Best Albums of 2003 - Rated by Users


Album ratings averaged across users. Ranking does not represent staff consensus.
 

01
Shiina Ringo
Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana

Rating: 4.56
57 votes
02
Soundtrack
Metroid Prime & Fusion: Original Soundtracks

Rating: 4.55
22 votes
03
Streetlight Manifesto
Everything Goes Numb

Rating: 4.45
1317 votes
04
Howard Shore
The Return of the King

Rating: 4.42
105 votes
05
Kayo Dot
Choirs of the Eye

Rating: 4.41
682 votes
06
Galneryus
The Flag Of Punishment

Rating: 4.38
25 votes
07
The Mars Volta
De-Loused in the Comatorium

Rating: 4.38
3340 votes
08
Sweet Trip
Velocity : Design : Comfort

Rating: 4.36
22 votes
09
Off Minor
The Heat Death of the Universe

Rating: 4.36
397 votes
10
William Basinski
The Disintegration Loops IV

Rating: 4.32
37 votes
11
Canibus
Miclub: The Curriculum

Rating: 4.31
24 votes
12
Nujabes
Metaphorical Music

Rating: 4.31
392 votes
13
Moonsorrow
Kivenkantaja

Rating: 4.31
188 votes
14
Boris
Boris At Last - Feedbacker

Rating: 4.3
300 votes
15
Woven Hand
Woven Hand

Rating: 4.29
24 votes
16
No Cash
Run Your Pockets

Rating: 4.27
80 votes
17
Slough Feg
Traveller

Rating: 4.27
56 votes
18
The Angelic Process
Coma Waering

Rating: 4.25
57 votes
19
The Weakerthans
Reconstruction Site

Rating: 4.25
232 votes
20
Josh Groban
Closer

Rating: 4.24
21 votes
21
William Basinski
The Disintegration Loops III

Rating: 4.24
38 votes
22
Ricardo Villalobos
Alcachofa

Rating: 4.23
32 votes
23
Oceansize
Effloresce

Rating: 4.21
406 votes
24
On The Might of Princes
Sirens

Rating: 4.21
26 votes
25
Opeth
Still Day Beneath The Sun

Rating: 4.21
64 votes
26
Edge of Sanity
Crimson II

Rating: 4.21
352 votes
27
Kamelot
Epica

Rating: 4.2
400 votes
28
Unexpect
_We, Invaders

Rating: 4.2
80 votes
29
Neal Morse
Testimony

Rating: 4.2
23 votes
30
Lost Horizon
A Flame To The Ground Beneath

Rating: 4.19
118 votes
31
Tragedy
Vengeance

Rating: 4.19
149 votes
32
The Notwist
Neon Golden

Rating: 4.19
108 votes
33
Rocky Votolato
Suicide Medicine

Rating: 4.19
31 votes
34
Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros
Streetcore

Rating: 4.19
70 votes
35
Matthew Good
Avalanche

Rating: 4.19
125 votes
36
Mew
Frengers

Rating: 4.19
519 votes
37
Sole
Selling Live Water

Rating: 4.19
32 votes
38
Coheed and Cambria
In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

Rating: 4.18
1951 votes
39
Saosin
Translating the Name

Rating: 4.17
812 votes
40
Canibus
Rip The Jacker

Rating: 4.17
58 votes
41
Trophy Scars
Hospital Music

Rating: 4.17
293 votes
42
Sleep
Dopesmoker

Rating: 4.17
350 votes
43
Rage
Soundchaser

Rating: 4.17
33 votes
44
Opeth
Damnation

Rating: 4.17
2568 votes
45
Explosions in the Sky
The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place

Rating: 4.17
1852 votes
46
Vital Remains
Dechristianize

Rating: 4.16
242 votes
47
The Wrens
Meadowlands

Rating: 4.16
112 votes
48
Viktor Vaughn
Vaudeville Villain

Rating: 4.15
206 votes
49
Gorerotted
Only Tools and Corpses

Rating: 4.14
32 votes
50
Ten Grand
This Is The Way To Rule

Rating: 4.14
25 votes
51
Envy
A Dead Sinking Story

Rating: 4.14
439 votes
52
Four Tet
Rounds

Rating: 4.13
225 votes
53
Psycroptic
The Scepter of the Ancients

Rating: 4.13
232 votes
54
Pinback
Offcell

Rating: 4.13
31 votes
55
Brand New
Deja Entendu

Rating: 4.13
2811 votes
56
Hot Cross
Cryonics

Rating: 4.12
487 votes
57
Cursive
The Ugly Organ

Rating: 4.12
710 votes
58
Sleeping at Last
Ghosts

Rating: 4.11
22 votes
59
The Devin Townsend Band
Accelerated Evolution

Rating: 4.11
378 votes
60
Akira Yamaoka
Silent Hill 3

Rating: 4.11
50 votes
61
Black Eyes
Black Eyes

Rating: 4.11
32 votes
62
Okkervil River
Down the River of Golden Dreams

Rating: 4.11
88 votes
63
Death Cab for Cutie
Transatlanticism

Rating: 4.11
1535 votes
64
SikTh
The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out

Rating: 4.1
546 votes
65
Ephel Duath
The Painter's Palette

Rating: 4.1
103 votes
66
Beecher
Breaking The Fourth Wall

Rating: 4.1
21 votes
67
Kekal
1000 Thoughts of Violence

Rating: 4.1
21 votes
68
Damien Rice
O

Rating: 4.09
500 votes
69
Sun Kil Moon
Ghosts of the Great Highway

Rating: 4.09
233 votes
70
Nightingale
Alive Again

Rating: 4.09
25 votes
71
Thrice
The Artist In The Ambulance

Rating: 4.09
2286 votes
72
Swallow The Sun
The Morning Never Came

Rating: 4.09
232 votes
73
William Basinski
The Disintegration Loops II

Rating: 4.09
56 votes
74
Joe Bonamassa
Blues Deluxe

Rating: 4.09
28 votes
75
Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf
Big Shots

Rating: 4.08
48 votes
76
Memento
Beginnings

Rating: 4.08
26 votes
77
Gorgasm
Masticate to Dominate

Rating: 4.08
26 votes
78
The Mayan Factor
In Lake 'CH

Rating: 4.08
133 votes
79
Poison the Well
You Come Before You

Rating: 4.07
602 votes
80
Immortal Technique
Revolutionary Volume 2

Rating: 4.07
398 votes
81
Hiromi
Another Mind

Rating: 4.07
30 votes
82
Jakob
Cale:Drew

Rating: 4.06
62 votes
83
Murder by Death
Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?

Rating: 4.06
267 votes
84
Rx Bandits
The Resignation

Rating: 4.06
277 votes
85
The Gathering
Souvenirs

Rating: 4.06
143 votes
86
Songs: Ohia
Magnolia Electric Co

Rating: 4.06
24 votes
87
The Blood Brothers
...Burn, Piano Island, Burn

Rating: 4.06
586 votes
88
Hell Is For Heroes
The Neon Handshake

Rating: 4.06
83 votes
89
Shai Hulud
That Within Blood Ill-Tempered

Rating: 4.06
316 votes
90
Norther
Mirror of Madness

Rating: 4.06
172 votes
91
Park
It Won't Snow Where You're Going

Rating: 4.06
69 votes
92
Blue October
History for Sale

Rating: 4.06
61 votes
93
The Lawrence Arms
The Greatest Story Ever Told

Rating: 4.06
158 votes
94
Five Iron Frenzy
The End Is Near

Rating: 4.06
44 votes
95
Masterplan
Masterplan

Rating: 4.05
55 votes
96
Killing Joke
Killing Joke (2003)

Rating: 4.05
110 votes
97
Morning Glory
The Whole World is Watching

Rating: 4.05
31 votes
98
Ulrich Schnauss
A Strangely Isolated Place

Rating: 4.05
31 votes
99
Dark Lunacy
Forget Me Not

Rating: 4.05
21 votes
100
Ween
Quebec

Rating: 4.04
103 votes
101
TV on the Radio
Young Liars EP

Rating: 4.04
100 votes
102
Caribou
Up In Flames

Rating: 4.04
64 votes
103
Enslaved
Below the Lights

Rating: 4.03
284 votes
104
O.A.R.
In Between Now And Then

Rating: 4.03
32 votes
105
Bear vs. Shark
Right Now You're in the Best of Hands

Rating: 4.03
271 votes
106
Exhumed
Anatomy Is Destiny

Rating: 4.03
39 votes
107
Kalmah
Swampsong

Rating: 4.02
313 votes
108
DIR EN GREY
Vulgar

Rating: 4.02
192 votes
109
The Old Dead Tree
The Nameless Disease

Rating: 4.02
23 votes
110
Film School
alwaysnever

Rating: 4.02
56 votes
111
Million Dead
A Song to Ruin

Rating: 4.02
148 votes
112
Kenna
New Sacred Cow

Rating: 4.02
30 votes
113
Carbon Based Lifeforms
Hydroponic Garden

Rating: 4.02
61 votes
114
A Perfect Circle
Thirteenth Step

Rating: 4.02
1986 votes
115
Manes
Vilosophe

Rating: 4.02
32 votes
116
Kaki King
Everybody Loves You

Rating: 4.02
33 votes
117
William Basinski
Melancholia

Rating: 4.02
33 votes
118
Younger Brother
A Flock of Bleeps

Rating: 4.01
36 votes
119
Boris
Akuma no uta

Rating: 4.01
240 votes
120
Minor Threat
First Demo Tape

Rating: 4.01
102 votes
121
The Dresden Dolls
The Dresden Dolls

Rating: 4.01
173 votes
122
Intestine Baalism
Banquet in the Darkness

Rating: 4.01
86 votes
123
Ott
Blumenkraft

Rating: 4
26 votes
124
Robert Randolph and the Family Band
Unclassified

Rating: 4
23 votes
125
Rise Against
Revolutions Per Minute

Rating: 3.99
987 votes
126
Brother Ali
Shadows on the Sun

Rating: 3.99
77 votes
127
Biffy Clyro
Vertigo Of Bliss

Rating: 3.99
206 votes
128
My Morning Jacket
It Still Moves

Rating: 3.99
183 votes
129
Cursed
I

Rating: 3.99
177 votes
130
Falkenbach
Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty

Rating: 3.99
73 votes
131
Hans Zimmer
The Last Samurai

Rating: 3.98
31 votes
132
Godflesh
Messiah

Rating: 3.98
30 votes
133
The Unicorns
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?

Rating: 3.98
174 votes
134
Muse
Absolution

Rating: 3.98
2960 votes
135
Every Time I Die
Hot Damn!

Rating: 3.98
781 votes
136
M83
Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts

Rating: 3.98
291 votes
137
Ska-P
Que Corra La Voz

Rating: 3.98
22 votes
138
The Postal Service
Give Up

Rating: 3.98
761 votes
139
The Cat Empire
The Cat Empire

Rating: 3.97
59 votes
140
Sufjan Stevens
Michigan

Rating: 3.97
486 votes
141
The Ocean
Fogdiver

Rating: 3.97
77 votes
142
Patrick Wolf
Lycanthropy

Rating: 3.97
57 votes
143
The Fire Theft
The Fire Theft

Rating: 3.97
36 votes
144
Dog Fashion Disco
Committed to a Bright Future

Rating: 3.97
53 votes
145
The Bled
Pass The Flask

Rating: 3.97
335 votes
146
Drudkh
Forgotten Legends

Rating: 3.97
157 votes
147
Ted Leo And The Pharmacists
Hearts of Oak

Rating: 3.97
58 votes
148
Calexico
Feast of Wire

Rating: 3.96
42 votes
149
Against Me!
As the Eternal Cowboy

Rating: 3.96
427 votes
150
Katatonia
Viva Emptiness

Rating: 3.96
609 votes
151
Pete Murray
Feeler

Rating: 3.96
26 votes
152
Mahumodo
Waves

Rating: 3.96
39 votes
153
Evergrey
Recreation Day

Rating: 3.96
101 votes
154
Rob Dougan
Furious Angels

Rating: 3.96
63 votes
155
Apocalyptica
Reflections Revised

Rating: 3.96
37 votes
156
Cult of Luna
The Beyond

Rating: 3.96
259 votes
157
The Black Keys
Thickfreakness

Rating: 3.96
347 votes
158
Grave Digger
Rheingold

Rating: 3.96
23 votes
159
Nasum
Helvete

Rating: 3.96
115 votes
160
Sonata Arctica
Winterheart's Guild

Rating: 3.96
245 votes
161
Give up the Ghost
We're Down Til We're Underground

Rating: 3.95
119 votes
162
Aborted
Goremageddon

Rating: 3.95
195 votes
163
Funeral for a Friend
Four Ways to Scream Your Name

Rating: 3.95
57 votes
164
Mihai Edrisch
L’un Sans L’Autre

Rating: 3.95
66 votes
165
Beloved
Failure On

Rating: 3.94
179 votes
166
Stephen Lynch
Superhero

Rating: 3.94
44 votes
167
Frenzal Rhomb
Sans Souci

Rating: 3.94
25 votes
168
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Falling Through a Field

Rating: 3.94
33 votes
169
AFI
Sing the Sorrow

Rating: 3.94
1594 votes
170
Something Corporate
Songs for Silent Movies

Rating: 3.93
23 votes
171
Jonny Greenwood
Bodysong

Rating: 3.93
45 votes
172
Amon Amarth
Versus the World

Rating: 3.93
499 votes
173
Guster
Keep It Together

Rating: 3.93
73 votes
174
Do Make Say Think
Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn

Rating: 3.93
168 votes
175
Prefuse 73
One Word Extinguisher

Rating: 3.93
77 votes
176
The White Stripes
Elephant

Rating: 3.92
1314 votes
177
No-Man
Together We're Stranger

Rating: 3.92
45 votes
178
Paint It Black
CVA

Rating: 3.92
32 votes
179
Lightning Bolt
Wonderful Rainbow

Rating: 3.92
223 votes
180
Between the Buried and Me
The Silent Circus

Rating: 3.92
1829 votes
181
Tim Hecker
Radio Amor

Rating: 3.92
44 votes
182
Gatsbys American Dream
Ribbons and Sugar

Rating: 3.92
110 votes
183
Anathema
A Natural Disaster

Rating: 3.92
443 votes
184
Murs
The End of the Beginning

Rating: 3.92
24 votes
185
Madlib
Shades of Blue

Rating: 3.92
119 votes
186
The Locust
Plague Soundscapes

Rating: 3.92
260 votes
187
Skyfire
Mind Revolution

Rating: 3.91
88 votes
188
Mark Lanegan
Here Comes That Weird Chill

Rating: 3.91
23 votes
189
Jay-Z
The Black Album

Rating: 3.91
623 votes
190
Defiance, Ohio
Share What Ya Got

Rating: 3.91
85 votes
191
The Microphones
Mount Eerie

Rating: 3.91
100 votes
192
Hieroglyphics
Full Circle

Rating: 3.91
50 votes
193
The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower
Dissertation, Honey

Rating: 3.91
54 votes
194
The Early November
The Room's Too Cold

Rating: 3.91
153 votes
195
Cooper Temple Clause
Kick up the fire.....

Rating: 3.9
21 votes
196
Revis
Places For Breathing

Rating: 3.9
47 votes
197
The Bad Plus
These Are the Vistas

Rating: 3.9
26 votes
198
The Spirit Of Versailles
Discography

Rating: 3.9
26 votes
199
The Bouncing Souls
Anchors Aweigh

Rating: 3.9
86 votes
200
Moneen
Are we Really Happy with who we are Right Now?

Rating: 3.9
70 votes



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