posted by davidt on Friday July 11 2003, @10:00AM
Time again to make your calls on the best albums released in the past year or so.

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  • ...would be one named "Think Tank" by Blur. I can't stop listening to it. A different type of Blur; not necessarily better, but equal.
    Joshh -- Friday July 11 2003, @10:08AM (#68362)
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  • in no particular order....
    The Hidden Cameras - The Smell Of Our Own
    Eels - Shootenanny
    Grandaddy - Sumday
    The White Stripes - Elephant
    Mull Historical Society - Us
    My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
    Nick Cave - Nocturama
    Bright Eyes - Lifted

    most looking forward to
    Elbow - Cast Of Thousands

    and er....whats his face? morri....oh i forget now, he's back i here, should be interesting!

    regards,
    Kes x
    FRED UP -- Friday July 11 2003, @10:20AM (#68364)
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  • Beautifully orchestrated, ambitious indiepop from Scotland. Best of the year by far.
    Anonymous -- Friday July 11 2003, @10:27AM (#68367)
  • We Were Born In A Flame by Sam Roberts. Yummy. Imagine if The End of the Family Line rocked and you'd have Dead End.
    keith_talent -- Friday July 11 2003, @10:36AM (#68370)
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  • Radiohead - Hail to the Theif
    Sigur ros - ( )
    Stephen Malkmus - Pig Lib
    Devin Townsend - Terria
    JakeBo -- Friday July 11 2003, @10:40AM (#68372)
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  • It's The White Stripes - Elephant

    If you don't like it straight away, give it time, it's a grower.
    Anonymous -- Friday July 11 2003, @10:41AM (#68373)
  • There's been tons of great music but without a doubt, i'd say the best of the last year (if not few years)...

    Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
    PeteMoz -- Friday July 11 2003, @10:51AM (#68375)
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  • Sigur Ros - ()
    Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
    Beth Orton - Daybreaker
    Beth Gibbons - Rustin Man
    Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
    SeaDocked -- Friday July 11 2003, @11:21AM (#68382)
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  • In no particular order:

    Blur - Think Tank
    The Polyphonic Spree - The Beginning Stages Of...
    Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
    Cody Chesnutt - The Headphone Masterpiece
    Deftones - Self Titled (Roses Album)
    The Roots - Phrenology
    Nick Cave - Nocturama
    The Sheila Devine - Secret Society
    Siouxsie & The Banshees - 7 Year Itch

    A lack luster year for the post modern fan unfortunately. I guess my favorites would be Interpol or The Polyphonic Spree's releases.
    MOZ IS GOD -- Friday July 11 2003, @11:38AM (#68386)
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  • All of the following were released between April 2002 and May 2003. Most should qualify for relesaes made in the past year or so.

    Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    The Mooney Suzuki - Electric Sweat
    Doves - The Last Broadcast
    Oasis - Heathen Chemistry
    Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
    Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
    Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
    Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
    Soundtrack of Our Lives - Behind the Music
    Laura Cantrell - When the Roses Bloom Again
    Paul Weller - Illumination
    Jesse Malin - The Fine Art of Self Destruction
    Supergrass - Life On Other Planets
    Idlewild - The Remote Part
    Longwave - Strangest Things
    The White Stripes - Elephant
    The Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine & Ours
    Anonymous -- Friday July 11 2003, @11:40AM (#68387)
  • 1. Blur Think Tank
    2. Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights

    Was there anything else worth mentioning?
    Anonymous -- Friday July 11 2003, @11:44AM (#68389)
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  • by Supreme Beings of Leisure
    Anonymous -- Friday July 11 2003, @11:57AM (#68391)
  • Radiohead-"Hail To The Theif"
    Blur-"Think Tank
    Placebo-"Sleeping With Ghosts"
    Soundtrack Of Our LIves-"B.T.M."
    White Stripes-"Elephant"
    Set Fire To Flames-"The Telegram"
    Supergrass-"Life On Other Planets"
    Cat Power-"You Are Free"
    The Music-"The Music"
    Sharron Needles -- Friday July 11 2003, @11:58AM (#68392)
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    • Re:my albums by veradicere (Score:1) Friday July 11 2003, @01:39PM
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  • For the last year:

    1. The Sounds - Living in America
    2. Bright Eyes - Lifted
    3. Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea
    4. Mum - Now We are No One
    5. Mars Volta

    Yes! - Finn
    Anonymous -- Friday July 11 2003, @12:08PM (#68395)
  • Athlete - Vehicles and Animals
    Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of Season
    Michelle Shocked - Deep Natural
    Junior Senior - DDD Don't stop the beat
    Anonymous -- Friday July 11 2003, @12:28PM (#68398)
  • 2003
    Hail To The Thief - Radiohead
    Elephant - White Stripes
    Think Tank - Blur

    2002
    A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay
    Riot Act - Pearl Jam
    By The Way - Chili Peppers
    Heathen Chemistry - Oasis
    One By One - Foo Fighters
    Up The Bracket - Libertines
    The Rising - Bruce Springsteen
    Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - Flaming Lips
    Baz -- Friday July 11 2003, @12:41PM (#68400)
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  • Cody Chesnutt - The Headphone Masterpiece
    Laura Cantrell - When the Roses Bloom Again
    Richard Buckner - Impasse
    Morrisslloyd -- Friday July 11 2003, @01:02PM (#68402)
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  • In order:

    Beth Orton - Daybreaker
    Sarah Harmer - You Were Here
    Sarah Slean - Nightbugs
    Johnny Marr and the Healers - Boomslang
    Saint Etienne - Finisterre
    Sarah Shannon - Sarah Shannon
    Moodswings - Horizontal
    Haven - Between the Senses
    Thievery Corporation - The Richest Man in Babylon
    Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

    Honorable mentions:
    Melanie Chisholm - Reason
    various - Morrissey: Under the Influence
    Suede - A New Morning
    PSB - Release
    xbongo <[email protected]> -- Friday July 11 2003, @01:03PM (#68403)
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  • Momus - Oskar Tennis Champion
    fut -- Friday July 11 2003, @01:05PM (#68404)
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  • nada surf - let go
    the raveonettes - whip it on
    royksopp - melody a.m.
    beth gibbons and rustin man - out of season
    dj shadow - private press
    Anonymous -- Friday July 11 2003, @01:32PM (#68411)
  • 1) 50 Cent, Get Rich or Die Tryin'

    2) Kelly Clarkson, Thankful

    3) Soundtrack, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

    4) Cher, The Best of Cher

    5) R. Kelly, Chocolate Factory

    6) Christina Aguilera, Stripped

    7) Lil' Kim, La Bella Mafia
    PopsicleBoy -- Friday July 11 2003, @01:33PM (#68412)
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  • but they were all terrible. Suede's and Radiohead's CDs were the only ones I didn't vomit at upon hearing.
    Anonymous -- Friday July 11 2003, @01:37PM (#68416)
  • 1.The Thermals - More parts per million
    2.The Libertines - Up the bracket
    3.The Thrills - So much for the city
    4.Suede - A new morning
    Anonymous -- Friday July 11 2003, @01:42PM (#68420)
  • Suede - A New Morning
    Tindersticks - Waiting For The Moon
    Soul Whirling Somewhere - Pyewackit
    Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham - L'Avventura
    Echoboy - Giraffe
    Jeff Tweedy - Chelsea Walls soundtrack
    Luna - Romantica
    Baptiste - Nothing Shines Like A Broken Heart
    Leaves - Breathe
    Cousteau - Sirena
    JJ72 - I To Sky
    The Clientele - The Violet Hour
    Suzanne Vega - Songs In Red And Gray
    Delgados - Hate
    Rialto - Night On Earth
    Czars - The Ugly People vs The Beautiful People
    Lambchop - Tools In The Dryer
    Horse Stories - Travelling Mercies (For Troubled Paths)
    Martin L Gore - Counterfeit
    Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
    Ivy - Guestroom
    geniusIwas -- Friday July 11 2003, @01:43PM (#68421)
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  • is "100th window" from massive attack
    Fabricio <[email protected]> -- Friday July 11 2003, @01:50PM (#68423)
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  • Starflyer 59- Old
    Radiohead- Hail To The Thief
    Hot Hot Heat- Make Up The Breakdown

    Not much else to list.
    Anonymous -- Friday July 11 2003, @02:16PM (#68426)
  • The Bellfuries "Just Plain Lonesome"- This album by Austin, TX native rockabilly/roots trio is one of the best albums OF ALL TIME, and surely one of the best of the year. No drums, but excellent rhythmic excursions by the slap bassist, mighty fine guitar/steel playing, and UNCHARACTERISTICALLY strong lyrics and great vocals bring out the fine talent of this band. I was at VZD's in Oklahoma City awhile back, and the band was taking requests. They did "Ask", "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" when we yelled out "Play SMIIIITHS!" They even did a partial Billy Bragg tune. If you get a chance, get their album and support them on the road. Not a lot of rockabilly acts will openly admit the Smiths as an influence, anyway!!! I'm pretty sure they're about to hit the west coast on tour soon.
    icicular -- Friday July 11 2003, @02:32PM (#68429)
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  • Ladytron - Light & Magic
    dacid -- Friday July 11 2003, @02:39PM (#68434)
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  • The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
    broccoli_spears -- Friday July 11 2003, @02:45PM (#68435)
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  • Surprised no one's gone for Sparks' L'il Beethoven yet. An astonishing piece of work - and I'm nominating this for that reason, not because Morrissey likes them!!
    Georgethetwentythird -- Friday July 11 2003, @03:13PM (#68437)
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  • Blur: Think Tank,
    Beth Gibbons/Rustin Man: Out Of Season
    Radiohead: Hail To The Thief
    Athlete: Vehicals and Animals
    White Stripes: Elephant
    AnthonyGlamour -- Friday July 11 2003, @03:39PM (#68443)
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  • Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
    Beth Gibbons -
    The new jj72 album
    Coldplay- A rush of blood...
    The Vines - highly evolved
    and something i must have missed and ill remember later....

    ah! also Pulp "hits"... its not really "new" but i like it
    no, i didnt like the new blur album much :/
    Witbloem -- Friday July 11 2003, @03:58PM (#68446)
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  • the hidden cameras - the smell of our own
    hot hot heat - make up the breakdown
    yeah yeah yeahs - fever to tell
    80's matchbox b-line disaster - horse of the dog
    beck - sea change
    interpol - turn on the bright lights
    the coral - the coral (not sure if eligible)
    raveonettes - whip it on
    the flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots

    p.s was anyone else incredibly dissapointed with the thrills album??
    monsieurgazerina <[email protected]> -- Friday July 11 2003, @04:00PM (#68448)
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  • 1. Interpol-Turn On The Bright Lights
    2. Goldfrapp-Black Cherry
    3. Turbonegro-Scandinavian Leather
    Anonymous -- Friday July 11 2003, @04:24PM (#68453)
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  • The past year has been rather disappointing. Nothing really stellar to speak of. These are the only ones I bought that haven't been shelved yet:

    in no particular order...

    1) radiohead - hail to the thief
    2) Interpol - turn on the bright lights
    3) beck - sea change
    4) blur - think tank
    5) rooney - rooney
    6) lamb - what sound
    7) peter murphy - dust
    8) queens of the stone age - songs for the deaf
    9) ian mcculloch - slideling
    Earl Graphite <[email protected]> -- Friday July 11 2003, @05:01PM (#68458)
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  • The best (and it wasn't hard to take first this year)
    The Trashcan Sinatras - Zebra of the Family
    The Get Up Kids - On a Wire
    Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
    Black Box Recorder - Passionia(though looking forward,much more,to the latest Auteurs release later this month)
    That's it...there's nothing else...SAME TO YOU!
    This Can Of Spam -- Friday July 11 2003, @06:19PM (#68461)
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  • She may have been responsible for some shambolic live appearances lately but Cat Power's 'You Are Free' album has been my personal favourite, certainly worth the waste of 10 quid going to see her a few weeks ago!
      It's a fantastic record,'Good Woman' is just magic. She's a genius and like all others she's a tad insane I think.
    Anonymous -- Friday July 11 2003, @06:23PM (#68462)
  • Off the top o' the noggin. I've been on a bit of a budget, but I bought these:

    Nick Cave- Nocturama
    Fleetwood Mac- Say You Will
    Soft Cell- Cruelty without Beauty
    Johnny Cash- 4:Man comes around
    Steroid Maximus- Ectopia
    Gogol Bordello- Multi Kontra Culti Vs. Irony
    Steve Earle- Jerusalem
    Non-Children of the Black Sun
    Badly Drawn Boy-Have you fed the fish
    Chumbawamba- ReadyMades
    Red Hot Chili Peppers- By the Way

    I need to buy new music. I'm depressed now.
    Rowdy Yeats -- Friday July 11 2003, @06:30PM (#68463)
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  • stephen malkmus - pig lib
    m. ward - transfiguration of vincent
    spoon = kill the moonlight
    future bible heroes - eternal youth
    luna - romantica
    momus - oskar tennis champion
    the aislers set - how i learned to write backwards
    the libertines - up the bracket
    starlight mints - built on squares
    tobin sprout - lost planet & phantom voices
    bernard -- Friday July 11 2003, @07:00PM (#68464)
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  • We're in the money
    We're in the money
    We've got a lot of what it takes to get along.
    -----------------------------------

    Besides that new AFI LP, I haven't listened to one other new song[s] in that shallow rat-faced year known as the 2003. So fer my list, in order, goes as follows:

    1. The Beatles Anthology DVD Boxed Set
    2. Morrissey - Still Seasick... (homemade cd-r)
    3. Under My Shoe - Various Artists (homemade cd-r)
    4. West Side Story DVD Boxed Set
    5. AFI - Sing The Sorrow

    ---------------------------
    Yes, 1933 is a great year for music!
    Davy_Havok -- Friday July 11 2003, @07:18PM (#68465)
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  • Blur's Think Tank is probably the best and most original album of 2003 thus far. Graham Coxon isn't missed at all here. Most of the "pop" bands out there could learn a thing or two from this album--with the exception of "Crazy Beat." That song just seems highly unnecessary.
    Needle_in_your_eye -- Friday July 11 2003, @08:09PM (#68467)
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  • not since my teen years have i bought so few albums in one year.

    only two that i can recall.

    Nickel Creek, which wasn't released in this year, but i gave it a few spins and didn't see any point in it so it was shelved and not missed.

    Jason Mraz.

    nobody ever says anything about this guy, but i really like him. some of the songs are throwaway, but he sounds a bit like Don MacClean and has a very broad range in what he can pull off. i really enjoy it.

    other than that, i'm confused by the shelves of new releases out there. everything seems the exact same to me so i really don't know what to buy.
    suzanne -- Friday July 11 2003, @08:28PM (#68471)
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  • Arab Strap - Monday at the Hug and Pint
    The Cardigans - Long gone before daylight
    Gemma Hayes - Night on my side
    Chantal Kreviazuk - What if it all means something?
    Marilyn Manson - The golden age of grotesque
    bankboy -- Friday July 11 2003, @09:12PM (#68476)
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  • Ron House: "Obsessed" (wasnt too nice when i met him... but, he's so great -- former Great Plains frontman)

    Andy Partridge: "Fuzzy Warbles 1-4" (plus, they're signed)

    My Version of It: "The Ball" (very good CD from mp3.com artists, plus they're last year record was great too, "Unknown Members" -- a play on Joy Division, Although I've heard they've broken up..)

    The Resident's: "Icky Flix 2" (a CD of the songs left off the 1st soundtrack -- 'Just For You' is outstanding... i wrecked my car yesterday listening to it... really)

    Jared Morris: "The Best of 1998-2002" (very creative but lacks cohesion --is that a word?-- from this mp3.com artist)

    My Dad is Dead: "The Engine of Commerce" (first new album in 10,000,000 years, good stuff.. people wrote it off as trying too hard, but it's great)

    XTC: "Coat of Many Cupboards" (box set came out last year but,. i just got it.)
    anonionaneyeahook -- Friday July 11 2003, @09:36PM (#68477)
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  • 1. Kristen Hersh - Grotto
    2. The Durutti Column - Someone Else's Party
    3. Smoking Popes - The Party's Over
    4. Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
    5. Tender Trap - Film Molecules
    6. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
    7. The Stills - Rememberese e.p.
    8. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - The Secret of Elena's Tomb
    9. Pet Shop Boys - Disco 3
    10. Future Bible Heroes - The Lonely Robot e.p.
    mozchildren -- Friday July 11 2003, @09:47PM (#68478)
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  • up the bracket - the Libertines
    Celibate Cry <[email protected]> -- Friday July 11 2003, @09:55PM (#68479)
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  • Okay, I read all your comments. Then, I did a very simple statistical analysis (very uncharacteristic of me) of the top 10 picks. I listened to those albums in their entirety. The local record shop is cool like that. So, while I don't think it was a great year in music, and while I was not paying acute attention, what I really enjoyed the most was:

    Badly Drawn Boy - About A Boy (soundtrack)
    PopsicleBoy -- Friday July 11 2003, @10:36PM (#68481)
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  • 1. Elvis On Stage at the International Hotel, Las Vegas 1970

    2. Elvis as Recorded At Madison Square Garden, 1972

    As far as anything newer, I don't know about modern music because when I hear it accidentally on the radio I want to throw up, then shoot myself.
    Copeland -- Friday July 11 2003, @11:25PM (#68483)
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  • Interpol - turn on the bright lights
    Peter Murphy - dust
    Niko Case - blacklisted
    Stephen Jones - almost cured of sadness
    Babybird - lofi box (sometimes boring)
    Camper v Beethoven - santa cruz years
    Frank Black + Catholics - show me your tears
    Lloyd Cole - music in a foreign language (sometimes really boring)
    TATU - 200km in the wrong lane
    Punjabi MC - the album
    Wolfsheim - casting shadows
    Tear Garden - eye spy...
    Skinny Puppy - brap 6 + puppy gristle (extremely boring, but that's ok)
    The Miss - no radio

    I want to hear that My Dad Is Dead record but haven't found it. That guy sings like the guy from Interpol a little, like he has to pinch one. I can't recommend TATU enough. I heard it before I knew the whole russian teenage lesbian thing, and when I found out, wow, what a bonus.
    mattorefice <[email protected]> -- Saturday July 12 2003, @12:14AM (#68485)
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  • hmmmm....

    Badly Drawn Boy

    About a boy Soundtrack
    MasterOfWho -- Saturday July 12 2003, @12:28AM (#68486)
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