Sergeant Noel taught the band to play?

Heathen Chemistry.

How old are you?

In the same league as DM and MG :

Pulp's Different Class and This is Hardcore are perfect albums from start to finish.

I'd say even Blur's self titled is pretty perfect too.

then :

The Libertines debut is close to perfection, but just close.

Foxygen's We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic

Weezer's Pinkerton

To name a few.

I didn't mean anything bad, it's just that I was thinking the same about AM when I was 19.

Now, few years later, I realize how wrong I was. DM and WPSIATWIN are not even close when it comes to album quality. But then again, maybe I will think different 5 years from now.

But I don't think that it will happen. I respect Oasis more and more with every day that goes by, I see more clearly now their flaws but they were the last and I respect them even more because of that. Beatles cover band, stealing from other musicians blah blah blah... But there is no new Noel Gallagher after Noel Gallagher. I think that something like DLBIA, for example, will always be 10/10 for me, up there with Hey Jude and great pop songs like that and with Mozart, Bach...

Arctic Monkeys are great teenage pop indie band and I still remember that night when I was going to some music festival and I was listening WPSIATWIN in the bus. It's such a powerful album when you are 19, I remember putting my headphones on while entering the bus. I remember where I was, what I was doing, what I was watching for every song on that album. Fuck, I can smell it still. And yes, it was great. But I don't have that great feeling now when I listen to that album. And without that feeling, it's not the same. Yes, it's still good and all that, but you know, just mid 2000s indie.

The Strokes' debut.

The National - High Violet

Santigold's debut.

Must-haves, just like DM is.

You summed up the exact feeling I also have toward Arctic's debut. It has not aged well.

Watching their live performances from the past few years, I can tell that the band themselves feel the same way playing the songs as you do listening to them.

They look as if they have outgrown the music itself and I guess that youthful energy that went into writing the songs just isn't there anymore.

At the end of the day music is about how it makes you feel, and both of these albums make me feel like I've been on a rollercoaster ride when I get to the end, but as you said, maybe I will feel different in 5 years, maybe I wont, maybe jesus christ would have been a paedophile if he had a crisp packet on his head, who knows...