U2 best band of decade in FHM poll

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers hit Californication has been voted the best album of the last 10 years.

U2 have been voted the best band of the past decade in a survey by FHM magazine, followed by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Oasis and Coldplay.

U2's All that You Can’t Leave Behind was named fourth best album.

In the poll, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers' hit Californication was voted the best album of the last 10 years.

Oasis smash (What’s the Story) Morning Glory (1995) came second in the poll.

Californication was released five years ago and has gone on to sell more than 15 million copies for the American rock band, who first emerged in 1983.

Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) takes third place, in front of the album U2 released in the same year, All that You Can’t Leave Behind.

Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002) and Radiohead’s OK Computer (1997) take joint fifth and sixth place.

Coldplay’s debut Parachutes (2000), is seventh in the FHM poll, followed by the Prodigy’s the Fat of the Land (1997).

The oldest album in the top 10 – Blur’s Parklife (1994) – came ninth, followed by The Verve’s Urban Hymns (1997).

The Matrix (1999), starring Keanu Reeves, was voted the best film of the decade, followed by the last in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Return of the King, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994), The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and Fight Club (1999).

FHM surveyed 100,000 people online.