Badblood!!! by Gerling
A great album by a great Aussie band 
How could I forget Broken Social Scene? They’re the runner-up, IMO.
lots of good albums here, i’d recomend Ha Ha Sound by Broadcast. great production
Great stuff, but you forgot Shine a Light by The Constantines. That hasn’t left my car CD player for several weeks now.
Non-Canadian picks go to Elephant by The White Stripes and Speakerboxxx/The Love Below by Outkast.
The White Stripes, Elephant - gets another vote for me
Fountains of Wayne, Welcome Interstate Managers - amazing stuff
Have only heard two tracks off of Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, 1 by each member, and loved them both…
Well Elephant and Speakerboxxx/The Love Below are both fantastic. I’m also a fan of Belle and Sebastian’s Dear Catastrophe Waitress and Black Cherry by Goldfrapp.
Plus Fever to Tell by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs has many charms.
Electric Version by the New Pornographers, Hail to the Thief by Radiohead.
Honorable mention to Twilight, by Bôa. Admittedly, it was released back in 2001 (and released in the U.K. as The Race of a Thousand Camels way back in 1998), but I first heard it this year and was absolutely blown away. Apparently, the song “Duvet” is the theme of the anime Serial Experiments Lain, which is how the friend who introduced me to Bôa first heard about the band.
Hop in … there’s plenty of room in the boat. No need to feel bad about it, though.
Hey there, Ruby…still stuck in Bingo, NY, huh? 
Don’t be ashamed of it, though. I could say the same thing, too. It’s a natural by-product of a fragmented music biz and a homogenous national radio structure. Heck, I wouldn’t have even heard about the Pernice Brothers without Internet radio.
I will also put in a vote for Broken Social Scene. More good music coming out of Canada.
Broken Social Scene’s You Forgot it in People was released in 2002, even if nobody heard of it until this year.
Still the best album of the year. 
I’ll second The Constantine’s Shine A Light and, although I haven’t heard the new album, give props to the Weakerthans. Anyone else catch the Constantines/Weakerthans shows? Best rock show I’ve ever been to.
Pearl Jam - Lost Dogs, particularly disc 1. Some really awesome stuff here, their best album in years.
Haven’t listened to much of this year’s crop, but:
Blue Man Group - Complex
Is awesome.
Damien Rice “O”
One of the most emotionally naked records I’ve heard in a long time.
Duke: Actually, I’m not in Bingoland anymore. I’m in Ithaca. Yay Me!
I guess I’m ashamed because I try to be eclectic and I’m certainly open-minded about music. These days, the new music I listen to is almost all hip hop. I would love to hear some of the stuff you guys have posted, and now that I’ve seen the names, I may pick them up, but I don’t have a lot of spare cash and don’t download, so…ah well.
Growl by Ray Wylie Hubbard
Anyone who liked “Car Wheels on A Gravel Road” will like this. The reason that album sounded so good, Gurf Morlix, plays on “Growl”.
And doesn’t play on Lucinda’s two newest, a major contributor to those album’s suck factor.
“Audioslave” from Audioslave. Just an incredible album.
If you haven’t heard it, do yourself a favor and check it out.
Fallen-Evanescence
I’ll have to vote for “Electric Version” by the New Pornographers, with “Fallen” by Evanescence as a runner-up.
Going over my MP3 list, these stand out as releases in 2003 that I liked mucho.
Calexico – Feast of Wire
Cat Power – You are Free
Long Winters – When I Pretend to Fall
Massive Attack – 100th Window – a lot of people dogged this album but I like it.
Pinback – Offcell EP – love these guys…I may be biased.
Tomahawk – Mit Gas
Ween – Quebec
Overall not a great year for music IMO. Not smacking anyone’s opinion, and I’m the only person I know who says so … but I cannot get into that New Pornographers album. Listened 4 or 5x, it just struck me as really boring.
here are my favs:
Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music
Ben Harper - Diamonds on the Inside
Allman Brothers - Hittin’ the Note
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won