Can you believe ten years have passed since Finding Nemo went on the big screen? Or when Blink released their last album before breaking up? I mean, as cliché as it sounds, we're getting old, but our music is here to grow up with us. This time I'll bring you ten albums released on two thousand and three, which I consider to be the ones that made a bigger impact on me, and on the music scene as well. 


10. Everything Is Beautiful When You Don't Look Down by Glasseater

Release Date: August 26th, 2003
This record happens to be sort of underground, but let me tell you that it is one of the best things music delivered to listeners in the last couple of decades. It is punk rock fuzed with post hardcore creating a completely original sound, which is also the base of the whole "nu-emo/screamo" scene (Alesana, From First To Last, and A Skylit Drive, for instance). Just listening to the first song on the album you'll instantly fall in love with the record. The drummer is a goddamn genius and the lyrics are brilliant.

9. Before Everything & After by MxPx

Release Date: September 16th, 2003
Legendary punk rock band MxPx released Before Everything & After this year, which happens to be one their most emotional releases on their whole rooster. They take a new spin lyrically on this record. Mike Herrera proves that he is a total genius for what he does. 

8. Ocean Avenue by Yellowcard

Release Date: July 22nd, 2003
After releasing three full-lengths, Yellowcard take a different approach with this album. The quality production of the album is completely outstanding, the lyrics are more profound, the power in the record is something that, until today, remains intact.

7. The War On Errorism by NOFX

Release Date: May 6th, 2003
A political record that still makes sense ten years after its release. Regardless what everyones says about Fat Mike, for me he is an utter genius. This record just proves how great Liberal Animation would've been with decent production.

6. Give Up by The Postal Service

Release Date: February 19th, 2003
The supergroup The Postal Service released what is probably one of the best albums in history that contain the use of synthesizers. This has to be the record (or one of), that started the whole electro-indie scene (MGMT and Empire Of The Sun, for instance). The lyrics are mere poetry, the timing is perfect. This is overall an outstanding record.

5. Think Tank by Blur

Release Date: May 5th, 2003
Well, the whole concept of this album is what is great. Starting off by the artwork, which is made by the widely acclaimed street artist Banksy. The songs take a whole different spin on what Blur is. They experimented and created a darker sound, which I personally adored and cherished. This record proves that a band can experiment with new sounds and create a more than perfect album.

4. A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar by Dashboard Confessional

Release Date: July 15th, 2003
This is probably one of my favorite albums ever. Chris Carraba is perhaps my third favorite lyricist after Jesse Lacey and Frank Turner. He literally invented what is now a literal boom: acoustic emo/pop music. Bands and artists like Never Shout Never, Grey Gordon, Taylor Swift, Boyce Avenue, FM Static, City Lights, Boys Like Girls, and probably a thousand more owe him everything. This man helped develop the whole scene of what music is for the 21st century.

3. Untitled by Blink-182

Release Date: November 18th, 2003
Being one of my all-time favorite bands, I have to admit this album is my least favorite one; even though that doesn't imply that it isn't perfectly put together. The band took a completely different approach on the whole definition of what writing music is, they do have their pop punk influence on some of their songs, but mostly it's a different sound that perpetually goes throughout the album. The production quality is amazing and given the fact that this was their last record before breaking up, gave it a special place in everyones heart, it's like their goodbye.

2. Take This To Your Grave by Fall Out Boy

Release Date: May 6th, 2003
Fall Out Boy used to be one of the best punk-based bands in the whole scene. They knew how to complement a catchy riff with power chords perfectly, as well as writing the perfect lyrics to match palm muted verses, which left to a bridge made up of a clean bass line. Fall Out Boy released one of the best pop punk albums of whole time, and its name is Take This To Your Grave.

1. Deja Entendu by Brand New

Release Date: June 17th, 2003
Brand New, oh, Brand New released one of the best albums in history. This record is a masterpiece from anywhere you want to analyze it, comprehend it, arrange it, it is utter perfection. Melodically it takes you on the best ride you'll have in your whole life: depression will come, anxiety as well, happiness is a must, sadness is there too, you name it, it made you feel it. Deja Entendu is the definition of music, the definition of what the purpose of life is: to give others life. Ineffable. Comprehends every single definition there exists of perfection. This is the record every hospital should play when a lady is giving birth, this should be the soundtrack of your life, and the melancholic tune you'll listen to while on your deathbed, and when you die- your family will find this record on your nightstand and decide it would be the best thing to play it on your funeral. It marked a generation, it is a generation. It is the concepts we always try to understand but just can't. It is- Deja Entendu.

Honorable Mentions: The Make Yourself At Home EP by The Starting Line, Splinter by The Offspring, Welcome Interstate Managers by Fountains of Wayne, We Didn't Come Here To Die by The Copyrights, Forty Hour Train Back To Penn by The Movielife, Good Mourning by Alkaline Trio, and A Present For Everyone by Busted