The 'album of the decade' - Is This It?
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Is This It, the debut album by the Strokes, has been voted the best album of the last decade in a new poll.
The New Yorkers' 2001 album topped a poll held by NME magazine to mark the top 50 albums of the noughties, with the judging panel including bands such as Arctic Monkeys and Vampire Weekend, producers such as Stephen Street and Diplo and festival bookers including Melvin Benn and Emil Eavis.
Is This It topped the list while another debut, the Libertines' Up the Bracket was voted into second place, also the highest placing for a British act.
Primal Scream's sixth studio album XTRMNTR charted in a surprising third ahead of Arctic Monkeys' debut Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (in fourth) and Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Fever to Tell in fifth.
After his band's debut album was voted the best of the decade, Strokes lead singer Julian Casablancas commented: "It's totally crazy!"
He added: "I don't know what that means. Does it mean it's a good musical decade or a bad musical decade? I don't know, I'm such a bad judge of my own stuff. But I thought it was great when I heard."
Having recently released his debut solo album, Casablancas reflected that the recording of Is This It was "fun, it was stressing, it was exciting".
"I think if I was to know then that I'd be having this conversation now I couldn't be more pleased," he continued. "I'm restraining myself now, I don't want to get carried away, but I'm pretty damn psyched with myself. Mental high five!"
Artists with two albums in the list included Libertines, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Radiohead, the Streets, Arcade Fire and the White Stripes, while 2002 could be seen as a musically significant year after eight albums from that year made the list.
NME's top 50 albums of the decade are:
The Strokes - Is This It
The Libertines - Up The Bracket
Primal Scream - xtrmntr
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Radiohead - In Rainbows
LCD Soundsystem - The Sound Of Silver
At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
Radiohead - Kid A
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
White Stripes - Elephant
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Blur - Think Tank
The Coral - The Coral
Jay Z - The Blueprint
Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
The Libertines - The Libertines
Rapture - Echoes
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
Amy Winehouse Back To Black
Johnny Cash - Man Comes Around
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World
Elbow - Asleep In The Back
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Granddaddy - Sophtware Slump
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Babyshambles - Down In Albion
Spirtualized - Let it Come Down
The Knife - Silent Shout
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Ryan Adams - Gold
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Outkast -Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
Avalanches - Since I Left You
Delgados - The Great Eastern
Brendan Benson - Lapalco
Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
Muse - Absolution
MIA - Arular