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Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Top Fifty Albums of the Noughties : 2-10

Well we're nearly there now, just the Big One to go, and just in time before I completely run out of adjectives to describe musical noises in a hyperbolic manner.  The Top Ten then, a nice spread from the decade (only 2006 not accounted for - officially The Bad Year for tunes in the Noughties), a mainly American affair, only one solo artist, a double for Interpol, five debuts and three bands in a row that went from four to three-pieces shortly after the albums at positions 2, 3 and 4 were released bizarrely enough.  So what's Number One?  Well I'm not telling yet, but you can always guess - there are a couple of clues in the summary I've just given to chew over.

10 ‘Turn On the Bright Lights’ by Interpol (2003)
9 'It's Blitz!' by Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2009)
8 'Is This It' by The Strokes (2001)
7 'In Rainbows' by Radiohead (2007)
6 'Sea Change' by Beck (2002)
5 'Antidotes' by Foals (2008)
4 'Xx' by The Xx (2009)
3 'Our Love to Admire' by Interpol (2007)
2 'and the Glass Handed Kites' by Mew (2005)

As well as the Spotify playlists with a selection from each album so far (2-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40 and 41-50), there's also a shorter one for those of you like me with short attention spans (Noughties Shorts) here.

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