top 10 albums of the decade according to NME industry poll

Radiohead?

In the NME?

You jest, surely?

hehe. In Rainbows is actually a really good album

seldom seen kid a big miss,and the artics first album was ace before they disappeared up there own a rses.

Mike Skinner - poet of the moron generation

wheres leona lewis ?

I dont think seldom seen kid is good enough for the top 10. Arctic monekys's debut in 4th

Typical NME - trying and failing, as ever to seem cool and wanting to trancend the mainstream by nominating bands mature students in silly hats like.

It is an awful magazine and website is worse.

So many basic errors and news reported way, way after being announced.

Some of the reviews they write are very poor and at times just lies.

Not many Black people
Not many women
Not many keyboards/synths
Not many Americans
Not many Europeans
Not many groundbreaking sounds
Not many songs to dance to

Not many eyes and ears open

or legs :(

Can anyone tell me if any of these are any good? I'll listen to a couple of them

arcade fire funeral is good, i prefer neon bible, and is this is by the strokes is great, imo the list is a shambles

I'm disgusted at this - I have 2 on the list and 2 other lps by bands on the list - I'm obviously not as underground as i thought i was.......

Replace 6) with Elephant by The White Stripes and 10) with Hot Fuss by The Killers and you're just about there imo.

Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner

Shockin omission

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'

jeez theres a lotta rubbish in there

Good to see the fantastic Delgados at no.46

No Coldplay :0

no oasis!

No Marillion!

lol. Ive got about half of those albums

Two Libertines albums and a Babyshambles album...

Says it all, really.

Thank goodness I wasn't a teenager in this musical wilderness of a decade of overhyped mediocrity.
Arctic Monkeys 4th best album in last 10 years , says it all.

The 70's had Zep , Floyd , Queen , Bowie , Clash , Pistols , Purple , Genesis , Springsteen , The Who ..............

[u]Wizard's Sleeve 22 Mar 00:44
BETFAIR

What i hate about NME is that they have their flavour of the month bands/artists...then they proceed to mention them in every column and review for weeks.

As if people need their mind making up for them.

Blademan - spot on.

Pretentious, expensive toilet paper is what it is.

Name a better music weekly then?

smash hits

i take it the aveage age of voter was about 12.

Super Furry Animals and The Coral should have been higher in my opinion but it's different strokes for different folks.

Daisy,s Of The Galaxy -eels

Nme had little to do with the voting - it was by 'da industry' so other bands producers, managers etc. It's useless to compare era with era as people your age said the same thing back in the 70's (or whichever decade you care to chose) about the music around then and the music they liked from years earlier! Apart from the 80's - universally acknowledged as the decade that (musical) taste forgot.......

it's actually not as sh1t as i thought it would be - the strokes is this it is clearly the most influential album of the decade and is rightfully top. also nice to see interpol in there.

but beyond any doubt, any list which doesnt feature bloc party's silent alarm, or any queens of the stone age material at all, is utter garbage.

also agree killers hot fuss should be in there...

not sure about the obsession with libertines/babyshambles, two of the most overrated and sh1tty bands i've ever heard of

and nobody in their right mind would have white stripes/elephant at 18, after the strokes/is this it, elephant probably the most influential rock album of the decade.

the strokes, queens of the stone age, radiohead, bloc party, white stripes, arctic monkeys should all be in the top 10, without question.

arcade fire and interpol are also eminently worthy, and for once...two slightly underrated bands :0

i havn't got any of these- and i've only heard of a couple of the bands in the list

didnt know NME was still around

electro shock blues - eels

wheres my chemical romance?? and umm...afi...and bullet for my valentine...and umm papa roach...and umm...30 seconds to mars...and umm...stuff thats good but ppl diss without actually listening to it basically

oh sorry i forgot...NME...equals boring pretentious mainstream but lets pretend to be indie music and ignore everything else...

Agree pretty much about Silent Alarm, Elephant, very hard to compile these lists,
personally would have without a shadow of a doubt, The hour of the bewilderbeast by badlydrawnboy, Optimist EP by Turin Brakes, Last Broadcast by Doves & Out of Nothing by Embrace and special mention to Easyworlds final offering, kill the last romantic

no coldplay is a fucgggking shambles

No Goldfrapp in the top 50 for the decade?

= meaningless poll

the fact there is no white stripes, no kings of** and no dance music.. just about say it all about that list.. that mag stopped being good ten years ago at least...

i used to buy it every week religiously for mentions of my favs.. especially when the long awaited stone roses second album was on its way..

now.. they like to create the bands and push them to the moon.. the arctic monkeys and especially the strokes.. and even mroe so the fking libertines.. are sht. average wannabee indie bands.

Grandaddy @ 34 - superb stuff :)

Avalanches? Good god. What a sh!te album that was. How the hell did THAT make the top 50?

Very true there should be at least one, probably two White Stripes albums on there.

My top10 albums from the 2000s (in alphabetical order)

Arcade Fire Funeral
Arctic Monkeys Whatever people say I am, thats what Im not
Blur Think Tank
The Caesars 39 minutes of bliss
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
The Futureheads The Futureheads
The Killers Hot Fuss
Morrissey You Are The Quarry
The White Stripes - Elephant
Yeah, Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell

Honourable mentions
Ian Brown - Solarized
Clinic Internal Wrangler
Venus Hum Montana
We Are Scientists With Love & Squalor

(I originally had Coming Up by Suede, Polydistortion by GusGus and Play by Moby in mind, but none of them made the cut, due to coming out in the late 1990s)

Here are my top12 albums of the decade,also in alphabetical order:

Air - 10000 Hz Legend
Delgados - The Great Eastern
Doves - The Last Broadcast
Faithless - Outrospective
Peter Gabriel - Up
Sophie B Hawkins - Timbre
Jem - Finally Woken
Onetwo - Instead
Royksopp - The Understanding
Sparks - Lil Beethoven
Syntax - Meccano Mind
Brian Wilson - Smile

Anubis - as a respector of your tastes I shall try some of those out. I own, for reference, Air - 10000 Hz Legend, Doves - The Last Broadcast & I think my missus has Faithless - Outrospective. I'm going to see Doves soon, while Gabriel's Games Without Frontiers (from, like, 1980ish) is one of my favourite songs of all time.

Make that top13. I forgot Guillemots - Through The Windowpane.

^ Saw them live a couple of years ago!

You should like Onetwo Alex,as they are two of your top100 acts combined. Paul Humphreys from OMD and Claudia Brucken from Propaganda.

I've heard of them Anubis, but one of my mates put me off a bit as he saw them live & thought they were poor. I'll try them out anyway. Have you heard of a French band called Telex btw? (from the 80s) - amazing Kraftwerk/Sparks/Air/PetShopBoys/DaftPunk style stuff

No I haven't Alex,I'll give them a try.

Good stuff Anubis. They do an excellent/hilarious cover of Plastic Bertrand's Ca Plane Pour Moi, which you have to listen to. You'd probs like Fad Gadget too, I'd wager.

I can't even name my top 10 lps of the week let alone decade! I listen to lots of music but don't go into rating them - only way i do is by the amount of times i play them.

Which ones do you play the most spyker ;)

I agree that it's probably an exercise in futility naming a definitive list over a decade.
For obvious reasons.
On that understanding, giving a snapshot of what that list might be (today) is diverting.
I like a lot of anubis' list.

1. Goldfrapp - Black Cherry (probably the only truly successful album to fuse their pastoral side and their dirty side)
2. White stripes - White Blood Cells (a simply extraordinary rock record)
3. Hooverphonic - President of the LSD golf Club (imagine Brian Wilson joins the cocteau Twins)
4. Blood Red Shoes - Box of Secrets (cathartic 'scream at your frustrations' album of the decade)
5. Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts (transcends her pop past. frequently thrilling)
6. Paramore - Riot (just wish hayley Williams would cut out the dumb Americanisms when she can write stuff with depth)
7. Frankmuzik - Complete Me (Great electro pop, an arrogant control freak but what a talent)
8. White stripes - Elephant ('black math' and 'hardest button' explode)
9. Mediaeval Baebes - Mirabilis (Took them 6 years but finally got it right!)
10. Starsailor - On the Outside (cos you have to have some anthemic rock in there somewhere)

How can The Dogs not be on this list. Amazing band. Mixture of Clash, Jam, Pistols all rolled in to one but better!

Where the ** is Master of Puppets on the betfair all time list? :0

Alex - if you're really that interested then you can see for yourself and you can see what I'm listening to right now! http://www.last.fm/user/electricart I rarely listen to anything more that about 12 times - I'm not easily impressed!

How about the Top 10 albums of the 1990s? :)

In alphabetical order

Fear of the Dark(Iron Maiden)
Temple of the Dog(Temple of the Dog)
Rust in Peace(Megadeth)
Ten(Pearl Jam)

I've got the 3rd,4th and 5th albums on that list Alex. I might put my own top 10 of the nineties up later on. I listened to a few Telex songs on Spotify. They were interesting to listen to once but maybe not repeatedly.

Anubis - I'll look forward to that. I'll wait until you put your Top 10 1990s albums up before I post my Top 10 80s ones! I'll need quite some time to think about that one as, despite 'perceived wisdom', the 80s threw up some superb music. Take your point about Telex - what did/do you think of Fad Gadget?

I didn't get round to them,I will let you know.

Violator is a rock solid album, 101 is my favourite by Depeche Mode though.

Preferred SOFAD. More soul.

These are my top10 from the nineties. Alex,you will not like the inclusion of some prog rockers here but you will be familiar with some of these.

Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Depeche Mode - Ultra
Faithless - Sunday 8pm
Genesis - We Can't Dance
Marillion - Brave
Pefab Sprout - Jordan The Comeback
Queen - Innuendo
Radiohead - OK Computer
Unkle - Psyence Fiction
Yes - Talk

From the top 50 i have NEVER heard of 34 of the bands and i cannot name a SINGLE record by any of them except Johnny Cash!!!
None of it will be played in 20 years but the Beatles, Stones will be still going strong!

90s albums?

morrisey- vauxhall and i
the stone roses -- the second coming
spiritualized- ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space
rage against the machine- rage against the machine
beastie boys- hello nasty
underworld- beaucoup fish
jeff buckley--- grace
massive attack--- mezzanine
oasis- definitely maybe

top 10 albums of the 90s
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Ride - Nowhere
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
Sugar - File Under Easy Listening
Oasis - Definitely Maybe

Mercury Rev - Deserters Songs
Radiohead - The Bends
St Etienne - Foxbase Apha

^ Some excellent choices above folks. Anubis - surprised at the Marillion selection, but I can't knock you for your 'broad musical church'. Saw Unkle live once - they came on stage with Ian Brown at a gig at the Brixton Academy.

I'm going to take my time over picking my top 10 of the 80s - in fact I might treat everyone to a whole new thread :0

there are very few albums where every song is exceptional, and of course this is all pretty much a personal thing as we all have differing tastes, but id say there are only 3 albums ive heard where i really like every song...


phil ochs all the news thats fit to sing
stranglers black and white
arcade fire funeral

my top ten 90's albums

1) deftones - around the fur
2) pearl jam - ten
3) metallica - black album
4) soundgarden - superunknown
5) machine head - burn my eyes
6) iron maiden - fear of the dark
7) pantera - far beyond driven
8) sepultura - roots
9) rage against the machine - self titled
10) system of a down - self titled

for 'decade' translate 'ever' in my choice

get in there gamsty! 20 Nov 13:08
my top ten 90's albums

1) deftones - around the fur
2) pearl jam - ten
3) metallica - black album
4) soundgarden - superunknown
5) machine head - burn my eyes
6) iron maiden - fear of the dark
7) pantera - far beyond driven
8) sepultura - roots
9) rage against the machine - self titled
10) system of a down - self titled


I like you. :)

thanks, i don't suppose your female and very good looking?

Is Male and Ugly ok?

No matter, Good taste none the less in that case.