Best Albums of 2003...proven BY SCIENCE!? (cough cough)

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They even made Excel Spreadsheets, so, y'know...it's gotta be, like, legit. Right? Link is here: http://www.rocketjump.org/top2003/

Discuss, destroy, bitch, moan, complain, send them nasty emails.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 1 January 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Science? Not much science involved in cutting and pasting the Spin list.

― sym (shmuel), Thursday, 1 January 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

A few years ago a friend of mine was really into proving that you could objectiviely point out good music from bad (physic students, huh? they're a breed unto themselves).

So he got every music fan he knew to compile their all time top 50 albums, and then did what these two guys have done with these 2003 lists. I think Blue Lines by Massive Attack was scientifically declared to the best music to date (1994).

I don't think this scientific 2003 list is too bad at all.

― Nik (Nik), Thursday, 1 January 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I've lost my faith in science.

All this mediocrity and amateurism on one list is just much to hard for a man of science to take.

― bahtology, Friday, 2 January 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

There are about three on there that I really like.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 January 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

they may love music, but they don't love musicians.

― James, Friday, 2 January 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

All this mediocrity and amateurism on one list is just much to hard for a man of science to take.

This coming from a guy who praises fucking Seal at every opportunity.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 2 January 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

end of year lists are killing music.

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 2 January 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

>>This coming from a guy who praises fucking Seal at every opportunity

Whoa, Fever, that's not fair, nor is it correct. I just recently heard the "fucking" Seal cd from this year and found it to be of high quality when compared to the majority of crap that has been foisted upon music listeners. Prior to hearing the disc, I pretty much forgot about "fucking" Seal and have not, in any way, been a big proponent of his output. So I put it on my list of favorites for the "fucking" year. Will you condemn me for putting Massive Attack or Rosanne Cash on my silly little list?

If you had written "coming from a guy who praises fucking Sting at every opportunity" or "coming from a guy who praises fucking Sylvian at every opportunity", well then your statement would have been accurate. There are others that could apply as well, and I suppose they could all be "fucking" as well.

Anyhow, if you choose to do so, enjoy the mediocrity filled with amateurish passion and just let me be the asshole elitist who feels that the music he listens to should be created by those who can play their instruments and write songs with some semblance of intelligence and uniqueness.

All told, I'm glad that I make some impression, be it good or bad.

― bahtology, Friday, 2 January 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Problem with the list is that it will always favor the most commersh albums b/c those are the only ones most likely to hit everyone's radar and thus, later make Top 10 lists. Yes, sure, there are exceptions, but take any indie band that had a masterpiece, if relatively unknown-at-the-time debut and ask yourself if you think that their album would have held its own in a similar experiment for that year? And plenty of stuff on all-time lists wouldn't be on their year-end statistically best lists either.

So this is an ignore, methinks. It's like compiling all the greatest albums of all time lists - if you think something by the Beatles isn't going to be 1, you're a fool.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 2 January 2004 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

ILx regular Henrik Frantzon has done this on www.acclaimedmusic.net already. Ending up with roughly the same albums btw. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 2 January 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Now all that said, I wouldn't mind an open-ILM poll to statistically prove ILM's best albums of 2003.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 2 January 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd like that, too. I seem to recall last year around Pazz & Jop time, we did a poll using P&J points.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 January 2004 07:13 (twenty-one years ago)

just for stats fans:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/page.cfm?objectid=13773574&method=full

HMV collated this chart from magazine polls.

1 Outkast - Speakerboxx/The Love Below

2 Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner

3 Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium

4 White Stripes - Elephant

5 The Darkness - Permission To Land

6 Radiohead - Hail To The Thief

7 The Rapture - Echoes

8 Blur - Think Tank

9 Four Tet - Rounds

10 The Strokes - Room On Fire

11 Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power

12 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell

13 Muse - Absolution

14 My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves

15 Audio Bullys - Ego War

16 Jane's Addiction - Strays

17 British Sea Power - Decline Of British Sea Power

18 The Thrills - So Much For The City

19 Kings Of Leon - Youth And Young Manhood

20 The Distillers - Coral Fang

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 2 January 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

contrast with that rocketjump.org

The White Stripes - Elephant
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Missy Elliott - This Is Not a Test!
The Strokes - Room On Fire
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Rufus Wainwright - Want One
The Postal Service - Give Up
The Rapture - Echoes
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
The Darkness - Permission to Land
R. Kelly - Chocolate Factory
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Blur - Think Tank

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 2 January 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

people liking the darkness makes fatnick cry.

― Fatnick (Fatnick), Friday, 2 January 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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