This page will become the site to check for reviews of new CDS. It will also contain an archive of "top albums" lists for different years.
Friday, October 31, 2003
Previous Posts
- 290MUSIC
- High Fidelity
- Clearing the Decks
- Top Ten* Albums of 2003
- A Few That Missed the Mark
- Updated
- Ryan Adams, Rock N Roll and Love is Hell, Pt 1
- Dido, Life For Rent
- Kathleen Edwards, Failer
- 2003 Albums
Archives
- 10/01/2003 - 11/01/2003
- 11/01/2003 - 12/01/2003
- 12/01/2003 - 01/01/2004
- 02/01/2004 - 03/01/2004
- 04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004
- 07/01/2004 - 08/01/2004
Annual Albums
1993 1. Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream 2. Counting Crows: August and Everything After 3. Bob Dylan: World Gone Wrong 4. Sting: Ten Summoner's Tales 5. Radiohead: Pablo Honey 6. Bjork: Debut 7. Aimee Mann: Whatever 8. Chris Isaak: San Francisco Days 9. Sheryl Crow: Tuesday Night Music Club 10. Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville 1994 1. Weezer: Weezer (1994) 2. Toad the Wet Sprocket: Dulcinea 3. Tom Petty: Wildflowers 4. Dave Matthews Band: Under the Table and Dreaming 5. Jeff Buckley: Grace 6. Beck: Mellow Gold 7. Green Day: Dookie 8. Oasis: Definitely Maybe 9. Seal: Seal (1994) 10. Bonnie Raitt: Longing in Their Hearts 1995 1. Radiohead: The Bends 2. Oasis: (Whatâs the Story) Morning Glory? 3. Chris Isaak: Forever Blue 4. Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill 5. Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 6. Garbage: Garbage 7. Elton John: Made in England 8. Bjork: Post 9. Aimee Mann: Iâm With Stupid 10. No Doubt: Tragic Kingdom 1996 1. Weezer: Pinkerton 2. REM: New Adventures in Hi-Fi 3. Dave Matthews Band: Crash 4. Sheryl Crow: Sheryl Crow 5. Beck: Odelay 6. Sting: Mercury Falling 7. Counting Crows: Recovering the Satellites 8. Wilco: Being There 9. Fiona Apple: Tidal 10. Wallflowers: Bringing Down the Horse 1997 1. Radiohead: OK Computer 2. Bjork: Homogenic 3. Bob Dylan: Time Out of Mind 4. Whiskeytown: Stranger's Almanac 5. Ben Folds Five: Whatever and Ever Amen 6. Ric Ocasek: Troublizing 7. Oasis: Be Here Now 8. Verve: Urban Hymns 9. Jars of Clay: Much Afraid 10. Everclear: So Much for the Afterglow 1998 1. Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road 2. Beck: Mutations 3. Sheryl Crow: The Globe Sessions 4. Garbage: Version 2.0 5. Air: Moon Safari 6. Smashing Pumpkins: Adore 7. Hole: Celebrity Skin 8. Dave Matthews Band: Before These Crowded Streets 9. Chris Isaak: Speak of the Devil 10. James Iha: Let it Come Down 1999 1. Fiona Apple: When the Pawn⦠2. Matthew Sweet: In Reverse 3. Wilco: Summerteeth 4. Flaming Lips: Soft Bulletin 5. Melissa Etheridge: Breakdown 6. David Gray: White Ladder 7. Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile 8. Moby: Play 9. Travis: The Man Who 10. Beck: Midnite Vultures 11. Ben Folds Five: The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner 12. XTC: Apple Venus Volume One 2000 1. Radiohead: Kid A 2. Everclear: Songs From an American Movie, Volume 1&2 3. Aimee Mann: Bachelor No. 2 (or, the last remains of the dodo) 4. Robbie Williams: Sing When Youâre Winning 5. Coldplay: Parachutes 6. No Doubt: Return of Saturn 7. Joseph Arthur: Come To Where Iâm From 8. Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker 9. XTC: Wasp Star: Apple Venus Volume Two 10. PJ Harvey: Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea 2001 1. Bob Dylan: Love and Theft 2. Ben Folds: Rockin' the Suburbs 3. Ryan Adams: Gold 4. Bjork: Vespertine 5. Jimmy Eat World: Bleed American 6. Weezer: Weezer (the green album) 7. Garbage: beautifulgarbage 8. Melissa Etheridge: Skin 9. Dave Matthews Band: The Lillywhite Sessions (CDR) 10. John Mayer: Room for Squares 11. Pete Yorn: musicforthemorningafter 12. Robbie Williams: Swing When Youâre Winning 2002 1. Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head 2. Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 3. Kylie Minogue: Fever 4. Joseph Arthur: Redemption's Son 5. Foo Fighters: One by One 6. Beck: Sea Change 7. Aimee Mann: Lost in Space 8. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 9. Ryan Adams: Demolition 10. Lisa Loeb: Cake and Pie 11. Sigur Ros: ( ) 12. Bright Eyes: Lifted, or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground 2003 1. Rufus Wainwright: Want One 2. Kathleen Edwards: Failer 3. The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow 4. Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism/ The Postal Service: Give Up 5. Ryan Adams: Love is Hell & Rock N Roll 6. Annie Lennox: Bare 7. Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers 8. Belle and Sebastian: Dear Catastrophe Waitress 9. The Thrills: So Much For the City 10. The White Stripes: Elephant 11. New Pornographers: Electric Version 12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell Eligible in 2004 Melissa Etheridge: Lucky Norah Jones: Feels Like Home Kylie Minogue: Body Language Radiant*: The Sound of Splitting Atoms Modest Mouse: Good News for People Who Love Bad News Prince: Musicology Alanis Morissette: So-Called Chaos Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand Keane: Hopes and Fears Wilco: A Ghost is Born Olympic Hopefuls: The Fuses Refuse to Burn