Top 10 of 2003

[DS]

Straightways,

The US release of Palace of Gold was in 2003, so it could be in on a technicality.

I like that record pretty well, it didn't sound like I expected it to, with the horns and strings.

[Straightaways]

1) Oh Susanna - Oh Susanna
2) The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music (just saw them in Toronto on
Tuesday night and they were AMAZING!!!)
3) Lucinda Wililams - World Without Tears
4) My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
5) Ryan Adams - Rock N' Roll
6) Jay Farrar - Terroir Blues
7) Jim Bryson - The North Side Benches
8 ) Kathleen Edwards - Failer (I know, it was actually released in 2002 but
I am still loving it!!)
9) Blue Rodeo - Palace of Gold (again, released in 2002 but still loving it)
10) Veal - the embattled hearts.

[Hanging Blue Side]

Jayhawks Rainy Day Music is right up there,also have any of you heard Who The Hell is John Eddie by John Eddie?Its pretty good stuff.

[Godsownsinger]

Neil Young's"Greendale", and Lucinda Williams"World Without Tears" belong on any "top" list...they are both great albums

[stevie]

Things that I've liked in 2003 (ish):

Jay - Terroir Blues
Drive by Truckers - Decoration Day
Tim Easton - Break your Mothers Heart
Interpol - Turn on the bright lights
Starflyer 59 - Old
Grandaddy - Sumday
Mojave 3 - Spoon and Rafter
Spiritualized - Amazing Grace
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
Mendoza Line - Lost in Revelry

Guilty pleasures:

Beyonce - Crazy in love (probably shouldn't feel guilty as its a bloody brilliant song)
50 Cent - In da club
Evanescene - that well known one
Justin Timberlake - his entire album
Christina - Dirty

Things that have annoyed me:

Pete Yorn - so forgetable I have forgotten its name.
The White Stripes - are they really that good?
Rolling Stones - but then, they always annoy me.
The NME in the UK creating the 'new rock revolution' and sparking the following crap bands:

The Vines
The Darkness
The Datsuns
The Bellrays

[missY1]

i think this is in another thread somewhere, but what the hell...

gillian welch "soul journey"
over the rhine "ohio"
caitlin cary "i'm staying out"
jayhawks "rainy day music"
rhonda vincent "one step ahead"
fountains of wayne "welcome interstate managers"
kathleen edwards "failer"
paul westerberg/grandpa boy "come feel me tremble/dead man
shake"
jay farrar "terroir blues"
shins "chute's too narrow"
alison krauss "live"
my morning jacket "it still moves"
robinella & the cc string band

[pbass1972]

1. Jay Farrar - Terroir Blues
2. Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll/Love Is Hell Parts 1 & 2
3. Tim Easton - Break Your Mother's Heart
4. The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music
5. Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
6. Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Streetcore
7. Gillian Welch - Soul Journey
8. Drive By Truckers - Decoration Day
9. John Hiatt - Beneath This Gruff Exterior
10. The Thorns

Reissues probably don't count. but there were some good ones:
Uncle Tupelo - All of 'em
Television - Marquee Moon & Adventure
Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Rhino's "No Thanks" punk collection

[Sam Hall]

Johnny Cash "Unearthed" is the year's best. No doubt.

[freeuntilcaught]

10 being the best...right?

[lukenmo]

so let's agree these lists are foolish, if not downright stupid. they do, on the other hand, serve the innate human need to discriminate, classify, and judge, and therefore coincide with the classic Aristotelian conception of human nature. ok, so they're stupid. here goes anyway.

10. jay farrar, "terroir blues"
9. willard grant conspiracy, "regard the end"
8. dar williams, "the beauty of the rain"
7. belle and sebastion, "dear catastrophe waitress"
6. the innocence mission, "befriended
5. the new pornographers, "electric version"
4. the shins, "chutes too narrow"
3. the eels, "shootenany"
2. tim easton, "break your mother's heart"
1. sun kil moon, "ghosts of the great highway"