleKrautExperience!!!!!!

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

are you serious about "Who's Mark Ribot?"

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

It's Marc with a 'c'.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Re: Marc Ribot.
I'm serious. Go figure. I've heard the name, but I've heard other names as well. Nothing until now to make me interested in him.

If it's any consolation, he hasn't heard of me.

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

OutKast

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, his second album, which was entirely duets played with his four-yr-old step-daughter Aline Chretien, was named Peepee.

that's a lie.

He's played on a lot of great records and worth digging around for. Tom Waits, Medeski Martin + Wood, etc

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ribot's done tons of different things, most of them at least interesting. Try his AMG page. A selected sampling: Los Cubanos Postizos, Rootless Cosmopolitans, Shrek, Don't Blame Me, Book of Heads, Electric Masada.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Seek out Marc Ribot!

You may even have heard him before -- Tom Waits' "Rain Dogs" may be his most prominent appearance; also I think some late-'80's Elvis Costello sides. He was great on Susana Baca's last record and with his own group Cubanos Postizos.

AMG would be helpful in tracking him down, as he has far more appearances as a sideman than as a bandleader.

x-post w/o.nate

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Grandaddy - Sumday

"How it could...have...may...be been."

― kickitcricket, Friday, 19 December 2003 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, you people.
(You are people, aren't you?)

For some reason, this information has been kept away from me.
Damn government!!!

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Marc Ribot has nice stuff on Dave Douglas's last record. Great guitar player! I still haven't figured out my number one yet.

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Dizzee...the only record ever to remind me of both Pere Ubu and Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

p.s. Ribot also did a great solo guitar record a couple of years back. Really beautiful.

― Not That Chuck, Friday, 19 December 2003 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Katatonia-Viva Emptiness

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Broken Social Scene -- 'You Forgot it in People'

― rainman (rainman), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Peepee -- the Bush administration has issued a censorship order on any musicians relating to Cuba, so Ribot made the list beacause of his band's name. Cuba, in case you didn't get the memo, is fifth on the U.S. preemptive invasion list after Syria, North Korea, Iran, and France -- didn't you get Rumsfeld's memo? Goes into effect after the election, of course.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Dorine_Muraille (aka Julien Loquet), Mani (Fat Cat)

http://www.almostcool.org/mr/d/pics/d77mu.jpg

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Unless something dramatic happens, Magic Dirt "Tough Love"

― dlp9001, Friday, 19 December 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I really loved Logic Will Break Your Heart by The Stills. I do believe it's my favorite of 2003.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Forced to pick only one, I'm going with The Fiery Furnaces "Gallowsbird's Bark." I love every minute of that record, and even though I've heard it many many times now, I still can find new things to love about it. They came out of nowhere and won my heart.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash!!!

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

kevin blechdom - bitches without britches

I didn't really want to put this top, since half the tracks were previously released in 2002, but nothing else has given me as much pleasure this year. I'll try and write something more persuasive on the Actually Useful 2003 thread before year's end.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Mine was Pluramon's Dreams Top Rock"
how did this not then make it on PF's list?

for mine, hmmmm, well, it's down between radiohead, lightning bolt, and explosions in the sky. i guess im gonna have to go with explosions in the sky.

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Junior Senior - D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat

All the other albums I've enjoyed the most have been 3 or 4 spectacular tracks plus filler, but the JS album is solid gold.

― Brian Miller, Friday, 19 December 2003 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Luomo, The Present Lover. I wish I knew how to write about it without using ugly strings of adjectives.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

the only track on d-d-d that I d-d-didn't like was "Move Yr Feet"

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"Chicks and Dicks" is enought to put it in my top ten, I think.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Laser Beast.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 21 December 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

chalk up another one for Mr. Rascal

― Michael B, Sunday, 21 December 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear Catastrophe Waitress by Belle & Sebastiane (plus lots that have already been mentioned)

― Robomonkey (patronus), Sunday, 21 December 2003 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Super Furry Animals, easily. Their best since "Radiator" (which was my 1997 runnerup to the legendary "OK Computer")

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Surprised I am the first to mention it but Sun Kil Moon's Ghosts of The Great Highway is my No. 1 pick.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

'Master and Everyone' nearly had it, but Nina Nastasia's 'Run to Ruin' edges it courtesy of "I Say That I Will Go" and "Superstar," two moments of sublime beauty.

― Ben Dot (1977), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

see, i need to hear that sun kil moon. and the new anathema album. not that i think they would overtake my mighty and beloved katatonia for my number one spot, but ya never know.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Broadcast - "Ha Ha Sound"...... with that Deadly Snakes album a close second.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Broheems, as best as I can do, I'd say that the Weakerthans' last record falls somewhere in the realm of the Schramms, Antietam, Sportsguitar, and maybe Pavement "Watery Domestic." Their sound varies from sort of quiet-ish pretty numbers to full-on head-bobbing indie at its best, with the singer's voice reminding me of the guy from They Might Be Giants, but only tolerable.

Seriously, the album has several of my favorite songs I've heard all year: "The Reasons," "Reconstruction Site," "Psalm for the Elks Lodge Last Call," "Plea from a Cat Named Virtue," "One Great City!" Song for song the most enjoyable disc of the year.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

another vote for Kish Kash

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Monday, 22 December 2003 06:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey everyone, what about this one, my pick:

Mary Fahl "The Other Side of Time"

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 22 December 2003 06:30 (twenty-one years ago)

How come I can't find an AMG entry for Andrew Vincent?

Am I somehow being an idiot?

― Debito (Debito), Monday, 22 December 2003 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Re: Marc Ribot.
I'm serious. Go figure. I've heard the name, but I've heard other names as well. Nothing until now to make me interested in him.
He's written the utterly sublime meta-rock song, Clever White Youth.

It can only be Dizzee Rascal

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 22 December 2003 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

supermotherfuckingsilent, 6

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Monday, 22 December 2003 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i think Kish Kash has stolen it from Outkast right at the death

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 22 December 2003 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to give one final listen to Jan Jelinek's 'Nouvelle Pauvrete' before deciding if it can claim the #1 spot from Richard X.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Monday, 22 December 2003 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

'Chutes Too Narrow' - The Shins. Simply stunning quality from start to finish, a rare thing. (Lovely packaging too).

― Guy Flower, Monday, 22 December 2003 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.pastemusic.com/images/product/unscaled/SunKilMoon-Ghosts.jpeg

― Chris 'Knuckle Deep' V. (Chris V), Monday, 22 December 2003 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously The Love Below/Speakerboxx trumps every other hip-hop record I heard this year.

And it's my number one all over b/c I don't really listen to new music of any other genre. I have a feeling it could easily be tops all over however.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Hot contention between Grandaddy's Sumday, Elbow's Cast of Thousands and B&S' Dear Catastrophe Waitress.

― person#0 (person#0), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(well, on the spur of the just passed moments)

Spring Heel Jack, Live

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Once again I'll say
El Gran Silencio is
my big number 1

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Mensen - Oslo City (destroys their earlier material)

― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Kris just reminded me what a good album that is!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

An eleventh hour possibility: the new Philip Jeck joint.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Really? I've got a promo copy of that and was going to ponder it. It's that good?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

the rip off artist - pet sounds

― twelve, Tuesday, 23 December 2003 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day

Close 2nd: Janet Bean and the Concertina Wire - Dragging Wonder Lake

― Catherine (Catherine), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I had some free time today so I wrote up little blurbs on my top 10 albums of the year. They are here.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

More than anyone else, I think you've nailed the Fiery Furnaces, O Nate. Good work.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Chutes too narrow

― innercitykitty (innercitykitty), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I can never decide, but I'll go with:

Goatsblood - Drull

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg000/g087/g08741o0dkv.jpg

― Mikhail Capone (Mikhail Capone), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

So what you're saying is that everyone who has posted here is an egotist for presuming they do know well enough to choose their own favourite? Which is what the question asks for; Your #1, NOT The #1.

Dude, I was kidding. Uh, my favourite was probably NERD.

Not gunna risk it: that was a joke too.

― Jole, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

based on which one has had the most repeat listens, Luomo "The Present Lover"

― Nik (Nik), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Eugene Kelly

― Pinche Pendejo (Pinche Pendejo), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

CYndi Lauper's At Last - in which she loses the simpering scratchiness and lets loose with a voice that pisses leagues over the pop swine of class of 2002 whilst reinventing standards such as Walk on By and If You Go Away. For fucks sake, she even removes the Swayzee/Moore anal juice stains from Unchained Melody.

― Queen G I never fucked tom cruise, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Sizzla "Da Real Thing"
For oh so many reasons.

― cybele (cybele), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

eugene kelly released a record?

i am pleased because francis macdonald has finished his second solo record.

― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Cybele, what do you think of Rise to the Occasion? I enjoy it a lot, and think it strikes a good balance between dancing joints and swoonier ballad stuff.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The Magnolia Electric Co.

― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

what I voted for in P&J: Triple R, Friends, technically an '02 album.

fave actual '03 disc: Basement Jaxx, Kish Kash

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

by a longshot

― Kyle Whelliston, Wednesday, 31 December 2003 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Umm... what is that?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

supermotherfuckingsilent, 6

Ditto.

― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Thursday, 1 January 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

DIZZE! MOTHER! FUCKING! RASCAL!

― fux, Thursday, 1 January 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, year's over. Melt-Banana's "Cell-Scape" grabbed me by the tailbone and lifted me about 8 feet up in the air, which is at least slightly better than any other record last year could say.

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 1 January 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf900/f921/f92163z4z1m.jpg

― Maciej, Thursday, 1 January 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

tie:
A-frames 2
Animal collective - spirit/danse

― stinkbugs, Thursday, 1 January 2004 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Sounds "mainstream" but it's true:

Outkast: Speakerboxxx/Love Below

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

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