Favorite record of 2003?

The year is almost over and it has brought us one of the better music years in recent memory. What was your favorite record(s) of the year? Mine would be Paint it Black's "CVA"

I concur, a strong year for music, so much so that a top ten is going to be tough to finalize, much less a single best disc. But if I have to decide today, it would be Outkast.

Outkast 'Speakerboxxx/The Love Below'
My Morning Jacket 'It Still Moves'
Daniel Lanois 'Shine'
Lightning Bolt 'Wonderful Rainbow'
Aaron Neville 'Nature Boy'
The White Stripes 'Elephant'
The Fiery Furnaces 'Gallowsbird Bark'
The Pernice Brothers 'Yours, Mine, & Ours'
Beyoncé 'Dangerously In Love'
Warren Zevon 'The Wind'
The Fire Theft 'The Fire Theft'
The Neptunes 'Present Clones'
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks 'Pig Lib'
Robert Wyatt 'Cuckooland'
Erykah Badu 'Worldwide Underground'
Yeah Yeah Yeahs 'Fever To Tell'
The Rapture 'Echoes'
Fountains Of Wayne 'Welcome Interstate Managers'
Kraftwerk 'Tour De France Soundtracks'
The Thrills 'So Much For The City'
The Strokes 'Room On Fire'
Ryan Adams 'Rock 'N Roll'

Cat Power - FREE

Yo La Tengo - SUMMER SUN

The Beatles - LET IT BE ... NAKED

Charlie Parker - THE COMPLETE VERVE MASTER TAKES

[Edited on Nov 24, 2003 by zenhell]

David Bowie - Reality and the return of Primus with the CD/DVD: Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People

OutKast definately does what they always do. They have mastered the art of reinvention but manage to keep getting better. Yum! they do it for me real good for 2003.

oh, and Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts, and the new Outkast

[Edited on Nov 24, 2003 by Velvetone_Fusion]

OutKast- Speakerboxxx
Vendetta Red - Between the Never and the Now
Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Cave In - Antenna (fuck all the naysayers, no its not OLD Cave In but its fucking good)
Thrice - Artist in the Ambulence (songs are not as good as Illusion but the musicianship is better)
Thursday - War All The Time (not bad)

i'll have to be a vote for mars volta - de-loused in the comatorium

Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head

Something Corporate - North

Pretty Girls Make Graves - New Romance

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Streetcore

Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning

The Movielife - 40 Hour Train Back to Penn

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
Thursday - War All the Time
The Mars Volta - De-loused
Hawkley Workman - Lover/Fighter

Division Of Laura Lee- Black City

I agree that Lightning Bolt "Wonderfull Rainbows is one of the top... I cant get enough.. turn it up till yr ears bleed... GD

[Edited on Nov 24, 2003 by GeekDriver]

Can I get a "D"?


Can I get an "arkness"?

what does that spell?


The best band and album of 2003


The Darkness

Elephant - White Stripes...

...hands down.

too many genre's with incredible albums to narrow it down to 1... so here are my choices

hip hop/rap: Buck 65 - Talkin' Honky Blues .... or Outkast - Speakerboxxx/Love Below
punk: Thrice - The Artist In The Ambulance
hardcore: The Killing Tree - We Sing Sin
indie: Mars Volta - De-loused In The Comatorium
metal: Ed Gein - It's A Shame .... or .... Cradle Of Filth - Damnnation And A Day

edit: I forgot one ....

AFI - Sing The Sorrow ... I love this disc, and can't believe I forgot it

[Edited on Nov 24, 2003 by AcidBather]

IMA ROBOT

a life once lost - a great artist
the mars volta - de-loused in the comatorium

Razed in Black - Damaged
Pretty Grils Make Graves - The New Romance
Acumen Nation - Lord of the Cynics
Poison The Well - You Come Before You
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Carissa's Wierd - Scrapbook

The darkness -permmisson to land
songs Ohia - Magnolia Elec. Co. (released in Australia this year)
Sodastream- A minor Revival
The Shins - chutes to narrow

AVENGED SEVENFOLD- WAKINGTHE FALLEN

I really enjoyed:
black eyes - s/t
a.r.e. weapons - s/t
radiohead - hail to the theif
postal service - give it up

and these aren't really albums but they are my favorite CD's of 2003:
Rough Trade Post-Punk vol.1
Futureheads - 1,2,3, nul E.P.

This doesn't really count because its a reissue but it was released in the US this year:
Young Marble Giants - colossal youth


[Edited on Nov 24, 2003 by carcrashset]

coheed and cambria - in keeping secrets of silent earth: 3

Machine head - thjrough the ashes of empires
the haunted - one kill wonder
Anthrax - weve come for you all
chimaira - the impossability of reason
Soilwork- Figure number five
Metallica- st anger
Arch Enemy - Anthems of rebellion
Dimmu Bogir - Death cult armageddon
3 inches of blood- battlecry under a winter sun
napalm death- noise for musics sake
lamb of god - as the palaces burn
cradle of filth - damnation and a day
sepultura - roorback
superjoint ritual - a lethal dose of american hatred