The Strokes land album of the decade

THE STROKES's debut LP has been named album of the decade.

Is This It, released in 2001, was awarded the accolade by music magazine NME, with The Libertines' 2002 debut Up the Bracket coming in second.

Primal Scream's XTRMNTR came in third in the magazine's top 50 albums of the last ten years.

The cover of Is This It, which includes hits like Last Nite and Someday, features an image of a naked woman wearing a black vinyl glove, in what many believe paid homage to spoof rock band Spinal Tap's fictitious album Smell The Glove.

The Strokes' lead frontman Julian Casablancas said: "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 don't want to get carried away, but I'm pretty damn psyched with myself."

Other albums that made the lists included Arctic Monkeys' Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, The Streets' Original Pirate Material and Radiohead's In Rainbows.