[Bristol Pete]

I will start the ball rolling with -

Muse; Absolution.

To me, Muse are the best band from the UK for a long old while. Much like the first two albums, it chock full of riffs, superb melody and some awesome drumming. Cant fault it.

In summary, pure genius.

What would you say is the best album of 03 ?

cheers,

Cap

[karkus30]

Probably Sikth......The trees are dead and dried out.........

but theres always;

The Darkness...Permission to Land
Yeah Yeah Yeahs.....Fever to tell
M83..........Red seas, dead cities lost ghosts (or is that the other way around)

Sorry, there just isnt one stand out album this year.

[watchmaker]

This year I've been mostly listening to ...

Elephant ... The White Stripes
Ether Song ... Turin Brakes

[narabdela]

Cyndi Lauper - At Last.

The Proclaimers - Best of.

[LDR]

Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death.

[Miyazaki]

Probably Outkast's double latest Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. An absolutely incrediable offering.

Fantastic.

Or the singles collection of Chem Bros.

And then there is Fever To Tell - YYY's
Youth & Young Manhood - KOL
Permission To Land - Darkness
Mary Star of the Sea - Zwan
Hail To the Theif - Radiohead
Room On Fire - Strokes
Elephant - White Stripes

[overkill]

Darkness- permisson to land
Evanescence - Fallen
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - By the way


Muse...........Hmmmm, can't make up my mind about them. A bit Prog, but heavier. Like some of the songs but not his voice.

[pointon]

In reverse order, pop-pickers!

At 5, we have Muse with 'Absolution'... a triumphal kick ass rock album, but just not as great as everyone makes out. 'Origin Of Symmetry' was better. Still awesome.

At 4 is Nostromo with 'Eccelex', the hardest, noisest, most heart pounding, head breaking hardcore metal of the year. Superb!

At 3, Sikth and 'The Trees Are Dead blah blah blah'... a fantastic metal album from which you always come away with something new on each listen.

At 2, with the most accomplished new record of 2003, Radiohead with 'Hail To The Thief'... hard to explain what genius this record is... but of course, it's Radiohead.

But at number 1, and my favourite album of the whole year, is The Cooper Temple Clause with 'Kick Up The Fire, And Let The Flames Break Loose'. Simply perfect. It rocks, it asks questions, it answers them, it simply kicks ass and if you haven't bought it then you're a fool!

[Whiting]

Any one of the following :

Nocturama -- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Think Tank -- Blur
The Decline of British Sea Power -- British Sea Power
Streetcore -- Joe Strummer
Dear Catastrophe Waitress -- Belle & Sebastian
Here's Tom With The Weather -- Shack
Rounds -- Four Tet
Hail To The Thief -- Radiohead
Absolution -- Muse

[sceptic]

The Darkness - Permission to Land
Busted - A present for Everyone

[JohnG]

Rancid - Indestructible
Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death
Eater - The Eater Chronicles - released this year but originally 1976. I've only just found out that the drummer with this band was only 14 when they started gigging in pubs

Kings of Leon - Youth and Young manhood

I would class these guys as the best band in existence - and after seeing them live, i'm completely overwhelmed.

Other than that
The Strokes Room on Fire
JET's album
White Stripes Elephant
The Coral Magic and Medicine

[chris]

It has got to be Evanescence - Fallen.
That girl has got One Brill voice.

[Miyazaki]

Originally posted by sceptic

Busted - A present for Everyone

[Oasis-GasPanic]

I suppose I'll have to say:

Kings of Leon - Youth and Young manhood

and

The White Stripes - Elephant

[Dimmy]

Nitin Sawhney - Human

Typical brillance, how I love this man's work .

Keep it coming! (Not that he'll be reading ).

Dimmy

[CrispyXUK]

Hail to the Theif - Radiohead
Think Tank - Blur
12 Memories - Travis (This one really surprised me)
Room on fire - The Strokes

Apart from that it wasnt really a great year for music

[Daneel]

Katie Melua - Call off the Search

[Senninha]

Repeating things others have voted, but I'd go for

Jet - Get born
Joe Strummer / Mescaleros - Streetcore
Belle & Sebastian - Dear catastrophe waitress

I reckon it's actually been quite a good year musically, the problem is that it's becoming ever more tiresome to wade through the ever increasing mountains of pop idol winners, pop idol rejects, and godawful boy/girl bands singing similar songs about similar cack.

If you can dig through all that lot there's been some excellent stuff.

[karkus30]

Originally posted by pointon


But at number 1, and my favourite album of the whole year, is The Cooper Temple Clause with 'Kick Up The Fire, And Let The Flames Break Loose'. Simply perfect. It rocks, it asks questions, it answers them, it simply kicks ass and if you haven't bought it then you're a fool!

Therefore Im not a fool, thats not right, then I must judge your choices as inaccurate.

[outtathaway]

1. The Sleepy Jackson, Lovers.
2. Kings of Leon, Youth & Young Manhood.
3. Grandaddy, Sumday.
All in all not a bad year for tunes, with old timers such as Blur and Radiohead releasing there best albums for years with some decent new bands coming through aswell.

[karkus30]

Im really struggling with 'Hail to the thief'. I listen to a massively eclectic mix of music, but several attempts later I have still ejected it before the last few tracks.

Every review, virtually everyone on this forum likes it, I like all the other albums including the dreaded Kid A, but I just cant get into this one. For some reason it sounds like an attempt at a dance style, like orbital or underworld, but very downbeat and dirge like.

[seany]

No order.

Snow patrol final straw http://www.snowpatrol.net/flash/flash.html

Elbow: cast of thousands http://www.elbow.co.uk/release.asp


Now thats what i call music56

[Dimmy]

Originally posted by karkus30
Im really struggling with 'Hail to the thief'. I listen to a massively eclectic mix of music, but several attempts later I have still ejected it before the last few tracks.

Every review, virtually everyone on this forum likes it, I like all the other albums including the dreaded Kid A, but I just cant get into this one. For some reason it sounds like an attempt at a dance style, like orbital or underworld, but very downbeat and dirge like.

I just can't get into their music full stop, no matter what they do.

Regulars to the music forum will know my sentiments on The Darkness .

Dimmy

I'm impressed with Hail to the Thief, Nocturam and Elephant. But my favourite album this year has to be:

Magic and Medicine, by the Coral.

I doubt it'll go down as a classic, but I love it to bits.

[mjn]

Iron Maiden - Dance of Death

[Senninha]

Originally posted by Dimmy
Regulars to the music forum will know my sentiments on The Darkness

Exactly - what's with the guy's VOICE?! It's the worst case - I wanted to like it, but couldn't!

[CrispyXUK]

Originally posted by Dimmy
I just can't get into their music full stop, no matter what they do.

Regulars to the music forum will know my sentiments on The Darkness .

Dimmy

Never mind eh?

[Mylo]

Anyone seen the thread Topic round here.


Favourite Album.

Graveltrap - Concrete and Udder Chaos

Brit Ska/Punk Lots of loud guitar and drum breaks . This young and energetic band appear to really enjoy what they are doing.
http://www.graveltrap.org.uk/


Mylo

[Whiting]

Originally posted by keanyboy
No order.

Snow patrol final straw http://www.snowpatrol.net/flash/flash.html

I think I'll be treating myself to this in the post-Xmas comedown. Been recommended to me loads of times by friends and to top it all, caught a track of theirs on one of the music channels the other day and thought it was teriffic despite not knowing it was them until the end.

So, I'll have that and the Bonne 'Prince' Billy album, I think.