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« Reply #147 on: Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 23:21:53 » |
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This ended up being a lot longer than I intended it to be. Now read it, you fuckers, don't just skip down to see who's number one.
And now, the final countdown (See Alan, Europe has done one good thing for us)
10th Hot Fuss (The Killers) 21pts from 3 votes
Released: 2004
Key Tracks: Mr. Brightside, Somebody Told Me, All These Things That I’ve Done
The second best selling of the top 10 with 6 million copies sold worldwide, Hot Fuss was the Killers debut full length album, and the first of four released in this decade, spawning a whole bunch of hit songs, principally the entire first half of the album .
Equal 8th Black Holes and Revelations (Muse) 23pts from 3 votes
Released: 2006
Key Tracks: Starlight, Knights of Cydonia, Supermassive Black Hole
Muse’s fourth album (Fifth if you count Hullabaloo) was a huge release in the busy summer of 2006 and lead to two consecutive sold out dates at the newly finished Wembley Stadium, which would have been the first gigs there if they had not strangely leapfrogged them with George Michael a few days before. I’m still bitter I had to sell my ticket for that gig now.
Equal 8th Glasvegas (Glasvegas) 23pts from 3 votes
Released: 2008
Key Tracks: Geraldine, Flowers and Football Tops, Daddy’s Gone
Formed in 2003, it took five years for Glasvegas to be noticed by record labels, but when the NME made Daddy’s Gone their #2 single of 2007, a bidding war between labels lead the release of their self titled debut on Columbia, which was nominated for the Mercury Prize and led to spells supporting Oasis and U2 on stadium tours.
7th The Seldom Seen Kid (Elbow) 25pts from 3 votes
Released: 2008
Key Tracks: Grounds for Divorce, One Day Like This, The Fix
Elbow seemed to have been around for years, but this was actually only their fourth full album release, and seemed destined to slip under the mainstream radar as their previous efforts had when it won the 2008 Mercury Music Prize. The album went platinum almost overnight and the band started to receive the widespread recognition that their fans always felt they’d deserved, with the songs popping up all over the place, notably with One Day Like This becoming the theme tune to the BBC Coverage of the Beijing Olympics.
6th Toxicity (System of a Down) 27pts from 3 votes
Released: 2001
Key Tracks: Chop Suey, Toxicity, Aerials
The second of the Armenian-American rockers albums remains their mostly successful, and was Grammy nominated for its lead single Chop Suey. Produced by Rick Rubin, as damn near everything seems to be these days, it sold 12 million copies worldwide, making it the biggest commercial success in this top 10, going multi-platinum in the States.
5th Origin of Symmetry (Muse) 28pts from 4 votes
Released: 2001
Key Tracks: Plug in Baby, Feeling Good, Bliss
The best of Muse’s albums is a hotly debated topic amongst fans, and this is the second of their albums to chart in the top 10 (third album Absolution also received votes, narrowly missing out on the top 10). Launching Muse out of the Radiohead-lite stereotype into the mainstream, lead single Plug in Baby remains to this day one of the best songs to play at stupidly high volumes that I know, and Nina Simone cover ‘Feeling Good’ is a favourite amongst non-fans as well.
4th Discovery (Daft Punk) 29pts from 3 votes
Released: 2001
Key Tracks: One More Time, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, Face to Face
Probably the biggest surprise in this top 10, the French House duo sit uneasily on this otherwise indie rock dominated list. The album was originally the soundtrack to a Japanese anime film, but achieved worldwide success, reaching #2 in the UK and spawning the club classic One More Time and Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, which would later be sampled heavily by Kanye West, who joined them on stage at the 2008 Grammys to play the song.
3rd Funeral (Arcade Fire) 33pts from 5 votes
Released: 2004
Key Tracks: Neighbourhood #2 (Laika) Rebellion (Lies) Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)
Canadian Indie royalty the Arcade Fire released only two albums this decade, Funeral and 2006’s Neon Bible, but they were successful enough to gather them a huge cult following in this country and around the world. NME rated it as the second best album of 2005 (due to a delayed UK release) and gaining them mainstream attention as wide as the front cover of Time Magazine and a slot on Top of the Pops
2nd Kasabian (Kasabian) 34pts from 5 votes
Released: 2004
Key Tracks: Club Foot, Reason is Treason, Lost Souls Forever
Leicestershire rockers Kasabian released their eponymous debut in 2004, earning praise from the notoriously hard to please Gallagher brothers as well as providing one of the most recognizable Guitar intros to any song with Club Foot, which pops up in Films and Television at regular intervals even now.
Which of course means...
1st Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (Arctic Monkeys) 52pts from 6 votes
Released: 2 006
Key Tracks: I Bet That you Look Good on the Dancefloor, When the Sun Goes Down, Mardy Bum
It was never going to be anything else was it? Much to my chagrin, WPSIATWIN is the runaway winner by 18pts from its closest challenger. You don’t need me to tell you the story of this album, one of the most documented breakthrough successes in recent history, so I’ll leave you by reminding you that Gordon Brown claims to listen to them every day to wake him up. That, in my opinion, explains the recession neatly.
Thanks for all your votes, I’ll probably be back with a best of the decade more generally soon enough. Get your teeth into abusing eachother!
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