NME Albums of the Decade

[brod]

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 – ‘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 – ‘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. 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 – ‘Speakerboxxx/The Love Below’
45. Avalanches – ‘Since I Left You’
46. The Delgados – ‘The Great Eastern’
47. Brendan Benson – ‘Lapalco’
48. The Walkmen – ‘Bows and Arrows’
49. Muse – ‘Absolution’
50. MIA – ‘Arular’

[Magpiespower]

45. Avalanches – ‘Since I Left You’

Great album.

Getts better with every listen.

[brent]

the strokes 'is this it'... One great album imo. Reminds me of being at uni and playing it a lot. Good to see the shins and the streets up there too

[Pseudo]

I have honestly never heard as many as ONE of those albums.

Pseudo's top albums of the noughties in no particular order:

The The - NakedSelf (2000)
Vive La Fete - Nuit Blanche (2004)
Vive La Fete - Jour De Chance (2007)
Client - Command (2009)
Bloomfield - The French Connection (2006)
Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider (2008)
Ladytron - 604 (2001)
Ladytron - Light And Magic (2002)
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me (2002)
Dido - Life For Rent (2003)
Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love (2004)
Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires (2008)
Max Rouen - The Magnetic Wave Of Sound (2007)
The Long Blondes - Couples (2008)
The Presets - Apocalypso (2008)

[Leaping Lindner]

NME = music's answer to the Women's Weekly these days.

[Booney]

I have honestly never heard as many as ONE of those albums.

Pseudo's top albums of the noughties in no particular order:

The The - NakedSelf (2000)
Vive La Fete - Nuit Blanche (2004)
Vive La Fete - Jour De Chance (2007)
Client - Command (2009)
Bloomfield - The French Connection (2006)
Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider (2008)
Ladytron - 604 (2001)
Ladytron - Light And Magic (2002)
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me (2002)
Dido - Life For Rent (2003)
Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love (2004)
Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires (2008)
Max Rouen - The Magnetic Wave Of Sound (2007)
The Long Blondes - Couples (2008)
The Presets - Apocalypso (2008)

A mate if mine played some session music as a drummer for that album....you should be

[zipzap]

I like nearly half of those albums but would count only a few as absolute crackers:
The Strokes – ‘Is This It’
Radiohead – ‘In Rainbows’
Arcade Fire – ‘Funeral’
Interpol – ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’
LCD Soundsystem – ‘Sound Of Silver’
Avalanches – ‘Since I Left You’
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – ‘Show Your Bones’

The Libertines were horribly overrated by mags like the NME I reakon. Primal Scream too.

[Pseudo]

Dido - Life For Rent (2003)

A mate if mine played some session music as a drummer for that album....you should be

That was one of those albums that the missus brought home one day, and played over and over and over until, very much in spite of myself, I ended up liking it

[Leaping Lindner]

I like nearly half of those albums but would count only a few as absolute crackers:
The Strokes – ‘Is This It’
Radiohead – ‘In Rainbows’
Arcade Fire – ‘Funeral’
Interpol – ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’
LCD Soundsystem – ‘Sound Of Silver’
Avalanches – ‘Since I Left You’
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – ‘Show Your Bones’

The Libertines were horribly overrated by mags like the NME I reakon. Primal Scream too.

Interesting that only one Australian album made the cut (The Avalanches) personally i'd have The Drones (Wait by the river..) and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus) in my top 10 of the 00s. Oh yeah and Get Born by Jet

[Pidge]

4. Arctic Monkeys – ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’

Awesome album. Great from start to finish.


Some others that would have to be up there IMO

Franz Ferdinand's self titled album
Karnivool - Themata
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Temper Trap - Conditions
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures

[Dogwatcher]

Avalanches - brilliant.

Jet should definitely be there, I agree

[Booney]

I like nearly half of those albums but would count only a few as absolute crackers:
The Strokes – ‘Is This It’
Radiohead – ‘In Rainbows’
Arcade Fire – ‘Funeral’
Interpol – ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’
LCD Soundsystem – ‘Sound Of Silver’
Avalanches – ‘Since I Left You’
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – ‘Show Your Bones’

The Libertines were horribly overrated by mags like the NME I reakon. Primal Scream too.

Interesting that only one Australian album made the cut (The Avalanches) personally i'd have The Drones (Wait by the river..) and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus) in my top 10 of the 00s. Oh yeah and Get Born by Jet

A timeless classic.

[Q.]

From that list, QOTSA would be top for me - cracker of an album.