nme's top 100 british albums of all time

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big satan

HA-DO-KEN!
hail

how long before the NME goes the way of melody maker?

how did they manage to not include my bloody valentine? i know kevin shields is irish, but still... and no PiL either! no Master of Reality and Paranoid way back in the 70s, selected ambient works is the best aphex record... what's that about? i suppose we could all list tonnes of things that should be in there but those are real glaring fuck ups.
 
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Canada J Soup

Monkey Man
labrat said:
AND(for all the sad spottaz in the house) a guy called gerald sampled the phrase voodoo rage from here (shortened to voodoo ray)
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Even though it marks me as a sad spotta, I still have to say that this particular piece of sample trivia made my day.
 
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owen

Well-known member
this is all almost too sad to comment on, really...supergrass! the futureheads! bloc party! the fucking la's!
though the worst thing is surely the dominance, once again, of this vainglorious jangle-pop mostrosity at the top. surely at some point the madness will stop and people will admit that the stone roses are the most malign influence on british pop music in its entire history? reactionary in sound, pompous in rhetoric, northern in location- the rot all starts here.

oh and the arctic monkeys sound like kingmaker
 
matt b

matt b

Indexing all opinion
owen said:
though the worst thing is surely the dominance, once again, of this vainglorious jangle-pop mostrosity at the top. surely at some point the madness will stop
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in at 52!
 
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Freakaholic

not just an addiction
What exactly does "top" mean?

Most enjoyable? too subjective.

Most profitable? doesnt appear so.

Best...umm...musically?
 
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jasonh

Newbie
Am I the only person who thinks the Stone Roses were/are hideously overrated? No.1 my arse!

The fact that MBV were missed off completely, along with PiL and countless other classics, just shows how much the NME has completely lost it.
 
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redcrescent

Well-known member
john eden said:
The Redskins... They don't get enough credit for doing the whole post-post-punk thing before punk even happend in my book.
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Eden as ever OTM.

But what a terribly depressing list this is.
 
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Canada J Soup

Monkey Man
jasonh said:
Am I the only person who thinks the Stone Roses were/are hideously overrated? No.1 my arse!
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Seconded. It's not that I thought they were bad...I just never got what the big fuss was about. Felt kind of the same about the Primal Scream of that era too now that I think about it.
 
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Keith P

draw for the drumstick
British always taking their music for granted. This chart pisses all over any american chart, its a bit silly but sure beats the shit that Rolling Stone tries to pass as musical genius.
 
jenks

jenks

thread death
surely this is no surprise - it is a mirror reflecting the audience of the nme back to itself - 'it's ok lads (and it is almost entirely lads) you're listening to the right music - rock's rich tapestry is still alive and well, white guitar stuff really is the best' - all that blah

the arctic monkeys at 2 or whatever reminds me of a poll of alltime great albums that was done in the 80s in the nme - psychocandy had just been released and won or came second - cue outrage by astral weeks and pet sounds fans.

of course there's lots in there i can't disagree with but i can't take the list seriously that has such luminaries such as the libertines (twice ffs), coldplay and a whole host of mediocrities and miss out on the pop group, pil, the blue nile, music for a new society and a whole slew of jazz, reggae, d 'n' b etc absent.

this is why woebot's list is much more interesting - i may only have 20 of his and they may not all be in my top 100 but there's stuff there i want to find out about. there's almost nothing that i don't have on the nme list that i'd actually want to go out and get.

as for the notions of overlooked classics - neither the eno nor aphex is overlooked in this house - much to my wife's annoyance
 
Slothrop

Slothrop

Tight but Polite
jenks said:
surely this is no surprise - it is a mirror reflecting the audience of the nme back to itself - 'it's ok lads (and it is almost entirely lads) you're listening to the right music - rock's rich tapestry is still alive and well, white guitar stuff really is the best' - all that blah
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Sorry if this is a bit obvious, but it's a fcuking indie rock magazine, written for indie rock fans by indie rock fans, so of course most of the top 100 is going to be indie rock. Noone bitches and moans if there's no grime in a fRoots list, or no techno in a Gramophone list or no folk in an Urb list.
this is why woebot's list is much more interesting - i may only have 20 of his and they may not all be in my top 100 but there's stuff there i want to find out about. there's almost nothing that i don't have on the nme list that i'd actually want to go out and get.
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Yeah, this is kind of the problem with anything like this, though. You suspect that a lot of the individual hacks' personal top 100's would have had a few more genuinely overlooked classics, but if you average out over a whole bunch of them (as I'm guessing they did) it's going to favour the obvious stuff that everyone knows and likes, and the new stuff that everyone has on their mind at the moment. It's a slightly shit feature of any sort of voted-on best of list. The british public voted Robbir Williams' Angels to be the greatest piece of music of the past 1000 years, remember. Take that, Johann Sebastien...
 
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big satan

HA-DO-KEN!
yeah, but anyone who writes for the NME (or reads it... or has ever read it) is subhuman scum, and deserves to be put on the sex offenders register!
 
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Tweak Head

Well-known member
martin said:
It's better than all of them. Who's truthfully ever bought a copy of, never mind listened to, 'Odessey and Oracle' by the Zombies? They just saw the name and stuck it in the list cos it sounds a bit wooohhhhh.
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I did! Great record. But the list sucks, generally.
 
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