My Favorite Songs of 2003
by Kevin Dangoor
This is not a top 10 list, because 10 is such an arbitrary number.
These are the songs that I really, really liked this year and that I am
likely to continue to listen to in the coming years. There are plenty of other songs that I’ve enjoyed on one level or another, but that just don’t have that guaranteed replay value for me (“Hey Ya!” by OutKast comes to mind as an example of this).
- “Bring Me To Life”, Evanescence
- “All The Things She Said”, TaTu
- “Bigger Than My Body”, John Mayer
- “Are You Happy Now”, Michelle Branch
- “Heaven”, Live
- “Numb”, Linkin Park
- “Sonambulist (Simply Being Loved)”, BT
- “Clocks”, Coldplay
- “Disease”, Matchbox 20
The acoustic version of “Heaven” on the iTunes MS is delicious.
I liked the most of the Coldplay album and will probably keep listening. The Scientist and Clocks are my favs, but several others I’ll happily listen to along with them. I really enjoyed were Foo Fighters’ whole One By One album, and some songs off new releases by Fountains of Wayne and The Thorns. Hey Ya! is interesting, but I agree, may have limited replay value. One of my other favs this year was the green Weezer album I’d meant to buy a long time ago. I’ll probably pick up a few others, too.
Thanks for the comments. I’ll go check those out and see if they’re a match for me.
One thing that was a disappointment for me this year were the albums by Dave Gahan and Martin Gore. I’m a big Depeche Mode fan, but neither album did anything for me when I previewed them (nor did I buy them). I think the problem is that neither one was written by Martin Gore, who is a truly gifted songwriter.