Best of 2003

Best songs

1. "Trees in the city" - Clearlake
2. "Hard life" - Bonnie Prince Billy
3. "Suicide is painless" - Lady & Bird
4. "I like you in that way" - Paula Kelley
5. "Coco" - Misty Dixon
6. "I'm on nights" - Richard Hawley
7. "Fallin' rain" - Calexico
8. "Elvis" - Alpha
9. "The late great Cassiopia" - The Essex Green
10. "Seven nation army" - The White Stripes
11. "Doortime" - Fiel Garvie
12. "Walking around" - The Innocence Mission
13. "If you fall" - Azure Ray
14. "Julia" - The Essex Green
15. "Never-ending days" - Maxmillian Hecker
16. "Just a photograph" - Jesse Harris
17. "Everything that's you" - Airliner
18. "Lucky you" - The National
19. "Chiquitita" - Sinead O'Connor
20. "Slung-lo" - Erin McKeown

 Best albums for the critics

The White Stripes - "Elephant"
Outkast - "Spearboxxx/The Love Below"
Radiohead - "Hail To The Thief"
The Strokes - "Room On Fire"
Blur - "Think Tank"
Kings Of Leon - "Youth And Young Manhood"
Dizzee Rascal - "Boy In Da Corner"
The Rapture - "Echoes"
My Morning Jacket - "It Still Moves"
The Mars Volta - "De-Loused In The Comatorium"
Belle & Sebastian - "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"
50 Cent - "Get Rich Or Die Tryin'"
Cat Power - "You Are Free"
Hot Hot Heat - "Make Up The Breakdown"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Fever To Tell"
Muse - "Absolution"
The Darkness - "Permission To Land"
Calexico - "A Feast Of White"
Justin Timberlake - "Justified"
Four Tet - "Rounds"

Best CD cover

Jack the Ripper - I'm Coming

 
The best albums for the critics have been compiled using the lists of Rolling Stone France, Les Inrocks, X-Rock, NME, Pop Matters, Uncut, Q, Face, Pitchfork, Mojo, Amazon.com, Drowned In Sound, Musik Express, Sonic, Spex, Visions and Spin.