Listology's Top Ten Albums of 2003 - Phase 1
Submitted by lbangs on Fri, 01/09/2004 - 12:19
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- OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - 7
- The White Stripes - Elephant - 7
- The Strokes - Room on Fire - 6
- Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears - 3
- Cat Power - You Are Free - 2
- Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Streetcore - 2
- Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers - 2
- The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow - 2
- My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves - 2
- Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood - 2
- The Thrills - So Much for the City - 2
- The Wrens - The Meadowlands - 1
- Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak - 1
- The Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine & Ours - 1
- The Stills - Logic Will Break Your Heart - 1
- Ben Harper - Diamonds on the Inside - 1
- Van Morrison - What's Wrong With This Picture? - 1
- Califone - Quicksand/Cradlesnakes - 1
- Neil Hagerty & The Howling Hex - The Howling Hex - 1
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre - And This Is Our Music - 1
- The Rapture - Echoes - 1
- Rancid - Indestructible - 1
- The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site - 1
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell - 1
- Over the Rhine - Ohio - 1
- Delerium - Chimera - 1
- Warren Zevon - The Wind - 1
- The Minus 5 - Down With Wilco - 1
- Radiohead - Hail to the Thief - 1
- The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium - 1
- DJ Rap - Touching Bass - 1
- Darkness - Permission to Land - 1
Author Comments:
Here's the deal. I want to make a Listology top ten for 2003. How? In stages.
This is the nomination phase. Please nominate your five FAVORITE (spare me any "this album was the best but I didn't like it - I want the ones you did like - and no more than five, or I'll be forced to ignore you!) albums of 2003. I'll be using allmusic.com for dating purposes, so please make sure your five albums have a date of 2003 there. There's no need to order your nominations.
I'll gather up the top twenty or so in a a few weeks, and we'll vote on the best!
This is an experiment, given, but I'm very curious to see the results! I'll keep a running tab above.
Hmmmm I need to come back to you on that one.
Here are mine in no particular order
Wrens-The Meadowlands
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists-Hearts of Oak
The Pernice Brothers-Your, Mine & Ours
The Stills-Logic Will Break Your Heart
Fountains of Wayne-Welcome Interstate Managers
Interesting list. Thanks!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Pretty sure you've seen my list, but...
Elephant/ White Stripes
Chutes Too Narrow/ The Shins
It Still Moves/ My Morning Jacket
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below/ Outkast
Room on Fire/ The Strokes
I was hoping you'd chime in!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I think I'll have to abstain from this list, since the only 2003 albums I have heard are Elephant, Weird Al's Poodle Hat, and BNL's Everything to Everyone. And the latter two may be albums I like a lot, but I think most people around here won't have heard them, much less like them as much as I do.
But I'm certainly eager to check out the results!
Surprisingly, I think I will contribute on the Music list and abstain from the movie list. Now that is a shocker.
Certainly have not listened to a lot of new cd's from 2003 but I do have 5 that I really Like.
Ben Harper Diamonds on the Inside
The Thrills So Much For The City
Lucinda Williams Worls Without Tears
Van Morrison What's Wrong With This Picture Really best Van album in a long time
The Strokes Room on Fire
Honorable mention or Guilty Pleasure is The Darkness Permission to Land. Just Campy Enough to recommend and not too short on musical chops to be embarrased.
Thanks! I like your list so much, I'll even forgive you your Darkness remarks! :)
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
You know The Darkness album is quite addictive in "I should know better" kind of way. But Damn them if they are not having a lot of fun on that album.
And I have never really been an 80's metal guy.
I have the album, but I've only made it through it once, and even then, I skipped a bit.
Different folks, different strokes.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Does it hurt my reputation even more to say I am really enjoying the new Train CD My Private Nation.
Hey, your rep certainly has nothing to worry about, at least not in these eyes.
I've read some very good reviews of Train's latest. I didn't dig Drops of Jupiter much, but a few of the singles were pretty good. I haven't heard Private Nation yet.
Besides, I'm listening to a Dar Williams album and loving it right now. You've got nothing to worry about! :)
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Hey Lester remember when I wrote of my time seeing Rockpile live and you claimed you were extremely jealous. I think I might have that beat. I have been to a party at Dar Williams house.
I used to work with some guys who are very big into the folk scene up here in New England and I hooked up with them once and went to a party at her place in the mid 90's. She seemed very nice.
I have seen her perform may times. In some ways a typical Boston folkie but in many ways she also transcends that admirable label.
You just love turning me green, don't you?
I had Mortal City back in the mid-90s and dug it, but it was lost in the great sell-off of 96 before I had a chance to really dig into it.
Dar is a folkie, but my, she has a sense of humor where so many don't. She can write too...
I'm very impressed.
Let's see, er, I met Peter Gabriel once. Naomi Wolf led a Smith College gathering in a standing ovation for me. I almost met the Dalai Lama when I delivered him food. Aw, shucks, never mind... I've no great rock stories.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Califone "Quicksand/Cradlesnakes"
Neil Michael Hagerty & The Howling Hex "s/t"
Mr. Airplane Man "Moanin'"
The Witches "On Parade"
Brian Jonestown Massacre "And This is Our Music"
Mr. Airplane Man are awesome! Yay! Someone else listens to them besides me!
Yeah, I'd recommend them to anyone who digs the White Stripes earlier stuff.
Thanks! Unfortunately, Mr. Airplane Man and The Witches' albums are 2002.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Aha- I knew that would come up. Unfortunately sometimes release dates are different (and sometimes on AMG, incorrect because smaller labels announce a date and the push it back.The 2003 Mr.Airplane Man CD listed on the AMG is not out yet, as an example...see http://www.airplaneman.com/#releases as proof) for other countries. I am in Canada, I ordered both of those albums for the record store I work at, and the Canadian release dates were both 2003. I understand if you wanna use the U.S. as the standard, but that would take a lot of British albums outta the running on most years, as a lot of them don't get released until a year later in the States.
Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
Cat Power - You Are Free
Outkast - Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
The Rapture - Echoes
The White Stripes - Elephant
Groovy! Bad news - the Johnny Cash is 2002 (released Nov. 5).
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
well, give The Strokes - Room on Fire a vote for me, then.
Sure thing. Thanks!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Here it goes!
1.The Man comes around-Johnny Cash
2.Streetwise-Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros
3.Indestructible-Rancid!
4.Speakerboxx/The Love Below-OutKast
5.Reconstruction Site-The Weakerthans
Thanks, though see above re the Johnny Cash disc.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
AAA and Mary,
As an avowed Johnny Cash fanatic, I would feel remiss in not passing along this opinion. If you like The Man Comes Around this much you should really take a listen to his first three American Recordings albums. I think Man Comes Around is easily the weakest of these albums. It seems tired and forced. The strength of these albums is in the song choices and there are some bad choices (not bad songs) on that one.
I would put them in this order.
American Recordings 1
Solitary Man
Unchained
The Man comes Around
I have not heard the new box set yet, but once I scrape up enough disposable cash, I will certainly give it a try.
Mine are, in no particular order:
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Fever to Tell
The White Stripes- Elephant
Outkast- Speakerboxx/The Love Below
The Kings of Leon- Youth and Young Manhood
The Strokes- Room on Fire
Thanks!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I think I have all the posted entries up above now. For the record, my own list is:
Over the Rhine - Ohio
The White Stripes - Elephant
OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Cat Power - You Are Free
Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I was thinking of going out and finding a copy of Lucinda Williams' album. With this recommendation, I'll be sure to.
I hope you like it. Oddly enough, it seems this release has received more mixed reviews that her last album, Essence, but I like it quite a bit more. Oh, well.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
An unofficial ranking of Lucinda albums.
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
World Without Tears
Sweet Old World
Lucinda Williams
Essence.
And I really liked Essence.
Delerium - Chimera
I'm having trouble determining how many albums I bought last year that were actually produced last year....
Thanks!
I'm using allmusic.com as my date check, if that helps you at all...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
My top 5:
Streetcore - Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
World Without Tears - Lucinda Williams
Welcome Interstate Managers - Fountains Of Wayne
The Wind - Warren Zevon
Down With Wilco - The Minus 5
Thanks!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Yay for streetcore
1Oukast-Speakerboxxx/Love Below
2The Strokes-Room on Fire
3Radiohead-Hail to the Thief
4The White Stripes-Elephant
5The Shins-Chutes too Narrow
Got it. Thanks!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Okay, here's my five for '03:
The White Stripes, Elephant
Outkast, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
My Morning Jacket, It Still Moves Me
The Mars Volta, De-Loused at the Comatorium
DJ Rap, Touching Bass
There's a few more I'd love to add - King Crimson's The Power to Believe, for instance - but I'm stickin' with these five.
Oops, I should say My Morning Jacket, It Still Moves...don't know where the "me" part came from.
It just moves ya!
Done, and thanks!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I want to add The Rapture's "Echoes".
I'm totally addicted.
Thanks.
In place of which one?
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
That's a hard decision. I'll keep my five but I'll say "Echoes" is a strong honorable mention.
Hey great idea - have just done my top movies so here goes on the top albums:
The Strokes - Room on fire
Kings of Leon - Youth and young manhood
The Darkness - Permission to land
The Thrills - So much for the city
White Stripes - Elephant
Am now gonna have to try and get hold of the outkast album since it's been recommended by so many people! (maybe that'll change my list, sorry though, the darkness is staying, always makes me laugh!!)
Done! Thanks!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
sorry to see that it's much too late for this addition, but i thought that Brand New's "Deja Entendu" was one of the best rock CDs of the year. Rolling Stone named it best punk cd of the year, although calling it punk is a bit misleading. almost half of the album is slow and acoustic-based. while i own the fountains of wayne cd, and enjoy maybe 5 or 6 songs on it, i find it hard to accept the critical praise this band is receiving. they seem kind of hit or miss to me.