NME Picks The Strokes as “The Top 100 Greatest Albums of The Decade”

Perhaps the single best mainstream music publication, NME, published a list yesterday of the 100 Best Albums Of The Decade or as they have dubbed it the noughties.  The list was complied together from producers, label executives and bands such as Radiohead and Arctic Monkeys. A surprise to some, NYC band The Strokes came in number one for their 2001  Is This It? In second, were The Libertines with Up The Bracket.

When asked to give his thoughts, lead singer of The Strokes Julian Casablanca said, “Does it mean it’s a good musical decade or a bad musical decade? I don’t know, I’m such a bad judge of my own stuff. But I thought it was great when I heard.”

Other bands that made the top ten were Radiohead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, PJ Harvey and a choice I certainly don’t agree with The Streets. I’m sorry but, I always thought that The Streets sounded like suck a pansy wanker on the microphone, to place in front of Jay-Z is beyond absurd.

I have posted the full list below courtesy of NME. To read the full article, click HERE.

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. 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. Delgados – The Great Eastern

47. Brendan Benson – Lapalco

48. Walkmen – Bows and Arrows

49. Muse – Absolution

50. MIA – Arular