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The NME top 50 albums of the decade list is topped by the Strokes. Photograph: Sebastian Mlynarski/Getty Images
New York rockers the Strokes have topped a list of the best albums of the decade, beating British indie stars – and tabloid darlings – the Libertines into second place.
Pete Doherty and Carl Barat's former band are hailed for their debut album Up the Bracket but it is the Strokes' first release Is This It that takes top spot in best 50 list compiled by NME.
Primal Scream's xtrmntr takes third place in a top 10 dominated by guitar-led rock acts.
Bands such as Radiohead and Arctic Monkeys, plus record producers and label bosses, were among those who voted.
The Strokes' lead singer Julian Casablancas said of his band's success: "Does it mean it's a good musical decade or a bad musical decade? I don't know, I'm such a bad judge of my own stuff. But I thought it was great when I heard.
"Recording the album was fun. It was stressing, it was exciting. I don't want to get carried away, but I'm pretty damn psyched with myself."
Both the Strokes and the Libertines have been heavily championed by the magazine over the years.
Is This It, which featured a suggestive image of a naked model wearing a black vinyl glove, was one of the most acclaimed albums of the year when it was released in 2001. Many saw it as a return to the sound of late 1970s New York, evoking bands such as Television.
The Libertines' first release came out in 2002, with their raw, punky tracks – produced by the Clash's Mick Jones – winning an army of young fans. But drug-related fall-outs meant the band had all but fallen apart by the time their follow-up appeared in 2004.
Since then Doherty – who now styles himself Peter – went on to form Babyshambles and established a solo career, while fellow Libertines songwriter Carl Barat led Dirty Pretty Things, although both have talked about reviving the band.
The Libertines' second, self-titled release also makes NME's top 50.
The year 2002 is the most well-represented in the list with eight albums, including releases by Interpol, the Streets and Queens of the Stone Age.
NME editor Krissi Murison said: "This is the definitive word on the greatest albums of the noughties – as voted for by everyone who helped make music brilliant this decade."
NME's top 50 albums of the decade
1. The Strokes – ‘Is This It’ (RS – DF)
2. The Libertines – ‘Up The Bracket’ (RS – DF)
3. Primal Scream – ‘XTRMNTR’ (RS – DF)
4. Arctic Monkeys – ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’ (RS – DF)
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – ‘Fever To Tell’ (RS – DF)
6. PJ Harvey – ‘Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea’ (RS – DF)
7. Arcade Fire – ‘Funeral’ (RS – DF)
8. Interpol – ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’ (RS – DF)
9. The Streets – ‘Original Pirate Material’ (RS – DF)
10. Radiohead – ‘In Rainbows’ (RS – DF)
11. At The Drive In – ‘Relationship Of Command’ (RS – DF)
12. LCD Soundsystem – ‘Sound Of Silver’ (RS – DF)
13. The Shins – ‘Wincing The Night Away’ (RS – DF)
14. Radiohead – ‘Kid A’ (RS – DF)
15. Queens Of The Stone Age – ‘Songs For The Deaf’ (RS – DF)
16. The Streets – ‘A Grand Don’t Come For Free’ (RS – DF)
17. Sufjan Stevens – ‘Illinois’ (RS – DF)
18. The White Stripes – ‘Elephant’ (RS – DF)
19. The White Stripes – ‘White Blood Cells’ (RS – DF)
20. Blur – ‘Think Tank’ (RS – DF)
21. The Coral – ‘The Coral’ (RS – DF)
22. Jay-Z – ‘The Blueprint’
23. Klaxons – ‘Myths Of The Near Future’ (RS – DF)
24. The Libertines – ‘The Libertines’ (RS – DF)
25. The Rapture – ‘Echoes’ (RS – DF)
26. Dizzee Rascal – ‘Boy in Da Corner’ (RS – DF)
27. Amy Winehouse – ‘Back To Black’ (RS – DF)
28. Johnny Cash – ‘The Man Comes Around’ (RS – DF)
29. Super Furry Animals – ‘Rings Around The World’
30. Elbow – ‘Asleep In The Back’ (RS – DF)
31. Bright Eyes – ‘I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning’ (RS – DF)
32. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – ‘Show Your Bones’ (RS – DF)
33. Arcade Fire – ‘Neon Bible’ (RS – DF)
34. Grandaddy – ‘The Sophtware Slump’
35. Babyshambles – ‘Down In Albion’ (RS – DF)
36. Spirtualized – ‘Let it Come Down’
37. The Knife – ‘Silent Shout’ (RS – DF)
38. Bloc Party – ‘Silent Alarm’ (RS – DF)
39. Crystal Castles – ‘Crystal Castles’ (RS – DF)
40. Ryan Adams – ‘Gold’
41. Wild Beasts – ‘Two Dancers’
42. Vampire Weekend – ‘Vampire Weekend’ (RS – DF)
43. Wilco – ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ (RS – DF)
44. Outkast – ‘Speakerboxxx/The Love Below’
45. Avalanches – ‘Since I Left You’
46. The Delgados – ‘The Great Eastern’
47. Brendan Benson – ‘Lapalco’
48. The Walkmen – ‘Bows and Arrows’ (RS – DF)
49. Muse – ‘Absolution’ (RS – DF)
50. MIA – ‘Arular’ (RS – DF)
NME Albums Of 2009
1. The Horrors - Primary Colours
2. The XX - The XX
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
4. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
5. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
6. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
7. The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love
8. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
9. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
10. Jamie T - Kings & Queens
11. Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
12. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
13. La Roux - La Roux
14. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
15. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
16. Girls - Album
17. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
18. Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
19. The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms
20. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
21. Health - Get Color
22. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
23. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
24. Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
25. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
26. Florence And The Machine - Lungs
27. PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
28. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
29. Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young
30. The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant
31. Micachu & The Shapes - Jewellery
32. Noah And The Whale - First Days Of Spring
33. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
34. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
35. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
36. The Drums - Summertime! Ep
37. Passion Pit - Manners
38. Pissed Jeans - Kings Of Jeans
39. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
40. Crystal Stilts - Alight Of Night
41. Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
42. Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
43. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight
44. Oneida - Rated O
45. Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
46. Gallows - Grey Britain
47. Telepathe - Dance Mother
48. Atlas Sound - Logos
49. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
50. Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose
Top 10 Re Issues
1. Spritualized – Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
2. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
3. Kraftwerk – The Man Machine
4. Spaceman 3 – The Perfect Prescription
5. Radiohead – Kid A
6. Siouxsie And The Banshees - A Kiss In The Dreamhouse
7. St Etienne – Foxbase Alpha
8. Daniel Johnson – Yip/Jump Music
9. The Raincoats – The Raincoats
10. The Feelies – Crazy Rhythms
NME Tracks Of The Year 2009
1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
2. The Horrors – The Sea Within A Sea
3. The Big Pink – Dominoes
4. Dizzee Rascal – Bonkers
5. Animal Collective – My Girls
6. Jay-Z – Empire State Of Mind
7. The Drums – Let’s Go Surfing
8. La Roux – In For The Kill
9. Lady Gagaga – Paparazzi
10. Health – Die Slow
11. Arctic Monkeys – Cornerstone
12. Kasabian – Fire
13. Julian Casablancas – 11th Dimention
14. Jamie T – Sticks ‘N Stones
15. Arctic Monkeys – Crying Lightning
16. Bat For Lashes – Daniel
17. Memory Tapes – Bicycle
18. Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo
19. La Roux 0 In For The Kill (Scream Mix)
20. Lily Allen – The Fear
21. Lady Gagagagagag – Poker Face
22. The Big Pink – Velvet
23. Dirty Projectors – Stillness Is The Move
24. La Roux – Bulletproof
25. Biffy Clyro – That Golden Rule
26. Wild Beasts – Hooting And Howling
27. Chew Lips – Solo
28. The XX - Islands
29. Shakira – She Wolf
30. Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart
31. Future Of The Left – Amazing Eritrea
32. Grizzly Bear – While You Wait For The Others
33. Phoenix – Lisztomania
34. Friendly Fires – Jump In The Pool
35. Little Boots – New In Town
36. Washed Out – Feel It All Around
37. Bon Iver – Blood Bank
38. Girls – Hellhole Retrace
39. Fuck Buttons – Surf Solar
40. Frightened Rabbit – Swim Until You Can’t See The Land
41. La Roux – I’m Not Your Toy
42. Manic Street Preachers – Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
43. Biffy Clyro – The Captain
44. Friendly Fires – Skeleton Boy
45. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
46. Jay-Z – DOA (Death Of Auto Tune)
47. The Maccabees – No Kind Words
48. Florance And The Machine – Drumming Song
49. The Cribs – Cheat On Me
50. The Twilight Sad – I Became A Prostitute
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