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DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003

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Artists: Radiohead, The Shins, The Darkness, Azure Ray
2003, what a year...

It's nearly over, but not 'til every publication has put together a chart. And why should we be any different? Here's our staff voted summary of the records which meant something and everything in 2003.

Drowned In Sound : Critics Poll 2003

1. Radiohead Hail to the Thief
2. The Darkness Permission to Land
3. Cat Power You Are Free
4. Blood Brothers Burn Piano Island, Burn
5. Muse Absolution
6. Fountains Of Wayne Welcome Interstate Managers
7. Funeral For A Friend Casually Dressed and in Deep Conversation
8. Zwan Mary Star of the Sea
9. Hell Is For Heroes The Neon Handshake
10. Elbow Cast of Thousands
11. Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People
12. Outkast Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
13. Mars Volta De-loused in the Comatorium
14. Hot Hot Heat Make up the Breakdown
15. White Stripes Elephant
16. Dizzee Rascal Boy in Da Corner
17. Jane’s Addiction Strays
18. Deftones Deftones
19. Mew Frengers
20. Evan Dando Baby I’m Bored
21. Strokes Room on Fire
22. The Distillers Coral Fang
23. Goldfrapp Black Cherry
24. Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things
25. Silver Mt Zion This is our punk rock: thee rusted satellites gather + sing
26. Twilight Singers Blackberry Belle
27. Broken Family Band Cold Water Songs
28. Biffy Clyro The Vertigo of Bliss
29. Oceansize Effloresce
30. British Sea Power The Decline Of..
31. Stellastarr Stellastarr
32. Pretty Girls Make Graves The New Romance
33. Dandy Warhols Welcome to the Monkey House
34. Alkaline Trio Good Mourning
35. Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque
36. UNKLE Never Never Land
37. Snow Patrol The Final Straw
38. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell
39. Broken Social Scene You Forgot it in People
40. A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step
41. My Morning Jacket It Stll Moves
42. King Geedorah Take Me to Your Leader
43. Blur Think Tank
44. Postal Service Give Up
45. Girls Aloud Sound of the Underground
46. Rapture Echoes
47. Metallica St. Anger
48. Cooper Temple Clause Kick Up The Fire and Let The Flames Break Loose
49. Aereogramme Sleep and Release
50. Brand New Deja Entendu
51. Rufus Wainwright Want One
52. The Shins Chutes Too Narrow On Import. UK Release March 2004
53. Distophia Soda Lake
54. Hidden Cameras The Smell of Our Own
55. Azure Ray Hold on Love
56. Four Tet Rounds
57. Belle And Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress
58. M83 Dead Cities Red Seas and Lost Ghosts
59. Billy Talent Billy Talent
60. B Movie Heroes Anthems for the Underdog
61. Ani DiFranco Evolve
62. Magnet On Your Side
63. Warlocks Phoenix
64. Desert Sessions Volumes 9 & 10
65. Clearlake Cedars
66. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Take them on, on Your Own
67. Sole Selling live Water
68. Meanwhile, Back In Communist Russia My Elixir: My Poison
69. Jetplane Landing Once like a Spark
70. Super Furry Animals Phantom Power
71. Adam Green Friends of Mine
72. Thursday War all the Time
73. Peaches Fatherfucker
74. The Kills Keep on your Mean Side
75. Adult Anxiety Always

The Science Bit...
This chart was compiled from the votes of our staff, who chose their top 20 albums of the year, with number 1 scoring 20 points and number 20 scoring 1 point. There was a two vote minimum to get into the chart. Radiohead scored nearly 200 points.

Some of these records are missing reviews. Reviews will appear on the site in the coming weeks.

DiScuss: What were your albums of the year? Who was robbed? Anything here surprise you? Do you think this chart represents what DiS is all about and what has gone on in 2003?

Words: Sean Adams

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DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003

Er. What no Alabama 3: Last Train to Nashville???
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 9 Dec '03, 11:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Radiohead? Number One? I don't fucking think so. The Darkness are Britain's number one band. FACT!
As for the rest I think it's great Hell Is For Heroes & Elbow can nestle in the Top 10 alongside Cat Power & Blood Brothers (neither of whom I've heard of).
As for all you indie saddo purists who think DiS has to be some duffel coated vessel championing a bunch of shoegazing losers do me a favour FUCK OFF!
There is more in this life than Jetplane Landing. I want ambition, excess, success, ego, attitude, sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll. THAT'S THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT MORONS!
All you 'haters' go have a wank over yer Belle And Sebastian albums in a chalet at All Tomorrows Parties.
Fer fecks sake!
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 9 Dec '03, 19:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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haven't you got a phil collins 3 gig to go to Chris? :)
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 11 Dec '03, 12:41 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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You're a pretty obnoxious little shit really, aren't you?
brusma | 11 Dec '03, 13:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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who? me? awww shucks! you're too kind. Actually, I've just read your user profile - Turin Brakes, Radiohead, "I like indie music me" you're a bit of a cunt really ain't ya? Listen mate don't pick on us music hacks - we can keep this shit up all day. Back to mummy with you, go on.
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 11 Dec '03, 20:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Hang on, hang on - calm down, calm down. Remember these are opinions!!
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 12 Dec '03, 11:54 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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awww come on Chris I'm a pussy cat really!
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 12 Dec '03, 14:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Oh, I see. Because I list that I like Turin Brakes and Radiohead, I'm a lesser human being.

The main problem I have with 'hacks' like you is you just lambast other people without provocation and then act in this holier-than-thou sense that, because you work 'within in industry' or whatever you like to call it, your opinions are somehow more valid. They're as valid as everyone else's - music is all about taste, and you can only say what you like. You can't say there's a 'fact' that any album is good or bad, even if it's agreed by popular concensus. Just remember it's all about opinions, friend. Now if you're analysing the music in terms of technicality and skill and actual innovation in music - you're talking about something away from the simple in terms of rhythm, tone, harmony, all that shit. If you've got, say, a music degree, I'll sit back and take all the crap you want to throw at me for not being indier-than-thou. Just because you've seen a lot of gigs and listened to a lot of albums does not make your opinion more valid than practically anyone. It only makes your taste more definite, you know what you like. That's fair enough, but it still doesn't really give you the right to lay into other people that bad and talk about 'facts', especially when it's saying one band are better. The Darkness - fair enough if you like them, but there are no facts that they are better or worse than Radiohead. You like something rocky? Fine, but it doesn't give you any right to say it's better than any other style of music.

You've dug yourself a nice little hole there. Now sit down in it while we fill it in, please.
brusma | 12 Dec '03, 12:02 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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it still doesn't give you the right to call me a "obnoxious little shit" though does it when you don't know who I am? That's a bit like me slagging off a band I've never heard, seen or met. I don't give a shit anyway - I'm off to the Caribbean for two weeks come Monday so fuck you.
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 12 Dec '03, 14:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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christ on a bike!!! I wish you people would just get over these things. This is a list of albums compiled by people who write for this particular website, nothing more. If you look closely you'll see that there are similarities between this list and those of other websites and publications. These lists tend to be for the masses by the (slightly smaller representation of the) masses. People will always disagree, that's what people do. You'll always bet the people who like muse, elbow and turin brakes being slagged off for being uneducated NME types. But you'll also get the indier-than-thou, Careless Talk loving weirdos (ME) who take their fair share of stick too.

PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT. If this website covered things like timberlake and westlife there'd be writers suggesting their albums are the best of the year and then you'd have to spend some more time slagging them off.

Let it go. Go off and listen to your favorite records and forget what everybody else has said. Does it really matter anyway?
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 12 Dec '03, 14:51 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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its true. i disagree with a fair proportion of albums on that list and i voted in the thing. Radiohead getting number 1 doesn't mean we all worship them, it simply means that they were mentioned on more/higher up on peoples lists.

i dont know how you people find the time to chase your own tails with arguements that can clearly never be resolved because it all comes down to your own opinions and tastes. You're never going to agree so... like.. getoverit.

KPx
_kp_ | 13 Dec '03, 18:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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This is gettin' too intellectual! Can't we just insult Brusma? I mean come on, Aqualung, Alfie, Turin Brakes?

Do your ears explode when something is a bit too loud?
CaviarAndCigarets | 13 Dec '03, 18:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Nah, I don't mind going to louder gigs (well... Mars Volta loud.)

I just choose to listen to quieter music. It's easier to appreciate on record.
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 14 Dec '03, 16:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003

Hmmmm, Girls Aloud in the top 50?
I lost all respect for the list when I saw that. But I do think you've more or less hit the nail on the head with the rest of the list. Good job.

And to all the sensitive types, stop whining. It's Christmas, season of goodwill and all that. Just have another beer, you'll be fine laddies. Never know, might even lose your virginity while you're at it *thumbs up*
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 14 Dec '03, 18:01 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003

TRANSLATION:

*eyes well up from the sting of righteous chastising* "Well... you did something bad too....*sniff, sniff*... but, *sniff* I don't care anyways. SCREW YOU GUYS...I'M LEAVING!" *red-faced, slams bedroom door*
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 9 Jan '04, 18:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003

Hey, is your name Imran Ahmed by anychane? Do you write for NME?
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 15 Dec '03, 01:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003

The Darkness aren't the country's number one band, but even if they were, this was a poll regarding our favourite <B>albums</B>, not bands!
natts | 4 Jan '04, 03:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Alabama 3 - It's "Mashville" - not "Nashville" - no worries. The record is good - too bad this band is pegged 'alt.country techno geeks' b/c of the Sopranos theme - but they drink whiskey and bathe in blood...
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 30 Dec '03, 00:51 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003

anyone got Volume 1? not heard it yet
joe_shoo | 30 Dec '03, 13:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Before anyone shouts "Hey, don't shoot the messenger, this list is the combined opinions of the staff", I'm not arguing, but these are my opinions.

I'm not sure what Biffy Clyro are doing in there, they're nowhere near as good as people make out. As for Funeral for a Friend, unfortunately they've gone the way of the parent-friendly heartfelt emo band who started off raw but unfortunately remixed stuff and never sounded quite as good again. As for BRMC, in my opinion they should not even have a record deal, to quote the title of a song by Instruction, "Death to the four-car garage band".

Jetplane Landing should have been higher as should Thursday, and this list is sorely missing the Copperpot Journals, Lightyear and Forever Until October. Also, if this list is indeed cosmopolitan, I would include Nitin Sawhney - Human as this was one of the most beautiful creations I heard all year.
barkstain | 30 Dec '03, 23:54 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I voted Copperpot Journals. Don't think anyone else did though.
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 31 Dec '03, 00:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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yeah human was a good album, damnit.
joe_shoo | 31 Dec '03, 12:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003

Actually, has to be said, pretty damn good list. I will back off from laying into The Darkness as I'm feeling quite bright and sparky this morning. But Zwan so high? Seriously?? Which suggests some kind of consensus that it's a good worthy effort? Dear God.
black_lights | 9 Dec '03, 11:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003

I have to agree the Darkness may be the most fun album in the list, but there are quiet a lot more musically...intricate albums around, some that didn't even make the list (Tom McRae my personal favourite ain't there), so I can see why Darkness came high...but....well I don't agree. Different strokes for different folks an' all that.

Incidentally, check out www.metacritic and their section on music, and you can find out what the average of all reviews for a fair few albums (reviews from UK and US iirc) and find the top lot an' all that. Led Zeppelin top? Well well well...
brusma | 9 Dec '03, 14:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Yeah... Tom McRae noticable by his absence! His latest is a beautiful work.
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 17 Dec '03, 17:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003

Maximilian Hecker?
Not very *exciting* I grant you, but a wonderful album nonetheless!!

mew, stellastarr* and PGMG should be higher too!

in my humble..

sp
sadpunk | 9 Dec '03, 11:23 | Send note | Report this | Reply

DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003

But the Radiohead album is average at best!
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 9 Dec '03, 11:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003

first I saw...

8. Zwan Mary Star of the Sea?

and I though "hmmmm". then I saw...

47. Metallica St. Anger

and I said "I quit"
bunch of wrong 'uns
-Raz- | 9 Dec '03, 11:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003

I must say that after reading through this list, the shocking predictability, even from DiS writers, is saddening. DiS is a site championing new music, and great music, and yet there's Hell is for Heroes at number, erm, 10? They're like a carbon copy of equally average acts that were knocking about three or four years ago. And then there's Zwan and a whole host of other albums that really aren't worthy of such high acclaim. I can understand that a few people might place them highly, but with so many people voting (I presume; if all the writers under contacts voted) I expected a more balanced and less high-profile chart. Still, nice to see Cat Power so high.
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 9 Dec '03, 11:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003

This is true, as a site we do promote new bands an music but each article is written by an inidividual. It is the same as being with your mates and one says 'I have heard the best album EVER!'... not all of you guy and buy as it may not be to your taste or you just can't afford it. An example in caser is that my album of the year didn't even get into the top 75! Remember, this is based on a general overview, not the definitive opinion of the whole site i.e. the number one album is not everyones favourite...
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 9 Dec '03, 12:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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My top record didn't make it either.
Maybe we should have a 'close but no cigar' section?
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 9 Dec '03, 12:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003

It's weird, I only voted for about 2 of the top 20 records and I'm pretty sure there are a lot of other people who regularly contribute to the site who had about the same amount of their records of the year near the top.

I did look confusedly at Zwan and Hell is For Heroes and Elbow too for that matter, getting quite so high. Then again, Distillers, Strokes and White Stripes all did oddly well...

We're going to be doing a few other runs downs of the year which should go someway to giving a personal and collective view of the year.
sean | 9 Dec '03, 12:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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in what way does elbow being up so high confuse you? whatever your position on them as a band the album remains a beautifully crafted, confident and ambitous work. and it is probably my number 1 album of the year without a doubt. which is obviously why i'm kicking up a fuss. but seriously, it's gorgeous. really gorgeous.
black_lights | 9 Dec '03, 13:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I really like the record too (was at the bottom end of my top 20). Am just confused, if you look at the kinda things that get written about on DiS day in day out that the kinda people who voted for elbow don't take part in dis on a day to day basis and the album hasn't even been reviewed on the site...
sean | 9 Dec '03, 15:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Then hurry one of your leetle minions up, Sean! :P
brusma | 9 Dec '03, 15:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I think it would be more interesting to see each individual writers top 10 or something then we could see how diverse the staff are. This kind of vote doesn't seem to give a clear picture of anything other than maybe most people quite liked ..... get my drift?
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 9 Dec '03, 16:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Mike D's top twenty... rip it up y'all.

1: Ten Grand, ‘This Is The Way To Rule’, Southern

2: Bear Vs Shark, ‘Right Now You’re In The Best Of Hands. And If Something Isn’t Quite Right, Your Doctor Will Know In A Hurry’, Equal Vision

3: The Blood Brothers, ‘Burn Piano Island, Burn’, Artist Direct/BMG

4: These Arms Are Snakes, ‘This Is Meant To Hurt You’, Jade Tree (strictly an EP, but so what?)

5: Sole, ‘Selling Live Water’, Anticon

6: Azure Ray, ‘Hold On Love’, Saddle Creek

7: Since By Man, ‘We Sing The Body Electric’, Revelation Records

8: Small Brown Bike, ‘The River Bed’, Lookout!

9: OutKast, ‘Speakerboxx/The Love Below’, Arista

10: Four Tet, ‘Rounds’, Domino

11: Pretty Girls Make Graves, ‘The New Romance’, Matador

12: 31 Knots, ‘It Was High Time To Escape’, 54°40” Or Fight!

13: Deftones, ‘Deftones’, Maverick

14: Immense, ‘Hidden Between Sleeves’, Fierce Panda

15: This Ain’t Vegas, ‘The Black Lung Captain’, Jealous

16: Riddle Of Steel, ‘Python’, Ascetic

17: Constantines, ‘Shine A Light’, Three Gut Records/Sub Pop

18: Oceansize, ‘Effloresce’, Beggars Banquet

19: Mono, ‘One Step More And You Die’, Ryko

20: Cave In, ‘Antenna’, RCA

Old_Anonymous_Comments | 9 Dec '03, 17:10 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Small Brown Bike and TAV
yesssssss.....

can't believe the Black Lung Captain didn't make the DIS list proper. Surely one of the best records by a homegrown act this year???
deadkidrob | 10 Dec '03, 10:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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It certainly is... This Ain't Vegas and The Murder Of... are blinding albums. Murder Of missed out coz I got it after compiling my list.

Seriously though, the Ten Grand and Bear Vs Shark records are immense.
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 10 Dec '03, 11:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i'll check 'em out when I get some chrimbo funds....
I didn't enjoy that SBB album nearly as much as Dead Reckoning tho.
Plus i'll never get to see them live now....

fucking sucks
deadkidrob | 10 Dec '03, 11:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The River Bed isn't a patch on Dead Reckoning, that's true, but it's SBB innit? They HAD to be in there somewhere.
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 10 Dec '03, 12:02 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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too true, my friend!
I have to ask, tho, what's yer problem with Cat on Form?
I thought structure and fear was very good indeed, a fine follow up to their first ep. And live, they really do the fucking business....
deadkidrob | 10 Dec '03, 12:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Cat On Form never really clicked with me. I'm often a little too hasrh about them, but I just don't like 'em. Something annoys me that I can't quite put my finger on, plus I find them remarkably generic. BUT, the first time I ever saw 'em they were good, just haven't impressed the three or four times since.
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 10 Dec '03, 13:51 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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1. Pretty Girls Make Graves - New Romance
2. Cat Power - You Are Free
3. Dandy Warhols - Welcome to the Monkeyhouse
4. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
5. Azure Ray - Hold on Love
6. Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
7. Magnet - On Your Side
8. Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia - My Elixir; My Poison
9. The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg - Everyones in love and flowers pick themselves
10. Muse - Absolution
11. Elbow - Cast of Thousands
12. The Warlocks - Pheonix
13. Arab Strap - Monday at the Hug and Pint
14. Cooper Temple Clause - Kick Up the Fires...
15. Biffy Clyro - Vertigo of Bliss
16. Maximilian Hecker - Rose
17. Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
18. The Rapture - Echoes
19. Jetplane Landing - Once like a Spark
20. Spiritualized - Amazing Grace
sean | 9 Dec '03, 17:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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mainly to invoke mass insults from the Dizzee haterz, here's mine:

1 Dizzee Rascal – ‘Boy In Da Corner’
2 Bogdan Raczynski – ‘Renegade Platinum Mega Dance Attack Party: Don The Plates’
3 Tomahawk – ‘Mit Gas’
4 The National – ‘Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers’
5 PW Long – ‘Remembered’
6 Eels – ‘Shootenanny!’
7 Venetian Snares – ‘Winter In The Belly Of A Snake’
8 Cat Power – ‘You Are Free’
9 Rage Against The Machine – ‘Live At The Grand Olympic Auditorium’
10 Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – ‘Master & Everyone’
11 The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band With Choir – ‘This Is Our Punk Rock…’
12 Mars Volta – ‘De-loused In The Comatorium’
13 Smog – ‘Supper’
14 Mogwai – ‘Happy Songs For Happy People’
15 Radiohead – ‘Hail To The Thief’
16 Obie Trice – ‘Cheers’
17 Explosions In The Sky – ‘The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place’
18 Prefuse 73 – ‘One Word Extinguisher’
19 Mondo Generator – ‘A Drug Problem That Never Existed’
20 Gossip – ‘Movement’
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 10 Dec '03, 00:21 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003

And just to let y'all know that not everyone on DiS gives a toss about Radiohead, here's my 20.

1. The Decline Of... - British Sea Power
2. Phoenix - The Warlocks
3. Anxiety Always - Adult.
4. Vehicles And Animals - Athlete
5. Frengers - Mew
6. Starhead - Jetscreamer
7. Let's Do The Don't Care - Punish The Atom
8. Magic & Medicine - The Coral
9. A Guide For The Daylight Hours - Ballboy
10. Shivering King And Others - Dead Meadow
11. Absolution - Muse
12. Start The Panic - The Agenda!
13. Sound Of The Underground - Girls Aloud
14. The New Romance - Pretty Girls Make Graves
15. Dense Waves Make Your Eyes Grow Wider - The Candies
16. Dear Catastrophe Waitress - Belle & Sebastian
17. Keep On Your Mean Side - The Kills
18. Naturaliste - The Lucksmiths
19. Fiends Of Dope Island - The Cramps
20. Punk...Not Diet - Giardini De Miro

Dom G.
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 10 Dec '03, 09:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Because you care deep down. Yes, you do.

1. Why? - Oaklandazulasylum
2. King Geedorah - Take Me To Your Leader
3. The Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island, Burn
4. Sixtoo - Antagonist Survival Kit
5. Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
6. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
7. Cat Power - You are Free
8. A Silver Mt. Zion - The Rusted Satallites Gather and Sing - This
is our Punk Rock
9. Brother Ali - Shadows On the Sun
10. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
11. Aerogramme - Sleep and Release
12. Sole - Selling Live Water
13. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
14. The Locust - Plague Soundscapes
15. Non-Prophets - Hope
16. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
17. Tes - X2
18. Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
19. Girls Aloud - Sound of the Underground
20. Buck 65 - Talkin' Honky Blues
daniel_h | 10 Dec '03, 17:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I can't remember all of my records, or their order for that matter, but some of mine were:

Copperpot Journals - Pilots
Thursday - War All The Time
Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island Burn
Lowgold - Welcome To Winners
Biffy Clyro - Vertigo Of Bliss
Funeral For A Friend - Casually Dressed....
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Thrice - The Artist In The Ambulance
Beecher - Breaking The Fourth Wall
The Darkness - Permission To Land
Hell Is For Heroes - The Neon Handshake
Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 11 Dec '03, 16:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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So it wasn't just me who thought that King Geedorah LP rocked then. I can't find my buggering copy of the thing at the moment tho.
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 11 Dec '03, 23:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003

Thats better - Now we can see where some off you DIS writers are coming from
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 12 Dec '03, 09:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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And my top 15 (as the other albums I have heard this year don't really rate) :-

1) Ben Davis - Aided & Abetted
2) Black Box Recorder - Passionia
3) Trademark - Fear : Disconnection
4) New Pornographers - Electric Version
5) Luke Haines - Das Capital
6) Serafin - No Push Collide
7) Ani DiDranco - Evolve
8) InMe - Overgrown Eden
9) Denali - The Instinct
10) UNKLE - Never, Never, Land
11) Hybrid - Morning Sci-Fi
12) Bitmap - Alpha Beta Gamma
13) Cursive - The Ugly Organ
14) Kitshickers - Armee De L'air (From The Known To The Unknown)
15) The White Stripes - Elephant
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 12 Dec '03, 12:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

me albums

1. fountains of wayne
2. youthmovie soundtrack strategies
3. adam green
4. hot hot heat
5. the broken family band
6. british sea power
7. the kills
8. stellastarr*
9. hidden cameras
10. girls aloud
11. death cab for cutie
12. snow patrol
13. the strokes
14. clearlake
15. chris clark
16. the robocop kraus
17. jetplane landing
18. the darkness
19. the weakerthans
20. biffy clyro
shadyadie | 13 Dec '03, 12:48 | Send note |