best albums of 2003

rodeo-terrorist

its a bit early I know but I've been away for the last six months and I'm juts wondering what my compatriots are listening to. Music buying has been difficult out here so tell me what I should be consuming.

Tyrrial

Snow Patrol - Final Straw

great album. the bands best yet.

acquiescefc

White Stripes - Elephant
Lipstick Traces - Manics
giveamanakick- giveamanakick

Cant think of owt else

Giblet

Hail To The Thief.

iornman

white stripes - elephant

Saint-dotsie

mogwai-happy songs for happy people
steely dan- everything must go

Eyeliner__Boy

Fischerspooner- No.1
Ladytron- Light & Magic
Muse- Absolution
Manics- Lipstick Traces
Placebo- Sleeping With Ghosts

Cherry

Hail to the Thief`
Elephant
Black Cherry

Engulfophobia_m

ulrich schnauss- a strangely isolated place
broadcast- haha sound
shack- heres tom with the weather
ride- waves (bbc sessions)
frank black- show me your tears

Daylight

Excellent call on the Shack album. Another genius record from the Head brothers!

dregin

Not to bitch, but is the giveamanakick album not called "is it ok to be loud, Jesus" ? Anyway yes it rules.

Berkeley also. "Hope prayers and bubblegum".

Dregin

lamda

Hmmm lack of funds has meant scarily few new albums have been bought by lamda this year.... so I can only offer a couple..
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
Hot Hot Heat - Make Up The Breakdown
Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights ( was that this year?)

Eh cant think of any more.. how pathetic

tenaciousdave

a few of my favourites have been

Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning
Janes Addiction - Strays

Looking forward to
John Mayer - Heavier Things
Andrew WK - Wolf

and hopefully a new Ryan Adams

Ro: maaan!

The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium

The Frames - Set List

Kali

Interpols release was last year.

I'd go with:

M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts... absolutely amazing album, and one I'll still be going "whoa" with in a couple of years time.

Logh - Everytime a Bell Rings An Angel Gets Its Wings

Deerhoof - Apple O

Four Tet - Rounds

and I'd echo Ulrich Schnauss' latest release.. good call Engulfophobia (missed him on Friday night!! arghh!!)

acquiescefc

Not to bitch, but is the giveamanakick album not called "is it ok to be loud, Jesus" ? Anyway yes it rules.

I stand corrected, was racking brain trying to think of new albums...forgot it had a name.

Was gonna say Berkeley (of course) but thought it came out last year...seems like its been out ages.

'Follow through' is getting annoyingly addictive.

Hail to the Thief also....if its given a chance to get into your head..and seeing them twice already helps.

Dreg, ill send you those pics of the band if you got space in your mail. let me know

R

sodiumlightbaby

Originally posted by Eyeliner__Boy
Fischerspooner- No.1
Ladytron- Light & Magic
Muse- Absolution
Manics- Lipstick Traces
Placebo- Sleeping With Ghosts

Fischerspooner and Ladytron...good call but fischerspooner was last year wasnt it ? Placebo's new one is boring...shame coz the last one was crap too...tink they've passed their sell by date

Mine would be ;

Siouxsie & the banshees - seven year itch live
Kraftwerk - tour de france soundtracks
Hot Hot Heat - make up the breakdown
The Cure - Trilogy live in berlin DVD
Colder - Alone (i think its called)
Supergrass- life on other planets (this year?)
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Ladytron - Light & magic (best band at witness!)

T.B.L.

Hail to the Thief
and hopefully elbows' Cast of thousands

www.beautifullosers.info

Eyeliner__Boy

Originally posted by sodiumlightbaby
Placebo's new one is boring...shame coz the last one was crap too...tink they've passed their sell by date

Ha! How can you say that, and acknowledge Supergrass as creating one of the albums of the year? If anyone's past their sell by date, it's them..........their mind-numbingly boring retro indie ****e belongs in the brit pop summer of 95 with cast, blur and the rest of that other crap....


I got the Fischerspooner album in march (I think they re-released it in february with a bonus cd and an additional booklet), so i suppose it constitutes being released this year




****this post has been edited for reasons of smugness****

memaeve

I'd go with the66electric's "I died in a Movie", even though it's an EP, it definitely deserves a mention!
Also,
Future Kings Of Spain's debut. (What an album!!)
Turn: "Forward"
Fairuza's mini-album: "Beautiful"
Berkeley: "Hope, Prayers and Bubblegum", but I'm pretty sure that was last year.

dregin

The Berkeley album appeared on the Supremo Recordings website late last year but it was officially released on February 19th of this year.
Aquiesce: Yeah will you send me those pics. Dunno what happened last time. Cheers.

Dregin

spoiltbrat

Future Kings of Spain - Nothing short of excellent.

Berkeley - Hope, Prayers... (although it sounds like it was recorded up Albini's ass)

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (for the last 3 songs)

Turn - Forward (great but ruined by the fact I'd heard every song 6-billion times before it came out)

Interpol - Turn on... (I know it was last year but I only really heard about them this year and it has to be mentioned)

High percentage of Irish acts in everyones lists - which is good no?

sodiumlightbaby

Originally posted by Eyeliner__Boy
Ha! How can you say that, and acknowledge Supergrass as creating one of the albums of the year? If anyone's past their sell by date, it's them..........their mind-numbingly boring retro indie ****e belongs in the brit pop summer of 95 with cast, blur and the rest of that other crap....


I got the Fischerspooner album in march (I think they re-released it in february with a bonus cd and an additional booklet), so i suppose it constitutes being released this year

Supergrass are simply great songwriters, uncomparable to Cast, and other britpop drivel of the 90's. They are quite obviously influenced by late 70's punk/80's new wave, and that's why they're good...one song on that new album could have been lifted straight from the Stranglers back catalogue and another from the jam. I do like Placebo, they were stunning in the Olympia a few years ago promoting "wiithout you i'n nothing" but I just feel they have offered nothing interesting since that album...his pervy schoolboy lyrics are becoming laughable

Oh and how could I forget ...the best album of 2003 so far has to be GOLDFRAPP - BLACK CHERRY, simply superb.

p.pete

hail to the thief

Daylight

Future Kings of Spain - WOW!
Shack - Here's Tom With the Weather
Four Tet - Rounds
Brendon Benson - LaPalco (ok so it's last year but what an album)
Hot Hot Heat - Make Up The Breakdown
The Roots - Phrenology

Amnesiac

hail to the thief...just to be different!

Achille

it's too early in the year for me to be thinking properly about best albums,
and it's too late in the day for me to bothered thinking much about it, so...

Hail to the Thief. Definitely.
Turin Brakes - Ether Song
Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry (even though I havn't bought my own copy yet!)
Air/Baricco - City Reading
Royksopp - Melody AM (was that this year or last year?)

thats all you're getting without paying another 2 Euro.

rodeo-terrorist

thanks guys will be heading to the only decent record store in Singapore to spend a few dollars on the list you've given - very excited about this ladytron band, but I think I'll have to wait still I return in September for the Snow Patrol disc.

all together now...

LA LA LA LA LA LA

p.pete

Think Royksopp was last year (pretty sure) but damn good album all the same:D

Tyrrial

Originally posted by rodeo-terrorist
I think I'll have to wait till I return in September for the Snow Patrol disc.

you'd better!

Duffman

Frames - Set List is excellent imho...