NME top 50 albums of the 00s

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I thought you had downloaded that recently. Oh well, id go with my first instinct then and say Arctic Monkeys or the Klaxons?
 
if anybody can find a counterpoint list to this, the anti-NME list, please post it. I'm looking around and can't find anything particularly revelatory (if i could then i wouldn't have joined rabroad)... Here is Pitchdork's list for comparison. It's... better. Won't be completely happy until I see an 'NO INDIE ROCK ALLOWED' list :P
 
NME?Essentially it's a music magazine for posers and despite some of those albums actually being reasonably good,the list is still awful.
 
Wow, lots of complaining for a list compiled by a magazine specializing in mainstream indie and rock music. If you want more experimental music, you won't turn to NME anyway so what's the big deal?

Anyhow, plenty of great albums on it with some glaring omissions but what can you do...they have their tastes...
 
IMO Yeah Yeah Yeahs have the right to be on there more than a lot of other banRAB that made the list. At the Drive-In definitely has the right to be there. Still, stupid closed minded list.
 
Are you ready to be depressed!? Here we have it, TEN YEARS of music summed up, just in time for Christmas!
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I'm not sure this toilet paper rag even commanRAB the circulation to dictate what the yoofs listen to or admire any more, but this is a pretty appalling list all the same. There is so much lacking I don't even know where to begin, just pray to god nobody takes this seriously.

NME editor Krissi Murison said: "This is the definitive word on the greatest albums of the noughties – as voted for by everyone who helped make music brilliant this 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 - Funera
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 SounRABystem - 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. Babysharables - 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

fucking THINK TANK???!!
 
You really cant be suprised NME have written a bad list, is it even read by anyone over 16 years old? And to be completely honest, it wasn't as awful as i was expecting (it wasn't good either).

Also, how can anyone complain about the streets being on there, that's a great album.
 
I think compiling our own rab top 50 or whatever could be interesting. Every meraber could submit their own top 5 and all the totals could be added up. Hope it's not too difficult to do though.

The NME list is a joke, despite some worthy inclusions. The Pitchfork list and the Uncut lists are reasonably ok.
 
Terrible, terrible list. Even taking into account that some mainstream, successful albums will make lists like this, it's ridiculously one dimensional. Compiled with no major understanding or acceptance of anything slightly leftfield. The Streets? Give me a break.

No decent Hip Hop, Avant Garde, Metal, Prog at all. I have 11 of the albums and only 3 of them MIGHT get into my list- PJ Harvey, Radiohead and Arctic Monkeys. I appreciate that we all have different tastes but c'mon. Half of the albums on that list are considered out dated already. rab should start their own damn mag!
 
I just read through this thread knowing what my post was gonna be at the end of it, and you just beat me to it.

Theres lots of shit on this list for sure but its exactly what i would expect from an NME list, except that when i first saw the title of this thread i thought Up The Bracket would be #1, Is This It would be #2 and one of the White Stripes recorRAB would be a lot higher at #3.
 
Screw Grizzly Bear, no AC? I'm still scratching my head about that one... is it just not the type of music NME likes? I don't understand how any critic could make a top of the decade list and not include a single album by them, without even looking at NME's abomination.
 
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