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mg-avalanche

personal opinion.

my choice would be out of the vein by third eye blind.

Silverchair-Diorama

Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane

Starflyer59 - Old

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I second Matthew Good - Avalanche. Didn't we have a thread about this already?

Edit: http://www.clumsymonkey.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7744

deniedjunkie wrote:mg-avalanche

I love that CD. I cried when I first heard one of the songs. I bought it when I was in Winnipeg, not hearing any songs. I can't think of the title of the song that moved me. It is the one that goes, "You are all part of the computer..." Isn't that Near Fantastica or something like that. I never take the sleeve with me when I take my cd's out. I also love the song AVALANCHE. I really wish I could of seen Matt when I was in Canada. Missed him in Winnipeg by a day and I had to leave Ottawa the day he was giving a concert. Actaully I should of called out sick and went since the Airports were closed for me to get home.

I am stuck between 2 cds.

The obvious Matthew Good - Avalanche. It is simply brilliant. The jaw-dropping '21st Century living' and the moving 'While We Were Hunting Rabbits' combined with many other anthems and excellent ballads makes this an easy choice (well for canadians, me being American).

Then the astonishing Mars Volta - De Loused In The Comatorium. After the fall of At The Drive In and the splitting of the ashes, Mars Volta proves themself to have retrieved the better half of the remains, as apposed to Sparta. A mixture of epics such as 'Cicatriz ESP' and catchy, yet powerful songs like 'Eritarka' with crazy guitar working and lyrics makes this my second choice.

It is truley impossible for me to choose either as the "Album Of 2003" over the other. Both definetly have their outstanding highlights and neither have a clear downside.[/b]

A Perfect Circle - The Thirteenth Step

Audioslave

personal opinion, hmm..so many good albums came out this year
for Canadian bands,
Matt Good-Avalanche is very good
being a Sam Roberts fan, I love We Were Born In A Flame
and The Trews-House of Ill Fame

Elephant-White Stripes is excellent

mg - avalanche
apc - thirteenth step
teb - out of the vein
placebo - sleeping with ghosts

i think avalanche was the only cd that actually came out this year that i bought. I got alot of old cds this year...

even though it wasn't released... I think Left Pencey's - the Hollows is the best cd of the year, at least the best rock album i have heard in a while, for a real release it would be either cursive-ugly organ or brand new - deja entendu

Koufax - Social Life:
See, there's CDs that come around in life that completely change the kind of music you listen to, and this was one of them. I was listening to anything that sounded like Alkaline Trio and falling into the trend, then I gave this CD a try, and it blew me away. I never fell in love with synthesizers and cocaine as hard as I did with Koufax. Because of this CD, I listen to completely different music now. I'd never have given The Postal Service or Death Cab For Cutie or Starsailor a try if not for this CD, not to mention I listen to Koufax all the time, even a year after I bought the CD.

Ok for me it was a throw up between 3 albums.

Avalanche - Matthew Good
What everyone says is true, this thing is a true musical masterpiece. Although i kinda missed Matt not rocking out as much.

The Quicksilver Meat Dream - I Mother Earth
This album is complete unheld back IME. They mix Prog rock, with Alt Rock, plus some art, and a healthy mix of funk. Bryans melodies and voice are dripping with emotion. The only thing that this album was missing was the fun factor that BGO had.

Strays - Janes Addiction (re-united!!!)
Janes are back and better then ever! Although the past albums wern't for everyone, Strays is more listenable then anything they have made. At the same time, none of Janes integrity is sacrificed. Check them out folks, they created the genre that many of your favorite bands are in! ps Even if you like punk check them out

Ok now that i'm done, did anyone here think "Live" was the best album of the year?

Oceansize - Effloresce

75 minutes of pure brilliance.

&

The Thermals - More Parts Per Millions

28 minutes of quality lo-fi rock

radiohead - hail to the theif

my choices would either be
cursive: the ugly organ
brandnew- deja entendu
thursday- war all the time