Na segunda posição da lista, elaborada por músicos, produtores, compositores e executivos da indústria musical, aparece “Up Bracket”, dos Libertines, logo seguido pelo6º registo dos Primal Scream, “XTRMNTR”.

Fora das medalhas, está, na quarta posição, “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”, dos Artic Monkeys, e, na quinta, “Fever to Tell”, dos Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Do top 10 fazem ainda parte “Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea”, de PJ Harvey; “Funeral”, dos Arcade Fire; “Turn on the Bright Lights”, dos Interpol; “Original Pirate Material”, dos The Streets; e “In Rainbows”, dos Radiohead.

Destaque aindapara os Libertines, que vêem dois dos seus álbuns na lista (“Up Bracket”, no 2º lugar, e “Libertines”, no 24º) – façanha repetida pelos Yeah Yeah Yeahs (com “Fever to Tell”, no 5º lugar, e “Show Your Bones”, no 32º), Arcade Fire (com “Funeral, no 7º lugar, e “Neon Bible”, no 33º), The Streets (com “Original Pirate Material”, no 9º lugar, e “A Grand Don’t Come for Free”, no 16º), Radiohead (com “In Rainbows”, no 10º lugar, e “Kid A”,no 14º), e White Stripes (com “Elephant”, no 18º lugar, e “White Blood Cells”, no 19º).

Confere aqui a lista completa dos 50 melhores álbuns da década para o NME:

1. The Strokes – Is This It
2. The Libertines – Up The Bracket
3. Primal Scream – Xtrmntr
4. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell
6. PJ Harvey – Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
7. Arcade Fire – Funeral
8. Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights
9. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
10. Radiohead – In Rainbows
11. At The Drive In – Relationship Of Command
12. LCD Soundsystem – The Sound Of Silver
13. The Shins – Wincing The Night Away
14. Radiohead – Kid A
15. Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf
16. The Streets – A Grand Don`t Come For Free
17. Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise
18. The White Stripes – Elephant
19. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
20. Blur – Think Tank
21. The Coral – The Coral
22. Jay-Z – The Blueprint
23. Klaxons – Myths Of The Near Future
24. The Libertines – The Libertines
25. The Rapture – Echoes
26. Dizzee Rascal – Boy in Da Corner
27. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
28. Johnny Cash – Man Comes Around
29. Super Furry Animals – Rings Around The World
30. Elbow – Asleep In The Back
31. Bright Eyes – I`m Wide Awake, It`s Morning
32. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
33. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
34. Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump
35. Babyshambles – Down In Albion
36. Spirtualized – Let it Come Down
37. The Knife – Silent Shout
38. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
39. Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
40. Ryan Adams – Gold
41. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
42. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
43. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
44. Outkast – Loveboxxx/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
49. Muse – Absolution
50. MIA – Arular

Sara Novais