The Official Best of 2003 Thread

Accept no mid-November substitutes.

Album of the Year: The Wrens -- "The Meadowlands"

Runners Up:

Broken Social Scene -- "You Forget it in People"
The Shins -- "Chutes Too Narrow"
Pretty Girls Make Graves -- "The New Romance"
M. Ward -- "The Transfiguration of Vincent"

Full Top 50 here.

Electronic Album of the Year: Prefuse 73 -- "One Word Extinguisher"

Hip-Hop Album of the Year: Non-Prophets -- "Hope"

Lyric of the Year:

On my long weary journey back home
I took the less frequented path
And ended up in the Meadow of Consolation.
It was a magical place
I half expected a nymph to appear
Shyly from out of the break.
And with me dressed as a dandy in practice for the summer eights,
Even the glebe cow started to drool.
But then, almost inevitably, Clare Rayner appeared.

Elderly lady at the bus stop
Thinks I'm going to eat her
And so to reassure her
I ask her for the time
And her sense of relief at my friendly tone
Reveals itself in her karmic moan
"You can wait 20 minutes
And nothing comes along
And then all of a sudden
Three thugs rob your pension
Oh there's generally one at 25 past
They come swinging round that corner
They think they're Benny Goodman"

TV Event of the Year: Wife Swap

Sports Event of the Year: England's triumphant qualification for Euro 2004.

Sportsman of the Year: David Beckham, Tomas Repka (Tie)

Biggest Disappointment: Joe Cole and Glen Johnson going to Ch*ls*a and then seeing what was probably Jermain Defoe's last game for West Ham at the Boleyn.

Thread of the Year: Nick Lees Head Thread

Poster of the Year: Mick Parry