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NME is out in London apparently(everywhere else tomorrow) So could someone from London ,who has NME,post the top 50 albums? ( i guess some will want a seperate thread for singles)
Thanks.

― Ben Brown, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

they're not putting their lists online like last year, then? (i can't see it on nme.com at the mo')

― zebedee, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, a sore point with many. They used to for years put them online the night before it came out. We all still buy it anyway. Its the one time of the year everyone buys the mag. And keep them for future reference. How many buy cds after xmas due to that list? loads. But when nme was taken over it seems theyve abandoned this.
Yet its ok for London readers to have it before the rest of England,Wales, Scotland , N Ireland etc.
really they could just put it online.
Anyone have the nme editors email? hehe.
Oh well someone will put the entire list up here by tonight.

― Ben Brown, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I have 2 mates who have a £20 bet against each other. One says The Streets, other says The Vines , because theyve been so hyped up.
And i read on ILM that the NME editor gets royalty points.

― Ben Brown, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

what are royalty points anyway?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

No idea. But presumably it means you make money from album sales or whatever.

― Ben Brown, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

If the Queen likes the album at number 1, he gets a sharp object.

― Callum (Callum), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Point = industry speak for a percentage point.

Therefore, if you had 3 points on the Vines record, you'd make 3% (usually straight off the top).

― Aaron W, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

How exactly did the NME editor become entitled to this point? or is it just bullshit that he does?

― Ben Brown, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

It's kind of an uncomfirmed rumor that sprang up a few weeks ago in these parts.

― Aaron W, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

It is Coldplay. Vines 2nd Streets 3rd. "There Goes The Fear" was #1 single.

"I read on ILM" = probably bullshit, sorry :) but I don't know either way.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Could you (or someone else) please be kind enough to type out the whole albums list? Wont see nme til tomorrow up here.

― Ben Brown, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Could you (or someone else) please be kind enough to type out the whole albums list? Wont see nme til tomorrow up here.

― Ben Brown, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Could you (or someone else) please be kind enough to type out the whole albums list? Wont see nme til tomorrow up here.

― Ben Brown, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops. sorry about multiple posts.

― Ben Brown, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Coldplay
Vines
Streets
Coral
BMRC
QOTSA
Doves
Eminem
Datsuns
Interpol
Flaming Lips
Libertines
Polyphonic Spree
NERD
The Music
Beck
BoC
Soundtrack of our Lives
Hives
Johnny Cash
Foo Fighters
Ms Dynamite
JayZ
Von Bondies
Missy Elliott
Oasis
Hundred Fucking Reasons
Idlewild
Ryan Adams
Primal Scream
Cooper Temple Clause
Radio4
Low
Death In Vegas
Wilco
Brendan Benson
Badly Drawn Boy - About A Boy
Jim O'Rourke
Breeders
Billy Childish
Ladytron
Nada Surf
Cornershop
Ikara Colt
Gonzales
Bright Eyes
The Sights
Electric Soft Parade
Raging Speedhord
The Liars

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

what is the top single?

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

ha -- apparently the thread reveals that it is Doves! Sorry. Thanks, Matt, for typing all that.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks muchly.
Top 10 is a joke as expected.
Queens Of The Stone Age is the best thing in it.
Can't believe Coldplay won.
NME is now Q Magazines Junior.

― Ben Brown, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually am getting nostalgic for Melody Maker and SOunds now.
I even wonder what won Kerrangs albums of year are.

― Ben Brown, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't give a fuck.

― , Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, blue oyster cult finished 16th! that's so cool! (i didn't even know they had an album this year!)

― jeri curlan, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Boards of Canada !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I have managed to get 4 of them!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm surprised they didn't find some kind of loophole that'd let them have Is This It at number 1.

― Ferg (Ferg), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

that won last year

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

hence the humour in Mr Ferg's comment.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

BRMC did get in 2002, the album was released in december 2001 in the UK - after NME had published their 2001 poll.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah wasn't 'graceland' album of the year
twice at the grammies or did i dream that ?

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

no FC Kahuna, Underworld, X-Press II or Chemical Brothers in NME's chart - two fingers up at the idea of the dance album indeed

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Conor McNicholas is a traitor !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Also no Mclusky, which is two fingers up to albums by profane Welsh skinheads.

― Ferg (Ferg), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

am still reelin from rufus wainwright being in last year's at number 7

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

wasn't N*E*R*D on last year's list, too?

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe, but that would have been the original version.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Kerr you facking cant, Interpol are good innit

― Ferg (Ferg), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit, what a depressing list. I'm absolutely astounded Coldplay made it to #1, I thought the critics panned the new album? Turncoats all.

3 acts I've never heard of - Brendan Benson, The Sights and Nada Surf - anyone care to share?

Anyone have the nme editors email? hehe.

All IPC staff have firstname_lastname@ipcmedia.com - do the maths!

― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit, I own exactly half that list. and have plans to purchase another 11 of them *sigh*

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

self-realisation is the first step, jim

― bob zemko (bob), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

i have owned five of them, but sold two so now have only three, and only really like one of them.

Nada Surf - they are grundge they had a big schmindie hit with 'popular' long ago. i had no idea they were still around.

― minna (minna), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 05:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"Brendan Benson, The Sights and Nada Surf"

Brendan Benson is a Detroit power-pop songwriter, approved by the White Stripes. My brother loves the rec, and will be happy to see it high. It's quite good, the first track is brilliant. "Popular" by Nada Surf was a great song, and they were one-hit wonders. Their other material was considered to be awful (I've heard some, as my friend bought the album and taped a couple of tracks for me - so I can confirm that it is indeed terrible), but their latest rec picked up decent reviews. I'm still surprised to see it in there. I know nothing of the Sights.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

What's that Radio 4 record like? My hand keeps hovering over it in Selectadisc/Sister Ray but has not yet grasped it. Is it any good?

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not bad, actually. Nice and 1981.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The whole of the NME masthead (and some of the freelancers and shift-workers who haven't been put there yet) gets to vote. As a rule of thumb the writers vote for something cool and then it's shifted to the centre by the subs' desk votes, resulting in much kvetching by writers.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate to be the horrible indie cynic, but that list is sooo safe, it's embarassing. I also own at least half of it (!).

Someone do SOMETHING about the Polyphonic Spree!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Oasis at 26th? Pah! Ever since the Gallaghers did a really funny interview in NME just before "Heathen Chemistry" came out, they've been gagging to get behind them again. Everyone knows their new stuff was another disappointment. 22 of these records reside in my household, but I like less than half of those. I thought My Computer would be in there, it got 9/10, and the review said it was an album of the year. Maybe if they changed their name to "The My Computer"...

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I sincerely hope the Music are only in there as a joke.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

kerrang's album of the year is QOTSA. then 100 reasons, then audioslave, then foos, then the distillers, then the datsuns, then the chillis, then finch, then idlewild, then a.

what's cool is, they've printed all our individual top 20s across the following pages, so you can read how i voted Lord High Fixers number 1. i'm actually really chuffed they've done this; every previous xmas top whatever, at nme and melody maker, had me scratching my head at what actually got in there, and wondering whether anybody even bothered to read my chart...

sxxx

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

the sights are zep-esque detroit rock'n'roll, pretty ace if yr into that stuff. word on the street, huggy bear-style, is that departing nme dep-ed James Oldham wants to sign 'em for his Loog Records imprint on Universal. but, and he doesn't know this yet, he won't be able to.

whoever posted about James haviing points on the vines LP, i heard this story from elsewhere too. seems pretty unlikely tho...

sxxx

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"so you can read how i voted Lord High Fixers number 1"

Who?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

In the good old days (i.e. about 20 years ago), Sounds always published writers' individual top 20s. MM writers as I recall only got to list their top 10 or 12 tracks of the year.

I suppose the NME don't want us to know the extent of the sub-editor voting kink, nor what every schoolboy knows anyway, i.e. the album that comes eighth on everybody's list always ends up top, e.g. Flaming Lips in Uncut ahem.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Interestingly, the actual "winner" of the NME top 100 in terms of actual NME votes cast was the Coral album, but Coldplay were substituted for political reasons - don't ask me why, I'd have thought the Coral album would have been an okay choice.

I'd also argue that the subs dept has more chance of voting for something "cool" than most of the writers (Capper?!).

But what do I know, I thought Oasis should have been higher.

― reclusive hero, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Welcome back reclusive hero!

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

How do you know this, Reclusive Hero? I'm intrigued. It's strange that they'd fix the poll so that Coldplay WIN. I like the 'Play, but it's not going to boost the NME's credibility much.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Well... one of my pals works for the publication in question, hence my rather cryptic moniker. And my support for the subs department!

I dunno, I was expecting the Vines to win, which would have been horrible, so in a way Coldplay is a decent result. And they are on the cover of the Christmas issue, which I'm sure has a bearing on their position in the top 100...

The real surprise is that the Sugababes aren't higher in the singles rundown I'd have thought.

― reclusive hero, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

can someone print the singles rundown? its always much more agreeable than the albums list

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

The singles rundown this year is very partisan new-rock. Which is fair enough - if you've spent the year crying revolution you can't really bottle out come mid-December.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, I'd be interested in hearing more about the singles, also. Did "Get Free" and "Hot in Here" make up the rest of the top 3?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

No non-rock in the top 10 iirc. Hot in Herre mid-teens.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Top 20:

Doves - there goes the fear
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - YYY EP
Hives - Hate to say
Coral - Dreaming of You
QOTSA - Nobody Knows
White Stripes - Fell in Love
Sugababes - Freak
LCD Soundsystem - Losing my edge
BRMC - Whatever happened
Vines - Get Free
Rapture - House of Jealous
Libertines - Waster
Datsuns - In Love
Eminem - Without Me
Flaming Lips - Do you realise
Streets - Push things forward
Nelly - Hot in Herre
Fischerspooner - Emerge
Strokes - Someday
80s Matchbox dooh dah - Celebrate

Apologies for abbreviations I'm at work....

― reclusive hero (reclusive hero), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Hot in Herre in the teens? That surprises me, it was in their "Best Singles Ever" list. Do they still do a "Films of the Year"? Cheers, Reclusive Hero!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Kilian: ""so you can read how i voted Lord High Fixers number 1"
Who? "

The work of Tim Kerr (Big Boys, Monkeywrench, The Now Time Delegation, lotsa other bands) and Mike Carroll and a buncha talented but noisy motherfuckers. 60 minute sprawl of punk, blues and hard-bop jazz originals and covers that still blows my mind every time i hear it, without question the best album i've heard all year. includes awesome cover of mudhoney's 'you got it' which opens with the original playing audibly in the background on a rickety record player, before the Fixers obliterate it with feedback and screaming.

it came out on In The Red in 2001, strictly, but got proper release, of sorts, over here this year. i'd reccommend it, unreservedly.

sxxx

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

last year they had missy and kylie as their top 2 singles; why the retrograde step? (i don't buy the nme)

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Emerge" in the NME Top 20 for the second year running, I see. "W*rk *t" is conspicuous by its absence.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

'Someday' was in last year's list as well wasn't it? not that it really matters...so really, 2001 was the big pop/hip-pop resurgence, this year they'd have you believe it was rawk n' roll...whats for 2003 then?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Skiffle.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Missy is just outside that list, at about number 21, I think.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't get worked up either way about the albums or singles list, but the fact that numbers one AND two in their compilations of the year list are NME affiliated including the New Rock Revolution CD that was free on the cover of the NME really annoyed me.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

No Delgados anywhere then...

― bert, Thursday, 19 December 2002 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

oh dont tell me they chose the 'Help' album as their comp of the year - it really is abysmal

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 19 December 2002 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah Ferg, no Mclusky is damn odd.

No Missy either, what's with that?

― meirion john lewis (mei), Friday, 20 December 2002 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"so really, 2001 was the big pop/hip-pop resurgence, this year they'd have you believe it was rawk n' roll...whats for 2003 then?"

A major polka revival.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 December 2002 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Screengazer.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 20 December 2002 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Help as #1 compilation was inevitable. However, having their cover CD from two weeks ago at #2 is... umm...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 20 December 2002 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I have seen the Delgados in two album of the year polls. One was my uni paper's one which I rigged slightly, the other was Teletext's where they roared in at #30. Imma kick things in the ass.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 20 December 2002 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I so very nearly bought Hate today but instead I bought a Sound reissue for £14.99 because it was nearer to me.

― Ferg (Ferg), Friday, 20 December 2002 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"numbers one AND two in their compilations of the year list are NME affiliated including the New Rock Revolution CD that was free on the cover of the NME really annoyed me."

I know, it's a bit rich isn't it? On the '1 Love' comp they said "Easily one of the musical highlights of the year". Err... ehh??. The brass neck of it, jesus.
(2-5 comp of the year:
3.'8 Mile' OST, 4. American Gigolo, 5. Rough Trade 'Rock'n'Roll 1')

(whoever asked for NMEs films:
1.Donnie Darko
2.Bowling For Columbine
3.24hr Perty People
4.Morvern Callar
5.Two Towers
6.Royal Tenenbaums
7.Ocean's 11
8.Y Tu Mama Tambien
9.Harry Potter 2
10.xXx (?) )

(Kurt's 'Journals' was No1 book, Eminem No1 Film Star, weed the drug of the year, stripey socks was fashion of the year and badgers: No1 animal. And so it goes... )

― DavidM (DavidM), Friday, 20 December 2002 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

ten years pass...

Well, I'm guessing Tom Odell's album won't be one of them, given that his dad felt compelled to ring them up to complain about their 0/10 review.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/10131598/Tom-Odells-embarrassing-dad-calls-NME-to-complain-about-review.html

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Saturday, 22 June 2013 13:23 (twelve years ago)

no idea whether Odell's shit or not but 0/10 from the NME is a badge of honour

― The drone that was played caused panic and confusion (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 22 June 2013 13:38 (twelve years ago)

Especially when Beaumont writes it. Never a more embarrassing hack.

― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 22 June 2013 15:28 (twelve years ago)

He's the worst

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 22 June 2013 15:29 (twelve years ago)

Simon Price otm though about NME being too scared to do it to their core acts

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 22 June 2013 15:30 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, I'd completely agree with that... all you need to do is look at their website to see how much press Beady Eye & Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds get.

― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Saturday, 22 June 2013 15:54 (twelve years ago)

I dunno who the NME audience are these days as I would have thought Oasis would be a bit old hat to young NME readers.

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 22 June 2013 16:11 (twelve years ago)

I don't know either, I haven't bought it for a long while... though with their fondness for Oasis and the Stone Roses reformation, as well as giving albums like In Love by Peace a 9/10, I suspect that the NME want a full-on return to the '90s more than anyone else.

― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Saturday, 22 June 2013 16:14 (twelve years ago)

hehehe
http://fuckyouneilkulkarni.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/peace-in-love-columbia.html

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 22 June 2013 16:18 (twelve years ago)

Have you heard that album, AG? It's so baggy-tastic in places it hurts!

― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Saturday, 22 June 2013 16:34 (twelve years ago)

nope

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 22 June 2013 17:14 (twelve years ago)

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