Best Albums Of The Decade
Almost without realizing it’s been 10 years of that debate. Do you remember? The end of the millennium, beginning on 1 January 2000 or 2001? 10 years with its 10 summers, its 10 winters (in terms of spring and fall we have some doubts because of climate change) and. the 10 lists of best albums of the year. It must be that, as the years are met, the decades to “shorten” why I do not think the same time elapse between Nirvana’s Nevermind and the Is This It the Strokes and between this and the Monster version of The Fame Lady Gaga which goes on sale next week.
The fact is that we are at the gates of December and not in any December. Last December the decade or more, no less. If every December scorches us with lists of the best of the year in the Arabian categories this year promises to come loaded with as many of what the petó during the decade now ending. The NME have opened fire with his 50 best albums of the decade.
The English do not wake up. Several years ago the Q, which has a perspective on the world of pop music very similar to the weekly NME, it listed the 100 best albums of music history. With a pair. If I remember correctly in the 44 or so, put the K of Kula Shaker, a record that, as years passed since the truth is that a beautiful façade was designed by Dave Gibbons (the Watchmen) and a pair of good topics revival inspired by Hindu mysticism. Man, I acknowledge the enthusiasm of the journalist at the time, but K has not been the 44th best record of history or for relatives of Crispin Mills. Never. Never. 4 or 5 years later, in the late nineties, based on advertising its new list, the Top 100 Albums of the twentieth century, the possibility of amending such barbarity “You think that remains the 44th best record in history ? Rectifying is wise.
Is this it’s great for New Yorkers Strokes a top the list published in this week’s issue and that hurts the absence of Scots Franz Ferdinand. At first glance the only player missing is questionable, regardless of personal tastes, the list box which shows the great honor Up the Bracket by The Libertines and Primal Scream XTRMNTR. The rest of the list, which are twice the band Radiohead and Carl Barat and Pete Doherty, and which strangely only sings in English you can find the following:
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 Do not 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’
Surprisingly the presence of Blur’s Think Thank, a record that detracts compared with the rest of their discography and parallel projects Albarn (Gorillaz or GBQ) and the inclusion of more complicated album The Shins, Wincing the Night Away.