NME top 50 albums of the 00s

adidasss · 11-18-2009, 04:07 AM

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...

stormjh · 11-18-2009, 04:45 AM

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.

Zer0 · 11-18-2009, 05:31 AM

I think compiling our own MB top 50 or whatever could be interesting. Every member 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.

Mojo · 11-18-2009, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

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...

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 records would be a lot higher at #3.

TheCellarTapes · 11-18-2009, 11:23 AM

I've actually just been asked by the radio station I DJ at, for a top 10 list of this decade’s best albums. For sure the usual suspects will be there because I’m not going to lie about how good those albums were for me back in the day. The Strokes, Interpol, Kings of Leon and The Arcade Fires' debut albums were quality albums in my humble opinion.

But there are choices on this list which do smack of what the NME bandwagon says. Contentious maybe but I mean Elephant is not and never will be a better album than White Blood Cells. If Elbow make the list, where then is Doves' Last Broadcast? These are all open to debate obviously.....

But if I put my old Indie hat on and try to look at this list through the NMEs readership's eyes, it really is silly season when a list of this decades finest albums includes Bloc Party, The Klaxons and Ryan Adams, really it is. I agree that the NME does pitch itself at a certain audience and therefore this list should reflect that, but I think they've stuck by their own internal agendas a tad too much with this list, instead of doing what the Mercury Prize panel do for example, and take an album on its own merits alone and remove the bollock publicity factor, which people like the NME inject.

The main example of this agenda issue for me is the lack of Morrissey, who love him or hate him, is certainly a Lord for some people out there. I do remember that his comeback album and its follow up were more than heralded by the NME back in the day. It is of course well documented the stories surrounding the war that broke out between this publication and Morrissey a few years back, surely this didn’t get in the way of the NME's judgment here?

Again, this agenda I think has come into play with The Libertines. Their debut I think was a special album no doubt, but the follow up was certainly not, it struck me at the time as an album deliberately aimed at the NME and its readership to lap up, a deliberate album of "Hey look, we're a band breaking up, its like Abbey Road isn’t it?" Ooooo the drama! I guess with this inclusion and the fact that Down The Albion (not even Doherty's best album by the way) made it here too, proves that the NME really have believed their own milked Libertines story to the very end.

There are a few things on this list that I am pleasantly surprised with though, I mean Bows + Arrows by The Walkmen is often overlooked, as are the works of The Rapture, Granddaddy and The Shins. A couple of inclusions which I would have liked to have seen but I am not “NME” shocked that they are not here are Every Damn Time by The Black Diamond Heavies, Gulag Orkestar by Beirut and Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike by Gogol Bordello.

But in closing, it’s the NME; the world has gradually learnt to stop listening a long time ago.

loveissucide · 11-18-2009, 11:45 AM

Speakerboxx>Stankonia is ridicoulous.

FETCHER. · 11-18-2009, 12:14 PM

I own one of those albums. Fucking one.

Sneer · 11-18-2009, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Molecules

And i repeat.. f*cking THINK TANK??!!!
Walkmen??

Im not saying i agree with this list, but The Walkmen's Bows + Arrows would definately be in my top 15 of the decade. Great album.

And i think Think Tank is one of Blur's best albums. A lot more interesting than the majority of the stuff they've put out.

Mojo · 11-18-2009, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by kayleigh.

I own one of those albums. Fucking one.

Kid A?

FETCHER. · 11-18-2009, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by mojopinuk

Kid A?

Nope

.

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stormjh Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 161	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.

11-18-2009, 11:23 AM	#35 (permalink)
TheCellarTapes Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 490	I've actually just been asked by the radio station I DJ at, for a top 10 list of this decade’s best albums. For sure the usual suspects will be there because I’m not going to lie about how good those albums were for me back in the day. The Strokes, Interpol, Kings of Leon and The Arcade Fires' debut albums were quality albums in my humble opinion. But there are choices on this list which do smack of what the NME bandwagon says. Contentious maybe but I mean Elephant is not and never will be a better album than White Blood Cells. If Elbow make the list, where then is Doves' Last Broadcast? These are all open to debate obviously..... But if I put my old Indie hat on and try to look at this list through the NMEs readership's eyes, it really is silly season when a list of this decades finest albums includes Bloc Party, The Klaxons and Ryan Adams, really it is. I agree that the NME does pitch itself at a certain audience and therefore this list should reflect that, but I think they've stuck by their own internal agendas a tad too much with this list, instead of doing what the Mercury Prize panel do for example, and take an album on its own merits alone and remove the bollock publicity factor, which people like the NME inject. The main example of this agenda issue for me is the lack of Morrissey, who love him or hate him, is certainly a Lord for some people out there. I do remember that his comeback album and its follow up were more than heralded by the NME back in the day. It is of course well documented the stories surrounding the war that broke out between this publication and Morrissey a few years back, surely this didn’t get in the way of the NME's judgment here? Again, this agenda I think has come into play with The Libertines. Their debut I think was a special album no doubt, but the follow up was certainly not, it struck me at the time as an album deliberately aimed at the NME and its readership to lap up, a deliberate album of "Hey look, we're a band breaking up, its like Abbey Road isn’t it?" Ooooo the drama! I guess with this inclusion and the fact that Down The Albion (not even Doherty's best album by the way) made it here too, proves that the NME really have believed their own milked Libertines story to the very end. There are a few things on this list that I am pleasantly surprised with though, I mean Bows + Arrows by The Walkmen is often overlooked, as are the works of The Rapture, Granddaddy and The Shins. A couple of inclusions which I would have liked to have seen but I am not “NME” shocked that they are not here are Every Damn Time by The Black Diamond Heavies, Gulag Orkestar by Beirut and Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike by Gogol Bordello. But in closing, it’s the NME; the world has gradually learnt to stop listening a long time ago.