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Radio 1190's Top 100 of 2003

Welcome to Radio 1190's top 100 albums of 2003 as chosen by Radio 1190's staff and listeners. Check the ranks to see where your favorites stand.

1	Prefuse 73	One Word Extinguisher	Warp
2	The Black Keys	Thickfreakness	Fat Possum
3	Broken Social Scene	You Forgot It In People	Arts & Crafts
4	Kinski	Airs Above Your Station	Sub Pop
5	Xiu Xiu	A Promise	5RC
6	Meat Beat Manifesto	Storm the Studio R.M.X.S.	Tino Corp
7	Melt Banana	Cell-Scape	A-zap
8	Lyrics Born	Later That Day	Quannum
9	The Postal Service	Give Up	Sub Pop
10	Cat Power	You Are Free	Matador
11	Devotchka	Una Volta	Cicero
12	The Decemberists	Her Majesty the Decemberists	Kill Rock Stars
13	The Shins	Chutes Too Narrow	Sub Pop
14	Cass McCombs	A	Monitor
15	The Thermals	More Parts Per Million	Sub Pop
16	DJ Krush	The Message at the Depth	Red Ink
17	Neurosis and Jarboe	Neurosis and Jarboe	Neurot
18	Rachel's	Systems/Layers	Quarterstick
19	The Delgados	Hate	Mantra
20	Kid Koala	Some of My Best Friends are DJs	Ninja Tune
21	Calexico	Feast of Wire	Quarterstick
22	The Dirtbombs	Dangerous Magical Noise	In The Red
23	Black Eyes	S/T	Dischord
24	Deerhoof	Apple O'	Kill Rock Stars
25	Madlib	Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Bluenote	Blue Note
26	Dirty Three	She Has No Strings Apollo	Touch & Go
27	The Books	The Lemon of Pink	Tomlab
28	Azure Ray	Hold On Love	Saddle Creek
29	Pleasure Forever	Alter	Sub Pop
30	Pinback	Offcell	Absolutely
31	Her Space Holiday	The Young Machines	Mush
32	Wire	Send	Pink Flag
33	June Carter Cash	Wildwood Flower	DualTone
34	Bob Log III	Log Bomb	Fat Possum
35	Grandaddy	Sumday	V2
36	Songs: Ohia	The Magnolia Electric Co	Secretly Canadian
37	Belle and Sebastian	Dear Catastrophe Waitress	Rough Trade
38	The Procussions	As Iron Sharpens Iron	Basementalism
39	Richmond Fontaine	Post to Wire	El Cortez
40	Young People	War Prayers	Dim Mak
41	Adult.	Anxiety Always	Thrill Jockey
42	Jeffrey Lewis	It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through	Rough
43	Erase Errata	At Crystal Palace	Troubleman
44	Junior Senior	D-D-Don't Stop the Beat	Crunchy Frog
45	Four Tet	Rounds	Domino
46	(Smog)	Supper	Drag City
47	The Nowist	Neon Golden	Domino
48	Sufjan Stevens	Greetings From Michigan - The Great Lake State	Asthmatic
49	Blackstone Valley Sinners	It's a Sin	Valley
50	Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros	Streetcore	Hellcat
51	Various Artists	Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused, and Recycled	Important
52	Velvet Crush	Soft Sounds	Action Musik
53	Enon	Hocus Pocus	Touch & Go
54	Pole	Pole	Mute
55	Arab Strap	Monday at the Hug and Pint	Matador
56	Damien Jurado	Where Shall You Take Me?	Secretly Canadian
57	The New Pornographers	Electric Version	Matador
58	Dan Sartain	Dan Sartain vs. The Serpientes	Swami
59	Viktor Vaughn	Vaudeville Villain	Sound-Ink
60	Dressy Bessy	S/T	Kindercore
61	Matmos	The Civil War	Matador
62	Rob Swift	Under the Influence	Six Degrees
63	Various Artists	Par Avion: Global Indie Clubpop	Eenie Meanie
64	Dudley Perkins	A Lil' Light	Stones Throw
65	Andrew Bird	Weather Systems	Righteous Babe
66	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	Nocturama	Anti-
67	The Constantines	Shine A Light	Sub Pop
68	Elvis Costello	North	DecCa
69	FM Knives	Useless and Modern	Broken Rekids
70	The Lilys	Precollection	Manifesto
71	The Wrens	Meadowlands	Absolutely Kosher
72	Mates of State	Team Boo	Polyvinyl
73	Pigeon John	Is Dating Your Sister	Basement
74	Califone	Quicksand and Cradlesnakes	Thrill Jockey
75	RJD2	The Horror	Def Jux
76	The Angels of Light	Everything is Good Here/Please Come Home	Young God
77	The Aislers Set	How I Learned To Write Backwards	Slumberland
78	Manitoba	Up in Flames	Domino
79	Juana Molina	Segundo	Domino
80	The Blue Series Continuum	The Good and Evil Sessions	Thirsty Ear
81	All Girl Summer Fun Band	2	K
82	Autechre	Draft 7:30	Warp
83	Push Button Objects	Ghetto Blaster	Chocolate Industries
84	The Adventure Time	Dreams of Water Themes	EFA
85	Nina Nastasia	Run to Ruin	Touch & Go
86	Brother Ali	Shadows of the sun	Rhymesayers
87	Malcolm Middleton	5: 14 Fluoxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine	Chemikal Underground
88	The Starvations	Get well Soon	Gold Standard
89	Stars	Heart	Arts & Crafts
90	Quasi	Hot Shit	Touch & Go
91	Black Box Recorder	Passionoia	Jetset
92	Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham	L'Avventura	Jetset
93	Him	Many In High Places Are Not Well	Bubble Core
94	Dengue Fever	S/T	Mimicry
95	The Russian Futurists	Let's Get Ready to Crumble	Upper Class
96	Summer Hymns	Clemency	Misra
97	Calla	Televise	Arena Rock
98	Lungfish	Love is Love	Dischord
99	Rufus Wainwright	Want One	Dreamworks
100	Clem Snide	Soft Spot	Spin Art