NME Top 100 British Albums Ever List

Modern Life Is Rubbish, Oddessy & Oracle, Dare, SF Sorrow, Selected Ambient Works vol 2, Kings Of The Wild Frontier = FORGOTTEN GEMS?

Regarding the Cure, it's interesting that The Head on the Door is the album picked when over the years it has been Disintegration that most have said is their classic. For me both would be in the Top 100 but I'm geekie about the Cure so.

Since it is so titled to the 90's where the hell is Loveless?

I think they really need to sort out this "British vs British Isles vs UK" thing though.

1960's - 9
1970's - 20
1980's - 17
1990's - 31
2000's - 15

I forgot that fact but I'm American so what the hell do I know anyways. ;-)

Great Britain = England, Wales, Scotland
United Kingdom = The above + Northern Ireland [Commonly Known as British as a description]

Not British:
Republic of Ireland - A Country with it's own Govt

However, all of the above included as a geographical entity known as "The British Isles" e.g for the Mercury Music Prize - Republic of Ireland & UK artists eligible.

Therefore when NME draws up the Best British Albums don't expect to see U2, My Bloody Valentine, Boomtown Rats, Thin Lizzy, Cactus World News, Sinead O'Connor, Enya, Clannad, The Whipping Boy etc

Hot Press Readers Top 100 Irish Albums of All Time.
http://digbig.com/4gbxc

ridiculous

ireland.

thatn doesn't count

I think this omission has more to do with NME's general shitness.

I think THIS may be the biggest lump.

Too right. It should've been 'Origin Of Symmetry'.

The Bends > Ok Computer
Guitar, Melodies > Other shit

Too right. It should've been 'Origin Of Symmetry'.

OTM!

Still - the Kaiser Chiefs would be nowhere near my top 100 albums of 2005 let alone all time!!

Long urls behave exactly the same way as tinyurls when you click on them.

Yes it does. For the purpose of that list anyways.

Proves NME are not completely lost after all. I have always considered "Head On The Door" their pinnacle. The Cure have always been an excellent pop band when they have tried, whereas the somewhat overproduced "Pornography"-meets-"Be Here Now" orchestral goth of "Disintegration" bores me when I try to listen to it as a whole.

1) The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St. 1972
2) The Specials - S/T 1979
3) The Clash - London Calling 1979
4) Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks 1978
5) The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed 1969
6) Led Zeppelin - II 1969
7) The Cure - The Head On The Door 1985
8) David Bowie - Hunky Dory 1971
9) The Beatles - Rubber Soul 1965
10) Polly Harvey - Dry 1992
11) The Stone Roses - S/T 1989
12) Elvis Costello - This Year's Model 1978
13) Black Sabbath - Paranoid 1970
14) Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner 2003
15) Primal Scream - Scremadelica 1991
16) The Beatles - Revolver 1966
17) Elastica - S/T 1995
18-27) tie:

Led Zeppelin - IV 1971
The Futureheads - S/T 2004
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 1992 *
The Beta Band - The 3 E.P.s 1998
Cornershop - When I Was Born For The 7th Time 1997
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars 1972
Portishead - Dummy 1994
The Who - My Generation 1965
Ride - Nowhere 1990
The Streets - Original Pirate Material 2002

...

5) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 2006

I know it's a shameful thing to get angry at these lists, but I have to say that one stings.

-- Geir Hongro

*scratches head*

Then realizes where this comment is coming from so what can I say. That being said I wouldn't want Geir any other way!

Never thought the Cure would be compared to a very bad Oasis record.

Hahaha, I'll give them "forgotten" on this one! Haven't heard of them since reading about them in NME in '86 or something (ie the year given here is way off). Is it really a "gem"? What an unsuspected choice.

Nothing about it (the list) is very surprising, really, is it?

Are The Undertones count Irish too?

pet shop boys! yes! in your face er... every rock band ever!

Isis, Electric Wizard, Jesu, Pelican, Sunno))) have never had Kerrang covers. It's time they did.

Rock Sound magazine covers all those bands, but unfortunately also covers a lot of generic emo / hardcore / commercial rock tripe.

Have NME covered those bands at all?

The day the NME puts any other of those on the front cover - will never arrive. Can you imagine the NME trying to promote/understand the brilliance of Jesu - to a bunch of Kaiser Chiefs / Oasis / Doherty / Strokes loving plebs

Although I could see pre Mark Sutherland era Melody Maker covering Jesu, also Sounds would have had them on the front cover.

Britain does need some weekly opposition to the trad-rock songs NME and the no quality control Kerrang.

[correction: Kerrang is £1.99 these days not £1.95]

A weekly mag that covered everything and took risks would be great.

There is an extreme metal section, they also tend to cover all bases of rock / metal - therefore there are going to be sections that don't interest everyone.

I would say Metal Hammer these days is a combo of Kerrang, Rock Sound and Terrorizer.

However like Kerrang - quality control suffers particularly in the front cover dept, how many times has Him been on the front cover.

I think poor quality control for front covers is the same for all those magazines at any time of their existence, and not just now.

Remember all those shitty hair metal bands with covers who sold shitloads of albums but never got in writers polls cos they didn't actually like them(sorry ILM hair metal fans)

It's no different now. How many of the bands who get regular front covers actually get in the writers polls?

And NME always get accused of putting stuff on the front cover thatthe writers don't like but the editorial team insists so the magazine will sell.

I'm sure putting cellophane on magazines must harm sales. Everyone I know likes to read it 1st.

-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), January 26th, 2006 7:23 AM. (GeirHong) (later) (link)

Confession: I only clicked on this thread because I thought I might get some classic Hongro action.

U NVR DISAPPOINT GEIRBOT.

You are insane. I mean, we all remember that time when Muse were on the cover of NME every week even before their debut album had surfaced - those were the days eh? (A better example might be Ash)

Mind you, I don't understand Kerrang's love for Muse bar their guitar tech-wankery articles.

Oh, that's Bod, isn't it?

Toyah did the voiceovers.

No place for "Urban Hymns" again like with Radiohead and Blur they seem to have swapped the opinion of which they prefer there. Not even attampted to include anything like Duran Duran (Which was in th last top 100 of all time they did.) No "Metal Box", no "Hats", no "Heaven or Las Vegas" and no "Club Classics Vol. One"

No, because then you miss the point about good music, which is that good music is completely timeless. Like the old classical music from the 18th and 19th century, for instance.

Is there any music which works across all cultural contexts? As 'old' classical music from the 18/19th century certainly doesn't.

-- DJ Mencap

True I'm not a fan of metal but with my comment I was actually just trying to be funny. If I offended instead, I'm sorry.

Remember they included Andrew WK in their best albums list a few years back and White Stripes - Elephant was in it and that wasn't even out yet.

In half a year, it sucks bigtime and Arctic Monkeys is some shite bollocks that only sad wankers and old people (20 year-olds, that is) listen to.

Whether or not Arctic Monkeys, Libertines, Futureheads, Kaiser Chiefs belong in a list like this will be more obvious in 5-10 years time. By now, sure, put them at the bottom of the list, put give them some time before you rank them among the ten best albums ever.