The Best and Worst Albums of '03

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

http://buddyhead.com/music/bestof2003/

What do you guys think of this list?
And what are your own favourites and least favourites?

[atlanticche]

this guy is talking bullshit
and i cant belive limp bizkit released an album last year and i didnt know

[Hampton]

Fixed yout title ;)

My favorites of 2003 were:

Westside Connection- Terrorist Threats
Immortal Technique- Revolutionary Vol. 2
Canibus- Rip the Jacker
Jedi Mind Tricks- Visions of Gandhi
Al Green- I Can't Stop
Boy Sets Fire- Tomorrow Come Today
Atom and his Package- Attention, Blah Blah Blah
Avenged Sevenfold- Waking the Fallen
Strike Anywhere- Exit English
Dropkick Murphys- Blackout
Soilwork-Figure Number Five


The Darkness - Permission To Land
Can we cut the irony bullshit already? Enough with the whole, "I'm dressed like a total fucking clown, isn't it hip?" crap. There's nothing cool about velcro shoes, stupid haircuts, and wearing a pink Journey ringer tee three sizes too small.

:lol:

I hated the Metallica album, I think the Outkast album gets to much praise, so Dre has a couple of radio friendly tunes I could care less about, there were a lot of better rap albums that came out last year that were slept on.

[Urban Rubble]

I disagree with your assesment of the Outkast album. I think their last 2 albums have been among the most important albums in the history of Hip Hop. They are breathing some much needed life into the mainstream Hip Hop scene. How can you not love "Hey Ya" ? That's such a good song, and so original.

I agree with you on The Avenged Sevenfold disc, that shit is amazing. The Murphys as well.

[Rastafari]

Al Green had Warren Zevon have the best two albums of last year, as far as I'm concerned

[Cornellian]

i don't understand Outkast's 'Hey Ya.' i don't personally like, but it's just me. Yeah Yeah Yeahs bug me too.


Evanescence - Fallen
The first time we saw the Evanescence video, we thought it was a Saturday Night Live sketch spoofing nu-metal or something. If you're still not aware of Evanescence, imagine Linkin Park if they all put on a good 150 pounds, and replaced the annoying four eyed geek with a fat Christian fuckhole decked out in mad Hot Topic gear, and singing in an operatic voice. The appropriate soundtrack for having the hair pulled off your balls.

lmao, couldn't agree more. plus, Chris Cornell mentioned her lip-syncing at some event.


Hoobastank - The Reason
Like a Mountain Dew commercial gone nu-metal-emo. These dudes are getting all "AGGRRRRO" and "EXTREEEEME" on their new record. Still sounds like frosted haired mall jocks who think Limp Bizkit invented hardcore back in '97 to us.

i was really hoping they'd improve. guess not.


Trapt - Trapt
Fred Durst had to have written a secret nu-metal manual that we don't know about, because every one of these bands is a perfect clone of the other, complete with mis-spelled names, big pants, eyebrow rings, shiny 7 string guitars, and faux-angst masking closet homosexuality. These morons even seemed to somehow throw a Primus influence into the mix. Even worse. By next year, all of these bands will be broke and working the night shift at the local 7-11, or sucking off 65-year-old white dudes named Larry in whatever shitty town from Florida they're from. We'd love to be the first to produce a "Nu-metal: Where are they now?" in a couple years. Somebody give us some money, we'll get cracking.

i hope they die in a burning wreck of metal.

[Danton]

I really liked Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban's - Mambo Sinuendo and Calexico's - Across the wire

I have an intense hatred for Dido which I'm seeking help for..

[RAGING BULL]

Hey Thom, I've got a better idea... on the next album why don't you use the album title to address the fucked up garbage your country tries to pass off as food? Or how about how the only soda you can find in England is Coke, Diet Coke, or Fanta. Who the fuck drinks Fanta? I'll tell you who, 5 year olds, and fucking Euros. Oh yeah, and don't think you're gonna be ok by sticking to Coke, cos the limeys have decided that real sugar in it is no good, so all their Coke over there tastes like Diet Coke! What the fucky?! Or how about how nobody in England knows what warm water is... one faucet with ice-cold water and one with scalding hot? Y'know, I know it seems far fetched, but over here, we have it all coming out of one faucet, and you can CONTROL the temperature of the water. AMAZING SCIENCE!

Nice review there..

Best album: Mogwai-Happy Songs for Happy People
Worst album: Some Norwegian country music albums

[dopediana]

i didn't like "hey ya" the first few times i heard it but then i grew to appreciate it. it has an awesome beat and some of the funniest shit i have ever heard in the most recent notorious hiphop songs. how can you not love "hey ladies, i want you to be on your baddest behavior / lend me some sugar / i am your neighbor" or "shake it like a polaroid picture"?
i'll admit though i haven't heard a majority of the albums on that list.


Evanescence - Fallen
The first time we saw the Evanescence video, we thought it was a Saturday Night Live sketch spoofing nu-metal or something. If you're still not aware of Evanescence, imagine Linkin Park if they all put on a good 150 pounds, and replaced the annoying four eyed geek with a fat Christian fuckhole decked out in mad Hot Topic gear, and singing in an operatic voice. The appropriate soundtrack for having the hair pulled off your balls.
BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!

[Hampton]

Don't get me wrong I like "Hey Ya", it's pretty hard not too, but, I just think a lot of other hip hop albums got buried because of it. Shit like Little Brother's album, K-Os, Tragedy Khadafi, and Canibus who had a fucking non-stop 8 minute ridicously good song on his album.

Saying that, it was something that hip hop definitely needed in the mainstream, because most of the better albums are outside the scope of MTV and radio, and forced a lot of heads to open up their minds when it comes to music.

But I don't think they're doing anything that groundbreaking, only Andre's album was anything that would blow someone's mind, Big Boi's was pretty much the straight Outkast style that they've been doing for years. It's one of the most important albums of maybe the past 5 years, but not ever.

[commie kg]

I haven't heard most of thise, and the guy who writes the reviews is an ass.

[Ian]

Buddyhead are notorious wankers, but I guess we have the internet to thank for letting them have their own shitty zine to spout shite about bands they would give their left nut to be as good as (no I don't mean blink 182 or whatever).

[Rastafari]

Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban's - Mambo Sinuendo
Good call, again.

[celtopunk]

Originally posted by [email protected] 17 2004, 10:59 PM
this guy is talking bullshit
and i cant belive limp bizkit released an album last year and i didnt know
But wouldn't you have been better off not knowing that?

[Palmares]

The guy from this site seems like an absolute dick. He doesn't know how to give anyone respect, just malice.

But I must admit I enjoyed some of his harshness with some of the bands/albums (like him bagging out Kings of Leon for the alternative/retro bandwagon).

I think there are better places to find reviews for albums (e.g Rolling Stone).

[Knowledge 6 6 6]

that list is soooooooo whack its not funny....

Evanessence on the worst?! Ok, I'm not a huge evanessence fan, but still...the album was decent. Way more decent than half the shit he put out as good.

This guy needs to re-evaluate his music selection. If he chose Outkast's album (which, in my opinion wasnt their greatest...southerplayalistikaddilakmuzik was wayyyyyy better) over Metallica's St. Anger, then he's got some serious issues.

St. Anger wasnt Metallica's greatest, but I say its way better than Outkast's new album.

[dopediana]

evanescense is shit. all their songs sound the same. the lyrics are lousy. the girl can really sing though and it's a waste of a good voice.

[commie kg]

St. Anger was Metallica's worst album.

[Invader Zim]

The Darkness - Permission To Land
Can we cut the irony bullshit already? Enough with the whole, "I'm dressed like a total fucking clown, isn't it hip?" crap. There's nothing cool about velcro shoes, stupid haircuts, and wearing a pink Journey ringer tee three sizes too small. We're looking down the barrel of a very large gun pointed directly at you Brooklyn and Silverlake. Ten years into this, "I look like how my mommy dressed me in 1985" garbage, and you knew it was only a matter of time before the whole irony shtick was full blown. Yeah dudes, I get the joke... mullets, bad solos, falsetto, posturing... NOT FUCKING FUNNY. This glam cockrock pose was stupid 20 years ago, and it's worse now because we SHOULD know better.

LOL

And sooooooooooooooo true.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
So, the drummer looks like a cast member of "Friends", the guitar player looks like Eddie Munster dressed up like Nick Cave (or maybe it's the other way around), and the singer dresses like Punky Brewster and says "dude" more than we do. Sounds like a mismatch, but on this record, they're tighter than your kid sister's burger, and it all seems to make more sense than chocolate and peanut butter.

WTF??? That album sucked... and sinse when has a vagina been called a burger? And how would he know that his kid sister has a tight one?

paedophile....