NMEs Top Singles And Albums Of 2003, Discuss... Options

[k thx]

As some of you probably know, the NME is a "serious" weekly music paper in the UK and has been responsible for breaking acts like The Strokes and The White Stripes to a mainstream audiance before they made it in the US. Today, they released their top 50 albums and singles of 2003. Here's the list, for those who care or wanna try something new:

Singles Of The Year

1) Beyonce: Crazy In Love
2) The White Stripes: Seven Nation Army
3) Outkast: Hey Ya
4) The Libertines: Don't Look Back Into The Sun
5) Franz Ferdinand: Darts Of Pleasure
6) Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Maps
7) The Rapture: House Of Jealous Lovers
8) The Stokes: 12:51
9) Electric Six: Danger! High Voltage
10) The Coral: Pass It On
11) 50 Cent: In Da Club
12) Justin Timberlake: Cry Me A River
13) Hot Hot Heat: Bandages
14) Panjabi MC: Mundian To Back Ke
15) The Raveonettes: That Great Love Sound
16) Blur: Out Of Time
17) Junior Senior: Move Your Feet
18) Interpol: Say Hello To The Angels/NYC
19) Tatu: All The Things She Said
20) Super Furry Animals: Golden Retriever
21) !!!: Me And Giuliani Down By The School Yard: A True Story
22) The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster: Psychosis Safari
23) The Libertines: Time For Heroes
24) Coldplay: Clocks
25) Kings Of Leon: What I Saw EP
26) Girls Aloud: No Good Advice
27) The Cooper Temple Clause: Promises Promises
28) Elliott Smith: Pretty (Ugly Before)
29) The Sleepy Jackson: Good Dancers
30) 22-20's: Such A Fool
31) Richard X Featuring Kelis: Finest Dreams
32) Johnny Cash: Hurt
33) The Datsuns: Harmonic Generator
34) Queens Of The Stone Age: Go With The Flow
35) Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Date With The Night
36) Kings Of Leon: Holy Roller Novocaine EP
37) The Hidden Cameras: Ban Marriage
38) Dizee Rascal: Fix Up, Look Sharp
39) Janes Addiction: Just Because
40) Muse: Stockholm Syndrome
41) Sean Paul: Like Glue
42) The Cooper Temple Clause: Blind Pilots
43) Queens Of The Stone Age: First It Giveth
44) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Stop
45) ARE Weapons: Hey World
46) The Coral: Don't Think You're The First
47) Jet: Are You Gonna Be My Girl
48) Hope Of The States: Black Dollar Bills
49) Wayne Wonder: No Letting Go
50) Ambershades: Clap Clap Clap

Top Albums

1) The White Stripes: Elephant
2) The Rapture: Echoes
3) The Strokes: Room On Fire
4) Elbow: Cast Of Thousands
5) Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever To Tell
6) Rufus Mainwright: Want One
7) Kings Of Leon: Youth & Young Manhood
8) Outkast: Speakerboxx/The Love Below
9) Radiohead: Hail To The Thief
10) My Morning Jacket: It Still Moves
11) Evan Dando: Baby I'm Bored
12) The Coral: Magic And Medicine
13) Spiritualized: Amazing Grace
14) The Distillers: Coral Fang
15) Hot Hot Heat: Make Up The Breakdown
16) Dizzee Rascal: Boy In Da Corner
17) Funeral For A Friend: Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation
18) The Sleepy Jackson: Lovers
19) Muse: Absolution
20) Jet: Get Born
21) Blur: Think Tank
22) The Hidden Cameras: The Smell Of Our Own
23) The Cooper Temple Clause: Kick Up The Fire, And Let The Flames Break Loose
24) Four Tet: Rounds
25) The Darkness: Permission To Land
26) The Kills: Keep On Your Mean Side
27) Super Furry Animals: Phantom Power
28) The Mars Volta: De-Loused In The Comatorium
29) Peaches: Fatherfucker
30) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Take Them On, On Your Own
31) 50 Cent: Get Rich Or Die Tryin
32) The Thrills: So Much For The City
33) Mogwai: Happy Songs For Happy People
34) Jay-Z: The Black Album
35) Nick Cave: Nocturama
36) British Sea Power: The Decline Of British Sea Power
37) Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: Master And Everyone
38) 22-20's: 05/03
39) Patrick Wolf: Lycanthropy
40) Devendra Banhart: Oh Me Oh My... The Way The Day Goes By The Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs Of The Christmas Spirit
41) Soledad Brothers: Voice Of Treason
42) Stellastarr*: Stellastarr*
43) Ten Grand: This Is The Way To Rule
44) Basement Jaxx: Kish Kash
45) Cat Power: You Are Fire
46) The Raveonettes: Chain Gang Of Love
47) Canyon: Empty Rooms
48) Jane's Addiction: Strays
49) The Duke Spirit: Roll, Spirit, Roll
50) Starsailor: Silence Is Easy

This post has been edited by RoyalBlue: Dec 16 2003, 01:51 PM

[Edwin MacPhisto]

Their singles list is pretty solid, even if the Libertines and Coral both do nothing for me. I'd make a couple changes, but that top 20 makes for one hell of a college-kid dance party.

[Dace59]

NME, more reasons to hate indie kids.

[k thx]

I dunno. The singles list looks pretty solid and well rounded. The albums list, I'm not so sure about. A fair few bands I'm not too keen on, but still good.

[Dace59]

Hurt's the only track on the singles list I touched.

I have this stuff shoved at me by the mass media, so I ignore it after seeing it sucks to me.

[k thx]

You don't like Crazy In Love? What are you, a crab person?

[Dace59]

For some reason, being a Black and Death Metal fan inclines me towards hating it.

[B. Brian Brunzel...]

You don't like Crazy In Love? What are you, a crab person?

CRAB PEOPLE~!

I think I'm also in the majority as far as the singles list goes. The album list is no all that grand though. Elephant, I think was the best album of the year, so that part I can live with.

[k thx]

For some reason, being a Black and Death Metal fan inclines me towards hating it.

Yeah, I don't think you'd really be happy with the NME then.

[Dace59]

I'm not. Along with Kerrang! it's one of the worst "alternative" music mags out there in the UK.

Each to their own like, but I'd rather not touch it.

[Henry Spencer]

I would put Hey Ya at number one.

[Murmuring Beast]

Where is Rock Your Body?

[k thx]

Where is Rock Your Body?

Agreed.

[Guest_Peter_Griffin_*]

I just CAN'T agree with Beyonce at the top, although I have to say that most of the stuff on there is good enough for me.

[godthedog]

I would put Hey Ya at number one.

as would i. that damn thing has been stuck in my head since august.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

I prefer "The Way You Move."

[k thx]

I prefer "The Way You Move."

I don't believe that's got a UK release, which explains why it wasn't in the list.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

I prefer "The Way You Move."

I don't believe that's got a UK release, which explains why it wasn't in the list.

Those cunts.

[Slayer]

I prefer "The Way You Move."

I don't believe that's got a UK release, which explains why it wasn't in the list.

Those cunts.

I'll say. I'm along the same lines as Dace in music taste, but "The Way You Move" is catchy as hell

[Edwin MacPhisto]

Seriously, that's the best double A-side in years. And most successful, too. "Hey Ya" is number 1 on the Billboard charts and "The Way You Move" is number 2. And the album - a double album - has already sold over 3 million copies.

I (heart) OutKast so very much.

[Corey_Lazarus]

...ummm...I like Shadows Fall...?

[Guest_frowned_*]

exactly what I'd expect from the NME "trendsetters" (I use parenthesis, cos they tend to be just the opposite). Why the fuck is Deloused In The Comatorium - one of the best debuts in years - at number 28?!

and I don't tend to follow singles releases.

[Guest_Peter_Griffin_*]

Shadows Fall are a band I keep meaning to check out but I really can't be assed right now.

[k thx]

Having downloaded most of the singles list, I can say I agree with everything above "Clocks". And That out of that lot, "Darts Of Pleasure" deserved to be top.

[Guest_hunger4unger_*]

What shitty lists they are. Where are The Black Eyed Peas? Blue? Westlife? Fatman Scoop? Busted? Christina? Music snobbery I tells ya.

[Use Your Illusio...]

Westlife? BLUE!?

Uh....huh.

UYI

[Edwin MacPhisto]

exactly what I'd expect from the NME "trendsetters" (I use parenthesis, cos they tend to be just the opposite). Why the fuck is Deloused In The Comatorium - one of the best debuts in years - at number 28?!

and I don't tend to follow singles releases.

Hint: it's lucky it's even on the list, because it's wanky, nonsensical prog shit that wishes it could be King Crimson and lacks the virtuoso musicianship that sometimes makes even the most ridiculous of prog rock tolerable.

Meanwhile, yes, there's not enough Justin Timberlake on that list. I wonder if Joe Budden's "Pump It Up" didn't get a UK release. Summer jam of 2003, and how can you not love the weird acceleration sounds throughout?

[k thx]

Pump It Up got a UK release a few months back, IIRC.

[Anorak]

Do many people even read the NME these days? I remember hearing a few years back that their readership was declining at an alarming rate.

[haVoc]

bLeH. I didn't buy much music this year but I'm really liking Kid Rock's new album.