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NME Album Of The Decade
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Is This It, The Strokes' 2001 debut. Discuss... |
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I can't be bothered, is this it is utterly irrelevent. Boring band, boring musical output.
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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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Bloc Party's "Silent Alarm" would probably be my choice, though "Is This It" is a pretty fair choice.
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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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Bloc Party's "Silent Alarm" would probably be my choice, though "Is This It" is a pretty fair choice.
![]() but i can see the reasoning behind 'is this it' being chosen, it started everything off for me. |
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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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Is This It, The Strokes' 2001 debut. Discuss... Would have picked Radioheads Kid a or In Rainbows, Muse's Black Holes & Revelations or The Resistance myself. |
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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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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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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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about right with the number 1 although i might have had up the bracket there instead
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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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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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no kings of leon in there! I thought their earlier work deserved a mention at least.
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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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Surprised that The Killers' HOT FUSS isn't in there either.
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And Franz's debut
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And one final one!.. Where is AMERICAN IDIOT??!?!!
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no red hot chilli peppers or foo fighters either!
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Where's the Cheeky Girls' Party Time
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Why don't their choices directly correspond with mine???????
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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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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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I don't have any of that 50.
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Wouldn't be my choice; Id pick Origin of Symmetry or Kid A
