"NME Top 50 Albums of the Noughties" or "black music scares us"

[crackerjack]

I once read a letter in a very old NME in which someone was bemoaning the identikit indie coverage. The letterwriter concluded by saying '... when you should be covering challenging, innovative and downright brilliant bands like Dawn of the Replicants'.


Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhaaaaaaahahaha

fantastic - YOU ARE WRONG AND FOR THE NEXT FIVE MINUTES I WLL PRETEND X IS THE REASON WHY!!!!!!!

 

[CHAOTROPIC]

i know it's only radiohead, but what sort of animal ranks In Rainbows over Kid A?


nah, fevers and mirrors innit

Letting Off The Happiness. He's better before his voice broke.

 

[Benny Bunter]

used to really like bright eyes but when hear them now his voice just really gets on my wick for some reason.

lol at that list though

 

[joe.dfx]

bright eyes?

really?

 

[zhao]

the streets are black right?

and the white stripes are too. you can easily tell by the bluesy earthy black music they play.

in fact, almost all of these on the list are black!

 

[crackerjack]

the streets are black right?

and the white stripes are too. you can easily tell by the bluesy earthy black music they play.

in fact, almost all of these on the list are black!

you can tell they're scared of black music - otherwise coldplay would be in

 

[mms]

even in the narrow terms of indie saying the strokes did the best album of the noughties is like saying the brand new heavies did the best dance album of the nineties.

'is this it' is a fitting title.

 

[zhao]

recently saw this neo nazi from a racist punk band in a documentary say:

"we hate all that techno and nig__r influenced music. what we play is pure rock and roll."

what a wonderful world indeed.

 

[paolo]

It's the NME. What did you expect?

 

[bob effect]

It's the NME. What did you expect?

That the list might in some way reflect what decade it actually is. Probably an idiotic thing to expect really.

 

[tom lea]

even in the narrow terms of indie saying the strokes did the best album of the noughties is like saying the brand new heavies did the best dance album of the nineties.

'is this it' is a fitting title.

great record mate.

 

[mms]

great record mate.

brand new heavies?

 

[tom lea]

haha. nah, the strokes. libertines, white stripes and them can go fuck, but that first strokes album is untouchable for me. every song on there is great. i pretty much know every note off by heart. not a nostalgia ting either, i dont think i even bothered listening to it til 2005 or so because i assumed it would be crap.

 

[Corpsey]

Dizzee Rascal should be number 1. The entire list is a huge number 2.

 

[nomadthethird]

Out of that entire list the only ones I'd be caught dead listening to are the Blueprint, BitC, and Arular.

And I don't even like M.I.A.

 

[don_quixote]

bidc should be number one aye, however, is this it is qwalitee

 

[lazybones]

" #19
i know it's only radiohead, but what sort of animal ranks In Rainbows over Kid A?
"
lol

 

[baboon2004]

haha. nah, the strokes. libertines, white stripes and them can go fuck, but that first strokes album is untouchable for me. every song on there is great. i pretty much know every note off by heart. not a nostalgia ting either, i dont think i even bothered listening to it til 2005 or so because i assumed it would be crap.

same here, didn't bother listening til 2003. but it's just great pop music.

 

[swears]

"Worst decade... ever."

 

[michael]

wrong outkast album imo. should have been stankonia in there.

Some mainstream record shop near my work has a wall with their choice of top 50. Their 2 hip-hop albums... Stankonia and Jurassic-5's Quality Control.

Hahaha!