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Oh come on. Let's not retread the whole MBV inventors of shoegaze thing cos it blatantly isn't true - the first wave of bands had a whole host of influences from the obvious (Cocteau Twins, Sonic Youth, JMC) to the less so (Eno, Gram Parsons, Lee Hazelwood). If that first wave were so intent...

Yeah, I'm sure that the Arctics have already been discussed, though this was just an example of the NME's totally annoying self-championing. Perhaps this is true, though I suspect that the current crop of hacks know absolutely squit about that "golden era" - if fact that seem to be totally...

Is it just me or does the NME resemble the Sun more and more? I keep expecting them to have an Artic Monkeys cover with the line "it was the NME wot done it!". Meanwhile we're subjected to breathless copy about how the state music has never been better - that's right folks "we've never had it so...