nme top 50 albums of the decade

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NME's top 50 albums of the decade:

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’

Xavi6

49. Muse – ‘Absolution’

Ahead of OoS? Lol, farce

sweetie

Wilco should be at least 40 places higher!

powerfade

No Kings of Leon is very surprising, 2 unreal albums and 2 very good albums, bringing a fresh sound to the noughties. How its not on the list when you have 2 Streets albums and an MIA album in top 50 is pretty shocking in my opinion...

Dickerty

Kid A doesn't deserve to be that high.

No Sigur Ros?
No Royksopp?
Are they too electro for NME? Avalanches are in there.

No Kings of Leon?

whatawaster

Wincing the Night away the best Shins album? F*ck off.
No Rated R. No Fleet Foxes. Neon Bible???

At least they got number 1 right.

catch--22

As far as I know these were voted for by bands and producers etc....not just the NME staffers.

Melion

No Ian Brown is hilarious really. No problem with number 1 though.

Xavi6

whatawaster wrote: »

At least they got number 1 right.

Melion wrote: »

No problem with number 1 though.

I much prefer 'Room On Fire' tbh

thorbarry

Xavi6 wrote: »

I much prefer 'Room On Fire' tbh

Room on fire is a great album, but you cant beat "is this it"... room on fire for me would be a 9, is this it a 10

0ubliette

Wow, joke of a list. To be expected from NME tho.

whatawaster

Xavi6 wrote: »

I much prefer 'Room On Fire' tbh

Room on Fire is great but there are about 3 songs that let it down. Is This It has 11 classics basically

aDeener

what a terrible decade

homerun_homer

The list is a bit all over the shop but I'm glad to see Interpol's TOTBL in the top 10. I think they could have sacrificed the 2nd Libs album and ones like it for far worthier albums, I think they include it cause they always champion brit bands like them, but Interpol and Muse are more worthy of having a 2nd album on that list than the libs IMO.

Kid V

what a bizarre list. it is however a lot better than what i thought it would be when i initially clicked on this thread. i mean an nme list with no kasabian, oasis, kings of leon or the cribs:eek: very surprising. im not saying they should be but you'd expect them all to be there. it is nme after all

A best of list without the National, Animal Collective and particularly Sigur Rós is ridiculous imo

Aridstarling

Bit ridiculous on the whole, but I am glad to see Relationship of Command there. I haven't really seen it elsewhere which is a crying shame.

Kevin Bacon

Ditto Sigur Ros and the national, no OoS and absolution on it wtf?

Am I the only one who thinks in rainbows should have been top 3 or at least top? Better then up the bracket in my opinion anyway not sure 'bout strokes never really listened to it.

*Puts on to do list

Placid_Casual

All in all, pretty predictable and unimaginative really. Does anyone actually take the NME seriously anymore? I mean The Coral, Klaxons, Babyshambles...really?

As others have pointed out, no Sigur Ros, Animal Collective, The National or Fleet Foxes. Also, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots by Flaming Lips and The Crane Wife by The Decemberists are glaring omissions to me.

Also, if you're going to have Ryan Adams on there, he's had about half a dozen better albums than Gold.

Daysha

No Fleet Foxes.
They found room for two Yeah Yeah Yeahs albums yet left out "It's Blitz".
Not a single Killers album. Not even "Hot Fuss".
"Kid A" is too high, "In Rainbows" is too low.
"Absolution" over "Origin of Symmetry". Seriously?

Yeah, joke list.

Madou

Hang on , In Rainbows above Kid A? Gold on the list and not Heartbreaker? Wilco dragging up the rear? No Bjork or Sigur Ros?

Wincing the Night Away/ Libs s/t...hmmmm, NME, finger - pulse - nahhhh

liah

Where the fúck is Sigur Rós?

event

they have ryan adams at just 40 and they pick gold?

kida

http://swearimnotpaul.blogspot.com/2009/09/list-uncuts-top-150-albums-of-00s.html

150 - Band of Horses Everything All the Time
149 - Ray Lamontagne Trouble
148 - Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
147 - The Acorn Glory Hope Mountain
146 - Richard Thompson Front Parlour Blues
145 - Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days
144 - Robert Wyatt Comicopera
143 - Leonard Cohen Ten New Songs
142 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell
141 - Rahel Unthank and the Winterset The Bairns
140 - Espers Espers II
139 - Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
138 - Wilco Sky Blue Sky
137 - Elliott Smith From a Basement on a Hill
136 - The Strokes Room on Fire
135 - Willard Grant Conspiracy Regard the End
134 - Radiohead Hail to the Thief
133 - Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
132 - Drive-By Truckers Brighter Than Creation's Dark
131 - Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
130 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
129 - Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
128 - Antony and the Johnsons I Am A Bird Now
127 - The Handsome Family In the Air
126 - Neil Young Prairie Wind
125 - The Hold Steady Stay Positive
124 - Brightback Morning Light Brightback Morning Light
123 - Doves The Last Broadcast
122 - Donald Fagen Morph the Cat
121 - Hot Chip The Warning
120 - MGMT Oracular Spectacular
119 - Scritti Politti White Bread, Black Beer
118 - Super Furry Animals Love Kraft
117 - At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
116 - Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
115 - Steven Malkmus & The Jicks Real Emotional Trash
114 - The Raconteurs Consolers of the Lonely
113 - The Shins Chutes Too Narrow
112 - Beirut The Flying Club Cup
111 - Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins Rabbit Furcoat
110 - Steely Dan Everything Must Go
109 - The White Stripes Icky Thump
108 - Comets on Fire Avatar
107 - Paul Westerberg Come Feel Me Tremble
106 - The Go-Betweens The Friends of Rachel Worth
105 - Steely Dan Two Against Nature
104 - Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
103 - Missy Elliott Miss E...So Addictive
102 - The Felice Brothers The Felice Brothers
101 - Neko Case Blacklisted
100 - Jim O'Rourke Insignificance
99 - Babyshambles Down in Albion
98 - The Avalanches Since I Left You
97 - Paul Weller 22 Dreams
96 - Rufus Wainwright Want One
95 - Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump
94 - Devendra Banhart Oh Me Oh My...
93 - The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free
92 - Tom Waits Real Gone
91 - John Cale HoboSapiens
90 - Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, it's Morning
89 - Neil Young Living With War
88 - The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan
87 - Queens of the Stone Age Rated R
86 - PJ Harvey White Chalk
85 - MIA Arular
84 - David Bowie Heathen
83 - Outkast Stankonia
82 - Drive-By Truckers The Dirty South
81 - Okkervil River The Stage Names
80 - Levon Helm Electric Dirt
79 - Kings of Leon Only By the Night
78 - Johnny Cash American III: Solitary Man
77 - Kanye West The College Dropout
76 - Beck Seachange
75 - Gorillaz Demon Days
74 - Elbow Asleep in the Black
73 - Elliott Smith Figure 8
72 - Emmylou Harris Red Dirt Girl
71 - TV on the Radio Dear Science
70 - The Good, The Bad & The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen
69 - Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare
68 - D'Angelo Voodoo
67 - Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther
66 - Jay-Z The Blueprint
65 - Rufus Wainwright Poses
64 - Lift to Experience The Texas-Jerasulem Crossroads
63 - The Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang
62 - Ghostface Killah Fishscale
61 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds The Lyre of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues
60 - Loretta Lynn Van Lear Rose
59 - The White Stripes De Stijl
58 - Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
57 - Robert Wyatt Cukooland
56 - Sonic Youth Murray Street
55 - Bjork Vespertine
54 - Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs
53 - Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights
52 - Dizzee Rascal Boy in Da Corner
51 - Warren Zevon The Wind
50 - Cat Power The Greatest
49 - PJ Harvey Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
48 - Ry Cooder Chavez Ravine
47 - The National Alligator
46 - Drive-By Truckers Souther Rock Opera
45 - Solomon Burke Don't Give Up on Me
44 - The Libertines Up the Bracket
43 - The Streets Original Pirate Material
42 - Richmond Fontaine Post to Wire
41 - Bruce Springsteen Magic
40 - Boards of Canada Geogaddi
39 - Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
38 - Ryan Adams Gold
37 - The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers
36 - Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around
35 - Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
34 - Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
33 - Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
32 - Calexico Feast of Wire
31 - My Morning Jacket It Still Moves
30 - Sufjan Stevens Illinois
29 - Neil Young Chrome Dreams II
28 - Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf
27 - The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America
26 - Lambchop Nixonland
25 - Radiohead Kid A
24 - Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
23 - Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man Out of Season
22 - Blur Think Thank
21 - Joanna Newsom Ys
20 - Amy Winehouse Back to Black
19 - Bruce Springsteen The Rising
18 - Kate Bush Aerial
17 - The White Stripes - Elephant
16 - LCD Soundsytem Sound of Silver
15 - Radiohead In Rainbows
14 - Primal Scream XTRMNTR
13 - Gillian Welch Time (The Revelator)
12 - Portishead Third
11 - The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
10 - Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
9 - Ryan Adams Heartbreaker
8 - Bob Dylan Modern Times
7 - The Arcade Fire Funeral
6 - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raising Sand
5 - The Strokes Is This It
4 - Brian Wilson Smile
3 - Wilco A Ghost is Born
2 - Bob Dylan Love and Theft
1 - The White Stripes White Blood Cells

don't think dylan deserves 2 in top 10 and shocked at portishead being 11

Xavi6

So that list has -

- No Muse
- No Biffy Clyro
- No Death Cab
- No Doves
- 'Alligator' instead of 'Boxer'
- 'Turn On The Bright Lights' at 53
- TWO Dylan albums in the top 10
- FOUR White Stripes albums
- No 'Hot Fuss'
- No 'Robbers & Cowards' (on either list)

These lists really do shit me :mad:

aDeener

a bigger bang by the rolling stones!! thats hilarious now tbh

IronMan

The Libertines are No 2. What a load of ****.

Amazotheamazing

Xavi6 wrote: »

So that list has -

- No Muse
- No Biffy Clyro
- No Death Cab
- No Doves
- 'Alligator' instead of 'Boxer'
- 'Turn On The Bright Lights' at 53
- TWO Dylan albums in the top 10
- FOUR White Stripes albums
- No 'Hot Fuss'
- No 'Robbers & Cowards' (on either list)

These lists really do shit me :mad:

I guarantee that both of those Dylan albums will last a lot longer than most of the stuff on that list. Both are excellent albums.

Birneybau

I really think any of Nick Cave and the Bad Seed's more recent albums should have been up there."Dig!!!Lazarus!!!Dig!!!" and "Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus" are stone cold classics....As is "Grinderman"...

Also,where the fcuk is "Priamry Colours" by the Horrors????

A must have if you aint heard it....

Notorious

That NME list is a load of s****. I suppose that's not a surprise though. Quite a few bands missing that I would've definitely put in; Fleet Foxes, New Order, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and some of the others you folks have said like Oasis and Sigur Rós. How they justify the likes of Amy Winehouse, LCD Soundsystem and Jay Z being in there above the others I don't know.

Sticking with the 50 bands that are in it, the order is completely messed up IMO. Is This It and Up the Bracket are both great albums, but they're definitely not the best of this decade.

insinkerator

Im also disappointed with the lack of Sigur Ros.

While i wouldnt have put it up there, im surpriesde MGMT didnt get the nod, or only by night from KoL

I would also have liked to see a little love for Mogwai - Happy Music for Happy People, and ASIWYFA debut. Two excellent release imo

EDIT: Bon Iver should be on there too

sirmoff

What about: By The Way - Red Hot Chilli Peppers? Maybe its just me but i thought this was one of the biggest/best albums of the decade!

markesmith

Strokes at #1? Never really got them, pretty rich kids, thought it was done a lot better in 1977-79 by Television, The Fall, etc etc. White Stripes should be there or thereabouts, and there's much more innovation in Kid A than in the Strokes entire canon.

Libertines as well, a British version of the Strokes. Primal Scream, Xtrmntr is nowhere near as good as Vanishing Point. Agree with a lot of the rest, but a few duds: Interpol, Shins, Sufjan Stevens (very overrated IMO), Think Tank...

MIA, White Stripes, Wilco, Animal Collective/Panda Bear all criminally underrepresented here, but it's good to see that the NME are still slavishly following their trends! :pac:

KnifeWRENCH

powerfade wrote: »

No Kings of Leon is very surprising, 2 unreal albums and 2 very good albums, bringing a fresh sound to the noughties. How its not on the list when you have 2 Streets albums and an MIA album in top 50 is pretty shocking in my opinion...

Just to comment on M.I.A., I don't think Arular is good enough to be in the top 50 but I'm shocked and disappointed that Kala isn't there. Kala definitely deserves to be in the list.

On top of that, no Kings of Leon, no Nick Cave, no Cat Power, no Sigur Ros, no Bat for Lashes, no Breeders (Mountain Battles beats Last Splash imo) - yeah, the list is a bit disappointing. But with 10 years of music and only 50 spots, there's always going to be great albums that miss out.

In Rainbows should be No.1 though!