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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 8 Coldplay and Jack Johnson. The only 2 CDs I bought all year. Different kind of music from what is on the radio day after day. Kick back and mellow. Erin, Honolulu Some Devil - Dave Matthews Chris, Quincy Zevon - The Wind. The best album of the year, easily. A great album from a musician's musician who never really got his due. If "Keep me in Your Heart for Awhile" doesn't put a lump in your throat you have an empty handed heart. Michael, Newburyport I would like to say that I think that Mandy Moore's "Coverage" is an excellent CD that will be ignored because of who she is. Her covers of these songs are wonderfully done with only maybe her remake of Blondie's "One Way Or Another" being a misstep. She performs covers of songs by the likes of Carly Simon, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, John Hiatt, Joe Jackson, Joan Armatrading and Elton John to name a few. Most of these artists are before her time but you would never know that by the confidence in which she performs these songs. Michael, West Roxbury Opeth-Damnation Scott, Waltham Off the top of my head (and in no particular order): Elephant - White StripesVulture Street - Powderfinger Up All Night - The Waifs Welcome To The Monkey House - The Dandy Warhols Get Born - Jet Lovers - Sleepy Jackson Think Tank - Blur Diamonds On The Inside - Ben Harper And for the best film clip: Junior Senior's "Move Your Feet" with the 80's-inspired computer graphics and psychotic squirrel lmao. Sime, Boston Skull Ring- Iggy Pop Jenn, Malden For those of you have never heard of any of these bands, I urge you to go out and look for your music yourself instead of just going along with what the media has to say. Please don't be mindless and follow the crowd. The vast majority of you claim that Dave Matthews and Outkast are the greatest musicians ever. Why? Because you don’t know anybody else. The bands I listed are all major label bands who you probably never even heard of. I did not even resort to naming underground ones. Please think for yourself. E.Town Concrete: “The Renaissance”From Autumn to Ashes: “The Fiction We Live” (by far the best album this year, HANDS DOWN!!!!!!!) Thursday: “War all the time” Hatebreed: “Rise of Brutality” Funeral for a Friend: “Seven Ways to scream your name” Boys Night Out: “Make yourself Sick” (hed) pe “black out” Poison the Well: “You come before you” Lamb of God: “New American Gospell” Sevendust: “Seasons” peter, waltham/carver
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