nme albums

i sent this as an email to my friend, but it's verbose enough to be a blog entry.

i don't how i feel about lists for me they are always sort of irrelevant. i guess the best to way to contextualise them is of as an opinion of the population at that point in time.

i guess the thing is that every place in the world would have a different perception of their favourites. the hood in brooklyn wouldn't have any of these albums and if you do it in australia, powderfinger/cold chisel would be on top. and if it does by guiness/nme, it is another form of cultural imperialism and black music isn't represented at all.

despite all that, it still does interest me. i'm surprised at the success of oasis and their music must still so much to a lot of people. sgt pepper is always up there, but it's my least favourite of their albums.

radiohead and pink floyd are two sides of the same coin, dour music that sort of reflects something like a quite british gritted teeth way of suffering through things. every other entry is pretty standard.

the main surprise for me is the appearance of the strokes and the libertines. and i guess you can put it to the way they have defined a generation. if we cast our minds back to the year 2000. music was very disjointed and the strokes took it upon themselves to determine how this decade is going to sound. the libertines did it in a british way. which is now only reflected with chart success to various bands. but the style did infiltrate its way to pop music like kelly clarkson hence the riff of since you're been gone or that title. which out strokes the strokes and interpol with probably one of the best riffs of the decade.

check the list here
http://www.nme.com/news/oasis/23227