Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Oasis - Lord Don't Slow Me Down
2. Amy Winehouse - Valerie
3. Hard-Fi - Suburban Knights
4. Kaiser Chiefs - The Angry Mob
5. The Killers - Read My Mind
6. Kate Nash - Foundations
7. Razorlight - Hold On
8. Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race
9. The Twang - Either Way
10. Maximo Park - Books From Boxes
11. The Hours - Ali In The Jungle
12. The Fratellis - Whistle For The Choir
13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Down Boy
14. Pj Harvey - When Under Ether
15. Noisettes - The Count Of Monte Christo
16. The Maccabees - About Your Dress
17. Milburn - What Will You Do (When�
18. Alterkicks - Cannibal Hiking Disaster
19. The Rumble Strips - Girls And Boys In Love
20. The Holloways - Generator

Disc 2:

1. Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm (Live)
2. Babyshambles - Delivery
3. Reverend And The Makers - He Said He Loved Me
4. Lily Allen - Ldn
5. The Enemy - Away From Here
6. Klaxons - It's Not Over Yet
7. Ian Brown - Illegal Attacks
8. Keane - The Night Sky
9. Bloc Party - Hunting For Witches
10. Biffy Clyro - Folding Stars
11. Gossip - Jealous Girls
12. Css - Let's Make Love And Listen To Death�
13. Battles - Atlas
14. Hadouken! - Liquid Lives
15. Patrick Wolf - Get Lost
16. Nine Black Alp - Burn Faster
17. Pull Tiger Tail - Hurricanes
18. Stereophonics - It Means Nothing
19. The Cribs - Moving Pictures
20. The Wombats - Kill The Director

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42460 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Box set, Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .24 pounds
• Running time: 85 minutes

Album Description
The fourth in the very successful NME Essential Bands series of albums features MASSIVE EXCLUSIVES from Oasis - "Lord Don't Slow Me Down" and Keane "The Night Sky". Both tracks are not available on any other album.

Once again, the album combines the unique and famous NME brand with the very best of 2007's commercial indie hits and up & coming bands. Reflecting a change in this market over 2007 the album includes the likes of Kate Nash and Amy Winehouse, alongside more familiar offerings from The Killers, Hard-Fi, Kaiser Chiefs, Babyshambles, Klaxons and The Enemy.

Customer Reviews

GOOD 07 STUFF
GOOD BASIC ALBUM, EASY ON THE EARS, NO NONSENSE,ESSENTIAL 07 COLLECTION.
A MUST HAVE DRIVING STUFF IN THE CAR.

Essential CD
Just received this CD, has all the best tracks of the year and is permanent fixture on my ipod at the moment..

Good work NME

Essential Bands?
What a predicatable load of tosh from the NME.

Oasis were an essential band five years ago; Keane have never been an essential band.

This compilation largely features tracks that are freely available elsewhere, but would make an ideal Christmas present for an uncle who yearns to be trendy but misses the point entirely.

If it wasn't for the inclusion of the excellent Battles track, this would rate zero.

Avoid at all costs.