Welcome to part 4 of the best albums and songs of the '00s poll. This month we will be focusing on the year 2003.

Please submit at least 5 songs and/or albums, preferably but not necessarily with ranking, lists without ranking will get an average score of 10 points per album. The deadline is midnight on the 31th of May. For the scoring, rules and other details check here.

Please have a look at the 2003 album and song lists before voting.
You can also vote for albums and songs outside the AM top 3000.
I would appreciate if you vote in form:
rank. artist name - albums/songs name. Thanks

Songs:

1. Beyoncé – Crazy in Love
2. OutKast – Hey Ya!
3. The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
4. Jay-Z – 99 Problems
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
6. Blur – Out of Time
7. Britney Spears – Toxic
8. R. Kelly – Ignition (Remix)
9. Kelis – Milkshake
10. 50 Cent – In da Club
11. Panjabi MC - Mundian to Bach Ké
12. Rufus Wainwright – 14th Street
13. Dizzee Rascal – Fix Up, Look Sharp
14. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Date with the Night
15. The Postal Service – Such Great Heights
16. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Wolf Among Wolves
17. Ulrich Schnauss – On My Own
18. Muse – Hysteria
19. The Shins – Saint Simon
20. Cam’ron – Hey Ma

Albums:

1

The White Stripes
Elephant

2

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Fever to Tell

3

Rufus Wainwright
Want One

4

OutKast
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

5

Calexico
Feast of Wire

6

The Shins
Chutes Too Narrow

7

Jay-Z
The Black Album

8

Dizzee Rascal
Boy in da Corner

9

Cat Power
You Are Free

10

Ulrich Schnauss
A Strangely Isolated Place

11

Jean-Louis Murat
Lilith

12

Four Tet
Rounds

13

The Postal Service
Give Up

14

Broadcast
HaHa Sound

15

Benjamin Biolay
Négatif

16

M83
Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

17

Death Cab for Cutie
Transatlanticism

18

Emilie Simon
Emilie Simon

19

Sufjan Stevens
Michigan

20

Los Hermanos
Ventura

I think Elephant, S/LB and HTTT are way above the others this year, but my less obvious recommendations:

Drive By Truckers - Decoration Day
Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
The Knife - Deep Cuts
Rapture - Echoes

I need to listen to It Still Moves, Dear Catastrophe Waitress and Alcochofa

1. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
2. The Strokes - Room on Fire
3. Jay-Z - The Black Album
4. John Mayer - Heavier Things
5. Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
6. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
7. Jet - Get Born
8. New Pornographers - Electric Version

1. Radiohead - There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.)
2. Hilltop Hoods - The Nosebleed Section
3. Belle & Sebastian - If She Wants Me
4. The Strokes - Reptilia
5. Outkast - Hey Ya!
6. The White Stripes - The Air Near My Fingers
7. Jay-Z - My 1st Song

Albums:
1. Cara Dillon - Sweet Liberty
2. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
3. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
4. Josh Rouse - 1972
5. The National - Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers
6. Jay-Z - The Black Album
7. The Wrens - The Meadowlands
8. The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
9. Fountains Of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
10. Cat Power - You Are Free

Songs:
1. R.E.M. - Bad Day
2. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
3. Cara Dillon - There Were Roses
4. Cara Dillon - The Winding River Roe
5. OutKast - Hey Ya!
6. Death Cab For Cutie - A Lack Of Color
7. Josh Rouse - Rise
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
9. The National - Murder Me Rachael
10. Jay-Z - 99 Problems

Solid year for indie rock.

We had the UNDERRATED ALBUMS POLL a few weeks ago. Trust me when it comes to years of underrated music 2003 for me is at the top of the list. This was the year critics got it absolutely WRONG. The top 20 and most of the list in general is just really sad looking because they left out so many underrated gems.

1. Camera Obscura- Underachievers Please Try Harder
2. Fountains of Wayne- Welcome Interstate Managers
3. Dress Bessy- Dressy Bessy
4. Her Space Holiday- The Young Machines
5. Belle and Sebastian- Dear Catastrophe Waitress
6. All Girl Summer Fun Band- 2
7. Mull Historical Society- Us
8. Pretty Girls Make Graves- The New Romance
9. Rooney- Rooney
10.NU- Alpha Bravo Shockpop Disco
11. Liz Phair- Liz Phair
12. Stratford 4- Love and Distortion
13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Fever To Tell
14. The Caesars- 39 Minutes of Bliss
15. Super Furry Animals- Phantom Power

I need recommendations for this year

For the ones who don't know my tastes : not a big fan of indie rock and harcore electro, but gimme any other stuff ("classic" rock, folk, world, hip hop r&b metal etc)

acclaimed albums I already know (and like) : White Stripes, Outkast, R Wyatt, R Wainwright, Cat Powers

Dan M, I love your lists

I agree with Tim E that the critics list seems a little off for this year. I haven't heard much I like outside of The Meadowlands, but I can't wait to listen to Robert Wyatt, the Books, Grandaddy, Four Tet, Lightning Bolt, Prefuse 73, Super Furry Animals, and the Microphones. This year has a lot of promise.

I think the critics got the top 2 right (Elephant is in my top ten all time), but after that were off.

Otherwise, yeah, 2003 seems like a 'Changing of the guard' year, and all the critics voted for the old guard.

1. Josh Rouse - Rise
2. Drive-By Truckers - Heathens
3. Fleetwood Mac - Thrown Down
4. Zwan - Desire
5. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Fare Thee Well
6. Darkness - Growing on Me
7. Ryan Adams - Burning Photographs
8. Guided by Voices - The Best of Jill Hives
9. Rufus Wainwright - Dinner at Eight
10. Radiohead - There There (The Boney of King of Nowhere)
11. Fountains of Wayne - Valley Winter Song
12. Basement Jaxx - If I Ever Recover
13. John Cale - Set Me Free
14. My Morning Jacket - Just One Thing
15. Pernice Brothers - Sometimes I Remember
16. David Sylvian - A Fire in the Forest
17. Blur - Sweet Song
18. Gang Starr - Zonin'
19. Outkast - Roses
20. Handsome Family - Fallen Peaches

21. Richmond Fontaine - Post to Wire
22. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
23. David Bowie - Fall Dog Bombs the Moon
24. Warren Zevon - Numb as a Statue
25. Kylie Minogue - Still Standing
26. Bubba Sparxxx - Nowhere
27. Songs:OHIA - Hold On Magnolia
28. Vic Chesnutt - Stay Inside
29. Wrens - Happy
30. Evan Dando - My Idea
31. Mars Volta - Intertiatic E.S.P.
32. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Right Out of Your Hand
33. Aesop Rock - Frijoles
34. Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
35. Andrew W.K. - Never Let Down
36. Four Tet - Hands
37. Ed Harcourt - The Birds Will Sing for Us
38. Paul Westerberg - Crackle and Drag (original)
39. Kings of Leon - California Waiting
40. British Sea Power - Blackout
41. Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Coma Girl
42. Fiery Furnaces - Two Fat Feet
43. Yo La Tengo - How to Make a Baby Elephant Float
44. Sufjan Stevens - The Upper Peninsula
45. Steely Dan - Godwhacker
46. Muggs - I Know
47. Missy Elliott - Toyz Interlude / Toyz
48. Pharrell feat. Clipse and Ab Li - Blaze of Glory
49. Fall - Green-Eyed Loco Man
50. Prefuse 73 - 90% of My Mind is with You

sorry, my last post was songs

Albums

1. Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea
2. Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
3. Darkness - Permission to Land
4. Warren Zevon - The Wind
5. Josh Rouse - 1972
6. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Regard the End
7. Handsome Family - Singing Bones
8. Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll
9. Guided by Voices - Earthquake Glue
10. David Bowie - Reality
11. Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Streetcore
12. Blur - Think Tank
13. Daniel Lanois - Shine
14. John Cale - Hobo Sapiens
15. Outkast - Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
16. Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will
17. Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
18. Emmylou Harris - Stumble Into Grace
19. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Nocturama
20. Steely Dan - Everything Must Go

21. Gang Starr - The Ownerz
22. Richmond Fontaine - Post to Wire
23. Kylie Minogue - Body Language
24. Ted Leo - Hearts of Oak
25. Evan Dando - Baby I'm Bored
26. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
27. 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin'
28. Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
29. Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
30. The New Pornographers - Electric Version
31. Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance
32. Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
33. Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine & Ours
34. My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
35. Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
36. Alicia Keys - The Diary of Alicia Keys
37. Ed Harcourt - From Every Sphere
38. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
39. Paul Westerberg - Come Feel Me Tremble
40. Four Tet - Rounds
41. Sufjan Stevens - Presents Greetings from Michigan, the Great Lake State
42. Jay-Z - The Black Album
43. Rufus Wainwright - Want One
44. Songs:Ohia - Magnolia Electric Company
45. Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
46. Missy Elliott - This is Not a Test!
47. Vic Chesnutt - Silver Lake
48. Andrew W.K. - The Wolf
49. Kraftwerk - Tour de France Soundtracks
50. Dwight Yoakam - Population: Me

ALBUMS

1. POSTAL SERVICE - GIVE UP
2. DEERHOOF - APPLE O'
3. WHITE STRIPES - ELEPHANT
4. YEAH YEAH YEAHS - FEVER TO TELL
5. STROKES - ROOM ON FIRE
6. MANITOBA / CARIBOU - UP IN FLAMES
7. SHINS - CHUTES TOO NARROW
8. RADIOHEAD - HAIL TO THE THIEF
9. ANDREW W.K. - THE WOLF
10. THE BOOKS - THE LEMON OF PINK
11. BASEMENT JAXX - KISH KASH
12. MY MORNING JACKET - IT STILL MOVES
13. THE WRENS - MEADOWLANDS
14. STARLIGHT MINTS - BUILT ON SQUARES
15. CAT POWER - YOU ARE FREE

Albums
1. White Stripes - Elephant
2. Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
3. Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
4. Wrens - Meadowlands
5. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
6. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
8. Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
9. Jay-Z - The Black Album
10. Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
11. Strokes - Room on Fire
12. OutKast - Speakerboxx/The Love Below
13. New Pornographers - Electric Version
14. Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan
15. Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
16. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
17. Cat Power - You Are Free
18. Postal Service - Give Up

This is my album list in the making

The Fabulous Trobadors' album is a recommendation for everyone, but I have to admit that if you don't understand French you'll miss the best part of it...

And again, your recommendations are welcome, but I have already scanned your lists above and found interesting things I should listen to.
Mid 00's are unknown territory for me

nicolas, I can't recommend anything outstanding to you, because 2003 for me is the worst album year of the last decade. Have not heard a single outstanding 2003 album, and if I look at my favourites, the Shins, Death Cab for Cutie and Josh Rouse, they have already been mentioned above.

I'll try the Trobadors' album, even though my French is poor (petit peu).

No it is NOT the worst album year. If you're going by what the critics say yes this was a terrible year but there were so many great bands with at best maybe a cult following that nobody even paid attention to or just plain forgot about towards the end of the year. This was the year you really had to dig deep but if you did your researching you will find there were so many great albums that got lost along way and they deserved much better. This was one of the all time best years for UNACCLAIMED music so keep looking and you'll find plenty of classic albums from 03. I will keep defending 2003 with every fiber of my being until people realize how they did not need the critics to help find great music at least for this year.

Accidentally posted this in a new topic.

Albums
1. Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
2. Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Unclassified
3. The White Stripes - Elephant
4. The Decemberists - Her Majesty
5. New Pornographers - Electric Version
6. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
7. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
8. Cat Power - You Are Free
9. Jay-Z - The Black Album
10. The Postal Service - Give Up


Songs
1. Fountains of Wayne - Valley Winter Song
2. The Strokes - 12:51
3. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
4. Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Going in the Right Direction
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
6. Junior Seniors - Move Your Feet
7. OutKast - Hey Ya!
8. Sufjan Stevens - Say Yes to M!ichgan
9. Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Mom
10. The Decemberists - Red Right Ankle

Great year.

The problem a lot of people have is when it comes to indie POP there's usually a BIG difference of opinion as opposed to indie ROCK in which everyone tends to agree on what was groundbreaking. Like 2001 which a lot of people consider to be one of the best years in music was donminated by Alternative rock thanks to the revival of garage rock (thank you Gore Gore Girls)and the soaring popularity of Bjork and Radiohead. That continued all the way til the end of 2002 which is another year everyone seems to hold dear to their hearts (it wasn't like the vocoder/autotune era which refuses to go the hell away)2003 was more POP oriented than just about any year in the 00s and the bands that got great reviews to me were so/so at best like Death Cab/the Postal Service (guess I'm just not a fan of Ben's)and that Shins record could not hold a candle to Fountains of Wayne. Blur was ok, no where near their prime, the Rapture was pretty mediocre and the Darkness was just plain aweful. Looks like a lot of people agree with me but they also hate the bands I loved who were very much POP which is what I liked about the year. Fun, sunny catchy melodies and not much pretentious experimentation or overhyped, underproduced male songwriters which is what gets some people off. It's the differences in opinions that made this year so unique. It's all over the place and there's no clear agreement on who put out the best albums for the year but if you're a pop fan you know this year had some real treasures.

Sorry, don't know how I forgot about Blur

Albums
1. White Stripes - Elephant
2. Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
3. Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
4. Wrens - Meadowlands
5. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
6. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
8. Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
9. Jay-Z - The Black Album
10. Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
11. Strokes - Room on Fire
12. OutKast - Speakerboxx/The Love Below
13. New Pornographers - Electric Version
14. Blur - Think Tank
15. Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan
16. Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
17. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
18. Cat Power - You Are Free
19. Postal Service - Give Up

2003 SONGS

1. POSTAL SERVICE - We Will Become Silhouettes
2. !!! - ME AND GIULIANI DOWN BY THE SCHOOLYARD
3. YEAH YEAH YEAHS - MAPS
4. THE STROKES - THE END HAS NO END
5. DEERHOOF - DUMMY DISCARDS A HEART
6. SHINS - SAINT SIMON
7. WHITE STRIPES - THERE'S NO HOME FOR YOU HERE
8. WHITE STRIPES - SEVEN NATION ARMY
9. POSTAL SERVICE - SLEEPING IN
10. POSTAL SERVICE - CLARK CABLE
11. THE STROKES - REPTILIA
12. DEERHOOF - APPLE BOMB
13. THE BOOKS - TOKYO
14. THE STROKES - MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM
15. WHITE STRIPES - THE AIR NEAR MY FINGERS
16. DEERHOOF - BLUE CASH
17. RADIOHEAD - THERE THERE
18. SHINS - KISSING THE LIPLESS
19. YEAH YEAH YEAHS - DATE WITH THE NIGHT
20. BASEMENT JAXX - GOOD LUCK

Albums:

1. The Postal Service - Give Up
2. Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
3. M. Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent
4. Guided by Voices - Earthquake Glue
5. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
6. The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
7. Adam Green - Friends of Mine
8. The Decemberists - Her Majesty The Decemberists
9. The Minus 5 - Down With Wilco
10. Erlend Øye - Unrest
11. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
12. The New Pornographers - Electric Version
13. Jim Guthrie - Now, More Than Ever
14. The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music
15. Against Me! - As the Eternal Cowboy
16. The Dandy Warhols - Welcome to the Monkey House
17. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
18. Stephen Malkmus - Pig Lib
19. Ellen Allien - Berlinette
20. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
21. Clearlake - Cedars
22. The Knife - Deep Cuts
23. Mason Jennings - Simple Life
24. The White Stripes - Elephant
25. Harry and the Potters - Harry and the Potters
26. Andrew Bird - Weather Systems
27. Stars - Heart
28. Bishop Allen - Charm School
29. Starlight Mints - Built on Squares
30. Johnny Marr & the Healers - Boomslang
31. Drive By Truckers- Decoration Day

Songs:

1. Postal Service- Such Great Heights
2. R Kelly- Ignition (Remix)
3. Guided By Voices- The Best of Jill Hives
4. Mars Volta- Inertiatic ESP
5. Kelis- Milkshake
6. Dandy Warhols- You Were the Last High
7. Britney Spears- Toxic
8. The Coral- Pass It On
9. Adam Green- Jessica
10. Grandaddy- El Caminos In the West
11. Raveonettes- That Great Love Sound
12. Belle and Sebastian- Step Into My Office Baby
13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Maps
14. Postal Service- The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
15. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists- Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone
16. Belle and Sebastian- I'm a Cuckoo
17.Outkast- Hey Ya
18. White Stripes- I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

Funny that people are saying this is the worst year. 2003 lacks a true classic, but 28 of those 31 albums are 3.5/5 stars for me. There isn't a 5 star but the first 13 are 4.5 or 4/5. I'd have to look but I doubt that there is any other year that I can name 13 4 star albums. I listened to a ton of music in 2003 but it was also a year after I graduated from college so there isn't a whole lot of nostalgia in my choices. I just think it was a year that a lot of really good music came out and gets underrated because it didn't have a classic.

Thanks for the recommendations. I'm deep into Sufjan Stevens, an artist I toally missed, and it's a revelation to me. Illinois is 4.5 stuff to me, and Michigan is on its way to get a 4/5.

* Albums

1. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
2. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
3. The White Stripes - Elephant
4. Josh Rouse - 1972
5. Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
6. The Thrills - So Much For The City
7. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
8. The Dears - No Cities Left
9. Calexico - Feast Of Wire
10. Elbow - Cast Of Thousands
11. Josh Ritter - Hello Starling
12. The Decemberists - Her Majesty The Decemberists
13. Belle And Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
14. Warren Zevon - The Wind
15. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts Of The Great Highway
16. TV On The Radio - Young Liars
17. Woven Hand - Blush Music
18. Adam Green - Friends Of Mine
19. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
20. Dolorean - Not Exotic

* Songs

1. The Shins - Saint Simon
2. Franz Ferdinand - Darts Of Pleasure
3. The Veils - The Leavers Dance
4. Zoot Woman - Grey Day
5. TV On The Radio - Staring At The Sun
6. Damien Rice - Volcano
7. Death Cab For Cutie - Title And Registration
8. The Thrills - Big Sur
9. Lucinda Williams - Righteously
10. The Coral - Pass It On
11. The Mountain Goats - Palmcorder Yajna
12. The Strokes - 12:51
13. Dears - Lost In The Plot
14. Elbow - Fallen Angel
15. Belle And Sebastian - Step Into My Office, Baby
16. The White Stripes - 7 Nation Army
17. Adam Green - Friends Of Mine
18. Outkast - Hey Ya!
19. Keane - Everybody's Changing
20. Wilco - Handshake Drugs

Damien Rice should probably be 2002 (as discussed last month), but I just leave it in here for now ...

ALBUMS of 2003:

1. Muse - Absolution
2. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
3. OutKast - Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
4. The White Stripes - Elephant
5. Zwan - Mary Star Of The Sea
6. Snow Patrol - Final Straw
7. AFI - Sing The Sorrow
8. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
9. Brand New - Deja Entendu
10. Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts
11. Jay-Z - Black Album
12. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
13. Blink 182 - Blink 182
14. Rooney - Rooney
15. Jet - Get Born
16. Blur - Think Tank
17. The Strokes - Room On Fire
18. The Postal Service - Give Up
19. The Rasmus - Dead Letters
20. A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
21. The National - Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers
22. Coldplay - Live 2003
23. Metallica - St. Anger
24. Liz Phair - Liz Phair
25. Jack Johnson - On And On

Albums

[01] Super Furry Animals | Phantom Power
[02] Lightning Bolt | Wonderful Rainbow
[03] Ulrich Schnauss | A Strangely Isolated Place
[04] Deerhoof | Apple O'
[05] Belle and Sebastian | Dear Catastrophe Waitress
[06] Sufjan Stevens | Greetings from Michigan, The Great Lakes State
[07] Supersilent | 6
[08] Boris | Boris At Last - Feedbacker
[09] Robert Wyatt | Cuckooland
[10] Manitoba | Up In Flames
[11] Mogwai | Happy Songs for Happy People
[12] OutKast | Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
[13] Matthew Shipp | Equilibrium
[14] The Books | The Lemon of Pink
[15] My Morning Jacket | It Still Moves
[16] King Geedorah | Take Me To Your Leader
[17] Rufus Wainwright | Want One
[18] British Sea Power | The Decline of British Sea Power
[19] David S. Ware | Threads
[20] The White Stripes | Elephant


Songs

[01] Super Furry Animals | Slow Life
[02] TV on The Radio | Staring At The Sun
[03] Lightning Bolt | Dracula Mountain
[04] Ulrich Schnauss | On My Own
[05] Jay-Z | 99 Problems
[06] Sufjan Stevens | Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head!
[07] OutKast | Hey Ya!
[08] Sébastien Tellier | La Ritournelle
[09] Belle and Sebastian | Stay Loose
[10] My Morning Jacket | Mahgeeta
[11] Deerhoof | Apple Bomb
[12] Mogwai | Hunted by a Freak
[13] Cesária Évora | Angola (Carl Craig Remix)
[14] Rufus Wainwright | Go or Go Ahead
[15] Boris | Feedbacker, Pt. 2
[16] Robert Wyatt | Forest
[17] Matmos | Y.T.T.E. (Yield To Total Elation)
[18] Rachel's | Water From The Same Source
[19] The Shins | Saint Simon
[20] Manitoba | Kid You'll Move Mountains
[21] Supersilent | 6.4
[22] Matthew Shipp | World of Blue Glass
[23] The White Stripes | Seven Nation Army
[24] Lightning Bolt | Assassins
[25] Ulrich Schnauss | Gone Forever
[26] Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z | Crazy In Love
[27] The Books | Tokyo
[28] Super Furry Animals | The Piccolo Snare
[29] Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Maps
[30] Kanye West | Through The Wire
[31] Radiohead | 2+2=5
[32] British Sea Power | Carrion
[33] Missy Elliott | Work It
[34] Do Make Say Think | Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!
[35] King Geedorah | Fazers
[36] M83 | Run Into Flowers
[37] Blur | Out of Time
[38] Mu | Let's Get Sick
[39] !!! | Me and Giuliani Down By the Schoolyard (A True Story)
[40] Four Tet | Hands
[41] Kelis feat. Andre 3000 | Millionaire
[42] The Fiery Furnaces | Tropical Ice-Land
[43] Café Tacuba | Hoy Es
[44] OutKast | Love Hater
[45] T.I. | 24's
[46] Boris | Naki Kyoku
[47] Cat Power | I Don't Blame You
[48] Belle and Sebastian | Wrapped Up In Books
[49] Viktor Vaughn | Saliva
[50] Deerhoof | L'Amour Stories

WHILE I'M AT IT I'LL PUT PLACEBO'S SLEEPING WITH GHOSTS AS MY #16

NOW IF YOU DON'T THINK THE QUALITY OF GOOD ALBUMS WAS A STRONG POINT FOR 03 YOU STILL HAVE TO ADMIT THIS WAS DEFINITELY THE BEST YEAR FOR SINGLES PERIOD.
1. CAMERA OBSCURA- LUNAR SEA
2. ROONEY- SORRY SORRY
3. FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE- HEY JULIE
4. CAMERA OBSCURA- SUSPENDED FROM CLASS
5. THE CONCRETES- YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE
6. THE STILLS-Lola Stars and Stripes
7. ALL GIRL SUMMER FUN BAND- BECKY
8. HIDDEN CAMERAS- BREATH ON IT
9. DRESSY BESSY- THE THINGS THAT YOU DO
10. MULL HISTORICAL SOCIETY- THE SUPERMARKET STRIKES BACK
11. HER SPACE HOLIDAY- MY GIRLFRIEND'S BOYFRIEND
12. LIZ PHAIR- EXTRAORDINARY
13. PLACEBO- BITTER END
14. BELLE AND SEBASTIAN- IF SHE WANTS ME
15. THE LEGENDS- CALL IT OURS
16. NU- BOY DON'T RUN
17. FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE- MEXICAN WINE
18. DEATH IN VEGAS-KILLING SMILE
19. SUPER FURRY ANIMALS- VENUS AND SERENA
20. POSTAL SERVICE-We Will Become Silhouettes
21. AZURE RAY- THE DRINKS WE DRANKS LAST NIGHT
22. BELLE AND SEBASTIAN- I'M A CUCKOO
23. DAMONE- ON MY MIND
24. PLACEBO- SECOND SIGHT
25. BUTTERFLY BOUCHER-ANOTHER WHITE DASH
26. MINISTRY- Animosity
27. MARIZANE-MAYOR OF THE SUNSET STRIP
28. PHANTOM PLANET- BIG BRAT
29. RYAN ADAMS- SO ALIVE
30. SNOW PATROL- HOW TO BE DEAD

01. Cuckooland. Robert Wyatt
02. Up In Flames. Manitoba/Caribou
03. I Trawl The Megahertz. Paddy McAloon
04. Just A Little Bit Crazy. Joyce & Banda Maluca
05. Worn Copy. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
06. Cell-Scape. Melt-Banana
07. Cicadidae. Kammerflimmer Kollektief
08. From Tokyo To Naiagara. Tujiko Noriko
09. A Strangely Isolated Place. Ulrich Schnauss
10. Antique Glow. Kelley Stoltz
11. Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? The Unicorns
12. Afro Finger And Gel. Mu
13. Alcachofa. Ricardo Villalobos
14. Transfiguration Of Vincent. M. Ward
15. Want One. Rufus Wainwright
16. Threads. David S. Ware String Ensemble
17. The Glad Fact. The Dirty Projectors
18. Boy In Da Corner. Dizzee Rascal
19. The Golden River. Frog Eyes
20. Pressure. The Bug

Awful year. Totally not like 1981.

I can't see that this year is worse than those before. Quite the contrary, it's hard to find a year nearby with so many promising new artists on the scene (The Sleepy Jackson, TV On The Radio, The Books, Dengue Fever, Fiery Furnaces, The National, The Kills, Sufjan Stevens, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Go! Team, ...). Maybe there is a lack of exciting hip-hop. Speaking of songs, this is my all-time favourite year (at least the top-5).

1 : Youngblood Brass Band : Brooklyn : YouTube
2 : Buck 65 : Wicked and Weird : YouTube
3 : OutKast : Hey Ya :
4 : Joe Henry : Sold : YouTube
5 : TV On The Radio : Staring at the Sun :
6 : Scissor Sisters : Comfortably Numb :
7 : The Crimea : Baby Boom : YouTube
8 : The Thrills : Big Sur : YouTube
9 : The Go! Team : Junior Kickstart : YouTube
10 : Les Triplettes de Belleville : Cabaret Ouverture : Dailymotion
11 : The Shortwave Set : Slingshot :
12 : Nujabes : Beat Laments The World : YouTube
13 : Ben Harper & Jack Johnson : High Tide or Low Tide : YouTube
14 : Johnny Cash : Pocahontas :
15 : The Sleepy Jackson : Good Dancers : YouTube
16 : Von Bondies : C'mon C'mon : YouTube
17 : Rufus Wainwright : 14th Street : YouTube
18 : The National : Slipping Husband : YouTube
19 : My Morning Jacket : One Big Holiday : YouTube
20 : Elliott Smith : Pretty (Ugly Before) : YouTube

21 : Richard Thompson : Oops, I Did It Again
22 : The Sleepy Jackson : Morning bird
23 : Katie Melua : Crawling Up A Hill
24 : Radiohead : A Wolf At The Door
25 : Seu Jorge : Tive Razao
26 : U.S.E. (United State Of Electronica) : Emerald City
27 : Adam Green : Jessica
28 : Ethan Daniel Davidson : Only One World Blues
29 : The White Stripes : 7 Nation Army
30 : 16 Horsepower : American Wheeze
31 : M. Ward : Sad, Sad Song
32 : Coral : In The Forest
33 : Menomena : Strongest Man In The World
34 : OutKast : Vibrate
35 : Calexico : Alone Again Or
36 : The Long Winters : Blue Diamonds
37 : John Fahey : Red Cross, Disciple of Christ Today
38 : Coral : Pass It On
39 : The Bad Plus : 1972 Bronze Medalist
40 : The Hidden Cameras : Ban Marriage
41 : Floozy : Falling Backwards
42 : Hala Strana : Stouthrief
43 : Sebastien Tellier : La Ritournelle
44 : Holopaw : Cinders
45 : Kanye West : Through The Wire
46 : Immortal Technique : Harlem Streets
47 : Kid Koala : Moon River
48 : Ratatat : Seventeen Years
49 : TV on the Radio : Satellite
50 : Wilco : More Like The Moon
51 : Bishop Allen : Eve Of Destruction
52 : Orquesta del Plata : Montserrat
53 : Sons and Daughters : Broken Bones
54 : Me First and the Gimme Gimmes : Nothing Compares 2 U
55 : David Darling & Wulu Bunun Tribe : Lugu Lugu Kan-Ibi
56 : Broadcast : Colour Me In
57 : Diamanda Galas : Lonely Woman
58 : The Fall : Theme From Sparta FC
59 : OutKast : Ghetto Musick
60 : ZOX : Canon
61 : Art Ensemble of Chicago : Hail We Now Sing Joy
62 : Outkast : The Way You Move
63 : Laibach : Tanz mit Laibach
64 : Scissor Sisters : Laura
65 : Slagsmålsklubben : Hit Me Hard
66 : Hilltop Hoods : The Nosebleed Section
67 : The Books : Tokyo
68 : Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer : Redemption Song
69 : Gorky's Zygotic Mynci : Happiness
70 : TV on the Radio : Young Liars
71 : The New Pornographers : The Laws Have Changed
72 : David Sylvian : Blemish
73 : Daniel Johnston : Fish
74 : Atmosphere : Trying To Find A Balance
75 : Super Furry Animals : Slow Life
76 : The Bug : Politicians & Paedophiles
77 : The Kills : Fuck the People
78 : Four Tet : She Moves She
79 : Carla Kihlstedt : No One Nicer
80 : Metric : Combat Baby
81 : Robert Wyatt : Insensatez
82 : Electrelane : On Parade
83 : Mogwai : Hunted By A Freak
84 : John Fahey : Remember
85 : Yeah Yeah Yeahs : Y Control
86 : Cat Power : Good Woman
87 : Dengue Fever : Lost In Laos
88 : Soel : Le Vicomte
89 : Tied & Tickled Trio : Revolution
90 : Joanna Newsom : The Sprout and the Bean
91 : Electric Six : Gay Bar
92 : Jay-Z : 99 Problems
93 : Jet : Are You Gonna Be My Girl
94 : The Dresden Dolls : Coin-Operated Boy
95 : Esbjorn Svensson Trio : Elevation Of Love
96 : Debashish Bhattacharya & Bob Brozman : Bana Mali
97 : Sonido Lasser Drakar : Visions
98 : The Fiery Furnaces : Tropical Ice-Land
99 : Belle and Sebastian : If She Wants Me
100 : Sufjan Stevens : Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid)

No Ha Ha Sound for you nj? I figured that would be among your favorites given its similarities in sound to the USA.

Crap, I forgot both Double Leopards and Broadcast.

Great singles, great pop songs. Stuff that was catchy and poppy,sugary but not lame like the songs you hear nowadays on car commercials. You remember the Gilmore Girls and how in the background the singers were always "La La La." To me thats how the songs you hear on the Toyata, Target and Old Navy (etc.) sound. These commercial bands made twee and indie pop so lame and this was a time when pop was just fun and sweet without sounding generic and with a soul. It was like a modern take on the Phil Spector era. Big sounds, sometimes girly, orchestral. The stuff I love was nothing out there or trying to break new ground. Her Space Holiday I thought was but they like making fun of critics with is why I think they praised the Postal Service (since their sound is so similar)just to stick it to HSH. It was just great and fun music to put a smile on your face. My 30 top singles plus about a couple dozen more will easily go down as some of my all time favorites ever. Lots the throughback sounds to the best eras of music (right before one of the very worst was revived with synthpop). To this day these songs are still stuck in my head.

Street Songs is an absolute treasure.
Just look at the bitch boots he's wearing on the cover.

great. i'm running out of quotes. thanks for nothing, Dan.

You think I'm OCD when it comes to music? LOL! If I were an oldschool DJ maybe they'd call me DJOCD. You down with OCD? :-)

If I didn't like Camera Obscura's most recent album, should I still check out their 2003 album?

Generally I'm not into those bands like CO, Muse, and KoL which are mainstays on college/alternative stations.

yeah I would. Their last album wasn't my favorite either. This one was produced by Stuart Murdoch so of course you got the Bell and Sebastian comparisons but you also hear influences by Phil Spector and the Sundays. If this were a B&S album if would definitely be my all time fave of theirs.

Why don't people here like KOL but they love the Hold Steady? I never got that. I know Gomez and Ocean Colour Scene had that 70s trad/prog sound but the word BRITPOP scared people off thanks to post Morning Glory Oasis and Robbie Williams. I never got why Williams didn't catch on either when even Pitchfork magazine was naming Justin Timberlake's Futuresex as one of the best albums of the decade. Williams made some great songs in the britpop era but never caught on in America or with the critics the way Timberlake did. Funny how music has this Yin/Yang affect between bands that have a similar sound.

Songs:

1. Go-Betweens – In Her Diary
2. Ryan Adams – Anybody Wanna Take Me Home
3. The Thrills – Hollywood Kids
4. Shins – Young Pilgrims
5. White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
6. TV On The Radio – Young Liars
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
8. Ryan Adams – Wonderwall
9. Neil Young – Leave The Driving
10. Esbjörn Svensson Trio – Did They Ever Tell Cousteau
11. Robert Wyatt – Raining In My Heart
12. Robert Wyatt – Lullaby For Hamza
13. Neil Young - Bandit
14. Johnny Cash – Southern Accents
15. April March – Coral Bracelet
16. Elliott Smith - Pretty (Ugly Before)
17. Songs: Ohia – Farewell Transmission
18. Sebastien Tellier – La Ritournelle
19. Richard Cheese – Buddy Holly
20. Madlib – Mystic Bounce
21. Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up, Look Sharp
22. Grandaddy – Stray Dog And The Chocolate Cake
23. April March – The Life Of The Party
24. Jose Gonzalez – Heartbeats
25. Robert Wyatt – La Ahada Yalam (No One Knows)
26. Ricardo Villalobos - Easy Lee


Albums:

1. Robert Wyatt – Cuckooland
2. Rufus Wainwright - Want One
3. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
4. Neil Young – Greendale
5. The Thrills - So Much for the City

Could you pretty please, change my ALBUMS of 2003 list to this revised version?

So sorry I forgot the debut album of one of the most unique bands of this past decade.

1. POSTAL SERVICE - GIVE UP
2. DEERHOOF - APPLE O'
3. WHITE STRIPES - ELEPHANT
4. YEAH YEAH YEAHS - FEVER TO TELL
5. STROKES - ROOM ON FIRE
6. MANITOBA / CARIBOU - UP IN FLAMES
*7. FIERY FURNACES - GALLOWSBIRD'S BARK*
8. SHINS - CHUTES TOO NARROW
9. RADIOHEAD - HAIL TO THE THIEF
10. ANDREW W.K. - THE WOLF
11. THE BOOKS - THE LEMON OF PINK
12. BASEMENT JAXX - KISH KASH
13. MY MORNING JACKET - IT STILL MOVES
14. THE WRENS - MEADOWLANDS
15. STARLIGHT MINTS - BUILT ON SQUARES
16. CAT POWER - YOU ARE FREE

"14th Street" (Rufus W) at place 5 in my singles list, please?

2003 is a very interesting year; the lack of unanimity among critics and Amers is very exciting !!
Many idiosyncratic records including weird revivals albums such as The Darkness (or back to 1987), Josh Rouse (back to 1976 rather than '72)

1) Puppetmastaz - Humans Get All The Credit
2) Dizzee Rascal - Jezebel
3) Sufjan Stevens - For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti
4) Books, The - Take Time
5) TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun
6) Elliott Smith - Pretty (Ugly Before)
7) Horse the Band - Seven Tentacles And Eight Flames
8) Strokes, The - Reptilia
9) Outkast - She Lives In My Lap
10) Knife, The - Pass This On
11) !!! - Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story)
12) Jay-Z - 99 Problems
13) Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U
14) Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone
15) Outkast - Happy Valentine’s Day
16) Wrens, The - She Sends Kisses
17) Thrice - Stare at the sun
18) Blur - Out of Time
19) Outkast - Roses
20) Outkast - Flip Flop Rock (Feat. Killer Mike & Jay-Z)

The Horse the Band song might have my favorite bridge ever, makes me go apeshit everytime.

Bubbling unders :

Ben Harper When She Believes (would most likely have been my #1 if you had asked me at the end of 2003)
Cat Power He War
Dizzee Rascal Fix Up, Look Sharp
Dizzee Rascal Jus' A Rascal
Funeral for a Friend Juneau
Horse the Band Bunnies
Kings of Leon Molly's Chamber
Like A Dream Give Up
Mars Volta, The Roulette Dares (This is the Haunt)
Outkast Hey Ya!
Placebo The Bitter End
Postal Service, The The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
Puppetmastaz Pet Sound
Puppetmastaz Hip-Hop Police
Radiohead There There
Rapture, The Echoes
Servant, The Cells
Twista Slow Jamz
Von Bondies C'mon, C'mon
White Stripes, The Seven Nation Army

Albums
1. Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
2 Dido - life for rent
3 b&S - Dear Catastrophe
4. White Stripes - Elephant
5. Kings of leon - Y&YM
6. DBT - Decoration Day
7. Strokes - Room on Fire
8 lucinda williams world without tears
9 mmj - It Still Moves
10 Damien Rice - O

Songs
1 Hey ya
2 such great heights
3 life for rent , dido
4 Valley winter song , f of w
5 over time, lucinds williams

SONGS:

1. OutKast - Hey Ya
2. Muse - Time Is Running Out
3. Death Cab For Cutie - The Sound Of Settling
4. Snow Patrol - Spitting Games
5. Zwan - Honestly
6. Brand New - Okay, I Believe You But My Tommy Gun Don't
7. Jay-Z - 99 Problems
8. The Shins - Pink Bullets
9. Keane - Everbody's Changing
10. The White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button
11. Pearl Jam - Man Of The Hour
12. Jack Johnson - Wasting Time
13. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
14. Joe Strummer & Johnny Cash - Redemption Song
15. Blink 182 f/Robert Smith - All Of This
16. Stereophonics - Maybe Tomorrow
17. The Strokes - Reptilia
18. Radiohead - There There
19. Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
20. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
21. Blur - Out Of Time
22. OutKast - Ghetto Musick
23. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
24. TV on the Radio - Staring At The Sun
25. Deftones - Minerva
26. AFI - Girls Not Grey
27. Kanye West - Through The Wire
28. Muse - Apocolypse Please
29. Death Cab For Cutie - The New Year
30. The Strokes - 12:51
31. The Darkness - I Belive In A Thing Called Love
32. Snow Patrol - Run
33. The Rasmus - In The Shadows
34. The Shins - Kissing The Lipless
35. The Cardigans - For What It's Worth
36. Metallica - St. Anger
37. Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up, Look Sharp
38. Muse - Hysteria
39. Dropkick Murphys - The Dirty Glass
40. Zwan - Lyric
41. Kings Of Leon - Molly's Chambers
42. The Strokes - The End Has No End
43. Jay-Z - Dirt Off Your Shoulder
44. The White Stripes - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
45. Blur - Crazy Beat
46. Alicia Keys - If I Ain't Got You
47. No Doubt - It's My Life
48. Brand New - Sic Transit Gloria ... Glory Fades
49. Guster - Amsterdam
50. Snow Patrol - Chocolate
51. Zwan - Endless Summer
52. Radiohead - Go To Sleep
53. Starsailor - Silence Is Easy
54. Blink 182 - I Miss You
55. M83 - Run Into Flowers
56. Jack Johnson - Taylor
57. OutKast - Roses
58. Janes Addiction - Just Beacuse
59. Blondie - Good Boys
60. Switchfoot - Dare You To Move
61. Dave Gahan - Dirty Sticky Flowers
62. Fountains Of Wayne - Stacey's Mom
63. The Strokes - Whatever Happened
64. Pharrell F/Jay-Z - Frontin'
65. Liz Phair - Why Can't I
66. Placebo - English Summer Rain
67. OutKast - Prototype
68. A Perfect Circle - The Outsider
69. Beyonce - Crazy In Love
70. Thrice - Stare At The Sun
71. OutKast - The Way You Move
72. Dido - White Flag
73. Muse - Stockholm Syndrome
74. Jet - Rollover DJ
75. AFI - Silver And Cold
76. Brand New - The Quiet Things No One Ever Knows
77. The Mars Volta - Inertiatic ESP
78. R.E.M. - Bad Day
79. Muse - Butterflies & Hurricanes
80. The White Stripes - Black Math
81. Radiohead - A Punchup At The Wedding
82. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Stop
83. Ben Harper - Diamonds On The Inside
84. Alicia Keys - You Don't Know My Name
85. !!! - Me And Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard
86. Muse - Endlessly
87. The Chemical Brothers - The Golden Path
88. Coldplay - Moses (live)
89. Kelis - Milkshake
90. Elliott Smith - Pretty (Ugly Before)
91. Death Cab For Cutie - Death Of An Interior Decorator
92. Live - Heaven
93. Blur - Battery In Your Leg
94. Moloko - Familiar Feeling
95. Rancid - Fall Back Down
96. Stone Temple Pilots - All In The Suit That You Wear
97. Jewel - Intuition
98. A Perfect Circle - Weak And Powerless
99. The Darkness - Growing On Me
100. Cold - Stupid Girl

Albums 2003:

01. WHITE STRIPES-Elephant
02. KING GEEDORAH-Take Me To Your Leader
03. RADIOHEAD-Hail To The Thief
04. AMY WINEHOUSE-Frank
05. The BOOKS-The Lemon Of Pink
06. STEPHANIE MCKAY-McKay
07. SUFJAN STEVENS-Greetings From Michigan
08. The WRENS-The Meadowlands
09. DJ HELL-NY Muscle
10. The MARS VOLTA-Deloused In The Comatorium
11. MELT BANANA-Cell-Scape
12. YAT-KHA-Tuva. Rock
13. FOUR TET-Rounds
14. BUBBA SPARXXX-Deliverance
15. I AM KLOOT-I Am Kloot
16. ALICIA KEYS-The Diary Of Alicia Keys
17. DO MAKE SAY THINK-Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
18. RICARDO VILLALOBOS-Alcachofa
19. POSTAL SERVICE-Give Up
20. The DEARS-No Cities Left
21. The KILLS-Keep On Your Mean Side
22. CUNNIN LYNGUISTS-Southernunderground
23. ZEA-I Forgot To Complain Today
24. OUTKAST-Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
25. ROB JUNGKLAS-Arkadelphia
26. PIANO MAGIC-The Troubled Sleep Of Piano Magic
27. GOLDFRAPP-Black Cherry
28. JOSÉ GONZALEZ-Veneer
29. DEAD MEADOW-Shivering King And Others
30. BRITNEY SPEARS-In The Zone
31. DOZER-Call It Conspiracy
32. BOYSETSFIRE-Tomorrow Come Today
33. DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS-Decoration Day
34. MINTZKOV LUNA-M For Means And L For Love
35. WOVEN HAND-Blush Music
36. KELIS-Tasty
37. A.R.E. WEAPONS-A.R.E. Weapons
38. PASCAL PLANTINGA-A Hammer A Day Keeps The Headache Away
39. LINKIN PARK-Meteora
40. BORIS-At Last: Feedbacker
41. APPARAT-Duplex
42. M83-Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
43. STUURBAARD BAKKEBAARD-Mercedes
44. MATMOS-The Civil War
45. ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI-Worn Copy
46. ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO-Cocktails, Carnage, Crucifixion And Pornography
47. PLUMP DJs-Eargasm
48. METALLICA-St. Anger
49. KAYO DOT-Choirs Of The Eye
50. ELECTRIC SIX-Fire



Individual songs 2003:

200. EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY-SIX DAYS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN (from The Earth Is Not A Cold Place-Pop/Rock)
199. THURSDAY-MARCHES AND MANEUVERS (from War All The Time-Pop/Rock)
198. The STROKES-WHATEVER HAPPENED? (from Room On Fire-Pop/Rock)
197. ULRICH SCHNAUSS-ON MY OWN (from A Strangely Isolated Place-Electronica)
196. LIKWID CONTINUAL SPACE MOTION OPERA-SPACE IS THE PLACE (single-Dance)
195. RICHARD THOMPSON-A LEGAL MATTER (from 1000 Years Of Popular Music-Pop/Rock)
194. DEERHOOF-APPLE BOMB (from Apple 'O'-Pop/Rock)
193. STIJN-SEXJUNKIE (EXTENDED VERSION) (single-Pop/Dance)
192. TIED + TICKLED TRIO-MOTORIK (from Observing Systems-Dance/Electronica)
191. BRITISH SEA POWER-APOLOGIES TO INSECT LIFE (from The Decline Of...-Pop/Rock)

190. TIM HECKER-JIMMY (from Radio Amor-Electronica/Avantgarde)
189. UNKLE-SAFE IN MIND (from Never Never Land-Dance) Listen
188. The RAPTURE-SISTER SAVIOUR (from Echoes-Pop/Rock)
187. DONNA SUMMER-WHAT YOU TRULY NEED (from This Needs To Be Your Style-Dance/Electronica) Not the Disco diva, but the Breakcore outfit.
186. VENUS IN FLAMES-CYNTHIA'S GONE (from Notes Of Tenderness-Pop/Rock)
185. J. DILLA-TRASHY (from Vol. 2: Vintage-Hiphop)
184. KHANATE-CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH (from Things Viral-Metal)
183. LEE FIELDS-I DON'T KNOW WHERE I'M GOING (from Problems-R&B/Soul)
182. SONGS: OHIA-I'VE BEEN RIDING WITH THE GHOST (from Magnolia Electric Co.-Pop/Rock)
181. JOSH ROUSE-SPARROWS OVER BIRMINGHAM (from 1972-Singer/songwriter)

180. MANITOBA-HENDRIX WITH KO (from Up In Flames-Pop/Rock) (Manitoba = Caribou).
179. GALACTIC-BITTERSWEET (from Ruckus-Dance)
178. FRANZ FERDINAND-DARTS OF PLEASURE (single-Pop/Rock)
177. FREESCHA-RADIO HEART (from What's Come Inside Of You-Dance/Electronica)
176. RICHARD SWIFT-LOOKING BACK, I SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOME MORE (from The Novelist-Singer/songwriter)
175. The WRENS-HOPELESS (from The Meadowlands-Pop/Rock)
174. JOSS STONE-SUPER DUPER LOVE (from The Soul Sessions-Pop)
173. BLACK LABEL SOCIETY-STONED AND DRUNK (from The Blessed Hellride-Metal) Listen
172. MY MORNING JACKET-RUN THRU (from It Still Moves-Pop/Rock)
171. K. CEE-RISE OF THE MACHINES (single-Dance/Techno)

170. The SLEEPY JACKSON-VAMPIRE RACECOURSE (from Lovers-Pop/Rock)
169. MEW-SHE SPIDER (from Frengers-Pop/Rock) Listen
168. JULIAN SANDELL & HENRY CULLEN-HEAVY FEEDER (FUNKY MIX) (single-Dance/Techno)
167. BROADCAST-HAWK (from Haha Sound-Pop/Rock)
166. SEBASTIEN TELLIER-LA RITOURNELLE (single-Dance/Pop)
165. The DIRTBOMBS-GET IT WHILE YOU CAN (from Dangerous Magical Noise-Pop/Rock)
164. 50 CENT-GOTTA MAKE IT TO HEAVEN (from Get Rich Or Die Tryin'-Hiphop)
163. LIGHTNING BOLT-DRACULA MOUNTAIN (from Wonderful Rainbow-Avantgarde)
162. DISCO D. & DJ PROPHET-BOOTY BAR ANTHEM (from A Night At The Booty Bar-Dance)
161. The DECEMBERISTS-THE CHIMBLEY SWEEP (from Her Majesty-Pop/Rock)

160. ZOOT WOMAN-GREY DAY (from Zoot Woman-Pop/Dance)
159. DRESDEN DOLLS-GIRL ANACHRONISM (From Dresden Dolls-Pop/Rock)
158. WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE-DO ME NO GOOD (from Hymns For The Hopeless-Singer/songwriter)
157. PEACHES-TOMBSTONE, BABY (from Fatherfucker-Pop/Dance)
156. CHRISTIANSEN-UNDER THINGS KILLED (from Stylish Nihilists-Pop/Rock)
155. KID 606-WOOFER WRECKER (from Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You-Dance/Electronica)
154. BLACK EYED PEAS-SHUT UP (from Elephunk-Hiphop)
153. COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE-PROMISES, PROMISES (from Kick Up The Fire And Let The Flames Break Loose-Pop/Rock)
152. KAYO DOT-WAYFARER (from Choirs Of The Eye-Metal/Avantgarde)
151. EELS-SATURDAY MORNING (from Shootenanny-Pop/Rock)

150. COLDER-CONFUSION (from Again-Pop/Dance)
149. AGAINST ME!-RICE AND BREAD (from As The Eternal Cowboy-Punk)
148. The SHINS-KISSING THE LIPLESS (from Chutes Too Narrow-Pop/Rock)
147. JON E. CASH-INTERNATIONAL (single-Dance/Grime) Listen
146. GRAND MAGUS-CHOOSER OF THE SLAIN (from Monument-Metal)
145. BLUR-CARAVAN (from Think Tank-Pop/Rock)
144. TOM MCRAE-KARAOKE SOUL (from Just Like Blood-Singer/songwriter)
143. OCEANSIZE-CATALYST (from Effloresce-Pop/Rock)
142. MASSIVE ATTACK-ANTISTAR (from 100th Window-Dance)
141. The RADIO DEPT.-WHY WON'T YOU TALK ABOUT IT (from Lesser Matters-Pop/Rock)

140. BLUT AUS NORD-THE CHOIR OF THE DEAD (from The Work Which Transforms God-Metal)
139. FIERY FURNACES-WORRY WORRY (from Gallowbird's Bark-Pop/Rock)
138. BUBBA SPARXXX-DELIVERANCE (from Deliverance-Hiphop)
137. MATMOS-THE STRUGGLE AGAINST UNREALITY (from The Civil War-Electronica/Avantgarde)
136. The KNIFE-ROCK CLASSICS (from Deep Cuts-Pop/Dance)
135. ALICE TEXAS-SOUTH OF HEAVEN (from Sad Days-Pop/Rock)
134. ULVER-LITTLE BLUE BIRD (single-Pop/Rock) Listen
133. MUSE-BUTTERFLIES & HURRICANES (from Absolution-Pop/Rock)
132. DEAN WAREHAM & BRITTA PHILLIPS-I DESERVE IT (from L'avventura-Pop/Rock) ex-Galaxie 500, ex-Luna.
131. HARCO PRONT-NIGHT (from Jibberish-Pop/Rock)

130. DIZZEE RASCAL-FIX UP, LOOK SHARP (from Boy In Da Corner-Hiphop/Grime)
129. I AM KLOOT-CUCKOO (from I Am Kloot-Pop/Rock) Listen
128. NINA NASTASIA-I SAY THAT I WILL GO (from Run To Ruin-Singer/songwriter)
127. DEXTER-FREESTYLE (single-Dance/Techno)
126. BELLE & SEBASTIAN-ROY WALKER (from Dear Catastrophy Waitress-Pop/Rock)
125. VENETIAN SNARES-EINSTEIN/ROSEN BRIDGE (from The Chocolate Wheelchair Album-Dance/Electronica)
124. AUDIO BULLYS-SNAKE (from Ego War-Dance)
123. CAT POWER-FREE (from You Are Free-Singer/songwriter)
122. JAYLIB-SURVIVAL TEST (from Champion Sound-Hiphop) Collaboration between J Dilla and Madlib.
121. BENNY ILL vs. DJ DINESH-NEW YORK (single-Dance)

120. SUFJAN STEVENS-MARCHING BAND (from Greetings From Michigan-Singer/songwriter)
119. JET-ARE YOU GONNA BE MY GIRL? (from Get Born-Pop/Rock)
118. ADULT.-SHAKE YOUR HEAD (from Anxiety Always-Pop/Dance)
117. RICHMOND FONTAINE-WILLAMETTE (from Post To Wire-Pop/Rock)
116. MISSY ELLIOTT-I'M NOT PERFECT (from This Is Not A Test!-Hiphop)
115. SWALLOW THE SUN-THROUGH HER SILVERY BODY (from The Morning Never Came-Metal)
114. BORIS-FEEDBACKER (from At Last: Feedbacker-Avantgarde)
113. WHITE STRIPES-THE AIR NEAR MY FINGERS (from Elephant-Pop/Rock)
112. SPECTR-RED HOT (single-Dance/Dubstep) Early Dubstep.
111. The THERMALS-BRACE AND BREAK (from More Parts Per Million-Pop/Rock)

110. KYLIE MINOGUE-SLOW (from Body Language-Pop) Listen
109. QUANTUM SOUL ORCHESTRA-STAMPEDE (from Stampede-Dance)
108. SPILLSBURY-SCHLAGZEILE (from Raus!-Pop/Rock)
107. TIMBALAND & MAGOO-THROWBACK (from Under Construction Part II-Hiphop)
106. The CORAL-DON'T THINK YOU'RE THE FIRST (from Magic And Medicine-Pop/Rock)
105. DEVOTCHKA-DEATH BY BLONDE (from Una Volta-Pop/World)
104. EAST CONNECTION-WE'RE READY (single-Dance/Grime) Listen
103. SUPER FURRY ANIMALS-GOLDEN RETRIEVER (from Phantom Power-Pop/Rock)
102. SOLE-RESPECT pt. 3 (from Selling Live Water-Hiphop)
101. BENJAMIN BIOLAY-GLORY HOLE (from Négatif-Pop/Rock)

100. M83-0078h (from Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts-Pop/Electronica)
99. MARTIN REV-IN YOUR ARMS (from To Live-Pop/Rock) Of Suicide fame.
98. STUURBAARD BAKKEBAARD-DOWN FALL (from Mercedes-Pop/Rock)
97. The BLACK KEYS-THICKFREAKNESS (from Thickfreakness-Pop/Rock)
96. VYBZ KARTEL-SWEET TO DI BELLY (from Up 2 Di Time-Reggae)
95. DO MAKE SAY THINK-FREDERICIA (from Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn-Pop/Rock)
94. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT-BEAUTIFUL CHILD (from Want One-Pop/Rock)
93. BABY WOODROSE-EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE ALRIGHT (from Money For Soul-Pop/Rock)
92. MCKAY-SADDER DAY (from McKay-R&B/Soul)
91. The POSTAL SERVICE-THE DISTRICT SLEEPS ALONE TONIGHT (from Give Up-Pop/Rock)

90. KID KOALA-BASIN STREET BLUES (from Some Of My Best Friends Are DJs-Dance)
89. ZEA-OF COURSE IT HURTS, IT ALWAYS DOES (from I Forgot To Complain Today-Pop/Rock)
88. YEAH YEAH YEAHS-RICH (from Fever To Tell-Pop/Rock)
87. ROB JUNGKLAS-DRUNK LIKE SON HOUSE (from Arkadelphia-Singer/songwriter)
86. DALUQ-SUPAFINE (single-Dance) Listen
85. ELECTRIC SIX-NUCLEAR WAR ON THE DANCEFLOOR (from Fire-Pop/Rock)
84. !!!-ME AND GIULIANI DOWN BY THE SCHOOLYARD (single-Pop/Rock)
83. VIKTOR VAUGHN-VAUDEVILLE VILLAIN (from Vaudeville Villain-Hiphop) (Viktor V. = MF Doom).
82. ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO-IN HIGH HEELS THROUGH NIGHTS OF BROKEN GLASS (from C.C.C.P.-Pop/Rock) Listen
81. GOLDFRAPP-TRAIN (from Black Cherry-Dance)

80. The BRONX-HEART ATTACK AMERICAN (from The Bronx-Punk)
79. PIANO MAGIC-SAINT MARIE (from The Troubled Sleep-Pop/Rock) Listen
78. KINGS OF LEON-MOLLY'S CHAMBERS (from Youth & Young Manhood-Pop/Rock)
77. ANIMA SOUND SYSTEM-BACK 2 THE FUTURE (from Aquanistan-Dance)
76. DEAD MEADOW-GOLDEN CLOUD (from Shiver King And Others-Pop/Rock)
75. BRITNEY SPEARS-TOXIC (from In The Zone-Pop)
74. APPARAT-STEADY UPRISING (from Duplex-Dance/Electronica) Listen
73. DE KIFT-OVERTURE (from Vier Voor Vier-Pop/Rock)
72. JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ-STAY IN THE SHADE (from Veneer-Singer/songwriter)
71. The GO! TEAM-JUNIOR KICKSTART (single-Dance)

70. M. WARD-SAD, SAD SONG (from Transfiguration Of Vincent-Singer/songwriter)
69. LUOMO-THE PRESENT LOVER (from The Present Lover-Dance/Club)
68. ALEXKID-COME WITH ME (TIGA REMIX) (single-Dance/Club)
67. BLINK 182-GO GO GO GO (from Blink 182-Punk)
66. LHASA-PARA EL FIN DEL MUNDO O EL AÑO NUEVO (The Living Road-Singer/songwriter/World) Listen
65. RAM TRILOGY-SKITTLES (single-Dance/Drum & Bass)
64. ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI-JULES LOST HIS JEWELS (from Worn Copy-Pop/Rock)
63. COLLEEN-RITOURNELLE (from Everyone Alive Wants Answers-Avantgarde) Listen
62. A.R.E. WEAPONS-A.R.E. (from A.R.E Weapons-Pop/Rock)
61. BEYONCÉ-CRAZY IN LOVE (from Dangerously In Love-R&B/Soul)

60. The WRENS-EVERYONE CHOOSES SIDES (from The Meadowlands-Pop/Rock)
59. RICARDO VILLALOBOS-EASYLEE (from Alcachofa-Dance/Electronica)
58. IMITATION ELECTRIC PIANO-THE KHARTOUM VENUS (from Trinity Neon-Pop/Rock) sideproject by Stereolab's Simon Johns. Listen
57. PASCAL PLANTINGA-MAKING MUSIC POPULAR (from A Hammer A Day Keeps The Headache Away-Pop/Rock)
56. TV ON THE RADIO-STARING AT THE SUN (single-Pop/Rock)
55. FREQ NASTY-SIL NUM TAO (from Bring Me The Head Of Freq Nasty!-Dance)
54. DANKO JONES-LOVE TRAVEL (from We Sweat Blood-Pop/Rock)
53. The KILLS-PULL A U (from Keep On Your Mean Side-Pop/Rock)
52. SEÑOR COCONUT-SMOKE ON THE WATER (from Fiesta Songs-Dance) Listen
51. BOO!-HOME (from Boo!-Pop/Rock)

50. MELT BANANA-SHIELD YOUR EYES, A BEAST IN THE WELL ON YOUR HAND (from Cell-Scape-Punk/Avantgarde) Listen
49. ROOM 5 feat. OLIVER CHEATHAM-MAKE LUV (from Music & You-Dance/Club)
48. SNOW PATROL-SPITTING GAMES (from Final Straw-Pop/Rock)
47. NUJABES-HORN IN THE MIDDLE (from Metaphorical Music-Dance) Listen
46. BOYSETSFIRE-EVICTION ARTICLE (from Tomorrow Come Today-Punk)
45. FOUR TET-SHE MOVES SHE (from Rounds-Dance/Electronica)
44. LEE SANKEY-THE MAN (from Tell Me There's A Gun-Pop/Rock)
43. OKKERVIL RIVER-WAR CRIMINAL RISES AND SPEAKS (from Down The River Of Golden Dreams-Pop/Rock)
42. ALICIA KEYS-YOU DON'T KNOW MY NAME (from The Diary Of Alicia Keys-R&B/Soul)
41. HERBERT-TURNING PAGES (from Goodbye Swingtime-Dance/Electronica)

40. YAT-KHA-VOYAGER (from Tuva. Rock-World/Asia/Russia) Listen
39. LINKIN PARK-SOMEWHERE I BELONG (from Meteora-Metal)
38. MINTZKOV LUNA-ALL AT ONCE (from M For Means And L For Love-Pop/Rock)
37. SAOSIN-SEVEN YEARS (single-Pop/Rock) Listen
36. MADONNA-AMERICAN LIFE (from American Life-Pop) Listen
35. The BOOKS-TOKYO (from The Lemon Of Pink-Pop/Rock)
34. ROBERT RANDOLPH & THE FAMILY BAND-GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION (from Unclassified-Pop/Rock)
33. OUTKAST-KNOWING (From Speakerboxxx/The Love Below-Hiphop)
32. WOVEN HAND-MY RUSSIA (from Blush Music-Pop/Rock) sideproject by 16 Horsepower's David Eugene Edwards.
31. RHYTHM & SOUND-QUEEN IN MY EMPIRE (from Rhythm & Sound w/ The Artists-Dance) Listen

30. DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS-SINK HOLE (from Decoration Day-Pop/Rock)
29. DOZER-LIGHTNING STALKER (from Call It Conspiracy-Metal)
28. EL COLUMPIO ASESINO-EL EVANGELISTA (from El Columpio Asesino-Pop/Rock)
27. The MARS VOLTA-ROULETTE DARES (from De-Loused In The Comatorium-Pop/Rock)
26. WE vs. DEATH-MY DOG IS WATCHING ME (from The Message Is-Pop/Rock) Listen
25. The DEARS-WHO ARE YOU, DEFENDERS OF THE UNIVERSE? (from No Cities Left-Pop/Rock) Listen
24. RADIOHEAD-MYXOMATOSIS (from Hail The Thief-Pop/Rock)
23. CUNNIN LYNGUISTS-SUNRISE/SUNSET (from Southerunderground-Hiphop)
22. I AM KLOOT-A STRANGE ARRANGEMENT OF COLOUR (from I Am Kloot-Pop/Rock) Listen
21. METALLICA-ST. ANGER (from St. Anger-Metal)

20. EAMON-FUCK IT (single-Pop)
19. OBIE TRICE-LOOK IN MY EYES (from Cheers-Hiphop)
18. BASEMENT JAXX-GOOD LUCK (from Kish Kash-Dance/Club) Listen
17. SPECTRE-SECRETS (from Psychic Wars-Dance/Hiphop)
16. KELIS-ROLLING THROUGH THE HOOD (from Tasty-R&B/Soul)
15. PLUMP DJs-THE FUNK HITS THE FAN (from Eargasm-Dance) Listen
14. SUFJAN STEVENS-DETROIT, LIFT UP YOUR WEARY HEAD! (from Greetings From Michigan-Singer/songwriter)
13. BUBBA SPARXXX-SHE TRIED (from Deliverance-Hiphop)
12. ASA CHANG & JUNRAY-KAIKYO (from Tsu Gi Ne Pu-Avantgarde) Listen
11. AMY WINEHOUSE-STRONGER THAN ME (from Frank-Pop)

10. SOEL-LE VICOMTE (from Memento-Dance) Listen
09. STEPHANIE MCKAY-TELL HIM (from McKay-R&B/Soul)
08. WHITE STRIPES-SEVEN NATION ARMY (from Elephant-Pop/Rock)
07. DJ HELL-LET NO MAN JACK (from NY Muscle-Dance/Techno) Listen
06. YANN TIERSEN-PREPARATIONS FOR THE LAST T.V. FAKE (from Goodbye Lenin-Soundtrack) Listen
05. FRANK DE JOJO-SPECTRUM (single-Dance)
04. KING GEEDORAH-I WONDER (from Take Me To Your Leader-Hiphop) (King Geedorah = MF Doom).
03. CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA-THE AWAKENING OF A WOMAN (from Man With A Movie Camera-Dance) Listen
02. The MARS VOLTA-INERTIATIC E.S.P. (from De-Loused In The Comatorium-Pop/Rock)
01. OUTKAST-VIBRATE (from Speakerboxxx/The Love Below-Hiphop)

Sorry please update my album list again... just add melt banana at the end.

1. POSTAL SERVICE - GIVE UP
2. DEERHOOF - APPLE O'
3. WHITE STRIPES - ELEPHANT
4. YEAH YEAH YEAHS - FEVER TO TELL
5. STROKES - ROOM ON FIRE
6. MANITOBA / CARIBOU - UP IN FLAMES
7. FIERY FURNACES - GALLOWSBIRD'S BARK*
8. SHINS - CHUTES TOO NARROW
9. RADIOHEAD - HAIL TO THE THIEF
10. ANDREW W.K. - THE WOLF
11. THE BOOKS - THE LEMON OF PINK
12. BASEMENT JAXX - KISH KASH
13. MY MORNING JACKET - IT STILL MOVES
14. THE WRENS - MEADOWLANDS
15. STARLIGHT MINTS - BUILT ON SQUARES
16. CAT POWER - YOU ARE FREE
17. MELT BANANA - CELL-SCAPE

SONGS -

Please update my song list...

1. POSTAL SERVICE - We Will Become Silhouettes
2. !!! - ME AND GIULIANI DOWN BY THE SCHOOLYARD
3. YEAH YEAH YEAHS - MAPS
4. THE STROKES - THE END HAS NO END
5. DEERHOOF - DUMMY DISCARDS A HEART
6. SHINS - SAINT SIMON
7. WHITE STRIPES - THERE'S NO HOME FOR YOU HERE
8. WHITE STRIPES - SEVEN NATION ARMY
9. POSTAL SERVICE - SLEEPING IN
10. POSTAL SERVICE - CLARK CABLE
11. THE STROKES - REPTILIA
12. DEERHOOF - APPLE BOMB
13. THE BOOKS - TOKYO
14. THE STROKES - MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM
15. WHITE STRIPES - THE AIR NEAR MY FINGERS
16. DEERHOOF - BLUE CASH
17. RADIOHEAD - THERE THERE
*18. MELT BANANA - Shield for Your Eyes, a Beast in the Well on Your Hand
19. SHINS - KISSING THE LIPLESS
20. YEAH YEAH YEAHS - DATE WITH THE NIGHT

White Stripes - Elephant
Outkast - Speakerboxx/Love Below
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
Rapture - Echoes
The New Pornographers - Electric Version
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
Drive By Truckers - Decoration Day
The Knife - Deep Cuts
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
The Wrens - Meadowlands
Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
Fountains of Wayne - Wlecome Interstate Managers
Belle & Sebastain - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power

Fountains of Wayne is a big disappointment for me; bland pop
My Morning Jacket sounds great, but you know my taste for country rock and the 70's
It's Grateful Dead reincarnated

Any recs? I will definitely listen to them.

Welcome Interstate Managers is one of the catchiest records ever. I'm hearing everbody already starting to swoon over the new Bon Iver. I just don't get how dull, lofi, MALE songwriters get such a cult following and endless praise from critics when perfectly catchy and fun summery soundtrack records get tossed aside. It wasn't this way before especially the when britpop was so popular with Blur, Pulp and Oasis all topping EOY lists. Plus you had Magnetic Fields, Belle and Sebastian and Mercury Rev doing incredibly well with music lovers and critic alike. Now fun and bouncy records by the likes of Tennis and the Vaccines (plus dozens of records and songs from 03) just get pushed aside for the artsy folk or MALE lofi songwriters. In 03 I felt for every critically acclaimed record there was always a band far more obscure or underrated with a similar sound that was just as good or better. YYYs had Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Shins had Fountains of Way and the Postal Service had Her Space Holiday.

1. The Wrens - The Meadowlands
2. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
3. The Sleepy Jackson - Lovers
4. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
5. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
6. Erin Mckeown - Grand
7. British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power
8. Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
9. Stellastarr* - Stellastarr*
10. Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power

hey Beans !
long time no see !!

Currently listening to The Mars Volta : promising !!

ALBUMS
1. The White Stripes – Elephant
2. OutKast – Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
3. The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
4. The Wrens – The Meadowlands
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
6. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
7. Dizzee Rascal – Boy in da Corner
8. Fountains of Wayne – Welcome Interstate Managers
9. Jay-Z – The Black Album
10. The New Pornographers – Electric Version

SONGS
1. The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
2. OutKast – Hey Ya!
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
4. Elliott Smith – Pretty (Ugly Before)
5. The Shins – Saint Simon
6. Fountains of Wayne – Mexican Wine
7. Jay-Z – 99 Problems
8. Kanye West – Through the Wire
9. The White Stripes – There’s No Home for You Here
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Poor Song [a/k/a Porcelain, a/k/a the hidden track on FTT]

I don’t think enough people realize that “Pretty (Ugly Before)” is eligible for 2003. If they did it would (should) be doing better.

Good for you, Beans.

Songs

1. OutKast – Hey Ya!
2. Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs – Maps
3. Jay-Z – 99 Problems
4. White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
5. Shins – So Says I
5. Drive-By Truckers – Outfit
7. Fountains of Wayne – Stacy’s Mom
8. Lucinda Williams – Those Three Days
9. Kelis – Milkshake
10. Strokes – 12:51
11. Beyonce – Crazy in Love
12. Dizzee Rascal – Fix Up, Look Sharp
13. Drive-By Truckers – My Sweet Annette
14. New Pornographers – Miss Teen Wordpower
15. White Stripes – Ball and a Biscuit
16. Radiohead – Where I End and You Begin
17. The Shins – Gone for Good
18. The Wrens – Boys, You Won’t (Could practically be a 13-way tie with every song on that album)
19. Elliott Smith – Pretty (Ugly Before)
20. The New Pornographers – Out From Blown Speakers

Beans,

That's GREAT !! Congrats !!

Songs

1 Postal Service Such Great Heights
2 Blur Out of Time
3 Linkin Park Breaking the Habit
4 Fountains of Wayne Stacy's Mom
5 Linkin Park Somehwere I Belong
6 OutKast Hey Ya!
7 Train Calling All Angels
8 Christina Aguilera Beautiful
9 John Mayer Daughters
10 Beyonce Crazy in Love
11 Linkin Park Easier to Run
12 White Stripes Seven Nation Army
13 Sarah McLachlan Fallen
14 Michael Brecker Angle of Repose
15 Jay-Z 99 Problems
16 Linkin Park From the Inside
17 Jet Are You Ganna Be My Girl
18 Sarah McLachlan Stupid
19 Chemical Brothers The Golden Path
20 Britney Spears Toxic
21 Darkness I Believe in a Thing Called Love
22 Libertines Don't Look Back into the Sun
23 Michael Brecker Brexterity
24 Starsailor Silence is Easy
25 No Doubt It's My Life
26 Steely Dan Godwhacker
27 Sufjan Stevens The Upper Peninsula
28 Black Eyed Peas Where Is the Love
29 Dido White Flag
30 Keane Everybody's Changing
31 Muse Hysteria
32 Muse Time Is Running Out
33 Evanescence Bring Me to Life
34 t.A.T.u. All the Things She Said
35 Franz Ferdinand Darts of Pleasure
36 Strokes Reptilla
37 Camera Obscura Lunar Sea
38 Camera Obscura Suspended From Class
39 Eamon Fuck It
40 Elliott Smith Pretty (Ugly Before)
41 Liz Phair Extraordinary
42 New Pornographers Miss Teen Wordpower
43 Snow Patrol Run
44 Sufjan Stevens Say Yes to Michigan
45 Sufjan Stevens Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid)
46 Super Furry Animals The Piccolo Snare
47 Wilco Handshake Drugs
48 Belle and Sebastian I'm a Cuckoo
49 Deerhoof Dummy Discards a Heart
50 Radiohead There There
51 OutKast The Way You Move
52 Mars Volta Inertlatic Esp
53 Blink 182 I Miss You
54 Junior Senior Move Your Feet
55 Postal Service The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
56 Strokes 12:51
57 Blur Sweet Song
58 Lumidee Never Leave You (Uh Oooh)
59 Blur Battery In Your Leg
60 My Morning Jacket One Big Holiday
61 Dandy Warhols You Were the Last High
62 Dido Life for rent
63 Muse Apocolypse Please
64 Muse Stockholm Syndrome
65 New Pornographers The Laws Have Changed
66 Snow Patrol Spitting Games
67 Knife Heartbeats
68 Ted Leo, Rx/Pharmacists Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?
69 Postal Service We Will Become Silhouettes
70 Muse Butterflies & Hurricanes
71 Super Furry Animals Venus and Serena
72 Yo La Tengo How to Make a Baby Elephant Float
73 R. Kelly Ignition (Remix)
74 Electric Six Gay Bar
75 Girls Aloud No Good Advice
76 Coral Pass It On
77 Adam Green Jessica Simpson
78 Alicia Keys You Don't Know My Name
79 Postal Service Sleeping In
80 R.E.M. Bad Day
81 Cat Power He War
82 Black Eyed Peas Shut Up
83 Alicia Keys If I Ain't Got You
84 Rufus Wainwright 14th Street
85 Decemberists Red Right Ankle
86 Von Bondies C'mon C'mon
87 Death Cab for Cutie The New Year
88 Drive-By Truckers Heathens
89 British Sea Power Carrion
90 Pharrell feat Jay-Z Frontin'
91 Kanye West Through the Wire
92 Kings of Leon Molly's Chambers
93 Radiohead A Punchup at the Wedding
94 Rufus Wainwright Go or Go Ahead
95 Jack Johnson Wasting Time
96 Rufus Wainwright Beautiful Child
97 Cat Power I Don't Blame You
98 Fleetwood Mac Thrown Down
99 My Morning Jacket Run Thru
100 Twista feat. Kanye West & Jamie Slow Jamz
101 Lucinda Williams World Without Tears
102 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Y Control
103 50 Cent In Da Club
104 TV on the Radio Staring at the Sun
105 National Slipping Husband

Albums

1 Linkin Park Meteora
2 John Mayer Heavier Things
3 Radiohead Hail to the Thief
4 Muse Absolution
5 Outkast Speakerboxx / The Love Below
6 Steely Dan Everything Must Go
7 Blur Think Tank
8 Michael Brecker Wide Angles
9 Postal Service Give Up
10 Fountains of Wayne Welcome Interstate Managers
11 White Stripes Elephant
12 Jay-Z The Black Album
13 Sufjan Stevens Michigan
14 Cat Power You Are Free
15 Evanescence Fallen
16 Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism
17 Camera Obscura Underachievers Please Try Harder
18 Rufus Wainwright Want One

Albums

1. The White Stripes - Elephant
2. The Strokes - Room on Fire
3. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
4. The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
5. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
7. The Wrens - The Meadowlands
8. The Postal Service - Give Up
9. Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
10. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

Songs

1. OutKast - Hey Ya!
2. Radiohead - There There
3. Twista Feat. Kanye West and Jamie Foxx - Slow Jamz (strange single, because it was released on albums by both Twista and Kanye)
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
5. Kanye West - Through The Wire
6. The Shins - So Says I
7. The Strokes - Reptilia
8. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
9. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
10. R. Kelly - Ignition (Remix)
11. Jay-Z - 99 Problems
12. The Strokes - 12:51
13. The White Stripes - Black Math
14. Radiohead - 2+2=5
15. The Unicorns - I Was Born (A Unicorn)
16. 50 Cent - In Da Club
17. OutKast - Roses
18. The Darkness - I Believe in a Thing Called Love
19. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Modern Romance
20. The Mars Volta - Inertiatic ESP

Not my favorite year, but I kept coming up with songs and thinking "oh yeah, that's pretty good, too." So 2003 has a lot of pretty good songs.

Hera my album list :
1. White Stripes - Elephant
2. Blur - Think Tank
3. Strokes - Room on Fire
4. Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
5. Grandaddy - Sumday
6. Benjamin Biolay - Négatif
Une chaise à Tokyo
7. Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
8. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
9. M - Qui de nous deux ?
Qui de nous deux ?
10. Andrew Bird - Weather Systems
11. Jacques Loussier : variations sur l'allegretto de la 7ème symphonie de Beethoven
Thème
12. Emilie Simon - Emilie Simon
To the dancers in the rain
13. Rufus Wainwright - Want One
14. David Bowie - Reality
15. Ben Harper - Diamonds in the inside
16. Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan
17. Piano Magic - The Troubled Sleep Of Piano Magic
Saint Marie
18. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts
19. Calexico - Feast of wire
20. Ed Harcourt - From every sphere
21. Gonzales - Z
22. Tarmac - Notre époque
Notre époque
23. Cat Power - You Are Free
24. Jet - Get Born
25. New Pornographers - Electric Version
26. The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
27. M. Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent
28. Rokia Traoré - Bowmboï
29. The Decemberists - Her Majesty The Decemberists
30. The Rapture - Echoes
31. The Coral - Magic and Medicine

The huge number of voters for "The Knife" and the little number of voters for "Grandaddy" leaves me speechless.

Songs-

1. Hey Ya!- Outkast
2. Crazy In Love- Beyonce (featuring Jay-Z)
3. Seven Nation Army- The White Stripes
4. 99 Problems- Jay-Z
5. Maps- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
6. Out of Time- Blur
7. Ignition (Remix)- R. Kelly
8. Such Great Heights- The Postal Service
9. In Da Club- 50 Cent
10. Milkshake- Kelis
11. Toxic- Britney Spears
12. Slow Jamz- Kanye West (featuring Twista)
13. There There- Radiohead
14. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight- The Postal Service
15. Move Your Feet- Junior Senior
16. 12:51- The Strokes
17. Roses- Outkast
18. I Luv You- Dizzee Rascal
19. I Believe In a Thing Called Love- The Darkness
20. Comfortably Numb- Scissor Sisters


Albums-

1. Elephant- The White Stripes
2. Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below- Outkast
3. Chutes Too Narrow- The Shins
4. Think Tank- Blur
5. Give Up- The Postal Service
6. Fever to Tell- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
7. Boy in da Corner- Dizzee Rascal
8. Hail to the Thief- Radiohead
9. The Black Album- Jay-Z
10. Room on Fire- The Strokes

Albums
1.Rhythm & Sound - With The Artists
2.EST - Seven Days of falling
3.Kraftwerk - Tour de france soundtracks
4.White stripes - Elephant
5.Cat Power - You are free
6.M83 - Dead Cities
7.Ulrich Strauss -Strangely Isolated Place
8.Tord Gustavsen Trio - Changing Places
9.Miroslav Vitous - Universal Syncopations
10.Moodymann - Silence in the secret garden

Songs
1.White Stripes - Hardest button to button
2.Killers - Mr.Brightside
3.Rhythm & Sound - Queen in my empire
3.50 cent - In da club
4.!!! - Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story
5.Jay Z - 99 problems
6.Panjabi - Mundian to Bach Ké
7.Gary Jules/Michael Andrews - Mad World
8.M83 - Run into flowers
9.Moodymann - People
10.Ulrich Schnauss - ON My Own

Albums:

1. Four Tet - Rounds
2. The Fall - The Real New Fall LP: Formerly Country on the Click
3. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
4. Cat Power - You Are Free
5. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
6. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
7. Starlight Mints - Built on Squares
8. Arab Strap - Monday at the Hug & Pint
9. Menomena - I Am the Fun Blame Monster
10. The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
11. The Knife - Deep Cuts
12. Buck 65 - Talkin' Honky Blues
13. Constantines - Shine a Light
14. The Dandy Warhols - Welcome to the Monkey House
15. Elbow - Cast of Thousands
16. Blur - Think Tank
17. Eels - Shootenanny!
18. Mendelson - Seuls au sommet
19. Colder - Again
20. Tindersticks - Waiting for the Moon

Asian Dub Foundation - Enemy of the Enemy
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take Them On, On Your Own
The Dears - No Cities Left
Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
Manitoba - Up in Flames
The Sleepy Jackson - Lovers
The Wrens - The Meadowlands


Songs:

1. Hymie's Basement - 21th Century Song
2. The Fall - Janet vs Jane and Johnny
3. Radiohead - There There
4. Cat Power - He War
5. Four Tet - Hands
6. Radiohead - Where I End and You Begin
7. Radiohead - 2+2=5
8. Sufjan Stevens - For the Widows in Paradise
9. The Fall - Theme from Sparta FC
10. The Knife - Pass This On
11. Killing Joke - Seeing Red
12. Songs:Ohia - Farewell Transmission
13. Cat Power - Free
14. Cat Power - Shaking Paper
15. The Dandy Warhols - We Used To Be Friends
16. Buck 65 - Wicked and Weird
17. Four Tet - Unspoken
18. Four Tet - Slow Jam
19. Menomena - The Late Great Libido
20. Pernice Brothers - Number Two

Outkast - Hey Ya!
Four Tet - My Angel Rocks Back and Forth
Radiohead - Go To Sleep
The Arab Strap - The Shy Retirer
Menomena - E. is Stable
The Shins - Saint Simon
The Sleepy Jackson - Good Dancers

ALBUMS:

1. OUTKAST "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" (#88 of all time)
2. THE WHITE STRIPES "Elephant"
3. THE SHINS "Chutes Too Narrow"
4. FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE "Welcome Interstate Managers"
5. REFREE "Nones"
6. THE POSTAL SERVICE "Give Up"
7. RADIOHEAD "Hail to the Thief"
8. ROBERT WYATT "Cuckooland"
9. BENJAMIN BIOLAY "Négatif"
10. BLUR "Think Tank"
11. THE STROKES "Room on Fire"
12. SUFJAN STEVENS "Greeting From Michigan, the Great Lake State"
13. M. WARD "The Transfiguration of Vincent"
14. BELLE & SEBASTIAN "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"
15. JOSH ROUSE "1972"
16. JAMIE CULLUM "Twentysomething"
17. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT "Want One"
18. NACHO VEGAS "Cajas de música difíciles de parar"
19. JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ "Veneer"
20. THE WRENS "The Meadowlands"
21. CAMERA OBSCURA "Underachievers Please Try Harder"
22. THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS "Electric Version"
23. THE JAYHAWKS "Rainy Day Music"
24. THE KNIFE "Deep Cuts"
25. DAVID BOWIE "Reality"


SONGS:

1. THE POSTAL SERVICE "Such Great Heights" (#98 in my all-time list)
2. ROBERT WYATT "Insensatez" (#100)
3. OUTKAST "Hey Ya!" (#111)
4. FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE "Stacy's Mom" (#153)
5. THE WHITE STRIPES "Seven Nation Army" (#157)
6. THE SHINS "Saint Simon" (#179)
7. BLUR "Out of Time"
8. THE STROKES "Reptilia"
9. THE VEILS "Guiding Light"
10. RADIOHEAD "Where I End and You Begin"
11. THE POSTAL SERVICE "We Will Become Silhouettes"
12. ELLIOTT SMITH "Pretty (Ugly Before)"
13. THE SHINS "Gone for Good"
14. THE THRILLS "Big Sur"
15. FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE "Fire Island"
16. ADAM GREEN "Friends of Mine"
17. BELLE & SEBASTIAN "Step into My Office, Baby"
18. JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ "Heartbeats"
19. BENJAMIN BIOLAY "Nuits blanches"
20. THE WHITE STRIPES "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself"
21. DELUXE "Que no"
22. LA BUENA VIDA "El actor mejicano"
23. SCISSORS SISTERS "Comfortably Numb"
24. OUTKAST "GhettoMusick"
25. BEYONCÉ feat. JAY-Z "Crazy in Love"
26. KELIS "Milkshake"
27. KANYE WEST "Through the Wire'"
28. OUTKAST "Roses"
29. DAVID BOWIE "Days"
30. RADIOHEAD "There, There"
31. M.WARD "Vincent O'Brien"
32. SUFJAN STEVENS "Say Yes! to M!ch!gan!"
33. BENJAMIN BIOLAY & CHIARA MASTROIANNI "Je ne t'ai pas aimé"
34. DAS POP "You"
35. BELLE & SEBASTIAN "Lord Anthony"
36. CAMERA OBSCURA "Suspended From Class"
37. THE WHITE STRIPES "Hypnotise"
38. EASTERN LANE "Feed Your Addiction"
39. THE STROKES "12:51"
40. THE SHINS "So Says I"
41. BLUR "Caravan"
42. THE WHITE STRIPES "In the Cold, Cold Night"
43. FABULOUS TROBADORS "Si tu te fais"
44. OUTKAST featuring KHUJO GOODIE & CEE-LO "Reset"
45. THE HIDDEN CAMERAS "Boys of Melody"
46. EL COLUMPIO ASESINO "Lehiotik"
47. LOVE OF LESBIAN "Satellites"
48. REFREE "Padres y nones"
49. ROBERT WYATT "Old Europe"
50. OUTKAST "Vibrate"

FAVOURITE COMPILATION: TALKING HEADS "Once in a Lifetime"


The Spotify link for the songs list

Mainstream vs. indie. Really? Maybe in the beginning indie rock was a minoritary style that, after the success of Nirvana's "Nevermind", could seem for a while a threat for established artists and styles. But, like a thousand times before, the sounds and faetures of indie rock were incorporated to all kinds of acts like any other trend. That allowed the existence of artists like Deluxe, the project of Galician singer-songwriter Xoel López, not mainstream enough to get the status of a rock star, not indie enough to get support from specialized critics but appealing enough to sell more than 20.000 records of his second album If Things Were to Go Wrong (2003). This second album marked the transition to the typical indie pop sung in English to the more mature style sung in Spanish of his fourth (and probably best) album Fin de un viaje infinito (The End of an Endless Trip, 2005). His second album contained two songs in Spanish, including Que no (Say No), the indie single that flirted with mainstream. Or it was the opposite?


QUE NO
Composer: Xoel López
Performer: DELUXE
First release: 2003 ("If Things Were to Go Wrong" album)
Length: 3’50”

Ya sé que no es exactamente
lo que debería de ser,
pero me río al pensar
que crees que voy a ceder.
Sé que es más fácil quedarme sentado
y esperar que pase el dolor
que oír en la radio mi voz
decirle a la gente que no.

No intentes hacerme cambiar,
no me pidas ese favor,
siento decirte
que no, que no, que no, que no,
que no, que no, que no, que no,
que no, que no, que no.

Ya sé que quizás no es el momento
ni es el lugar ideal,
pero dejarlo pasar
sería un triste final.
Ya sé que piensas que es algo extraño,
que no puede durar más,
pero al final tú caerás
y puede que yo ya no esté.

No intentes hacerme cambiar,
no me pidas ese favor,
siento decirte
que no, que no, que no, que no,
que no, que no, que no, que no,
que no, que no, que no.
siento decir que no.

No intentes hacerme cambiar,
no me pidas ese favor,
siento decirte
que no, que no, que no, que no,
que no, que no, que no, que no,
que no, que no, que no.

No intentes hacerme cambiar,
no me pidas ese favor,
siento decirte
que no, que no, que no, que no,
que no, que no, que no, que no,
que no, que no, que no, que no,
que no, que no, que no, que no,
que no, que no, que no,
siento decir que no.


SAY NO

I know it's not exactly
what it should be,
but it makes me laugh to think
that you wait for me to give up.
I know it's easier to sit down
and wait for the pain to cease
that listen to my voice on the radio
telling no to the people.

Please don't make me change,
don't ask me that,
I'm afraid I got to
say no, say no, say no, say no,
say no, say no, say no, say no,
say no, say no, say no.

I know that maybe it's not
the right time and place,
but letting it pass
would be a sad way to end.
I know you think that's strange,
that it couldn't last,
but you will fall at the end
and maybe I will not be there.

Please don't make me change,
don't ask me that,
I'm afraid I got to
say no, say no, say no, say no,
say no, say no, say no, say no,
say no, say no, say no,
I'm afraid I got to say no.

Please don't make me change,
don't ask me that,
I'm afraid I got to
say no, say no, say no, say no,
say no, say no, say no, say no,
say no, say no, say no.

Please don't make me change,
don't ask me that,
I'm afraid I got to
say no, say no, say no, say no,
say no, say no, say no, say no,
say no, say no, say no, say no,
say no, say no, say no, say no,
say no, say no, say no,
I'm afraid I got to say no.





The rest of the Spanish Top 5 of 2003:
2. LA BUENA VIDA "El actor mejicano"
3. EL COLUMPIO ASESINO "Lehiotik"
4. LOVE OF LESBIAN "Satellites"
5. REFREE "Padres y nones"

Songs:

1. Jayhawks: The Eyes of Sarahjane
2. Jayhawks: Tailspin
3. Julieta Venegas: Lento
4. Richard Thompson: Oops!, I Did It Again
5. Camera Obscura: Teenager
6. Benjamin Biolay: Chaise à Tokyo
7. Jayhawks: Stumbling Through the Dark
8. Mojave 3: Bluebird of Happiness
9. Jayhawks: All the Right Reasons
10. Camera Obscura: Keep it Clean
11. Jayhawks: Save It for a Rainy Day
12. Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart
13. Strokes: 12:51
14. Essex Green: The Late Great Cassiopia
15. Camera Obscura: Suspended from Class
16. Jayhawks: One Man’s Problem
17. Outkast: Hey Ya!
18. Refree: Raisa
19. White Stripes: Seven Nation Army
20. Coral: Liezah

21. Sufjan Stevens: Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid)
22. Yo La Tengo: Little Eyes
23. Mojave 3: Starlight Nº 1
24. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Waking for Winter
25. Mojave 3: Tinkers Blues
26. Sufjan Stevens: For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti
27. Sun Kil Moon: Lily and Parots
28. Benjamin Biolay: Nuits Blanches
29. Mojave 3: She’s All Up Above
30. Yo La Tengo: Season of the Shark
31. Sufjan Stevens: All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace!
32. Refree: Les soldats perdus
33. Benjamin Biolay: Little Darlin
34. Sun Kil Moon: Carry Me Ohio
35. Refree: La trampa
36. Liz Phair: Extraordinary
37. Sun Kil Moon: Glenn Tripton
38. Mojave 3: Too Many Mornings
39. Refree: Como en los días corrientes
40. Belle and Sebastian: If She Wants Me

41. Mojave 3: Between the Bars
42. Liz Phair: Red Light Fever
43. Belle and Sebastian: I'm a Cuckoo
44. Hidden Cameras: Ban Marriage
45. Belle and Sebastian: Step into My Office, Baby
46. Super Furry Animals: Golden Retriever
47. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Shore Light
48. Benjamin Biolay: Hors la vie
49. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Happiness
50. Benjamin Biolay: Les insulaires
51. BMX Bandits: I´m is Such Great Shape
52. Jamie Cullum: These are the Days
53. Hidden Cameras: A Miracle
54. Super Furry Animals: The Picolo Snare
55. Nacho Vegas: El mundo en calma
56. Julieta Venegas: Algo está cambiando
57. M. Ward: Duet for Guitars #3
58. Julieta Venegas: Andar conmigo
59. Josh Rouse: Sunshine (Come on Lady)
60. La Buena Vida: Un actor mejicano

1. Jayhawks: Rainy Day Music
2. Mojave 3: Spoon and Rafter
3. Benjamin Biolay: Négatif
4. Refree: Nones
5. Camera Obscura: Underachieves Please Try Harder
6. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Sleep Holiday
7. Sufjan Stevens: Greetings from Michigan, the Great Lake State
8. Sun Kil Moon: Ghost of the Great Highway
9. Liz Phair: Liz Phair
10. Belle & Sebastian: Dear Catastrophes Waitress
11. Hidden Cameras: The Smell of our Own
12. Super Furry Animals: Phantom Power
13. BMX Bandits: Down at the Hop
14. White Stripes : Elephant
15. Nacho Vegas: Cajas de música difíciles de parar
16. Julieta Venegas: Sí
17. Essex Green: The Long Goodbye
18. Yo La Tengo: Summer Sun
19. Coral: Magic and Medicine
20. Warren Zevon: The Wind

21. Isobel Campbell: Amorino
22. Richard Thompson: 1000 Years of Popular Music
23. Cat Power: You Are Free
24. Josh Rouse: 1972
25. Thrills: So Much for the City
26. M. Ward: The Transfiguration of Vincent
27. La Buena Vida: Album
28. Eels: Shootenanny!
29. Kraftwerk: Tour de France Soundtracks
30. Elliot Murphy: Strings of the Storms
31. Wim Mertens: Skoplos
32. Sodastream: A Minor Revival
33. José González : Veneer
34. Keren Ann: Not Going Anywhere
35. Jamie Cullum: Twentysomething
36. Townes Van Zandt: In the Beginning
37. Strokes: Room on Fire
38. Richard Hawley: Lowedges
39. Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Greendale
40. Pernice Brothers: Yours, Mine & Ours
41. Pauline en la playa: Termitas y otras cosas
42. Andrew Bird: Weather Systems
43. Lucinda Williams: World Without Tears
44. Elvis Costello : North
45. Electra: La niña de los siete corazones

Last minute entry because I liked this year and had trouble choosing just ten songs and albums each.

Songs:

1) Seven Nation Army-White Stripes
2) Hey Ya!-Outkast
3) Are you Gonna be my Girl-Jet (not even sorry about it)
4) Zebra-John Butler Trio (Single in '03, album came in '04, but I think it still counts)
5) 99 Problems-Jay-Z
6) Maps-Yeah Yeah Yeahs
7) Hysteria-Muse
8) Out of Time-Blur
9) Sunsets-Powderfinger
10)Danger! High Voltage!-Electric Six

Albums:

1) Elephant-White Stripes
2) Hail to the Thief-Radiohead
3) Speakerboxxx/The Love Below-Outkast
4) Chutes Too Narrow-Shins
5) Echoes-The Rapture
6) Fever to Tell-Yeah Yeah Yeahs
7) Think Tank-Blur
8) Room on Fire-Strokes
9) Her Majesty-Decemberists
10)Vulture Street-Powderfinger

Albums
1 . The Rapture - Echoes
2 . Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
3 . CMX - Aion
4 . Cat Power - You Are Free
5 . Calexico - Feast of Wire
6 . Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
7 . Blur - Think Tank
8 . The Knife - Deep Cuts
9 . The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
10 . Liekki - Korppi
11 . Plutonium 74 - Pasilasta Kallioon
12 . Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
13 . Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
14 . Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
15 . The Postal Service - Give up
16 . M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
17 . Mew - Frengers
18 . The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark
19 . The White Stripes - Elephant
20 . Ultramariini - Juuri ja juuri olemassa

Songs
1 . Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine
2 . TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun
3 . Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
4 . Knife - Pass This on
5 . Radiohead - There There
6 . Mew - Am I Wry? No
7 . White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
8 . Blur - Out of Time
9 . OutKast - Hey Ya
10 . Explosions in the Sky - First Breath after Coma
11 . Mogwai - Hunted by a Freak
12 . Postal Service - Such Great Heights
13 . Calexico - Sunken Waltz
14 . Jose Gonzales - Heartbeats
15 . The Thrills - Big Sur
16 . Placebo - Special Needs
17 . Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
18 . Belle and Sebastian - Stay Loose
19 . The Cardigans - For What It's Worth
20 . The Mars Volta - Roulette Dares (The Haunt of)

Awesome year!

Albums:

1. Kylie Minogue - Body Language
2. Annie Lennox - Bare
3. The Strokes - Room on Fire
4. Dannii Minogue - Neon Nights
5. Blondie - The Curse of Blondie
6. Madonna - American Life
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
8. Vive la Fete - Nuit Blanche
9. Peaches - Fatherfucker
10. Missy Elliott - This Is Not a Test
11. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
12. David Bowie - Reality
13. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
14. Robert Randolph & His Family Band - Unclassified
15. The Knife - Deep Cuts
16. Prince - NEWS

Songs:

1. Annie Lennox - "Pavement Cracks"
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Maps"
3. Kylie Minogue - "Secret (Take You Home)"
4. The Strokes - "Reptilia"
5. Chromeo - "Needy Girl"
6. Blondie - "Golden Rod"
7. !!! - "Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard"
8. Kylie Minogue - "Slow"
9. Madonna - "Mother and Father"
10. David Bowie - "New Killer Star"
11. The Strokes - "12:51"
12. Robert Randolph & His Family Band - "I Need More Love"
13. Kylie Minogue - "Sweet Music"
14. Blondie - "Good Boys"
15. Kylie Minogue - "Chocolate"
16. Kylie Minogue - "Still Standing"
17. The Strokes - "The End Has No End"
18. Missy Elliott - "Pass That Dutch"
19. Blondie - "The Tingler"
20. Busta Rhymes - "Light Your Ass on Fire"
21. Blondie - "Diamond Bridge"
22. Annie Lennox - "Loneliness"
23. Madonna - "Nothing Fails"
24. Peaches - "Stuff Me Up"
25. Kylie Minogue - "Loving Days"
26. Kylie Minogue - "Slo Motion"
27. Vive la Fete - "Jaloux"
28. Kylie Minogue - "Almost a Lover"
29. Dannii Minogue - "I Begin to Wonder"
30. Madonna - "Hollywood"
31. David Bowie - "The Loneliest Guy"
32. Missy Elliott - "Toyz"
33. Kylie Minogue - "Someday"
34. Annie Lennox - "A Thousand Beautiful Things"
35. Dannii Minogue - "Hide and Seek"
36. Annie Lennox - "Bitter Pill"
37. The Strokes - "I Can't Win"
38. Franz Ferdinand - "Darts of Pleasure"
39. Madonna - "Easy Ride"
40. Peaches - "I U She"
41. Dannii Minogue - "Nervous"
42. Annie Lennox - "Honestly"
43. Blondie - "Songs of Love"
44. Roxette - "Opportunity Nox"
45. Kylie Minogue - "City Games"
46. The White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army"
47. Kylie Minogue - "Promises"
48. Dannii Minogue - "Mighty Fine"
49. David Bowie - "Bring Me the Disco King"
50. Kylie Minogue - "I Feel for You"

Songs:

1. R. Kelly - Ignition (Remix)
2. OutKast - Hey Ya!
3. Kanye West - Through The Wire
4. Darkness - I Believe in a Thing Called Love
5. Jay-Z - 99 Problems
6. Postal Service - Such Great Heights
7. !!! - Me and Giuliani Down By the Schoolyard (A True Story)
8. Beyonce - Crazy in Love
9. Panjabi MC - Mundian de Bach Ke
10. Electric Six - Gay Bar
11. Radiohead - There There
12. Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up, Look Sharp
13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
14. 50 Cent - In Da Club
15. Darkness - Growing On Me
16. Format - The First Single (You Know Me) - (all the versions of this song on YouTube are terrible)
17. Twista - Slow Jamz
18. White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
19. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone?
20. Coheed & Cambria - Blood Red Summer

Albums:

1. OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
2. AFI - Sing the Sorrow
3. White Stripes - Elephant
4. Darkness - Permission to Land
5. 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin'
6. Postal Service - Give Up
7. Jay-Z - The Black Album
8. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
9. Knife - Deep Cuts
10. Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

Albums:

1) Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
2) The White Stripes - Elephant
3) The New Pornographers - Electric Version
4) Junior Senior - D-D-Don't Stop the Beat
5) The Postal Service - Give Up
6) Jay-Z - The Black Album
7) Stephen Malkmus - Pig Lib
8) Cassandra Wilson - Glamoured
9) Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
10) The Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine & Ours
11) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
12) The Wrens - Meadowlands
13) Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
14) OutKast - Speakerboxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/The Love Below
15) The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow

Songs to come...

So I was all set with my list... and then I discovered that my two favorite College Dropout tracks were released this year. That changed my list quite a bit.

Songs:

1) Kanye West - "Through the Wire"
2) The White Stripes - "The Hardest Button to Button"
3) Junior Senior - "Move Your Feet"
4) Super Furry Animals - "The Piccolo Snare"
5) Twista (Feat. Kanye West and Jaime Foxx) - "Slow Jamz"
6) The Postal Service - "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight"
7) TV on the Radio - "Staring at the Sun"
8) The New Pornographers - "The Laws Have Changed"
9) Super Furry Animals - "Venus and Serena"
10) The White Stripes - "Black Math"
11) The Postal Service - "Such Great Heights"
12) The New Pornographers - "From Blown Speakers
13) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Maps"
14) The Bens - "Just Pretend"
15) Outkast - "Roses"
16) 50 Cent - "In Da Club"
17) Stephen Malkmus - "1% of One"
18) Dan Zanes - "House Party Time"
19) OutKast (feat. Sleepy Brown) - "The Way You Move"
20) Junior Senior - "Good Girl, Bad Boy"
21) Stephen Malkmus - "(Do Not Feed the) Oyster"
22) Jay-Z - "Encore"
23) The Pernice Brothers - "The Weakest Shade of Blue"
24) The White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army"