IT’S official. I am old.
When you only own one of NME’s top ten greatest albums of the decade, you know you’re no longer down with the kids.
And I can only count Arctic Monkeys’ Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, which comes in at number three in the celebrated list, among my record collection.
But I have to say, they are a strange bunch of albums on the Top 100 list this time around.
The music bible’s hotlydebated list is topped by the fairly uninspiring Is This It by The Strokes.
Most surprisingly for me, it features three Pete Doherty albums in the top 50. I know we’re told he’s a troubled musical genius, but I just don’t get him. Although he is on the judging panel I believe!
Whatever happened to Franz Ferdinand, Muse, Killers and The Cribs who were all completely overlooked?
And, I know Oasis produced their best work in the 90s, but surely those now defunct rock ’n’ rollers with Don’t Believe The Truth and Dig Out Your Soul warrant a mention?
Radiohead’s In Rainbows has to be the most talked about album of the decade as the first to be offered as a digital download that customers could order for whatever price they saw fit.
But if I had to define the greatest album of the noughties it would be Mark Ronson’s Version.
A controversial choice as a compilation of covers perhaps, but this is the age that brought us the superstar producer and this is the album that brought us Amy Winehouse’s Valerie and Oh My God by Lily Allen among other chart-toppers.
But as I’m not nearly as cool as the musos at rock bible NME I shall bow to their superior judgement.
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