Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. When You Were Young - The Killers
2. America - Razorlight
3. Monster - The Automatic
4. Chelsea Dagger - The Fratellis
5. When The Sun Goes Down - Arctic Monkeys
6. Bang Bang You're Dead - Dirty Pretty Things
7. Lonely At The Top - The Ordinary Boys
8. Suzie - Boy Kill Boy
9. You Can Have It All - Kaiser Chiefs
10. The Fallen - Franz Ferdinand
11. Gold Lion - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
12. Lost and Found - Feeder
13. 22 Grand Job - The Rakes
14. X-Ray - The Maccabees
15. Make Her Cry - The Marshals
16. Get Myself Into It - The Rapture
17. Ice Cream - New Young Pony Club
18. London Bridge - Dogs
19. Woman - Wolfmother
20. House Party At Boothy's - Little Man Tate

Disc 2:

1. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
2. Is It Any Wonder? - Keane
3. She Moves In Her Own Way - The Kooks
4. Trains To Brazil - Guillemots
5. Harrowdown Hill - Thom Yorke
6. Blackened Blue Eyes - The Charlatans
7. Albion - Babyshambles
8. Nature's Law - Embrace
9. So Here We Are - Bloc Party
10. When The Night Feels My Song - Bedouin Soundclash
11. Accident & Emergency - Patrick Wolf
12. Young Folks - Peter, Bjorn And John
13. Ticket to Immortality - The Dears
14. Rocky Took A Lover - Bell X1
15. 1 - Joy Zipper
16. Writer's Block - Just Jack
17. You're Gonna Loose Us - The Cribs
18. Send in the Boys - Milburn
19. Sea Of Trouble - Cord
20. Elusive - Scott Matthews

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5379 in Music
• Released on: 2006-11-13
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set
• Running time: 141 minutes

Customer Reviews

Hmmmm....
Well I have to say I agree with the previous review. Razorlight? The Automatic? The Fratellis? The Kooks? And that goddamn Chasing Cars? This album contradicts the opinioin of NME in a bizarre. Saying that buy this if it's only for bands like The Rakes, The Maccabees and Peter Bjorn and John.

Not bad!
There are a lot of good bands of this album however the second half of each CD i dont know of any of the bands but some of the some are great. I bought this album because i really like razorlight and snow patrol etc and i wanted an album which has similar stuff on it. Overall i think this is a really good album with just a few songs you want to skip!

Did NME really compile this?!
Having just stumbled upon this item for sale, I must admit to being rather perplexed as to the artists it features.

A regular reader of NME, I buy the magazine for its discussion of all that is new and different in the world of indie. Naturally, the input of record companies requires that certain bands be featured in their magazine from time to time regardless of the what the writers want to promote and this I understand. But to put out a CD containing half the contents of the Radio 1 playlist (such is the indie/pop crossover these days)as suggested in the previous reviewer, this seems like a purely money-making exercise to please a few record company bods at Christmas.

So come on NME, what do you really believe in? You suggest in your pages each week that great new music comes in the shape of Larrikin Love, The Long Blondes, Klaxons, The Sunshine Underground etc - where are they in this collection of 'essential' bands? Can you please stand up and tell us what you really like?!

I'm not denying there's some good stuff on here in places. But Razorlight - Essential Band?! Save my ears, please.....