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NME’s Top 100 albums of the decade includes some corkers

How did it come to this? Ten short years ago I was dancing to TLC’s No Scrubs (judge ye not!) on Manly Beach for the countdown to *gasp* The Millennium.

Suddenly, we’re at the other end of the decade, and we never did work out what to call ‘00-10… “The Noughties” didn’t really cut it. We’d better come up with something quick sticks, because the tunes from the last ten years have been incredible and future generations are going to need to refer to us somehow…

NME’s Top 100 albums of the last decade has some mean contributions, not the least of which is the man of the hour Emperor Luke Steele’s early effort, Lovers from The Sleepy Jackson. The Empire defining epochs, even way back when!

The Sleepy Jackson - Lovers

Other EMI faves from the list you can regularly hear blasting around the office are below:

#98 – Gorillaz – Demon Days
#97 – Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
#92 – The Sleepy Jackson – Lovers
#83 – Laura Marling – Alas I Cannot Swim
#66 – Mogwai – The Hawk Is Howling
#58 – Liars – Drums Not Dead
#56 – My Morning Jacket – Z
#53 – Jamie T – Panic Prevention
#51 – The Good The Bad And The Queen
#45 – The Avalanches – Since I Left You
#41 – Wild Beasts – Two Dancers

#35 – Babyshambles – Down In The Albion
#33 – Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
#31 – Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
#20 – Blur – Think Tank
#17 – Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise
#14 – Radiohead – Kid A
#11 – LCD Soundsystem – Sounds of Silver
#7 – Arcade Fire – Funeral
#4 – Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not

One very notable absence however… WHERE IS THE DAFT PUNK!?!?

Whilst we greatly respect NME’s all-seeing UK hipster stylings, stay tuned for The In Sound’s very own and very wise Best Of 2009 album list – coming soon to a browser near you!

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