Parallax View Top 40 Albums of 2003
It's time to put the micrometers and slide-rules away and deliver my wildly subjective verdict on the essential long-players of 2003. So step into my official Top 40, baby...
1. Fever To Tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2. Get Rich Or Die Tryin' - 50 Cent
3. Room On Fire - The Strokes
4. Kish Kash - Basement Jaxx
5. Elephant - The White Stripes
6. More Parts Per Million - The Thermals
7. Sumday - Grandaddy
8. High Dive - Maria McKee
9. Take Them On, On Your Own - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
10. Baby I'm Bored - Evan Dando
11. Rounds - Four Tet
12. Feast Of Wire - Calexico
13. Hail To The Thief - Radiohead
14. The Evening Of My Best Day - Rickie Lee Jones
15. Deliverance - Bubba Sparxxx
16. Gallowsbird's Bark - The Fiery Furnaces
17. You Are Free - Cat Power
18. Youth And Young Manhood - Kings Of Leon
19. Unrest - Erlend Oye
20. American Life - Madonna
21. Killings From The Dial - Medium 21
22. This Is Not A Test - Missy Elliott
23. Phoenix - The Warlocks
24. Echoes - The Rapture
25. Mary Star Of The Sea - Zwan
26. The Real New Fall LP (formerly Country On The Click) - The Fall
27. Dear Catastrophe Waitress - Belle and Sebastian
28. Nocturama - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
29. Absolution - Muse
30. Boy In Da Corner - Dizzee Rascal
31. Coral Fang - The Distillers
32. Summer Sun - Yo La Tengo
33. Twist - Goldfrapp
34. If We Meet In The Future - Saloon
35. Underachievers, Please Try Harder - Camera Obscura
36. Quixotic - Martina Topley-Bird
37. Chain Gang Of Love - The Raveonettes
38. Vulnerable - Tricky
39. Underneath The Stars - Kate Rusby
40. Beauty Party - The Majesticons
Lots of strength in depth during 2003, then, but a year pitifully short of genuine out-and-out classics. Yeah Yeah Yeahs get the #1 slot for an album that took influences from the past but used them to fashion their own modern and unique sound, plus they had the best singing; the best guitar-playing and the smartest attitude of the Class of 03. Sometimes, it's that simple.
Related: James from ChaChaCha has uploaded mp3s (for a limited period only) of his ten favourite songs of 2003. Artists include Outkast; Mogwai; !!! and The Postal Service. Download 'em while you can, and be sure to say thanks.
It's time to put the micrometers and slide-rules away and deliver my wildly subjective verdict on the essential long-players of 2003. So step into my official Top 40, baby...
1. Fever To Tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2. Get Rich Or Die Tryin' - 50 Cent
3. Room On Fire - The Strokes
4. Kish Kash - Basement Jaxx
5. Elephant - The White Stripes
6. More Parts Per Million - The Thermals
7. Sumday - Grandaddy
8. High Dive - Maria McKee
9. Take Them On, On Your Own - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
10. Baby I'm Bored - Evan Dando
11. Rounds - Four Tet
12. Feast Of Wire - Calexico
13. Hail To The Thief - Radiohead
14. The Evening Of My Best Day - Rickie Lee Jones
15. Deliverance - Bubba Sparxxx
16. Gallowsbird's Bark - The Fiery Furnaces
17. You Are Free - Cat Power
18. Youth And Young Manhood - Kings Of Leon
19. Unrest - Erlend Oye
20. American Life - Madonna
21. Killings From The Dial - Medium 21
22. This Is Not A Test - Missy Elliott
23. Phoenix - The Warlocks
24. Echoes - The Rapture
25. Mary Star Of The Sea - Zwan
26. The Real New Fall LP (formerly Country On The Click) - The Fall
27. Dear Catastrophe Waitress - Belle and Sebastian
28. Nocturama - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
29. Absolution - Muse
30. Boy In Da Corner - Dizzee Rascal
31. Coral Fang - The Distillers
32. Summer Sun - Yo La Tengo
33. Twist - Goldfrapp
34. If We Meet In The Future - Saloon
35. Underachievers, Please Try Harder - Camera Obscura
36. Quixotic - Martina Topley-Bird
37. Chain Gang Of Love - The Raveonettes
38. Vulnerable - Tricky
39. Underneath The Stars - Kate Rusby
40. Beauty Party - The Majesticons
Lots of strength in depth during 2003, then, but a year pitifully short of genuine out-and-out classics. Yeah Yeah Yeahs get the #1 slot for an album that took influences from the past but used them to fashion their own modern and unique sound, plus they had the best singing; the best guitar-playing and the smartest attitude of the Class of 03. Sometimes, it's that simple.
Related: James from ChaChaCha has uploaded mp3s (for a limited period only) of his ten favourite songs of 2003. Artists include Outkast; Mogwai; !!! and The Postal Service. Download 'em while you can, and be sure to say thanks.
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