Best Albums of 2003

Listed below are the best albums of 2003 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 7 hours ago).
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2003 year summaryThe best artists of 2003 were The White Stripes, Radiohead, Muse, The Strokes, The Shins, The Postal Service, Death Cab For Cutie, Songs: Ohia, Jason Molina and The Mars Volta.
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"Talk about an underrated album. "Grand Theft Autumn (Where Is Your Boy,)" and "Saturday" are both solid pop/punk tracks. "Chicago Is So Two Years Ago" is actually my favorite Fall Out Boy song, and among my fifty favorite songs of all time. Great stuff here."  Reply
- HoldenM | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (5 helpful | 1 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"Sam Cooke was the first black R&B artist to have creative control over his career. (Curtis Mayfield also did because he was a producer at the black owned Okeh record label) This was in the early Sixties long before Marvin Gaye's legendary battle with Barry Gordy to get "What's Going On?" released..."  [+]  Reply
- GavinB | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"Pure joy! I love it! I've never heard an album so bustling with happiness and humanness and love. I just feel uplifted having heard this. The way everything blends together turns this album into one big happy sound soup. I barely even call this "electronica", its just awesome."  Reply
- jeremih724 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"Tim Kasher, singer and eccentric frontman of Cursive, wrote two masterpieces in the course of two years: The Ugly Organ and The Good Life’s Black Out. Both albums display his trademark ironic and self deprecating lyrics. This album is sonically amazing with the addition of Gretta Cohn on cello an..."  [+]  Reply
- adnielsen | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"Feels like turning the TV over and finding loads of strange channels you never knew you had before. Some are scary and some cause tears. I feel this one has a little more to give. Such a lonely work of the hearts. Take it."  Reply
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"A fantastic Indie-Punk album. The album can really only be described as 'Fun'. That's what it is, a few people rocking out on their guitars and having fun with it. As for the actual band, it's a very sad story, and may the members rest in peace."  Reply
- Hayden | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"Joe just got better and better by the end, makes you wonder what could have been if he lived longer. My favourites are probably the acoustic Long Shadow and Silver and Gold."  Reply
- MrRetardization | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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Best Albums of 2003 composition

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6. The Joshua Tree by U2
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