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curious to see 'bossy' in there.

winehouse is great.

44 Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Ballard of The Broken Seas (pretty but mimsy; inessential)
41 The Gossip – Standing In The Way of Control (brilliant title track; can't remember what the rest is like)
30 Cat Power – The Greatest (rather lovely actually)
23 The Knife – Silent Shout (GENIUS)
16 Amy Winehouse – Back To Black (GREAT)
06 Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere (still not bothered to listen to, must rectify)
05 CSS – Cansei De Ser Sexy (three great songs, the rest is shit indie)
02 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones (i really like this)

singles i approve of:

44 Regina Spektor – "Fidelity
42 Kelis – "Bossy"
33 Nelly Furtado – "Promiscuous"
28 Hot Chip – "Boy From School" (the erol alkan rmx is SO GOOD)
24 Lupe Fiasco – "Kick, Push"
18 Justice Vs Simian – "We Are Your Friends" (though HELLO 2003)
10 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – "Cheated Hearts"
07 Amy Winehouse – "Rehab"
06 CSS – "Let's Make Love and Listen To Death From Above"
05 Gnarls Barkley – "Crazy"
03 The Gossip – "Standing In The Way Of Control"
01 Hot Chip – "Over and Over"

does it contain msg or mp3????

Of the NME's Top 50 albums, precisely three will appear in my CoM Top 50; the lowest crossover ever.

Lex did you actually hear We Are Your Friends in 2003 or are you just posing? Note - "I first heard it in 2005 like everyone else" is not a valid answer.

Also, should I poll the top 20 singles in the other place?

and yes but not yet because my top 20 singles are currently a 200-strong MESS

xp

Cat Power, The Knife and Amy Whinehouse?

I can see how that could happen, and in fact nearly had a piece in The Guardian this coming Friday that runs tangentially to that issue. I can assure you that the Stylus list wont be put together that way.

World shaken on its axis by this sensational news. DJ Martian dies in apoplectic rage.

Surprised about the omission of Newsom.

Bill - one out of three.

I'm looking forward to the Stylus list.

The CoM list isn't going to pretend to be anything other than the fifty albums which I personally liked best in 2006 - it is NOT a Definitive Overview - but I can assure readers now that no favours have been involved in its compilation and that everything is there on merit alone.

I can assure you that the Stylus list wont be put together that way.

Yeah, like anyone in Music PR has ever heard of Stylus. BURRRRRNED!

Considering the 1,300 unread emails in my Stylus account telling me what KT Tunstall and J Dilla are up to next week, some of the bastards must have.

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There is, if we define what we consider a "good NME list" to be. And the two lists that spring to mind for me are the ones from 1996 and 2000, because both of them suprised me, neither pandered to a scene, and they each had several record included, and highly, that I thought were great.

2000
1. Queens Of The Stone Age – Rated R
2. Primal Scream – Exterminator
3. PJ Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
4. Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
5. At The Drive-In – Relationship Of Command
6. Coldplay – Parachutes
7. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
8. Doves – Lost Souls
9. Super Furry Animals – Mwng
10. Kelis – Kaleidoscope
11. Radiohead – Kid A
12. Granddaddy – The Sophtware Slump
13. Lambchop – Nixon
14. Yo La Tengo – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
15. Teenage Fanclub – Howdy!
16. Godspeed You Black Emperor! – Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennas To Heaven
17. Elliott Smith – Figure 8
18. The For Carnation – The For Carnation
19. The Go-Betweens – The Friend Of Rachel Worth
20. Richard Ashcroft – Alone With Everybody
21. Wu-Tang Clan – The W
22. Delta – Slippin’ Out
23. Broadcast – The Noise Made By People
24. Six By Seven – The Closer You Get
25. Jeff Buckley – Mystry White Boy
26. Bell And Sebastian – Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
27. Smog – Dongs Of Sevotion
28. The Delgados – The Great Eastern
29. The Dandy Warhols – Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
30. The Kingsbury Manx – The Kingsbury Manx
31. Two Lone Swordsman – Tiny Reminders
32. Johnny Cash – American Iii: Solitary Man
33. Shellac – 1000 Hurts
34. Marilyn Manson – Holy Wood (In The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death)
35. Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
36. Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele
37. Paul Weller – Heliocentric
38. Leila – Courtesy Of Choice
39. Asian Dub Foundation – Community Music
40. Black Box Recorder – The Facts Of Life
41. David Holmes – Bow Down To The Exit Sign
42. Outkast – Stankonia
43. Clinic – Internal Wrangler
44. Amen – We Have Come For Your Parents
45. Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker
46. Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
47. Madonna – Music
48. Q-Tip – Amplified
49. Grand Drive – True Love And High Adventure
50. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – The Blue Tree

1996

1. Beck - Odelay
2. Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
3. Orbital - In Sides
4. Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
5. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
6. Screaming Trees - Dust
7. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
8. Tricky - Pre-Millennium Tension
9. Rocket From The Crypt - Scream, Draculs, Scream!
10. Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
11. The Bluetones - Expecting To Fly
12. Suede - Coming Up
13. Placebo - Placebo
14. Kula Shaker - K
15. The Boo Radleys - C'mon Kids
16. REM - New Adventures In Hi Fi
17. Babybird - Ugly/Beautiful
18. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
19. The Divine Comedy - Casanova
20. Aphex Twin - Richard D James
21. Fun Lovin' Criminals - Come Find Yourself
22. Fugees - The Score
23. The Lemonheads - Car, Button, Cloth
24. Beth Orton - Trailer Park
25. Ash - 1977
26. New Kingdom - Paradise Don't Come Cheap
27. Nicolette - Let No One Live Rent Free In Your Head
28. Alex Reece - So Far
29. Ghostface Killah - Ironman
30. Gallon Drunk - In The Long Still Night
31. The Afghan Whigs - Black Love
32. Tiger - We Are Puppets
33. Plug - Drum 'N' Bass For Papa
34. Baby Fox - A Normal Family
35. Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
36. The Black Crows - Three Snakes And One Charm
37. Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants
38. Sebadoh - Harmacy
39. Animals That Swim - I Was The King, I Relay Was The King
40. Lilys - Better Can't Make Your Life Better
41. Nas - It Was Written
42. The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle
43. The Cardigans - The First Band On The Moon
44. John Parish/Polly Harvey - Dance Hall At Louse House
45. Red Snapper - Prince Blimey
46. Radar Brothers - Radar Brothers
47. The Future Sound Of London - Dead Cities
48. Dodgy - Free Peace Sweet
49. Urusei Yatsura - We Are Urusei Yatsura
50. Spice Girls - Spice

In heaven you sell hats, dude, is that not enough?

40 Midlake – The Trials Of Van Occupanther
39 The Young Knives – Voices Of Animals and Men
37 Be Your Own Pet – s/t
36 Datarock – Datarock Datarock
32 Lily Allen – Alright, Still
28 Morrissey – Ringleader of The Tormentors
27 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! – s/t
26 Jarvis – That Jarvis Cocker Record
23 The Knife – Silent Shout
18 The Rapture – Pieces of The People We Love
17 The Futureheads – News and Tributes
08 The Strokes – First Impressions of Earth
07 The Long Blondes – Someone To Drive You Home
05 CSS – Cansei De Ser Sexy
02 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones

44 Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Ballard of The Broken Seas (a bit dull)
25 Mogwai – Mr Beast (not bad, but not up to former glories)
22 The Flaming Lips – At War With The Mystics (not bad, but not up to former glories)

Singles I have heard (I don't buy singles)

33 Nelly Furtado – "Promiscuous" (feh. shite.)
29 The Dresden Dolls – "Back Stabber" (good, but not one of the album's strongest)
25 The Flaming Lips – "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (best song on the album)
20 Jarvis – "Running The World" (excellent in its weary anger)
13 Arctic Monkeys – "When The Sun Goes Down" (briefly surprised that it was better than I expected. still not my bag though)
07 Amy Whinehouse – "Rehab" (sweeeeeeeeeet! one of the year's best singles)
06 CSS – "Let's Make Love and Listen To Death From Above" (nowehere near as good as the title, and nowehere near as good as death from above)
05 Gnarls Barkley – "Crazy" (strong song, but not enough to make me check out the album. and I sold my gnarls tickets once the support band pulled out)
04 Muse – "Supermassive Black Hole" (one of their weaker efforts)

maybe NME isn't the mag for me anymore.

o'boy.

(We have trawled through these in depth on Poptimists in case you're wondering)

-- temporary enrique (miltonpinsk...), December 6th, 2006.

whoa nelly.

Come on Nick this is as bad as going Killers-Razorlight-Muse-Kasabian in 2006. Possibly worse.

You could say that, Lex, and I'd expect you too, only NME isn't a hiphop or r'n'b magazine, but Outkast, Ghostface and Eminem are in there, and I believe Missy got single of the year in 2001. It's head-in-sand, yes, but the nearest thing to Lex-music in the album list 2006 is Lily Allen.

Several Xs.

Looking at the 1999 and 2001 lists and while the former is better than the latter, they're both much more adventurous than 2006. Lack of editorial control isn't a bad thing if it introdues people to a wider range of good music! Unfortunately NME's remit isn't as a public servant.

xpost hivemind

23 The Knife – Silent Shout
22 The Flaming Lips – At War With The Mystics
21 The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
20 The Streets – The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
19 The Longcut – A Call And Response
18 The Rapture – Pieces of The People We Love
17 The Futureheads – News and Tributes

my first ever favourite song was 'i love your smile' by shanice in 1991, i have never not loved r&b! got into hip-hop properly around...'99 i think? still catching up on 90s stuff.

You could say that, Lex, and I'd expect you too, only NME isn't a hiphop or r'n'b magazine, but Outkast, Ghostface and Eminem are in there

yeah, this has long been a bugbear though, rock mags never admit they're genre mags and insist that they cover the entirety of popular music, precisely by inserting a couple of token genre picks like this.

Funny thing is I recall the mag itself, over the course of 2000, being a lot more inclusive than that would suggest.

i remember reading the sentence "forget white boys with guitars, black women with computers are making the best music in the world" in the nme back then! i wonder when the regressive shift back occurred, and why.

The question is whether this is JUST the NME becoming increasingly conservative or whether it reflects an increasingly conservative market.

i remember reading the sentence "forget white boys with guitars, black women with computers are making the best music in the world" in the nme back then! i wonder when the regressive shift back occurred, and why.

The regressive shift probably occurred due to its readership going 'fuck that' and IPC noticing that Aaliyah on the cover sold a hell of a lot fewer copies than Oasis on the cover.

The market has got WAY more conservative in the last five years, certainly. But we've also got THE LONG TAIL to consider now.

i was gonna bring this up, it's one of the defining moments for the nme. it's a fucking stupid sentence really, so arrogant and forgetful. it's precicely an example of the nme thinking it covers all music, of that delusion. it says 'we the nme have just heard of computers and black people, in 2001'.

crack is some bad shit!

I've heard 25 of those, maybe half of which would feature on my top 50 for the year.

No Razorlight on either list which is odd but welcome, nor Guillemots which isn't IMO.

Raconteurs won MOJO album of the year.

I note in passing that no Scritti Politti album has EVER appeared in any NME end-of-year list.

And that pandering may well be why their market isn't expanding. I think there's too much pandering. In all sorts of areas and ways.

Double X - Lex, The Strokes redefined an aesthetic for guitars, taking it from Verve/Oasis/Radiohead British ROCK maximalism to a scratchy, post-punk pseudoartrock zone. It's evolved since then, but they began it. Prior to them, there was nothing like that for years in NME's zone. QOTSA? ATDI? No way.

But most of these bands appeal to different people! I'm pretty sure there's minimal overlap between the MCR and Kasabian fanbases.

I note in passing that no Scritti Politti album has EVER appeared in any NME end-of-year list.

I'm pretty sure the album that came out c. 1999 did. Can't remember what it was called though.

as is well documented, i haven't much given a shit about nme of music in general since the 90s, but what's so weird about orbital being top three in an alternative music magazine? 'the box' was a big hit; 'satan' (in early '97) and uh 'the saint' -- also hueg. surely they sold more than cancer the sexy?

Hmm, one of the chart stattos on here might be better fielding this one but there were a fuckload of indie bands in the top 10 throughout 96. Bluetones and Suede and Placebo and Kula Shaker seemed to me to be really, really popular, on the Radio 1 A-list etc, and I don't even want to think about how many tabloid front pages Oasis had (while for all that they were still thought of as an 'indie' band, just one which had mutated into something Mothra-like and insane)

OK, than let it be '97 and 2001.

i couldn't agree more with this, except apply it to the music press - not even that, THE MEDIA IN GENERAL. so many publications seem so afraid that people might stop buying them - it seems desperate, this constant following of demographics in an attempt to give people what they want and no more.

zeus -- no.

I've just rechecked the 1999 list and it's not in there (Matt xpost).

Also with the NME its not that sales are expanding, its that they're relatively stable in an otherwise contracting sector. I think Kerrang!'s still growing and that has an even more tightly-defined brand than NME. And no one's moaning about the lack of rnb in the Kerrang top fifty.

Prince, Public Enemy and De La Soul all topped NME EOY album lists in the 80s tho

xpost to Zeus

-- temporary enrique (miltonpinsk...), December 6th, 2006.
?

i want different things from music and writing, oddly enough

Lex, it's because the magazine industry in general is overcrowded, volatile and fragile. Most of them have a 'stick to what you're good at rather than competing on other people's terms' line.

yeah, i know all the reasons and they make commercial sense and if you're all about the £££ which all mags are then there's no reason to do it otherwise, but it's still annoying because it still smacks of desperation. no leadership!

Urban Hymns, OK Computer, Be Here Now, Tellin' Stories, In It For The Money, Vanishing Point, Evergreen, Blur, etc.

White boys with guitars were coining it in in '97.

-- nu_onimo (gerry.wat...), December 6th, 2006.
Vanishing Point is rather an electronic record, not guitar, and all of the bands you mention have been in the business since '93-94, there were no newcomers to the scene. That's my point. In 1997 almost everyone claimed listening dub, triphop and jungle, from Bowie to Brett Anderson.

it also covered other tings, but they never felt 'at home', quite; but then the nme is partly a local rag, covering local bands, gossip fresh from camden, etc.

i still don't get how anyone can like this

x-post

I was agreeing with you, ie they backed a lot of horses which seem faintly ridiculous now.

Mercury Rev weren't a big band in 98-99, and they were much more of a 'Melody Maker band' in their first incarnation than they were an 'NME band' circa Deserter's Songs

I still have trouble accepting this sort of thing. I know teenagers can be fickle but I don't remember buying or not buying a music magazine purely based on who was/wasn't on the cover myself - at least not a dedicated magazine like NME where you're more in it for the NME itself not who was in it that week. Perhaps that idea collapsed because of the internet I dunno. I think it's more just that Conor M and others deduced that they could sell MORE copies every week by narrowing the focus and sensationalising things more like a celeb gossip mag, rather than significant drop in sales every time a non-rock artist was on the cover (like maybe only ever 6 times in any given year anyway).

xp to gzeus

Stone Roses? About 142 times?

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looks interesting actually!

But Steve most magazine buyers don't really think like you! Also, the people who will buy the NME week in week out no matter what aren't the concern here. It's that they'd have been able to pick up more extra readers on top of that through putting Oasis on the cover rather than Aaliyah.

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(5 DEC 1981)

Really? How do prove/disprove this? I suppose I would have to actually buy some magazines first.

It's that they'd have been able to pick up more extra readers on top of that through putting Oasis on the cover rather than Aaliyah

I did already touch on that - so as said before it was all just some marketing logic breakthrough that hadn't occurred to previous editors of the paper because either they weren't losing so many readers over time, they weren't as encouraged to care about this and/or they were too busy actually putting together a relatively decent and varied magazine. If only they'd realised sooner you could've had Morrissey on the cover every week from 1984 to 1991, Cobain from 91 to 96 and then Liam G until 2001 with the occasional allowance for Tiny Ultrasound naturally.

Abysmal - just hearing it makes my blood boil [7]

50 The Kooks - Inside In / Inside Out
42 The Automatic – Not Accepted Anywhere
20 The Streets – The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
16 Amy Whinehouse – Back To Black
13 Panic! At The Disco – A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
10 My Chemical Romance – Welcome To The Black Parade
01 Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Mediocre - ignore it's just ordinary or not my thang [26] - over 50 % of the NME 50 !

49 Absentee - Schmotime
48 Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – The Chronicles of A Bohemian Teenager
47 Wolfmother – s/t
46 Semifinalists – s/t
45 Bob Dylan – Modern Times
44 Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Ballard of The Broken Seas
41 The Gossip – Standing In The Way of Control
39 The Young Knives – Voices Of Animals and Men
38 Metric – Live It Out
37 Be Your Own Pet – s/t
35 Forward Russia – Give Me A Wall
34 Albert Hammond Jr. – Yours To Keep
33 The Bronx – s/t
32 Lily Allen – Alright, Still
31 The Sunshine Underground – Raise The Alarm
30 Cat Power – The Greatest
29 The Spinto Band – Nice and Nicely Done
27 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! – s/t
21 The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
19 The Longcut – A Call And Response
12 The Killers – Sam's Town
09 Kasabian – Empire
08 The Strokes – First Impressions of Earth
06 Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
03 Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
02 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones

Radio Listenable - included on my year albums tracking last [12]

43 Beck – The Infromation
36 Datarock – Datarock Datarock
28 Morrissey – Ringleader of The Tormentors
26 Jarvis – That Jarvis Cocker Record
24 Secret Machines – Ten Silver Drops
22 The Flaming Lips – At War With The Mystics
18 The Rapture – Pieces of The People We Love.
17 The Futureheads – News and Tributes
11 Howling Bells – s/t
07 The Long Blondes – Someone To Drive You Home
05 CSS – Cansei De Ser Sexy
04 Hot Chip – The Warning

Approve [5]

40 Midlake – The Trials Of Van Occupanther
25 Mogwai – Mr Beast
23 The Knife – Silent Shout
15 Thom Yorke – The Eraser
14 TV On The Radio – Return To Cookie Mountain

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32 Lily Allen – Alright, Still (heard, ugh)
23 The Knife – Silent Shout (own & love)
20 The Streets – The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living (heard, eek)
15 Thom Yorke – The Eraser (don't own yet, will get... sometime)
04 Hot Chip – The Warning (heard, meh)
01 Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (like in some ways, grudgingly)

PISS POOR list! NME I mean...

What was the one everyone was slating before? Uncut? Even that might have been more adventurous...

Lily Allen below Morrissey? OOH BURN!

1) Pixies - loudQUIETloud
2) Foo Fighters - Live London/Hollywood
3) Nirvana - Live! Tonight! Sold Out!
4) Walk The Line
5) Glastonbury
6) Arctic Monkeys - Scummy Man
7) Dirty Pretty Things - Puffing on A Coffin: Live At The Forum
8) My Morning Jacket - Okonokos
9) PJ Harvey - On tour
10) Maxïmo Park - Found ON Film

Games

1) Guitar Hero II
2) Gears of War
3) Dead Rising
4) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
5) Call of Duty 3
6) The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
7) Locoroco
8) Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
9) Singstar Rocks!
10) Pro Evolution Soccer 6

Books

1) Dirty Blonde - The Diaries of Courtney Love
2) The Libertines Bound Together
3) The Best of Smash Hits
4) Punk Rock: An Oral History
5) Dylan on Dylan
6) Redemption Song: The Definitive Biography of Joe Strummer
7) Pet Shop Boys Catalogue
8) Pete Doherty: My Prodigal Son
9) Popjustice books
10) Stand & Deliver: The Autobiography - Adam Ant

Comps

1) Oasis - 'Stop The Clocks'
2) PJ Harvey - Peel Sessions
3) Various Artists - Rough Trade 30 Years
4) The Clash - Singles
5) Various Artists - Digital Penetration
6) The La's - The La's At The BBC
7) Various Artists - CD86
8) The Charlatans - Forever
9) Various Artists - Kitsune Maison 2
10) various Artists - John Peel: Right Time, Wrong Speed

Reissues

1) Pulp - His 'n' Hers / Different Class / This Is Hardcore
2) Wire - Pink Flag
3) Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
4) The Cure - Head On The Door
5) The Jesus and Mary Chain - Pyschocandy
6) Brian Eno/David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
7) Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
8) Various - Forever Changing: The Golden sound of Elecktra Records
9) Julian Cope - Jehovakill
10) Monty Python - Various reissues

Lest We Forget

1990 Pills' N Thrills and Bellyaches
1991 Nevermind
1992 Copper Blue
1993 Debut
1994 Definitely Maybe
1995 Maxinquaye
1996 Odelay
1997 Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
1998 Deserter's Songs
1999 The Soft Bulletin
2000 Rated R
2001 Is This It
2002 A Rush Of Blood To The Head
2003 Elephant
2004 Franz Ferdinand
2005 Silent Alarm

which of the lead singers behind the 1995, 2002 and 2003 winners is the odd one out?

Seven polls out of ten topped by black artists.

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1990 3 (Fear of a black planet)
1991 7 (Original Gangster) [Blue Lines at 6]
1992 11 (Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury) [Black Crows at 10]
1993 8 (Black Sunday)
1994 20 (Muse Sick 'N' Hour Mess Age) [Protection at 13]
1995 1 (Maxinquaye)
1996 8 (Pre-Millennium Tension)
1997 18 (Wu-Tang Forever) [Cornershop at 6]
1998 9 (Jurassic 5) [Mezzanine at 5]
1999 17 (N***A Please)
2000 10 (Kaleidoscope)
2001 4 (The Blueprint)
2002 14 (In Search Of…)
2003 8 (Spekerboxxx/The Love Below)
2004 7 (The Grey Album) [Kanye West at 8]
2005 8 (Late Registration)
2006 6 (St. Elsewhere)

I may have missed some higher than that but you get the idea.

I wouldn't put it pass them!

He's still doing the 'ahhha ahhha' as of 2 weeks ago...

Not exactly Hollywood, but he was in Shaun of the Dead.

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I remember ADF's 'Community Music' getting 10 out of 10 in NME but I'm not sure it made the respective EOY list (if it did it was quite low down for a 10/10 - obv. you take individual views into account but still).

And what about the drummer of Bloc Party?

See, it really is a conspiracy.

Drummers don't count either! Seriously tho I guess people complain because of this idea that what Bloc Party actually look like is irrelevant because of their sound - or rather they could be making that kind of music but look and be from the same backgrounds as Coldplay quite easily. There's a cultural fetishism thing at work here where the complaint about 'black people' not topping the polls anymore is really shorthand for music other than conventional (whether punk or blues-influenced or otherwise) rock not topping the polls/lists.

In NME's case the narrowed remit assures the continuation of this (it's quiet possible a female-fronted act will top a future list of theirs but it will continue to seem v unlikely until it actually does happen, Beth Ditto's coolness not withstanding).

Likewise, the only way non-white people are likely to be seen at the top of lists such as the NME's will be by making conventional rock, such is their strict preference.

Are you Geir?

Also, Showaddywaddy had two drummers.

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We had a gig cancelled because the venue had decided to put on a Polish disco instead.

may as well join the fun.

own and utterly adore: 24 Secret Machines – Ten Silver Drops
own and am extremely disappointed by: 25 Mogwai – Mr Beast
have heard some of, wtf is this three-chord, unoriginal, boring-as-fuck, outdated, dangerously conservative shit: 45 Bob Dylan – Modern Times
have heard some of, wtf, MUCH worse than their previous 2 records: 03 Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
ditto: 22 The Flaming Lips – At War With The Mystics
have heard some of, wtf: 01 Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
have heard some of (actually, i own, but wtf), this is obviously pretty good but really i'm getting bored can i leave now pleeeease: 15 Thom Yorke – The Eraser
want to purchase: 14 TV On The Radio – Return To Cookie Mountain, AND THAT ALONE.

I remember being shocked at how , er, narrow, it was last year. Strangely, then, it seems kind of random this year. I guess because you still have that core of NME brand new rock revoluiton stuff, then it makes the more varied choices stand out more. Even though it's still quite, er, narrow.

Louis, I do like you posting here but you do talk shit sometimes.

...and on your other shoulder, there appears to be perched a computer hardware store!

that was my honest, genuine reaction upon hearing about 3-4 songs from 'Modern Times'. Sorry if I appear to lack ears.

tenacious d >>>>>>> bob dylan

nostalgia is clearly a positive, wistful feeling, whereas reactionary sentiments repel what is new rather than clasp what is old to new's bosom.

This must be that super-duper black market thing Beck did about 20th Century Nubian hair styling in L.A.

any good?

I like Datarock.

Also, I hate Bob Dylan and every fucking single thing he's done.

it feels playful to me, not reactionary.

also, dylan's jokes are way funnier than tenacious d's.

i don't think there's a decent lyric or melody on the whole of tormentors...every time i finish listening to it, i can't recall ONE song i just heard.

try philadelphia

Umm doesn't that make it easier?

Mmmm! Some big screwup I reckon! (Mine is the same)

the big shock is the killers being so low. cause its rubbish. not that you'd have guessed it from the review 3 months ago.

Any ideas?

I bought a Sunshine Underground single, cos I liked the name, and they ARE rubbish.

I'm surprised ShitDisco aren't on the tracks list. Weren't they part of the NME tour thing that they do every year?
And if the NME can't even support their own manufactured scene, what the hell are they for?

That actually sounds good!

the horrors are not from brighton. they are part of teh vibrant and exciting southend scene which also includes eh someone else...

Rachel Stamp wallpaper!

Fixed.

and I don't even live in england.

temprique hints at liking some recent music EXCLUSIVE

Question: which European ILM-er not from the UK is listed in the "Similar Lists" section?

Highgate School. hah. pissed in their drive the other week.

maybe if johnny had listened to some rock songs before starting a band he would have picked this up in time.

That's aside from if You like them or not.