in general, I have no problem with lists like this. It can make for fun discussion. What I hate is when I hear people spit up opinions taken strictly from music magazines along the lines of NME. In other words, NME naming an album as a top 100 of the decade is in no way empirical evidence that it is. It's just one rags opinion. However, I have seen people shape their entire opinion on an artist/album based purely on what they read in magazine, especially the larger publications. You can tell because it is some tired old viewpoint that you know you've heard elsewhere. Now that bothers me!

 

So what you're saying is, magazines are biased. Therefore they and their lists should be ignored.:smug:

i think we should try and focus on all the good music that did make the list instead of the good music that didn't.

 

Post of the thread!!!! i agree that rush of blood is a blaringly obvious omission. but do we really need someone to tell us that Rush of Blood is one of the best albums of the decade (if not all time as is Parachutes)

 

so the albums they did include. well i only discovered Is This It a few months ago and wow it is an incredible record, it will most certainly feature near the top of my faves list. cant say i know much at all about primal scream or the libertines. couldnt agree more with AM's debut being put up there. it's a shame that NME cant accept that they are changing and becoming better as they get older.

 

a little lower down the list. a little funny to see the two classic White Stripes albums back to back but both deserve their spot if not somewhere a little higher. a little surprised to see vampire weekend there. it was one of my faves from 08 but all this acclaim and attention is starting to make me think that it's slowly becoming a little overrated. biggest surprise for me was to see The Horrors sophomore Primary Colours make it in. that must mean they will be fairly high up the list for their end of year list and thoroughly deserve it too. top notch album

 

i guess i love the list for the arists that have been recognised rather than the albums of theirs that made it, namely Yeah Yeah Yeahs (the quiet achievers of the decade), Arcade Fire (next radiohead in terms of critical acclaim?) Interpol and Radiohead.

I think vampire weekend deserve their spot, I mean it's a pretty orginal sound. God I hope they aren't becoming overrated. PLEASE!!! Oh, and fleet foxes, album of 2008 should have got a look in, methinks.

^ Agree about Fleet Foxes.

 

Did any albums if 2009 make that list?

The Horrors - Primary Colours was 2009 right? Yes.

Well that's where you're wrong.:smug:

 

 

 

As you said, it's a public forum, so I will keep bashing the list as much as I feel like it, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. So stick that in your pipe and smoke it.:lol:

 

You know you should listen to Sara more often, she even tried adding pretty colours to get your attention. Your opinion is not fact. If I say Radiohead is better then Coldplay then that is my opinion, NME didn't think Coldplay deserved a top spot on their list and that is their opinion, you think Coldplay is the best band evar, again that is YOUUUUR opinion.

 

A fact is where something is true and not what other people think. Like If I said this was a Coldplay forum, that would be true therefore making that statement a FACT. Or if I said your username is mc_squared, again that is a FACT.

 

Are you getting it now? (Please don't respond this the way you do with Sara, I want a serious answer)

 

What's the point in continuously bashing a list, I mean come on! Don't you have anything better to do? :lol:

^^

 

look at his post count. that should answer your question.

 

Are you getting it now? (Please don't respond this the way you do with Sara, I want a serious answer)

 

:devil:

The Horrors - Primary Colours was 2009 right? Yes.

 

Gotcha. I haven't listened to that one. Probably why I didn't pick up on it.

I love the new Horrors album, you should give it a listen Briggs!

I was surprised to see Wild Beasts in there ranked so highly.

So what you're saying is, magazines are biased. Therefore they and their lists should be ignored.:smug:

 

No, that's not what I meant.

Mark you're sort of a **** for ignoring me you know that

No Sigur Rós? Both Kid A and In rainbows are too low.... But it's not my list, so instead of complaining I'd rather try to make one for myself, because what a magazine says it's not an universal statement, it's a matter of tastes, not Newton Phyisics laws... But the list is good, I mean it has some good records there, and it's their opinion so it's fun to discuss. I'm glad they did not include Travis, Keane and Snow Patrol.

 

Edit: stupid me I just saw Agaetis Byrjun in the number 97, should have been higher :bigcry:

Btw I just tried those Horrors, man and I'm glad I did! their music is not ugly at all!!

Agaetis Byrjun made #97, ricardo :nice:

Now that I think (finally), it would be really unfair to compare Sigur Rós with the rest... and I disagree about The Streets, but well, I guess it's the style they love (Libertines, Babyshambles, Primal Scream and Strokes are very similar, I do like these <Strokes and Libertines>, though).

And you know another thing that I find funny - How can The Stokes first album be #1 while their second album didn't even make the list? I just don't see that big of a drop off, and I sometimes even prefer Room On Fire.

So what you're saying is, magazines are biased. Therefore they and their lists should be ignored.:smug:

No, it means magazines are biased. Therefore their lists are fun to have civilized debates over.

 

(Civilized meaning capable of acting older than 12 and realizing that their favorite or even the best albums might not be represented. :p ;))

 

I love the new Horrors album, you should give it a listen Briggs!

Wow- was it really that good? They've never made much of an impression on me before...

i think The Strokes have always had a bad relationship with the media. so thats always going to count against them in these sorts of lists. then again NME cant hate them that much if they're going to put them at no.1

 

i do really like this list but the blaringly obvious omission (franz S/T and rush of blood both albums of the year in their respective years) and inconsistencies like the one bjaiken mentioned does detract from its credibility.

 

this list pretty much sums up the stuff NME has been pushing over the last decade and i have no problem with that at all, they've given incredible exposure to some great acts.

^ I don't get the Strokes in general. Everything they do is super catchy, yet it never sounds like disposable pop. You would think that a band that could successfully merge those two ideas would be on top of the world. But it's almost like they are intentionally derailing their own career. Even their last album (which is my least favorite of the 3) should have done better. "You Only Live Once" is, in my opinion, one of the best songs the Strokes have ever done. But it was the third single from the album, and it came out long after all momentum had been lost.

 

Then you see bands like Coldplay and the Killers. Part of their success is due to the fact that they have good songs, but it is almost equally attributable to the fact that they just want to be big.

No, it means magazines are biased. Therefore their lists are fun to have civilized debates over.

 

(Civilized meaning capable of acting older than 12 and realizing that their favorite or even the best albums might not be represented. :p ;))

 

Yes, this is more what I meant.

Oh, and speaking of the Killers, how did Hot Fuss not make it? That album should have been NMEish enough.

Oh, and speaking of the Killers, how did Hot Fuss not make it? That album should have been NMEish enough.

:shocked2::inquisitive:

 

Good point. How did that one not make the list? It was certainly big and influential enough what with forcing the new new wave to go mainstream and all, which is still one of the major forces at the moment...

 

Maybe it had something to do with the feathers? I don't doubt for one moment that it could be something that shallow...:dozey:

I like The Strokes, but best álbum of the decade? No.

I agree that Hot Fuss should have been included.

 

I still don't entirely agree with NME only putting "NME" bands on the list. They paractically have multiple orgasms every time a Cribs record comes on, so come on, tell me why they weren't on the list?

 

If they were shit, then NME have done the right thing and put decent albums on there, not just their own biased love-children.