The Strokes - best album of the decade?

[bighusref]

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. The 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. The Delgados ? 'The Great Eastern'

47. Brendan Benson ? 'Lapalco'

48. The Walkmen ? 'Bows and Arrows'

49. Muse ? 'Absolution'

50. MIA ? 'Arular'

 

I actually own quite a lot of those but I particularly love the emboldened albums. If I was to look for top albums from that selection, Spiritualized, Interpol and Arcade Fire would have to be my top three. Pushing them close, to follow another debate, would be In Rainbows. NOT Radiohead's best (IMO that is The Bends) but an excellent album with Videotape being absolutely ruddy gorgeous.

[Quagmire]

It's pish. Their apparent "depressing" stuff was better, In Rainbows just summed up for me all the pretentious melodramatic bollocks they've produced sinse The Bends.

 

If you like them fair enough that's your choice but it's not going to change my opinion of them.

 

i was voicing an alternative perspective to that of "it's pish".

 

what are you reffering to as "melodramatic", by the way?

[Quagmire]

It's pish. Their apparent "depressing" stuff was better, In Rainbows just summed up for me all the pretentious melodramatic bollocks they've produced sinse The Bends.

 

If you like them fair enough that's your choice but it's not going to change my opinion of them.

 

by the way, if you've written off kid a, it's really a grower. first time i listened to it i went straight onto amazon to write a scathing user review (which is not something i do usually - i thought it was horse ****) - it's now probably my favourite album of theirs.

[Howard Moon]

cannot believe that any of kasabians albums are not included!

[Victor Mancini]

Don't do that. It's not funny.

 

I don't think I want to know the answer.

 

I'm never looking at it again.

 

Have I just had a Crying Game moment?

 

Ppth-pth-pth-pth-pth...

 

haha amigo!

picards saved your and few of my mates blushes, just pondering wether to tell them?

 

your safe.

 

http://www.nme.com/news/the-strokes/33930

[I'M IBRAHIM TALL]

I'm not a massive fan of guitar music but if I was to say the song that brought The Strokes to my knowledge it would be "Last Night" I actually own said album and its all a bit samey to me. Also the sleeve pictures of the band and their manager etc is overly smug for my liking. Remind me a bit of Franz Ferdinand in that they seem to spend absolute fortunes trying to look like tramps!!!!

 

More of a dance music man myself and would like to have seen Human After All by Daft Punk in there as well as maybe Mylo's debut album as well.

 

Finally I like to think that although I'm not into a lot of the bands in the list, my knowledge of popular culture means I know the songs and the band members etc but someone is going to have to talk me through At The Drive In, who are at number 11????????

[Regal Kingston]

Where the **** are The Doves!?!?

 

Lost Souls (2000) is a great 'album' not just an effort with a few stand out tracks you can put it on and listen to the whole thing and its all good.

 

The Last Broadcast (2002) has some utter classics in it.

 

I have never heard of half the artists from 51-100.

 

The NME staff appear to have disappeared up their own backsides.

Botch?? The Radio Dept? Godspeed You! Black Emperor:??

Who the **** are these guys!!!!!

[Jamboross]

Botch and GYBE were both fairly well known I thought. Botch split up and GYBE went on hiatus quite a few years ago though.

[The People's Chimp]

My two cents on the radiohead debate is that 'in rainbows' is my favorite of their records.

 

looking at the rest of the list it's cool to see some other bands in there

 

botch - we are the romans at 67 is a fantastic metal record

Godspeed you! black emperor at 63

roots manuva at 85

mcklusky do dallas

 

some dubious ones though. the new twilight sad album has been out five minutes and ain't a patch on the first one and the shellac record excellent italian grayhound aint the best. and Mirrored by battles is missing. but alas.

 

Godspeed You! Black Emperor are utterly sublime. And good old roots manuva is a decent shout.

[djf]

Can't believe The Moon and Antartica didn't even make the top 50. It's wouldn't even be in my top5 personally but there is no way it shouldn't be in the top 10 of anybody's albums of the decade list, no matter your taste.