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| From | "bryan" <munki100@pacbell.net> |
| Subject | Top 20 |
| Date | Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:59:39 -0800 |
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My Top 20 -- hope I didn't forget anything!
Bryan Thomas
1. The Thrills - 'So Much For The City'
2. The Aerovons - 'Resurrection' (recorded '69, released 2003)
3. Belle & Sebastian - 'Dear Catastrophe Waitress'
4. Mojave 3 - 'Spoon & Rafter'
5. Super Furry Animals - 'Phantom Power'
6. Jet - 'Get Born'
7. Supergrass - 'Life On Other Planets'
8. Sleepy Jackson - 'Lovers'
9. High Dials - 'A New Devotion'
10. The Coral - 'Magic And Medicine'
11. Outrageous Cherry - 'Supernatural Equinox'
12. Beulah - 'Yoko'
13. The Clientele - 'Violet Hour'
14. The Tyde - 'Twice'
15. The Cuts - 'The Cuts'
16. Hidden Cameras - 'The Smell of Our Own'
17. Grand Drive - 'Grand Drive'
18. The Pernice Brothers - 'Yours Mine and Ours'
19. My Morning Jacket - 'It Still Moves'
20. High Llamas - 'Beat Maize & Corn'
Honorable mention: The Blondes - Swedish Heat' -- I believe
the release date for the band's 'Summer Strut' was in February
2003, but the band were selling copies last year so I'll just give
it "honorable mention" status here --
Compilations, Soundtracks, and/or otherwise Favorite Reissues
(including first time ever vintage releases) from 2003 (in no
particular order):
Linda Perhacs - 'Parallelograms'
Led Zeppelin - 'How The West Was Won'
Neil Young - 'On The Beach'
Judee Sill - 'Judee Sill', 'Heartfood'
Gosdin Brothers - 'Sounds of Goodbye'
Cosmic Rough Riders - 'Deliverance'
Television - 'Marquee Moon', 'Adventure' and 'Live at the Old
Wardorf'
Meic Stevens - 'Outlander'
Teenage Fanclub - 'Four Thousand Seven Hundred And Sixty
Six Seconds: A Short Cut To Teenage Fanclub'
The Beatles - 'Let It Be...Naked' (some of it)
Jackson C. Frank - 'Blues Run The Game: Expanded Deluxe'
Kevin Ayers - 'Joy of a Toy'
T-Rex - the latest 'Electric Warrior' Special Edition remaster
West Coast Consortium - 'Looking Back'
October Country - 'October Country'
Them - 'Now And Them'
The Poor - 'The Poor'
Fred Neil - 'Do You Ever Think Of Me?'
The Deep Six - 'The Deep Six'
Doug Sahm - 'The Genuine Texas Groover'
High Llamas - 'Retrospective Rarities and Instrumentals'
Uncle Tupelo - 'No Depression' and 'Anodyne'
Various Artists - 'Fading Yellow Vol. 4: UK Timeless Pop-sike and
other delights 1966-69'
Various Artists - 'Fading Yellow Vol. 5: UK Timeless Pop-sike and
other delights 1970-73'
Various Artists - 'Fading Yellow Vol. 6: Another Rich Smorgasbord
of Timeless US Popsike 1966-1970'
Various Artists - 'Fading Yellow Vol. 7: Sadly Neglected &
Mesmerizing/Magic US Popsike 1967-72'
Various Artists - 'Lost In Translation' OST
Various Artists - 'Concert For George' (esp. Tom Petty!)
Various Artists - 'The Velvet Tinmine'
Various Artists - 'Legends Of A Mind'
Various Artists - 'Get Easy Vol 5 -- Sunshine Pop Collection'
Various Artists - 'Martin Scorsese Presents "The Blues"' [PBS]
Other 2003 albums and EPs I enjoyed:
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - 'Take Them On, On Your Own'
Steve Burns - 'Songs For Dustmites'
Captain Soul - 'Jetstream Lovers'
The Contrast - 'Wireless Days'
The Delgados - 'Hate'
Essex Green - 'The Long Goodbye'
Kings of Leon - 'Youth & Young Manhood'
The Libertines - 'Up the Bracket'
Lilys - 'Precollection'
Long Winters - 'When I Pretend To Fall'
M. Ward - 'Transfiguration of Vincent'
Lucinda Williams - 'World Without Tears'
Maple Mars - 'Circular Haze'
Patrick Park - 'Loneliness Knows My Name' and 'Under The
Unminding Skies'
The Postal Service - 'Give Up'
Rooney - 'Rooney'
Soft Canyon - 'Broken Spirit, I Will Mend Your Wings'
Spiritualized - 'Amazing Grace'
St. Thomas - 'Hey Harmony'
Strokes - 'Room On Fire'
Summer Looks Good To Me - 'All Your Summer Songs'
Three 4 Tens - 'Taking Northern Liberties'
The Webb Brothers - 'The Webb Brothers'
Gillian Welch - 'Soul Journey'
The White Stripes - 'Elephant'
2003 MOVIES: American Splendor, Lost in Translation,
Adaptation (2002?), A Mighty Wind, Elf, Shape of Things,
The Singing Detective
2003 Music DVDs: Led Zeppelin DVD, Pink Floyd - Live at
Pompeii - The Director's Cut DVD, The Beatles- Anthology
DVD, V/A - Concert For George (esp. Tom Petty!)
TV: "Martin Scorsese Presents "The Blues"[PBS], "The Wire" [HBO],
"Angels in America" [HBO], "A Decade Under the Influence" [IFC?],
probably a billion other TV shows I've already forgotten
UPCOMING 2004 stuff: Secret Machines ('September 000',
new album soon on Warner Bros.), the Quarter After (no idea
what label!), All Night Radio (SubPop?), Ken West's Teenage
Fanclub Tribute Album (NotLame!), The Gurus (Rainbow
Quartz), Gene Clark - 'Under the Silvery Moon', Elliott Smith?
Still my favorite LP ever: The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
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