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Strokes' Julian Casablancas 'psyched' to top NME Albums Of The Decade list

Singer reacts to topping NME poll

The Strokes' Julian Casablancas has said he is "psyched" that his band's 2001 debut album 'It This It' was voted top of NME's albums of the decade poll.

The frontman told NME.COM that he was giving himself a "mental high-five" over the result.

"It's totally crazy!" he said. "Does it mean it's a good musical decade or a bad musical decade? I'm such a bad judge of my own stuff. But I thought it was great when I heard. I'm pretty damn psyched with myself – mental high-five!"

Recalling the recording of the album, he said: "I know it took about 30 days. We wanted it to sound like we just walked into a room, recorded it and didn't care, but there was always work behind it.

"We played shows a few months before recording and we played that exact setlist. We knew what worked, what was cool."

For more on the Top 50, including the full interview with Casablancas, plus chats with The Libertines' Carl Barat and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, get the new issue of NME, out now.

Head to NME.COM/albumsofthedecade to see the 100 albums of the decade, listen to the songs featured and read the original NME reviews.

http://www.nme.com/list/albums-of-the-decade/158049

This or Kid A.

I think NME nailed both #1 & #2, but yeah, Kid A would be #3 for me.

I am not opposed to this.

Sure why not.

i hear room on fire as a more enjoyable album over countless listens, but the impact of is this it is undeniable.

Yeah, my personal preference is for Room on Fire, but this is not the abject failure that most lists will have at #1.

(It does kind of say that despite all the "sonic experimentalism" of the past decade that we never really got beyond sleazy rock n roll about drugs and girls - which I can wholeheartedly endorse!)

I've kind of laughed off NME and quit taking them seriously. But that Top 10 is pretty interesting and I think sort of good. I haven't read the entire list yet.

Definitely something refreshing about this list.

I'm learning with every list I see that not owning Mclusky Do Dallas may be the biggest hole in my collection from this decade.

This record is definitely up there, I'd probably put the Libertines Up The Bracket at first though.

Glad to see Boy in the Corner as high as it is, but they could have swapped it with one of the two consecutive White Stripes to get the decade's best into their top twenty.

Great list. Glad they didn't bend over backwards for this decade's Radiohead hype and put them behind a few others.

And hey, now I've heard a Primal Scream song.

Is this really an interesting list? All but 3 or so of the top 10 are NME poster children. The list is heavily weighted toward the first half of the decade, which coincided with the tiny British insurgence of your Libertines, your Doves, your Bloc Party, etc., which obviously NME is going to love. There are at least 3 Pete Doherty efforts on there, which no surprise there. Everything YYYs or Arcade Fire did. Lots of Muse. That last Shins album (and above their good albums)? It seems like a bad list in every way you'd expect NME to make a bad list.

And it should come as no surprise that it's gotten a more positive response so far than any other list posted.

If this is true, the Vines would have been #1. Do you remember the Vine hype on NME?

Somehow what's been neglected is that they polled tons of people outside the magazine for their list: bands, producers, industry people, etc.

i'll bet alternative press's top 100 goes over well here.

which means, fuck, maybe they do know what they're talking about.

I would say the most interesting album on the top 20 is At The Drive In. Interesting because I think that album is pretty terrible.

Man I want to hear some Sleepy Jackson right now.

Also that Blur album is a tad too high.

Goddamn "Lovers" is still a great fucking album.

Yeah man. I'm playing that tomorrow.

Hell yes!

same here.