Are there any really good 2003 songs yet? I have one!

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Best 2003 song until now : Pet Shop Boys - Try It (I'm in love with a married man). But it is not a single though, and this is only my opinion, but what do you guys think of 2003 songs (mostly singles) so far?

― Panagiotis Pileidis (Panagiotis Pileidis), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Recommended to me by an ILMer right here on this board, I downloaded Saturday Looks Good To Me's "Meet Me By The Water" and that's my favorite song of 2003 so far. And the Supersilent album is my favorite full length release.

Freeway's "What We Do" is killer, too.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:48 (twenty-three years ago)

i count Junior Senior and Electric 6 as last year i guess - you could say Missy's 'Gossip Folks' is too, ditto Ladytron's 'Blue Jeans'. Audio Bullys 'Snow' is a favourite but not a single (yet). on the singles front i dont think things have really got going yet with regards to new releases from new artists that didnt appear on albums from last year.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:50 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't really know what's '03 or not but a new Lucksmiths track (from their upcoming album) "There is a boy that never goes out" is one of the best things they've done

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:53 (twenty-three years ago)

mine is probably Ted Leo/Pharmacists' "Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?" so far

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 14 March 2003 01:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Talk Talk - "It's My Life (Liquid People remix)"

― Evan (Evan), Friday, 14 March 2003 01:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Wrens - Faster Gun

― Simon H., Friday, 14 March 2003 01:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Kelly Osbourne's "Dig Me Out" (not the S-K song, but I like it just as much)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 14 March 2003 01:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Battle o' the track 1s: Black Box Recorder's "The School Song", Blur's "Ambulence", Crooked Fingers' "Big Darkness".

― gazuga (gazuga), Friday, 14 March 2003 02:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Cat Power - "I Don't Blame You" or "He War"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 14 March 2003 02:17 (twenty-three years ago)

the first three songs of the new cat power record!

"don't blame you"
"free"
"good woman"

― drystereo (drystereo), Friday, 14 March 2003 02:19 (twenty-three years ago)

miloauckerman, i think we posted that simulatneously!

― drystereo (drystereo), Friday, 14 March 2003 02:21 (twenty-three years ago)

A.R.E. Weapons, probably -- Either the first or last song on their album; haven't decided yet. (Though "Pick Up the Phone" by the Notwist and "City Beat" by Bat Eats Plastic and "Bombs Below" by the Living Things and "Lycaon Pictus" by Lycaon Pictus and any number of Electric Six and Ted Leo and Nada Surf and garage-rap songs are also in the running. And I'm probably forgetting a few hundred others.)

― chuck, Friday, 14 March 2003 02:26 (twenty-three years ago)

the sharkey remix of dizzee rascal's "i luv u" is the most amazing song i've heard in 2003 so far. right behind it are kelly o's "shut up" or eve's "satisfaction" (both actually released probably at the tail tail end of 2002, but late enuff for me to include em here)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 March 2003 02:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Um lessee 50 Cent's "In Da Club" was the best/catchiest thing I was hearing, but it's getting a bit old so I'm gonna say Em's fantastic over the top Cradle 2 the Grave opening credits track "Go To Sleep". The Bug's "Imitator", Wasteland's "Has It Come to This", and the Acid Mothers' "Ziggy Sitar Dust Raga" would round out a top five if I was making one.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 14 March 2003 02:35 (twenty-three years ago)

that wasteland album is really great...there's a dj scud "retrospective" or something coming out on rephlex soon which i'm supposed to be getting in the mail some day.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 March 2003 02:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah it's called Ambush! and it looks great too (even though a bunch of the tracks are on other Scud stuff I have and "Total Destruction" is FOR SOME REASON not on it!) I am excited.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 14 March 2003 02:41 (twenty-three years ago)

here here to the Ted Leo album.. Fav pics on the new White Stripes: In the Cold Cold NIght, and I Want to Be the Boy.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 14 March 2003 02:50 (twenty-three years ago)

whoa, whoa - scud anthology? is it ON Ambush? What's the release date??

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 14 March 2003 03:09 (twenty-three years ago)

and how did you get the ARE Weapons album already? is it any good?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 14 March 2003 03:16 (twenty-three years ago)

the scud anthology is on rephlex. it might be out already, i dunno. i'm supposed to be getting a promo copy; i'll report back

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 March 2003 03:18 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.rephlex.com/2001releases/cat133/cat133.html

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 14 March 2003 03:22 (twenty-three years ago)

cool. am looking forward to that. thanks alex

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 14 March 2003 03:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Should also mention that their is also a Panacea/DJ Scud collab called the Redeemer which came out a couple of weeks ago on Position Chrome called Harcore Owes Us Money. Unfortunately, it's more Panacea than Scud and while entertaining in it's 93-ish sort of vibe, it's not up to the standard of Scud's other recent stuff or strangely enough the advance Redeemer tracks I'd heard. :( Oh well.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 14 March 2003 03:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I heard that - it IS more Panacea, who I don't care for. That site has mp3s, but there's a lot more Scud stuff out there than that!! Is that the official tracklist?

anyone heard the Donna Summer 7" on (sic)?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 14 March 2003 03:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah. I don't remember it being as good as the I-Sound and /rupture stuff, but I don't remember thinking anything on that comp was bad either.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 14 March 2003 03:38 (twenty-three years ago)

and there's that Each One Teach One 7" - is that Bloodclaat Gangsta Youth or I Sound?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 14 March 2003 03:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Cursive - A Gentleman Caller

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Friday, 14 March 2003 04:01 (twenty-three years ago)

T.A.T.U.'s "malchik gay"
iron & wine's "such great heights"
zwan's "honestly"
willie nelson's "crazy"
the one am radio's "landmine"

― mikael wood, Friday, 14 March 2003 05:36 (twenty-three years ago)

didn't that notwist song come out a year or two ago?

i want to hear the kelly song

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 14 March 2003 05:42 (twenty-three years ago)

New Pornographers' "The Electric Version" too

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 14 March 2003 05:43 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yes, i forgot lisa marie presley's "lights out." cheers.

― mikael wood, Friday, 14 March 2003 05:50 (twenty-three years ago)

The Notwist song vaguely qualifies as the States are receiving Notwist love through an American label.

Good Songs:
- Li'l Kim - "The Jump Off"
- Freeway - "What We Do"
- Killer Mike - "A.D.I.D.A.S."
- Thermals - "No Culture Icons"
- Nas - "I Can"
- Snoop Dogg - "Beautiful"
- Kelly Osbourne - "Disconnected"

... and some other things, too.

I'd like to nominate some songs from this raisin-smoking episode of _Clone High USA_, but that'd be totally squaresville.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 14 March 2003 05:57 (twenty-three years ago)

the beat on the new Lil Mo song is wonderful.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 14 March 2003 06:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Nada Surf

Is there a new album, then? I do like those guys.

I don't know if I have a good song of this year yet. *thinks* Hell, I don't know what I've heard from this year at all!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 March 2003 06:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned, Nada Surf released their latest album Let Go late last year if I'm correct. Very good powerpop/rock. I'm a bit surprised you like 'em tho (in a positive way, that is)

on topic:
Lose Yourself - Eminem
the Way or Joy and Jubilee off Master and Everyone
Breathe - The White Birch (from their gorgeous late 2002 Star is Just a Sun? release)

― willem (willem), Friday, 14 March 2003 07:51 (twenty-three years ago)

forget the "?" in that last line please...

― willem (willem), Friday, 14 March 2003 07:56 (twenty-three years ago)

New Four Tet!

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 14 March 2003 09:45 (twenty-three years ago)

black box recorder - the school song

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 14 March 2003 10:20 (twenty-three years ago)

"Eminem Is Gay" by Chris T-T, which really did remind me that Ben Folds Five were a great band.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 14 March 2003 10:39 (twenty-three years ago)

back to Ted Leo
Ballad of a Sin-Eater is all kinds of great
like three of four different kinds

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Friday, 14 March 2003 10:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Blood Brothers-Ambulance

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 14 March 2003 11:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the Ravonette's "Beat City" a whole heck of a lot.

― Vic Funk, Friday, 14 March 2003 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Best thing I've heard in '03 is the "Cellular Minutes" track on gabba/net but I don't know if that's an '03 track.

Best '03 track which really shouldn't be an '03 track (1989 Brit-indie is what it really is) - "Almost The Same" by Clearlake.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 14 March 2003 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)

"El Sol," Zwan
"Don't Cross The Line," Freeway
"Ramp of Death," S.M. & the Jicks
"Laughing at Nothing," Jeff Hanson

― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 14 March 2003 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

No one's going to touch Malkmus' "Water And A Seat" and "(Do Not Feed The) Oyster" for me.

Other perfect songs from 2003:

Scissor Sisters "Laura (Simone)"
Black Box Recorder "The School Song"
The New Pornographers "The Laws Have Changed"
Cat Power "He War", "Good Woman", "Speak For Me"
The White Stripes "Seven Nation Army"
Zwan "Baby, Let's Rock"
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists "Ballad of the Sin Eater"
Yo La Tengo "Don't Have To Be So Sad", "Let's Be Still"
Blur "Out Of Time", "Good Song", "Moroccan Peoples...", "Brothers And Sisters"
The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower "Attached To The Hip", "Sometimes I Wish I Lost A Leg"
Metro Area "Miura"
Hint Hint "Harry's Ass Is A Picnic"
Soft Pink Truth "Gender Studies"

That's off the top of my head, anyway. Great year for indie rock (especially Matador) so far, but I've yet to hear any great hip hop songs/albums just yet. But then, more hip hop records tend to come out over the summer and fall, so I'm sure it'll balance itself out eventually.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 14 March 2003 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

A.R.E. Weapons -- "Don't Be Scared," "Hey World"
Blood Brothers -- "Burn Piano Island, Burn"
Killer Mike -- "A.D.I.D.A.S."

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 14 March 2003 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm a bit surprised you like 'em tho (in a positive way, that is)

I always thought they got right what Weezer didn't. (Cue hordes of outraged fans.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 March 2003 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

thanks for the Four Tet mp3 - Kieran's the best, glad he's back at it.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 14 March 2003 18:35 (twenty-three years ago)

i second roger's appreciation for the Four Tet track. and, i agree with the multiple cat power nominations
(but november's leak prompts me to - incorrectly - put it in 2002). of course, i heart the new stripes album, too. as for ned's brief nada surf entry above, regardless of the Let Go release date, the album is 2003 for me and i enjoy it more with each spin. as a complete album, it seems to be an improvement upon their previous long players. i'm currently swooning for blonde on blonde.

― j.a.e., Friday, 14 March 2003 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

update: just got the scud record today...fucking blinding (yes, it's a "retrospective")

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 March 2003 23:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Is "Total Destruction" a bonus track, Jess, or is it really not on it?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 14 March 2003 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

not on it. it's too short, really, only 37 minutes.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 March 2003 23:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmph.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 14 March 2003 23:56 (twenty-three years ago)

(i mean, that's probably a good length: any more of this stuff and i'd just get a headache, but for a guy who has like 2 dozen records out by now it seems a bit thin.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 March 2003 23:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I just wish that pulled together his best songs from other hard to find comps or singles rather than put stuff which is previously collected on his own relatively easy to find CDs elsewhere (on Murder Sound or whatever).

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 15 March 2003 00:09 (twenty-three years ago)

still top 10 of the year so far, or at least tied with the wasteland record

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 15 March 2003 00:10 (twenty-three years ago)

The Hidden Cameras - Day Is Dawning, Ban Marriage, The Man That I Am With My Man

Black Box Recorder - British Racing Green, These Are The Things, Andrew Ridgley

Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage

Electric Music AKA - Something Up With The Stars

The Delgados - Mr Blue Sky (technically last year, yes, FUCK OFF)

Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - Psychosis Safari (see above)

The Thrills - One Horse Town

Un-Cut - Midnight

Moloko - Familiar Feeling

Cat Power - (hey hey HEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY) He War, Good Woman, Free

TATU - All The Things She Said, How Soon Is Now

Aereogramme - Indiscretion #243

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 15 March 2003 01:07 (twenty-three years ago)

The Cardigans - For What It's Worth. ;-)

― Venga, Saturday, 15 March 2003 01:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, forgot possibly the best of the BBR bunch - I Ran All The Way Home.

"If you really love me, you'll let me go home... I just want to go home... I ran all the way home."

It's weird, but if you're feeling fragile, BBR work incredibly well. Goodnight Kiss and their cover of Rock 'n' Roll Suicide also work wonders.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 15 March 2003 01:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm stuck in uni radio. There's two people playing chillout music next door.

If you really love me, you'll let me go home. I just want to go home. I ran all the way home.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 15 March 2003 01:28 (twenty-three years ago)

The song's not even about that. But god, man... It's gonna be in my head forever now. Cos I'm stuck. And depressed. And this ain't the thread for that.

But if you really love me, you'll let me go home.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 15 March 2003 01:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I gotta wonder about that DJ SCud thing - nothing from Mortal Clash? Nothing from the split with Nomex (that WAS Total Destruction, huh?). Not sure I'm going to buy it - money is tight and I'd rather pay rent

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 15 March 2003 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

"VIP Pressure" is from Mortal Clash.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 15 March 2003 01:47 (twenty-three years ago)

ha madd anju's "cellular minutes" is fantastic! "just for a minute/i've got my cellular but the minutes just finished/i'm just trynna reach someone around da block/i won't be long - i'll tell dem "call me back" ! high drama!

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 15 March 2003 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

this is the kind of thing tom ewing was designed to review

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 15 March 2003 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)

it should contain the phrase "delicious skinner-esque minutiae" and make a good pun out of 'minutes'-'minutiae'

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 15 March 2003 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, and a reference to why he hasn't updated recently due to his pressing work with cell phones or some such

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 15 March 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

2003

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport 12"- Manitoba
Sudden Rush 12" - Erlend Oye
Techno From Slovenia (DJ Magazine cover CD: World Series) - Umek

Under Construction LP - Missy Elliot
Street Dad LP - Out Hud
Electrical Appliances 12" - Mr Velcro Fastener
When The Last Time 12" - Clipse
Move Your Feet 12" - Junior Senior
Losing My Edge 12" - LCD Soundsystem
Diskonize Me 12" - Luomo
Humbaba mp3 - Kit Clayton
Power Lunch mp3 - Har Mar
Stuff from the new Cat Power LP

Older/Other Stuff

To Hell With Poverty 12" - Gang of Four
Jungle Love - Morris Day & The Time
Stool Pigeon - Kid Creole & The Coconuts
Movin' On - 400 Blows
Erotic City - Prince
Pura Vida mp3 - Radio Mundial
Swinglargo mp3 - People Like Us
Stay Chisel mp3 - Large Professor feat Nas
the 2600 - El Captain Funkaho
Nimissa - Manou Sidibe

― Nik (Nik), Saturday, 15 March 2003 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

This Mad Anju track is stunning. The section in the middle at around 1:14-1:23 feels like that stupid advert they show at the pictures all the time: "Those are last year's treads; 2 bands, nonono, this year: 3 bands is in". Like this confused guy's stumbled himself onto a bouncy beachball electro-beat. Song of The Year. Kinda. Maybe. One of them.

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 15 March 2003 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

It's the (felt) forcedness of his diction: similar to the effect that advert was aiming at "oh, a scraggy beach-type manning a stall, oh we'll put a fancy-clean accent on him: oh, the incongruity!" which isn't what this track's aiming for but has this nice-subtle effect during that timeframe.

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 15 March 2003 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe some of them are released in 2002 but anyway:

Biffy Clyro - The Ideal Height
Caesar - I Know I
The Coral - Don't Think You're The First
Electric 6 - Danger High Voltage
Hot Hot Heat - Bandages/Oh, Goddamnit
Liam Lynch - United States Of Whatever
The Mountain Goats - See America Right
Mull Historical Society - The Final Arrears
The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed
Placebo - The Bitter End
Raveonettes - Attack Of The Ghost Riders/Beat City
The Thrills - One Horse Town/Santa Cruz
Turin Brakes - Pain Killer
White Stripes - Hypnotize/Black Math

and I could go on for hours but I think I'll keep it at this

― zilverberg.tk (zilverberg.tk), Saturday, 15 March 2003 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

tATu "Not Gonna Get Us"

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 06:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I just heard the new Neptunes produced Kardinal Offishal track (downloaded from gabba.net!) It's fuckin' ace sounding.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 06:18 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Sean Paul - Get Busy (no fucking question) + everything else on Dutty Rock

Second place would probably go to Dublex Inc's "Tocame", but I'm not sure (maybe Clipse's "Ego" if it counts).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 08:50 (twenty-three years ago)

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