Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Year: 2003

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Consumer Guide Index by Year: 2003

Listing for 372 records from 2003 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A+

King Sunny Ade: The Best of the Classic Years [Shanachie]
De La Soul: Timeless: The Singles Collection [Tommy Boy/Rhino]
Postwar Jazz: An Arbitrary Roadmap [no label/Weatherbird]

A

Bad Brains: Banned in D.C.: Bad Brains Greatest Riffs [Caroline]
Buck 65: Talkin' Honky Blues [WEA]
Bing Crosby: A Centennial Anthology of His Decca Recordings [MCA/Decca]
Missy Elliott: This Is Not a Test! [Elektra]
Ella Fitzgerald: The Best of the Concert Years [Pablo]
Bettye Lavette: A Woman Like Me [Blues Express]
The Libertines: Up the Bracket [Rough Trade]
Lyrics Born: Later That Day . . . [Quannum Projects]
Liz Phair: Liz Phair [Capitol]
Art Tatum: The Best of the Pablo Group Masterpieces [Pablo]
The Wrens: The Meadowlands [Absolutely Kosher]
Yo La Tengo: Summer Sun [Matador]
The Best There Ever Was [Yazoo]
The Sound of the City: New Orleans [EMI]

A-

Akrobatik: Balance [Coup d'État]
Amy Allison: No Frills Friend [Diesel Only]
Gilad Atzmon: Exile [Enja]
Bettie Serveert: Log 22 [Palomine]
Black Eyed Peas: Elephunk [A&M]
The Blue Series Continuum: GoodandEvil Sessions [Thirsty Ear]
The Bottle Rockets: Blue Sky [Sanctuary]
Brother Ali: Shadows on the Sun [Rhymesayers Entertainment]
The Dandy Warhols: Welcome to the Monkey House [Capitol]
Kimya Dawson: My Cute Fiend Sweet Princess [Important]
Drive-By Truckers: Decoration Day [New West]
Electric Six: Fire [XL]
Fannypack: So Stylistic [Tommy Boy]
The Fever: Pink on Pink [Kemado EP]
Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers [S-Curve]
Four Tet: Rounds [Domino]
Jean Grae: The Bootleg of the Bootleg EP [Babygrande EP]
Al Green: I Can't Stop [Blue Note]
Horace X: Sackbutt [Omnium]
Kaito U.K.: Band Red [SpinArt]
Mamani Keita & Marc Minelli: Electro Bamako [Palm]
Gaby Kerpel: Carnabailito [Nonesuch]
The Klezmatics: Rise Up!/Shteyt Oyf! [Rounder]
Jon Langford and His Sadies: Mayors of the Moon [Bloodshot]
LFTR-PLLR: Soft Rock [The Self-Starter Foundation]
Lifesavas: Spirit in Stone [Quannum Projects]
Jesse Malin: The Fine Art of Self Destruction [Artemis]
Boban Markovic Orkestar: Boban I Marko [Piranha]
McEnroe: Disenfranchised [Peanuts and Corn]
Mr. Lif: Sleepyheads [Thought Wizard]
Murs: . . . The End of the Beginning [Definitive Jux]
Ramiro Musotto: Sudaka [Fast Horse]
The Naysayer: Pure Beauty [Carrot Top EP]
NOFX: The War on Errorism [Fat Wreck Chords]
OutKast: Speakerboxx/The Love Below [Arista]
Panjabi MC: Beware [Sequence]
Party of One: Caught the Blast [Fat Cat]
Charlie Patton: The Best of Charlie Patton [Yazoo]
The Postal Service: Give Up [Sub Pop]
Rancid: Indestructible [Hellcat]
The Rapture: Echoes [Strummer/Universal]
Amy Rigby: Til the Wheels Fall Off [Signature Sounds]
Pete Rock & CL Smooth: The Best of Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth (Good Life) [Elektra/Rhino]
The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow [Sub Pop]
Todd Snider: Todd Snider Live: Near Truths and Hotel Rooms [Oh Boy]
Super Mama Djombo: Super Mama Djombo [Cobiana]
Television: Live at the Old Waldorf [Rhino Handmade]
Timbaland and Magoo: Under Construction Part II [Blackground/Universal]
James Blood Ulmer: No Escape From the Blues [Hyena]
The Vulgar Boatmen: Wide Awake [No Nostalgia]
Ethel Waters: The Incomparable Ethel Waters [Columbia/Legacy]
Wide Right: Wide Right [Poptop]
Lucinda Williams: World Without Tears [Lost Highway]
Wire: Send [Pinkflag]
Warren Zevon: The Wind [Artemis]
Arabesque Tlata 3 [React]
Down in the Basement [Old Hat]
Festival in the Desert [World Village]
The Guitar and Gun [Stern's/Earthworks]
The Kings of Highlife [Wrasse]
Ragga Ragga Ragga! 2003 [Greensleeves]
The Rough Guide to Highlife [World Music Network]
The Rough Guide to Salsa Colombia [World Music Network]
The Rough Guide to South African Gospel [World Music Network]
The Rough Guide to the Music of Egypt [World Music Network]
When the Sun Goes Down: Poor Man's Heaven [Bluebird]

B+

King Sunny Ade: Synchro Series [IndigeDisc]
Rahim AlHaj: Iraqi Music in a Time of War [Voxlox]
Besh O Drom: Can't Make Me! [Asphalt Tango]
Miles Davis: The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions [Columbia/Legacy]
Aretha Franklin: So Damn Happy [Arista]
The Go-Betweens: Bright Yellow Bright Orange [Jetset]
Macy Gray: The Trouble With Being Myself [Epic]
Kid Koala: Some of My Best Friends Are DJs [Ninja Tune]
Ludacris: Chicken-N-Beer [Def Jam South]
The New Pornographers: Electric Version [Matador]
Non-Prophets: Hope [Lex]
Lou Reed: The Raven [Sire/Reprise]
Boubacar Traoré: The Best of Boubacar Traoré: The Bluesman From Mali [Wrasse]
Loudon Wainwright III: So Damn Happy [Sanctuary]
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell [Interscope]
Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot [Archeophone]

***

A3: Power in the Blood [One Little Indian]
Atmosphere: Seven's Travels [Rhymesayers/Epitaph]
Erykah Badu: Worldwide Underground [Motown]
Mildred Bailey: The Incomparable Mildred Bailey [Columbia/Legacy]
The Bangles: Doll Revolution [Koch]
Basement Jaxx: Kish Kash [Astralwerks]
The Beach Boys: Sounds of Summer [Capitol]
Floxy Bee: Ajulo [Tman]
Blink-182: Blink-182 [Geffen]
The Books: The Lemon of Pink [Tomlab]
Camera Obscura: Under Achievers Please Try Harder [Merge]
Rosanne Cash: Rules of Travel [Capitol]
CherryWine: Bright Black [DCide]
The Clean: Anthology [Merge]
Clem Snide: Soft Spot [SpinArt]
The Robert Cray Band: Time Will Tell [Sanctuary]
Rodney Crowell: Fate's Right Hand [DMX/Epic]
The Distillers: Coral Fang [Sire]
Eek-A-Mouse: The Very Best of Eek-a-Mouse Vol. 2 [Shanachie]
Handsome Family: Singing Bones [Carrot Top]
Jimi Hendrix: Live at Berkeley [Experience Hendrix]
Hoosier Hot Shots: The Definitive Hoosier Hotshots Collection [Collectors' Choice]
Immortal Technique: Revolutionary Vol. 2 [Viper]
The Jam: The Sound of the Jam [Polydor]
Jay-Z: The Black Album [Roc-A-Fella]
Jedi Mind Tricks: Visions of Gandhi [Babygrande]
The Libertines: "I Get Along" [Rough Trade EP]
Local H: The No Fun EP [Thick EP]
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks: Pig Lib [Matador]
New Estate: Considering . . . [W.Minc]
The Pop-O-Pies: Pop-O-Anthology 1984-1993 [www.pop-o-pie.com]
RZA: Birth of a Prince [Wu-Records/Sanctuary]
Shesus: Loves You . . . Love You Not [Narnack]
Sidestepper: 3AM (In Beats We Trust) [Palm]
Soul Position: 8 Million Stories [Rhymesayers/Fat Beats]
Bubba Sparxxx: Deliverance [Beat Club/Interscope]
Tammy Faye Starlite: Used Country Female [Diesel Only]
The Strokes: Room on Fire [RCA]
Booker T. & the MG's: Soul Men [Stax]
Thicke: A Beautiful World [Interscope]
Ugly Duckling: Taste the Secret [Emperor Norton]
The White Stripes: Elephant [V2]
Yerba Buena: President Alien [Razor & Tie]
Ying Yang Twins: Me & My Brother [TVT]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Greendale [Reprise]
Anthology of World Music: The Music of Afghanistan [Rounder]
Mali Lolo!: Stars of Mali [Smithsonian/Folkways]
Saucy Calypsos Volume One [Ice]
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals [Rhino]
Urban Brazil [Stern's/Earthworks]

**

Abyssinia Infinite: Zion Roots [Network]
Aceyalone: Love and Hate [Decon]
African Head Charge: Shrunken Head [On-U Sound]
Baby Gramps Trio: Hossradish [Gramophone]
Asha Bhosle: The Rough Guide to Bollywood Legends: Asha Bhosle [World Music Network]
Frank Black and the Catholics: Show Me Your Tears [SpinArt]
British Sea Power: The Decline of British Sea Power [Rough Trade]
Ralph Carney: This Is! Ralph Carney [Black Beauty]
Terri Clark: Pain to Kill [Mercury]
Marshall Crenshaw: What's in the Bag? [Razor & Tie]
Cyod: Better Sh!*$ on the Way! [Trust Me]
Dead Prez: Get Free or Die Tryin' [Boss Up/Landspeed]
Enrique Ferrer: Buenos Hermanos [Nonesuch]
The Fiery Furnaces: Gallowsbird's Bark [Rough Trade]
50 Cent: Get Rich or Die Tryin' [Shady/Aftermath/Interscope]
Gotan Project: La Revancha del Tango [XL]
Merle Haggard: Like Never Before [Hag]
Hamell on Trial: Tough Love [Righteous Babe]
Jet: Get Born [Elektra]
George Jones: The Gospel Collection [BNA]
Chris Knight: The Jealous Kind [Dualtone]
Jeffrey Lewis: It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through [Rough Trade]
Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz: Part II [TVT EP]
Madonna: American Life [Maverick/Warner Bros.]
The Majesticons: Beauty Party [Big Dada]
Souad Massi: Deb (Heart Broken) [GRC]
Jason Mraz: Waiting for My Rocket to Come [Elektra]
Maria Muldaur: Classic Live! [Dig Music]
Maria Muldaur: A Woman Alone With the Blues [Telarc]
Brad Paisley: Mud on the Tires [Arista]
Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham: L'Avventura [Jetset]
Pink: Try This [Arista]
Roswell Rudd's Malicool With Toumani Diabate: Roswell Rudd's Malicool With Toumani Diabate [Sunnyside]
Adrian Sherwood: Never Trust a Hippy [RealWorld]
Stew: Something Deeper Than These Changes [Smile]
Gary Stewart: Live at Billy Bob's Texas [Smith Music]
Rod Stewart: As Time Goes By . . . The Great American Songbook Volume II [J]
Hot Women [Kein & Aber]
The Neptunes Present . . . Clones [Star Trak]
Rasta Jamz [Razor & Tie]
The Rough Guide to Salsa de Puerto Rico [World Music Network]
The Rough Guide to the Music of Venezuela [World Music Network]
Sampa Nova [Stern's Brasil]
Tulear Never Sleeps [Stern's/Earthworks]
Bad Boys II [Bad Boy]

*

Ryan Adams: Rock N Roll [Lost Highway]
Aesop Rock: Bazooka Tooth [Definitive Jux]
A.R.E. Weapons: A.R.E. Weapons [Rough Trade]
Andre Afram Asmar: Race to the Bottom [Mush]
Beyoncé: Dangerously in Love [Columbia]
Black Box Recorder: Passionoia [One Little Indian]
Botnledja: Iceland National Park [Trust Me]
Calexico: Feast of Wire [Quarterstick]
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup: Rock Me Mama [Bluebird/BMG Heritage]
The Darkness: Permission to Land [Atlantic]
Dashboard Confessional: A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar [Vagrant]
Daughter: Skin [Aum Fidelity]
Kathleen Edwards: Failer [Zoë]
Elastica: The Radio One Sessions [Koch/Strange Fruit]
The Exploding Hearts: Guitar Romantics [Dirtnap]
50 Cent: Guess Who's Back? [Full Clip]
Freeway: Philadelphia Freeway [Roc-A-Fella]
The Fugs: The Fugs Final CD (Part 1) [Artemis]
Gang Starr: The Ownerz [Virgin]
Grandaddy: Sumday [V2]
Buddy Guy: Blues Singer [Silvertone]
Anthony Hamilton: Comin' From Where I'm From [Arista]
Kékélé: Congo Life [Stern's Africa]
Led Zeppelin: How the West Was Won [Atlantic]
Living Colour: Collideoscope [Sanctuary]
John Mayer: Heavier Things [Aware/Columbia]
Nada Surf: Let Go [Barsuk]
The Preacher's Kids: Wild Emotions [Get Hip]
Radiohead: Hail to the Thief [Capitol]
Rainer Maria: Long Knives Drawn [Polyvinyl]
Starlight Mints: Built on Squares [[PIAS] America]
Steely Dan: Everything Must Go [Warner Bros.]
Otis Taylor: Truth Is Not Fiction [Telarc]
Richard Thompson: The Old Kit Bag [Cooking Vinyl/SpinArt]
Those Unknown: Those Unknown [TKO]
Tokyo Sex Destruction: Le Red soul Program (10 Points Program) [Dim Mak]
Tricky: Vulnerable [Sanctuary]
The Vitamen: Mujer [Vitamen]
Rufus Wainwright: Want One [DreamWorks]
Westside Connection: Terrorist Threats [Capitol]
Yo La Tengo: Today Is the Day [Matador]
African Groove [Putumayo World Music]
Salsa Around the World [Putumayo World Music]

Thomas Anderson: Norman, Oklahoma [Red River]
Bitch and Animal: Sour Juice and Rhyme [Righteous Babe]
Biz Markie: Weekend Warrior [Tommy Boy]
Broken Social Scene: You Forgot It in People [Arts & Crafts]
Joe Budden: Joe Budden [Def Jam]
Blu Cantrell: Bittersweet [Arista]
Johnny Cash: The Mystery of Life [Mercury]
Chingy: Jackpot [Capitol]
Clem Snide: A Beautiful EP [SpinArt EP]
Bruce Cockburn: You've Never Seen Everything [Rounder/True North]
The Corb Lund Band: Five Dollar Bill [Stony Plain]
Kimya Dawson: Knock-Knock Who? [Important]
Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism [Barsuk]
Dido: Life for Rent [Arista]
Dropkick Murphys: Blackout [Hellcat]
Echoboy: Giraffe [Mute]
The Evolution Control Committee: Plagiarythm Nation [Seeland]
Ginuwine: The Senior [Epic]
Hieroglyphics: Full Circle [Hiero Imperium]
R. Kelly: Chocolate Factory [Jive]
Kinky: Atlas [Nettwerk]
Taj Mahal & the Hula Blues: Hanapepe Dream [Tone-Cool]
Stephin Merritt: Pieces of April [Nonesuch]
Mutant Press and Friends: Blood for Oil: Songs of the Fugs [500 Pound Weasel]
Peaches: Fatherfucker [Kitty-Yo]
Iggy Pop: Skull Ring [Virgin]
Prince Paul: Politics of the Business [Razor & Tie]
The Raveonettes: Chain Gang of Love [Columbia]
Josh Ritter: Hello Starling [Signature Sounds]
Josh Rouse: 1972 [Ryko]
Rubber City Rebels: Pierce My Brain [Smog Veil]
Chris Smither: Train Home [HighTone]
The Starting Line: Make Yourself at Home EP [Vagrant EP]
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros: Streetcore [Hellcat]
Sullen: Paint the Moon [Thick]
Supersuckers: Motherfuckers Be Trippin' [Mid-Fi]
Television: Adventure [Elektra/Rhino]
Television: Marquee Moon [Elektra/Rhino]
T.I.: Trap Muzik [Grand Hustle/Atlantic]
Vortis: God Won't Bless America [Thick]
Jit Jive: Zimbabwean Street Party [Sheer Sound]
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Warming by the Devil's Fire [Columbia/Legacy]
The Rough Guide to Brazilian Electronica [World Music Network]
Yes New York [Wolfgang Morden]

B

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists: Hearts of Oak [Lookout]
Sole: Selling Live Water [Anticon]

B-

Ry Cooder/Manuel Galbán: Mambo Sinuendo [Nonesuch/Perro Verde]
Evanescence: Fallen [Wind-Up]
Bill Frisell: The Intercontinentals [Nonesuch]
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man: Out of Season [Sanctuary]

C+

The Gossip: Movement [Kill Rock Stars]
Josh Groban: Closer [143/Reprise]
Junior Senior: D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat [Chunky Frog/Atlantic]
Kid Rock: Kid Rock [Atlantic]
Daniel Lanois: Shine [Anti-]
Los Lonely Boys: Los Lonely Boys [Epic]
The Mars Volta: De-Loused in the Comatorium [Universal]
Ms. Dynamite: A Little Deeper [Interscope]
Joss Stone: The Soul Sessions [S-Curve]
Obie Trice: Cheers [Shady/Interscope]
Andrew W.K.: The Wolf [Island]

C

Ashanti: Chapter II [Murder Inc.]
My Morning Jacket: It Still Moves [ATO]
Lisa Marie Presley: To Whom It May Concern [Capitol]
Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime [Sire/Warner Bros./Rhino]
The Thrills: So Much for the City [Virgin]

C-

Afro Celts: Seed [RealWorld]
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Vintage Slide Collections From Seattle, Vol. I [Bar/None]
Daryl Worley: Have You Forgotten? [DreamWorks]

D

Clay Aiken: Measure of a Man [RCA]

Ryan Adams: Love Is Hell Pt. 1 [Lost Highway EP]
Ryan Adams: Love Is Hell Pt. 2 [Lost Highway EP]
The Aislers Set: How I Learned to Write Backwards [Suicide Squeeze]
Joan Armatrading: Lovers Speak [Denon]
David Banner: Mississippi: The Album [SRC/Universal]
David Banner: MTA2: Baptized in Dirty Water [SRC/Universal]
Tywanna Jo Baskette: Fancy Blue [Sweet Tea]
Benzino: Redemption [Elektra]
Broadcast: Haha Sound [Warp]
The Business: Hardcore Hooligans [BYO]
Caitlin Cary: I'm Staying Out [Yep Roc]
Kenny Chesney: When the Sun Goes Down [BNA]
Guy Davis: Chocolate to the Bone [Red House]
The Eels: Shootenanny! [DreamWorks]
Elefant: Gallery Girl [Kemado EP]
Elefant: Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid [Kemado]
Everclear: Slow Motion Daydream [Capitol]
Jay Farrar: Terroir Blues [Act/Resist]
The Flaming Lips: Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell [Warner Bros.]
G Unit: Beg for Mercy [G Unit/Interscope]
Terry Hall & Mushtaq: The Hour of Two Lights [Astralwerks]
Corey Harris: Mississippi to Mali [Rounder]
Jesse Harris & the Ferdinandos: The Secret Sun [Blue Thumb]
Etta James: Let's Roll [Private Music]
Josh Kelley: For the Ride Home [Hollywood]
Alicia Keys: The Diary of Alicia Keys [J]
Kings of Leon: Youth & Young Manhood [RCA]
Josh Klein: Everyone Loves a Winner [One Little Indian]
Leaves: Breathe [DreamWorks]
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists: Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead [Lookout EP]
Little Brother: The Listening [ABB]
Living Things: Turn In Your Friends and Neighbors [3AM]
The Locust: Plague Soundscapes [Anti-]
Lonestar: From There to Here: Greatest Hits [BNA]
Massive Attack: 100th Window [Virgin]
John Mayer: Any Given Thursday [Aware/Columbia]
John McLaughlin: Thieves and Poets [Verve]
John Mellencamp: Trouble No More [Columbia]
Morcheeba: Parts of the Process [Sire/Reprise]
Najma: Vivid [Mondo Melodia]
Me'shell Ndegéocello: Comfort Woman [Maverick]
Randy Newman: The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1 [Nonesuch]
The Notwist: Different Cars and Trains [Domino]
Christopher O'Riley: Love Waits: Christopher O'Riley Plays Radiohead [Odyssey]
Phillips & Driver: Together [Bar/None]
Pillar: Fireproof [MCA]
The Polyphonic Spree: The Beginning Stages of . . . [Hollywood/Good]
Prefuse 73: One Word Extinguisher [Warp]
Damien Rice: O [Vector]
Ursula Rucker: Silver or Lead [!K7]
Singapore Sling: The Curse of Singapore Sling [Stinky]
The Sleepy Jackson: Lovers [Astralwerks]
Smash Mouth: Get the Picture? [Interscope]
Stellastarr*: Stellastarr* [RCA]
The Stills: Logic Will Break Your Heart [Vice]
Super Furry Animals: Phantom Power [XL/Beggars]
Thursday: War All the Time [Island]
Wheat: Per Second, Per Second, Per Second . . . Every Second [Aware/Columbia]
Don White: Live in Michigan [Don White]
Bernie Williams: The Journey Within [GRP]
Wayne Wonder: No Holding Back [VP/Atlantic]
Robert Wyatt: Cuckooland [Hannibal/Ryko]
The Bug Vs The Rootsman Feat. Daddy Freddy/Dj/Rupture [Tigerbeat6]
Compilasian: The World of Indipop [Narada World]
New York City Rock N Roll [Radical]

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