We didn’t really have a lot of debate over this one we simply voted and let the chips fall where they did. Jay-Z announced his retirement, Outkast had a massive pop crossover hit, and beneath the surface of popular music, a lot of very weird and very interesting things were happening. As this was happening, indie rock was beginning to infiltrate the mainstream again, thanks in part to some notable Hollywood co-signs on The O.C. Looking back, 2003 was a strange year-the beginning of the Iraq War, an upswing in more politically charged content from popular artists that, regrettably, was often received as being overblown or heavy handed (and look where that got us). (In hindsight, I’m not sure why I didn’t do that.) Additionally, we hadn’t yet recruited that many writers, and so if anything, it might have just ended up a list of my own personal favorite albums. For another, I was still in college and this was all an experiment that could have very well ended shortly after liftoff (credit my own stubbornness for not letting that happen). There’s a number of reasons for that: One, we were just barely getting off the ground. (October to be specific.) Yet despite launching just in time to do so, we never got around to doing a proper best albums of 2003 list. At the beginning of the year when we announced the launch of the ongoing Treble 100 project, we let slip that this year is actually the 20th anniversary of Treble.
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