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NME's 100 Greatest Albums of All Time (2003)
And this was chosen by the writers, not the public:
1. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses 2. Pixies – Doolittle 3. The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds 4. Television – Marquee Moon 5. The Beatles – Revolver 6. Love – Forever Changes 7. The Strokes – Is This It 8. The Smiths – The Queen In Dead 9. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground 10. Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks… 11. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless 12. The Clash – London Calling 13. Oasis – Definitely Maybe 14. Joy Division – Closer 15. Nirvana – In Utero 16. Radiohead – Ok Computer 17. Spritualized – Ladies And Gentleman We Are Floating In Space 18. Blondie – Parallel Lines 19. Nirvana – Nevermind 20. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells 21. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground 22. New Order – Technique 23. Primal Scream – Screamadellica 24. The Beatles – The Beatles [Aka The White Album] 25. The Smiths – Strangeways Here We Come 26. David Bowie – Low 27. Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On 28. The Verve – A Northern Soul 29. Public Enemy – It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back 30. Massive Attack – Blue Lines 31. Pixies – Surfer Rosa 32. The Byrds – The Notorious Byrd Brothers 33. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 34. Patti Smith – Horses 35. Jeff Buckley – Grace 36. Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express 37. Oasis – [What’s The Story] Morning Glory 38. Scott Walker – Scott 4 39. Ramones – Ramones 40. Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head 41. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures 42. The Stooges – Fun House 43. David Bowie – Hunky Dory 44. Radiohead – The Bends 45. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV 46. The Streets – Original Pirate Material 47. Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks 48. REM – Automatic For The People 49. Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation 50. Blur – Parklife 51. The Smiths – Hatful Of Hollow 52. The Rolling Stones – Exile On Mainstreet 53. Slint – Spiderland 54. The Smiths – The Smiths 55. Aphex Twin – Richard D James Album 56. Jay-Z – The Blueprint 57. Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure 58. The Rolling Stones – Stick Fingers 59. The Specials – The Specials 60. Big Star – Third/Sister Lovers 61. The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs 62. Pulp – His ‘N Hers 63. Dusty Springfield – Dusty In Memphis 64. Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left 65. Duran Duran – Rio 66. The Flying Burrito Brothers – The Gilded Palace Of Sin 67. Underworld – Dubnobasswithmyheadman 68. Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Searching For The Young Soul Rebels 69. Andrew WK – I Get Wet 70. The Verve – Urban Hymns 71. Eminem – The Slim Shady LP 72. AC/DC – Back In Black 73. Michael Jackson – Off The Wall 74. The White Stripes – Elephant 75. Lou Reed – Transformer 76. Pulp – This Is Hardcore 77. The Coral – The Coral 78. Suede – Dog Man Star 79. The Clash – The Clash 80. Neil Young – After The Goldrush 81. The Jesus And Mary Chain – Psychocandy 82. Wu-Tang Clan – Enter The Wu-Tang 83. Van Morrison – Astral Weeks 84. De La Soul – 3 Feet High And Rising 85. The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed 86. David Bowie – Heroes 87. The Slits – Cut 88. Primal Scream – Exterminator 89. Stevie Wonder – Innervisions 90. Leonard Cohen – Songs Of Love And Hate 91. Queens Of The Stoneage –Rated R 92. Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92 93. Joni Mitchell – Hejira 94. Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home 95. Pink Floyd – Piper At The Gates Of Dawn 96. The Vines – Highly Evolved 97. PJ Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea 98. Madonna – Like A Prayer 99. The Congos – Heart Of The Congos 100. The Beach Boys – Surfs Up And just to remind you, this was a poll of NME writers, not readers. |
Andrew WK above The Jesus And Mary Chain? Oh, do fuck off.
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Well, it's an NME poll. Many of those albums are great, and the obvious criticism is the non-canonical rock albums seem like tokenistic (especially the choices of things like the now-ridiculous Coral). But there's some great albums, and there's some incredibly important (for which read: massive-selling) records in there.
I can't really muster the ability to care, ultimately. Nice to see Dusty in there though. |
"Thou shalt not read NME"
It's troubling to think countless young, impressionable and downright stupid NME readers are being told The Coral rank in as one the of the greatest recorded musical accomplishments in all history. Be quiet, be quiet... |
And no Sgt Pepper's anywhere to be seen. Oh those NME scribes can be such 'rebels' when they want to be, can't they?
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By contrast - the Wire's 100 most important records...
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Stone Roses? Hahaha. I'm done.
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NME's list is terrible. The Vines?! For fuck's sake. Obviously, there's good shit like Slint and Joy Division but they probably felt like they had to put those on there.
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Lot's of jazz, a few token 'world' records (good ones, mind you), a handful of dubious pop ones (Into the groove over Immaculate collection? Thriller over Bad?), a fair few wrong choices (Tago Mago is the Can choice; whichever Fall album, it's not that one; Glass' Einstein...; anyone but Bartok playing Bartok please).
There's a chilling inevitability about these things. |
It'd be difficult for me to say anything about The Wire's list, seeing as how I've at best heard of only maybe a quarter of the records they list. If anything though, it seems as safe as any other list - given that magazine's general view of what is and what isn't important. A mention (albeit at no 100) for Public Enemy, but no Dr Dre just about sums them up in my opinion.
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Re the wire's
Public enemy did not release an album called Bring The Noise that is a song off their second album, It takes A Nation Of MIllions To Hold Us Back |
FUCK THE NME.
did gillespie write this list? this list looks like a record crate at my house but they, as usual, came nowhere near nailing the list. i mean, i know it's opinion and subjective and all but there are better records than the fucking stone roses. |
In fairness, this is a copied list from a copied list, it's likely the typist got bored. OR it was released as that in this country, or it's referring to a PE release called 'bring the noise'.
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I don't think they were necessarily specifying albums. 'Louie Louie' by The Kingsmen being another example. Which, noticing no mention at all on their list of Elvis Presley's 'That's All Right', does make me wonder what exactly they meant by 'important'.
EDIT: My bad, I just noticed it on the list. |
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Apparantly not. |
the list is called greatest ALBUMS of all time.
fucking twats. i'm going to go into NME HQ with a gun and open fire. |
The wire's list has some questionable entries but at least it isn't all predictable. Also, it succeeds merely by this inclusion:
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica ...which even Rolling fucking Stone had on their list as well. How could NME leave out such a masterpiece that even John Peel called a work of genius? |
everyone puts Trout Mask Replica on their lists even though it is oddly boring pseudo-wack blues-like substance
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Which, ironically, sounds rather like a typical Cap't Beefheart lyric. "Fast and bulbous, pseudo-wack also" |
Boring? Hahaha. Please. It is a complete deconstruction of rock, melding blues, jazz, poetry, prog, classical. Filled with some of the greatest works ever written by man. An important record in every respect and I'm willing to bet that entire genres can be traced back to that record as a starting point. To hear that when it first came out would've been a major shock to ANYONE's synapses, and the fact that it still holds up 40 years later is quite telling.
A landmark album and easily one of the most important albums of all time. And it's not even my favorite Beefheart album! |
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