Room On Fire
by The Strokes

Album
Room On Fire by The Strokes
Year: 2003
Release date: 2003-10-20
Overall rank: 271st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 1,243 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 2003 (4th)
Award Top 50 albums of of the 2000s (41st)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (271st)

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The Strokes bestography

Room On Fire is ranked 2nd best out of 8 albums by The Strokes on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Strokes is Is This It which is ranked number 23 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 26,745.

The Strokes album bestography « Higher ranked (23rd)
Is This It This album (271st)
Room On Fire Lower ranked (280th) »
The New Abnormal

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Room On Fire track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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What Ever Happened?
Average Rating: 88 (342 votes)Comments: View 0
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Reptilia
Average Rating: 91 (504 votes)Comments: View 5
3.
Automatic Stop
Average Rating: 85 (309 votes)Comments: View 1
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12:51
Average Rating: 88 (382 votes)Comments: View 2
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You Talk Way Too Much
Average Rating: 81 (271 votes)Comments: View 1
6.
Between Love & Hate
Average Rating: 80 (266 votes)Comments: View 0
7.
Meet Me In The Bathroom
Average Rating: 80 (263 votes)Comments: View 0
8.
Under Control
Average Rating: 84 (284 votes)Comments: View 0
9.
The Way It Is
Average Rating: 77 (259 votes)Comments: View 1
10.
The End Has No End
Average Rating: 85 (284 votes)Comments: View 0
11.
I Can't Win
Average Rating: 83 (268 votes)Comments: View 1

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Room On Fire rankings

Room On Fire rankings summary
Overall rank: 271st | 2000s rank: 41st | 2003 rank: 4th  Overall chart history
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 !		09/16/2026 23:19 Taka  Ratings distribution  1,09480/100
 
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 !		09/06/2026 15:16 xhitmanx  Ratings distribution  1,60475/100

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.9/100, a mean average of 78.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.


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Room On Fire forum mentions

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From BestEverAlbums 09/25/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5446): By RasmV
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Room On Fire comments

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From 04/26/2016 18:23 | #164628 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Room on Fire is This is It version 2.0

That is what ultimately hurts the legacy of their sophomore effort.

Reptilia is better than anything on Is This It? But the whole album is safe and by the end of it the thinking is basically, "This is great too, but I have heard it before" and

"Okay, but can The Strokes do anything else or is this it?"
(pun intended)

Just as cohesive, just as gut punching. Every second has a purpose. All of this can be said about what came before but it is still fantastic.
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From 06/13/2013 07:32 | #78748 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I have no idea why, but i love this album way more than most people seem to
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From 06/03/2015 00:57 | #142886 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
The room's not the only thing on fire. The album is too.
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From 08/08/2020 22:04 | #256835 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Their third best imo behind Is This It and The New Abnormal. This is loaded with bangers, but a few tracks in the middle are clear filler. Still, it's not terrible filler, it's just not as outstanding as the songs in the beginning and end. I'm feeling a strong eight to a light nine. traaansition.
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From 12/04/2009 06:02 | #7416 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
"What ever happened?" Has to be one of the best songs ever...
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Best Albums of  2003
1. Elephant by The White Stripes
2. Hail To The Thief by Radiohead
3. Absolution by Muse
4. Room On Fire by The Strokes
5. Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins
6. Give Up by The Postal Service
7. The Magnolia Electric Co. by Songs: Ohia
8. Transatlanticism by Death Cab For Cutie
9. De-Loused In The Comatorium by The Mars Volta
10. The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place by Explosions In The Sky