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DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003
DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003
sean by Sean Adams December 9th, 2003

2003, what a year...

It's nearly over, but not 'til every publication has put together a chart. And why should we be any different? Here's our staff voted summary of the records which meant something and everything in 2003.

Drowned In Sound : Critics Poll 2003

  1. Radiohead Hail to the Thief

  2. The Darkness Permission to Land

  3. Cat Power You Are Free

  4. Blood Brothers Burn Piano Island, Burn

  5. Muse Absolution

  6. Fountains Of Wayne Welcome Interstate Managers

  7. Funeral For A Friend Casually Dressed and in Deep Conversation

  8. Zwan Mary Star of the Sea

  9. Hell Is For Heroes The Neon Handshake

  10. Elbow Cast of Thousands

  11. Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People

  12. Outkast Speakerboxxx / The Love Below

  13. Mars Volta De-loused in the Comatorium

  14. Hot Hot Heat Make up the Breakdown

  15. White Stripes Elephant

  16. Dizzee Rascal Boy in Da Corner

  17. Jane’s Addiction Strays

  18. Deftones Deftones

  19. Mew Frengers

  20. Evan Dando Baby I’m Bored

  21. Strokes Room on Fire

  22. The Distillers Coral Fang

  23. Goldfrapp Black Cherry

  24. Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things

  25. Silver Mt Zion This is our punk rock: thee rusted satellites gather + sing

  26. Twilight Singers Blackberry Belle

  27. Broken Family Band Cold Water Songs

  28. Biffy Clyro The Vertigo of Bliss

  29. Oceansize Effloresce

  30. British Sea Power The Decline Of..

  31. Stellastarr Stellastarr

  32. Pretty Girls Make Graves The New Romance

  33. Dandy Warhols Welcome to the Monkey House

  34. Alkaline Trio Good Mourning

  35. Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque

  36. UNKLE Never Never Land

  37. Snow Patrol The Final Straw

  38. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell

  39. Broken Social Scene You Forgot it in People

  40. A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step

  41. My Morning Jacket It Stll Moves

  42. King Geedorah Take Me to Your Leader

  43. Blur Think Tank

  44. Postal Service Give Up

  45. Girls Aloud Sound of the Underground

  46. Rapture Echoes

  47. Metallica St. Anger

  48. Cooper Temple Clause Kick Up The Fire and Let The Flames Break Loose

  49. Aereogramme Sleep and Release

  50. Brand New Deja Entendu

  51. Rufus Wainwright Want One

  52. The Shins Chutes Too Narrow On Import. UK Release March 2004

  53. Distophia Soda Lake

  54. Hidden Cameras The Smell of Our Own

  55. Azure Ray Hold on Love

  56. Four Tet Rounds

  57. Belle And Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress

  58. M83 Dead Cities Red Seas and Lost Ghosts

  59. Billy Talent Billy Talent

  60. B Movie Heroes Anthems for the Underdog

  61. Ani DiFranco Evolve

  62. Magnet On Your Side

  63. Warlocks Phoenix

  64. Desert Sessions Volumes 9 & 10

  65. Clearlake Cedars

  66. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Take them on, on Your Own

  67. Sole Selling live Water

  68. Meanwhile, Back In Communist Russia My Elixir: My Poison

  69. Jetplane Landing Once like a Spark

  70. Super Furry Animals Phantom Power

  71. Adam Green Friends of Mine

  72. Thursday War all the Time

  73. Peaches Fatherfucker

  74. The Kills Keep on your Mean Side

  75. Adult Anxiety Always

The Science Bit...

This chart was compiled from the votes of our staff, who chose their top 20 albums of the year, with number 1 scoring 20 points and number 20 scoring 1 point. There was a two vote minimum to get into the chart. Radiohead scored nearly 200 points.

Some of these records are missing reviews. Reviews will appear on the site in the coming weeks.

DiScuss: What were your albums of the year? Who was robbed? Anything here surprise you? Do you think this chart represents what DiS is all about and what has gone on in 2003?



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