Zzz Records' Best Sellers of 2003

(Local artists noted in red print)

DECEMBER 2003

  1. Outkast "Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below"
  2. The Mountain Goats "Palmcorder Yajna EP"
  3. Godspeed You Black Emperor "F# A# Infinity"
  4. Frankenixon "Sweaty From Your Uselessness" (single)
  5. Atom & His Package "Attention! Blah, Blah, Blah"
  6. The Beatles "Let It Be... Naked"
  7. The Shins "Chutes Too Narrow"
  8. Interpol "Turn on the Bright Lights"
  9. My Bloody Valentine "Loveless"
  10. Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"

NOVEMBER 2003

  1. The Rapture "Echoes"
  2. Outkast "Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below"
  3. The Shins "Chutes Too Narrow"
  4. Belle & Sebastian "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"`
  5. Explosions in the Sky "The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place"
  6. Johnny Cash "The Man Comes Around"
  7. The Strokes "Room on Fire"
  8. Interpol "Turn On the Bright Lights"
  9. Death Cab For Cutie "Transatlanticism"
  10. The White Stripes "Elephant"

OCTOBER 2003

  1. Do Make Say Think "Winter Hymn Country Hymn"
  2. Belle & Sebastian "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"
  3. The Shins "Chutes Too Narrow"
  4. A Silver Mt. Zion "This is Our Punk Rock"
  5. Azure Ray "Hold on Love"
  6. The Decemberists "Her Majesty the Decemberists"
  7. William Whitmore "Hymns For the Hopeless"
  8. Death Cab For Cutie "Transatlanticism"
  9. The Wrens "The Meadowlands"
  10. Frankenixon "Sweaty From Your Uselessness" (single)

SEPTEMBER 2003

  1. A Silver Mt. Zion "This is Our Punk Rock"
  2. My Bloody Valentine "Loveless"
  3. Pretty Girls Make Graves "The New Romance"
  4. The Decemberists "Her Majesty, the Decemberists"
  5. Radiohead "Hail to the Thief"
  6. Dispensing of False Halos "What If I Was Erased" (single)
  7. Bright Eyes "Vinyl Box Set"
  8. The Autumn Project "Fable"
  9. Aesop Rock "Bazooka Tooth"
  10. Wilco "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"

AUGUST 2003

  1. Radiohead "Hail to the Thief"
  2. Mogwai "Happy Songs For Happy People"
  3. My Bloody Valentine "Loveless"
  4. Rancid "Indestructible"
  5. Husker Du "Zen Arcade"
  6. The Autumn Project "Fable"
  7. Arab Strap "Monday at the Hug & Pint"
  8. Velvet Underground "White Light/White Heat"
  9. White Stripes "Elephant"
  10. Stereolab "Refried Ectoplasm"

JULY 2003

  1. Radiohead "Hail to the Thief"
  2. The Locust "Plague Soundscapes"
  3. Mars Volta "De-Loused In the Comatorium"
  4. Me First & the Gimme Gimmes "Take a Break"
  5. Sigur Ros "( )"
  6. Mogwai "Happy Songs For Happy People"
  7. The White Stripes "White Blood Cells"
  8. Melt Banana "Cell Scape"
  9. The Clientele "The Violet Hour"
  10. Joe Terry "Sound Is a Moving Thing"

JUNE 2003

  1. Radiohead "Hail to the Thief"
  2. Mogwai "Happy Songs For Happy People"
  3. Grandaddy "Sumday"
  4. !!! "Me & Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard (A True Story)"
  5. Metallica "St. Anger"
  6. Sigur Ros "( )"
  7. Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" (30th Anniv.)
  8. Ashanti "Rock Wit U" (12" single)
  9. Alkaline Trio "Good Mourning"
  10. House of Large Sizes "I Ate the Painting (EP #1)"

MAY 2003

  1. Ten Grand "This Is the Way to Rule"
  2. The Decemberists "Castaways & Cutouts"
  3. Sigur Ros "( )"
  4. The White Stripes "Elephant"
  5. Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" (30th Anniv.)
  6. The White Stripes "White Blood Cells"
  7. Joe Terry "Sound Is A Moving Thing"
  8. Interpol "Turn On the Bright Lights"
  9. Bright Eyes "Lifted..."
  10. Prince Paul "Politics of the Business"

APRIL 2003

  1. The White Stripes "Elephant"
  2. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks "Pig Lib"
  3. Flaming Lips "Fight Test EP"
  4. Various Artists "Saddle Creek 50"
  5. Yo La Tengo "Summer Sun"
  6. Sigur Ros "( )"
  7. Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon (30th Anniversary)"
  8. Do Make Say Think "& Yet & Yet"
  9. Cursive "The Ugly Organ"
  10. Godspeed You Black Emperor! "Yanqui u.x.o."

MARCH 2003

  1. Cursive "The Ugly Organ"
  2. Cat Power "You Are Free"
  3. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks "Pig Lib"
  4. Songs: Ohia "Magnolia Electric Co."
  5. Lightning Bolt "Wonderful Rainbow"
  6. Interpol "Turn On the Bright Lights"
  7. Busta Rhymes "I Know What You Want..." (12" single)
  8. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds "Nocturama"
  9. Xiu Xiu "Knife Play"
  10. Bettie Serveert "Log 22"

FEBRUARY 2003

  1. Cat Power "You Are Free"
  2. Godspeed You Black Emperor! "Yanqui u.x.o."
  3. Bright Eyes "Lifted..."
  4. The Microphones "Mount Eerie"
  5. Hot Hot Heat "Make Up the Breakdown"
  6. Zwan "Mary Star of the Sea"
  7. Pearl Jam "Riot Act"
  8. The Delgados "Hate"
  9. The Microphones "The Glow Part 2"
  10. Calexico "Feast of Wire"

JANUARY 2003

  1. Godspeed You Black Emperor! "Yanqui u.x.o."
  2. Foo Fighters "One by One"
  3. Bright Eyes "Lifted..."
  4. Pedro the Lion "Control"
  5. Sleater-Kinney "One Beat"
  6. Pearl Jam "Riot Act"
  7. Nirvana "Bleach"
  8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Machine" EP
  9. The Streets "Original Pirate Material"
  10. Sonic Youth, ICP & The Ex "In the Fishtank 9"