McQ's Favorite Albums Of 2003

Highest Recommends

1. Elephant - The White Stripes

Strong Recommends

2. Speakerboxx/The Love Below - Outkast
3. Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins

Solid Recommends

4. Fever To Tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5. Dear Catastrophe Waitress - Belle & Sebastian
6. Hail To The Thief - Radiohead
7. Meadowlands - The Wrens
8. Frank - Amy Winehouse
9. Hobosapiens - John Cale

Mild Recommends

10. It Still Moves - My Morning Jacket
11. Cast Of Thousands - Elbow
12. Room On Fire - The Strokes
13. Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie
14. Mary Star Of The Sea - Zwan

2003 Albums Of Critical Note I've Yet To Assess In Full

A Strangely Isolated Place -  Ulrich Schnauss
Absolution - Muse
Alcachofa - Richard Villalobos
Berlinette - Ellen Allen
Black Cherry - Goldfrapp
Boy In Da Corner - Dizzee Rascal
Closer - Plastikman
Cuckooland - Robert Wyatt
Dead Cities, Red Seas And Lost Ghosts - M83
Decoration Day - The Drive-By Truckers
De-Loused In The Comatorium - The Mars Volta
Echoes - Rapture
Electric Version - The New Pornographers
Feast Of Wire - Calexico
Get Rich Or Die Tryin' - 50 Cent
Ghosts Of The Great Highway - Sun Kil Moon
Give Up - The Postal Service
Greetings From Michigan - Sufjan Stevens
Ha Ha Sound - Broadcast
Hearts Of Oak - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
How The West Was One - Led Zeppelin
Kish Kash - Basement Jaxx
Master And Everyone - Bonnie Prince Billy
Mount Eerie - The Microphones
One Word Extinguisher - Prefuse 73
Permission To Land - The Darkness
Rounds - Four Tet
Sumday - Grandaddy
The Black Album - Jay-Z
The Decline Of British Sea Power - British Sea Power
The Wind - Warren Zevon
Thickfreakness - The Black Keys
Think Tank - Blur
Transfiguration Of Vincent - M. Ward
Want One - Rufus Wainwright
Welcome Interstate Managers - Fountains Of Wayne
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? - The Unicorns
Wonderful Rainbow - Lightning Bolt
World Without Tears - Lucinda Williams
Up In Flames - Manitoba/Caribou
You Are Free - Cat Power
Youth And Young Manhood - Kings Of Leon