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Last Post 11/17/2009 6:30 PM by  Quint
NME Top 50 albums of the decade
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aidan
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11/17/2009 2:54 AM

    Perhaps no surprise at the gold and silver medal positions but elsewhere some reminders of classics from earlier in the decade (The Avalanches!)

    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 - The 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 - Illinoise
    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. Rapture - Echoes
    26. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
    27. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
    28. Johnny Cash - 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 - Loveboxxx/The Love Below
    45. Avalanches - Since I Left You
    46. Delgados - The Great Eastern
    47. Brendan Benson - Lapalco
    48. Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
    49. Muse - Absolution
    50. MIA - Arular
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    11/17/2009 7:53 AM
    Avalanches - only put the CD on the other day for the first in years. Good to be reminded of some other early decade gems there - Ryan Adams' Gold, Grandaddy's 'Sophtware Slump'.

    No Irish releases in there. Which - I guess - would not have been the case of their "best albums of the 90s" list....
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    11/17/2009 4:50 PM
    Quite frankly if the best the last decade had to offer was 'Is This It' and 'Up The Bracket', then good riddance. Much as there are certainly worthy inclusions here, they've missed out on some shoe-ins....and the placings are daft. Oh and The Klaxons? Grow up!

    No Nick Cave, no Sigur Ros, no Bjork, no Beck, no Modest Mouse, no (Smog)/Bill Callahan, no Daft Punk, no Beta Band....I could go on and on...

    Also surely it's ludicrous to suggest that The Streets, The Libertines, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The White Stripes and Radiohead between them released 20% of the most mind bendingly, spine tinglingly, head fuckingly awesome music of the decade.

    That list just reads like a playlist at any b-rate indie disco on a Saturday night.

    Bloody NME.



    Oh and yes 'Since I Left You' is ace
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    11/17/2009 6:30 PM
    Pretty depressing list. There are literally HUNDREDS of other albums released this decade that are better than most on that list. As for the the list, would agree with the inclusion of The Knife, PJ, MIA, Avalanches, Wilco and Primal Scream 'XTRMTR'. Everything Primal Scream have done since is decidedly underwhelming but that album is brilliant due to the large creative input of Kevin Shields. Lots of bizarre inclusions (well, it the NME after all), the most glaring one is the iclusion of Neon Bible, the abysmal follow-up to the slightly overrated 'Funeral'
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