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The Strokes – Is This It

The Strokes’ debut album Is This It as the album of the decade. As the noughties comes to a close, NME – along with an impressive list of artists and music experts – have voted for the best albums from the past decade to produce a list of the top 50. Spanning from Arctic Monkeys to Jay-Z, the list sees The Strokes’ Is This It topping the bill to be crowned as NME’s Album Of The Decade.

The Strokes’ lead singer Julian Casablancas says of the title ‘It's totally crazy! I don't know what that means. Does it mean it's a good musical decade or a bad musical decade? I don't know, I'm such a bad judge of my own stuff. But I thought it was great when I heard. Recording the album was fun, it was stressing, it was exciting. I think if I was to know then that I'd be having this conversation now I couldn't be more pleased. I'm restraining myself now, I don't want to get carried away, but I'm pretty damn psyched with myself. Mental high five!’

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