NME Greatest Albums of the Decade

[METALMAN]

http://www.nme.com/list/the-top-100-greatest-albums-of-the-decade/158049/page/10

It could have been a lot worse to be fair. No Oasis at least.

[New Damage]

I've heard 4 of the albums. One of them I now hate.

[Liam]

Glad to see the two Streets albums, QOTSA and At The Drive-in in the top 20.

Never really liked The Strokes that much outside of a couple of songs, but there are worse lists out there I'm sure.

EDIT: After TMW's comment, thought I'd count how many I had. 19.

I'm sad, I know.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Wahey! I have XTRMNTR, Fever To Tell, Stories From The City and Funeral. I never knew I'd have a 40% ownage of the NME top ten.

Still I'm VERY glad Stories From The City, Stories Fom The Sea made their top ten because frankly it's an astonishingly good album. Really really good.

[K]

I've bought 12/100

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I have:

Gorillaz - Demon Days

Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun

Bjork - Vespertine

Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling

Muse - Absolution

The Knife - Silent Shout

Radiohead - Kid A

Arcade Fire - Funeral

PJ Harvey - Stories From The City...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell

Primal Scream - XTRMNTR

...and they're all rather good. That's 11 so meh...

[Crybaby Bunting]

I'm not l33t enough

[K]

Weird to see Capdown on there. Didn't think that was really the NMEs thing.

[Liam]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 'Clap Your Hands Say Yeah'

Gallows 'Orchestra Of Wolves'

Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan 'Ballad Of The Broken Seas'

Broken Social Scene 'You Forgot It In People'

Biffy Clyro 'Puzzle'

Muse 'Black Holes And Revolutions'

Muse 'Absolution'

Outkast 'Speakerboxxx/The Love Below'

Ryan Adams 'Gold'

Dizzee Rascal 'Boy In Da Corner'

The Libertines 'The Libertines'

Klaxons 'Myths Of The Near Future'

The Streets 'A Grand Don't Come For Free'

Queens Of The Stone Age 'Songs For The Deaf'

Radiohead 'Kid A'

At The Drive-in 'Relationship Of Command'

LCD Soundsystem 'Sound Of Silver'

Arctic Monkeys 'Whatever People Say I Am, I Am Not'

On second count, I get 18. Might have counted the Streets debut, which I like but don't own.

I've also wanted to buy at least a good 15 or so of the others on the list.

EDIT: K, Botch are on there, probably a weirder choice than Capdown

[METALMAN]

Hmmm...

I have:

Oracular Spectacular by mgmt - I don't really like this album.

Agaetis Byrjun by Sigur Ros - I like this album.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah self titled - I quite like this album

Let's Stay Friends by Les Savy Fav - I quite like this album

the Midnight Organ Fight by Frightened Rabbit - I love this album lots

For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Ivor - I quite like this album

Forget the Night Ahead by the twilight sad - I quite like this album

Soviet Kitsch by Regina Spektor - I quite like this album

Alas, I Cannot Swim by Laura Marling - I love this album lots

Youth and Young Manhood by Kings of Leon - I like this album

Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant by Belle & Sebastian - I like this album

Chutes too Narrow by the Shins - I quite like this album

You Forgot It In People by Broken Social Scene - I like this album lots

Kala by MIA - I don't really like this album

Smile by Brian Wilson - I like this album

Glasvegas self titled - I mostly hate this album

Puzzle by Biffy Clyro - I like this album lots

Primary Colours by the Horrors - I quite like this album

Black Holes and Revelations by Muse - I don't mind this album

American Idiot by Green Day - I don't like this album

Stankonia by Outkast - I quite like this album

Stars of cctv by Hard-Fi - I detest this album

Poses by Rufus Wainwright - I like this album lots.

the Good, the Bad & the Queen - I quite like this album

Absolution by Muse - I quite like this album

Speakerboxx/the Love Below by Outkast - I quite like this album

Vampire Weekend self-titled - I quite like this album

Gold by Ryan Adams - perhaps my favourite album ever

Crystal Castles self-titled - I don't mind this album

Silent Alarm by Bloc Party - I like this album lots

Down In Albion by Babyshambles - I like this album lots

Neon Bible by Arcade Fire - I like this album

Show Your Bones by Yeah Yeah Yeahs - I don't mind this album

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes - I like this album lots

Asleep In the Back by Elbow - I don't really like this album, but New Born is fantastic

Back to Black by Amy Winehouse - I don't really like this album

Echoes by the Rapture - I like this album

the Libertines self-titled - I like this album lots

Myths of the Near Future by Klaxons - I like this album lots

think tank by Blur - I like this album

Elephant by the White Stripes - I don't like this album

Illinois by Sufjan Stevens - I like this album lots

A Grand Don't Come For Free by the Streets - I quite like this album

Wincing the Night Away by the Shins - I like this album

Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem - I like this album

In Rainbows by Radiohead - I like this album

Funeral by Arcade Fire - I love this album lots

Fever to tell by Yeah Yeah Yeahs - I quite like this album

Whatever People Say I Am, that's What I Am Not by Arctic Monkeys - I like this album

Up the Bracket by the Libertines - I love this album lots

is this is by the Strokes - I like this album lots

so I have 51/100

I'm such an NMEhead obviously >_>

[Liam]

Did you buy 51 though?

Otherwise you don't count >_>

[METALMAN]

well no...

but I bought 32 of them!

[Liam]

Good enough....

[Crybaby Bunting]

I can see why NME would produce a list like this..

"Lol you expect us to stick established indie into this list? Here are some albums where we ignore some flaws to heavily pimp them out and look credible if they strike big in the near future"

At the same time they'll stick in some vaguely big names and pimp albums that make no sense to prefer.

In Rainbows over Kid A?

Black Holes & Revelations over Origin of Symmetry?

Speakerboxx over Stankonia?

Popular Sigur Ros over more developed Sigur Ros?

I mean, some of the choices are brilliant, but in a confusing order. :/

EDIT: and the year 2000 doesn't seem to be acknowledged as part of the decade

Edited November 19, 2009 by The General

[METALMAN]

Yes it does. Albums by Primal Scream and PJ Harvey were both released in 2000 and are both in the top 10.

[Guest JukeboxHero]

Maybe I missed it, but I don't think I saw The Marshall Mathers LP (released in 2000) on the list.

[Dingle]

Because I'm tired and thus can't be bothered commenting on the list properly yet, I'll just say that how could you ever expect In Rainbows to not come above Kid A? That's crazy talk. It's like saying that Pablo Honey would be considered above The Bends or OK Computer. Kid A was experimental and brilliant but In Rainbows is considered by quite a lot of people to be the best album in the past few years.

[GA!]

I own about ten of those albums, from five or six different bands.

[Jayzon]

I can't see how anyone could list any other Muse album over Origin Of Symmetry. It's pretty much as perfect rock album as you can get.

[Dingle]

I can't see how anyone could list any other Muse album over Origin Of Symmetry. It's pretty much as perfect rock album as you can get.

It's very close but Absolution does have the bigger singles with Hysteria, Time is Running Out and Stockholme Syndrome. The only songs bigger than Hysteria and TIRO would be Knights of Cydonia or Plug in Baby. Granted Plug in is on Origin of... but I think as far as popularity goes (Which NME is generally going to be about) it's going to be Absolution that wins the fight.