Beste Alben des Jahres 2003

1. JOHN FAHEY – Red Cross * * * * 1/2
2. BONNIE ‚PRINCE‘ BILLY – Master And Everyone * * * * 1/2
3. BRÖTZMANN, PARKER & DRAKE – Never Too Late But Always Too Early * * * * 1/2
4. RICHARD THOMPSON – The Old Kit Bag * * * * 1/2
5. BORGMANN, BRÖTZMANN, PARKER & BAKR – The Cooler Suite * * * * 1/2
6. JEMEEL MONDOC & WILLIAM PARKER – New World Pygmies Vol. 2 * * * * 1/2
7. ALICIA KEYS – The Diary Of Alicia Keys * * * *
8. ALASDAIR ROBERTS – Farewell Sorrow * * * *
9. ERYKAH BADU – Worldwide Underground * * * *
10. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Here Comes The Indian * * * *

11. EVAN PARKER & BARRY GUY – Birds And Blades * * * *
12. ROBERT WYATT – Cuckooland * * * *
13. NINA NASTASIA – Run To Ruin * * * *
14. ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO – The Meeting * * * *
15. TRAVIS – 12 Memories * * * *
16. JUNE TABOR – An Echo Of Hooves * * * *
17. JAYLIB – Champion Sound * * * *
18. CAMPFIRE SONGS – Campfire Songs * * * *
19. JAY-Z – The Black Album * * * *
20. THE WILD MANS BAND OG PIERRE DØRGE – The Darkest River * * * *

castles in the air01. The Cardigans – Long Gone Before Daylight
02. Broadcast – Haha Sound
03. Pernice Brothers – Yours, Mine & Ours
04. Travis – 12 Memories
05. Chicks On Speed – 99 Cents
06. Belle & Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress
07. The Hidden Cameras – The Smell Of Our Own
08. Fluke – Puppy
09. April March – Triggers
10. Zoot Woman – Zoot Woman

Die Positionen #2 und #5 gehören auch bei mir in dem Jahr zum Favoritenkreis.

Mit dem Spätwerk von Fluke (also post-„Risotto“) habe ich mich bislang noch gar nicht beschäftigt. Was wäre dann da empfehlenswert?

1. THE CORAL – Magic And Medicine ****1/2
2. THE JAYHAWKS – Rainy Day Music ****
3. ELVIS COSTELLO – North ****
4. I AM KLOOT – S/T ****
5. THE WHITE STRIPES – Elephant ****
6. HOLLY GOLIGHTLY – Truly She Is None Other ****
7. TIM BURGESS – I Believe ****
8. JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS – Streetnoise ****
9. LLOYD COLE – Music In A Foreign Language ****
10. PHAZE – Tonewheel generation ***1/2

Onkel Tom05. Mostly Autumn – Passengers
20. I Am Kloot – S/T

05. Ist die nicht e bissi zuuu hoch, wenn Du über die Band öfter so meckerst!??;-)
20. Hmmh, da hätte ich bei Dir mehr erwartet.

1. Damnation – Opeth
2. Passengers – Mostly Autumn
3. 12 memories – Travis
4. Rainy day music – Jayhawks
5. Hittin‘ the note – The Allman Brothers Band
6. A natural disaster – Anathema
7. Escapology – Robbie Williams
8. Love is hell – Ryan Adams
9. Testimony – Neal Morse
10. MIND Vol. 4 – Isildurs Bane
11. Elephant – The White Stripes
12. Static transmission – Steve Wynn
13. Everything must go – Steely Dan
14. One – Neal Morse
15. Live in Europe – Transatlantic
16. Gravity – Anekdoten
17. Livegirl – Naked Raven
18. Thirteenth step – A Perfect Circle
19. Dear catastrophe waitress – Belle & Sebastian
20. Magic & medicine – The Coral
21. The music that died alone – The Tangent
22. Youth & young manhood – Kings of Leon
23. Feast of wire – Calexico
24. Through – Kraan
25. Psymphonettes – God Box
26. Nocturama – Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
27. Chutes too narrow – The Shins
28. Transatlanticism – Death Cab For Cutie
29. Contagion – Arena
30. Master and everyone – Bonnie „Prince“ Billy
31. O – Damien Rice
32. Train of thought – Dream Theater
33. The power to believe – King Crimson
34. Friends of mine – Adam Green
35. Magnolia Electric Co. – Songs: Ohia
36. Masterplan – Masterplan
37. Greetungs from Michigan – Sufjan Stevens
38. Dance of death – Iron Maiden
39. Reconstruction side – The Weakerthans
40. Souvenirs – The Gathering

Meine Liste für 2003 :

1 TRI CONTINENTAL – Let’s Play *****
2 CHRIS JONES – Roadhouses & Automobiles *****
3 HUBERT VON GOISERN – TRAD II *****
4 HANNES WADER, KONSTANTIN WECKER, REINHARD MEY – Das Konzert ****1/2
5 PETER GREEN SPLINTER GROUP – Reaching the Cold ****1/2
6 JOE BONAMASSA – Blues Deluxe ****1/2
7 HANS THEESSINK – Songs from the Southland ****1/2
8 EOIN DUIGNAN – Lumina ****1/2
9 STEVE EARLE – Just an American Boy ****
10 THE WHO – Live at the Royal Albert Hall ****

11 JOHN MAYALL – 70th Birthday Concert ****
12 RODNEY CROWELL – Fate’s Right Hand ****
13 EUGENE HIDEAWAY BRIDGES – Jump the Joint ****
14 JOHN MELLENCAMP – Trouble No More ****
15 CROMDALE – Forgotten Tales ****
16 HANK SHIZZOE, HANK & LOOSE GRAVEL – In Concert ****
17 CARLOS NUNEZ – Un Galicien en Bretagne ****
18 DAVE MATTHWES BAND – The Central Park Concert ****
19 DIXIE CHICKS – Top of the World Tour ****
20 RORY GALLAGHER – Wheels within Wheels ***1/2

21 PETER GREEN SPLINTER GROUP – An Evening With ***1/2
22 BUDDY GUY – Blues Singer ***1/2
23 B.B. & THE BLUES SHACKS – Blue Avenue ***1/2
24 GOV’T MULE – The Deepest End Live ***1/2
25 OSTBAHN KURTI – Wann de Musik vuabei is ***1/2
26 DEREK TRUCKS BAND – Soul Serenade ***1/2
27 MIKE SILVER – Solid Silver ***1/2
28 NEIL YOUNG – Greendale ***

1. Ryan Adams – Love Is Hell
2. I Am Kloot – I Am Kloot
3. Travis – 12 Memories
4. The Cardigans – Long Gone Before Daylight
5. Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism
6. The Go-Betweens – Bright Yellow, Bright Orange
7. Bonnie „Prince“ Billy – Master And Everyone
8. Tomte – Hinter All Diesen Fenstern
9. Kings Of Leon – Youth And Young Manhood
10. The Thrills – So Much For The City

1. Songs : Ohia – Magnolia Electric Co.
2. Kings Of Leon – Youth & Young Manhood
3. Pearl Jam – Lost Dogs
4. White Stripes – Elephant
5. Johnny Cash – Unearthed
6. Go-Betweens – Bright Yellow Bright Orange
7. The Hiss – Panic Movement
8. Smog – Supper
9. Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts Of The Great Highway
10. Erdmöbel – Altes Gathaus Love