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Former WYSO Music Director Vick Mickunas
names his favorite albums from the year 2003

artist	title	label
1. Damien Rice	O	Vector
2. Gigi	Illuminated Audio	Palm
3. Kila	Luna Park	World Village
4. Thrills	So Much for the City	Virgin
5. Adrienne Young	Plow to the End of the Row	Addie Belle
6. Reptile Palace Orchestra	We Know You Now	Omnium
7. Paul Mounsey	City of Walls	Iona
8. Savina Yannatou and Primavera en Salonico	Terra Nostra	ECM
9. Los Lonely Boys	Los Lonely Boys	Or Music
10. Noonday Underground	Surface Noise	Setanta
11. Palo Alto	Heroes and Villains	American
12. Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble	Private Astronomy: A Vision of Bix Beiderbecke	Edge
13. Dan Bern and the International Jewish Banking Conspiracy	Fleeting Days	Messenger
14. Jessy Moss	Street Knuckles	Dreamworks
15. Butterfly Boucher	Flutterby	A&M
16. Martyn Bennett	Grit	Realworld
17. Gotan Project	La Revancha del Tango	XL
18. Wrens	Meadowlands	Absolutely Kosher
19. Dandy Warhols	Welcome to Monkey House	Capitol
20. Arab Strap	Monday at the Hug and Pint	Matador
21. Daude	Neguinha te amo	Realworld
22. Clearlake	Cedars	Domino
23. Stars	Heart	Arts and Crafts
24. Bob Lucas and Chloe Manor	Kin	Belly Boy
25. Variable Unit	Handbook for the Apocalypse	Wide Hive
26. Mafalda Amauth	Encantamento	Narada
27. Jet	Get Born	Elektra
28. Natalie Merchant	House Carpenters Daughter	Myth America
29. Hamish Henderson	A' the Bairns o Adam	Greentrax
30. Ry Cooder / Manuel Galban	Mambo Sinuendo	Nonesuch
31. Outkast	Speakerboxx/Love Below	Arista
32. Radiohead	Hail to the Thief	Capitol
33. Richard Thompson	The Old Kit Bag	Spin Art
34. Dengue Fever	Dengue Fever	Web of Mimicry
35. Rodney Crowell	Fates Right Hand	Epic
36. Jonny Lang	Long Time Coming	A&M
37. Lucinda Williams	World Without Tears	Lost Highway
38. Ryan Adams	Rock and Roll	Lost Highway
39. Daniel Lanois	Shine	Anti
40. South	With the Tides	Kinetic
41. Fugs	Final CD	Artemis
42. Venus Hum	Big Beautiful Sky	MCA
43. Mojave 3	Spoon and Rafter	4AD
44. Fonda	Catching up to the Future	Hidden Agenda
45. Alexi Murdoch	Four Songs	Lynn Grossman
46. Broadway Project	The Vessel	Memphis Industries
47. Andrew Hill	Passing Ships	Blue Note
48. James Carter	Gardenias for Lady Day	Columbia
49. Brother	Urban Cave	Rhubarb
50. Patty Griffin	A Kiss in Time	ATO
51. A3	Power in Blood	One Little Indian
52. Death in Vegas	Scorpio Rising	Sanctuary
53. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson	Bach Cantatas	Nonesuch
54. Fort Lauderdale	Pretty Monsters	Memphis Industries
55. Tom Russell	Modern Art	Hightone
56. Yerba Buena	President Alien	Razor and Tie
57. Bjork	Live Box 1993-2000	One Little Indian
58. Dar Williams	Beauty of the Rain	Razor and Tie
59. Grazyna Auguscik	Past Forward	GMA
60. Over the Rhine	Ohio	Back Porch
61. Tribalistas	Tribalistas	Blue Note
62. Lizzie West	Holy Road	Warner Bros.
63. Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros	Streetcore	Hellcat
64. Bottle Rockets	Blue Sky	Sanctuary
65. Black Box Recorder	Passionata	One Little Indian
66. Mogwai	Happy Songs for Happy People	Matador
67. Wheat	Per Second, Per Second, Every Second	Aware
68. British Sea Power	The Decline and Fall	Rough Trade
69. Belle and Sebastian	Dear Catastrophe Waitress	Sanctuary
70. Ruth Gerson	Wake to Echo	Near Mint
71. Maurice Rugebregt	Sioh Maluku: Nostalgia for the Moluccas	Radio Netherlands
72. Incredible Moses Leroy	Become the Soft Lightes	I Music
73. Flaming Lips	Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell	Warner Bros.
74. David Rovics	Return	Ever Reviled
75. Tindersticks	Waiting for the Moon	Beggars Banquet
76. International Noise Conspiracy	Bigger Cages, Longer Chains	Epitaph
77. Michael Franti and Spearhead	Everyone Deserves Music	I Music
78. Paul Brill	Sisters	Scarlet Shame
79. Thea Gilmore	Avalanche	Compass
80. Cracker	Countrysides	I Music
81. Yo La Tengo	Summer Sun	Matador
82. Susheela Raman	Love Trap	Narada
83. Kate Campbell	Monuments	Large River
84. Laika	Wherever I Am I Am What I Am Missing	Too Pure
85. Amy Rigby	Til the Wheels Fall Off	Signature Sounds
86. Serart	Serart	Colombia
87. Doug Wamble	Country Libations	Marsalis Music
88. Carla Bley	Looking for America	Watt
89. Mark Lanegan Band	Here Comes That Weird Chill	Beggars Banquet
90. Wayfaring Strangers	This Train	Rounder
91. Josh Rouse	1972	Ryko
92. Hem	Rabbit Songs	Dreamworks
93. Lamb	What Sound Deluxe	Koch
94. Sex Mob	Dime Grind Palace	Rope a Dope
95. Les Nubians	One Step Forward	Omtown
96. Debashish Bhattacharya and Bob Brozman	Mahima	Riverboat
97. Bangles	It's a Doll Revolution	Koch
98. Asylum Street Spankers	Favorite Record	Bloodshot
99. Eastmountainsouth	Eastmountainsouth	Dreamworks
100. Tony Allen	Home Cooking	Narada