DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003
2003, what a year...
It's nearly over, but not 'til every publication has put together a chart. And why should we be any different? Here's our staff voted summary of the records which meant something and everything in 2003.
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Radiohead Hail to the Thief
The Darkness Permission to Land
Cat Power You Are Free
Blood Brothers Burn Piano Island, Burn
Muse Absolution
Fountains Of Wayne Welcome Interstate Managers
Funeral For A Friend Casually Dressed and in Deep Conversation
Zwan Mary Star of the Sea
Hell Is For Heroes The Neon Handshake
Elbow Cast of Thousands
Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People
Outkast Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
Mars Volta De-loused in the Comatorium
Hot Hot Heat Make up the Breakdown
White Stripes Elephant
Dizzee Rascal Boy in Da Corner
Jane’s Addiction Strays
Deftones Deftones
Mew Frengers
Evan Dando Baby I’m Bored
Strokes Room on Fire
The Distillers Coral Fang
Goldfrapp Black Cherry
Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things
Silver Mt Zion This is our punk rock: thee rusted satellites gather + sing
Twilight Singers Blackberry Belle
Broken Family Band Cold Water Songs
Biffy Clyro The Vertigo of Bliss
Oceansize Effloresce
British Sea Power The Decline Of..
Stellastarr Stellastarr
Pretty Girls Make Graves The New Romance
Dandy Warhols Welcome to the Monkey House
Alkaline Trio Good Mourning
Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque
UNKLE Never Never Land
Snow Patrol The Final Straw
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell
Broken Social Scene You Forgot it in People
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step
My Morning Jacket It Stll Moves
King Geedorah Take Me to Your Leader
Blur Think Tank
Postal Service Give Up
Girls Aloud Sound of the Underground
Rapture Echoes
Metallica St. Anger
Cooper Temple Clause Kick Up The Fire and Let The Flames Break Loose
Aereogramme Sleep and Release
Brand New Deja Entendu
Rufus Wainwright Want One
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow On Import. UK Release March 2004
Distophia Soda Lake
Hidden Cameras The Smell of Our Own
Azure Ray Hold on Love
Four Tet Rounds
Belle And Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Billy Talent Billy Talent
B Movie Heroes Anthems for the Underdog
Ani DiFranco Evolve
Magnet On Your Side
Warlocks Phoenix
Desert Sessions Volumes 9 & 10
Clearlake Cedars
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Take them on, on Your Own
Sole Selling live Water
Meanwhile, Back In Communist Russia My Elixir: My Poison
Jetplane Landing Once like a Spark
Super Furry Animals Phantom Power
Adam Green Friends of Mine
Thursday War all the Time
Peaches Fatherfucker
The Kills Keep on your Mean Side
Adult Anxiety Always
The Science Bit...
This chart was compiled from the votes of our staff, who chose their top 20 albums of the year, with number 1 scoring 20 points and number 20 scoring 1 point. There was a two vote minimum to get into the chart. Radiohead scored nearly 200 points.
Some of these records are missing reviews. Reviews will appear on the site in the coming weeks.
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DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003
Not very *exciting* I grant you, but a wonderful album nonetheless!!
mew, stellastarr* and PGMG should be higher too!
in my humble..
sp
DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003
8. Zwan Mary Star of the Sea?
and I though "hmmmm". then I saw...
47. Metallica St. Anger
and I said "I quit"
bunch of wrong 'uns
DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003
I take it that there will be slating of the imminent NME Album Poll then. After all, how can you slate anybody else's poll for being 'old' when you put a 1970's rock covers band at Number 2?
I hear Mike Oldfield's still recording...
DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003
were they this year?
sp
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" take it that there will be slating of the imminent NME Album Poll then. After all, how can you slate anybody else's poll for being 'old' when you put a 1970's rock covers band at Number 2?
I hear Mike Oldfield's still recording..."
I apologise for any bullshit contained within.
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I did look confusedly at Zwan and Hell is For Heroes and Elbow too for that matter, getting quite so high. Then again, Distillers, Strokes and White Stripes all did oddly well...
We're going to be doing a few other runs downs of the year which should go someway to giving a personal and collective view of the year.
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Did Q and not U have an album out this year?
DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003
DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003
maybe the mechanics weren'y entirely appropriate, seeings as it seems to reward the albums that have been most heard, as opposed to most loved
maybe cutting down the number of votes per person would make it more representative?
DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003
The Zephyrs - A Year To The Day (Setanta)
Quante Jubila – Quante Musica (Play)
William E Whitmore – Hymns For The Hopeless (Southern)
Saian Super Crew – X Raisons (Source)
Bitmap – Alpha Beta Gamma (General Electric)
but ain't that what makes music so ace? There's so much out there. If you read this site, and other media, then hopefully you're interested in finding new music that's out there waiting to snog you mercilessly. The DiS chart is only a snapshot of some of those artists and you gotta remember there's around 160 records released every week in the UK. Multiply that by 52, and also take into account all the DIY and Import releases - that's a lot of class out there. The great thing about this sorta stuff is that any chart like this is only a starting point to being led in the direction of stuff personally I didn't know about before innit so I'm up for being enlightened, ain't that what makes anyone get outa bed in the morning (and back into bed at night for more filthy fun)
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nobody complained last year.
nobody that wasn't a fucking dick anyway.
DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003
DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003
One of my top albums of the year. I guess if you didn't review it, you can't put it in?
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Incidentally, check out www.metacritic and their section on music, and you can find out what the average of all reviews for a fair few albums (reviews from UK and US iirc) and find the top lot an' all that. Led Zeppelin top? Well well well...
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Don't think the pr people even sent us the last single - tho i might be wrong.
The album isn't as good as the first record they did themselves (with most of the same songs on)
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DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003
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Also, I know it's not really DiS but I'd have stuck the Mastodon album somewhere near the top. I know it was released last year but it was re-released about a month ago with the obligatory bonus track and a rather excellent live DVD which pisses all over Linkin Park.
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2. Cat Power - You Are Free
3. Dandy Warhols - Welcome to the Monkeyhouse
4. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
5. Azure Ray - Hold on Love
6. Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
7. Magnet - On Your Side
8. Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia - My Elixir; My Poison
9. The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg - Everyones in love and flowers pick themselves
10. Muse - Absolution
11. Elbow - Cast of Thousands
12. The Warlocks - Pheonix
13. Arab Strap - Monday at the Hug and Pint
14. Cooper Temple Clause - Kick Up the Fires...
15. Biffy Clyro - Vertigo of Bliss
16. Maximilian Hecker - Rose
17. Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
18. The Rapture - Echoes
19. Jetplane Landing - Once like a Spark
20. Spiritualized - Amazing Grace
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DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003
AEREOGRAMME sleep and release
BRAND NEW deja entendu
EVAN DANDO baby i'm bored
DISTILLERS coral fang
MEW frengers
The one's that didn't make it...
CANYON empty rooms
LIMBECK hi, everything's great
MILLION DEAD a song to ruin
MULL HISTORICAL SOCIETY us
PERNICE BROS yours mine and ours
SIMPLE KID #1
SLEEPY JACKSON lovers
SPITALFIELD remember right now
and I compiled the list
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1. Why? - Oaklandazulasylum
2. King Geedorah - Take Me To Your Leader
3. The Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island, Burn
4. Sixtoo - Antagonist Survival Kit
5. Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
6. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
7. Cat Power - You are Free
8. A Silver Mt. Zion - The Rusted Satallites Gather and Sing - This
is our Punk Rock
9. Brother Ali - Shadows On the Sun
10. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
11. Aerogramme - Sleep and Release
12. Sole - Selling Live Water
13. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
14. The Locust - Plague Soundscapes
15. Non-Prophets - Hope
16. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
17. Tes - X2
18. Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
19. Girls Aloud - Sound of the Underground
20. Buck 65 - Talkin' Honky Blues
DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003
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The main problem I have with 'hacks' like you is you just lambast other people without provocation and then act in this holier-than-thou sense that, because you work 'within in industry' or whatever you like to call it, your opinions are somehow more valid. They're as valid as everyone else's - music is all about taste, and you can only say what you like. You can't say there's a 'fact' that any album is good or bad, even if it's agreed by popular concensus. Just remember it's all about opinions, friend. Now if you're analysing the music in terms of technicality and skill and actual innovation in music - you're talking about something away from the simple in terms of rhythm, tone, harmony, all that shit. If you've got, say, a music degree, I'll sit back and take all the crap you want to throw at me for not being indier-than-thou. Just because you've seen a lot of gigs and listened to a lot of albums does not make your opinion more valid than practically anyone. It only makes your taste more definite, you know what you like. That's fair enough, but it still doesn't really give you the right to lay into other people that bad and talk about 'facts', especially when it's saying one band are better. The Darkness - fair enough if you like them, but there are no facts that they are better or worse than Radiohead. You like something rocky? Fine, but it doesn't give you any right to say it's better than any other style of music.
You've dug yourself a nice little hole there. Now sit down in it while we fill it in, please.
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DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003
List.
Ever.
me albums
2. youthmovie soundtrack strategies
3. adam green
4. hot hot heat
5. the broken family band
6. british sea power
7. the kills
8. stellastarr*
9. hidden cameras
10. girls aloud
11. death cab for cutie
12. snow patrol
13. the strokes
14. clearlake
15. chris clark
16. the robocop kraus
17. jetplane landing
18. the darkness
19. the weakerthans
20. biffy clyro
Re: me albums
Funeral
Tallica
Blood Bros
Darkness
HifH
DMX
Oceansize
Dizzy
Deftones
Alkalines
Tricky
some others which are so good that I've forgotten about them
mwah mwah
Re: me albums
i forgot Plans & Apologies and X Is Greater Than Y. thought those came out in 2002. I WANT TO CHANGE MY LIST.
Re: me albums
i forgot Belle & Sebastian. ARSE!
DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003
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i dont know how you people find the time to chase your own tails with arguements that can clearly never be resolved because it all comes down to your own opinions and tastes. You're never going to agree so... like.. getoverit.
KPx
Re: me albums
Oceansize
The Faint
Blood Brothers
The Darkness
The Gossip
The Mars Volta
Marilyn Manson
Minus
Explosions In The Sky
Hot Hot Heat
Biffy Clyro
Kinesis
Mew
Peaches
Jet
The Postal Service
Cat Power
Nina Nastisia
Audioslave
Aereogramme
KPxx

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