the top five albums of 2003 chosen by music critics from around the world are

1...white stripes...elephant
2...outkast...speakerboxxx/the love below
3...blur...think tank
4...radiohead...hail to the thief
5...strokes...room on fire
...
...i have only heard 3 out of the five but i will check out the other 2 asap...
...
...http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/

predictable.

Well, there's 1 out of 5 I like. Guess that's alright considering the source - snobbish egghead critics.

Take out Blur and The Strokes, replace 'em with Grandaddy and Kelis, and put Radiohead at #5, and you got yourself a list. (not that I didn't like the Blur album, but in my opinion it's definitely #6 material at best.)

Where's Annie Lennox's Bare?

And Kelis - Tasty

What an album. Just got it today and can't stop listening. Wow.

Kelis isn't top 5 material. Bare is really boring. Easy listening.

2freaky4church1 said:

Sacrilege!

So what are your top 5?

2freaky4church1 said:

Agreed on Bare...I was excited to get a new Annie album after all these years, but I was really underwhelmed with the results. I think it's good, honest music, but I just can't appreciate it at this point in my life - maybe when I'm older, or maybe when I have a specific craving for something on that album, I'll appreciate it more. I want to like it, because I like Annie so much - I just don't.

Kelis' "Tasty", on the other hand...it's a bit apples and oranges, but DAMN. What a fruit bowl. My biggest problem with "Tasty" is that for me, it's over as soon as it begins...I know it's near an hour long, but whenever it ends, I'm always like "damn, didn't I just put that in the stereo???"

Anxiety said:

I really loved Bare when it first came out but a week later I dropped it. The songs just didn't stick with me. There are a few gems on there like Pavement Cracks, Honestly and Loneliness, but I haven't had the urge to put since June. I wish I did though cuz like you said, it's exciting to have her back. The performances and songwriting is strong, it just doesn't fit with this stage of my life. It's strange cuz I was so into later Eurythmics and Medusa earlier this year.

I guess 'Bare' just worked for me at this point in my life, which is all that really matters in album appreciation.

VoicesCarry said:

This is true.

It's too bad that Annie's so miserable at this age though. I wish she could find some lasting happiness.

Radiohead- Hail To The Thief
Aqualung- Still Life
Andre3000- The Love Below
Josh Rouse- 1972
White Stripes- elephant

No order.

1. Les Nubians - One Step Forward
2. Andre 3000 - The Love Below
3. Kelis - Tasty
4. K'Alyn - The Beauty of...
5. Meshell Ndegeocello - Comfort Woman

And mine:

1). Think Tank - Blur
2). Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - Outkast
3). Chocolate Box - R Kelly
4). Country On The Click - The Fall
5). Tasty - Kelis

1.A beautiful world - Thicke (maybe my favourite this decade so far)

2.The Love below (A band wagon favourite)

3.World wide underground - Erykah Badu (Andre 3000's much more talented ex wife)

4. Statues - Moloko (like a hit of X, if Sade made house music this would be it)

5.Floetry

Anxiety said:

Grandaddy's album was great!!! I'd never heard of them until a couple months ago. A friend here at work let me check out 'Sumday', and I loved it. Kinda like The Flaming Lips meets the Beach Boys. Very cool stuff

1. Coldplay, A Rush of Blood to the Head
2. Christina Aguilera, Stripped
3. Outkast, The Love Below/Speakerboxxx
4. Kelis, Tasty
5. Monica, After the Storm

I think ORGers are watching too much MTV! There is a plethora of amazing music out there each and every year. Ya just gotta look for it. These 5 albums on my list blow all other albums in this thread out of the water in terms of originality and artistic integrity. Criteria on which anything great is based. So here it is in no particular order.

Clearlake - Cedars
Perfuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
Manitoba - Up In Flames
Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

Time to do your homework and RECOGNIZE!!!

I think I've already done this one here somewhere. Fuck it I'll another one...

1. Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won
2. Travis - 12 Memories
3. Prince - NEWS
4. Joe Strummer - Streetcore
5. Terence Trent D'Arby - Wildcard

Anxiety said:

BLASPHEMY!!!

1. Johnny Cash ~ American IV : the man comes around
2. David Bowie ~ Reality
3. Toby Keith ~ Shockin' Y'all
4. INXS ~ definitive inxs
5. Bruce Springsteen ~ the rising (not sure if it was 2002 or 2003)


greetz
hbk

kev1n said:

Toby Keith? You have GOT to be kidding...

Racist, redneck, utterly deplorable music.

VoicesCarry said:[quote]

kev1n said:

Thats kindof funny u said that, Those words almost sounded like a definition of todays rap music.. I guess thats were Rap and Country meet.

garnis said:

Here he goes again.

So I suppose your Radiohead is better than everyone else's Radiohead.

garnis said:

i'm convinced now that you make these statements without actually paying attention to what anyone says here or what goes on in this forum in general. there are people that are talking about boring bands that stuck up faux music snob twats like you enjoy, yet you repeatedly make comments that everyone else's taste sucks. "there is a plethora of people into amazing music" in this forum. "ya just gotta look for it."


that, or get over yourself and quit pretending you don't like pop music, because you obviously do or you wouldn't be on a prince site.

TRON said:

If we pretend not to notice, hopefully he'll stop!

AaronAlmighty said:

I, too, happen to find Radiohead and White Stripes pretentious. Doesn't mean someone's wrong for listening to them, though. What you said is bang-on.

gone with the wind

In no order:-

* The Cardigans - "Long Gone Before Daylight" - their best album ever, a complete epic
* Outkast - "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" - 2 albums 4 the price of 1 - more freaky hip hop on Speakerboxxx and some wilder shit on The Love Below
* Elbow - "A Cast Of Thousands" - up there with Long Gone Before Daylight for epic of the year. Amazing, anthemic and very beautiful
* Prince - "N.E.W.S." - the cheapest trip 2 space ever. Grooving into outer space
* Angels Of Light - "Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home" - rough, beautiful and achingly moving
[This message was edited Tue Dec 23 17:33:00 PST 2003 by daned]