http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/nov/1...ecade-noughties

Hmmmm, I don't know whether they're stuck up their own arse or Pete Doherty's to be honest. There's some really bad fare in there, particularly in the top 10, and I can't understand why Elbow's dayboo and worst album by far has managed to overshadow Leaders of the free world.


Synchronised swimming..

The list in full:

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

There's a typo in that there list Panj, where it says '5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell' it should read '5. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy'

And I'd have thought Snow Patrols debut would have made the list and the bleak minimilalism of Kid A to have taken it a tad higher up the chart?

And, and, Interpol's finest was not Turn on the bright lights as mentioned above but their third opus, Our love to admire.

So many things wrong with this list I'm starting to suspect a conspiracy by the three people who reads the NME to wind the likes of me up. What i mean by 'the likes of me' is the more discerning record and music collector who easily gets would up by the three people who read the NME..

no cold war kids?

The Stokes - Is this it, is an amazing album though

Aye, the best act to come out of the potteries and nay mistook!

Vampire Weekend? Really?

It was interesting for a few listens and then sheite.

I don't read the NME....thankfully..!
K.R.O.

Are you a Kerrang man Sid?

There was a similar list in last months Uncut and I think the top album was White Blood Cells by The White Stripes, in fact I think all the White Stripes albums were in the top 25? I think some music magazines favour certain bands hence, ergo thus most of these top whatever lists are extremely biased and a tad conceited.

What the White Stripes do to blues is rather more violent than Rolf Harris' impressions on Art.

Yes, yes and more yes from me Bloopy.

Been there, done that, and it sounded a shit load better back then thanks.

It's sad to see a list of must have albums, and to only only just three.

But then again the NME is a publication for c*nts and I'm ashamed I have as many as three.

He's right ya know.

Will Sheff is a frigging genius.

Strangely the band with the greatest UK sales during this decade isn't on the list.

Coldplay? AROBTTH would certainly be in my top 5 for the decade. But then unlike NME I'm not scared of embracing social stigmas.

Nope.

I'll see you in quiz forum.

I'm more a Parachutes man myself rather than the acronymically title AROBTTH, purely for it's innocence and offhand references to reference books of useful phone numbers..

Mick, I never had you down as a Dizzie rascal man? Word.

Planet Rock and a bit of Kerrang now and again,Absolute Radio is not too bad in the evening,though's its not too good in the day ...
K.R.O.