Top Records of 2003

[Stuci Firme]

that's right kids

my rough list.. in no particular order...

-i will be editting this as a remember-

Rockets Red Glare - Moonlight Desires
The WPP - He Has the Technology
Wax Mannequin - The Price
People Like Us and Kenny G - Nothing Special
The Postal Service - Give Up
Damien Jurardo - Rehearsals for Departue
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Raindow
Grandaddy - Sumday
The Darkness - Permission to Land
The Deadly Snakes - Ode to Joy
Rachel's - System/Layers
Joel Plaskett - Truthfully, Truthfully

[Roju]

Grandaddy - Sumday
The Metric - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
The Hand (unreleased.. spandex spandex spandex!)
The Unicorns- Who will cut our hair when we're gone?
The Sounds - Living in America
The Strokes - Room on Fire

[Dustin]

My non-official/off the top of my head list:

The Mars Volta - De-loused
Radiohead - Hail to the Theif
The Postal Service - Give Up
Between the Buried and Me - The Silent Circus
Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn
Extol - Synergy
Opeth - Damnation
Moneen - Are We Really Happy...
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance

[jonnyvaliddddd]

in absolutely AN order!

(man, jonny is such an obscure candy-ass because he mentions himself in his posts)

top four:
DO MAKE SAY THINK- WINTER HYMN YOU KNOW THE NAME...THE POINT IS, THE RECORD IS AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL!
prefuse 73 - extinguished
the strokes - room on fire
msn conversations

[josiah2003]

these list seems a tad premature, since the new kown comes out on tuesday, but i digress...

top twenty records of 2003:

20. Soul Position - 1, 000, 000 Stories
19. Single Frame - Wetheads Come Running
18. Cyan and Ben - Spring
17. The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band with Choir - This Is Our Punk Rock, Thee Rusted Sattelites Gather + Sing
16. Diverse - One A.M.
15. Sufjan Stevens - Welsome to Michigan, the Great Lake State
14. MF Doom as Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
13. The Rapture - Echoes
12. The Books - The Lemon of Pink
11. Justin Timberlake - Justified
10. The Strokes - Room On Fire
9. Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
8. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
7. Four Tet - Rounds
6. Jay-Z - The Black Album
5. King Geedorah - Take Me To Your Leader
4. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
3. Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn, Country Hymn, Secret Hymn
2. The Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island, Burn
1. Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow

Runners up:
Set Fire to Flames - Telegraphs in Negative / Mouths Trapped in Static
Painted Youth - demo
Go It Alone - demo
Dangermouse and Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life
BEyonce feat. Jay-Z - Crazy in Love single

The new WPP isn't out yet...it'll be on next year's list.

Everyone, put some effort into your lists!

[arrrrghjosiah]

man, i made some spelling mistakes that i can't fix...shit, that's gonna drive me nuts.


kown should say korn. there's other mistakes too.


shit.

[bruce]

my top 10:

1. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
2. The Hand - Ooh, look at me, I'm the Hand
3. The Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island, Burn
4. Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
5. Jay-Z - The Black Album
6. Young & Sexy - Life Through One Speaker
7. Metric - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
8. Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn, Country Hymn, Secret Hymn
9. The New Pornographers - Electric Version
10. The Strokes - Room on Fire

Runners Up:
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Cyann and Ben - Spring
Diverse - One AM
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Polysics - Neu
Hanged Up - Kicker in Tow

[forsythe p. jones]

1. Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
2. The Hand - Total Fags on Ice
3. Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
4. The Strokes - Room on Fire
5. Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
6. The Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn
7. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
8. Metric - Old World Underground, Where Are You?
9. Jay-z - Black Album
10. Weird Al Yankovic - Poodle Hat

Runners up:
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band with Choir - This is Our Punk Rock...
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Andrew WK - The Wolf
Justin Timberlake - Justified
Diverse - One AM

[Jonny]

i screwed up.

my two favourites are this:
prefuse 73 - one word extinguisher (not extinguished)
do make say think - winter hymn dude

also...whoa holy spit! thanks dudes for adding the hand! i feel like a magician.

[Dustin]

I think that was the same list 3 times in a row in a different order. You guys don't hang out together a lot do you?

[jason.]

in no particular order:

-mono-one step more and you die
-four tet- rounds
-death cab for cutie- transatlantacism
-the deadly snakes -ode to joy
( shout out to andrew gunn, call me)
-and you will know us by the trail of dead-secret of elenas tomb
-the postal service- give up
-rusty santos-outside versus in
-the bronx- bats bats bats e.p
-on!air!library!- a lifetime or more
-explosions in the sky - the earth is not a cold dead place
-jonny greenwood-bodysong
-david cross-shut up you fucking baby!

i agree with dustin: c'mon guys, stop copying pitchfork media best of 2003 list. www.pitchforkmedia.com/best/

[bruce]

i agree with myself.

[josiahhh]

hmm, jason, doesn't stu have some of those cds from your list on his?

who gives a shit.


pitchforkmedia doesn't even have a best of 2003 yet.


everyone - just make a fucking list and don't insert your dumb opinions.

[Stuci Firme]

go home everyone

GO HOME



i think i need to get some sleep

[carissa]

Guest-josiahhh said:

everyone - just make a fucking list and don't insert your dumb opinions.

good suggestion. now maybe you should take your own advice.