Top 50 Albums of the deacde

With the noughties coming to a close and NME giving us a terrible representation of the records they thought should grace the decades top 50 I decided to put my own list together in no particular order.

Top 50 Records of the Decade



At The Drive-In – Relationship of command

Anti-Flag – Underground network

The Bronx

The Slackers – Self-medication

Adequate 7 – Songs of innocence and experience

Justin Sane – Life, love and the pursuit of justice

The Cribs – The new fellas

White Stripes – White blood cells

Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs – Fever to tell

Flaming Lips – Yoshimi battles the pink robots

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – Angles

Gogol Bordello – Gypsy punks: underdog world strike

Hell is for heroes – Transmit disrupt

Weezer - Maladroit

Beastie Boys – to the 5 boroughs

Los Copesinos – Hold on now youngster

The Rapture – Echoes

LCD Sound system

Radio 4 – Gotham

Bright eyes – I’ wide awake it’s morning

Ben Folds – Songs for silverman

Ben Folds Five – Whatever and ever amen

Soulwax - Any minute now

Frank Turner – Sleep is for the week

Captain Everything – It’s not rocket science

Alkaline Trio – Crimson

Howards Alias – Beat Heart Beat

Matthew Reynolds – Wreck of the Hesperus

Rival Schools – United by fate

Eels – Electro-shock blues

Rodrigo Y Gabriella

The Go Team – Thunder Lighting Strike

Moby - Play

Moldy Peaches

Capown – Civil disobedients

The Strokes – Is this it

Libertines

The Shins – Chutes too narrow

Rueben – Race car is race car backwards

Hot Club De Paris – Drop it like it pops

Sonic Boom Six – A rough guide to genre terrorism

AFI – Sing the sorrow

Hot Chip – The warning

Bloc Party - Silent alarm

The Macabees – Color it in

Queens Of The Stoneage – Rated R

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Madonna

Badly Drawn Boy – The hour of the bewilderbeast

Distillers – Sing,sing death house

Dandy Warhols – Thirteen tales from urban bohemia

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