The Strokes' Is This It is the best record of The Nads, according to NME's 100 Greatest Albums of The Nads poll. The Libertines, Primal Scream, Arctic Monkeys, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs round out the top five. Gold, by a certain Ryan Adams, also makes the cut.
--who seems kind of UNcertain at the moment. Where has he been??
Well, it's not a bad list, not with PJ and Up the Bracket so high (but it's Anglocentric, so so wha?).
But, still, uh. Well. It's not all that bad a list. MIA M.I.A. higher up the bracket though, and don't get me started on some of the rest.
S-K is shut out, honey. Fuck the Brits. We were right to take away the country they took from the Native Americans.
I can't wait for candied yams and a fuckload of turkey.
I refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of a ranking list that puts colossal flame-outs the Strokes on top by disputing it.
It's the NME - who did you think they'd put at the top, Beyonce?
After a period of critical distance, I am sort of loving The Strokes lately. Total unabashed ear-candy.
Your head nods and bops along to the music against your will. I've seen hardened old school punk rockers not be able to keep their heads still. No use fighting it.
Fighting only makes it stronger.
The best use of the Strokes is a Rhymefest sample.
http://tinyurl.com/yjqpc3m
after reading the above blurb I thought that maybe they'd focused on a very small segment of music but then looking at the full list I see that "Kid A" is ranked #15. I mean, I like the Strokes, but above "Kid A"? Didn't the 00's sound more like Kid A than Is This It?
"Didn’t the 00’s sound more like Kid A than Is This It?
Depends. How wealthy is your family?
The NME seems to be locked into a very laddish view of music* and like a lot of kids who weren't there at the time have a romantic view of 70s post-punk rock, so Radiohead = gay intellectual music, The Strokes = ROCK AND ROLL WITH HAIR! Who cares how derivative it is.
*Not that I've read it in 25 years.
I will take derivative over pure crap, which is the real "alternative" we are left with today. Gotta give the original 70s punk a breather every now and again, lest repeated listening diminish its ability to thrill.
Where's the list of the top 100 albums of the next 10 years?
There are not two The Streets albums that are both better than The Blueprint. And this is coming from someone who likes The Streets.
You don't happen to live in San Antonio, do you?
I refuse to acknowledge any list that:
A) Thinks that Think Tank is a Blur album, and;
B) Ranks that abomination above, well, just about the rest of the list.
Oh, how I love
faux outragelists!I have a huge problem with all of this list APART from their ranking 'Is This It' as number one. It's a great album.
The UK music scene of the past decade has been pretty dire. Although I am kind of hooked on 'The Big Pink' at the moment
I can't listen to The Arctic Monkeys or Franz Ferdinand without going into a violent rage.
It's not Knife-Crime Island for nothing. . .
You have a problem with the YYYs? If I didn't agree with you on 'Is This It', I'd call this crazy talk.
Wow, no Sleater-Kinney? Or even the Gossip? I thought the Brits loved the Gossip. I'm in need of some validation.
Was this list compiled by grad students in French Literature at Middlebury College? This must be the whitest list of music from the last decade one could imagine.
It was the grad students!
Nobody who is at all familiar with the NME should be surprised with anything on the list or its placement. Except that PJ Harvey made it into the top 5 as she is female.
Correction: Top 6!