2003 in Music: Preamble

These Precious Things

Instead of waiting until January, I've decided to start posting entries about this year's volley of albums now, and dole them out over the coming days and weeks at no regular interval. As you should know by now, if you've been reading my ramblings with any regularity, I generally gravitate toward alternative, rock, metal. Those sorts of things in nice broad strokes, so if you're expecting some sort of retrospective on what's come out this year in good jazz, or country, or hip hop, you'll have to look somewhere else. Everything I'll be sticking up here will be things that I usually bought myself since I happen to like the artist in question -- or unlike many people these days, bought it for "that song" regardless of whether or not I liked the band.

My only criterion -- which is purely subjective -- is that I had some sort of experience, emotional or otherwise, with it, and do not purport in any way, shape, or form that any lists contained herein are the complete and objective truth, and that if you don't agree with me, you're an absolutely brainless, mouth-breathing heathen. Well, maybe you are anyway, but it's not necessarily because you disagree with me.

Okay, yes, it is because you don't agree with me. You mouth-breathing heathen. No, it isn't. Er...maybe.