2003 in Music

[wrse4thewear]

I recently put together a brief write-up and a best of list from 2003, and I was hoping to find people to give me some feedback, perhaps point out some albums I may have missed, or whatever.

Here's the link: http://dangetz.tumblr.com/post/295910796/2003-in-music

[AnEraWeEmbrace]

Gatsby's American Dream - Ribbons and Sugar

[FullCollaspe]

Pretty Girls Make Graves- The New Romance

[wrse4thewear]

Good Call. I'm not so big on Gatsby, but The New Romance is an awesome record.

[GuitarR0cker1]

Cursive-The Ugly Organ

[wrse4thewear]

That's frustrating, I thought that was 2003 and just totally forgot to look it up when I made the final list. That'd be top 20 easy.

[brokenmixtape]

Good list

[briewer]

No M83 no care.

[redeyes]

what are your thoughts on Rise Against's "revolutions per minute"? because i'm pretty sure that record came out in 2003, and from what I remember, granted I was 16 or 17 at the time, it was a real kickass record.

"Get Rich or Die Tryin" came out in 03 too. I don't know anybody who didn't spin that disc when it came out.

[starwarsfan182]

You forgot Blink 182's Untitled album

[Gibber]

blink 182- untitled
every time i die- hot damn

[FeynmanWannabe]

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/feynmanwannabe/favorite_albums_of_2003

only the top is sorta in order.

[HometownHero]

Some pretty good ones on that list. Nice

[SophGod]

Thursday - War All The Time

[ACA]

Interesting.

To all the kids on AP.net who's Top 20 of 2009 is indie/hipster/whatever, I'd love to see your 2003 lists. Funny punk-pop dominates the old lists and indie dominates the new list. :)

[ACA]

what are your thoughts on Rise Against's "revolutions per minute"? because i'm pretty sure that record came out in 2003, and from what I remember, granted I was 16 or 17 at the time, it was a real kickass record.

"Get Rich or Die Tryin" came out in 03 too. I don't know anybody who didn't spin that disc when it came out.

Get Rich is one of the top 20 hiphop albums of all time.

-ACA

[ruffian]

yeah can't believe some people's music tastes change over the course of a decade, redic

[RX XR]

Get Rich is one of the top 20 hiphop albums of all time.

-ACA

Easily

[SanePsychotic]

yeah can't believe some people's music tastes change over the course of a decade, redic

Why is that surprising? 10 years is quite a while. Things in peoples' lives change, so why not their taste in music?

[boysandbulletsx]

Interesting.

To all the kids on AP.net who's Top 20 of 2009 is indie/hipster/whatever, I'd love to see your 2003 lists. Funny punk-pop dominates the old lists and indie dominates the new list. :)
I am not ashamed to admit that my list would've consisted of Deja Entendu, ...And Don't Forget to Breathe, Beneath the Medicine Tree, and The Room's Too Cold. It just shows how much music has changed and how we've aged (and so has our tastes.)

[ruffian]

Why is that surprising? 10 years is quite a while. Things in peoples' lives change, so why not their taste in music?

hxc sarcasm

[Shatter_Glass]

How the hell is Elephant at 15?? Oh oh oh, i see the movielife is in there at number 6...oh my mistake....

[Shatter_Glass]

Get Rich is one of the top 20 hiphop albums of all time.

-ACA

agreed. DEF top twenty.

[Shatter_Glass]

Interesting.

To all the kids on AP.net who's Top 20 of 2009 is indie/hipster/whatever, I'd love to see your 2003 lists. Funny punk-pop dominates the old lists and indie dominates the new list. :)

"O The Times They Are A' Changin'"

[bluecrunchy]

2003 was by far the best year for music of the past decade. That said, Copeland and Explosions in the Sky should be on this list.

[bard]

the beloved - failure on
the bled - pass the flask
the elected - me first
every time i die - hot damn!
grandaddy - sumday
the locust - plague soundscapes
m83 - dead cities, red seas & lost ghosts
the mars volta - deloused in the comatorium
the paper chase - what big teeth you have ep


no order, but some of my favorites

[MattADALIE]

Thursday - War All The Time

I was sad to not see this on the list (while scrolling down, I was like... "Wait for it, wait for it" and it didn't happen). However, there were plenty of good albums featured in there. Being 22 myself, I tend to stick to music I liked around that time. It's been several years and it's still hard for me to get why some of the music out there is popular at all.

[singyoutocoma]

In addition to the excellent list above (http://absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?p=59329021#post59329 021), some of my other favorites were:

The Lawrence Arms - The Greatest Story Ever Told (my favorite of the year)
Aereogramme - Sleep and Release
Against Me! - As the Eternal Cowboy
Between the Buried and Me - The Silent Circus
The Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn
Cave In - Antenna
Extol - Synergy
Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
Monday in London - The Red Machine

[oddwithoutend]

The Microphones - Mount Eerie

[Neo Cassady]

The Weakerthans' Reconstruction Site
Yellowcard's Ocean Avenue
Sufjan Stevens' Michigan
Something Corporate's North
Stephen Lynch's Superhero
Mitch Hedberg's Mitch All Together
Mae's Destination:Beautiful
Cauterize's So Far From Real

[xJesusFreakx]

The Artist in the Ambulance is definitely my personal favorite album from that year, though I didn't get into it until about four years later; I think I was still rocking out the P.O.D. and Pillar that year. (Who am I kidding? I still like rocking out to Satellite every now and again.)

the beloved - failure on
the bled - pass the flask
the elected - me first
every time i die - hot damn!
grandaddy - sumday
the locust - plague soundscapes
m83 - dead cities, red seas & lost ghosts
the mars volta - deloused in the comatorium
the paper chase - what big teeth you have ep


no order, but some of my favorites

Weird, I thought that was 2004.

The Microphones - Mount Eerie

In with The Microphones as always, Rick. Good ol' "Reliable," right on time.

[kbi the crowing]

albums I feel should have been included

Coheed and Camrbria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses

[oddwithoutend]

In with The Microphones as always, Rick. Good ol' "Reliable," right on time.
There are some things in life you can always count on, Tim.

[TurbulentCo]

Indie sucks, why are we talking about 2003?

[oddwithoutend]

Indie sucks
Expound.

[kearn1tm]

2003 was a really good year if you're a person with the exact same tastes as me. Going through my iTunes and wrack of albums here at work, here's some of my favorite albums of that year (in alphabetical order, because lists are lazy fun):

Andrew Bird -- Weather Systems
The Appleseed Cast -- Two Conversations
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti -- Lover Boy
Asobi Seksu -- Asobi Seksu
The Be Good Tanyas -- Chinatown
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Take The On, On Your Own
The Blood Brothers -- ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn
Catena Collapse/ La Quiete -- La Quiete/Catena Collapse 7 ''
Cult of Luna -- The Beyond
Cursive -- The Ugly Organ
The Decemberists -- Her Majesty, the Decemberists
Devendra Banhart -- The Black Babies
Erykah Badu -- Worldwide Underground
The Exploding Hearts -- Guitar Romantic
Fall Out Boy -- Take This to Your Grave
Faun -- Licht
Great Lake Swimmers -- Great Lake Swimmers
I Would Set Myself on Fire for You -- I Would Set Myself on Fire for You
Jay-Z -- The Black Album
Kayo Dot -- Choirs of the Eye
The Locust -- Plague Soundscapes
The Mars Volta -- De-Loused In The Comatorium-
The Methadones -- Career Objective
Million Dead -- A Song to Ruin
Murder By Death -- Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?-
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds -- Nocturna
Old Man Gloom -- Christmas Eve I & II + 6-
Outkast -- Speakerboxxx/The Love Below-
The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower -- Disseration, Honey
Pretty Girls Make Graves -- The New Romance
Radiohead -- Hail to the Thief
The Riverdales -- Phase 3
The Sea and Cake -- Glass/One Bedroom
The Shins -- Chutes Too Narrow
Some Girls -- All My Friends are Going Death
Super Furry Animals -- Phantom Power
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists -- Hearts of Oak
Teen Idols -- Nothing to Prove
The Thermals -- More Parts per Million
The Weakerthans -- Reconstruction Site
The Weathermen -- The Conspiracy
The White Stripes -- Elephant
The Wrens -- The Meadowlands

[xJesusFreakx]

Cult of Luna -- The Beyond

I've been meaning to get into Cult of Luna for the longest time but don't know what album to start with. What would you suggest?

[kearn1tm]

I've been meaning to get into Cult of Luna for the longest time but don't know what album to start with. What would you suggest?

I just got into them late last year from a thread on this board. I own The Beyond, the self-titled and Salvation. The Beyond is my favorite but none of them vary in terms of "accessibility." You just dive in, listen to it a billion times, and eventually it either sinks in or doesn't. It did for me.

[xJesusFreakx]

I just got into them late last year from a thread on this board. I own The Beyond, the self-titled and Salvation. The Beyond is my favorite but none of them vary in terms of "accessibility." You just dive in, listen to it a billion times, and eventually it either sinks in or doesn't. It did for me.

Cool, thanks. I'll just be on the lookout for whatever album I can find first.

[Mibabalou]

Interesting.

To all the kids on AP.net who's Top 20 of 2009 is indie/hipster/whatever, I'd love to see your 2003 lists. Funny punk-pop dominates the old lists and indie dominates the new list. :)

You adhere to a set of standards and tastes
That appear to be determined by an unseen panel of hipster judges
Giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to incoming and outgoing trends and styles of music and art
Go analog baby, you’re so post-modern
You’re diving face forward into a antiquated path
It’s disgusting, its offensive, don’t stick your nose up at me

[Mibabalou]

2003 was a really good year if you're a person with the exact same tastes as me. Going through my iTunes and wrack of albums here at work, here's some of my favorite albums of that year (in alphabetical order, because lists are lazy fun):

Andrew Bird -- Weather Systems
The Appleseed Cast -- Two Conversations
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti -- Lover Boy
Asobi Seksu -- Asobi Seksu
The Be Good Tanyas -- Chinatown
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Take The On, On Your Own
The Blood Brothers -- ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn
Catena Collapse/ La Quiete -- La Quiete/Catena Collapse 7 ''
Cult of Luna -- The Beyond
Cursive -- The Ugly Organ
The Decemberists -- Her Majesty, the Decemberists
Devendra Banhart -- The Black Babies
Erykah Badu -- Worldwide Underground
The Exploding Hearts -- Guitar Romantic
Fall Out Boy -- Take This to Your Grave
Faun -- Licht
Great Lake Swimmers -- Great Lake Swimmers
I Would Set Myself on Fire for You -- I Would Set Myself on Fire for You
Jay-Z -- The Black Album
Kayo Dot -- Choirs of the Eye
The Locust -- Plague Soundscapes
The Mars Volta -- De-Loused In The Comatorium-
The Methadones -- Career Objective
Million Dead -- A Song to Ruin
Murder By Death -- Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?-
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds -- Nocturna
Old Man Gloom -- Christmas Eve I & II + 6-
Outkast -- Speakerboxxx/The Love Below-
The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower -- Disseration, Honey
Pretty Girls Make Graves -- The New Romance
Radiohead -- Hail to the Thief
The Riverdales -- Phase 3
The Sea and Cake -- Glass/One Bedroom
The Shins -- Chutes Too Narrow
Some Girls -- All My Friends are Going Death
Super Furry Animals -- Phantom Power
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists -- Hearts of Oak
Teen Idols -- Nothing to Prove
The Thermals -- More Parts per Million
The Weakerthans -- Reconstruction Site
The Weathermen -- The Conspiracy
The White Stripes -- Elephant
The Wrens -- The Meadowlands

really

no war all the time

[kwsqd]

2003 was a really good year if you're a person with the exact same tastes as me. Going through my iTunes and wrack of albums here at work, here's some of my favorite albums of that year (in alphabetical order, because lists are lazy fun):
Andrew Bird -- Weather Systems
The Appleseed Cast -- Two Conversations
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti -- Lover Boy
I love that you have this at number 2.

[Pat k]

My favorite from that (awesome) year:

Saves the Day - In Reverie
Against Me! - As the Eternal Cowboy
Animal Collective - Campfire Songs
Bones Brigade - I Hate Myself When I'm Not Skateboarding
Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave/ Evening Out
The Format - Interventions and Lullabies
Give Up the Ghost - We're Down Til We're Underground
Hey Mercedes - Loses Control
The Lawrence Arms - The Greatest Story Ever Told (the best record to come out that year)
Leviathan - The Tenth Sub-level of Suicide
Mew - Frengers
Movielife - 40 Hour Train Back to Penn
Pat Metheny - One Quiet Night
The Postal Service - GIve Up
Punch in the Face - Dumb Hardcore
Saturday Looks Good to Me - All Your Summer Songs
Spitalfield - Remember Right Now
Stars - Heart
The Suicide File - Twilight
The Wrens - The Meadowlands

[wrse4thewear]

When I first tried to make the list I was going to base it off of where I would have ranked them back in 2003, but then I realized I probably would have had to leave off albums like M. Ward and Death Cab. I have noticed a few others that I would have liked to include in the list. 50 Cent not being one of them. I liked it then, but it hasn't really held up over time for me, especially since I'm now aware of so much more hip-hop/rap albums than I was back then.

[wrse4thewear]

Appleseed Cast, Murder By Death and Ted Leo definitely should have been in there. Some of the other ones people have said, like Blink, Saves the Day and Granddaddy were on my larger list but didn't make the cut at 50. Was Rise Against really 2003? I hated them back then, I just started getting into them this year though. I can't even remember why I didn't like them anymore.

[sleepyseanzzz]

Interesting.

To all the kids on AP.net who's Top 20 of 2009 is indie/hipster/whatever, I'd love to see your 2003 lists. Funny punk-pop dominates the old lists and indie dominates the new list. :)

when i first got into music i was a pop punk fan of bands like nfg, blink, old starting line, less than jake, brand new's first album, green day, sum 41. but now i guess it's not cool to like four year strong, a day to remember, set your goals, or the wonder years since they aren't as deep as daisy. i don't like starting line or brand new's later efforts as my favorite genre has always been any variations of punk music. and im not a huge fan of ace enders or anthony green either but that is what most of the users in the community are the biggest fans of now in 2009

[brothaman]

the beloved - failure on
the bled - pass the flask
the elected - me first
every time i die - hot damn!
grandaddy - sumday
the locust - plague soundscapes
m83 - dead cities, red seas & lost ghosts
the mars volta - deloused in the comatorium
the paper chase - what big teeth you have ep


no order, but some of my favorites
best list, just because of failure on, god i miss beloved

[12!21fightchoke]

Ape Dos Mil

'Nuff said.

[seraph1214]

Get Rich is one of the top 20 hiphop albums of all time.

-ACA

I don't know about that but it's one of the best debut albums in hip hop of all time.

[Pat k]

Are we talking about Get Rich or Die Trying by 50 Cent? Because if so, then no.

[AlternateToLife]

Why?

[Pat k]

There are 20 better rap albums.

[wrse4thewear]

50 Cent is not good. The only song of his I can really listen to anymore is Patiently Waiting.

[TotalCollapse]

Gatsby's American Dream - Ribbons and Sugar

Cursive-The Ugly Organ

Thursday - War All The Time
I second these.

[Dr. Acula]

2003 was a really good year if you're a person with the exact same tastes as me. Going through my iTunes and wrack of albums here at work, here's some of my favorite albums of that year (in alphabetical order, because lists are lazy fun):
Andrew Bird -- Weather Systems
The Appleseed Cast -- Two Conversations
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti -- Lover Boy
Asobi Seksu -- Asobi Seksu
The Be Good Tanyas -- Chinatown
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Take The On, On Your Own
The Blood Brothers -- ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn
Catena Collapse/ La Quiete -- La Quiete/Catena Collapse 7 ''
Cult of Luna -- The Beyond
Cursive -- The Ugly Organ
The Decemberists -- Her Majesty, the Decemberists
Devendra Banhart -- The Black Babies
Erykah Badu -- Worldwide Underground
The Exploding Hearts -- Guitar Romantic
Fall Out Boy -- Take This to Your Grave
Faun -- Licht
Great Lake Swimmers -- Great Lake Swimmers
I Would Set Myself on Fire for You -- I Would Set Myself on Fire for You
Jay-Z -- The Black Album
Kayo Dot -- Choirs of the Eye
The Locust -- Plague Soundscapes
The Mars Volta -- De-Loused In The Comatorium-
The Methadones -- Career Objective
Million Dead -- A Song to Ruin
Murder By Death -- Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?-
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds -- Nocturna
Old Man Gloom -- Christmas Eve I & II + 6-
Outkast -- Speakerboxxx/The Love Below-
The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower -- Disseration, Honey
Pretty Girls Make Graves -- The New Romance
Radiohead -- Hail to the Thief
The Riverdales -- Phase 3
The Sea and Cake -- Glass/One Bedroom
The Shins -- Chutes Too Narrow
Some Girls -- All My Friends are Going Death
Super Furry Animals -- Phantom Power
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists -- Hearts of Oak
Teen Idols -- Nothing to Prove
The Thermals -- More Parts per Million
The Weakerthans -- Reconstruction Site
The Weathermen -- The Conspiracy
The White Stripes -- Elephant
The Wrens -- The Meadowlands

/thread. (aside for a few I'm not into)

[Dr. Acula]

Get Rich is one of the top 20 hiphop albums of all time.

-ACA

:shudder: No. No. No. Just...NO.

[kbi the crowing]

best hip hop album of 2003:

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss5/RichoKidd/TheCalling.jpg

[Greg.Kushlan]

I listened to Thrice for the first time in 2003, I feel old.

[cinderandsmoke]

The Microphones - Mount Eerie

This.
Also, the Eisley album is called "Room Noises," not "Marvelous Things."
I agree with the albums on your list, but I'd rearrange them, for sure.
Needs "The Ugly Organ" by Cursive as well.

[andrewa5]

Good Call putting Speakerboxxx/The love below.
That album is great!

[Thomas Balkcom]

be hard to rank them but I listen to Loses Control, Hail to the Thief, and The Ugly Organ on a pretty consistent basis still.

[Zachariaahh]

Get Rich is one of the top 20 hiphop albums of all time.

-ACA

theres no way in hell get rich is in the top 20 of all time..
50 sucks. and doesnt deserve any sort of crdeit

[wroteurname]

My top whatever of 2003 done in the year 2003 wouldn't be thaaat different than if I were to do it currently. Well, Page Avenue would not be on there and Down the River of Golden Dreams would, that's for sure.

[andyball2311]

really glad to see count the stars make your list..i miss those guys

[TurbulentCo]

Expound.


The music made by little boys that want to be girls is so slow and boring and unoriginal that it is painful to listen to. Are there any indie bands that haven't ripped off The Killers, Deathcab, the Faint, or TV on the Radio.

[IWasaCamera]

Are there any indie bands that haven't ripped off The Killers, Deathcab, the Faint, or TV on the Radio.
I love AP.

[IntoTheSun]

The music made by little boys that want to be girls is so slow and boring and unoriginal that it is painful to listen to. Are there any indie bands that haven't ripped off The Killers, Deathcab, the Faint, or TV on the Radio.

:uhno:

[cshadows2887]

:uhno:

Seconded.

[oddwithoutend]

Wow.

[ThePartialGlow]

The music made by little boys that want to be girls is so slow and boring and unoriginal that it is painful to listen to. Are there any indie bands that haven't ripped off The Killers, Deathcab, the Faint, or TV on the Radio.

Umm...go try out some Pavement. Please.

[TurbulentCo]

Umm...go try out some Pavement. Please.

Pavement invented boredom.

[ThePartialGlow]

Pavement invented boredom.

To each his own I guess.

[IWasaCamera]

Pavement is a poor man's Death Cab.

[kearn1tm]

I don't care what Pitchfork says, Get Rich or Dye Trying is a shitty album.

[kearn1tm]

The music made by little boys that want to be girls is so slow and boring and unoriginal that it is painful to listen to. Are there any indie bands that haven't ripped off The Killers, Deathcab, the Faint, or TV on the Radio.

Here comes Kid Xtreme laying shit down for you heathens!

[IntoTheSun]

Here comes Kid Xtreme laying shit down for you heathens!

He's so cool that he's been sig'ed. His words are almighty.

[HogarthHughes]

Good Mourning by Alkaline Trio dominated 2003 for me. God, that was a great year. Excellent lists by everyone, btw.

[3eb23]

Some not on the list that I was really into:

Rooney- Rooney
Third Eye Blind - Out of the Vein
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin'
AFI - Sing The Sorrow
Relient K - Two Lefts/Deck The Halls
Fall Out Boy - TTTYG
Armor For Sleep - Dream to Make Believe
Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
Thursday - War All The Time
Obie Trice - Cheers
Copeland - Beneath Medicine Tree
Something Corporate - North
The Format - Interventions + Lullabies
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Cauterize - So Far From Real
Blink 182 - Blink 182
Beloved - Failure On
Alicia Keys - The Diary of Alicia Keys

...wow times have changed

[T-bag]

Nattefrost-Piss and Vomit.