10 albums you might have missed last decade.

It's easy to crown the strokes 'is this it' the best album of the decade... look at how easy it actually is.



The english cover.



I'm aware that half of my readership is one third american (another third being myself) so I've included the american less offensive cover.

The strokes 'is this it' is the best album of the decade.

There. Thats how easy it is, but it is total and utter shite, it was a fucking bland boring and ultimately overrated album. I hope it burns in hell like the Julian Cassablancas solo album.

What I offer you is the chance to listen to several albums you may have missed over the past decade if you don't have your finger on the pulse like I do.



2001 was the year of the twin towers coming down... emerging from the ashes came Kimya Dawson & Adam Green, the key components of the band the Moldy Peaches. Their debut album was actually released several months earlier in the UK than in America but the US release actually occured on September 11th. The track 'New York City is Like a Graveyard' was released because it was thought to be insensitive. Ah well, the US's loss is our gain because it is a fucking awesome track. The album has a totally lo-fi feel and is a the jewel in the crown of the 90s New York anti folk movement. They found fame last year when their music was used on the soundtrack to the film Juno, which catapulted them into the mainstream long after they split in 2003 The absolute highlight on their debut album for most is 'who's got the crack'




With all of the Daft Punk Shenanigans its easy to forget some of the other contemporaries from the first wave of french dance music to hit us at the end of the 90s and early noughties, this album was so fucking ace that madonna hunted down Mirwais and forced him to literally produce her 2000 album 'music'.
The tail end of the 2000 saw the release of production, an understated but mamoth electronic album, Madge even made an appearance with 'paradise, not for me' the only weak song on the album in my humble opinion. 'Disco Science' is the one that many people may have heard on the soundtrack to the film 'snatch' but an unmistakable highlight is 'Naaive Song'



I'm starting to feel like a VH1 VJ, that guy with the silvery hair who used to be on old school MTV before it became fucking shit.

I often think that if Take that wore glasses and sung in icelandic gobbledigook that they would have a little bit more in the way of critical acclaim. I also think that if Sigur Ros sang songs about stars going out for you and used to be a pop band cynically aimed at gays in manchester, they would be Take That. Strange comparisons aside (listening to Take That's 'rule the world' really reminds me of Sigur Ros and no one else seems to be able to hear it except me.) Here is a fantastic track from the album Aegaetis byrjun.



The Field is Axel Willner and his Debut album was aptly titled 'from here we go to sublime' trancy as fuck but amazing start to finish.



No evaluation of Noughties music would be complete without New York based Jeenius James Murphy's debut LCD soundsystem by LCD soundsystem. Although this didn't make the cut of the debut album it did appear on the initial release as one of several bonus tracks.



Losing my edge, one of my all time favourite tracks by a New York band between 2000 and 2009.

So here are 5 great albums that are not the Libertines or the Strokes or Radiohead or Coldplay. Not that there are anything wrong with these bands, even if they are all shit.