L´album di debutto dei The Strokes “Is This It” (2001) è stato votato il miglior disco dell´ultimo decennio.
A decretare questo risultato una giuria formata da musicisti, produttori, autori e responsabili delle case discografiche.
La top 50 è stata pubblicata da NME. Sul podio, oltre ai newyorkesi The Strokes, i The Libertines al secondo posto con “Up The Bracket”, seguiti dai Primal Scream con “XTRMNTR”.


“The NME Top 50 albums of the 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 – ´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 – ´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 – ´Illinois´
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 – ´The 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 – ´Speakerboxxx/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´

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(18 novembre 2009)