The top 25 albums of the past decade

So it would seem we have reached the end of yet another year, however, unlike the previous nine, this new year is significant because it also gives us the beginning of a new decade. Perhaps the typical new years resolutions could be elongated to cover a ten year plan, undoubtedly this decade will bring with it new fashions, styles, arts and a whole new idea of whats 'cool' and what simply isn't. Also this decade will bring a new crop of bands, kids who've discovered skinny fit jeans, guitars and the first strokes record, kids who've found flannel shirts, bass guitars and the first kings of leon record, and so on, and we anticipate with glee and quietly dread (in almost equal measure) quite what the results these meetings of pubescent testoterone will bring. Alongside these new bands their contemporaries will stand, those strong enough to make it through the previous (in some cases several previous) decade(s), those so good that we are not content to be left with what they have already providied, we want more. Here I have concocted a list of the top 25 albums they and many others of the past decade has graciously left us to trivialise and ponder, to enjoy and revel in, and ultimatley to savour.

1. Up The Bracket - The Libertines
2. Kasabian - Kasabian
3. Funeral - Arcade Fire
4. Only By The Night - Kings Of Leon
5. In Rainbows - Radiohead
6. Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
7. B.R.M.C. - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
8. Fever To Tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
9. Is This It - The Strokes
10. West Ryder Pauper Lunactic Asylum - Kasabian
11. The Back Room - Editors
12. Hot Fuss - The Killers
13. Whatever People Say I am, Thats What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
14. American Idiot - Green Day
15. Lungs - Florence And The Machine
16. The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
17. Alas, I Cannot Swim - Laura Marling
18. Journal For Plague Lovers - Manic Street Preachers
19. Consolers Of The Lonely - The Raconteurs
20. Songs For The Deaf - Queens Of The Stone Age
21. No Wow - The Kills
22. White Pony - Deftones
23. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
24. White Blood Cells - White Stripes
25. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem

This list will no doubt have ommitted some serious contenders that perhaps deserve a mention, Eminem's brilliant Marshall Mathers EP, either Amy Winehouse's Frank or indeed the critically acclaimed Back To Black record or MGMT's slice of acid fuelled electro pop Oracular Spectacular. How about Interpol's dark and disturbing Antics, Jay-Z's Blueprint, Radiohead's awesomely experimental and potentially damaging Kid A.......the list of albums that could, but didn't, make the list is arguably endless. Any similar compilation made will have its points of contention to anybody. Does that mean one selection is batter than another? Does it mean one critic is ill-informed in some way? Does it mean that someone is simply wrong? No, absolutely not, what it does mean however, refreshingly, is that the noughties provided us with some fucking good music, so lets hope the 10's are ready to live up to the challenge laid before them.