NME Albums of the Decade

[deaths_friend]

1. The Strokes – Is This It

2. Libertines – Up The Bracket

3. Primal Scream – Xtrmnatr

4. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say 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 – Funereal

8. Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights

9. The Streets – Original Pirate Material

10. Radiohead – In Rainbows

11. Lcd Sound System – Sounds Of Silver

12. At The Drive In – Relationship Of Command

13. The Shins – Wincing The Night Away

14. Radiohead – Kid A

15. Queens Of The Stoneage – 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. Spiritualized - 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. The Avalanches - Since I Left You

46. Delgados - The Great Eastern

47. Brendan Benson - Lapalco

48. The Walkmen - Bows And Arrows

49. Muse - Absolution

50. Mia - Arular

51. The Good The Bad And The Queen

52. Rufus Wainwright - Poses

53. Jamie T - Panic Prevention

54. The Golden Virgins - Songs Of Praise

55. Hard-Fi - Stars Of Cctv

56. My Morning Jacket - Z

57. Outkast - Stankonia

58. Liars - Drum's Not Dead

59. The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America

60. Green Day - American Idiot

61. The National - Alligator

62. Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R

63. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

64. The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters

65. Muse - Black Holes And Revelations

66. Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling

67. Botch - We Are The Romans

68. The Horrors - Primary Colours

69. Biffy Clyro - Puzzle

70. Glasvegas - Glasvegas

71. Brian Wilson - Smile

72. Mia - Kala

73. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

74. Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me

75. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow

76. Capdown - Civil Disobedients

77. Isobel Campbell - Ballad Of The Broken Seas

78. Belle & Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant

79. Kings Of Leon - Youth And Young Manhood

80. Danger Mouse - The Grey Album

81. Field Music - Field Music

82. Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas

83. Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim

84. Regina Spector - Soviet Kitsch

85. Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me

86. The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead

87. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

88. Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go

89. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight

90. Gallows - Orchestra Of Wolves

91. Les Savy Fav - Let’s Stay Friends

92. The Sleepy Jackson - Lovers

93. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

94. Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - Horse Of The Dog

95. Bjork - Vespertine

96. Shellac - Excellent

97. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun

98. Gorillaz - Demon Days

99. The Maccabees - Colour It In

100. Mgmt - Oracular Spectacular

[Guest howyousawtheworld]

Pure shit list.

[mc_squared]

Pure shit list.

 

Definitely.

 

NME = Non Music Entity.:rolleyes:

[deaths_friend]

i wish this forum could filter out pointless non-sensical comments the same way it censors offensive words.

 

but to the point of the thread. almost very impressed by the list. they have all the best albums there maybe not in the order i would like but at least they are recognised. and good to see a magazine that doesnt hesitate in having a band multiple times near the top of their lists when they deserve it. coldplay fans dont feel angry, the only reason they didnt make this list is because they are commercially successful not because of the quality of their music.

[mc_squared]

i wish this forum could filter out pointless non-sensical comments the same way it censors offensive words.

 

If it did that, the board would die.:lol:

 

but to the point of the thread. almost very impressed by the list. they have all the best albums there maybe not in the order i would like but at least they are recognised. and good to see a magazine that doesnt hesitate in having a band multiple times near the top of their lists when they deserve it. coldplay fans dont feel angry, the only reason they didnt make this list is because they are commercially successful not because of the quality of their music.

 

Well I disagree. That list seems very iffy to me.:dozey:

[mc_squared]

i wish this forum could filter out pointless non-sensical comments the same way it censors offensive words.

 

If it did that, the board would die.:lol:

 

but to the point of the thread. almost very impressed by the list. they have all the best albums there maybe not in the order i would like but at least they are recognised. and good to see a magazine that doesnt hesitate in having a band multiple times near the top of their lists when they deserve it. coldplay fans dont feel angry, the only reason they didnt make this list is because they are commercially successful not because of the quality of their music.

 

Well I disagree. That list seems very iffy to me.:dozey:

The Libertines, Dizzee Rascal and Babyshambles? What planet are these people on?:stunned:

[Julie]

This list is called NME Albums of the Decade not Mark's Albums of the Decade.

[mc_squared]

This list is called NME Albums of the Decade not Mark's Albums of the Decade.

 

Or the thread creator's or yours, either, so butt out.:smug:

Anyway, as I said - NME = Non Music Entity.:rolleyes:

 

The simple fact is that any such list that doesn't include any Coldplay albums cannot be taken seriously in any shape or form.;)

[Guest howyousawtheworld]

Libertines in 2nd? NME shite list indeed. All they care about is 'bad boys in British rock.... YEAHHH!' Dickheads.

[mc_squared]

Libertines in 2nd? NME shite list indeed. All they care about is 'bad boys in British rock.... YEAHHH!' Dickheads.

 

Well said!!:cool:

NME is truly the NME of the music state, so it's aptly named!!:lol:

[deaths_friend]

Libertines in 2nd? NME shite list indeed. All they care about is 'bad boys in British rock.... YEAHHH!' Dickheads.

 

you dont get badder boys than Karen O and PJ Harvey.

[Space Cadet]

That's actually a surprisingly good list overall, if you look at the details rather than the top ten.

 

Of course it's an NME list, so of course NME bands are going to rank unfairly high. Almost anyone could have predicted the Libertines, the Strokes and the Arctic Monkeys before looking at this. Those are the bands that defined the magazines whole view of the decade.

 

But look at all the other stuff that made it. Some great stuff made the cut too, and I bet you aren't going to see most of it on more mainstream-oriented lists. Forgetting the obvious, this is a list that reminds me how cool some of the decade has been. :nice:

[mc_squared]

That's actually a surprisingly good list overall, if you look at the details rather than the top ten.

 

Of course it's an NME list, so of course NME bands are going to rank unfairly high. Almost anyone could have predicted the Libertines, the Strokes and the Arctic Monkeys before looking at this. Those are the bands that defined the magazines whole view of the decade.

 

But look at all the other stuff that made it. Some great stuff made the cut too, and I bet you aren't going to see most of it on more mainstream-oriented lists. Forgetting the obvious, this is a list that reminds me how cool some of the decade has been. :nice:

 

I still say it's unfairly biased and misleading when it fails to include any album by Coldplay, Travis, Keane and Snow Patrol in the top 100. Quite frankly, it's a joke.:angry:

[mc_squared]

you dont get badder boys than Karen O and PJ Harvey.

 

Who?:dozey:

[Violet]

I still say it's unfairly biased and misleading when it fails to include any album by Coldplay, Travis, Keane and Snow Patrol in the top 100. Quite frankly, it's a joke.:angry:

 

This.

 

Also, I don't see how "Black Holes and Revelations" made the list, but NOT "Origin of Symmetry." OoS is sooo much better.

[deaths_friend]

That's actually a surprisingly good list overall, if you look at the details rather than the top ten.

 

Of course it's an NME list, so of course NME bands are going to rank unfairly high. Almost anyone could have predicted the Libertines, the Strokes and the Arctic Monkeys before looking at this. Those are the bands that defined the magazines whole view of the decade.

 

But look at all the other stuff that made it. Some great stuff made the cut too, and I bet you aren't going to see most of it on more mainstream-oriented lists. Forgetting the obvious, this is a list that reminds me how cool some of the decade has been. :nice:

 

yeah well said. thats the only real criticism i have of this list, it is rather predictable. i've been surprisingly pleased with some of the album of the decade lists that have come out of late. my favourite so far would have to be the list that Paste Magazine compiled.

[Space Cadet]

I still say it's unfairly biased and misleading when it fails to include any album by Coldplay, Travis, Keane and Snow Patrol in the top 100. Quite frankly, it's a joke.:angry:

Yes... but that in itself is a reflection of the decade in a way- it's the decade that the music world fractured into radically different music groups, and the champion of each group is going to make a certain type of list. Pitchfork made one kind of list full of Pitchfork-y albums. Rolling Stone made or will make another kind of list. Each gives a view of their subset through the decade.

 

So the NME left off that type of album. That was a distinct category of music that isn't really part of their world view. *shrug* If that kind of music had had it's champion we would have had a list dominated by it.

 

I'm just glad they never came up with a name for it. Someone really should have. Any other decade they would have. But then it would have been "eww I don't like that kind of music. anyone who likes that kind of music should die." See emo- if we had just kept calling it pop-punk, people would have strongly disliked it, but they wouldn't have had a compact target for hatred like with emo. Without a name, it was like throwing darts at a moving board. They hated it but couldn't really come up with a 'thing' to aim at, and as a result others let it slip into 'cool' lists because it wasn't categorized as something they weren't allowed to like any more.

 

The downside is that without a name that culture stream never really developed a core to hold it together either. It was more just understood- if you like Keane you'll probably like Travis too.

 

But that's exactly why this board needs it's own albums of the decade list.

 

Who?:dozey:

And there's your problem right there. :P

[mc_squared]

 

But that's exactly why this board needs it's own albums of the decade list.

 

 

Excellent idea. It would certainly be far more representative than that NME list!:smug:

[Lore]

That's actually a surprisingly good list overall, if you look at the details rather than the top ten.

 

Of course it's an NME list, so of course NME bands are going to rank unfairly high. Almost anyone could have predicted the Libertines, the Strokes and the Arctic Monkeys before looking at this. Those are the bands that defined the magazines whole view of the decade.

 

But look at all the other stuff that made it. Some great stuff made the cut too, and I bet you aren't going to see most of it on more mainstream-oriented lists. Forgetting the obvious, this is a list that reminds me how cool some of the decade has been. :nice:

 

exactly!

 

what a great decade, but I bet any young people from a certain decade would say the same :P

 

who cares if it's biased? it's just a NME ranking

 

 

I bet some people would be happy only if the top 4 were the 4 coldplay albums...

 

 

my thoughts when I saw the list were:

 

aww The Libertines are very high :heart:, but the self titled album is higher than Up the Bracket on my list

 

where is AROBTTH?

 

Is This It is great! :thumbsup:

[Space Cadet]

Excellent idea. It would certainly be far more representative than that NME list!:smug:

There's one on it's way... we've got it all lined up for when they yearly list finishes.

[mc_squared]

 

where is AROBTTH?

 

I think you're now contradicting yourself, as you've hit the nail on "the head" right there.:rolleyes:

That's exactly why this list has no credibility whatsoever.:dozey:

[Lore]

I'm not contradicting myself, I said that it's is just a list, I wonder where's AROBTTH but I don't care if it's not there

[mc_squared]

I'm not contradicting myself, I said that it's is just a list, I wonder where's AROBTTH but I don't care if it's not there

 

Well if you've got any modicum of sense at all, you should, or it's a betrayal of Coldplay.:rolleyes:

[Lore]

ohhh betrayal! :lol:

 

who cares Mark, it's just a list! get over it. A random ranking won't change my opinion about the music I enjoy.

[mc_squared]

ohhh betrayal! :lol:

 

who cares Mark, it's just a list! get over it. A random ranking won't change my opinion about the music I enjoy.

 

I don't think there's anything random about that list - that's the problem!:dozey: