NME put out their list of the best albums of 2009. As I expected, it’s full of noisy, obscure Indie bands whose hipster factor outweighs their actual musical talent. I hadn’t heard of most of the bands (not surprising. I’m not British and I don’t read the NME) but I had a few of the albums on the list. Here’s my rankings, based on the music and how much I listened to that album:
| Artist | Album | My Rank |
NME Rank |
| Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand Tonight: | 1 | 43 |
| Lily Allen | It’s Not Me, It’s You | 2 | 25 |
| Kasabian | West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum | 3 | 11 |
| Arctic Monkeys | Humbug | 4 | 12 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | It’s Blitz! | 5 | 3 |
| Phoenix | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 6 | 34 |
| Florence And The Machine | Lungs | 7 | 26 |
| Empire Of The Sun | Walking On A Dream | 8 | 42 |
| Passion Pit | Manners | 9 | 37 |
| Bat For Lashes | Two Suns | 10 | 22 |
So me and the NME don’t agree… At all. I listened to the top 10 and was not impressed. Methinks their writers are just trying to one-up each another in an inter-office indie battle of artfullness, disregarding what the listeners think.