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Your top CDs of 2003 The Globe critics have compiled their lists of the year's best music releases. Now here's your chance to share your favorite CDs of 2003 with other Boston.com users. What CDs stood out above the rest this year? Which ones would you recommend and why?
Page 4 The new Mars Volta album is fantastic, so I would rate that among the best releases in 2003. Also, the new release from Pretty Girls Make Graves ("The New Romance") is excellent as well. "Keep on your Mean Side" by The Kills was another highlight, and their live show is even more amazing than the album. Kelly, Brighton Boy Sets Fire: "Tomorrow Come Today". This album has everything, lyrically, musically and the pace of it is precise. A bit on the heavy side at times, they leave no question unanswered as to who they are and what they're about. Toning down the scream was great for this album because lead vocalist Nathan Gray has a wonderfully unique and passionate voice. Cave In: "Antenna". I love these guys, not just because they're from Beantown, but because following them from the get-go and their then- Death Metal / Thrash Metal style, I've seen a major overhaul and transformation. They're certainly something you would hear on Mix 98.5 or something of the sort -- again, so lyrically impressive and musically talented. At this point, they're the closest you can get to Led Zeppelin / Pink Floyd- influenced stuff - but with a twist of originality thrown in to set them apart -- I think this is the best and most well-put-together album of 2003 by far. From Autumn To Ashes: "The Fiction We Live" - Here's an album that really took their debut effort ("Too Bad You're Beautiful") and put forth exactly what they wanted to do at the time. Everything was tighter, the vocals more present in the forefront of the music and the songwriting simply original - one of my top 5 of 2003. With the help of Melanie Wills (lead vocalist of One True Thing) on "Autum's Monolgue," this band just knows how to put together some great music. Dropkick Murphys: "Blackout" - Again, I'm supporting our local boys, but sooner or later, people are going to have to come to grips with the fact that these guys are flat out catchy. Their music just hits you and won't let go. They're musically diverse with flares of Celtic sounds in and out of every loop; they're unimposingly funny on tracks like "The Dirty Glass" and "Kiss Me I'm @*&$-faced." The Murphys even pay homage to the blue-collar guy in "Worker Song" (a great anthem) as well as the group of miners who were trapped underground ("Buried Alive"). In addition to this, how can you not like a band who wrote a song about the Bruins ("Time To Go") for this album? The Murphys are a fun, rockin', blue-collar band who's been around the block so many times we should start namin' streets after 'em. Hands down and very easily the number one album of 2003. GO, GO, BLACK AND GOLD! There were certainly others this year but unfortunately, the kinds of albums and music I'd be plugging here is anything but mainstream. But that's okay. We like it that way in the underground.George , Waltham "Deja Entendu" - Brand New Kevin, Boston Speakerboxx sucks; pop-crap... Atmosphere Seven's travels is the only album that needs to be mentioned. paul, boston Alan from Watertown, good picks! I was going to say Grandaddy-Sumday, and Death Cab- Transatlanticism. One other one to add is The Postal Service- Give Up. Definitely in the top ten for 2003. Jason, Boston Riverside Train - good blend of rock and soulful sound. Matt My top CD of the year would have to be "KISS Symphony", a double-CD recorded live in Melbourn, Australia. It was a collaboration between the Group KISS and The Melbourn Symphony Orchestra, a wonderfull, unholy marriage of black tie and black leather! George, Leominster If Speakerboxxx/The Love Below doesn't clean up at the Grammy's, then something is just NOT right!!!! Amazing album from an ever amazing group! Takara, Medford
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