Tuesday, November 18, 2003
(2:10 AM) | Anonymous:
Me Against The Music
It's time. I'm going to name my top 3 albums of 2003. I know there is still 1 1/2 months to go, but I'm not impressed enough by what is yet to come out to stave off any longer.
I'll go too long if I don't be frank about it..so here they are:
Before I start..the emboldened words are merely the titles of cds..not links. Sorry, I didn't feel like going through Amazon for them all.
1. The Starlight Mints - Built On Squares
Best album of the year..not hands down only because this year in music was really pretty amazing. I've never been so instantly yet enduringly in love with a cd since Pavement's Terror Twilight.
2. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Geeze did they ever hit the stride their debut hinted at..freaking amazing.
3. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Pig Lib, Pig Lib
I held off on lauding it for a long time thinking my biases were in the way, but I finally had to give in and admit it - Stephen..I love you.
Honorable mention (too interchangably messy to put in particular order):
Absolution - Muse, Hearts of Oak - Ted Leo And The Pharmacists, Dear Catastrophe Waitress - Belle & Sebastian, Give Up - The Postal Service, Sumday - Grandaddy, It Still Moves - My Morning Jacket, the obligatory: Hail To The Thief - Radiohead, Think Tank - Blur, Speakerboxx/The Love Below - Outkast, The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place - Explosions In The Sky, Shootenanny! - The Eels, Life On Other Planets - Supergrass, The Decline Of British Sea Power - British Sea Power, The Ugly Organ - Cursive, So Much For The City - The Thrills, HaHA Sound - Broadcast.
I have to stop at 15 honorable mentions or this will go on forever, because, seriously, this has been an amazing year in music. I'm sure I'm forgetting some, especially early releases..but I think this is a pretty good representation of just where I'm at.
I guess in retrospect, I don't know why anyone would care what I think about the best music this year, but, thank you all, good night.
