May I bring your attention to Number 48 in the NME's top 50 music icons of the last 50 years!!!! I'm actually pleasantly surprised http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,0-1048955,00.html full article: http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1048953,00.html **************************************************************************** LOGICSCOPE REALISATIONS LTD, 64 Great Eastern St, London EC2A 3QR The information contained in this document is intended only for the addressee.It may contain confidential and/or legally privileged material.You may not review, retransmit, disseminate, publish or otherwise use or rely on the information in this document unless you are its intended recipient.If you have received this document in error, Please contact the sender and delete all copies of this material.
May I bring your attention to Number 48 in the NME's top 50 music icons of the last 50 years!!!! I'm actually pleasantly surprised
Whhhhaaaa? Oasis are at number 6 mother fuck! that's just not right, I dont understand this list.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:36:43AM +0100, Richard Haslock wrote:
May I bring your attention to Number 48 in the NME's top 50 music icons of the last 50 years!!!! I'm actually pleasantly surprised
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the strokes at 17? well, if i didn't ignore it as soon as i saw "NME" i will now i've nothing against the strokes, but it's typical NME bullshit i hate that rag with a passion the strokes have had a bigger impact over the past 5 decades than bob marley? the velvet underground? the specials? primal scream? dylan? etc. etc. fuck off -- ^D Use "exit" to leave The COW.
the strokes at 17? well, if i didn't ignore it as soon as i saw "NME" i will now
i've nothing against the strokes, but it's typical NME bullshit i hate that rag with a passion
the strokes have had a bigger impact over the past 5 decades than bob marley? the velvet underground? the specials? primal scream? dylan? etc. etc.
Well, you have to consider how the list was compiled. Ben Knowles says they're the artists who have been "the biggest impact on our pages, our writers and our readers over the last five decades". Now, who knows how you become an impact on "our pages". Did they actually count the number column inches dedicated to each artist? I doubt it. The "our writers" bit sounds like a mutual masturbation session to me, where various names were read out to a room of these "opinion makers" and the decibel level of the groaning recorded to determine rank. And any "top list" that requires input from "our readers" is obviously worthless. (Well, how they can claim the list is definitive is certainly a joke!) This is how "The Strokes" got into the list too, I would guess. (And The Smiths too, frankly.) IMHO, if you wanted to compile a list of the artists who have had the biggest impact in the last 5 years you'd have to interview everybody who had had a top 10 hit in at least the last 20 years and find out who *their* influences were. Michael
blah, blah, blah... this was on nme.com a few days ago <quote> THE SMITHS have been named the artists to have had most influence on NME in the course of our 50 years as a title. The top 50 artists to have had an influence will be revealed tomorrow (April 16) in a special issue celebrating 50 years of NME but as a taster we can now reveal the Top 10 Â which also includes The Beatles, Oasis, Public Enemy and David Bowie. The list takes into account: Appearances on front covers. Volume and significance of features. Dominance of end of year writers polls. The response from our readers in the weekly letters page. The presence of their name and influence in the paper (e.g. the number of acts referred to as the new them, the endless questioning of other artists for their opinions of them, the terrible pun headlines on their name or song titles...). And the speed with which they took over. It was felt that The Smiths and then a solo Morrissey's all-encompassing spread through the 80s and early 90s allowed them to reign. </quote> Explains how the list was compiled and why the Strokes are high up. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
Very weird list, KLF and Prodigy is the only electronic artist????? Where's Kraftwerk? Other "missing" group's Pink Floyd, Depeche Mode, New Order (OK, they have Joy Division). If you analyze the list in another way, zoo-records is very well represented: Bill from the KLF (the founder of zoo) Holly from Frankie goes to Hollywood (was in big in japan) Echo and the Bunnymen (originally signed to zoo) Not bad for a label that only released about 10 singles??? Some small mistakes: I thinks there is a missing "s" in no 8 And that no 21 is " the forever ancient liberation loopholes" (not Mark E smith's band) BTW: How many of the artists did the KLF (or Bill or Jimmy) NOT worked with, covered or sampled???? Ulrik
May I bring your attention to Number 48 in the NME's top 50 music icons of the last 50 years!!!! I'm actually pleasantly surprised
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