2003 Albums of the Year By Clark Benson  [84 more lists]

My original 2003 list was a top 25 which i have pasted below - I decided in this case to rank the full list as I currently (late 2009) feel. Most of the mini-reviews or notes about the records are from the original list.

In retrospect, a solid year of music where most of my faves of the decade really proved themselves (MMJ, DBT, Lucero, KOL, Volta, Twilight Singers, etc)

The Year-End List as it stood at the end of 2003:

1 The Strokes “Room On Fire”
2 White Stripes “Elephant”
3 Radiohead
4 The Mars Volta “De-Loused in the Comatorium”
5 Killing Joke “Killing Joke”
6 Drive-By Truckers “Decoration Day”
7 Neil Young and Crazy Horse “Greendale”
8 My Morning Jacket “It Still Moves”
9 Libertines “Up The Bracket”
10 Ben Harper “Diamonds on the Inside”
11 Black Keys “Thickfreakness”
12 Spiritualized “Amazing Grace”
13 Allman Bros “Hittin the Note”
14 The Darkness “Permission to Land”
15 Cody Chestnutt “The Headphone Masterpiece”
16 Lucinda Williams “World Without Tears”
17 Grandaddy “Sumday”
18 Ministry
19 Entombed “Inferno”
20 Jane's Addiction “Strays”
21 Lucero “That Much Further West”
22 Superjoint Ritual
23 Zwan “Mary Star of the Sea”
24 Joe Strummer “Streetcore”
25 Party Of Helicopters