Top Songs — 2003
▶ Spotify Playlist2003 was bookended by two of the most significant changes of my life. The year began with me stepping into a new job. At the time, it felt like just another career move, having bounced between roles over the previous three years. Little did I know that this would become my place for the next 20 years, a cornerstone of my professional life. As 2003 drew to a close, my wife Hope found out she was pregnant — with twins. Soon we would be first-time parents of 2 babies! What seemed like a year of just one new beginning quickly turned into something much bigger. These weren't just run-of-the-mill changes; they marked the start of a whole new phase of my life, where commitment and purpose would mean more than ever before. With all that happening, it's fitting that Such Great Heights by Postal Service tops my list of songs from that year. More than just an electro-pop masterpiece, the song embodies the wonder and excitement of a new connection that feels destined. In a year filled with unknowns, possibilities, and a sense of stepping into something bigger, it served as the perfect soundtrack.
1.⭐ The Postal Service — Such Great Heights
2.⭐ Crooked Fingers — Don't Say a Word
3.⭐ Frank Bango — the little tears in Champagne
4.⭐ NOFX — Franco Un-American
5.⭐ The Postal Service — Nothing Better
6.⭐ Keane — Everybody's Changing
7.⭐ Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Maps
8.⭐ Crooked Fingers — Big Darkness
9.⭐ Crooked Fingers — Disappear
10.⭐ The Wrens — Hopeless
11.⭐ Ryan Adams — So Alive
12.⭐ The Fiery Furnaces — Tropical Ice-land
13.⭐ The New Pornographers — The Laws Have Changed
14.⭐ The Postal Service — The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
15.⭐ The Thermals — Back To Gray
16.⭐ Crooked Fingers — You Can Never Leave
17.⭐ t.A.T.u. — Not Gonna Get Us
18.⭐ Belle and Sebastian — If She Wants Me
19.⭐ My Morning Jacket — One Big Holiday
20.⭐ The Raveonettes — That Great Love Sound
21.⭐ The White Stripes — Seven Nation Army
22.⭐ Frank Bango — the lottery pieces
23.⭐ The Thermals — No Culture Icons
24.⭐ Death Cab for Cutie — The Sound Of Settling
25.Daniel Johnston;Mark Linkous — Mountain Top
26.A.R.E. Weapons — Hey World
27.Sufjan Stevens — Vito's Ordination Song
28.Arcade Fire — No Cars Go
29.Outkast — Hey Ya!
30.Death Cab for Cutie — Title and Registration
31.The Radio Dept. — 1995
32.The Strokes — Reptilia
33.The Postal Service — Sleeping In
34.The Brian Jonestown Massacre — When Jokers Attack
35.Crooked Fingers — You Through a Spark
36.Radiohead — 2 + 2 = 5
37.Girls Aloud — No Good Advice
38.The New Pornographers — All For Swinging You Around
39.M. Ward — Outta My Head
40.Crooked Fingers — Angelina
41.The Strokes — 12:51
42.Radiohead — There, There
43.The Dandy Warhols — The Last High
44.The National — Murder Me Rachael
45.Frank Bango — museums
46.Evanescence — My Immortal
47.Death Cab for Cutie — A Lack Of Color
48.Brand New — The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
49.Muse — Time is Running Out
50.Frank Bango — a clear eye for Daisy
51.M83 — Run Into Flowers
52.Fountains Of Wayne — Hey Julie
53.Fruit Bats — When U Love Somebody
54.The Wrens — Faster Gun
55.The New Pornographers — Testament To Youth In Verse
56.Crooked Fingers — Sweet Marie
57.The Decemberists — Song for Myla Goldberg
58.The Thermals — I Know The Pattern
59.The Wrens — This Boy Is Exhausted
60.Pernice Brothers — One Foot in the Grave
61.The Postal Service — We Will Become Silhouettes
62.The Thermals — Brace And Break
63.The Decemberists — Billy Liar
64.Black Rebel Motorcycle Club — Stop
65.Frank Bango — the ugly version
66.The Coral — Pass It On
67.Fountains Of Wayne — Stacy's Mom
68.Jet — Are You Gonna Be My Girl
69.Red Hot Chili Peppers — Fortune Faded
70.The New Pornographers — From Blown Speakers
71.Kanye West — Through The Wire
72.Pretty Girls Make Graves — Something Bigger, Something Brighter
73.John Mayer — Daughters
74.Death Cab for Cutie — The New Year
75.M. Ward — Vincent O'Brien
76.Dashboard Confessional — Hands Down
77.The Knife — Heartbeats
78.Frank Bango — Preston Sturges
79.Girls Aloud — Sound Of The Underground
80.Frank Bango — are you now or have you ever been?