These are not the "best of" the year 2003, these are the things musically that gave me the most amount of pleasure in 2003. I will add/subtract things as time goes by if I think it's necessary, so check back. If you're interested in purchasing anything listed below (not the live stuff, obviously), here's a page I made of local stores and Internet-based ones to help you out.

!!! Me & Guliani Down By the Schoolyard (A True Story) (Touch & Go)
AFX Smojphace EP (Men)
Aphex Twin/Various 26 Mixes For Cash (Warp)
Arab Strap Monday At The Hug & Pint (Chemikal Underground/Matador)
Autechre "V-Proc" (Warp)
Baby Huey The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend vinyl reissue(Curtom/Scorpio)
Beginning of the End Beginning of the End vinyl reissue (Alston)
Buck 65 Live, Feb 5 at Babylon; "Wicked & Weird" video; A Walk in the Woods (Warner Music Canada)
Bush Tetras Boom in the Night vinyl reissue (ROIR)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds "Dead Man In My Bed" (Mute/Anti)
Cinematic Orchestra "Theme de Yoyo (live)" (performed at Bluesfest, July 6)
Compulsive Gamblers Live & Dangerous (SFTRI)
Cookie Monster & the Girls/Pointer Sisters "C is for Cookie" (Disco Remixes)/"Pinball Number Count" 12" (Ninja Tune)
Lizzy Mercier Descloux "Fire"/"Mission Impossible" 12" (Ze)
Julie Doiron/Okkervil River split CD (Acuarela)
Lee Dorsey The New Lee Dorsey vinyl reissue (Get Back)
Funkadelic One Nation Under A Groove vinyl reissue (Get Back)
Neil Michael Hagerty The Howling Hex (Drag City); Live June 4, Dominion Tavern
Horny Horns A Blow for Me, A Toot to You vinyl reissue (Atlantic/Scorpio)
Jet "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?" (Elektra)
The Juan Maclean/The Rapture "Give Me Every Little Thing"/"Killing" 12" (DFA)
Meters Zony Mash (Sundazed)
Various: New York Noise (Soul Jazz)
Oblivians Rock'n'Roll Holiday: Live in Atlanta 8.1994 reissue (SFTRI)
OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (Arista)
Raveonettes Whip It On; "Remember", "That Great Love Sound", "Heartbreak Stroll" (Crunchy Frog/Sony)
Simply Saucer Cyborgs Revisited reissue (Sonic Unyon/Get Back)
Sonic Youth Dirty:Deluxe Edition (Goofin); �Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream� (Narnack)
Justin Timberlake "Rock Your Body" released as single in '03 (Jive)
Twitch Zevolution Serie #1 12" (Ze)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell (Interscope)

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