Best CDs of THIS year

I like a lot of Jackonicko's. In addition:

White Stripes - Elephant
Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
Jane's Addiction - Strays
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

A lot of other stuff that is "new" may have come out last year, I have
to check (stuff like Interpol).

As to the "irony", that is about as ironic as "rain on your wedding day".
It only stands to reason that the best music of the last 5 decades (or more)
would far outweigh the best music of today. I mean, the shear volume of
music released is so much greater, never mind the quality of music today.
Speaking of which, the music biz today is so different than what it once was. Far too much control in too few hands (3-4 big labels, Clear Channel, MTV).
I'm amazed when a band like White Stripes can break out in this
environment.

According to allmusic, The Music "The Music" was released in the
States this February (earlier in the UK). I really like that album as
well.

Well, I'm in the US, so it is a "this years" for me.

(I could also pull a Clinton and say it depends on what the definition
of "THIS" is. If "this year" means 365.25 days, then it would
even count over your way since it came out over there in
September. )

Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea

Warren Zevon: The Wind

This guy is dying and he puts out an album of covers as his goodbye. This sucker is going to win a grammy. The way he sings and teh songs he picks and knowing the backstory would make the toughest man cry.

well, i'd have to agree with a few already posted:

hail to the thief
how the west was won
de-loused in the comatorium

but i'd like to add a cd that i *think* just came out recently, or rather a 2-disc set.

bob marley and the wailers live at the roxy... i can't remember the date.

the first disc of this set was released as the bonus disc with the deluxe edition of rastaman vibration, which may be last year or not. the second disc has some other stuff that i haven't heard yet, but i'm sure it's excellent.

as usual, there's bound to be something i forgot that is better than everything i remembered...

edit: i type faster than my brain can spell-check...

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: 'Take Them On, On Your Own'

I must add a couple more...just got them this week..

spritualised...amazing grace
kings of leon.....youth and young manhood

ones that i have only heard a few from bit seems good..

the waifs
thea gilmore

still waiting for the starsailor album...out on monday

The All American Rejects - The All American Rejects
The Ataris - So Long Astoria
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
DNTEL - Life is Full of Possibilities
Face to Face - How to Ruin Everything
Good Charlotte - The Young and the Hopeless
The Get Up Kids - On a Wire
The New Amsterdams - Worse for the Wear
The Postal Service - Give Up
Relient K - Two Lefts don't make a Right, but Three Do
Switchfoot - The Beautiful Letdown
Unwritten Law - Elva

Zwan?

corgan needs to retire. how desperately is he trying to make a comeback. Pumpkins are dead, face the facts. He's trying to top what the pumpkins did - not possible.

I say: retire the mic, your career is done.

At first I was disappointed with Front 242's new release, "Pulse", but it has grown on me. Thinking about it, it was over 15 years ago that I was disgusted with 242, but eventually found myself a big fan. Sometimes the best music has to win you over.

Second place hit me right off, no growing needed: The White Stripes' Elephant.

Hail to the Theif is great & all, but there's not much new there, basically just another Radiohead album.

Thursday - war all the time
Comeback kid - in a year
mars volta - de-loused in the comatorium
Give up the ghost - down till we're underground
marilyn manson - golden age of grotesque

biggest dissapointments:
perfect circle - 13th step
radiohead - hail to the theif

My pennyworth...

Starsailor "Silence is Easy"...even better than their first one

Feeder "Comfort in sound"...awesome...once again

Longview "Mercury"....coldplay eat your heart out...(as an aside, it seems that most music sites have confused this band's album with some American bluegrass band...he, he)

The new one by spiritualised (not at home now and cannot remember the title..

Cheers,

Paul

Billy Talent - Billy Talent !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

REALITY - David Bowie

As a fan of Dave Matthews I was awaiting the release of his solo album, "Some Devil", with some anticipation and a degree of apprehension (I heard the songs on the album were ones the rest of the band didn't like).
But having had a copy arrive today from the US (thanks Chris, xx) and having listened to it this evening, I can say that I am not disappointed.
A departure from the usual Dave Matthews Band songs, in that it is more laid back and mellow than some of his band stuff.
I think this is an album that will be getting plenty of iPod time.
Beats me why he is not bigger over here in the UK.

Muse - Absolution
Radiohead - HTTT
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
The Mars Volta - De-Loused ...
Grandaddy - Sumday
The Darkness - Permission to Land

Surprised I hadn't seen Muse yet. Mogwai, Radiohead and Grandaddy's albums came out the same day...

So many here I don't know, time to check them out!

Originally posted by MadPict
As a fan of Dave Matthews I was awaiting the release of his solo album, "Some Devil", with some anticipation and a degree of apprehension (I heard the songs on the album were ones the rest of the band didn't like).
But having had a copy arrive today from the US (thanks Chris, xx) and having listened to it this evening, I can say that I am not disappointed.
A departure from the usual Dave Matthews Band songs, in that it is more laid back and mellow than some of his band stuff.
I think this is an album that will be getting plenty of iPod time.
Beats me why he is not bigger over here in the UK.

I agree I really like Dave's solo album, It has been in the frequently played list for awhile now. I hope Dave continues with his solo projects.

Best CD's of 2003:
Dave Matthews-Some Devil
Howie Day-Stop the World Now
and believe it or not, I am not joking
Hootie and the Blowfish-Hootie and the Blowfish(self-titled). Its really good stuff. I saw some reviews on Amazon that said it rocked and I didn't believe, until I got it the other day. Wow.

Someone just posted it, and I know it just came out, and there are plenty of other great albums released this year...but

Howie Day's "Stop All the World Now"

would be at at least in the top 5 of my favorite new albums to have come out in the past few years even, not just this year.

What's crazy is that his albums are unbelieveable, but he's like 10X better live. If I could find more high quality live performance stuff of his I'd load up my ipod as fast as could be.

Originally posted by an0therdumbsn
Thursday - war all the time
Comeback kid - in a year
mars volta - de-loused in the comatorium
Give up the ghost - down till we're underground
marilyn manson - golden age of grotesque

biggest dissapointments:
perfect circle - 13th step
radiohead - hail to the theif

A perfect circle album..

amazing.

good charlotte - young and the hopeless
bob marley and the wailers - legend
fountains of wayne - wutever the latest one is
american hi-fi - art of losing
barenaked ladies - latest cd
bowling for soup
relient k

You only need to look into my sig....

But as for the definitive 'best', 13th step indeed, that CD is magic.

Blink 182- Blink 182 (new album that comes out November 18!)
Ataris- So long, Astoria
etc...

Only saw this mentioned once:
Damien Rice, O
Third Eye Blind, Out of the Vein. (a bit of a dissapointment, but still good)
Pete Yorn, Day I Forgot. (also a little dissapointing, but still good)

My favorite CDs of the year are...

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (THE number one CD of the year in my mind)
The Mars Volta - De-Loused In the Comatorium
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Dave Matthews - Some Devil

Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Erin McKeown - Grand

rem-best of

christina auguilera-stripped

michael jackson-number 1's

My 3 so far:

The Strokes: Room on Fire
JET: Get Born
Billy Talent: Billy Talent

The best thing was, they were all surprises (for me).

Strokes - Room on Fire
Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
Coldplay - Rush of blood to the head
Jack Johnson - On and On

I just didn't buy that much new music in 2003...

Amazon's editors list is surprisingly decent every year. This is the first year I think that I've heard all top 5 before the list came out.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/4038621/002-1556909-1672021

well then compare it to the customers list:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/3947101/ref=m_best_1_2/103-5868604-4923041

Originally posted by huggies
well then compare it to the customers list:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/3947101/ref=m_best_1_2/103-5868604-4923041

That's really, really, REALLY...sad

OK, now that the year is winding down and the new releases are all
out for christmas, it is time to take all these great albums we've been talking about since august or whenever and rank them. So, i give you my top 20 albums of 2003, in order:

1) White Stripes - Elephant
This is just a great, great classic album. One I'll still be playing in 5, 10, even 20 years.
2) BRMC - Take Them On, On Your Own
3) Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll
I had a hard time with it the first time I heard it, but now that I'm over the shock of Mr. alt.country making an 80s alt-rock album, I LIKE it.
4) Strokes - Room on Fire
5) Mars Volta - Deloused in Comatorium
Wow. Mellotron. Prog-rock. Loud.
6) Jet - Get Born
On an average year, this would've been a number one album for me.
7) Jane's Addiction - Strays
They're back!
8) The Music - The Music
Amazing album. Yeah, i know this was released overseas in 2002, but didn't get released in the US till this year and I spent the months listening to this before most of these other ones came out. If this had come out in the last two or three months it might likely have been in my top 5.
9) Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - Fever To Tell
10) Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
11) The Darkness - Permission To Land
12) The Thrills - So Much For the City
13) Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood
14) Johnny Marr - Boomslang
15) Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
16) A Perfect Circle - 13th Step
17) The Coral - Magic and Medicine
18) Audioslave - Audioslave
19) Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
20) tie: Zwan and The Shins

Some of the stuff in the 11-20 I would've bet good money when I first got them that they'd be in my top ten. It has been a good year for music. 9 thru 14 were REALLY hard. These are all so close, they may as well be considered a tie.

Honorable Mentions:

Live Albums/DVDs - How The West Was Won(Led Zeppelin), Rush in Rio(Rush), Coldplays new live one

EPs: Ryan Adams - Love is Hell Pt 1, Pt 2

Stuff that came out last year, but I somehow didn't get till 2003:
1) Coldplay
2) Interpol
3) Libertines

good list Wolfie

My top three:

1) Boomslang
2) Take Them On, On Your Own
3) 100th Window (Massive Attack)

And after those, the Darkness, Kings of Leon, Jet, Kosheen, The Coral...

The Music were in the top 3 of 2002, no doubt.

Todd, WP,

One broadsheet newspaper music reviewer rated BRMC 'Take Them On, On Your Own' as the biggest disappointment of the Year. The three of us have it in our top two! (And I think, on reflection I'd rate it a whisker ahead of Boomslang, making it No.1!)

Just goes to show that not everyone can have good taste, eh....?

Happy Christmas guys!