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Arctic Monkeys & NME Fatigue

Check out NME's supposed top 10 UK albums, EVER.

1. The Stone Roses 'The Stone Roses'
2. The Smiths 'The Queen Is Dead'
3. Oasis 'Definitely Maybe'
4. Sex Pistols 'Never Mind The Bollocks'
5. Arctic Monkeys 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not'
6. Blur 'Modern Life Is Rubbish'
7. Pulp 'Different Class'
8. The Clash 'London Calling'
9. The Beatles 'Revolver'
10. The Libertines 'Up The Bracket'

What's that sitting in at number 5? Could it be a band that's only just released it's debut album last week? Pitchfork confirms the worst kept secret in town:

'NME editor Conor McNicholas told The Guardian last year that "there's a big sofa supermarket by Doncaster train station. I always look at it and think someone's got a Saturday job there, they're 17, they're stuck in Doncaster and they fucking hate it-- that's the person we're publishing for." I'd guess that to a disaffected, chavbaiting 17-year-old from Doncaster (or Rotherham, or Hull...) this is the perfect soundtrack to moving loveseats around a stock room. Fittingly then the NME awarded this album a 10/10. To the rest of us, however, the album is at times charming, oddly affecting, and certainly promising but understandably something less than life changing.'

Boycott NME

On a lighter note. Girls aloud are playing at my work party next week. Check out the Arctic Monkeys covering 'Love Machine'

Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 at 10:57PM by Registered CommenterMK | Comments2 Comments | References1 Reference

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Different scale, but last week the New York Times said there won't be a better album this year than the Arctic release. Guess you can hold off on any new music until next year, MK, because the peak has been reached.
February 7, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterD. Derek
For all my previous sticking up for the NME - I'm finding it harder and harder to even put across a devil's advocate point of view on the whole Arctic Monkeys thing. The amount of covers, breathless reviews and other page inches that they've given the band just seems like a desperate attempt to convert a number of those first week LP shifting units into new readers. After all - there is a new Smash Hits shaped hole in the UK music magazine market...... and don't even get me started on NME's sudden interest in The Ordinary Boys after Celebrity Big Brother.....
February 8, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterCheeky Rapide

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