Acclaimed Music Top 30 Albums from 2003 poll

American indie rock from this period is so fucking dreary. I just skim listened a bit of My Morning Jacket, Wrens and Calexico to see if I was missing anything. I wasn't.

Listened a lot to
2 282 OutKast - Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
3 298 Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
8 608 Jay-Z - The Black Album
9 794 Four Tet - Rounds
19 1377 My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves

Bought
6 512 Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
13 884 Blur - Think Tank

Think Tank is a perfect album if you remove "Crazy Beat" and "We've Got a File on You".

Voting Rounds, still amazing.

oh, christ, i don't know. caribou? man, almost all of this stuff is so, so dire.

In 2003 I would have voted De Loused. I honestly can't see a reason to switch that given the competition. Overall, a bunch of really good records, but nothing huge sticks out to me.

I think the Villalobos is only one I've heard all the way through. Sometimes hard to believe I wrote at pfork.

you did the good bit tbf

Alcachofa is just a really fun album to listen to. Mysterious vibes, sounds everywhere, a good deep adventure.

Voting for Hail to the Thief just over Dear Catastrophe Waitress.

People still pretending they're too cool for TMV eh? Better than all that barely passable indie in any case

I might vote for it still

Lol Austin's post. I'm starting to notice a pattern in these reviews...

You may be pleased to hear that a few of those albums have been censured by the Chilcot enquiry.

the meadowlands is probably my favourite indie rock album of the 00s. my other 2003 favourites are probably guitar romantic and kish kash which don't show up here unfortunately

Chutes Too Narrow

Young Liars EP tops all of these.

well, yeah, so do "Hurt" and "Crazy In Love" but they weren't albums.

Love, love, love bits of the Villalobos lp ("Dexter" is fucking magnificent) but this has to be Yeah Yeah Yeahs for me. Despite the moaning about indie rock in the thread, with this album YYY made one of the most exciting guitar albums of the decade.

Dear Catastrophe Waitress and SB/TLB are the all-time classics out of this lot. Given the choice I'd have to give the nod to B&S. I know they get no love around here but I absolutely love every last song on there.

People still pretending they're too cool for TMV eh? Better than all that barely passable indie in any case

― ultras ultros-ghali, Saturday, July 9, 2016 9:35 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K38qtuXM4gE

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Abysmal.

Going to vote for the White Stripes here for how I felt about it at the time.

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never heard of it

can't be as good as trap muzik

Damn, had I known that Lucinda was gonna grab 2 other votes I woulda thrown one towards Postal Service.

Holy fuck a guitar album won alert the press

for the six others just cool enough for TMV, just read a thing with Omar saying he'd eventually like to reunite with Cedric, Jon Theodore and Eva Gardner(!), too bad Ikey is gone but maybe they can track down Linda Good?

I don't know why they would ever reunite with Linda Good - Omar told Nardwuar a pretty funny story about why she was fired:

6:22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brdpQN3ACY8

aw poor linda good! thrown under the bus for taking notes! I could have sworn that Omar had some unkind things to say about Theodore too, but here we are. seems Omar has maybe mellowed a bit, or at least has grown more gracious about his collaborators in recent years, fwiw I quite liked what little I've seen/heard from the couple months Good was in the band

Jay-Z - The Black Album 0

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not complaining, just surprised

Forgot to vote, but would have split the Radiohead/TMV tie either way so it's cool

Best album from this year was Send, btw

that's a good one. my pick is "i trawl the megahertz".

Whoops, missed this one but would have voted for Welcome Interstate Managers which is one of my favorite albums ever.

Yes! I love Welcome Interstate Managers. It's a classic.

I'm one of the two people who voted for it. It's my favourite Fountains of Wayne album.

never heard of it

can't be as good as trap muzik

― brimstead, Monday, July 11, 2016 5:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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true

American indie rock from this period is so fucking dreary

Even if you disqualify Electric Version (Canadians), any year that featured Pig Lib, Gallowsbirds' Bark, and Ghosts of the Great Highway couldn't have been that bad for Amerindie.

Got about 7 minutes into the Wrens album. It sounds very much of its time.

The first four songs after the intro (Happy, She Sends Kisses, This Boy is Exhausted, especially Hopeless) on the Meadowlands are pretty flawless. The vocals take a bit to get used to, but the songs are worth it.

Thirteen Grand, Ex-Girl Collection, Everyone Choose Sides--there's only like two non-intro/outro songs that are less than 9/10

Acclaimed Music Top 30 Albums from 2004 poll

Would have voted for The Mars Volta.