Here’s a fun masochistic game for list-making junkies: name some of the consensus, indie rockcrit-approved best albums of 2003 that you never actually got around to listening to b/c you were a) trying to lead an actual normal life or b) listening to Hail to the Thief for the 3,758th time (maybe that was just me). Anyway, fess up, hipsters: were you frontin’ on that King Geedorah or did you actually cop that shit? Surely not all of you made it through A Silver Mt Zion? Seriously though, I just quickly scanned the top 20s of my fellow staffers and found quite a few relatively high-profile albums that I never actually heard, and in the interest of full disclosure I thought I would reveal them, so that you all can bask in my ignorance.

M Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent
Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (never cared for ‘em)
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?
Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
Saturday Looks Good to Me - All Your Summer Songs
Soft Pink Truth - Do You Party?
Justin Timberlake - Justified (only heard the singles)
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Twilight Singers - Blackberry Belle
Luomo - The Present Lover (I really do feel bad about this one, Joe’s review really made me want to get it)
Kevin Drumm - Land of Lurches
John Cale - Hobo Sapiens

Let the outrage commence :)