Best Albums of 2003

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Yeah, I know its almost March but it took a while to get this website up and running. Here's my list of best/worst albums for 2003. The order and listing of these albums might have changed slightly since January but here's the original list (for the sake of posterity).

Top 2003 List (Tentative)

  • 1. Postal Service- Give Up
  • 2. Broken Social Scene- You Forget It In People
  • 3. Radiohead- Hail to the Thief
  • 4. The Thermals- More Parts Per Million
  • 5. Death Cab For Cutie- Transatlanticism
  • 6. Lucinda Williams- World Without Tears
  • 7. Her Space Holiday- The Young Machines
  • 8. Four Tet- Rounds
  • 9. Xiu Xiu- A Promise
  • 10. Enon- Hocus Pocus
  • Runners Up

  • Pinback- Offcell EP
  • Stereolab- Instant 0 In the Universe EP
  • Lali Puna- Left-Handed EP
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Fever To Tell
  • Yo La Tengo- Summer Sun
  • Outkast- Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
  • Explosions In the Sky- The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
  • White Stripes- Elephant
  • The Long Winters- When I Pretend To Fall
  • American Analog Set- Promise of Love
  • Honorable Mention
  • Ween- Quebec
  • Kingsbury Manx- Afternoon Owls
  • The Microphones- Mount Eerie
  • Wrens- Meadowlands
  • Crooked Finger- Red Devil Dawn
  • Grandaddy- Sumday
  • Most Disappointing Albums
  • Folk Imposion- The New Folk Implosion
  • Kraftwerk- Tour de France Soundtracks
  • -Ick!