Songs

1. The Wrens - She Sends Kisses
2. TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun
3. White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
4. The Wrens - 13 Months in 6 Minutes
5. Songs : Ohia - Farewell Transmission
6. OutKast - Hey Ya!
7. Broadcast - Ominous Cloud
8. Belle and Sebastian - Piazza, New York Catcher
9. 50 Cent - In da Club
10. Ulrich Schnauss - Clear Day
11. Lightning Bolt - Two Towers
12. Iron Maiden - Paschendale
13. Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
14. Robert Wyatt - Insensatez
15. Caribou - Bijoux
16. Von Bondies - C'mon C'mon
17. Strokes - Reptilia
18. Blur - Ambulance
19. Fout Tet - As Serious As Your Life
20. Cat Power - Free
21. Ulrich Schnauss - On My Own
22. British Sea Power - Remember Me
23. Super Furry Animals - Slow Life
24. Menomena - The Late Great Libido
25. Lightning Bolt - Dracula Mountain
26. Broadcast - Lunch Hour Pops
27. Robert Wyatt - Old Europe
28. M83 - Run into Flowers
29. Four Tet - She Moves She
30. Fiery Furnances - Asthma Attack

Strange year for songs for me; not a lot of all timers, but some really cool songs throughout that are likely to grow on me.

@nj I thought my votse for Strangely Isolated Place and Cuckooland would be enough to appease you.

indie avalanche

Henrik I love your # 1 and was surprised that it (Sufjan Stevens) wasn't included in that many lists.

Jackson I didn't know you liked Iron Maiden (I have no idea how they sounded in 2003, probably the same as in 1982 though)

Iron Maiden was one of my favorite bands back when I was in my metal/hard rock phase. Many of their songs still sound good to me, and "Paschendale" is a nice epic that, in fact, does sound just like their better 80s material.

hey, sure they are, i'm talking more like ze future path... plus: you deserve a platinum triple star for "votse"...

There are a lot of early albums by bands I love that I haven't heard being voted for this year. I hope a few of 'em qualify so I have extra incentive to listen to them.

I have the results ready to release but if you submit your list soon I will count it. The gabs between #10 and #11 are quite big so I doubt your vote will affect to finalists.
I counted points to Ignition (Remix) and it's going to make to final although it may be a 2002 song.

OK here are the results.

Albums
1 . The White Stripes - Elephant - 940
2 . The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow - 574
3 . Radiohead - Hail to the Thief - 569
4 . Outkast - Speakerboxxx/Love Below - 496
5 . The Wrens - Meadowlands - 351
6 . The Postal Service - Give up - 320
7 . The Strokes - Room on Fire - 281
8 . Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell - 266
9 . Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress - 263
10 . Sufjan Stevens - Michigan - 248

11 . Blur - Think Tank - 222
12 . Cat Power - You Are Free - 196
13 . Fountains Of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers - 192
14 . Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism - 186
15 . Manitoba | Up In Flames - 183
16 . Jay-Z - The Black Album - 183
17 . Robert Wyatt – Cuckooland - 178
18 . Super Furry Animals- Phantom Power - 163
19 . Four Tet - Rounds - 135
20 . Rapture, The - Echoes - 129
21 . The New Pornographers - Electric Version - 125
22 . The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone - 118
23 . Muse - Absolution - 118
24 . Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner - 116
25 . My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves - 107

Songs
1 . OutKast – Hey Ya! - 799
2 . The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army - 462
3 . Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps - 440
4 . The Postal Service - Such Great Heights - 352
5 . Jay-Z - 99 Problems - 279
6 . TV On The Radio - Staring At The Sun - 272
7 . Radiohead - There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.) - 213
8 . R Kelly- Ignition (Remix) - 171
9 . Beyoncé – Crazy in Love - 170
10 . Blur - Out of Time - 163

11 . The Strokes - Reptilia - 128
12 . Kanye West - Through The Wire - 126
13 . Shins – Saint Simon - 119
14 . !!! - Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story) - 111
15 . The White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button - 104
16 . The Strokes - 12:51 - 93
17 . Twista Feat. Kanye West and Jamie Foxx - Slow Jamz - 93
18 . The Knife - Pass This on - 92
19 . Fountains of Wayne – Stacy’s Mom - 92
20 . Elliott Smith - Pretty (Ugly Before) - 91
21 . Fountains of Wayne - Valley Winter Song - 90
22 . 50 Cent - In Da Club - 87
23 . The Mars Volta - Inertiatic ESP - 80
24 . Junior Seniors - Move Your Feet # (2002 song) - 81
25 . Radiohead - Where I End and You Begin - 70

Petri, my vote wouldn't have changed the results at all, so you can keep these as the final results.

32nd of the decade in AM, 24th of its year in the forum poll... Forum, I am disappoint !

I tried Dizzee Rascal, but I just cannot do the British rap thing. It sounds ridiculous to me.

If Through The Wire and Slow Jamz aren't going to make it, I'm guessing only Jesus Walks from The College Dropout will qualify, which is a shame because that album is quickly becoming one of my favorites from the past decade and is loaded with strong singles.

Can't really complain about this. Lots of my favorites are not acclaimed, and this seems pretty good.


This is where it goes pear-shaped. The acclaim for "Ignition" baffles me - it just seems like another shitty rap song from the 00s. And Beyonce is the spawn of Satan. That these 2 songs defile the top 10 while "Reptilia" and "Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard" miss out is a real shame.

Nah. With this song, she's more like the spawn of Aphrodite after a steamy affair with Kratos, out-sexing and out-powering every other song released that year.

I prefer albums 11-20 to albums 1-10. Plus only 3 of my top 30 songs made it, and HaHa Sound didn't make top 25. By far the worst results of any year so far. People still listen to Ignition?

embrace my lulwot of the week.

indie invasion (The Shins at #2 !!! that album sounds unfinished tome, unachieved, not bad though)
Plus "ignition".... oh those youngsters of nowadays..
The reference here is the AM top 3000, and in the 200's there is this profusion of indie material (that fascinates the critics for some reason).
So the more we are the more the final list will look like the AM list. Laws of math.
That's why I always prefer to have a look at individual lists, at the personal choices of evey one of us, even if they finally get drowned in the final list. The final list doesn't realy matter.

I agree about the Shins. It's not a horrible album it's just meh! asi-asi. Not worthy of being all the way at #2. I guess the majority here agreed with the critics. I'm sure the rest of the decade lists wont look so disappointing. I think Funeral is overrated but it's still better than the majority of what was in the top 25 for 03.

I guess... if you find this sexy.

It just about sums up Beyonce's contributions to music and her sex appeal.

OMG Moonbeam !! Amis de la poésie bonjour

The one year I don't vote....
The bottom ten is making it self cleaer by the month.

hip hop then? spoken word? or did I download the wrong album?

I still haven't voted in any month of this 00's polls, but I'm now really pissed off to see that if I had voted for Think Tank it would have gone to the finals. That would have made for 5 of the 7 Blur albums achieving the finals in the decade polls, only leaving Leisure and the ridiculous The Great Escape out. But now we won't have Think Tank also.

At least Out of Time advanced, joining to their other 6 tracks that went the '90s final!

c: the wrong album. not a big fan here of subdividing every little expiration of the blues into tinier and tinier categories, but "british rap thing" was funny.

WTF?!

Was it really necessary to resort to something so cheap and distasteful?

When the poll results are announced at the end of every month, there are always a few people criticizing songs or albums that made it through to the next round. And of course that is absolutely fine – we are all entitled to our opinions. But those songs and albums made it through because there were enough people supporting them, and if they get criticized their supporters might come up for them.

Crazy in Love was my favourite song of 2003 and it obviously had other supporters as well. You then call Beyonce the spawn of Satan (which was kinda funny) so I tried to respond to that in a diplomatic way by saying that I find the song sexy and powerful. But then you respond by basically saying that someone can only find that song sexy if they think a couple of dogs going at it and vomiting afterwards are sexy. Call me sensitive, but I think that’s more than just a little offensive.

You are already all over the Thanks, We Get It top 30, but it looks like your hatred for Beyonce will make the top 5 in no time.

My apologies for offending you (and anybody else), then. I crossed a line there.

You're right, though. My level of disdain for The Beatles is magnified by a factor of about 100 when it comes to Beyonce. She makes me want to throw things at the TV when I see her.