  Assuming you do have plenty of disposable income available, and you're not planning for expensive weddings / just bought a car / house, buy these: 20. Lagwagon - Blaze It's probably going to be their last album. Shit. Best song: Burn 19. Less Than Jake - Anthem The Science Of Selling Yourself Short is my favourite song of the year. The video's great, too.
Best song: The Science Of Selling Yourself Short 18. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief There's still a fair heap o' shite on this album, but it deserves inclusion if only for the fact that Jonny Greenwood is back playing guitar like a mentalist, and Phil Selway actually has something to do other than go "That's some nice drum programming, guys. I'm off to the off license". Best song: Go To Sleep 17. Anti-Flag - The Terror State Sure, the lyrics read like an 8th grader's guide to Why You Should Hate George W Bush, but the music rocks, there's no denyin'. Best song: Turncoat 16.
Rancid - Indestructable Like every Rancid album mixed up with a blender and spat out. There's only one shit song on it out of 19 as well. Best song: Red Hot Moon 15. 50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin' You love it too. Best song: Many Men (Wish Death) 14. Rise Against - Revolutions Per Minute Shouty.
Best song: Heaven Knows 13. Blink-182 - Blink-182 If you bet 3 years ago that you'd see a Blink 182 album with Robert Smith on it, a DJ-Shadow style song and Joanne Whalley reading some old World War 2 love letters, then you'd probably be cleaning up now. Best song: Stockholm Sydrome 12. Cave In - Antenna If there's one band that deserved your attention in 2003, it was Cave In. But you didn't even give 'em the time of day. You ignorant bastard.
Best song: Inspire . Rokken! 11. Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar Get past the whine and this is a fine, fine rock album. Best song: Hands Down 10. Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning My sister's got their logo as a tattoo.
I made do with buying their albums instead. Why don't you too? They're all great. Best song: Emma 9. The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium Afro-haired blokes from At The Drive In start a band, add plenty of wanky guitar parts and long instrumental bits, and this is what comes out at the end. Best song: the third one.
I forget what it's called. 8. AFI - Sing The Sorrow Davey Havok may look like a girl now, but don't let that put you off. Produced by Butch Vig, this was. Best song: Death Of Seasons 8 (I forgot this one, but couldn't be arsed to change the numbers). The Darkness - Permission To Land You know it's great already.
Best song: Get Your Hands Off My Woman 7. Outkast - Speakerboxxx / The Love Below 2 albums for the price of one. One is damn good hip-hop, the other is weird sex-funk. Probably great to shag to. I ain't tried it yet. Best song: Hey Ya!
6. Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue They're a punk band with a full-time violin player. Kind of like The Corrs meet Blink 182. No, because that would be shit. Best song: Breathing 5. NOFX - The War On Errorism I told you about this already.
Best song: Regaining Unconsciousness 4. The Lawrence Arms - The Greatest Story Ever Told All the best bands have 2 singers. Blink 182, Rancid, Yellowcard, Outkast, Alkaline Trio, Anti-Flag, Less Than Jake, The Blood Brothers, and The Lawrence Arms. Wow, a lot of bands have 2 singers. That's probably where Monssfisch went wrong. We should never have stripped Matty of his mic.
Best song: On With The Show 3. Thrice - The Artist In The Ambulance Good Lord, this rocks. Best song: Paper Tigers 2. Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb As does this, but in a very different way. Best song: Point / Counterpoint 1. The Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island, Burn!!!
If you imagine At The Drive In had an epileptic fit on stage, but instead of helping them, the paramedics and crowd just started dancing, screaming and generally rocking out, it's a bit like this album. Best song: Fucking's Greatest Hits 
