Saturday, November 21, 2009

NME's Best Albums of the Decade

New Musical Express has published its list of the 100 greatest albums of the decade. How exciting to see these start to come out! Being NME, the list is almost exclusively alternative rock. They've set up the article nicely with music clips and links to all the original reviews. Here's the top 10:

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

Other highlights

14. Radiohead - Kid A
16. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
18. The White Stripes - Elephant
19. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
27. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
33. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
49. Muse - Absolution
51. The Good, the Bad and the Queen
55. Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV
65. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
70. Glasvegas
77. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas
100. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

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