NME has published its 100 albums of the decade with Is This It by the Strokes coming out on top.
The Libertines got the best British album accolade with their debut Up The Bracket coming behind the New Yorkers.
Funeral by Arcade Fire was named the seventh best record with Arctic Monkeys, Primal Scream, Radiohead, the Streets and PJ Harvey making the top ten dominated by British artists. Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Interpol complete the top ten.
The full list can be read in this week’s NME.
What do you make of the list? Anything been criminally overlooked? Or should some not have been included? Let us know below.
Jack Horton
8 months ago
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots? Flaming Lips’ best, I fancy.
Arcade Fire, The Dears, Elbow, Shiny Toy Guns, Julian Casablancas, Muse, Justice, Interpol, Radiohead, Shy Child, Kill Hannah, Metric, TMV, Play Radio Play!, You love her coz she’s dead, And you will know us by the trail of the dead &c.
This is impossible. It would take me a thousand years to come up with anything resembling a decent list.
Chris Sheerin
8 months ago
I would place Funeral higher than This Is It. Haven’t really thought about the album of the decade. So many to choose…
Blinking Lights & Other Revelations by Eels
Plans by Death Cab For Cutie
Awake Is The New Sleep by Ben Lee
Takk by Sigur Ros
The Hawk Is Howling by Mogwai
Gold by Ryan Adams
In Violet Light by The Tragically Hip
Hello Starling by Josh Ritter
100th Window by Massive Attack
I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning by Bright Eyes
Up All Night by Razorlight
Push The Button by The Chemical Brothers
The Remote Part by Idlewild
Fur And Gold by Bat For Lashes
A Hangover You Don’t Deserve by Bowling For Soup
Open Season by British Sea Power
As If Nothing by Craig Armstrong
Avalanche by Thea Gilmore
Asleep In The Back by Elbow
Ghosts by Nine Inch Nails
White Blood Cells by The White Stripes
Echo Park by Feeder
Seventh Tree by Gaoldfrapp
Rabbit Fur Coat by Jenni Lewis & The Watson Twins
Kasabian by Kasabian
The Girl Who Couldn’t Fly by Kate Rusby
Alas I Cannot Swim by Laura Marling
Peaceful The World Lays Me Down by Noah And The Whale
LCD Soundsystem by LCD Soundsystem
Start Something by Lostprophets
We Can Create by Maps
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
We Started Nothing by The Ting Tings
Funeral by Arcade Fire
Just off the top of my head
Jamie Smith
8 months ago
For me, Funeral would be up there with Is This It and Plans by Death Cab.
Holes In The Wall by the Electric Soft Parade, 100 Broken Windows and The Remote Part by Idlewild, The Lost Riots by Hope of the States, O by Damien Rice, Glasvegas by Glasvegas, In Rainbows by Radiohead, Hold On Now, Youngster by Los Campesinos!, Breaking Up by the Research….would all be close.
Chris Sheerin
8 months ago
Yeah I would add The Lost Riots by Hope Of The States. A great band that never happened. Such a tragedy. Also the I Was A Cub Scout album. More lightening in a bottle…
Scott
8 months ago
I love how much effort you put into lists!
Jack Horton
8 months ago
Hope of the States? They do that ‘red, white, and blue’ or something? Violin people? Heh. Whatever happened to them?
Shame Funeral preceded the dross…
Jamie Smith
8 months ago
Yeah they were like a British Arcade Fire, before the Canadians though. They went kaput after a poor second album, but it was the death of one of the band that really fucked them, they were never the same after that.
Jack Horton
8 months ago
From all accounts, probably better than Arcade Fire live…
Eerily they’re from very near to where I am from. Support your local band and all that. Oops.
Chris Sheerin
8 months ago
In response to Hope Of The States…the lead guitarist committed suicide 2 weeks before the release of the debut album. The band never recovered and yes the follow-up is poor.
Looking at the NME list, it smacks of pomp and arrogance yet again. All British music and no international praise. As expected from a music paper that no serious music fan buys any more.
Stephen Milnes
8 months ago
At the risk of looking like pretentious twat, I’d be more inclined to agree with Pitchfork’s summary of the albums of the 2000′s http://pitchfork.com/p2k/
Is This It is good but by no means would it get my number 1. It wouldn’t get in my top 10, probably not even 20. I’m going to go to bed before I get into thinking about my favourite albums of the decade though or I’ll be here working it out until 2019.
Chris Sheerin
8 months ago
Kid A and the worst Sigur Ros album of the decade? At least NME are trying to be serious…
Jeffrey T
8 months ago
Is This It as best album of an entire decade? This could almost be considered an April Fools Joke.