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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.

QFT

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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.

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.