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
Well at least NME knows what it likes, and apparantly it LOVES The Libertines. Also, I think this is the first list where Speakerboxxx/The Love Below edges out Stankonia.
Thanks for posting. I will update the spreadsheet with this list plus the Fishpork top 20 as soon as I can. By the way, Otis: Fishpork has also posted a top 100 tracks of the decade list.
100 MGMT Oracular Spectacular
99 The Maccabees Colour It In
98 Gorillaz Demon Days
97 Sigur Ros Agaetis Byrjun
96 Shellac Excellent
95 Bjork Vespertine
94 Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster Horse Of The Dog
93 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
92 The Sleepy Jackson Lovers
91 Les Savy Fav Let’s Stay Friends
90 Gallows Orchestra Of Wolves
89 Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight
88 Bonnie Prince Billy The Letting Go
87 Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
86 The Twilight Sad Forget The Night Ahead
85 Roots Manuva Run Come Save Me
84 Regina Spector Soviet Kitsch
83 Laura Marling Alas, I Cannot Swim
82 Mclusky Mclusky Do Dallas
81 Field Music Field Music
80 Danger Mouse The Grey Album
79 Kings Of Leon Youth And Young Manhood
78 Belle & Sebastian Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
77 Isobel Campbell Ballad Of The Broken Seas
76 Capdown Civil Disobedients
75 The Shins Chutes Too Narrow
74 Brand New The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Of Me
73 Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People
72 MIA Kala
71 Brian Wilson Smile
70 Glasvegas Glasvegas
69 Biffy Clyro Puzzle
68 The Horrors Primary Colours
67 Botch We Are The Romans
66 Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling
65 Muse Black Holes And Revelations
64 The Radio Dept. Lesser Matters
63 Godspeed You Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
62 Queens Of The Stone Age Rated R
61 The National Alligator
60 Green Day American Idiot
59 The Hold Steady Boys And Girls In America
58 Liars Drum's Not Dead
57 Outkast Stankonia
56 My Morning Jacket Z
55 Hard-Fi Stars Of CCTV
54 The Golden Virgins Songs Of Praise
53 Jamie T Panic Prevention
52 Rufus Wainwright Poses
51 ? The Good, The Bad and The Queen
I wouldn't judge British tastes based on a list compiled by the NME.
The NME is written by complete morons, or serious writers with so little faith in their readership that they feel compelled to write like complete morons. Judging by the level of interest in The Libertines, I'd guess at the former.
I hardly think having Wilco at No. 43 is pissing on them. It's actually extremely high praise when you consider how many of thousands of albums were released during the decade. It's just a list, nothing personal, I'm sure.
The list was not solely voted for by current NME staff, ex-staffers and industry people (including Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys, Vampire Weekend, Glasvegas as well as label bigwigs.)
It's a pretty good list, It sums up what the NME has been about for the past ten years beyond the numbers chasing front covers. If you don't like the NME chances are you you won't like this list.
Two Dancers would look like a favourite for #1 at the end of the year but of course there would have been plenty of people who didn't vote for any 2009 album who will change the shape of the ballot. In early 2000 Travis's The Man Who made Melody Maker's top 100 albums of all times. It was 5th on the year end list for 1999.