Thursday, May 27, 2004

2003 Revisited

Now that Fantasia Barrino has captured the 2004 American Idol crown, it's time to look back to 2003 and begin reconsidering the top 10 albums list from that year. (To refresh your memory, the old list is on the sidebar.) Below is a list of all the albums of new material (no greatest hits or live albums) that came out in 2003 and have, so far, made it onto my CD rack. It's only 41 albums, so picking 10 or so to honor as the best shouldn't be hard, right? Albums that I didn't have when I made the list are in italics. But before I narrow the list, I'd like you to tell me what albums from 2003 I'm missing. It's never too late to consider one more great album.

A Mighty Wind: The Album
Ryan Adams: Love is Hell (Pt. 1 + 2)
Ryan Adams: Rock N Roll
Clay Aiken: Measure of a Man
Belle & Sebastian: Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Death Cab For Cutie: Transatlanticism
Dido: Life for Rent
Kathleen Edwards: Failer
Everclear: Slow Motion Daydream
Flaming Lips: Fight Test
Fleetwood Mac: Say You Will
Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers
Guster: Keep It Together
Jayhawks: Rainy Day Music
The Jealous Sound: Kill Them With Kindness
Jet: Get Born
Annie Lennox: Bare
John Mayer: Heavier Things
The Minus 5: Down With Wilco
New Pornographers: Electric Version
OutKast: Speakerboxx/The Love Below
Liz Phair: Liz Phair
The Postal Service: Give Up
Radiohead: Hail to the Thief
Rooney: Rooney
The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow
Spymob: Sitting Around Keeping Score
Sting: Sacred Love
The Strokes: Room on Fire
Matthew Sweet: Kimi Ga Suki * Raifu (Japan-only album)
The Thorns: The Thorns
The Thrills: So Much for the City
Train: My Private Nation
Travis: 12 Memories
Rufus Wainwright: Want One
White Stripes: Elephant
Lucinda Williams: World Without Tears
Robbie Williams: Escapology (US)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell
Pete Yorn: Day I Forgot
Zwan: Mary, Star of the Sea

2 comments:

Richard said...

Yeah, you're back. I wish you had suggested an album here!

Richard said...

You have Hail to the Thief; I was with you when you bought it. And you certainly know what I have from 2003 now, since this post is just a list of all the albums from 2003 that I own. If you'd like my freakish spreadsheet of every CD I own, you're welcome to it.