Top NME Albums of All Time (2003 List)

[Sloth]

For starters: The NME top 100 albums of all time:

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 Is Dead

9. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

10. The 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. Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen 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 - Screamadelica

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 Main St

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 - Sticky 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. Dexys 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 Gold Rush

81. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy

82. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

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 Stone Age - 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 - Surf's Up

[Sloth]

I disagree with almost every choice!

Where are the Mondays?

Where's... oh never mind.

[Sloth]

69. Andrew WK - I Get Wet

...as if...

[marky]

NME stands for Not MY Eminem! Ha ha! No, seriously it stands for New Musical Express.

I agree with most things there. Delighted to see Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works mentioned.
But there's also a lot of things I've tried to understand the attraction of and never could (Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, Love, Television)

By the way I tried one of the new White Stripes tracks Ooh and realized it might not be so fair for me to snub my nose at it. It actually didn't sound so far off what Jeff Buckley sounds like in full-on noisy rock and roll mode, not that he did that kind of thing very often. I certainly haven't liked any White Stripes I've heard previously.

[<Jack Chiefton>]

Eminem above the likes of Lou Reed, Van Morrison, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, and Neil YOunG? That makes me want to slash my hair and pull out my wrists!

Sloth, you may laugh and think i'm way off the track, but what is NME abbreviated for?

[mccutcheon]

That list is to sell papers. Next week they could do it again and the list would be totally different. Half the fun about these type of lists is to see all the people who get pissed of because some obscure band that nobody else has heard of isn&#8217;t mentioned or one of their all time favorites isn&#8217;t on there and they respond with ugly vitriol.

Like me.

Where the fuck are the Violent Femmes, Kinks, Public Enemy, Orb, Serge Gainsbourg, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan (did they really leave off Blood on the tracks and Blond on Blond- I didn&#8217;t look that hard) or 10,000 others. There are at least 10,000 others that could have made the top 100 list.

At least NME did a better job than an American mag like The Rolling Stone would have done. They probably wouldn&#8217;t even mention Joy Division, Primal Scream, Oasis, Pulp, or Blur in their list and would have Guns-n-Roses five times in the top ten.

Post Script to Mark- Love- Forever Changes is one of the best albums ever made. And I might have to strap you down and make you listen to it until you do get it. Lots of red wine helps.

Jackie C you should check out Love. I bet you would like them.

&#8220;I want to be as big as Love&#8221;- Jim Morrison

[marky]

Well actually although I wasn't going to be upfront about it, McC, I agree. No "top" list is going to be agreed about by everyone or even most people. That's why I decided not to voice my particular beefs about it, but now that you've voiced yours...where are the La's? And I find it weird that the only Nick Drake album that made the list was my least favorite. I won't even try to rectify the New Order problem. There's far more to life than "Technique", kids! Also, I still say that when it comes to consistency, Velvet Undergound's best is the posthumous release "VU". It's just got more to groove to.

Well, McC, if you would endeavor to fill my glass several times with red wine, I would be happy to give Love another go. BUT this top 100 list throws light on a glaring omission on your part. Remember you promised to burn me David Bowie's Low? Yes I've heard much of it before, but not for many years.

I'm currently drinking a dark beer from "The Slovak Republic" called Topvar.

[marky]

Also, now that I take a closer look myself, Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks is indeed #47, so hopefully that will make you feel better.

I sure would like to hear the whole of Blondie's Parallel Lines. I heard a good song from that. (No, not "Heart of Glass" something less well known than that) I have mixed feelings on early Blondie but I wouldn't consider that album "early Blondie". Regardless of what you might think of them as a band, Debbie Harry is terribly fun to watch on video.