Best Music 2003 - the web

Web sites with best music of 2003

http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/2003.shtml (lots of lists at bottom
too)
http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/
http://www.theonionavclub.com/3949/feature1.html
http://slate.msn.com/id/2092531/entry/2092839/
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/7550407.htm
http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/2003/mtvvmas.htm
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/27/music-payne.php
http://www.popmatters.com/music/best2003/best2003-hermann.shtml

For the christians:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/music/reviews/2003/2003bestof.html

Best Music 2003 - Jeremy Zitter

1. iron and wine: the creek drank the cradle: i was completely bowled over by iron and wine this year, especially by my reaction to what is essentially an album of similar-sounding songs that have the feel of home recordings produced by a guy with an 8-track in his basement (probably because they were). but the songs are so incredibly sweet and poetic without ever feeling cliched and, more amazingly, without unleashing my usually merciless inner cynic. 2. cat power: you are free: my reaction to cat power's albums are usually similar to my reaction this year to iron and wine. i'm just stunned at how simple the songs are and yet how splendid.
3. shins: chutes too narrow: even better than the first album.
4. postal service: give up: indie rock goes a bit techno.
5. the notwist: neon golden: techno goes a bit indie.
6. american analog set: promise of love: there's just something about these guys.
7. grandaddy: sumday: and they're from modesto!
8. benjamin gibbard and andrew kenny: home: volume 5: this is an interesting album in which gibbard (of death cab) and kenny (of american analog set) cover each other's songs.
9. bonnie "prince" billy: master and everyone: this, for me, was the year of indie folk, as my new love for iron and wine and bonnie billy proves.
10. belle and sebastian: dear catastrophe waitress: good to see b&s finally have another great album after a few lackluster products.

special mention: (smog), whose albums i discovered recently and have come to love (indie-folk-type stuff, again, but with more instruments), but no one album in particular.

Best Music 2003 - Amelie Hastie

1) Missy Elliott, Under Construction
2) Sleater-Kinney, All Hands on the Bad One
3) MC Solaar, Prose Combat
4) Butter O 8 (title?)
5) Soundtrack to In the Mood for Love)

Best Music 2003 - Dave Davis

Top 18 in no particular order:

- N.E.R.D. - In Search of...
- OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
- The Blasters - Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings
- Ziggy Marley - Dragonfly
- Jane's Addiction - Strays
- 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Trying
- Getz/Gilberto - Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim
- Rubber City Rebels - Rubber City Rebels
- Warren Zevon - The Wind
- Rage Against The Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles

- Linkin Park - Meteora
- The The - 45 RPM
- G. Love & Special Sauce - Electric Mile
- Missy Elliott - Under Construction
- Jay Z - Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter
- Coldplay - Parachutes
- Chaka Demus & Pliers - Ultimate Collection
- Jason & the Scorchers - A Blazing Grace
- Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around

Best Music 2003 - Tiffany Hope

1. Lucinda Williams ­ World Without Tears
2. White Stripes ­ Elephant
3. Hot Club of Cowtown ­ Dev¹lish Mary
4. Handsome Boy Modeling School ­ So How¹s your girl
5. Lucinda Williams ­ Sweet Old World
6. Radiohead ­ Hail to the Thief
7. Magnetic Fields ­ 69 Love Songs
8. David Cross ­ Shut Up You Fucking Baby
9. Calexico ­ Feast of Wire
10. Calexico ­ Hot Rail
11. Steely Dan - A Decade of Steely Dan (this is actually Bill's but I've been listening to it on repeat for like, 3 solid weeks)
12. Joe Henry's "Tiny Voices"

Best Music 2003 - Michael Schwartz

Best albums I bought in 2003 ( No Order )
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Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
White Stripes - Elephant
Polyphonic Spree - The Beginning Stages Of Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out Of Season The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic Mars Volta - De-loused in the Crematarium Grandaddy - Sumday / Sophtware Slump / Under The Western Freeway Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power Sigur Ros - ()

Honorable mention
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Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step Strokes - Room On Fire Longwave - The Strangest Things Jet - Get Born Audioslave - Audioslave Spirtualized - Amazing Grace The Streets - Origianl Pirate Material The Kills - Keep On Your Mean Side Raveonettes - Whip It On Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take Them On, On Your Own The Libertines - Up The Bracket The Postal Service - Give Up

Best Music 2003 - Chris Poehlmann

Here are a few of my new albums for this year:

R L Burnside - I wish I was in Heaven Sittng Down + Come On In DuOuD - Wild Serenade The Bad Plus -
MM+W - Uninvisible
Stanton Moore - Flyin the Koop
Mogwai -
Blacky Ranchette - Sage Advice
DJ Logic - Project Logic
Rob Wasserman - Space Island
April March and Los Cincos -
The Strokes -
Preston School of Industry - All This Sounds Gas Ry Cooder + Manuel Galban - Mambo Sinuendo Gilberto Gil - Kaya n Gana

Best Music 2003 - Pat Lavelle

I decree, in no particular order:

Killing Joke - Killing Joke
OutKast - The Love Below
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium Bent - The Everlasting Blink Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain Fiction Plane - Everything Will Never Be OK Cliff Martinez - Solaris (Soundtrack) Godspeed You Black Emperor - F#A#∞ Blur - Think Tank

Best Music 2003 - Wendy West

Postal Service: Give Up
Chutes Too Narrow: The Shins
Did Sea Change come out this year?
Elton John's greatest (yes, I'll admit to it) Christopher O Riley's Radiohead Piano Stuff Azure Ray's album Bright Eyes mix that Jeremy made for me Cat Power: You are Free Death Cab For Cutie mix that Jeremy also made for me Iron and Wine's album The Very Best of Daryl Hall and John Oates

Best Music 2003 - Dexter Knaack (1.5 y/o)

top 10 albums i listened to in 2003

- Gwendolyn and the Good Time Gang - Gwendolyn and the Good Time Gang
- Gwendolyn and the Good Time Gang - (yeah, he likes it that much)
- the Wiggles - Toot! Toot!
- the Wiggles - A Wiggly Movie
- the Wiggles - A Wiggly Safari
- Music Together - Triangle
- Music Together - Fiddle
- TMBG - No!
- Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
- Sesame Street - Platinum Hits

top 5 albums i listened to in 2002

- Mozart - any
- Bach - any
- Beethoven - any
- Southern Culture on the Skids - Drive-Thru Daquiri (compilation)
- Music Together - Bells

Best Music 2003 - Robert Knaack

The year started out slow, but picked up after a few months. Lots of good stuff.

top 20 albums i purchased in 2003 (IN ORDER)

- Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood
- Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
- Mars Volta - De-loused in the Crematarium
- Nappy Roots - Wooden Leather
- the Libertines - Up the Bracket
- Longwave - endsongs
- Cursive - the Ugly Organ
- Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
- White Stripes - Elephant
- Pretty Girls Make Graves - the New Romance

- Bright Eyes - Letting Off The Happiness
- Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
- Superdrag - Head Trip In Every Key
- Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
- Grandaddy - Sumday
- Longwave - strangest things
- Polyphonic Spree - the beginning stages of
- black keys - thickfreakness
- Raveonettes - Whip It On
- TMBG - No!

- immortal lee country killers - love is a charm of powerful trouble
- the Thrills - So Much For The City
- Strokes - Room On Fire
- Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take Them On, On Your Own