Life for Rent is the second studio album by the British singer-songwriter Dido, released by Arista Records on 29 September 2003, and was produced by her, her brother Rollo and American songwriter Rick Nowels. It was certified 7x Platinum by the BPI; and sold over 12 millions copies worldwide, making it the fourth best selling album worldwide of 2003.
Absolution is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Muse. It was released on 21 September 2003 in the UK and on 23 March 2004 in the U.S. by Taste Music Limited. The album yielded the band's first American hits – "Time Is Running Out" and "Hysteria", the former becoming their first UK Top 10 single. In 2006 it was voted the 21st best British album ever. The album was placed in at #23 after a public vote for Q magazine in February 2008 for the Best British Albums of All Time. In 2009 it was voted by Kerrang! as the second-best album of the 21st century (thus far), coming just behind Green Day's American Idiot and beating albums such as Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park and Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age (Muse's previous album, Origin of Symmetry, and their subsequent release, Black Holes and Revelations, also appeared in the top fifty).
Waking the Fallen is the second album by Avenged Sevenfold, released on August 26, 2003 through Hopeless Records. It is the last release by the band to feature their metalcore sound, although more clean vocals are featured on the album than their debut album, Sounding the Seventh Trumpet. It is also the first album to feature Johnny Christ on bass, thus completeing the band's primary lineup (until The Rev's death in 2009).
The album's B-sides and rarities originate in recording sessions for the band's fourth studio album, Return of Saturn. The first six tracks were used as B-sides for three of the singles released off the album, "Ex-Girlfriend", "Simple Kind of Life" and "Bathwater". Everything in Time also includes a remix of the song "New", also from Return of Saturn, and two remixes of "Rock Steady", the title track from No Doubt's fifth studio album, Rock Steady.
The album received little coverage, not being a studio album, although the publications that did cover it gave average or good reviews, both in the box set Boom Box and its in solo release. It charted on the U.S. Billboard200 album chart at number 182.
V.A A Tribute To Uriah Heep - A Return To Fantasy
(2003)
Evil Dr. Smith: Heeperdepeep, is this finally the very first tribute to a band that’s standing at the fundaments of our beloved music style? After almost 35 years! THAT’S ABOUT GOD DAMN BLOODY TIME! Uriah Heep: the ideal bridge between the symfo-rock of Yes, E.L.P. and Genesis at one bank and the hard rock from Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Sir Lord Baltimore at the other bank. With the almost gay-like ‘oohz’ and ‘aahz’-backing vocals, the compositors brain and organ(ic)-sound from Ken Hensley, the splitting guitar riffs from Mick Box (still in the band!) and of course the characteristic high-pitched, almost nasal voice from David Byron (R.I.P.) the band made with albums like 'Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble', 'Look At Yourself' and 'Demons And Wizards' (ever wondered how ex-Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer and Blind Guardian’s Hansi Kursch came up with their band name?) an impressive collection of legendary and classic melodic hard rock albums. Doomed, despised and buried to the ground by the so-called politically correct music journalism, but loved to the death by huge amounts of fanatical fans.
I won’t bore you by the group’s history, you can read that on several Heep-sites (or in the booklet in this CD). I only want to make clear that this band is more than its one-day fly ‘Easy Livin’’ that everyone who’s older than 12 years must have heard countless of times on every mainstream radio-channel around the world. Heep made other remarkable and immortal songs like ‘The Wizard’, ‘Look At Yourself’, ‘Come Away Melinda’ (this cover ballad is also covered by UFO, but in no way as beautiful as Heep did), ‘Sweet Lorraine’, ‘Echoes in The Dark’ and of course the ultimate Uriah Heep-hymne ‘July Morning’. And all these songs are NOT featured on this tribute, just to emphasise the amount of classic songs (do I smell here a Tribute Volume 2 already?). De bands featured on this album can be mostly classified in the category power metal. And judging the fantasy sleeves on the old Heep albums (and some of them are used on this cut-and-paste-cover) as well as Heep’s flirtations with symphonic sounds in their ancient metal, it’s no wonder that especially this metal genre is holding Heep close to its heart.
Elephunk is the third studio album by American musical band The Black Eyed Peas. Released on June 24, 2003, the album charted at number 14 on the American Billboard 200 albums chart and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, and has sold 8.5 million copies worldwide, with almost 3.2 million in the U.S. alone. The album was produced by Ron Fair and band member will.i.am, and was the first to feature vocalist Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson. Four singles were released from Elephunk, including "Where Is the Love?", which topped the singles charts of over ten countries.