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Old 17-11-2009, 00:10
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/ne...he-decade.html

Is This It, The Strokes' 2001 debut.

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Old 17-11-2009, 01:30
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I can't be bothered, is this it is utterly irrelevent. Boring band, boring musical output.
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Old 17-11-2009, 01:42
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I can't be bothered, is this it is utterly irrelevent. Boring band, boring musical output.

if you "can't be bothered" to enter a discussion, why then go on to give your opinion? if someone replies to your post with their opinion then that becomes a discussion, whether you then go on to say anything else or not.

you're well within your rights to think it's "bland", but even if you don't like it it's hardly irrelevent.
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Old 17-11-2009, 01:53
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Bloc Party's "Silent Alarm" would probably be my choice, though "Is This It" is a pretty fair choice.
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Old 17-11-2009, 02:03
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What did I expect from NME Wouldn't be my choice; Id pick Origin of Symmetry or Kid A
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Old 17-11-2009, 02:12
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Bloc Party's "Silent Alarm" would probably be my choice, though "Is This It" is a pretty fair choice.
'silent alarm' would definitely be in my top 5

but i can see the reasoning behind 'is this it' being chosen, it started everything off for me.
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Old 17-11-2009, 07:49
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NME. Quelle surprise.

If Doherty or Casablancas made a record of belching for 45 mins, they'd make it album of the decade.

This isnt about the best album, its about what is, like, the most achingly trendy album of the decade, yeah?....
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Old 17-11-2009, 07:55
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A terrible album! All style & no substance, but then no great surprise from that shit rag..

Would have picked Radioheads Kid a or In Rainbows, Muse's Black Holes & Revelations or The Resistance myself.
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Old 17-11-2009, 09:03
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What a surprise that yet another NME thread has been hijacked.

If you don't like it, go somewhere else please!!

The Strokes album is seriously good for a debut album but I couldn't find the whole list for some reason so I can't comment on the other 9.
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Old 17-11-2009, 09:20
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I hate the NME and everything it's become (obsession with 'cool' mainly) but Is This It is/was a cracking album. I would probably debate it's place as the best of the decade, but I wouldn't argue with it being up there amongst them.
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Old 17-11-2009, 09:31
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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
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Old 17-11-2009, 10:42
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about right with the number 1 although i might have had up the bracket there instead
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Old 17-11-2009, 11:53
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Bit of a predictable list. Don't agree with the Libertines "Up The Bracket" being that high tho, I preferred their second album. Bloc Party should be MUCH higher

number 1 s a fair choice though... Is This It reinvigorated a genre. and had good tunes. without it bands like Interpol, Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys, The Libertines wouldn't have been as exposed as they were..

personally I'd say Is This It was 4th behind Interpol "Turn On The Bright Lights," "Bloc Party "Silent Alarm" and Radiohead "In Rainbows" though

I agree though that to an extent NME go for the "cool" option which is annoying.
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Old 17-11-2009, 12:04
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I don't get the NME and Uncut's love for 'Turn On The Bright Lights' ahead of 'Antics' and 'Our Love To Admire' (the latter in particular). They're bang on with 'Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea', though.
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Old 17-11-2009, 12:33
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no kings of leon in there! I thought their earlier work deserved a mention at least.
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Old 17-11-2009, 13:04
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I don't get the NME and Uncut's love for 'Turn On The Bright Lights' ahead of 'Antics' and 'Our Love To Admire' (the latter in particular). They're bang on with 'Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea', though.
Antics is great, Our Love to Admire is great (very underrated also) but Turn On The Bright Lights has everything for me, its just perfect. Good to see someone discussing Interpol on here, criminally underrated band.
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Old 17-11-2009, 13:06
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Surprised that The Killers' HOT FUSS isn't in there either.
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Old 17-11-2009, 13:07
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And Franz's debut
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Old 17-11-2009, 13:07
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And one final one!.. Where is AMERICAN IDIOT??!?!!
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Old 17-11-2009, 13:13
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no red hot chilli peppers or foo fighters either!
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Old 17-11-2009, 13:16
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Where's the Cheeky Girls' Party Time
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Old 17-11-2009, 13:23
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Why don't their choices directly correspond with mine???????
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Old 17-11-2009, 13:36
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I only have the Interpol, Muse & Radiohead albums out of that list.

Hard to say what my favourite album of the past decade is. Nothing really stands out. Maybe it's true that downloads are killing the album concept.
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Old 17-11-2009, 13:55
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All in all, it's not a terrible list - one you'd expect the NME to make really. They're catering for their target audience.

Does suffer from some chronic over-ranking and under-ranking depending on who the office faves are - doesn't mean they're not worthy of being on the list but still - In Rainbows, Think Tank, Vampire Weekend better than Absolution by Muse?

Happy to see Wincing The Night Away up there (probably a little too high, but I love the Shins!), it's a clever little album.

EDIT: Oh, and yes, you can't really have a debate about an album of the decade without at least considering Hot Fuss, Franz Ferdinand and American Idiot (which isn't my cup of tea at all, but I can appreciate it's an exceptional effort), so they probably shouldn't have been excluded.
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Old 17-11-2009, 14:16
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I don't have any of that 50.
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