Track Listing

Disc 1:

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

Disc 2:

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8570 in Music
• Released on: 2006-11-13
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set
• Running time: 141 minutes

Customer Reviews

Usual Suspects
The predecessor album to this was better, but 2005 was probably a better year for guitar bands than 2006 - not that you can knock a year that produced songs like Razorlight's America or the Automatic's Monster. Yes, there are some very fine songs here, and an eclectic mix of the well known and the not so well known, the new and the not so new. If this is the type of music you like you just can't go wrong with 40 tracks for around a tenner.

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.....