short memories?

from a magazine which has become a joke. At most, two would have made Bargepole's list, depending on the mood of the day.

are the top 10 albums from the last decade that are owned by their readers I would guess.

Either that, or they haven't listened to what I've been listening to these past 120 months.
There's no Road To Escondido for a start. And Arcade Fire? Please.

The first thing I noticed is that there is not a single Lucinda Williams album in the list. There are at least 3 White Stripes albums. I'd have thought one was enough. It lists Chrome Dreams II at 29. Jeez, it's not even Neil's 29th best album. it also includes Prairie Wind, a pleasant but hardly essential album. I don't see Steve Earle's El Corazon their either.
It could signal the final parting of the ways for me and Uncut. I buy it most months, but for some time felt I wasn't on their wavelength; this list confirms it.

Reminds me why I let my subscription lapse a couple of years ago.

Happily agree with Heartbreaker by Ryan Adams though.

without having studied the full list, or having considered what my own list would be, but having said that, there are some fantastic albums in the 150. I would also suggest that if Word publish their own list of albums we would all find plenty to take issue with.

Panto bookings assured.

even for a rock mag, also what does Richard Hawley have to do to get some recognition in his own land? Also Uncut scribes are the only ones it seems not to spend Saturday night dancing around their kitchens to Girls aloud or the Sugarbabes.
Lastly don't they have the internet over at IPC?

those three words sum up Uncut and it is why I don't buy it much anymore

Less popular than Word? Round here maybe, but they sell more copies, so by all reasonable measures they are more popular.

On the list. I don't like Arcade Fire. I am very surprised by White Stripes being number 1. I love the band in theory and have bought some of their records, but rarely listen to them. As for A Ghost Is Born, I have all Wilco's albums and hate that one. It's an incoherent mess, with endless, pointless guitar solos that kill any continuity the record could have. The new one's much better.

So, looks like a good list to me...!!

Are there really 150 good albumns from the last decade? 15 a year that stand up, somehow I doubt it.

or are there less really likeable/lovable albums from this decade than any since... the album era started? People are still making good music but an awful lot of it's cool-cold, unsociably insular, brittle or prickly.

That's ridiculous.
Anyone would think they were just trying to fill space in their mag.
Have the record companies lobbied with overstocked items?

Noone should have more than 100 albums anyway... and only 10% of them should be from the last decade. New rule!

why we are debating another magazine's albums of the decade.

However - the answer won't change when it's The Word's turn

It's Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther

Cant see how anyone doing such an exercise can excluded Back to Black from the top ten of this decade. Its gotta be in the big four.

largely tedious dadrock - two Bob Dylan albums FFS!

lazy journalism... That's all it is, fill spaces, sell spaces.
Lets ask any RT fan... is Front Parlour Ballads (as good as it is) better than Kit Bag or Mock Tudor? Or Sweet Warrior? I think not.
Methinks that the availability of the CD songs were the defining factor in deciding what was what.
Good to see the excellent Midlake up there also.
AND I can't argue with Ryan Adams Heartbreaker being up there.

Green Day - American Idiot
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence and Patience
Evanescence - Fallen
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Dandy Warhols - 13 Tales from Urban Bohemia
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
U2 - How to dismantle an atomic bomb
Joe Bonamassa - Sloe Gin
The Stooges - The Wierdness
Alabama 3 - Exile on Cold Harbour Lane
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Springsteen - The Rising
Alterbridge - Blackbird
Velvet Revolver - Contraband

Illinois ... gets my vote.

but can we have a new phrase for the dictionary please AMERICANA LANDFILL

No HJH Mono?

I'm not sure any of those albums deserve to be there...

I find that I have roughly one third of those mentioned.
Of some of the albums mentioned in this thread "The Rising" is at 19 and "Van Occupanther" at 67.
"Car Wheels.." and "Time out of Mind" were released in the 90's surely?

I still don't really understand the critics fawning over "A Ghost is Born" I can't listen to the bloody thing.

Hope Uncut isn't going to go the way of Q and have month after month of what I call "lazy lists". I mean they give us a Top 50 every year and it wouldn't have took much to sift through the last 9 and cobble together a list of 150 would it?

It always amuses me why people get on their high horses about such lists.
It's a subjective choice, get over yourselves.
As for the rule of not owning 150 albums and only 10 from one year - laughable.

I haven't seen the complete Uncut list, but I've a feeling that I wouldn't care for most of the items on it.
What would my best 150 albums of the noughties be? Well, these twenty would most definitely be in there.
In no particular order...

• Calvin Cameron – “Wareika Hill Sounds”
• John Surman – “The Spaces in Between”
• The Stars of the Lid – “…And Their Refinement of the Decline”
• Jan Lundgren et al – “Magnum Mysterium”
• The Go-Betweens – “Oceans Apart”
• Ry Cooder – “Chávez Ravine”
• Harold Budd – “Avalon Sutra”
• Matthew Halsall – ”Sending my Love”
• Max Richter - “Songs from Before”
• Ali Farka Touré - ”Savane”
• Anouar Brahem – ”Le Voyage de Sahar”
• Neko Case – “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood”
• Joe Jackson – “Rain”
• John Surman & Howard Moody – "Rain on the Window”
• Jóhann Jóhannsson – “Fordlandia”
• Herbie Hancock, Jonathan Klein et al – “Hear, O Israel”
• The Dowland Project – “Romaria”
• Ketil Bjørnstad – “Devotions”
• Toumani Diabaté – “The Mandé Variations”
• Nat Birchall – Akhenaten

They're wrong...

to give people like us something to talk about.

Of course my top 20 is going to be different to everyone else.

I'm not a music journalist and I loved the first Arcade Fire album. (Didn't like the second much tho).

Oh - and Heathen should be in there on merit, not cos its him.

as to why Uncut's sales are so much greater than Word. Why. How!

from the last decade is a ridiculous exercise that is inevitably going to result in scraping the bottom of several large barrels.

However...'Pitchfork' has managed to find 200 of them!

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7706-the-top-200-albums-of-the...

...Allan Jones's miopic love affair with Americanoid luddism continues unabated.

.. but that's what it was there for, to make people talk.

One thing is for certain though, the free CD is a belter.

Loads of people getting really agitated about a list of 150 albums compiled by the writers of a completely different magazine. Of course lists are pointless, of course it doesn't matter, and of course whoever compiled them is WRONGITY-WRONG. As is everyone who doesn't think that Tom Mcrae's debut and Elbow's Leaders of the Free World shouldn't be hovering at the top.

Now come here, all of you. That's right all of you. Group hug. aaaaah.

On this very site?

they chose 'White Blood Cells' over 'Elephant', always much preferred it.

On my list.

Neko Case is just great.
Cat Power?>
Aimee Mann
Norah Jones - are any of her records there?
Dianna Krall - but only Girl in the Other Room
Martha Wainwright?

Let's make a women only list.

And say no to Rock grandads. I mean I like them well enough but they have had their share of lists. (But, all the same - where was Cohen for Ten New Songs?)

is one of the most extraordinary records of this or any other decade

Moving. Beautiful. Overwhelming.

In some ways hard to listen to very often - but incredible nonetheless

Why i hardly ever buy uncut any more. They just totally Kiss Bob Dillon's A**e he is on at leat 2 covers a year with a 15 page feature inside and it's just so unnecessary.
I have to add that being a fan of electronic music this month's Mojo is excellent. Although it's still nowhere near upstaging Word in my affections

Kiss The Beatles A**e.

Americanas ass

I actually bought this edition of Uncut the other day - by accident! Having grabbed a copy of Mojo because Kraftwerk were featured, I realised the cover was damaged so swapped it for another in a hurry. On getting home, I realised I had picked up Uncut instead - both covers are red (yes, my observational skills were that basic).

However, 3 things struck me about the magazine

(1) How can any list of the last 10 years not include American Idiot? i'm not a massive fan of Green Day, but that album has made a massive impact in this country among folk who might not normally buy music from that genre.

(2) Brian Wilson at number 4? I loved the Beach Boys, and was genuinely touched by his attempt at creating Pet Sounds live. But Smile is 40 years old, and is a retread of old material. yes, I know it never saw an official release previously, but it's an old record.

(3) I won't be buying it again

There were many aspects of the list that seemed genuinely out of touch with the constituency they are trying to appeal to.