NME Top 100 British Albums Ever List

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

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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?

Also Hunky Dory as Bowie's best - uh? ( for me would come after Low/Heroes/Station/Ziggy/Lodger/Dogs/Young Americans/Aladdin in some sort of order)

I bow to your superior knowledge. Nevertheless 'though (according to AMG) he grew up in California and relocated to New York; but the name of the band and the guests he has on the album (Rufus Wainwright, Devendra Banhart, Lou "New York" Reed) are hardly condsive to producing something quintessentially British, are they?

"There's two Clash albums on that list."

Bugger, you're right, of course. OK then, the 1st / s/t one's OK; but London Calling most definitely isn't.

I don't think it's necessarily supposed to be his best, merely his most British.... although, re-reading the rest of the list, maybe I'm assuming that the NME editorship would have actually bothered to give the subject a little bit of thought, when in fact this clearly isn't the case.... nevertheless, his most British album by absolute miles must surely be his 1st / self-titled / (aka) Love Me 'Til Tuesday?

This is NME shit by numbers, pure and simple. CLOSE THREAD!

Some of the defenders are right, there are good albums but no thought was put behind the order. I posted which decade these albums came out in for a reason. Rock was new in the 60's going into the 70’s so the best albums where from that period, period. There is no way the 90’s deserve 31 spots with the 2000’s having 15 spots so far (Kasier Chiefs?), so by the end this decade it will be the best decade ever? If you are a writer for a major publication, no matter how much you like the AM album, number 5 compared to history is ridiculous.

That's a really bad argument. Best novels = written in 1740s? Best paintings = done on cave walls? Best movies = 5 minutes of a bloke washing a horse?

True. Siouxsie (The Scream) should be in, along with The Raincoats (either s/t or Odyshape), The Slits maybe. Spice Girls? Who else?

XTC should be in there : Black Sea prob. GO2 is better.

xpost Teardrop Explodes - YES!

OT(fucking)M

It's bullshit, undeserving of respect or serious consideration.

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.