November 17, 2009

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Strokes album voted decade’s best
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The Strokes. (WENN.COM)

The Strokes' hit record Is This It has been named the best album of the last decade in a new magazine poll.

A panel of musicians, producers, writers and record label bosses voted the New York band's 2001 debut into first place in the list of 50 albums compiled by British music magazine NME.

The Libertines' 2002 effort Up The Bracket claimed second place, while Primal Scream were third with Xtrmntr, ahead of the Arctic Monkeys with their 2006 debut release Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs rounded out the top five with Fever To Tell.

NME's top ten albums of the decade are as follows:

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.


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