NME 50 Top Albums Of The Decade....

[jack123]

1. The Strokes – 'Is This It'
2. The Libertines – 'Up The Bracket'
3. Primal Scream – 'XTRMNTR'
4. Arctic Monkeys – 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not'
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – 'Fever To Tell'
6. PJ Harvey – 'Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea'
7. Arcade Fire – 'Funeral'
8. Interpol – 'Turn On The Bright Lights'
9. The Streets – 'Original Pirate Material'
10. Radiohead – 'In Rainbows'
11. At The Drive In – 'Relationship Of Command'
12. LCD Soundsystem – 'Sound Of Silver'
13. The Shins – 'Wincing The Night Away'
14. Radiohead – 'Kid A'
15. Queens Of The Stone Age – 'Songs For The Deaf'
16. The Streets – 'A Grand Don't Come For Free'
17. Sufjan Stevens – 'Illinois'
18. The White Stripes – 'Elephant'
19. The White Stripes – 'White Blood Cells'
20. Blur – 'Think Tank'
21. The Coral – 'The Coral'
22. Jay-Z – 'The Blueprint'
23. Klaxons – 'Myths Of The Near Future'
24. The Libertines – 'The Libertines'
25. The Rapture – 'Echoes'
26. Dizzee Rascal – 'Boy in Da Corner'
27. Amy Winehouse – 'Back To Black'
28. Johnny Cash – 'The Man Comes Around'
29. Super Furry Animals – 'Rings Around The World'
30. Elbow – 'Asleep In The Back'
31. Bright Eyes – 'I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning'
32. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – 'Show Your Bones'
33. Arcade Fire – 'Neon Bible'
34. Grandaddy – 'The Sophtware Slump'
35. Babyshambles – 'Down In Albion'
36. Spirtualized – 'Let it Come Down'
37. The Knife – 'Silent Shout'
38. Bloc Party – 'Silent Alarm'
39. Crystal Castles – 'Crystal Castles'
40. Ryan Adams – 'Gold'
41. Wild Beasts – 'Two Dancers'
42. Vampire Weekend – 'Vampire Weekend'
43. Wilco – 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'
44. Outkast – 'Speakerboxxx/The Love Below'
45. Avalanches – 'Since I Left You'
46. The Delgados – 'The Great Eastern'
47. Brendan Benson – 'Lapalco'
48. The Walkmen – 'Bows and Arrows'
49. Muse – 'Absolution'
50. MIA – 'Arular'

Agree? Disagree? Think You can come up with a better Top 10?

 

[BigSwede]

Half of the names on that list is completely unknown to me and I haven't heard the rest of them.
Except for Johnny Cash.
And MIA is a hardcorepunk band from the 80s.

 

[BlueBalls]

Not a fan of the NME or this list by the looks of it. I actually quite like the #1 album although I don't think I would give it that rank and I also like a few of the others. But 2 Streets albums in the top 20? :wtf: Something is wrong in the land of the NME me thinks.

It also goes to show you just how narrow a field of music the NME actually listens to. There's also a lot of favouritism being shown here. I'm surprised Pete Docherty isn't number one (he's #2 but still). I would have put money on him being their number one choice for anything of everything ever - he's the NME's golden boy after all.

But no one is going to agree with this list completely because music is subjective. No list is going to meet everyone's standards.

 

[minidog]

what a pile of shite

 

[jack123]

Not a fan of the NME or this list by the looks of it. I actually quite like the #1 album although I don't think I would give it that rank and I also like a few of the others. But 2 Streets albums in the top 20? :wtf: Something is wrong in the land of the NME me thinks.

It also goes to show you just how narrow a field of music the NME actually listens to. There's also a lot of favouritism being shown here. I'm surprised Pete Docherty isn't number one (he's #2 but still). I would have put money on him being their number one choice for anything of everything ever - he's the NME's golden boy after all.

But no one is going to agree with this list completely because music is subjective. No list is going to meet everyone's standards.

I'm quite suprised at some omissions. franz Ferdinand could do no wrong at NME for quite some time and not even their debut, a very good lbum and an influential one if you listen to it now isnt even there

 

[jack123]

I'll get this started with my top ten:

1. Radiohead- Kid A
2. Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I Am, Thats What I'm Not
3.Bob Dylan- Love And Theft
4. Bright Eyes- I'm Wide Awake, Its Morning
5. Ryan Adams- Gold
6. TV On The Radio- Return To Cookie Mountain
7. Radiohead- Hail To The Thief
8. The Libertines- Up The Bracket
9. Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavillion
10 Radiohead- In Rainbows

Feel free to tear that list apart!

 

[Neutron66]

Not one CLUTCH album on the list.

Therefore the list = fail.

 

[BlueBalls]

I'm quite suprised at some omissions. franz Ferdinand could do no wrong at NME for quite some time and not even their debut, a very good lbum and an influential one if you listen to it now isnt even there

Well they had to shove in both Streets albums so what do you expect.

Not a fan of Franz Ferdinand. I would have liked to have seen Nick Cave or Tom Waits get a little recognition. They've both put out great albums in the past 10 years.

 

[jack123]

Well they had to shove in both Streets albums so what do you expect.

Not a fan of Franz Ferdinand. I would have liked to have seen Nick Cave or Tom Waits get a little recognition. They've both put out great albums in the past 10 years.

Agree with Tom Waits, Mule Variations has got to rank among his best albums and I listen to Real Gone regularly too. Some recognitions for his Orphans collection wouldnt go amis, its an immense volume of work.

 

[BlueBalls]

Agree with Tom Waits, Mule Variations has got to rank among his best albums and I listen to Real Gone regularly too. Some recognitions for his Orphans collection wouldnt go amis, its an immense volume of work.

Those plus Alice and to a lesser extent Blood Money. Both are excellent albums in my opinion.

 

[Spleen]

Not one CLUTCH album on the list.

Therefore the list = fail.

Yeah, stick Robot Hive/Exodus on that list.

But as soon as I saw NME in the title I knew I would disagree with most of it.

 

[jack123]

Those plus Alice and to a lesser extent Blood Money. Both are excellent albums in my opinion.

Both great albums but I always feel like i'm not getting the full experience having not seen the stage productions they were written for.

 

[alexpnz]

:rofl: NO Oasis!?

 

[Spleen]

:rofl: NO Oasis!?

I think NME put this whole list together just to piss the boys off.

 

[Patrick_S]

It´s not exactly a big surprise that a top list form NME is full of mediocre and overrated indie/alternative bands.

 

[HeartBroker]

what a pile of shite

Thank you mini, I was a bit reticent to say just that!

 

[DJCowboy]

I'll get this started with my top ten:

1. Radiohead- Kid A
2. Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I Am, Thats What I'm Not
3.Bob Dylan- Love And Theft
4. Bright Eyes- I'm Wide Awake, Its Morning
5. Ryan Adams- Gold
6. TV On The Radio- Return To Cookie Mountain
7. Radiohead- Hail To The Thief
8. The Libertines- Up The Bracket
9. Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavillion
10 Radiohead- In Rainbows

Feel free to tear that list apart!

I like your list much better. Although, I have always considered Kid A and Amnesiac to be a double disc album because they are so similar in sound (I think they were actually suppose to be one album originally)

The Strokes are good but in no way does that album deserve #1 for the last decade.

I would also include Sigur Ros - Takk..., Iron and Wine - Shepherd's Dog, Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely, White Stripes - Icky Thump and almost everyone of their other albums, Jay-Z - The Black Album, Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News and Moon and Antarctica, oh and Beck - The Information and Guero
There's probably more I just can't think of at the moment

And MIA is a hardcorepunk band from the 80s.

They're referring to the other MIA which does that one song Paper Planes and some other. They're alright

 

[jack123]

I think NME put this whole list together just to piss the boys off.

Not sure about that, its only from 2000, which album would you pick? Heathen Chemistry? Don't Believe The Truth? Dig Out Your Soul? One or two decent tracks on each album, but overall mediocre at best.

 

[alexpnz]

Not sure about that, its only from 2000, which album would you pick? Heathen Chemistry? Don't Believe The Truth? Dig Out Your Soul? One or two decent tracks on each album, but overall mediocre at best.

Good point but DBTT and DOYS, although not their best work, are light years better than 90% of that shithead list....im sorry! :2 cents:
Blur??!? :rofl:

 

[jack123]

Good point but DBTT and DOYS, although not their best work, are light years better than 90% of that shithead list....im sorry! :2 cents:
Blur??!? :rofl:

No problems having a go at NME, I disagree with most of it, just put it up to get peoples views and maybe a few top 10s off them (whats yours). Still dont think Oasis did enough in the last 10 years, if you take them as stand alone albums without knowledge of DM or WTSMG then theyre nothing to write home about, just really derivative stuff- if i want to listen to something that sounds like the beatles, i'll listen to the beatles, if i fancy something that sounds like 60s psychadelia, then i'll go to the source....